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Title: Hotel doesn't know Sim isn't there anymore. Post by: Hitch on 2007 September 17, 01:33:05 My Jade's Exclusive Resort has become a bit too exclusive. Through stupidity on my own part, the lot is broken and no one can go there.
I was carelessly monkeying around with hacks (some outdated) when one of my sims got lost on vacation. When I tried to load her home lot, it told me she was on vacation at another lot, did I want to play there? I said yes, and the lot loaded with Live, Buy, and Build Modes all grayed out -- my sim nowhere in sight. I eventually recovered her by having a friend call her on the phone and invite her over. I then forced her into the family, had her move out, and moved her back into her original lot. She's fine. However, the hotel still says there's a family vacationing there and won't allow anyone to visit. I can't move or delete the lot because the game thinks she's still there. Anyone have any idea how to reset the "someone is vacationing here" flag on a hotel? Title: Re: Hotel doesn't know Sim isn't there anymore. Post by: KatEnigma on 2007 September 17, 03:40:03 Yeah, I broke a lot too. LOL I used the teleporter bush to save the family.
I eventually got tired of the stuck lot and bulldozed it. It wouldn't let me move it, but it did let me bulldoze it. Title: Re: Hotel doesn't know Sim isn't there anymore. Post by: Hitch on 2007 September 17, 13:14:53 I have a working Jade's Exclusive Resorts again. Now I just get to spend a few days dreading unintended consequences. Emboldened by the ability to bulldoze the borked lot, I created a new Takemizu village in an unplayed neighborhood, copied Jade's from there, bulldozed my borked one, and planted a new copy. It's working, but I can't guarantee no VBT anomalies yet.
Title: Re: Hotel doesn't know Sim isn't there anymore. Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2007 September 18, 13:13:30 It is believed that bulldozing the afflicted lot represents a serviceable stopgap solution to the problem. It is not the best or cleanest, but it works with relatively little damage, and the threat of lot-instance-id depletion is not considered to be serious. Be warned that after the 32000th-ish repetition of this, your neighborhood will finally explode.
Title: Re: Hotel doesn't know Sim isn't there anymore. Post by: Hitch on 2007 September 18, 22:29:11 How do desk clerks work? There seems to be one on hotel lots in build mode. Do Sims get memories of meeting them? I figure the one that was there may have been bulldozed under with the lot. I managed to break it pretty fast, so if there was anything left dangling from destroying him, it should have been minimal. But certainly something I don't want to risk another 31,999 instances of.
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