So I think reading about other people's borks on here last night and feeling quite pleased with myself that I was relatively bug-free was just tempting fate. It was bork mania today. Basically, it was my child sim's birthday, so I made them throw her a party. That's when everything just seemed to go wrong. First off her dad exited the taxi just... completely invisible. You could see his plumbob moving around, and these random party blowers just popping up in midair, but apart from that he entirely invisible. Then I told the girl to blow out the candles on her birthday cake.

Four hours and two cakes later, she's still trying to blow out the fucking candles, all the guests have left, and her mother has a negative moodlet because the party was a flop due to no one aging up. Then every sim in the household (apart from the birthday girl, who was still busy with her candles and whose face had gone all deformed for some reason) just stood around not doing anything, no matter what I told them to do. The dad was STILL invisible. Eventually I just gave up and quit.

In other news, I like how careers work now, with it not being based entirely on skill points and number of friends anymore. I like the opportunity system too. It bugs me though how there's not really a lot of time outside of work for them to do anything else. The game being 'less focused on needs' now is a load of bullshit; it seems I spend most of my time now feeding them because the hunger need just goes down so fast. I'm not a fan of the story progression feature, I always preferred playing prosperity style rather than legacy style, and I just don't trust my sims not to mess everything up when I'm not playing them. I kinda feel a bit disconnected going back to them after playing another family because I just don't know what the hell they've been up to the last couple of sim days.

Not entirely sure if this is an Apartment Life bork, but since it's only happened after I've installed AL, I'm assuming it is.



Yeah, as you can see, it's borked up. Can't seem to find any way to get that little bar up. I'm tempted just to use college adjuster to give her a 4.0. It's just that one sim who's having that problem, but none of the others seem to be able to write term papers, and I can't throw parties, either. It just seems to be college having issues for me, the main neighbourhood is fine.

How lovely of them. They release a patch to fix all the stuff they borked with FT, then just bork stuff up even more.

Completely agree there - Sims 1 was brilliant, never even needed 'patching'.

I tried turning on the testing cheats, crashed as normal...

adelegarland, I get the same message! Mine crashes before I actually get on the lot, about halfway through the loading process. I think it always crashes at the same point, so clearly something there is borked. I don't think it's custom content causing the problem with mine, cos I tried it again right after I installed Free Time, since my game was custom content free (I get paranoid with new expansions) and it still crashed. It's strange...

Ok, I'll go try that now. Thanks!

Nope, none of that. They crash while the family is actually loading.

I have one family in my Prosperity neighbourhood that keeps crashing every time I try to play them. It just randomly started a couple of weeks ago for no apparent reason (yeah, I've been too lazy to do anything about it until now...). I hadn't installed any new EPs or hacks.

My brother seems to think it could be a corrupt file. Would it be worth moving them onto another lot to see if it's a problem with the lot, or should I try moving individual sims out to figure out if it's one of them causing the problem?