Well I probably lasted this long because I all the recent deletes had been in the last six months. 

I got the new neighborhood built, the houses are all unfurnished, which is good, because I don't think anyone could afford the houses otherwise.

I started my first family last night in their temporary log cabin, and I'm enjoying starting over.  My neighborhood and families had all been rather large, and focusing on two people is a nice change of pace.  Plus I'm designing them from scratch instead of using AI generated Sims, I'm going to have some beautiful geniuses running around. 

Thanks for all the help.

Lara Amber



   

Jolrei,

It sounds like from the responses I don't need to do a complete reinstall, just delete the one neighborhood.  Is that correct?

Lara Amber

Well that's incredibly depressing.  My cute Scottish farming community is apparently going to get the axe. 

If I can't save my families, what about the buildings?  Some of the lots took a day to design.  If I could bring those back cleanly that would make this a bit more palatable. 

Lara Amber

Okay, I'm a complete newbie at this site, and I tried to do a search for an answer, but felt like I was in one of those conversations where one person is speaking English and the other person is responded in a foreign language.  So please, no acronyms and type slow.  I have no idea how to use any of the programs other then the game.  So instructions would have to be like you're explaining to your grandmother how to send an email.  Feel free to heap invectives on my head.

My setup: I have every expansion and stuff pack for Sims 2 (except holiday), the only custom content is Maxis made & the extra goodies for pre-ordering, my computer runs Window Vista and is a home built gaming rig.  I've never packaged anything, moved anything across neighborhoods, or anything else beyond play the game.  I do use cheat codes, usually when building.

My history: I play Riverblossom Hills extensively.  Back when I started the neighborhood I deleted most of the families and houses, but kept a few around that sorta matched my ideas for the neighborhood: McGreggor, Larson, OMackey, and Roth.  I also deleted all the bin families.  The McGreggors and OMackeys get played and I'm on my 4/5th generation of them and my created families (so I really don't want to start over and lose everything).  I left the Larson and Roth families alone but allowed them to be friends with my characters.  When I started the McGreggor's Farmer's Market, Jodi got hired as an employee.  Well later I decided to delete the Larson and Roth families.  Apparently that was bad, and instead I should have passed out the special kool-aid to all my unwanted neighbors.

My problems:

1. My toddlers & children have lifetime wants.  Apparently that's not a "feature" of Apartment Life.
2. I have children who have reached permanent platinum without doing anything special.  Is that normal?
3. Jodi is still listed as an employee of the Farmer's Market.  Too bad she doesn't show up to work.

My game is still workable and most of my other problems that frustrated me disappeared in the last patch for AL.  These still remain, so I believe it may have been what I did vs. the code monkeys at EA.

Any suggestions?   

Lara Amber