Fix for "incompatible base game" error message horseshittery.

[RandomInsolence]

I apologize if this fix has been otherwise posted elsewhere, but I didn't really see it as I was trolling about. Basically, to those who say patch order is meaningless: Nonsense. If you're getting this error message, uninstall both WA & the basegame. Reinstall the basegame. Update the basegame to the latest patch (or 1.79 if you don't want to deal with CC issues). Then install WA, install the latest WA patch. (Again, or 2.28 if you don't want to deal with the CC issues.) If you did this in the proper order, you should no longer see the incompatible message. So yep, hopefully someone finds my rant to be of some use. And as for the Grammar Police:

Bitch, you just jealous that my street corner'in skillz is more better than any of yo nasty skank-ass ho'n skillz. Im'a gunna go git me a fawdy.

[Greyform]

And as for the Grammar Police:

Bitch, you just jealous that my street corner'in skillz is more better than any of yo nasty skank-ass ho'n skillz. Im'a gunna go git me a fawdy.

Well, you sure proved them.

[snowbawl]

Huzzah, more rampant stupidity.

[seanzol]

No guarantees, but you could try patching the base game without uninstalling/reinstalling.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,17603.msg510042.html

[saraswati]

Very true DarkBlue, although doing a clean install of the game can be a valid process of elimination step if it doesn't work when you try to patch over the top.

[TheSimsandwich]

Wait, so the solution is to nuke it?

That's not a fix, more of a reconstruction.

[J. M. Pescado]

To save the village, you have to burn the village.

[seanzol]

Very true DarkBlue, although doing a clean install of the game can be a valid process of elimination step if it doesn't work when you try to patch over the top.

It sometimes works, it sometimes doesn't, but I figure you might as well try it and see if you can save your install.

[RandomInsolence]

You don't need to uninstall WA at all, you can just patch the base game while it's installed.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,17603.msg510042.html

Don't you think I would have tried that first, rather than wasting an obnoxious amount of time? I tried patching the base game, and got various incompatible patch messages.

[seanzol]

You don't need to uninstall WA at all, you can just patch the base game while it's installed.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,17603.msg510042.html

Don't you think I would have tried that first, rather than wasting an obnoxious amount of time? I tried patching the base game, and got various incompatible patch messages.

I couldn't have known whether or not you had tried that already, I was just suggesting it because it had worked for me. However, I should have worded that post better; I edited it to clarify what I meant.

[Georgette]

Don't you think I would have tried that first, rather than wasting an obnoxious amount of time? I tried patching the base game, and got various incompatible patch messages.

Don't you should think you should be a little more bloody polite when someone is wasting their time helping you?

[RandomInsolence]

Don't you think I would have tried that first, rather than wasting an obnoxious amount of time? I tried patching the base game, and got various incompatible patch messages.

Don't you should think you should be a little more bloody polite when someone is wasting their time helping you?

A thousand pardons oh great exalted one. I wasn't aware I had such a sensitive audience.

[Georgette]

Not sensitive, just expecting a bit of courtesy. And a thousand GFY, oh sarcy one.