Do you actually have my fix in place, or anything that affects secret society lots?
ETA: It's been so long since I looked at that hack.
Maxis EA actually got something right for a change
when they
patched it
[Of course they screwed it up the first time they actually coded it
]. They basically used the same idea I had, storing the amount in a lot token, and swapping it out, albeit their code was slightly more efficient (for a change
) since they actually reused the same token. [I coulda done that too, but I didn't want to, so nyah.
]
Anyhew, I backported those changes, and if you look at the description, the hack is actually for OFB
v1.0p1 or older. This is because OFB v1.0p2 or later should be patched correctly. Now... this isn't to say that it will actually
fix your problem, as your problem
might be unrelated. If you are getting some weird error due to lot bugginess or non-awesomeware, then I'm not sure if the hack/fix will help.
I recommend making a backup of your Neighborhoods folder. Then try installing the hack/fix and see if this helps. If you still get an error log, post it again, and maybe we can see if it's the same error. Unfortunately, I am at teh hubby's place, probably until late Thurs night, and I don't have access to my own 'puter. Even when I get home, I probably won't have time to look at it until the weekend.
ETA2: Edited to make it a bit more readable.
Plus... I actually read your post the 3rd time around (I kinda just skimmed it the first couple of times heh) and noticed that you tried to "donate" your sim's money? In what way did you try to do that? Prior the the OFB 2nd patch, SS lot money handling was pretty severely borked. The game tried to swap out your current sim's home lot funds with the ss society one's. If there are none, it is
supposed to automatically generate some "starter" funds (something like $37k or what not. Seems to be some arbitrarily chosen number). When you went back home tho, the game kinda screws up trying to swap your funds back. It didn't save the original amount that your home lot had, so you end up with the sslot funds (or something like that). The game also had an extra, stupid (or is that "extra stupid"
) BHAV that tried to resave the funds every time you went in and out of buy mode. This function is like crappily borked.
I guess it was an attempt to curb cheaty type things or what not, but it kinda screws up the ss lot funds. Can't remember the exact details, but I just recall spending several hours tearing my hair out trying to figure what was going on exactly and why this stupid bhav was even necessary. It wasn't.
In my fix, I disabled it, and used lot tokens. Funny that
Maxis EA patch pretty much came to the same conclusion (they also deprecated that bhav, used the lot tokens smartly, and even had the forethought... or is it hindsight
to create new functions to test if there is more than one sslot in the neighborhood, since theoreticaly, you could add more than one Uni subhood to your game... although doing so,
without SaraMK's clean or empty templates and Pescado's antiredundancy and noregen hacks would most assuredly lead to a BFBFVS
).
Anyhew... my recommendation Now, after actually reading your post... is reverting to a backup
before you added Academie... or if you were lucky/smart enough, after you just added Academie and created the YAs and what not, but before your sim got abducted by the YAs. If you can go back to that point, then I would try installing the fix and playing from that point on and see if you still have any SS lot problems. Again, I'm not sure if it will actually fix it, but the only way to know is to sorta just test it out.
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