90% of Sunset Valley lots gone after returning from vacation.

[mistyk]

For those with WA, be aware that the no mosaic mods will stop new effects like fireworks and waterfalls.

Rick's no mosaic does remove the effects, but there is a new one over at Crazy Town that does work and does not remove the effects. I have tested this one myself and the blur is gone and all the new effects are there.

[Goggalor]

I suspect these fireplaces with recolored chimneys to also cause blue lots.

[Slymenstra]

Blanton Tiger Lillies from TSR by sim_man123 = GOOD


Sorry I miss listed I meant to say Stylist_Sims_Livingroom_01_palm.package = bad also the chimneys from above.  It was early morning and no coffee...sorry! 

[Cerridwen]

I also found another item that breaks the lots:

Blanton Tiger Lillies from TSR by sim_man123 = BAD

Added:
This is installed by the Sims Launcher.

Are you positive?   I have this item installed on my "clean" game with no problems.  Just to be sure, I placed the flowers on a lot, saved, exited, reentered the game and didn't get any blue lots.   I don't understand how I could have it in my game without issue and someone else couldn't. 

On a more positive note, not that anyone cares but me, I found a  SunsetValley.legacy file in my recycle bin and on a hunch restored that to my game.  Sure enough it was my original hood I thought I had lost.  That's what I've been playing the last couple days with the limited CC I've tested and have had no blue lots with multiple saves, changes of households and multiple vacation trips.   

[brownlustgirl]

I  just found out about the .legacy file. You can use it to recover a corrupt hood. Didn't get all this til I fixed my start up.  I wouldn't use the back-up folders, it is as corrupt as the broken hood file.

I have that plant also. No blue lots for me. As a matter of fact, I have a few lemoncandy plants (just the last set she released) and they are okay, haven't had a blue lot. I just chunked it up to having a wonky game cause I didn't start the game right with Vista's OS.

Sad EDIT:  I have to eat my words.  Been playing for 2 days with no problems, til I wrote the above statements. Opened my game today, all blue lots. Arrgghh!

I just got so angry, I just uninstalled the game. Six months of work, I am just gonna go without it. Okay, commence with the P&L.

[Cathy]

I'm so frustrated...My Lara Croft hood has blue lots, I believe I lost it, didn't I? ....

[Sparks]

Sad EDIT:  I have to eat my words.  Been playing for 2 days with no problems, til I wrote the above statements. Opened my game today, all blue lots. Arrgghh!

I just got so angry, I just uninstalled the game. Six months of work, I am just gonna go without it. Okay, commence with the P&L.

I too have some shitty shit ass news: took out all of my CC that I painstakingly tested (2GB's of package files), after all that work, 17 different saves and 25 different game restarts, JUST BECAUSE I wanted to play for a bit without the little lag that I was experiencing from adding back my files. I only moved my fucking Mods folder to my desktop, cleared my caches and started my new reconstructed hood. Blue lots. I was so frustrated, I got up and just left the house without my purse. But now I see that I'm pissed over some computer software and snapped out of it, but yeah.

So apparently, randomly removal of CC can cause blue lots too. And no, the lot I was playing did not have package files CC on it. That particular lot was created without my Mods folder; all CC was in Sims3Pack form which I've never touched so, that isn't the reason.

[Cathy]

Is it possible to unpatch the game? Or to install an older patch?

[Lion]

Is it possible to unpatch the game? Or to install an older patch?

No, you can't unpatch. You have to uninstall and reinstall.

[ciane]

I'm just seeking confirmation. Is this how the blue lots look?



I don't have WA, but I updated to the 1.7.9 patch. I played about two sim days in a saved file of my legacy. (It's a copy. I only put in three game copies - a starter for each hood, with homes redecorated without cc, and my legacy - after removing the mod file and placing a blank folder in its place, which was then renamed mods. I also made two new folders for the files and packages inside the new mod file. Then I copied in the two files that were in "files" and put the new beta AwesomeMod in the package folder.)

So, I had no CC or mods, besides the beta AwesomeMod. When I went into map view as the teens were coming home from school, I noticed this. When it returns to the house from map view though, the pixels turn into objects and walls. So, I'm just wondering if this is the start of the blue lot syndrome or if this is just wierd graphics that I haven't seen before.

[brownlustgirl]

That is different from the blue lots I get. The whole lot square is blue and you cannot click on it. Looks like something is on your lot, also you said that the walls and objects come back. Mine don't.

[stardust]

i had blue lots too so i removed all my cc and played for a while.. no problems... i put back in some "safe" files , like liana's clothes.. it was ok.. i added infusorian's clutter and put it on the lot and when i made my sim travel the game crashed... after that i reentered the lot (didn't remove my cc) and made my sim travel again, just to check if it crashed and it didn't... it's very confusing, looks like there's no logic behind it.. i have no mods and i have my mods folder in the sims 3 root.. not in the WA folder...

[Cathy]

This is a blue lot



This was the house on it...



Edit to add quote

 

 Re: Verified "bad" CC that borks towns
Reply #12 - Today at 08:06 Quote
We have discovered a piece of data that was being used for renumbering during cloning, but which should now evidently be left out of the equation.  This should not apply backwards to previously created objects but will cause problems with cloning some objects after the EP.   We're obviously working on a fix right now

From Custom Sims forum by IngeJones

[brownlustgirl]

Well Inge and the rest at Custom Sims are doing better than the programmers at EA. The reply from EA's Support Forum has me thinking that our only hope are the modders in the community.

[Cerridwen]

Well Inge and the rest at Custom Sims are doing better than the programmers at EA. The reply from EA's Support Forum has me thinking that our only hope are the modders in the community.

I thought it was pretty much confirmed that the only hope for anything decent in the Sims is from the modders in the community.   

[thealienamongus]

TSR news - TSR downloads are safe

Do any of the TSR objects not work in .package format. If the object does not work in .package has anybody tested whether the object form the original .sims3pack works.

(I still have not updated yet but I am going to tomorrow)

[Cathy]

I turn the files from TSR into packages.

[Krib]

I turn the files from TSR into packages.

I do too. All of them. And they're fine as far as not causing blue lots.

Seems to me that it's not .packages causing blue lots, it's what the object was cloned from, or what tools were used. Bad performance though, might actually be .packages and having the framework installed.

I'm not a modder though, and that's only an impression.

[Chain_Reaction]

I turn the files from TSR into packages.

How does one go about doing that?

[J. M. Pescado]

You rip them open with a Sims3pack ripper like s3px, then treat them as regular packagen.

[thealienamongus]

I turn the files from TSR into packages.

me to

[J. M. Pescado]

Well Inge and the rest at Custom Sims are doing better than the programmers at EA. The reply from EA's Support Forum has me thinking that our only hope are the modders in the community.

The reply from the EA support forum appears to be to endlessly redirect in circles without ever actually displaying a reply. Which, I guess, makes a lot of sense. I approve of this new efficiency upgrade. Why bother having a PERSON redirect you in circles when the computer can do the same thing?

[YoungOldPrude]

Well Inge and the rest at Custom Sims are doing better than the programmers at EA. The reply from EA's Support Forum has me thinking that our only hope are the modders in the community.

The reply from the EA support forum appears to be to endlessly redirect in circles without ever actually displaying a reply. Which, I guess, makes a lot of sense. I approve of this new efficiency upgrade. Why bother having a PERSON redirect you in circles when the computer can do the same thing?

Out of curiosity, were you one of the 4 out of 23 people who found that answer to be helpful?

[J. M. Pescado]

There was an answer or a poll? I was just meta-redirected endlessly between URLs without ever actually getting a webpage.

[YoungOldPrude]

There was an answer or a poll? I was just meta-redirected endlessly between URLs without ever actually getting a webpage.

Yes, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you can see it.
 
         
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