Sims sucked into Vacation vortex

[Azrael]

Well, I managed to get everything working finally in BV... however,  in the process of testing, a pair of sims became trapped in limbo between home and their vacation home in Twikkii island...

When I first tried to send them to their new vacation home, it loaded up in build/buy mode, minus Live... I was a bit weirded out, and made the awesome (or rather, unawesome) move of saving before quitting... I debugged and found the problem; all is well... however, whenever I load that lot, it sends me on vacation - and back to a build and buy mode...

I blew it up, didn't I?

can they be saved?

 

[Hitch]

Sounds similar to this: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9683.0.html

Suggestions for what might save your sims and lots can be found in that thread.

[Azrael]

What about the home lot that insists they are on vacation? will it know that they're not after I invite them over, as suggested, to another lot?

[purplehaze]

http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=38c493a5281038288543af644efb9df6&directoryID=189&startRow=1&openItemID=item.189,root.1,item.43,item.104,item.41,item.127,item.23

Could they be any more vague about what action causes the problem?  Don't know if this is the root of your problems or not.

[Hitch]

In my case, their original home lot became un-owned. I had to move them in again and refurnish it. Admittedly, a less than ideal solution if you lose any hard to replace stuff, but at least you get your sims back.

[Azrael]

well, I was able to save them, fortunately, thanks to Tombstone of Life and Death. My situation was a bit different, as I had a vacation home and home in limbo, and like 3 kids and a servo still at the vacation home. I reunited the family with phones and the tombstone, then rebought the lot, after it (thankfully) went up for sale. Bt yeah, like you said - I now must completely refurnish. Eh, better than rebuilding, too....