Playing TS2 for the first time

"Seera1024;c-18167407" wrote:

"EveryDaySim;c-18167349" wrote:
This is a much earlier version of the game, and some things were not yet as we know them today. Be careful about moving in or marrying certain "special NPCs", it can corrupt your game. Some are ok (like maids), but others are not. Always check if it's safe before you do it, because you may corrupt your save.

Rule of thumb here: If they don't show up in your relationship panel after interacting with them, it's probably not a safe idea to move in or marry them.

Those special NPC's are shared between neighborhoods and their file is located in the installation directory. Meaning you'll have to reinstall the game and delete any neighborhood that you had played after they had been corrupted.

While this game does have a number of known ways to corrupt your game, don't be too overly cautious in your play. Corruption doesn't go from corrupted to horribly broken glitchy mess in a single Sim day. It takes time. It could be the next day or it could be 10 years. You could have a bad glitch due to corruption, go back to a back up and go several generations past that point before having anymore issues. Chances are you'll be bored of a neighborhood before corruption takes too much of a hold on your neighborhood. Let's just say on the official Sims 2 forum, you could get into arguments over whether corruption was an actual thing because of how random the speed of corruption would occur is.

I agree with you and I would also like to add that those sims that you could corrupt your game by marrying you can’t actually marry without cheats. So you won’t accidentally suddenly find yourself doing that, you would have to very deliberately make an effort to marry a sim that the game won’t let you marry or add to your household through normal gameplay.

While it is absolutely fair criticism to the sims 2 that there even is the ability to do things in normal gameplay that will corrupt the game (like the things I mentioned in my previous comment: deleting tombstones and sims and such things), I don’t think the ability to corrupt it through cheats and mods and stuff is something one can criticize the game for. Any of the sims games can be corrupted through cheats and mods, those things are always at your own risk because you are doing things the game wasn’t meant to do.

All of this is just added to your comment: I agree with your original premise that the game isn’t even that easy to corrupt severely. The corruption thing with sims 2 is very exaggerated. Sims 4 is by far more buggy, and sims 3 basically required a super computer to run.