Return of Really Old Bugs

All the bugs are happening in just the one hood. It is a SC4 map only. Most of the world I filled with the smaller Maxis houses, though I know those are glitched from way back because Maxis used MOO on many of their small builds the problems only seem to get worse even if one of the vacant homes in the bin didn't even have MOO used to place stuff etc. by Maxis. Most didn't even have furniture so yesterday, I placed the Christmas wreaths on a house (Maxis built) and they disappeared, it was the holidays in my Sim's home. It's all sorts of stuff like that disappearing in this one world. I didn't even have cheats on, either. Just decorating their homes for holidays.

All sorts of jump bugs, things disappearing when placed on walls, routing issues like from the fridges to the tables, getting left overs and they poof, plates getting stuck, things like that is why I mentioned the FT hood. It came with all sorts of glitches like that back when FT was first released. This hood was only the map no lots, characters, or other files. I really liked it. I hate to delete it. :/ ETA: This is not the FT template map but a hood created by a player several years ago. Just the map. So I don't understand what is wrong here. ETA: Yesterday it crashed in a large home, so I may have to just delete it.

It is possible that at one time the neighborhood contained homes and sims. The creator might have deleted and used programs to remove things, but didn't get all the garbage left behind, before posting it for download. How old is it? The older it is the more chance of the creator doing something silly, not much was known about the negative effects until years after the games release. That's why you can still download lots sims had lived in ect. No one knew any better.

Thanks, I looked in the files and it contains a png of houses that had been in that hood. When I downloaded it it only showed the four terrain pictures, but looking inside the templates there is an extra pic of a few houses and other stuff in the hood in a png so yeah, I guess they did have some lots in it at one time and didn't clean it out properly or something. I was thinking it had been made fresh without lots or Sims but inside the files the extra picture (I guess) proves they did have houses and stuff in it at one time. :/ Oh well, I guess I let it go because the bugs got even worse.

"Cinebar;c-16439103" wrote:
Thanks, I looked in the files and it contains a png of houses that had been in that hood. When I downloaded it it only showed the four terrain pictures, but looking inside the templates there is an extra pic of a few houses and other stuff in the hood in a png so yeah, I guess they did have some lots in it at one time and didn't clean it out properly or something. I was thinking it had been made fresh without lots or Sims but inside the files the extra picture (I guess) proves they did have houses and stuff in it at one time. :/ Oh well, I guess I let it go because the bugs got even worse.

Sorry to hear that. Maybe you can find another that you will enjoy as much.

Did they share the map? Just the map so you can make a clean neighborhood?

If you use the Hood Replacer to transfer the map to a new neighborhood... that way you can still have the map- if they didn't share it. :)

"Rflong7;c-16439197" wrote:
Did they share the map? Just the map so you can make a clean neighborhood?

If you use the Hood Replacer to transfer the map to a new neighborhood... that way you can still have the map- if they didn't share it. :)

Thanks! You rock!

"JULES1111;c-16437509" wrote:
It is possible that at one time the neighborhood contained homes and sims. The creator might have deleted and used programs to remove things, but didn't get all the garbage left behind, before posting it for download. How old is it? The older it is the more chance of the creator doing something silly, not much was known about the negative effects until years after the games release. That's why you can still download lots sims had lived in ect. No one knew any better.

Yeah, I think what you said is actually what happened, because to best of my knowledge there is like four programs you have to use to clean out a hood map. It looks clean but I think stuff was left behind. I read the other day there are at least four tools that have to be used. Thank you guys! Maybe I can clean it up.

You may just need to delete the groups.cache file which is just in the sims 2 folder. If that doesn't work you may want to try taking out your downloads folder or testing in another neighborhood and seeing if it's only that particular neighborhood or if you have a bad download. Hope this helps.

"Cinebar;c-16445641" wrote:

"JULES1111;c-16437509" wrote:
It is possible that at one time the neighborhood contained homes and sims. The creator might have deleted and used programs to remove things, but didn't get all the garbage left behind, before posting it for download. How old is it? The older it is the more chance of the creator doing something silly, not much was known about the negative effects until years after the games release. That's why you can still download lots sims had lived in ect. No one knew any better.

Yeah, I think what you said is actually what happened, because to best of my knowledge there is like four programs you have to use to clean out a hood map. It looks clean but I think stuff was left behind. I read the other day there are at least four tools that have to be used. Thank you guys! Maybe I can clean it up.

Hopefully you can clean it up. I knew there was a way to clean them, though I have never done it so couldn't make a suggestion there. Rflong to the rescue!!! As always. :)