Semi newbie to sims 2

"Cinebar;c-17836748" wrote:

"Sorak4;c-17717110" wrote:
I shouldn't have brought up corruption and why it's super serious to prevent it, it has just first hand happened to me. Things like this and half your apartments disappearing is a good example on why you should try to make sure to backup neighbourhoods once you make some big progress

Not trying to resurrect this thread, but this has never happened to me in my games in twenty years. Homes didn't show up on TS4 map for me one time because they didn't have a mailbox but that was easy to fix.

Corruption can be odd, I've always heard horror-stories about it and things like the Sims acting like dogs, aging like dogs and... Being broken, but my case must've been the game not knowing whats going on with the neighbourhood view and disappearing Sims, I remember looking in SimPE and catching my disappeared Sims in the Default Household, so they weren't even deleated or missing their files, they just... Moved out?

Still not even sure how the other household lost its name though.

I wonder what happened in your game that made this happen like what you were doing and or what you had done before this happened. I think a lot of corruption in TS2 is caused by an innocent player not understanding consequences of some of the things they do. But there was a bug in Pets that caused graves to go missing and couldn't get them back. A work around was to make the Sim take the headstone to the actual graveyard or wherever and place it instead of 'sending' it to the lot or spot. I know I was really upset by that bug before they fixed it. Another corruption that can cause things to go missing is using a Uni house in the mainhood, the house is corrupted if you take one of the houses in the University hoods into a main hood to rent/own. It is cheaper but still has corruption. Sorry, for going off topic on this thread but the corrupted hood is an interesting one, and I can't remember if this was a known bug that happened for some odd reason when AL was released and or if it was caused by something a player did.

One thing I do remember is never convert a community lot (even if you have a buyable mailbox) into an apartment base and or move to another hood, or use the cheat to edit an apartment lot while Sims are living there, that all goes badly.

Here is a link (sorry OP but the lot hood corruption should be addressed in case anyone else does it) to show players what they do in the game is the reason for their corruptions. This what Not to do and how to possibly fix hood corruption.

I hope you too will read it, OP.
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Avoiding_Hood_Corruption