What is up with Pleasantview Bella?

"Scribal_Goddess;c-16200648" wrote:

"samemie;c-16197488" wrote:

"Scribal_Goddess;c-16196525" wrote:

"theFella;d-930963" wrote:
so I just used the tombstone of L & D to bring back Pleasantview Bella, which I have never gotten around to doing. I have heard that she would immediately die, but no such thing happened. did I just not wait long enough, will it happen the moment I reload the lot?

... do not resurrect Bella Goth.

Long story short, the developers gave her a "death token" so that she'd be dead, yet in the game files without a tombstone. This is buggy as all hell, and will cause eventual shredding of game files should you ressurrect her. Pleasantview will become unplayable eventually.

I haven't ever tested if she'll die again, but resurrecting her is still a terrible idea.

*Goes off to write up an info thread because too many people are accidentally nuking their games these days.*

Out of curiousity, your post made me go and look up exactly what can cause hood and game corruption and I was surprised at how easy it seems to be to do.

The link I read, in case anyone else is interested: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Game_guide:Avoiding_corruption

That's the initial primer, but I've written up a few other things that I scrounged from MATY and other places to make things easier to explain. Including the various ways not covered in the wiki that I've fubar'd my game personally...

@Scribal_Goddess Sounds good, I've read what you posted so far and it's really helpful. I'm pretty surprised at how much I did that probably corrupted my neighbourhoods and game in general back when I played TS2 the first time round that never seemed to develop any symptoms for me. Things like deleting tombstones was something I did all the time because I found the murderous ghosts so annoying and it was definitely a surprise to see that as something that could have (and probably did) corrupt my game.

Thanks for taking the time to write up a guide for us!