Haven't checked the junk yard yet but I decided to go to edit town and see about finding my sim couple a house (they're living in a small apt. now and she needs to garden for the science career). I started looking around for empty lots and agree that there aren't a lot. I do realize you said players could delete some of the duplicate houses, and I did delete one of the EA mansions and placed a house there, I am always reluctant to delete the houses that a creator places in their world. Plus unless I delete all but one, it might look strange because the area will lack a cohesive look.
So anyway I did find a couple of spots to place tiny lots and put a couple of my houses there, but when I was done, probably 20 real time minutes or so, and I tried to go back to my game it crashed and I got the message that the game had stopped responding. So isn't that interesting! Unless someone else can duplicate this also, I'm not sure it means anything but that's now two of us that crashed after trying to edit the world. It would be interesting if someone else would attempt to spend some time in edit town and see what happens, especially since Summer is on a Mac and they are known for having problems running the game. If anyone else tries this just must make sure you save your game first - I was really glad I did that. :wink:
Even if we can establish that it is a pattern, I'm not sure what you could do about it to prevent it. Maybe this world is just not meant to be edited. But this is just speculation that may not even be warranted anyway! :?:
