Seasons. Holidays disappeared

Hey, thanks again for your reply. I tried with a new game and holidays are still missing. I think it is the patch and my laptop or just my back luck, because now I cannot save, it says there was an error 12. So my game is screwed. :(

kati77 wrote:
Does the world you're playing in have a festival lot? If it doesn't, you need to add it in edit town -mode.

It seems the holidays are dependent on the festival lots. When I started playing in Dragon Valley, I didn't have a festival lot at first, and I was wondering where all the holidays were. Then I added a festival lot and got the holidays.

Thius is also what i would be suggesting :P

I had this issue as well. but I was able to make a new save and it works there. It started after the new patch, and I don't have ITF, CC or mods.

I was playing in IP at the time so I thought it was just a new "feature" of that EP :D.

I'm not the only one! ACK! That means it was "Patch" related. My holidays disappeared around the beginning of the 2nd year for my sims legacy family. (When I installed the newest patch) I still have my seasons changing and my festival lots, BUT I consider the game unplayable at this point, since I know what is missing. It's the same with or WITHOUT mods/hacks/downloads. SO EA I wish you would hurry and get out another "Patch" because I want to play! Thanks!


Also- I tried bulldozing and re-placing the festival lot, no change. I tried moving the family home to library, and replacing as a copy. NO change. I suppose I could try moving the family out, but that would un-decorate my house. And I would rather not do that. I also looked into a random family, game made, and they had no holidays either. Completely frustrated at this point.

Holidays are NOT dependent on Festival lots! You can have holidays without them. What I've found that fixes the glitch (I have it, too) is to simply close and exit the game, then start it up again.

Yes, this happened after the patch for Into the Future. I'm going to check to see if there's a new patch that fixes the most recent patch (wouldn't it be nice if they just put out quality, rather than fixing the fixes?)

It seems to be a problem with the new update!!! I posted a similar post, but no help!!! But I'll try some suggestions posted here!!! I hope someone finds a solution soon!!!!

Thanks.

I am on year 3 or 4. If I had to guess, I'd say 4 sim years now, but it could be 3 aswell. Odd, really. If it has anything to do with amount of years.

Anyway, I have patch 1.63 BUT I have had many seasons/holidays after the patch, but it was not a problem until today, where I missed spooky day. I got the message that the festival ground was open and ready for the fall, (and I had leisure day just a few days before that) - PLUS there is a festival ground obviously, in IP. SO yeah, I dunno if I'd say it's patch-related, as I have had several holidays after the patch. Also, as someone stated, they didn't need festival grounds and such.

So I am thinking it's an error in-game? My game has become quite buggy/freezy, constantly someone needs resetting, even my own sims sometimes - the nraas overwatch has quite a few things to clear up every night. Also, these last two days, sometimes the game arrow turns into a loading-arrow, even though nothing is loading. It works normally but it's just a spinning circle. Sometimes saving, or quitting the game helps.

Considering how big and buggy the IP world is, my guess it currently just too old a neighbourhood.


How old are your worlds, those of you that have this issue too? (your game save?) mine is about 3 or 4 years old.

I thought about that..But I started a new game and it had the same problem. So in my case, it's not how old my neighborhood is.

I can see more people are having the same problem, a few weeks ago I couldn't find anything... now there's like 4 posts about the same.

Both my spooky day and winter festival day didn't pop up. I got the message that the festival was in town, etc, and the festival grounds were working, not no moodlet/message on actual day.

however, spring day occured with moodlet and all. Not sure if it's related, but by then I had made a new save. (But I have made many new saves throughout the game)

I had the same issue. What I do to fix it it after the season changes, save the game, exit to main menu, and reload my game. The holidays occur again but stop occurring once the season changes again. I keep repeating the process after every change of season. Maybe this will help you guys too.