Signs of Corruption

There could be allot of different signs. One could be your game won't load. If you look in your launcher and don't see your actual sims pictures on an ongoing game save. You could have a bad save in your saves folder. Are you asking because you think your save is corrupt? If so what is wrong with your game?

I don't have too much experience with corrupted saves but always keep backups. Use Save as instead of Save so that you will always have something to fall back onto.

"Todiloo;c-16312134" wrote:
What does it mean to have a corrupted save? What makes a save corrupted?

I suspect a variety of things can make a save corrupted. Eventually, a save may become corrupted just from playing it for to long.

One sure way to do it though is to delete a sim. Deleting the sim doesn't remove it from the game, it just makes it broken and invisible.

"Springfairy556;c-16312126" wrote:
You look at your save file and the sim's photo is all messed up or their lot isn't showing.

Missing lot thumbnails in the save game chooser can also be due to tents being put in chests. That's not corruption, just a bug. Moving tents out of chests will restore the lot thumbnail in future saves.

To answer the OP's question: one thing that would suggest game corruption to me would be pets (or boats) on a sim's family tree.

"xxnearlyperfectx;c-16313476" wrote:
I am having a huge issues where none of the careers are working and can never do a full day of work. She leaves when she gets there. Most days she can't get to work as it won't let her. Should I move to another town???

Those are more typically signs of:
-- Bad career outfits. Try altering them if you can, NRaas MC is probably required to reach that category.
-- World/work schedule misalignment. If using NRaas mods, a DebugEnabler Fix Homeworld might be able to take care of that. It's a command that can be found on City Hall, NRaas > DE > Options:(City Hall or the equivalent) > Sim > Fix Homeworld

I understand that you are not using mods (or weren't the last time you posted about them), but afraid there are limited things one can reach to fix without them sometimes when things go wrong with an ongoing save like that.

"faytheful;c-16315005" wrote:
one problem I've had is when you select a Sim ( in their little picture box) then you go to another Sim, both of them will be highlighted, and you can't play either one. The Goddards, Pauline & Hank

All I’ve ever had to do to fix that is exit to Main Menu then go back into game, it’s always fine after that.

Well if a bouncer doesn't let your Sim into an exclusive Late Night venue, you can just give them a them financial incentive and they'll look the other way. So I guess that's not looking too good.

I had nothing but problems with Claire Ursine no matter how many times I tried playing her. The baby was either never born (in an endless loop at the hospital) or disappeared shortly after being born. Playing her messed up any game I had so I finally stopped playing her and killed her off every time I played in Sunset Valley.

I think there are some Sims in every world and houses that are somehow glitched and never work right.

"nickibitsward;c-16324670" wrote:
I had nothing but problems with Claire Ursine no matter how many times I tried playing her. The baby was either never born (in an endless loop at the hospital) or disappeared shortly after being born. Playing her messed up any game I had so I finally stopped playing her and killed her off every time I played in Sunset Valley.

I think there are some Sims in every world and houses that are somehow glitched and never work right.

@nickibitsward , That's bizarre! I've never had any issues with Claire and play her frequently. Though I never let my sims have their kids at the hospital, they have a better relationship with them (actually in the green and sometimes over halfway filled green in the relationship bar) when delivered at home. if they insist on the hospital I just cancel it out.

Stinks she gives you so much trouble, she's in interesting gal.

@SimplyJen Whenever I have a huge household I often don't get a picture of the family, just the dotted outline as you have. But I think I've always had a picture of the lot they are living on.