HelloSo this is the second time I've played a family in Sunset Valley to the third generation. It's starting to get buggy, objects getting stuck, error code 12's and the other one 'a .... error occured' extreme or something, when travelling to and from university, toddlers disappearing up into the stratosphere upon return, and the oval rugs beginning to appear ... These sorts of things started happening in Sunset Valley for another family I played there years ago and I haven't played there again until now because it's weird seeing Mortimer while he went with my original family, with his parents' graves in his pocket! Ha! to another world, Aurora Skies, and got played with them there until he was old and died and had daughters and all kinds of shenanigans ...I am thinking Sunset Valley might be buggy to begin with? If so, is there any tried and tested routine fixes for it? Or should I give up and play a different world? What about Barnacle Bay? That is the same as Sunset but without the characters, so does it have the same bugs? Or has nobody else had glitchy crashy sticky problems every time they play Sunset?Thanks :)

Sunset Valley is the least problematic town for me. What is your lifespan so I can get an idea of how long it takes for you to get to the third generation? Have a look through https://www.nraas.net/community/TIPS-FOR-BETTER-GAME-PERFORMANCE for some ideas. I don't do everything suggested but there are several things I do religiously and the only thing I can complain about it is the time it takes to load and save after I have played several generations (I play a slightly modified normal lifespan so after about 150 sim days saving and loading becomes a little tiresome).

I moved to another custom world after sunset valley getting really buggy and crash often when clicking map view in my 4th generations saves (around 700 sim days), another EA world that is good for generational play is Lunar Lakes.

Lunar Lakes is a store world. It does not hav3 more aliens than other worlds. You can find info on residents here https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Lunar_Lakes

"DivinylsFan;c-17801790" wrote:"izecson;c-17801465" wrote:I moved to another custom world after sunset valley getting really buggy and crash often when clicking map view in my 4th generations saves (around 700 sim days), another EA world that is good for generational play is Lunar Lakes.Does Lunar Lakes have more aliens than other worlds? Is it a store world or part of Into the Future? I've just got that world and haven't fully checked it out yet. What are the pre-made residents like?Lunar Lakes is a store world, and the amount of alien you will get is the same as other world when you have seasons installed, most of the premades are descendant from premades that are in EA's world such as Wolff, Sekemoto, Loveland etc.

"DivinylsFan;c-17802119" wrote:"izecson;c-17802096" wrote:"DivinylsFan;c-17801790" wrote:"izecson;c-17801465" wrote:I moved to another custom world after sunset valley getting really buggy and crash often when clicking map view in my 4th generations saves (around 700 sim days), another EA world that is good for generational play is Lunar Lakes.Does Lunar Lakes have more aliens than other worlds? Is it a store world or part of Into the Future? I've just got that world and haven't fully checked it out yet. What are the pre-made residents like?Lunar Lakes is a store world, and the amount of alien you will get is the same as other world when you have seasons installed, most of the premades are descendant from premades that are in EA's world such as Wolff, Sekemoto, Loveland etc.I've just had a look at it and actually quite like the look of it, slightly unrealistic enough to be a distraction but realistic enough to be not totally silly, given Emirates have landed on Mars! Go humans!I just had a thought ... I could package the Bunch household in their original and plonk them into it - or are the Bunch's the buggy one's? I say Bunch because I liked having Darlene marry into my CAS family.Do you recommend anything else? You seem a good bet.I think if i remembered correctly I played with Lunar Lakes for 10th generation around 8 years ago, it is a beautiful world with only a downside is that most of the rabbithole except the science rabbit hole all look the same (portal), I dont think there is a buggy household in the game, buggy lot? perhaps. What i can recommend is that for your sims' house not to be really standing out from the rest of the lot, you ought to decorate your house based on lunar lakes aesthetic, well not every premade lot is a futuristic, the one in the caldera looks like a regular cabin (Amelia Loveland's lot)

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Mikezumi
4 years ago
Sunset Valley is the least problematic town for me. What is your lifespan so I can get an idea of how long it takes for you to get to the third generation?

Have a look through https://www.nraas.net/community/TIPS-FOR-BETTER-GAME-PERFORMANCE for some ideas. I don't do everything suggested but there are several things I do religiously and the only thing I can complain about it is the time it takes to load and save after I have played several generations (I play a slightly modified normal lifespan so after about 150 sim days saving and loading becomes a little tiresome).
timurjr96
4 years ago
I moved to another custom world after sunset valley getting really buggy and crash often when clicking map view in my 4th generations saves (around 700 sim days), another EA world that is good for generational play is Lunar Lakes.
SieurPersil
4 years ago
Lunar Lakes is a store world. It does not hav3 more aliens than other worlds. You can find info on residents here https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Lunar_Lakes
timurjr96
4 years ago
"DivinylsFan;c-17801790" wrote:
"izecson;c-17801465" wrote:
I moved to another custom world after sunset valley getting really buggy and crash often when clicking map view in my 4th generations saves (around 700 sim days), another EA world that is good for generational play is Lunar Lakes.

Does Lunar Lakes have more aliens than other worlds? Is it a store world or part of Into the Future? I've just got that world and haven't fully checked it out yet. What are the pre-made residents like?

Lunar Lakes is a store world, and the amount of alien you will get is the same as other world when you have seasons installed, most of the premades are descendant from premades that are in EA's world such as Wolff, Sekemoto, Loveland etc.
timurjr96
4 years ago
"DivinylsFan;c-17802119" wrote:
"izecson;c-17802096" wrote:
"DivinylsFan;c-17801790" wrote:
"izecson;c-17801465" wrote:
I moved to another custom world after sunset valley getting really buggy and crash often when clicking map view in my 4th generations saves (around 700 sim days), another EA world that is good for generational play is Lunar Lakes.

Does Lunar Lakes have more aliens than other worlds? Is it a store world or part of Into the Future? I've just got that world and haven't fully checked it out yet. What are the pre-made residents like?

Lunar Lakes is a store world, and the amount of alien you will get is the same as other world when you have seasons installed, most of the premades are descendant from premades that are in EA's world such as Wolff, Sekemoto, Loveland etc.

I've just had a look at it and actually quite like the look of it, slightly unrealistic enough to be a distraction but realistic enough to be not totally silly, given Emirates have landed on Mars! Go humans!
I just had a thought ... I could package the Bunch household in their original and plonk them into it - or are the Bunch's the buggy one's? I say Bunch because I liked having Darlene marry into my CAS family.
Do you recommend anything else? You seem a good bet.

I think if i remembered correctly I played with Lunar Lakes for 10th generation around 8 years ago, it is a beautiful world with only a downside is that most of the rabbithole except the science rabbit hole all look the same (portal), I dont think there is a buggy household in the game, buggy lot? perhaps.

What i can recommend is that for your sims' house not to be really standing out from the rest of the lot, you ought to decorate your house based on lunar lakes aesthetic, well not every premade lot is a futuristic, the one in the caldera looks like a regular cabin (Amelia Loveland's lot)
timurjr96
4 years ago
I wasnt an avid mod user back then, but I did use a few such as nraas master controller, overwatch, errortrap and story progression and nothing else
HillyPlays
4 years ago
@izecson Error Trap causes the most issues for me. I had to quit and reload twice before I figured it out.
UlanDhor
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
Error Trap is a core mod. You have to use the correct version for your game version (1.67 or 1.69). It corrects errors, it doesn't cause any. Given how many errors you seem to have in your game, there's probably something wrong with your setup.
There's really only one mod I know of but can't name, with which it is really incompatible, but I somehow doubt you use that one.
UlanDhor
Seasoned Novice
4 years ago
"Mikezumi;c-17801250" wrote:
Sunset Valley is the least problematic town for me.

This. If you have issues in Sunset Valley, you better go looking into solutions of how to extend the lifespan of your savefiles. All saves deteriorate over time, but there are methods to keep that from getting too annoying too quickly.
DivinylsFan
New Traveler
4 years ago
their lifespan is long, at least 235 days altogether, longer if they had a good life. I only have store-bought and game content, and my own recolours from create a style. The mods I have are nraas story progression, MC, overwatch and error trap. My desktop computer is pretty good. It's not as powerful as the $5K one's of today, but it was very decent a couple of years ago, new. I think Error Trap is kinda new actually. I wonder if that is doing something. But that wouldn't explain why the same types of problems happened when I played another family there a couple of years ago. Anyway, I thought maybe like, a lot of people say Isla Paradiso has lots of bugs, so maybe Sunset is known to have too.