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DivinylsFan
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5 years ago

Sunset Valley Bugged?

Hello

So 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 :)

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  • 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
  • Hey while I'm here, does anyone know how to raise the quality of tofu, chicken,sausages, etc? My sim has grown an omni plant and fed it tofu, but it only grew as normal. I tried getting my sim with maxed Science to analyze harvestable while it was on the plant to try clone it as higher, but even though he scanned it, the test tube didn't appear in his inventory. When he harvested it, it didn't have an option to analyze, only gift. The omni plant grew into nice quality. What if the next seed bought in the mail gets genetic splicing, or analyze and clone the seed, will it increase the quality of the omni plant itself and then increase the quality of the tofu fed to it? There must be a way, in game, otherwise it wouldn't have a quality.
  • Does anyone know the difference between Sunset Valley & Adventureland? I got my sims to move to Adventureland & it just looked like Sunset Valley, very boring.
  • "SERVERFRA;c-17802284" wrote:
    Does anyone know the difference between Sunset Valley & Adventureland? I got my sims to move to Adventureland & it just looked like Sunset Valley, very boring.


    https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Adventureland
  • @izecson Error Trap causes the most issues for me. I had to quit and reload twice before I figured it out.
  • 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.
  • "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.
  • I gave up on that save and Sunset Valley. I bought Lunar Lakes and have started a game there, and have gotten Traveller, Mover and Portrait. I already have MC and SP, and O/W and Error Trap. I wonder if I got the right one, @Turjan .
    Anyway, my sim has gone to university and when she arrived at the town view, only the houses were available, none of the vacant lots, and the houses were pretty cheap, even the large one's. The absence of the vacant lots is not normal, but I can't remember how much the larger houses were to know what is normal for those. I looked at the Traveller and Mover, Traveller, @Coriandre, has 'treat as vacation' yes. I switched it to no but then the into the furture portal landed, and going into build or buy brings up lot info of simolean worth, not rent. I can't remember if the latter is normal or not. I can't see anything in Mover that sounds like it's affecting it. Also, the diner at the university is ownable - that's not normal.
    Have I been given bad advice about getting Traveller? It feels like my sim is cheating by living in the large house straight off the bat. Is this why when I started at Lunar Lakes, the vacant lots weren't showing up there? I had to go into town edit and change the lot type of them all to ownable, which put a flag on them like on vacation, so then I tried back to regular and then they were available normal. I don't like it.
    What's going on and how do I fix it? What settings do I need to put in Traveller or Mover to make the worlds normal, just better for avoiding errors and bugs? Or should I remove them entirely? I got mover because I'm sick of having full house dramas.
    Luckily I haven't gone very far into it and can start again with the new sim I created for it, because a copy of her is in the sim bin, and I haven't built anything on the lot in LL yet.
  • There is a specific procedure to move into a new world with traveler. Switching to « treat as vacation » false does not change your homeworld or the fact that you are on vacation, it just permits you to work at your job while in the new world (if of course the job venue exists in this world). See here for more info on how to move to a new world (look for the Switching Homeworlds section of the guide http://www.nraas.net/Traveler-FAQ

    For Uniworld, if you already own a house there (or want to own a house), you first have to rent a house or a dorm and then purchase a house or move to it if you already had purchased one.

    To best way to get specific or pro info on nraas mods is to write a question on their forum or page/tag Igazor on this one.
  • If you got the wrong Error Trap you will get a popup telling you the version you have is wrong. The only difference between the two versions of Error Trap is the version number.

    I've never noticed any issues with Sunset Valley.

    If you are having problems there you probably will have the same problems elsewhere unless you find out what is causing your problems and fix it.

    I have problems wherever I play due to having 20 or more sims in a household. I recently decided to stop allowing my game to change seasons as I really only have huge, game breaking, issues when it is in Autumn, Winter or Spring. So I've now got it staying permanently in Summer.

    In order to avoid getting Error 12 I notice how many times I've saved since I launched. I can usually get 2 or 3 saves before I get and Error 12. So when I have saved twice I think about if I dare try for a third save as it's time to shut down and relaunch. Going for that 3rd save sometimes means I lose a bit of game play as there is Error 12. My other option would be to reduce the number of sims in my household to close to 8, and reduce graphic settings.

    If you want to move your entire world population to a new empty world you could use NRAAS Porter mod. I think the amount of memory your computer has is what controls the number of sims you can move with that mod. The most I've ever successfully moved is over 300.

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