The strangest thing happened

Are you sure you didn't accidentally hit the main menu button?

"GraceyManor;c-17338229" wrote:
Are you sure you didn't accidentally hit the main menu button?

Maybe? :#

It happened yet again. I was wide awake this time. Seriously, what causes this?!

You didn't really give much information. From where to where do you travel, do you use mods that help with this, etc.?

"Turjan;c-17338814" wrote:
You didn't really give much information. From where to where do you travel, do you use mods that help with this, etc.?

I tried to do this, in order to stop or least lessen the dreaded error 12....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_FMUR5BNg

....and it worked, I think.

But I go to play the game--and 2 of my saves ended with the Sims being in another world--and the Sims are back in SimMeapolis. They weren't in the last time I played the game. One time, they were in Barcelona. Then the other save I tried were in Paris.

Then I tried to send them off to another world or the same worlds. But all of a sudden, I go back to main menu. At first, I thought I did it by accident. But it happened again and I know it wasn't an accident. I don't know how it happened.

Has this ever happened to any of you?

Well, I don't use that method described in that video, and honestly, I'm not sure what that is supposed to achieve. Bad saves (those that end on the extension "bad") should be completely deleted, anyway. Cleaning out your savegames should involve deleting all the snapshots in there. Kuree's Save Cleaner is the easier way to do that, although you can also do that by hand with S3PE, but that's slightly involved.

Traveling without mods that help keep your savegames in check, like ErrorTrap and Overwatch, is a bit futile. Traveler is the mod to use to make traveling much more reliable. All of these are NRaas mods.

A general recommendation is to make a save directly before you travel, completely exit the game, restart the game and that save again, skip saving when you embark on the travel. Also, save again after arrival and do the same thing again. That gives your system more RAM to work with, as Sims3 has issues with releasing RAM after it grabbed it for some reason.

Finally, I'm not sure whether some of the worlds you mentioned aren't just too big. Nobody wants to step on toes of people who have clearly poured lots of work and passion into their worlds, but these worlds are just too big to be playable for any longer period of time. I'm not sure about the specific worlds you mentioned, as I haven't tried those yet, so ask around. At least Barcelona was recently mentioned as causing issues in this regard.

Which world are you trying to travel to? If its a custom world, perhaps the world itself is corrupted and can't load properly.

"GraceyManor;c-17338977" wrote:
Which world are you trying to travel to? If its a custom world, perhaps the world itself is corrupted and can't load properly.

I tried to travel to Barcelona one time. The second time, I tried Paris. Both custom worlds.

"ilikethesims30;c-17339006" wrote:

"GraceyManor;c-17338977" wrote:
Which world are you trying to travel to? If its a custom world, perhaps the world itself is corrupted and can't load properly.

I tried to travel to Barcelona one time. The second time, I tried Paris. Both custom worlds.

Barcelona has issues.As pretty as the world is, whenever my sim traveled there, once the world loaded the family was gone and I was stuck on map view and have to hard boot the game.

Try traveling to one of the game's destinations: Egypt, China or France, and see if it does.If it doesn't, then its most likely a custom world.At that point try traveling to a different custom world and if that loads fine, then its that particular world.

I still got a bad save traveling to the regular game vacation world. UGH! I don't know what else to do....