Worlds Not Showing Up in Game

"Scorpina2009;c-16458096" wrote:
Riverview, Dragon Valley, Sunlit Tides, and a couple others are not showing up in my drop down menu to select a world. But when I attempt to install them again, I see a message that says: can't install because it is already installed. Should I uninstall and just start over? I hate to do that because it'll take over an hour; but I may have to. any suggestions??

As you have already had several players try to explain, uninstalling and reinstalling the game involves only the Program Files. Content, both EA Store and Custom, lives entirely in your TS3 user game folder in Documents. Uninstalling and reinstalling the base game and the expansion/stuff packs won't help and if anything can damage the existing game folder further if it's not pulled out for safekeeping first.

The only reasons to uninstall and reinstall the game and its EP/SPs itself are if you have a totally broken installation, a new hard drive, or are recovering from a damaged drive. If your TS3 user game folder in Documents is acting up, pull it out and let a new one spawn to take its place as will happen on the next game launch.

Many players just don't listen when we say these things and uninstall anyway (then the Windows registry must be cleaned before a reinstall can be done). That's fine too, but then they find the same broken game folder in place when they are finished and haven't actually accomplished anything. That cannot be a very efficient use of time.