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Anonymous
12 years ago

Can't go home from university after installing seasons

Hi,

I recently bought and installed seasons. Right before I did, I updated my game, but didn't log into it.

When I came into the game I selected my sims, who were at university at the time and started loading the game. I noticed there was something broken about one of my sims when it was finished: he wouldn't interact with anyone, except the sim that went there with him. I also noticed all my flatmates in university tend to step outside and just sorta stand there for no reason. He also gets a ''go wait outside'' action popping up occasionally. The other sim is fine though, no bugs at all.

Tried the resetSim cheat, but it didn't work. 

I decided to just wait out the semester and see if he would be better when he went home. Then a new problem occurred. I get stuck into the ''going home'' loadingscreen at the point were the bar is almost fully loaded. I tried waiting; over an hour nothing had happened.

Is it seasons that is keeping them from going home, since I installed it when they were away? Or was my game likely already broken and if so - what do I do?

Many thanks!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Thank you for your reply,

    But I haven't really found any solution on the links you sent me.

    Is there any way to get back to the town and the family my uni sims came from? I don't even care if they graduate or not at this point. I just want to get back to the town mostly. 

    Thanks in advance

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    12 years ago

    I take it you don't have a backup ?

    You can try if you can get back to the hood by moving the nhd file for the Uni World in the saves folder to the desktop. It might work, it might cause the game not to load.

    Only other solution I have is using a mod to  clean up the corruption. If you wanna go there (at your own risk, this solution is not supported by EA), google ErrorTrap and Overwatch NRAAS and follow instructions there. I can't go into specifics on here. 

    Make a backup of your game before attempting.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Hi,

    No I didn't have a backup..

    I made a backup of this game though, then moved the uni nhd file to the desktop. But all I got at townselection was an empty icon and some message saying something went terribly wrong with the application.

    I could give the mods a try, but I have never used them before. I think I'll look it over and get back to you about it.

    I can't believe that I am probably gonna lose my whole town and all the sims in it, that I worked so hard on, just because something screwed up at Uni.. ☹️

    Thank you for your help.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    12 years ago

    Yeah, it's a bad issue.

    My tip for the future: Always save your game under a different name before going to Uni, travel with WA or visit the Future in ITF. This way, you can at least go back to that game should the sub-hoods screw up.

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