TS3 Seasons (stuck in winter + stats not changing)
ok, so I'm not really sure if I could post this here - was looking for a specific The Sims 3 Seasons subforum but couldn't see one. but then again, i'm blind so just move/delete this thread if I've spazzed out and posted it in the wrong place, or if I've posted it twice * i'm pretty sure I did* and thanks for your patience
anyway, cutting straight to the chase - my game is stuck in the last day of winter and even though it says it's the first day of spring, the weather isn't changing. on top of that, my sim got married and her husband's stats would not move (it shows he's ''hungry'' although he isn't, and that his energy is below the middle of the bar even though he just slept ''until rested''). I've read soooo many things and FAQs and what to do and what not to so i'm just going to make a list of the things i've done now:
In regards to the stats:
1). ''resetSIM'' - does not work on the male sim (the one with stats stuck originally); works on the female sims who's stats are moving just fine.
2). changed in CAS - read somewhere that changing a sim's outfit resets any bugs and all, and I've done it before and it has helped. unfortunately, not this time.
in regards to the seasons not changing
1). ''testingcheatsenabled true'' - shift+click in house to bring up ''seasons'' and select a season.
I did that, and... I may be just being a numpty but it was still snowing on the first day of spring? then trees changed at some point but went grey with orange leaves?? i'm just not even sure if that's what spring is supposed to look like initally in TS3 as i've had the seasons EP for such a short time i've only played through summer, autumn and winter.. I haven't even seen what spring is supposed look like just yet. I managed to fast-forward the next few days and I saw a few green leaves popping up on those tree branches so I guess the ''testingcheatsenabled true'' thing worked? would I have to change each season like this/manually in the future? not ideal but i guess I don't mind... : /
2). Creating a The Sims 3_backup folder in the EA section of Documents and inputing my Saves back in:
I genuinely have 2 saves I sorta care about xD so that wasn't a problem. on top of that I don't use custom created content such as mods, downloads, lots, packs, hairstyles, etc so I know the problem wouldn't be in something I've downloaded for me to do the whole step by step thing. I put my family/save in a ''brand new'' game (read: the Sims 3 the game has just created as I deleted the old one for this step) and it was still the first day of spring, it was still snowing, my male's sim stats were still stuck and i'm thinking: is the problem inside the SAVE itself? o.O is that even possible?
And sooo… I'm here.
What do I... do?
P.S.
Just before I got them married, I ''split the household'' my female sim was in -- so I had to move her parents to a different place but I couldn't be bothered at the time so I just deleted them. Could this have caused some sort of a mess at all?
@VinylCorder I'm going to start with the last question first: Yes, deleting any sim can and will corrupt your save. A testingcheats object-delete only removes the sim's body; other data stays in the game and will continue causing problems. If it's possible, it would be a good idea to revert to a save from before you deleted the parents. (In the future, you can tell them to move and select "kick out," and they'll find a place to live on their own.)
Your male sim sounds corrupted as well. Resetsim doesn't do much except unstick a sim that can't move; it's not going to fix this issue. Your next step, without mods at least, would be to evict your sims in Edit Town, save their house to the bin, bulldoze the lot and replace it with the bin copy, and move the sims back in. If you do this all in one Edit Town session, the sims will keep their jobs and relationships but lose their promised wishes and opportunities.
Failing that, or if the world shows other signs of corruption, you might want to save your sims to the bin and place them in a brand-new world. They won't know anyone, but they should still have their skills and their relationship with each other. Hopefully, your male sim isn't too corrupted for this to help.
By the way, before you start trying to fix these issues, it would be a good idea to use "save as" to rename the save, thereby generating a backup copy of this save. That way, you can always revert to the backup if you don't like how the troubleshooting went.
And yes, it can still snow in early spring. The weather is random to some degree, but the transition from winter isn't supposed to be instantaneous. If spring keeps looking exactly like winter, though, that would be a sign that the save might be corrupted.
The clean folder was a good idea, and I'd have recommended starting there if you hadn't done it already. But unfortunately, that's not going to fix corruption within your save.
P.S. There is no "Seasons" section, this is it for all TS3/Windows-related issues. (There's a dedicated mac section for sims games as well, but that's more about technical issues than gameplay.)
