Please use this thread going forward: Save Game Corruption (Disappearing Lots/Error 800 or 801) | EA Forums - 5037272
I can answer some of your questions. For me houses disappear when there are too many lots/sims in the worlds. There is some kind of threshold of lots and sims for when the game gets buggy and the lots disappear. I haven't found out when this happens exactly and I don't play with big lots.
My workaround with this issue is to not play with every pack and to delete lots in worlds I don't use. It's best to just focus on a few packs and worlds and then you should be save from this game corruption. The more packs and worlds you use, the faster your save will get corrupt. Hope this helps.
@indywaraThanks so much for sharing! 🙏
I remember Sims 3 had this work around that it asked you to only use a few packs at a time, but for Sims 4 this has never been communicated by EA, which makes me think it is not intendend that way and will hopefully be still a bug they fix. (fingers crossed!)
The main reason why I buy all packs is to have more worlds in my save and all the gameplay additions to extend my gameplay with at the same time. It would be really really sad to have to remove packs, especially as I only play with 1 save (I'm playing rotationally). It wouldn't be an option for me, but then again when the save corrupts I would also try to find ways to save it, even if it meant deleting some lesser used lots..
But ultimately I think I would stop playing, as this would be an issue that frustrates so much, that it would outweigh the happiness and relaxation of playing.. 😔
I wonder if it is naive to hope for a fix from EA after all this time now..
I wish EA would at least communicate to us, what insights they have so far - what the actual limitations are, so we can work around them instead of risking to ruin our saves because they didn't share their information..
