- We fixed an issue that could cause a residential lot to switch to a generic lot type after being placed from The Gallery.
Fixed in Patch 1.25.135
Affected lots may still need manual fixing
Seems I found a solution to my own problem. Someone over on tumblr suggested buying the lot as retail, and that indeed fixed the issue right after I sold it. I can now change the type. :-)
Do you still have your borked version ? What happens if you export it to the library ? Does it have the wrong creator issue as well ?
I think the two could be connected but I don't have enough evidence yet.
I'll add your thread to the list and mark your post as workaround.
EDIT: Added
Nope, it shows me as the creator. I heard that it's connected with plopping lots that do not match the empty lot's type from the gallery/library, but obviously happens quite rarely. I don't know how true that is, but I was putting various of my work-in-progress builds on various lots in the modern part of Windenburg so it is plausible.
Literally nothing else I tried except buying the lot as retail worked. When trying to save that lot (marked as "Generic") to library, it was normally saving as "Residential", too, even if the lot placed there was a nightclub or lounge or park or retail. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I do have an older save with the broken lot still but the bug is tied to the game and not the lot in particular, so me sharing it would be pointless. Does that make sense? I can share it but it'll be tagged as "Residential" for starters and will most likely not replicate my problem.
I just had this same thing happen after the Update of June 2nd. It was the lot across from the Goth household called Hollow Slough or however that is spelled. It was the only lot ever played in that particular save and it had never been anything else other than a residence with a scratch built house on it. I had loaded the save and decided to put some new windows in it and entered build mode. First thing I noticed was I couldn't afford anything at all even though the household had over §38K. Then I noticed the business funds was §0 but my household doesn't own a business and the lot type was set to Generic. I could not change the lot type because it said it was a "Special Venue".
So at this point I moved my household out of that lot and into the blank lot across from the Pancake household. Then I went back to the original lot and saved it to my Gallery so I could plop it down on the new blank lot my Sims had moved to. In the Gallery it now said the original lot creator was someone else even though I built this one from the ground up and not even one room was from the Gallery. Anyway, I plopped it down onto the new blank lot my Sims had moved to and suddenly the lot type changed to Generic even though it said Residential in the Gallery.
I moved my household AGAIN to another lot and was then able to go set the lot type of the house I had just plopped back to residential. However, it still wouldn't let me change the original lot (across from the Goths) back. I then bulldozed the lot and it still says it is a Special Venue and I can't change it away from Generic. At this point I moved my household back into the lot across from the Pancakes and it stayed residential. They now live in their old house but it is now on a different lot and I can't seem to do anything with the original lot. It just sits there, bulldozed and Generic.
I have not used any CC and currently have all the Packs except of course the new Restaurant one that is coming out soon. I will try the workaround mentioned in this thread about buying it as a business and selling it to see if that works. Later...
Update: The whole "buy the generic lot as a business, sell it, and change it worked for me on the original lot that got the Generic Glitch. The part where the generic glitch followed my Sims to the new lot was cured by moving out to another random house. When I went back to the newly infected lot from manage worlds after the move out and it was indeed Generic but it was NOT a special venue. I was able to change the lot type back to residential without the need to buy it as a business and I was able to move my Sims back in while it remained a residence.
The first lot across from the Goths is still residential but it is still empty as I had bulldozed it. Not sure if I'm going to try to move back in to that lot or just play on from where they live now. That first lot is bad mojo. I just hope it isn't some object in my house that is waiting to cause the Generic glitch again.
This solution did not work for me. Is there another.
Not that I'm aware.. Sorry
Then maybe I missed something. Can you rewrite how to fix the problem.
I have this problem in Granite Falls. So unfortunately I can't use your workaround. Hope EA will fix this bug soon.
I have the same issue with all the lost of Magnolia Promenade. I had homes and a park in Magnolia Promenade but my computer crashed and I had to reinstall everything. When I tried to add the park I got the issue that got stuck with generic... I decided to try other lots and now all the lots in Magnolia Promenade are set as generic...
I will try with the retail thing, but I hope this is solved. I think is a bug that all people that has Get together will have... the horror is that I have this issue with all Magnolia Promenade lots (the 4 lots)... I hope this bug is solved before the next pack, I really want to have a restaurant there and I want my park to be a park (in order to marry my sims there)...
Tagging the QA Team to see if they are aware of this
Me too!
- We fixed an issue that could cause a residential lot to switch to a generic lot type after being placed from The Gallery.
Fixed in Patch 1.25.135
Affected lots may still need manual fixing
Me too.
