I‘ve been experiencing the exact same issues everyone in this thread has pointed out already. Though I have to say that since the bug fix in February I‘ve been encountering less corrupted builds in general, which could partially be due to the fact that I‘m very careful with placing builds from the gallery.
I don’t think the bug fix works retroactively for builds that have been already saved to the gallery while the bug was active. What I‘ve been doing to avoid corruption in my saves is:
- Placing only builds from before For Rent Patch
- Placing builds directly from the gallery (not saving them to your library and placing from there for some reason that seems to be a trigger for me)
- Placing builds in a seperate save first, testing and if there’s no corruption, then placing them in your gameplay save
- If placing a build after December 2023, testing it first and making sure it was created after the February patch (as I can’t be sure if the creator updated, I mostly use builds from simmers sharing them on YT/Tumblr where I can be more sure their game is updated)
Still very stressful all in all and greatly limits the amount of lots one can download.
but using these methods I‘ve been avoiding this issue and am able to keep playing in my legacy save 🙂
If I encounter a corrupted build I will make sure to share the save file here. I always test in a fresh unmodded save.
Hope we can get some clarification whether the February patch works retroactively at least!
Maybe now that there is a dedicated team for bug fixes the gallery will get more stable too (fingers crossed) ❤️
I also experience these problems. I want to play the game, but it is not possible because something keeps breaking. Error on error. I want to create my perfect save, but the game prevents me from doing so. These errors occur both in the game with and without mods. Both on old and new saves.
I hope the developers will finally fix this game and take care of the broken buildings in the gallery. Buildings that are infected with this bug should at least have markings that would allow downloaders to bypass them or download them at their own risk. Something like this.
