I'm hoping someone can help me solve this because I'm completely at a loss! For context I own all packs except Werewolves and only have CC in my game (in CAS, Build/Buy), no gameplay mods. I don't believe this is a bug because I can't accurately recreate it, and apologies in advance for the long post as I don't know how to explain the issue quickly!
I am playing in Del Sol Valley in the Mirage Park area and even though I have the Eco Footprint system turned off, my neighbourhood keeps becoming Industrial (yellow sky, coughing sims etc see pic below). I played with one family on the Inner Circle lot for 50+ sim days without issue. I then played with a single sim on the Upland Place lot in the same save file, also without issue. I moved the family out of Inner Circle, put down a new residential lot on Inner Circle that I'd built elsewhere and moved my single sim into it. Within 1 or 2 sim days the neighbourhood became Industrial (yellow sky, coughing sims etc). I went into Gameplay Options, turned the Eco Footprint On then Off again and this cleared the Industrial issue. However, within another 1 or 2 Sim days it was back. Also, for some reason the mailperson changed from the one in the usual mailperson's uniform to someone wearing the Eco Inspector uniform!
I wondered if maybe the build I had placed there might be the issue so I created a backup save (using 'Save As') and in it I moved out the single Sim, bulldozed the Inner Circle lot completely and placed a different build there, moving in Eliza Pancakes to test with. I then placed the build I'd previously had on Inner Circle onto the Upland Park lot (as I'd had no Industrial issue there yet) and moved in Venessa Jeong to test with. I played with Eliza in Inner Circle and after 4 sim days the neighbourhood became Industrial as before. So I figured that maybe the Inner Circle lot was the issue and switched play to Venessa on Upland Park to test the house that had been previously on Inner Circle. I played for 6 sim days with Venessa on Upload Park and the neighbourhood did not become Industrial at all so this seemed to confirm my assumption that perhaps Inner Circle was corrupted.
To double check whether this was a bug or just an issue in this save, I turned off mods so none of my CC would appear in game and started a clean save without them. I placed a sim in the Inner Circle house that shipped with Get Famous and played for 4 or 5 sim days without an Industrial issue appearing, so I concluded that the Inner Circle lot in my original save was the problem.
Then I went back to my original save, replicated what I did in the backup save in that I bulldozed the house on Inner Circle and left it blank and placed the same house I'd played with Venessa in in my backup save on to Upland Park and moved my single sim back in there thinking I should be able to play with her there without issue, just like with Venessa as I'd done the exact same thing in my backup save. But NO! Within 1 sim day the Industrial issue had appeared on the Upland Park lot (which is definitely not what happened with Venessa 😞)
So now I am at a complete loss. In my backup save the Inner Circle lot seemed to be the issue because it became Industrial there no matter what house or sim I played with. Or is the house the issue because it became Industrial in the original save on both the Inner Circle and Upland Park lots, but then it worked fine in the backup save with Venessa so maybe that's not the issue?! Or is my single sim the issue because both the Inner Circle and Upland Park lots became Industrial after I moved her in, but then in the backup save it became Industrial when I played with Eliza?! Or is it a combination of my single sim living in this particular house no matter what lot it is on?! I just don't get it.
So my questions are:
a) is there any way I can 'clean' the save file so that the Industrial Footprint stops appearing, as I really don't want to start a new save with these sims as I've spent ages on making friends and creating lore with the two households I play with in the save. (I can keep turning the Eco Footprint system on and off again to get rid of the Industrial issue each time it appears in game, but as that is every couple of sim days in this save, that gets annoying very quickly.)
b) Or if I do have to start a new save and move across the sims and builds I'd been playing with into it, is there a way to firstly 'clean' the sims and builds to make sure I'm not bringing the Industrial issue across with them, and secondly to preserve relationships between non-household sims so that I don't have to rebuild them from scratch or cheat them. Also, one of the Sims is currently getting daily royalties for his video productions, presumably there is no way to bring that to a new save either?
Any thoughts as to what the issue is in the original save or how I can prevent this happening with the same sims and builds in a new save would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.
