I built a house on the site of the Collective Cabin in Moonwood Mills. I moved in a family. I played another family for a while and then came back to the family living in the Collective Cabin lot. The family will not load (as in, the loading screen just keeps going and going and going). I went to the control panel to End Task on the Sims, and relaunched the game to try again. This time, the game crashed while trying to play the family living on the Collective Cabin lot. I have no problem getting onto the lot in Build Mode from the map -- but I cannot even visit the lot with another Sim from another household. It simply refuses to get off the loading screen (gave it 20 minutes). I tried repairing the game--same issue.
I deleted the family, thinking they were corrupted/buggy.
I moved in a brand new family and the same issues persisted with the new family.
I move d them out and went into the lot in Build Mode from the Map, and deleted the house/landscaping. This time, I could not EXIT the lock. Again, loading screen for 20+ minutes, finally had to use End Task to exit the Sims.
I tried building a new lot from Map View and Building Lot went on for 15 minutes before I used End Task to exit the Sims.
Everything was fine this afternoon. The only changes I have made was purchasing 3 Kits: the basement stuff, party essentials, and modern lux. I removed all Mods trying to get all of the above steps to work.
No other lot is giving me this issue (so far!)
I built it myself, but there were quite a few debug objects that I'd downloaded from the gallery.
I think moving in a family to the house "Unfurnished" worked -- I was able to bulldoze the lot and get back out of it again!!
Thank you! I never would have thought of that.
I've just managed to downgrade my patch from 1.108.289.1030 to 1.101.290.1030 through system restore points. The issue is completely gone in my game, all lots that were having issues have become fully functional once more. I'm not sure what disaster EA managed to put in the For Rent patches but I've successfully reversed it. Unfortunately I'd already bought Lovestruck so it's a waste of 40 dollars, but it's a small price to pay for my one and only legacy save of 8 years and 24 generations being functional again. Through testing I'd found atleast 1/4th of all the lots in my game had become bugged resulting in crashing/infinite loading. If anyone else is experiencing these issues, I strongly urge you to rollback your game if at all possible before it is too late. To those this is not an option for, I'm very sorry. It's deeply unfair and ludicrous that EA would continue putting out packs while allowing an issue like this to persist for 8 months with no official acknowledgement or inclusion on the laundry list of other bugs. My gratitude for Crinrict however is endless, they’ve been such a genuinely lovely and helpful person in the community for so many years. This is my first time ever posting on an EA/Maxis forum for bug issues and it will likely be my last, but from the time I was a small child fighting hood corruption in Sims 2, a teen troubleshooting Sims 3 error codes, to the grown woman I am now buying her own pc and expansions, Crin has always been there, guiding me along so patiently and kindly through an innumerable amount of issues. I’m staying right here in the past with Sims 4, no more kits, gamepacks, or updates, but you’ll always be my hero Crinrict. Thank you for everything.
