Please use this thread going forward: Save Game Corruption (Disappearing Lots/Error 800 or 801) | EA Forums - 5037272
Yep, as @Sumchen said, we discussed this in this thread several months ago, and EA had a chance to read this. It was also often recommended here to simply keep your lots number low, and limit the use of residential rental.
However, this is obviously not a real solution, and I myself stopped playing the game completely around half a year ago. Even though I have bought all DLCs up until For Rent, I’m fine with saying goodbye to sims 4 forever, because it is simply not worth the hassle.
EA will most likely not fix this; they will probably recommend to not play with all DLCs installed at once, and I hope that someone will sue them for this. Because I would have NOT bought all the DLCs if I knew that I couldn’t play with all of them together (I play with just one save switching families, I don’t create new saves from scratch, and I have no interest in doing so).
It’s a scammy company. They think that they’re maximising profits, but they are simply shortsighted. Long term they are going to lose, that’s for sure.
Hey there, it's been a while since I last chimed into this thread. It's been quite the rollercoaster and it's really been disheartening to see that after 50 pages of people voicing this specific problem, that EA has nothing to show for it and still says they are unable to recreate the bug. I believe as more worlds are released, this issue will grow more and more, people are rewarded for purchasing all of the EP's, GP's and worlds with their savefile corrupting. For me I am at the very threshold. I cannot place a lot made by a talented CC builder friend of mine otherwise both Tomarang and Willow Creek will begin it's corruption.
I'm hoping that there will eventually be a fix but for the time being I cannot purchase or play with any new content that introduces a new world.
I've been recently having this issue as well. I just got For Rent a few months ago and this issue has been plaguing my game since then. I noticed as soon as I place residential rentals or edit a lot to have rental units on certain lots, whole neighborhoods in Willow Creek get a green ! above the lots. If I load in, the houses are gone or default. I've removed all of my mods and it still does it. I've messed around and it seems some lots are ok to place the rental units but many of them delete totally unrelated houses. It's really frustrating to have to keep checking Willow Creek for corruption after placing lots or messing with existing one. It's really disheartening and sad to see that this thread is 50 pages in without any kind of real resolution.
