I have an issue - only in one save file - where my sims can’t go on vacation. When take a vacation is chosen from either phone/computer, sims go to the lot but it seems they have just travelled there and they can’t see/go inside the house. It doesn’t say that they’re on vacation in the calendar. This is even with all mods and cc removed. Pls help
Hi,
Ive tried with two households (in the same save) and it didn’t work for either
@Amandamb21 For every vacation rental lot or just the one ?
This is for every vacation lot
@Amandamb21 Hi! I'm so sorry you're having trouble with this. I did some testing in a mod-free save and didn't encounter any problems. Since you mentioned that you removed your mods / CC and then tested, the first thing I suggest is to take them out again (if you've put them back) and also delete the localthumbcache.package file located in the Documents / Electronic Arts / The Sims 4 folder. Then run a game repair before opening the game for testing. Note: do not save the game while your mods / CC are out.
If you're still having trouble after doing that, exit the game without saving and please answer a few more questions to help us better understand what's happening.
- Which specific vacation rental lots have you tried?
- Were any of them ones you built or ones you added from the Gallery?
- How many sims did you vacation with?
- Were the sims ones you created or ones you added from the Gallery?
- Do any of those sims have careers? If so, what are the careers?
Hi I’ve done all of the above. To answer your qs
1. I’ve tried lots of lots, mostly from the gallery, one I had built myself, but also the one in san sequoia. I don’t have any other packs that give vacation lots
2. I’ve tried with 1 sim, 2 sims and a whole family
3. I’ve tried with households I’ve created and also an npc family that already existed in the world
4. Yes they have had careers - botany, politician career, astronaut career, also sims with no careers. I have just tried an npc family with two adults with no career and a child in high school but this still hasn’t worked
I’m of the opinion that the vacation system in my save has broken and I would just really like to know if there’s any way I can fix this without moving this family to a new save because they’re a legacy family. Many thanks
@Amandamb21 Thanks so much for sharing that! You have done some very extensive testing. You mentioned not having any other packs that give vacation lots. Does that mean you don't have the Outdoor Retreat, Jungle Adventure or Journey to Batuu packs? I thought if one of those could be interfering, then you could try disabling the pack, loading the save, saving your progress, and reenabling the pack to see if that made a difference with your vacations. Just remember that disabling packs removes any save data associated with those packs (CAS and Build/Buy items, traits, etc.)
No I don’t have any of those 3 packs
@Amandamb21 Thanks again for sharing! I do apologize for the back and forth, I just wanted to make sure we covered all possibilities. Based on what you provided, I'm inclined to agree with you that save was corrupted somehow and the vacation system (possibly other things) are broken. To my knowledge there is no way to fix a corrupt save. I know you said you have a legacy family in this save. Since you've used Mods before, you could save all the households, put them in a new save and restore the relationships using the MCCC mod; though it can be a little complicated and time-consuming.
The only other thing I can think of is maybe to try to recover your previous saves to see if the vacation works in any of them. We only have up to the last five saves available for recovery but perhaps one of those saves is not corrupted. If you'd like to try it, make sure you leave out Mods/CC as you're testing (just in case one of them is what caused the corruption). You can always add them back later. A couple things to keep in mind here: 1) you will lose some progress in the game and 2) having Mods/CC out will mean that your sims won't keep CC clothes or Mod related data, like traits.
I've put my suggested steps in the spoiler below, if you're interested.
- Launch the game
- Choose Load Game
- Click on the save you want to recover
- Click the "disk" icon on that save
- Make a note of the date and time of each save so you can add that to the name of the recovered save
- Starting with the first save in the list, click the Recover button
- A "new" save will appear in your Load Game list; it will have [Recovered] added to the end of the save name
- Edit the Recovered save name to include the date/time you noted to keep it separate from the others
- Test the Recovered save
- Repeat these steps for the second, third, etc. saves until you either find one that's working properly (fingers crossed) or none of them are.
