Eco lifestyle lot trait gets stuck to random lots

@sofiasbuilds Hello, I hope I can help you somewhat resolve your issue!

As you said, some lot traits are assigned to certain lots and they cannot be changed. I'm pretty sure that that's what's happened here.
However, I'm not 100% sure, as this is something only the game designers would really know for sure.

Hope this helps xx

I don't work for EA but I like to help fellow gamers 🙂

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Hi @1105Cats, 

Thank you for trying to help. I know that this is the case with some lots but I am 100% that this is not the case here - this lot trait came with the Eco Lifestyle expansion pack and I’m having the problem with the Get Famous expansion pack world. It also keeps adding itself to new lots as soon as I play them which I know for sure isn’t supposed to be the case. I really appreciate you talking the time to read my bug report and having a think about what might be wrong though! 🙂

Hi @crinrict 🙂

I removed them before installing the latest patch (8/8/24) and started having the issue afterwards. Do you know if there are any mods known to cause this issue?

Thank you so much for helping! I did try with more than one save but I’ll give it a go with a new save and see if the issue persists. If it’s any help the mods I used to have were MCCC, UI cheats, Carl’s Dine Out Reloaded, PandaSama’s realistic birth mod and SimRealist’s Private Practice and SNBank. I always use latest versions and take out after patches until creators have said they’re updated though and since there was a new patch just yesterday I took them all out and disabled mods.

Hi @sofiasbuilds ! That sounds like you have Lumpinou's lotharihoe's mod Waste Management Overhaul. How the mod works is that it adds the lot trait to every Residential lot and then an actual Sim comes regularly to get your garbage. The mod doesn't let you remove the trait, on purpose.

If you don't want this mod's features anymore, removing the mod should make is so you can then remove the lot trait.

Hi @luthienrising 🙂

I don’t have that mod, I had a different mod from Lumpinou years ago but I’ve never had that one, only the ones mentioned above and also TwistedMexi’s TOOL and BetterBuildBuy, some of the mods I used to have recently, at least the ones from Simrealist, do affect lot traits so maybe that could have something to do with it but I don’t know enough about how modding works to know if that could have corrupted an existing save even when all mods are removed and mods disabled. 

Hi @sofiasbuilds 

Try the following

• Close the game
• Rename Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old
• Start the game. All your content will be gone now as the game created a new folder. All your saves/.. is still in the old folder so not to worry. Be aware that your claimed event rewards will also be gone for the time being but you will get them back with your other things.
• Close the game again
• Copy JUST your save game from  Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4_Old\Saves to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Saves
• Start your save
• Check if you still have the error
• Report back with your results for further steps on how to get your stuff back.

@sofiasbuilds Sorry, I named the wrong creator. It's lotharihoe's Waste Overhaul