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luthienrising's avatar
7 years ago

Lin-Z object warning! *Update your game

Strongly advise off buying/placing the new Lin-Z (Alexa) object until a patch fix. Or at the very least, copy your save to your desktop before you do -- you might need it!

https://twitter.com/EnglishSimmer/status/1075704588701974528

For specifics, it seems (if I understand this right on only one coffee) that the issues are:

  • Travelling to a lot that has one
  • Deleting one
  • Putting one in your inventory


The fixes available are:

  • Going back to a pre-using-the-thing save. Which is not ideal.


If you have not yet had this error but do have a Lin-Z, you can try deleting it, saving, exiting, and then deleting the localthumbcache file. This has been reported to work by some people to remove the Lin-Z from relationships.

Edited with details from @crinrict :
The main problem are visitors atm. They seem to form some kind of pseudo relationship with LinZ as soon as they enter the lot/room. If you delete LinZ when that has already happened, those Sims will be borked and I haven't found a way to save those
If you didn't have any visitors, make sure all your Sims in the household have a relationship you can see in the panel, before deleting it.
If you delete it and one or more SIms have a pseudo-relationship, the lot becomes unloadable
Same happens if you move it to the household iunventory


Update:
Workaround!

https://twitter.com/crinrict/status/1075775195611189252
https://twitter.com/crinrict/status/1075775785800105985

New update: Update your Sims 4 in Origin! Yay!
  • Thanks for the heads up! Haven't gotten around to using it so hopefully we'll see an official fix soon. Thanks @crinrict for the workaround! :)
  • I am glad I didn't put one in my rotation game - was thinking about it but distracted and forgot. I will wait for a patch or fix
  • I wish I had read this before...I put it one on my active household yesterday and got the error message when one of my sims tried to travel to the san myshuno gym. I had to reload an earlier save.

    Geez, This was one of the most interesting items this year and had to be bugged :'(
  • I didn't play with it yet. I pulled out all the holiday looking stuff but that's it. Glad it was caught soon though and I can avoid it until fixed. :)
  • "Pegasys;c-16881918" wrote:
    So strange. I hadn't gotten around to placing one in my game yet, though I was planning to. IRL I got an Echo Dot and it's playing Christmas music right now. I surprisingly love the thing. But it's not preventing me from travelling - yet...


    3rd Gen Dot? I love that one it's much louder then the 2nd Gen Dot.
  • DeKaythePUNK's avatar
    DeKaythePUNK
    Seasoned Vanguard
    "Advarius9001;c-16881965" wrote:
    "DeKay;c-16881952" wrote:
    Yikes, the AIs are on to us! ? "Get us in your house, you're not gonna leave this place. Delete us, you're gonna suffer my wrath." ?


    Now I think about it, maybe the Robotic vacuum cleaner was trying to kill my butler...


    LOL. ?
  • I personally never had this issue, but a patch was released about an hour ago to fix the issue with whoever is having problems. Hopefully it fixes the issue I'm having with not being able to lecture my pets to dissuade certain behaviors :neutral:
  • "nbgangelova;c-16882463" wrote:
    I personally never had this issue, but a patch was released about an hour ago to fix the issue with whoever is having problems. Hopefully it fixes the issue I'm having with not being able to lecture my pets to dissuade certain behaviors :neutral:


    I think it was only for the Lin-Z, as a quick rescue patch for that one thing.
  • "applefeather2;c-16882479" wrote:
    "nbgangelova;c-16882463" wrote:
    I personally never had this issue, but a patch was released about an hour ago to fix the issue with whoever is having problems. Hopefully it fixes the issue I'm having with not being able to lecture my pets to dissuade certain behaviors :neutral:


    I think it was only for the Lin-Z, as a quick rescue patch for that one thing.


    It was also for the hotkey speed issue in tab mode.