My Game is Getting Weird
During the last week, I've all a spate of odd happenings in my game. FWIW, I play a rotational style, going from one family to another. I'm a fairly realistic player, so I don't invite unusual happeni...
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Okay, this is totally wonky. In a previous post in this discussion, I raved about having a hassle-free outing to a restaurant with a Sim couple, and how it was the first time that had happened. Last night I took another couple from an older save out to dinner and it was a total disaster. All the old bugs and glitches came back to haunt me. Why? The couple last night is from a save that is about 3 months old, and I haven't played them very often since the latest patch. The successful outing was with a couple from my newest save which is about a month old. I am confused. The older save is in StrangerVille with the mystery solved. The new save is in Brindleton Bay, the husband is at the Conspiracy Squelcher rank in the military career and is working on solving the mystery. But in the save in StrangerVille my Sims are vloggers, having made a fortune streaming about their quest to solve the mystery.
In both saves, Newcrest is filled with restaurants, nightclubs, a wine bar, a vet clinic, an upscale gym, a spa....every lot has someplace where my Sims can go to have fun. I used the same venues in both saves with no changes made to the venues. Both Newcrests are identical except for changing where certain venues are placed.
I backed out of the game as soon as I got my Sims back to their home lot, without saving anything. I deleted the caches and repaired my game. Then I tried it again and had the same results. Same restaurant but with totally different outcomes in two different saves. In my new save everything went great. With the older save the outing was awful. The second time I went to the same restaurant, I checked to see if the staff was the same as when I had the hassle-free outing. I was a bit surprised to see at least three NPCs that were the same. The waiter, the chef and the host were the same NPCs doing the same jobs.
Yeah, something is definitely wrong. And it is getting more weird every time I play. Older bugs and glitches have returned, ones that were fixed with the recent patch aren't fixed in older saves. I have gone through all my mods for the third time, and there are no conflicts. I also took the extra time to make sure all my mods are up to date. I have CC that I have removed and placed in a folder on my desktop in the hope I will be able to use it all again in the future. Tonight I will be playing off-line just to see if that makes any difference. Some of these issues did start after Origin was down a week or so ago. Some began after the patch. Earlier today I played my test save after pulling my mods folder and the same issues were there. Every single one of them.
In both saves, Newcrest is filled with restaurants, nightclubs, a wine bar, a vet clinic, an upscale gym, a spa....every lot has someplace where my Sims can go to have fun. I used the same venues in both saves with no changes made to the venues. Both Newcrests are identical except for changing where certain venues are placed.
I backed out of the game as soon as I got my Sims back to their home lot, without saving anything. I deleted the caches and repaired my game. Then I tried it again and had the same results. Same restaurant but with totally different outcomes in two different saves. In my new save everything went great. With the older save the outing was awful. The second time I went to the same restaurant, I checked to see if the staff was the same as when I had the hassle-free outing. I was a bit surprised to see at least three NPCs that were the same. The waiter, the chef and the host were the same NPCs doing the same jobs.
Yeah, something is definitely wrong. And it is getting more weird every time I play. Older bugs and glitches have returned, ones that were fixed with the recent patch aren't fixed in older saves. I have gone through all my mods for the third time, and there are no conflicts. I also took the extra time to make sure all my mods are up to date. I have CC that I have removed and placed in a folder on my desktop in the hope I will be able to use it all again in the future. Tonight I will be playing off-line just to see if that makes any difference. Some of these issues did start after Origin was down a week or so ago. Some began after the patch. Earlier today I played my test save after pulling my mods folder and the same issues were there. Every single one of them.
