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HollownessDevour
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16 hours ago

Thoughts on For Rent and Business & Hobbies and their Issues

So I never bought For Rent because I was warned about the myriad of issues, and I was on a break from the game when Business & Hobbies came out, and though it interested me—I heard it too had some issues too, and thought I just wait for a decent discount.

But I was reading there is a bit of focus on save corruption with specific mentions of FR:

  • We’re also tracking any potential links to specific expansion packs or objects, though corruption reports predate packs like The Sims 4 For Rent.
  • Instances of corruption existed before the release of For Rent, and our investigations into individual packs remain a top priority.

So if this gets resolved within this time they claim to be catching up on issues during this "break", is that the biggest issue with this pack, or is it still not safe to buy?

And with B&H I was thinking of waiting till 50% off, which may or may not be around Black Friday/Cyber Monday or even end of the year sale, are the issues of that alright enough to deal with at discount, or should I wait longer and/or for specific fixes?

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  • Simgirl gives some good information. (Some bugs everyone may experience or  not at all to a few due to whatever stipulation that may cause it)

    Personally I haven't had any problems with corruption saves, but as always I make backup saves  in the event of anything happening but that's a rule of thumb with all games.

    I have B&H and enjoy it with how customizable businesses are and the lectures/classes that can be done. Tattooting definitely my favorite thing in the pack along with the pottery and candy making.

    Sales are always tempting and worth it, but never hurts to wait if you're very concerned about any of the problems. Though I'd always make sure to have a extra save folder put aside .

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    HollownessDevour
    Seasoned Ace
    13 hours ago

    Yeah, I am usually pretty good with backups for my games too (big updates I back up).

    And I do not play with as nearly as many mods as most, and minimal script mods (I think it is literally 2). Mostly tuning files to save sanity.

    I have only really been playing Sims 4 since L&D (but mostly since Jan, with a break about March/April), and I am nearly caught up with EPs (missing 5) and GPs (missing 4), and starting to consider buying up 5/9 of them but these two are the buggiest that I have heard.

    I also try to catch a sale when I can.

  • You can throw Adventure Awaits in this category.  I dont know when they began to think adding scripting your own game would be a fun thing to do as a player-  but it does not cut it for me. It's make shift something- that doesnt really end up feeling like the something you originally wanted-  End product shipped as a game dlc just doesn't work. I want it to work.  I want it to fill the massive desire I have to fill in everything that is missing for this game-  but it doesnt. I have faced additional issues crashes things I never seen before with this latest pack. I have barely played because of the issues. Camping is good- aspect was best developed. Reality tv-  where's the camera?  It doesnt really feel like it.  I like the get away but the point does not play out.

    Also the endless hours of set up and no play.  For rent-  when it was not infinite loading screens, crashes save corrupts-- the weeks it took to roll back the save,  starter three new saves,... all the work I did for the multi family lots-  its like 5 houses in one-  all gone-- all of the many-  because its on corrupt saves- or I can not use residential rentals or it will burn my newest created save.

    Business and Hobbies really doesn't pan out well for more than tattoo parlor for whatever reason.  It just doesn't.  I made a few other things which kind of worked,  many which I was doing anyway with get together club system,  but I just don't think it's as great as it should run.  I wish they could take the time off from putting out packs to make it run more like an entertaining game.  Asking the player to program everything in the game and see if it works kind of bl*ws from my experience.  I spent this weekend trying to fix my game.  Nothing really works. I can build on a vanilla save(goodness willing- even that is temperamental) and hours in cas,  replacing all the missing shoes and hair from the  trivial issue updates- not designed to fix and important issues-  but seems like intended to break any mods related to upcoming of new content. For rent has been broken for 2 years.  My wedding stories was never fixed. I'm drowning in new empty worlds I cant even play because it's one issue or another.

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