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kaseyanne5
Rising Adventurer
3 years ago

Sim Can No Longer Tend Garden, But Others Can...

I'm really struggling. I have a save file that corrupted so that I was no longer able to "Tend Garden" or "Water All" or "Harvest All". Tend Garden didn't work at all, the others would only work on one plant. I went back to an old save - literally gave up a week of Sim time and 2 days of play - to recover an old save before the corruption. This was after I tried factory resetting and realized it was a problem with the save. 

It all started working again, but then stops. I've tested it extensively, and it keeps happening on the same day. At first I thought it was when I aged up my toddler, but then I tried without aging her up and it stopped working again. That's when I realized that it stops working after the thunderstorm passes. So basically, no matter what I do the save becomes corrupted. I took out MCCC as well, to see if that helps. That's the only script mod I use, and I have minimal custom content (of which I had even fewer the first time this happened and then I needed a recolor for this family). But all this stuff was happening and issue with and without that content, as well. I don't know what to do to get the game to stop corrupting - this has never happened to me before with any of my other games. I've tried basically everything I can think of, lost game progress, reset, etc. Does anyone else know something I could do so that I can keep playing without losing this functionality?

//I've also attempted going back and doing a "Save As", to make it a "new" game. And I tried playing on a different lot and different family during the time I know the action stops working, but when I went back to the family, it still had stopped working. Please, if someone has thoughts I could really use them, because I want to keep playing on this game and not start a new legacy, but this is a real hindrance to the way I'm currently playing the game.

///I changed the title of this thread cause I'm not really sure it's a corrupt save file anymore. And apologize if there's another thread on this, now, as it might be something different, but originally I couldn't find anything that was addressing what I thought I was dealing with.

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    kaseyanne5
    Rising Adventurer
    3 years ago

    Replying both to bump, but also share more info as I did more testing. 

    1. It actually doesn't happen right after the storm. My sim was able to use this action for about an hour or two after the storm ended. 

    2. It's only happening to one sim. When I upped another sim to level 10 gardening, they were able to tend garden no problem.

    3. I tried lowering her skills and upping them again, but that didn't help.

    4. I tried resetting my sim (though I think I'd done this before, too), and that also did nothing. 

    I'm not 100% sure it's a corrupt save file, since I can't seem to stop it from corrupting when I reload old saves and then save as and make it a new save. I'm starting to think it's something else, but I don't know what, so wondering if anyone else has experienced this and might know a fix?

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