Thank you for the quick reply. Sorry if my original post was confusing in some respects: this is because I have been testing and have entered the game many times since discovering the problem. My game version shows as PC: 1.63.136.1010 (June 10th patch). Yes, I always delete the localthumbcache every time I load the game. I also usually repair the game, especially if there is a problem (which I have been doing in this case). I did have mods (which were up to date) originally installed when the problem first occurred, but i subsequently yanked them out and did extensive testing without mods and it still kept happening. I do not believe this problem is exactly the same as the one which the emergency patch fixed, because I can still load the household (Tinker) where it occurred, and they can go to other community lots (such as the bar and the Maker Space in Port Promise, and even the Sprucewood Square Community Space).The only place they cannot go due to receiving that error message is the Maker Space in Conifer Station. To complicate matters, other families can go to the Maker Space lot in Conifer Station (both game and player-made families) without any difficulty. I am currently testing with another family to change the space to a Community Garden, after which I will see if the Tinker family can go there. But so far the problem seems only to occur with this Maker Space (the Tinker family can go the Maker Space in Port Promise). And why does the Maker Space always show up as incomplete on the map after trying and failing to enter it with the Tinker family? Another weird thing is that the lot traits for the Maker Space do not display correctly (the Landfill lot trait shows up as being there when it is a Maker Space, even though I had given it Home Studio instead). I did edit the lot (as I edit all my community lots) before ever playing with it using any family but I didn't structurally change it or remove anything; I merely added things like an extra Fabrication machine, a sale table, a food stall and tables and chairs, etc.
I read your instructions for sending a save, but I apologize because I do not think I can find the correct one. My saves folder contains literally hundreds of saves, some of them years old, and the problem started happening last week. Since that time, I have created a number of saves testing various things and I don't know how to locate the original save where the problem first occurred. (Sorry, it didn't occur to me to keep it at the time); I also only back up my saves to another location about once a week and this happened the day after my last backup.
In answer to your question, I didn't have any custom traits or custom lot traits in my game originally, except for a mod which allowed the apartment traits from City Living to be used on regular lots. However, I removed this hack when I removed all of the mods in my game so it wasn't in my game the second time the problem occurred. I hope the save is not borked and in other respects it seems fine. Many other lots and neighborhoods loaded as normal, and as I described, various families could use the Sprucewood Square Maker Space with no difficulties. Maybe as you suggest this problem will disappear since I have no plans to put that Apartment Lot Trait mod back in my game.
In other news, I used another family to vote the Maker Space lot into a Community Garden and this lot, like the other Community Spaces lot is accessible to the Tinker family again. They were able to travel to it without any problems and use it as normal. Weirdly, this lot too, like the Maker Space, shows the Landfill trait from the neighborhood screen, even though I gave it 3 other traits (Reduce and Recycle, Great Soil and Eco Lot). Similarly, when the Tinker family was using the lot, broken appliances continued to show up as they do on a Landfill lot even though in Buy Mode only my 3 chosen traits showed up. So I think this might be another (possibly unrelated) bug.
If you have any further instructions about how to find and isolate a pertinent save, I would be happy to hear them; in the meantime, I will continue testing by trying to revert the lot back to a Maker Space lot in another week of game time, using another family, and then see if the Tinker family can travel there unimpeded.
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