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AngiePen
11 years ago

Where's My House?

Okay, dumb question number two.  After fiddling around with a sim I created for a while, next time I entered the game I chose to play an existing household.  I picked a group of three people, and when I went in to play them, they were hanging out in what looks like a park or something, in between some houses, with a bunch of other people.  Talking, talking, talking, then eventually the guy I was playing got hungry.  Okay, I'll take him home to get some food.  Looking around, I tried to figure out which house was his/theirs, but couldn't.  I set the wall controls to completely down, and looked all around the tiny neighborhood, as far as I could, figuring that the house with no walls would be theirs.  Nothing.  Finally I figured out how to tell him to go home.  He started moving, I followed him... until he reached an edge somewhere and vanished, and I found myself playing what of his roommates.  WTF?  Where'd he go, and why couldn't I follow?

This whole experience so far has been horribly frustrating.  Any help would be appreciated.  :/

Angie

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6 Replies

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    11 years ago

    Is he no longer in the bar at the bottom of your screen where you can switch active Sims ?

  • AngiePen's avatar
    AngiePen
    11 years ago

    There was, but the guy's picture was greyed out, and clicking on it did nothing.

    Going back to the game later, I tried to find this household and couldn't. Thinking back, I'm pretty sure what happened was that the game let me start playing them without moving them into a house first, so when he went "home" he ended up in some kind of limbo, or something. I'm pretty sure it shouldn't let you do that.

    Angie

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    11 years ago

    Yeah, sounds like a problem (unless he's at work). Did you check on that ?

  • AngiePen's avatar
    AngiePen
    11 years ago

    He didn't have a job.  I'm thinking it was just glitched.  I've played a couple of other households successfully over the last couple of days, one Sim I created from scratch, and another I picked and definitely moved into a house before anything else, and no problems.  I think I'm going to write off that vanishing-guy thing as a fluke, and be extra careful when I start playing new Sims.

    Thanks for trying, though.  🙂

    Angie

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    11 years ago

    Can you move the Sim to a different house and then back ? That worked in another case that was similar to yours.

  • AngiePen's avatar
    AngiePen
    11 years ago

    You know what, I finally got fed up with the whole thing, this yes but a lot of other little things too, including the $80 I paid for what's actually a very small game, with a lot of the new-cool-wow! stuff being refinements of parts of the game I didn't enjoy before anyway, so I uninstalled it and shipped it back to Amazon.  Just the fact that there's no manual, at all, not even a freaking PDF on one of the disks -- which would've saved me a lot of this headache plus more I never posted about here -- is IMO unconscionable.  Maybe in a few years, when the price has come down to something reasonable and there are some add-ons, I'll try it again.  For now, though, I'm back to playing Sims 3 and having a great time with it, after a hiatus of a few years.

    Thanks for trying to help, though -- I do appreciate it.

    Angie

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