Issue
The save game starts to disintegrate itself. Lots start to get deleted, causing endless loading, loading into empty lots.
This happens to save games that have lots of R-rental units in all ...
Ideas
Let me be clear, I am NOT covering up for EA and I have certainly never told players this is their fault?! I am absolutely devastated by this bug and the fact that I can't play the save file I have invested so much time and energy into. There's nothing 'nice' about my theory, as this is is the way I and many other legacy players like to populate their worlds and should be a basic requirement of the game. So I desperately want EA to fix it and I think its appalling they've allegedly known about it for years and have done nothing until now to address it (and even now, I feel it's pretty much the bare minimum to ask players to send over their save files, why aren't they robustly testing their own save files?) and have instead continued to relase more DLC which is likely just going to make the issue worse.
What I HAVE seen is players state that this save file corruption bug has been there even before For Rent, so as stated, it is NOT necessarily being caused by For Rent, though obviously For Rent has been a major multiplying factor. If anything I feel my understanding of this is worse? If I believed it was just being caused by one pack, I'd have a fairly easy time just cutting that pack out. My concern is that this can happen to any legacy or detailed save file player, regardless of whether they have For Rent or not.
I'm sorry to hear about your save file, and I genuinely hope that this is resolved soon.
Sorry, i didn't mean "nice" as an insult, just a word, i also could have said good. It did imply that players could somewhat control it though, by keeping their save file small.
This of course, does happens in long played saves with or without r-rentals, but that's not what this thread is about. r-rentals are directly corrupting the game, whether it is played or not, and no matter how long. If your save corruption is not caused by r-rentals, then you're not in the right thread. This one is specifically for problems caused by r-rentals.
Again, i'm not saying your problem isn't just as bad, but this isn't the right thread.
My last comment didn't show up so I'll keep this brief. I'm on this thread because my save file DID have a fair amount of R-Rentals. Approximately 1-2 per world, and maybe a couple more than that in some of the newer worlds. You, on the other hand, said that you only placed five R-Rentals before you experienced corruption, so I'm not entirely sure you meet this thread's brief which is 'This happens to save games that have lots of R-rental units in all world.'
The thread you've linked me to clearly states that this is the same issue. It is not a separate issue. This thread is specifically exploring the acceleration of the issue due to R-Rentals, which is something I've always maintained.
Finally, you continue to state that I'm somehow saying or implying this is controllable, ie putting the blame on the player and not EA. So let me be clear again, if you have a lot of EA-released DLC and like to populate all your expansion pack-added worlds with lots using this DLC, you are in danger. To control this would mean not engaging with massive parts of the game, such as the gallery, legacy play, build/buy mode, updating new worlds etc. So yes, anyone can control this by not playing with these aspects/not adding to their DLC, but that is clearly not sustainable in the long run and it means those of us who have forked out money on all of EA's DLC are the ones most affected/punished by it.
faithvssamMy corrupted save is big AND has a lot r-rentals, too. Approximately 50 units spread across all worlds. But now, my backed up save file in which I have not saved before the corruption starts and in which I reduced the rental-units to about 25, works again without any problems.
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- EA_Cade11 months ago
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