Ideas
UPDATE:
After reaching a corrupted state yesterday and quitting without saving, I today was able to reproduce it again, and this time saved just before, and then again during corruption with a "save as" copy. Happy to share my save files with the devs. I reproduced it again also without mods.
Learnings:
- It seems like replacing some simple builds with heavier builds was enough to reach the max limit that seems to corrupt the save file, as I had the same amount of builds in the save before and after reaching corruption ( = all lots built out in all existing worlds of all packs there are up until and including Adventure Awaits)
- I did not have any residential rentals in my save, it seems to be just a max amount of objects, which may be amplified with residential rental use, but is not required to achieve it
- When I placed my last bigger build that pushed me over the limit, I was seeing ALL neighbourhoods with default buildings, except the building i was loading into. I could test this even just in build mode from manage worlds, so the testing doesnt require loading into Willow Creek as I thought before, it will be broken everywhere I load into build mode.
- Deleting some builds made the neighbourhoods go back to normal again after they had already corrupted, which is one more indication that there is a max limit
- I wonder if the similar issue, that adjacent apartments are becoming completely empty when loading into an apartment is related, it seems like a similar problem, but I had this before reaching this full corruption state.
=> This sadly leads to the terminal fact that I can't buy any DLC with worlds anymore, as that will push my beloved save over the limit. It also makes me realise that starting from zero again will ultimately end up in the same result, so there seems to be no way out of this issue :(
I really hope the devs can fix this, as this is the only game I play and the only save file I played since 2020, I'm so sad :(
UPDATE 2: I just realised there is another bug report that is for the same issue without residential rentals - so sorry I didn't realise there were 2 similar ones. I will copy this post into the other one, given the other one mentiones that it can happen without residential rentals.