[FR] Corrupted Lots/Houses disappear in saves with lots of rental units

the link to all the similar issues is literally in the first post, under a big bold "Similar Issues"... 

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. 

Let me explain my statement. I believe that the bug you describe and the bug that many others here describe with large save folders has a different technical origin. Of course certain bugs are similar, but I fear that each has a different cause. All bugs that go in this direction should be fixed. Point 3 refers to error code 800, yes. But in my case and in the case of the others, the symptoms of this thread also show up in the game. 

But it doesn't though. You're assuming that my problem is that my community lots won't stay whatever i set them to be. It's not. Actually, it said residential on the map, but was still labeled as spa once i loaded it, though incomplete, since it was now a house. The problem is that the actual spa i put down was gone and was now the house that is there by default. It has happened to me in another, played, save, where the lot i put down just vanished, because the original lot was empty. More precisely, these lots i circled. My problem always start in Tomarang.

As for error 800, yes the symptoms are very similar. That's what the people in that thread are experiencing too, ex: 

Started encountering this bug. Got load error 800 when trying to load into a residential rental lot. Buildings are starting to disappear and endless loading. It starts in Willow Creek and spreads the more I try to play. 

The difference is people in this thread here don't get the error 800, but do have several r-rentals in their save. If you don't, then you're not in the right thread. I'm not saying your problem isn't as bad, just that you should be in the right thread so that they can evaluate the different technical origin, as you said.

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.

p.s. did they delete StephanLunar's post because he found the exact source of the problem before them? The solution was right there in his post! I wish i had screenshot it.

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.

This is happening in ALL of my saves. I can't visit Magnolia park. It's driving me nuts.

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.

Yeah, this is happening to me, too! And it doesn't seem to go in any order. Mine seemed to start with Willow Creek. Now the entire world is gone. All lots in Willow Creek load empty when visiting them or trying to build on them. This 'corruption' did not spread to Oasis Springs next. It has spread to Sulani. All lots in that world now load empty. This is an incredibly frustrating bug!!! I have been playing this save since the game launched! I have customized nearly everything, including houses and hundreds of sims! Yes, I use mods, but don't try to tell me that that is the issue! We know it is not!! By the way, I had no RR lots in Willow Creek, and only 1 in Sulani. I really hope they get to the bottom of this and fix it!!