Avoiding Hood Corruption

Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:20 pm

Some things you can do in the game can lead to the neighborhood corruption and have never been fixed. They should be avoided.

Symptoms of Neighborhood Corruption:

This is not a complete list of symptoms. Some of these can be symptoms of other types of problems as well, such as bad custom content.

- Children and toddlers with LTWs (long-term wants) other than Grow Up.
- Wants that don't fit the age group (for example, a toddler who suddenly wants to go on a date).
- Memories and thought bubbles which contain squiggly lines.
- Memories being lost or totally random.
- Disappearing sims.
- Disappearing lots.
- Sims losing family members in family tree.
- Sims becoming unplayable.
- Lots becoming unplayable.

To Avoid Neighborhood Corruption:

Do Not...

- Delete sims from the Family Bin.

- Delete character files (from Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 \Neighborhoods\\Characters folder).

- Remove multi-pollination technician or multi-plantsim mods after they have been used in your neighborhood. Multi-PT and Multi-Plantsim mods consist of one package which affects the selection of the parent and a number of packages which are the new pollination technicians or plantsims. When removing this mod, only remove the package which affects the selection of the parent. If you remove one of the pollination technicians or plantsims, then you are basically deleting their character file, which will corrupt your neighborhood.

- Delete lot files (from Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 \Neighborhoods\\Lots folder).

- Use the DeleteAllCharacters cheat. (boolprop)

- Interact with Mrs. Crumplebottom, the Charlatan, the Grim Reaper, etc. in any way other than their intended in game purpose. These characters do not have playable data.

- Save with Sims on the telephone. This will cause problems when the game is reset, for example when installing hacks or a new EP/SP.

- Allow a Sim to die with tombstones or urns in their inventory.

- Put tombstones or urns on any of the shelves which come with Open for Business and are used to sell things.

- Move an inhabited lot (lot with family) or an owned lot (owned business) to the Lot Bin.

- Install an occupied lot (lot with family). This includes packaged lots that you downloaded which have families included, unless you are absolutely sure that they have been properly cleaned. Occupied lots which ship with the game are safe.
Here is the correct way to move a Sim:
SimsWiki: Moving Sims

- Bin lots that have graves.

- Delete lots that have graves.

- Delete owned lots (business lots) or residential lots with home business before shutting down the business.

- Bin empty lots that have been lived in without getting rid of the off-world loiterers. [Pescado's Lot Debugger has an option to do this but it will only appear when off-world loiterers are present]

- Rezone a lot with active Sims living or staying on it.

- Remove custom careers/majors while a Sim is using them.

Things not to do unless you are willing to fix them using various tools/hacks:

- Delete custom or geneticized/townified skins or eyes; this can cause a corrupted skin tone for Sims using them.

- Unless you are willing to fix their DNA using SimPE.

- Delete custom foods: breaks want trees for Sims that had it as a favorite food.
Unless you install Pescado's1 Lot Debugger and are willing to reset all Sims that had a custom food set as their favorite, and are willing to remove all memories about the custom food using SimPE.

- Let Samantha Ottomas' pregnancy come to term.
Unless you have fully patched your Seasons game prior to creating the neighborhood using the Seasons EP, or prior to porting your existing neighborhood to the Seasons EP.

- Delete tombstones/urns.
Unless you have Pescado's1 noUnlinkOnDelete hack installed.

- Resurrect dead pre-made Sims that shipped with the game; most of them have missing data (Skip Broke, Darleen Dreamer ect).
Unless you fully read and follow the proper instructions in the following guide:
SimsWiki Tutorial: Resurrecting Tips

~ Mod The Sims