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Demolishing a house
Rhiannon58
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in The Sims 2
I want to make sure that I don’t do anything to break my neighborhood. I have a house I had built that was really bad. A family live there for a while and then move to a different house. I want to rebuild the old house. Can I use the bulldozer icon from the house Overland map to do this or do I need to go into the house in build mode and take each wall, floor, etc. down piece by By piece so I don’t mess up my neighborhood?
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ETA: What most of us do is never move Sims into an already lived in house/lot. We keep a copy of an unlived version in the bin or packaged to file if we want another Sim to move into that type house/decorations/land etc.
If that is the case, I should probably restart my city. Playing the way I described above, many years ago, I thought I got to generation 6 being born with no problems. But I lost that computer hard drive and thus my saved game. I don’t know if it would have eventually gotten corrupted. My goal is to get to at least 10 generations or more. I like growing my city organically from scratch.
ahaha, thanks for the belly laugh.
Bulldozing a lot that does NOT have graves on it will not cause any neighborhood corruption.
It's only when you do things that can mess with character files that cause neighborhood corruption. Deleting Sims, putting occupied lots into and out of the lots bin, etc.
The funny thing about neighborhood corruption is that it doesn't progress at a standard rate. I like to think of it as a time bomb, but you don't know the time left. Could be 10 days. Could be 10 years.
I had a neighborhood give me horrible signs of corruption after 1 generation from doing things that caused corruption. Went back to a back up that was about 1/4 of the way through the generation. Didn't get major signs of corruption again until about 6 generations later.
It is however, something to keep in mind so you aren't suddenly surprised if one day trying to load the neighborhood causes the game to crash (that's end stage, but you typically get other problems that cause you to abandon the save before it gets that badly corrupted).
It's nothing to go into a panic over if you realize you've done it, because with a decent back up schedule, you will likely be able to play the neighborhood for as long as you want before things get too bad. But getting caught without back ups after you know you've done things that cause neighborhood corruption is not something I would want to happen to anyone. Especially to someone who had gone multiple generations in. Learning to not do things that cause neighborhood corruption and keeping decent back ups if you do, is not a lesson you should learn the hard way. Trust me. It's upsetting to realize that your neighborhood is badly corrupted. I learned this lesson the hard way.
Now lots that have been lived in for several generations may have some wonkiness that replacing it will help and long lived Sims with a ton of memories may develop a jump bug (I've never experienced it or researched it so I don't know how bad that is).
And like I said, corruption doesn't reach end stage at any kind of predictable schedule. You do have a corrupted neighborhood and the lot corruption may be symptoms of it. You've been incredibly lucky if you regularly play the neighborhood as corruption only spreads when the neighborhood is actively played.
But, immediately deleting a neighborhood when corruption is discovered to have been done would be an overreaction for players who don't play neighborhoods longer than 3-5 generations on average.