Another weird issue has popped up in my game.
A sim has disappeared while on vacation. I have never seen this before!
Does anyone have experience troubleshooting custom hotels/vacation lots?
Watch the slideshow to get the gist of the situation. (6 screenshots)
Am I missing something?
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Plus now the check-in desks and room-doors have been removed in the process of trying to out-smart the glitch. (see update).
ETA: @Scobre, and @Scribal_Goddess may remember or know which mods or utility tool can fix this mess.
I did not send Kenneth to the lot KNOWING it was going to glitch and make him disappear.
I had sent a couple there previously with no issues, other than a previously-existing one I have where the beds glitch.
THAT couple went through their vacation otherwise normally and came back just fine. So the Inn had been tested prior to sending Kenneth.
The first slide in the update states that per a suggestion I moved Kenneth back. . . etc. That was the only suggestion made by someone else, and a reliable source of help/info.
This glitch happened after he got checked in and got back from being at the park in that hood; maybe that wasn't clear.
#2: Nobody told me to do "all that", I just tried it, as I have my game backed up and it can't really hurt anything(I can always put stuff back or load the backup). I re-zoned the lot to community AFTER I got Kenneth off of the lot using Tombstone of L & D and got him to the neighbor's.
I was trying an idea that, with Kenneth gone, I could re-zone the lot and move it elsewhere in the hood, and see if the lot (not the build) was glitched. If so the move would fix it. I've fixed houses this way before.
I believe I also shortly after, put it back zoned as a hotel (when changing it to community didn't fix anything/allow the move).
And what do you mean by "badly edited"? I built the custom hotel as per the instructions in the vacation strategy guide for building your own hotel.
I don't know WHY the glitch is (so far) but it has nothing to do with the way I built the hotel originally.
Like I said, if it did I can always put the backup back in. None of the experimental things I tried is permanent this way.
If I did though, would that free up the house that Kenneth came from? Theoretically it should.
Have you tired moving kennth out his current house and moving him back in, that should in theory un-claim his room if that doesn't work it might be worth a shot to bulldoze and replace, If you have a saved copy of the build in your lots catalog.
There is currently no option to check in, since the check-in desks have been deleted, along with the beds. I did have hopes it could work as a community lot (to get around the hotel bug) but now I don't think that's a good idea, since re-zoning it to community didn't change the fact that the Inn is still buggy.
Kenneth is currently in the sim-bin, awaiting other experiments- so technically I already have moved him out of the house he returned to(via Tombstone of L&D). I can't move him back in where he was( I don't think, I can try), but I can try moving him back into the house across the street from where his home was.
Fortunately other sims are still able to invite sims over from Kenneth's original home. The good news in that is that I can still treat it as a potential spouse- storage facility (as I did before), I just can't put their stuff into their inventories before I move them out from that house, being unable to go into it myself. This bites as they had portraits of themselves and various other items including those personal to them and bottles of elixir of life in their kitchens.
I don't have a copy of the Inn. IF I am able to bulldoze, it would mean re-building something, somewhere else.
Thanks for your suggestions!
I'll try looking around for more options to see if we can't resolve this so you won't lose all the family heirlooms.
https://www.neoseeker.com/forums/40556/t994001-my-sims-have-disappeared/
but that's all i could find anything else had to do with sims 3 i'll keeping looking though just means i have to dig deeper
That third post is interesting. Wish I could see the story where they tell how they got their family back. Page does not exist.
It's wild to see all the ways people's vacation lots have glitched!
https://www.slideshare.net/TootiferRootifer81/rc-bug-update-2[/center]
Yeah, K&B didn't contain the Seasons' EP feature to put away left overs in it's fridges in that SP. It was patched later, but M&G has bugs and it's not been patched.