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Is For Rent safe to play if I don't play on a rental lot?

I purchased For Rent, but haven't really been playing it because of the bugs and save corruption. I've been getting the itch to play the Sims 4 again, but I don't want to deal with the save corruption. Is it safe to play the game at all, as long as I avoid rental lots? I did build one rental lot in my current save, but I can just avoid that specific lot.
Thanks for any advice. Hopefully all of these bugs are solved next week with the patch.

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    DragonAge_300905DragonAge_300905 Posts: 1,946 Member
    edited February 25
    I have for rent installed. I play tiny houses and don't play in the new world. I haven't had any save corruption and I think the bugs happened to me in playing rental lots and living in the new world.

    I do use the nosy and cringe traits, break ins, and discover secrets. I don't get any bugs in my game. And sense I turned on fame my spell caster is working fine. ( I also use the water heater, air conditioner, and grill heater, with no problems. )

    If I feel like experiencing the rental disasters, I use the gremlins and the mold lot challenges which can be used on a tiny lot. Granted I do turn them off after one disaster because otherwise it happens every night. So I turn those lot challenges off and on in my game.

    I have the rental events turned on in my game's settings but I don't play as a tenant or be a landlord.

    Note: If playing a residential lot, the maintenance troubles lot challenge is only text based, and while it's happening you can't go into build mode, plus you have to wait 24 in game hours before the event ends (then) you get a text saying it fixed itself. You only get the visuals like the stove exploding on a rental residential lot while playing as a tenant or landlord.
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    Lenny_OggLenny_Ogg Posts: 3,696 Member

    We live in Tomarang since release (without mods and cc and on a normal residential lot) and the saves are not corrupted.
    But I do backup a lot, just in case. Who knows what else is messed up.
    We did experience some bugs (such as game crashes in build mode or invisible obstacles on an empty lot) but most of the time we play without problems.
    Tomarang is so beautiful and I wish they'd put more effort in it. Why is there no third neighborhood and why are the lots so small?
    There was no need to release a third Expansion in 2023 and I don't understand why they rushed it and threw it out like this -.-
    And 2 1/2 months later still no fixes!
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    SimmervilleSimmerville Posts: 11,795 Member
    edited February 26
    I have played several households, including organizing/playing on most residential lots in Tomarang. I had no trouble or corruption yet.

    I have only a few rental units (don't play them a lot), and focused very little on the landlord options.
    My understanding (I do not know for sure!) is that the corruption will be avoided if:

    * having less than 18(?) rental units in your save.
    * avoid cheats making it possible to have more than 6 units per lot, or more than 99 units per save.
    * never change a "rental residential" back to any other lot category. This means, compplete the build 100% before even assigning the units.

    If not using the "rental residential" category at all, I assume you would be safe. It's a good idea to back up your save regularly, though.

    Hopefully EA will address most of the problem with the coming patch.

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    FatTribble23FatTribble23 Posts: 852 Member
    I started a new save with my simself as a single college girl. I do have FR installed and I chanced placing down one single rental residential with 3 units. I placed the sims from manage world and have never gone back to the lot. So far, I'm not having any issues, but I do a "save as" at the end of every game session to be safe. Oh I've been playing this save for about 8 sim weeks now. So far so good.
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    SheriSim57SheriSim57 Posts: 7,058 Member
    I was playing a practice save for a little over a month, but got tired of playing it. I would suggest not placing any residential rentals on a lot till they fix being able to change them back to another lot type. There is suppose to be a patch coming to fix it this week.
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    ValravnWitchValravnWitch Posts: 97 Member
    Playing on console, so no mods or cc.
    I have played a few res rentals, one in tomarang too and so far did not have any gamebreaking bugs, no corruption of any savefiles, thankfully.
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    FreddyFox1234FreddyFox1234 Posts: 597 Member
    Yes, do play your game! I’ve been avoiding rental lots and tenant/landlord gameplay for now, but I don’t know whether I actually need to or not as I haven’t experienced any bugs myself. I’m just being cautious. But the rest of my game seems to be fine. I’ve visited Tomarang, used plenty of the great stuff from the BB and CAS, used the mould lot challenge, and all with no apparent problems. But do make sure you back up your game just in case.
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    SheriSim57SheriSim57 Posts: 7,058 Member
    edited February 27
    I play on PC, but I use no mods and no CC. I downloaded a residential rental, but was not able to change the lot back to regular residential. Luckily, I was not using my main save, I was using a practice save.
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    shorty943pshorty943p Posts: 257 Member
    Sooooo, as long as you don't play it the way EA\Maxis intended it is pretty stable?

    Well, it is new real estate and seems to be nice scenery.
    I might just give it a go with an older save file.
    Thanks all.
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    Breathe_No_MoreBreathe_No_More Posts: 200 Member
    I have two saves where I am playing in a rental lot with either 5 or 6 households (as tenants) and until now, the only bugs are the annoying phone quests all the time when I start playing a household and when I enter a new lot, and the other bug is that the tenants are cooking too much and leave their stuff everywhere which is quite hard when your main character has the neat trait... but aside from that nothing bad has happened and I really hope that won't change.
    I don't send them to Tomarang, though because there is nothing really to see (in my opinion). I checked it out once and that's it. But yes, i do have other rental lots in those two saves as well with Sims I barely play, so I think I might have up to ten or twelve rental units per save.
    If it interests you; I am not playing with any mods but some CC (self made and downloaded).
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    I faced the save corruption twice at the beginning and I had to rebuild from a before for rent save twice. I only have 13 residential rentals currently, and that seems to me key in my game, as when I tried to make another block of townhouse was the last time the bug kicked in.
    Everything has been pretty ok. I don't play the residential rental much, just in case, waiting for the fix, but I do go in and check up on the families fix the houses and maybe play a little. Not wanting to test it too much as those builds and getting the families in was a very time consuming and I don't want to do it a third time. Holdign off for the save update and when everything is clear.
    I was avoiding Tomarang for a while, and all the houses there are plain residential. I played exclusively in Tomarang last weekend, and pretty much everything seemed ok with the exception of a few crashes for no reason, a couple of lost of control of ui , (better execptions found the culprit was a mod by mapbell-more kisses), and the one scary bug I was afraid of, one house - the most north on the map of the island on the east, when visiting I could not knock on door.
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    only option I had was move in household from gallery & I tried many times. There is a family that lives there &Playing that house works find. It's a regular residential lot I found off the gallery, with lots of downloads and likes, and it dated prior to the release of For Rent, so I don't think the lot is the issue.

    I checked my maps and they all seemed ok and not corrupting, paying most attention to the main street area of Willow Creek. While that issue has occurred prior to For Rent, with lot, the pool in Windenberg. I had the same issue with the pool in Windenberg this weekend as well. I just replaced the lot with another lot I wanted to used temporarily but I want to see what is going on with that pool lot as I put a lot of effort renovating it.

    It's safe to play, but always back up your saves, and monitor you game and maps. Save corruption has happened to others before For Rent, and the help specialist say they are not responsible and you must back up your saves for your own insurance.

    Since this I have been trying to play in a more productive way, where as is any save corruption should occur I am somehow backed up. Like playing to complete renovations and putting them on my tray file, aka private gallery. Even toyed with the idea of backing all my creations on the public gallery, as tray corruption is possible too. So you want to back that up. My folder is pretty big. Also the story developments, screenshots folder could be backed up too. Back up on you computer and externally whether a hard device or in cloud somewhere.
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    ChampandGirlieChampandGirlie Posts: 2,490 Member
    edited February 27
    You have had other great answers. I will add my two Tomarani cents. I have not played with the rental gameplay yet and I have not run into the save corruption bug or issue at all yet. I play generally in other worlds but I have sent a few households to visit Tomarang and that was fine. The most I ran into was a buggy walk when a mother carried a toddler through the town but that corrected itself. I played with a normal residential lot with no issues. Sometime fairly soon, I will play the Bun Ma household in their normal residence. The CAS/BB in the game is all working fine. I am waiting on the patches to get into rental building and landlord/tenant gameplay. Playing mainly in other worlds right now, my main game save is fine.

    Yes, it's always a great suggestion to back things up frequently as much as possible. That is a helpful reminder.

    There isn't a need to be afraid of using Tomarang itself. I would probably test out rental gameplay and switching a lot from a residential rental to a residential lot in a separate save while they are working on that if that is something that you want to do. It's such a known bug that I'm sure they are working on it. I'm looking forward to the new patch. I have the holiday bug which they are fixing so I am appreciative of that repair.

    Personally, I think Tomarang is an interesting world that adds to the game. There are no other worlds exactly like it. I honestly enjoy the night markets and the different settings around the world. I find it replayable even as a tourist destination. I don't have a problem with it being a bit different from other worlds. It is actually a fun place to send families to travel because of the hopscotch in the park, the tiger sanctuary and the non-alcoholic drinks that children can order. The botanical garden is really nice and there are monuments to photograph, so tourists can keep busy. My households that visited there are better because of having gone in my opinion. I think Tomarang can be fun and I am glad that it was added.
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    bixtersbixters Posts: 2,299 Member
    Wow, thank you for all of the thoughtful replies! Everyone was so helpful :)
    I'll have to jump back into my game soon. I'm just going to avoid building any new rental properties until the new patch comes out, and I will definitely be saving as "Save As" for the future.
    Looking forward to playing my old save again!

    Thank you simmers!
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    The stuck on residential bug is pretty much fixed. I added 5 residential rental units to my game with a grand total of 18. I will see if the save is safe for a few sims weeks before adding more residential rental units.
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    rudolpharudolpha Posts: 1,009 Member
    I used to play my saves on Long but when I built some rental units my game corrupted to age all my sims up as though I had set the options to Normal. Made a decision to set all my game saves to Normal as I was also getting tired with the ever lengthening age ranges and all has worked out OK since then.
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    LeucosiaXLeucosiaX Posts: 1,957 Member
    rudolpha wrote: Β»
    I used to play my saves on Long but when I built some rental units my game corrupted to age all my sims up as though I had set the options to Normal. Made a decision to set all my game saves to Normal as I was also getting tired with the ever lengthening age ranges and all has worked out OK since then.

    I understood that aging up bug was from the high school years pack. I have not had an issue with long life span.
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    cchant86cchant86 Posts: 222 Member
    edited February 29
    I play a completely vanilla game (and have all the packs) and have been playing For Rent almost daily since release day and have enjoyed it. Nothing game breaking or file corrupting has happened (touch wood!). I'm not a builder, though, so I don't know anything about the lot types error (although I think the recent patch was supposed to fix that) or creating my own residential rentals (other than editing an existing one).

    I downloaded two rentals from the gallery (used one in Tomarang and one in Strangerville) and also played with the rentals in Tomarang as tenants. I did edit one of the rentals I downloaded to include a 3rd unit to satisfy one of the 5-star Property Owner aspiration goals and that all went fine. I've played a Sim that was a landlord living on the property and one that lived in another world and both went fine, eventually completing their 5-star aspirations.

    The only glitches I've encountered so far that I recall are:
    1.) where you can't fill a vacancy if you're the landlord and live on the property and marry (or move in with) one of your tenants. But I used Manage Worlds to solve that (I just picked a homeless townie to move into the unit, everything functioned fine after that.);

    2.) the residential rental community mailbox did not let my Sim Ship on Plopsy, the action just canceled itself. Once the Sim moved to a regular house with the standard mailbox Plopsy worked fine again;

    3.) Rent getting stuck at a very low value like 4 after a tenant leaves and not being able to change it when you try to Fill Vacancy. I solved this by going into build mode on the unit before trying to rent it again and making some minor changes to the items in the rental, then the rental went back to something more reasonable based on its star rating. I don't think it should work like that, though, so I consider that a glitch.

    4.) Not being able to satisfy the "break a rule successfully" aspiration goal for the Discerning Dweller even though my Sim broke two rental rules and was fined 250 for one. Read online that it supposedly only clears if your Sim lives alone and my Sim was married with kids. I just used a cheat to bypass it.

    Nothing has been game breaking, but the marrying/moving in with another Sim (into your home, not theirs) does seem to be glitching and I'm not sure it's just rentals. I've had to move my Sim in the other direction then use Manage Worlds to put them back in my Sims' original home. I can't remember though if it only happened with rentals, or if was houses, too.

    Maybe worth noting, I didn't start a new file for For Rent, I've been using one that was created maybe a couple weeks before the game released. I just created new Sims to use the new features, one for each new aspiration (and an extra landlord in Strangerville).

    Overall, Tomarang is a beautiful world. There isn't much to do in the world activity-wise, I'll be honest about that, but it's gorgeous for just walking. jogging, or biking around. There are a lot of open areas you can access without loading screens. The beach is nice, the cave is an interesting landmark to visit, the park is pretty, I love the bridge, the night market is good--could use more stalls and visitors to feel "bustling" (the festivals in San MyShuno have more visitors), but my Sims did fine making new friends there and trying new foods. I like the world, it's one of my favorites.
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