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Travelling makes all of my sims vanish without a trace... please help?
alterego31
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I've had this save file for several weeks now and in the beginning I travelled to China and everything was normal. Then, a generation later, I tried to get my sims to go to Egypt but when they got there, my sims vanished. There were no icons on the side and I was not controlling anything. The clock was still moving and NPCs were walking around -- I could even look at the map. I thought maybe if I saved it and loaded it back up that things would fix itself. I saved and returned to the menu, but my family portrait was gone and in its place was the blank outlines of sims. Freaking out a little, I loaded it up anyway and when it loaded it took me to Egypt and told me to choose a household or create a sim and move it into the town -- basically, it was making me start over with Egypt as my hometown.
I ended up choosing a household in Egypt and the girl I picked had the option to
'return home' on her cell phone, so she did and it took me back to my original household except she was now a new member of it.
PLEASE help, this same problem happens when I visit France and when I try to go to China the loading bar just freezes an inch away from the edge. I have World Adventures, Ambitions, as well as Late Night and they are all up to date. I would like to be able to visitother countries, but this is preventing me from doing so.
I ended up choosing a household in Egypt and the girl I picked had the option to
'return home' on her cell phone, so she did and it took me back to my original household except she was now a new member of it.
PLEASE help, this same problem happens when I visit France and when I try to go to China the loading bar just freezes an inch away from the edge. I have World Adventures, Ambitions, as well as Late Night and they are all up to date. I would like to be able to visitother countries, but this is preventing me from doing so.
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http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/135388.page
This problem has been around for over a year. EA hasn't solved it, and it looks like they never will.
Best short term solution, try starting a new save file, export your families there if you want to. That worked for me.
Best long term solution, tell all your friends to never buy EA products ever again.
This seems to be a common problem, especially with Sims who have a lot of history (multi-generational.)
This makes me think the family I have most of this problem with actually own a house in China. i don't have any other familys that have one... Could this be related??? I never read about ths anywhere esle maybe that is a part of the problem???
It's not related to owning a home. The vast majority of people who have this happen, have it happen on their first time going to that destination (although the family they send tend to be multi-generational.)
I have the same problem. My solution is just to avoid traveling, but I occasionally try it every now and then with high hopes. Never works, of course. It would be comforting to know that EA at least acknowledges this problem and is trying to fix it...
I'm assuming once we own the game, it's our own problem if it doesn't work at all. Nice going, EA. I'm really tempted to buy one of your products again.
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This shocked me even more to know this has been a problem for over a year!
EA whats wrong?? Can you try fixing this issue atleast or make us know that you know about this issue, this is really disgusting it really is..
Although it seems to be a common pattern with the people on the forum, one cannot assume that EA "refuses to even respond" when it may be that there is nothing they can do about it at this point. In order to fix a problem such as this, they have to be able to reliably recreate it. Unfortunately, it isn't easy to trace how it happens. So, they have nothing that they can say to us.