Sims Problem, Can't find help ANYWHERE!

[thenamelesskath]

I was in play with a family of two parents and a child.
The man needed to have two family friends to get a promotion so I was befriending the guy he brought home from work a few days earlier. They were almost friends but it was taking too long and the man was getting tired so I tried to make him flirt with the other guy so that they'd be friends quicker but the other guy went nuts and started pacing, with no options.
So I sent the man to bed thinking the other guy would go home eventually, but he didn't, he continued to pace around the upstairs hall until he passed out.
The next morning, I could not get my sims to do anything that involved going downstairs, they kept having thought bubbles that looked like little blue dots or something.
I put a staircase in the parents' bedroom and managed to get the kid to school and the man to work.
During the day the other guy died so I tried getting rid of the new stairs and making the woman go down the old ones, but she wouldn't, still with the same thought bubble.
So I tried putting the stairs back in the bedroom but she wouldn't go down those either and regadless of where else I've tried to put the stairs she still won't go down them.

So I tried moving the house to the lots and houses bin and then putting it back but that didn't help either.

Does anyone know what I can do? :confused: :cry:

[paulabear]

Sounds like somethings in the way of where theyre trying to go..
Is there ANYTHING at all in the way? Did you place the stairs using moveobjects on?

[MegRen]

When the guy passed out he was probably blocking the stairs. If he died in that spot, maybe his urn is blocking the stairs now?

[thenamelesskath]

The guy wasn't blocking the stairs, he was right in the middle of the room, the stairs where way over the other side, they just seem not to want to go out into that hall area (it's a big hall area and there was a wide distance around the guy who passed out). And as far as the urn, I sold it so that they wouldn't mourn it.

[jupitershana]

Alright; I have two solutions for you.

First option: Move your sims out of the house and delete the old lot. Move them into a new house, all will be well. Of course you lose the old house that way.

Second option: Download JMPescado's hacks "struckobjremover.zip" and "ffsdebugger.zip" and install them into the game. You can get those here. (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=7.0) Once in the game they are under the misc. folder.


The debugger -- try this one first before stuck object; it might clear everything up. It looks like a box. Save your game then place it on your lot. Have any sim click on it and select force errors -- in world. It will ask for a confirmation; allow it to process. (do not do this with the boolprop testingcheatsenabled set to true...it will cause lots of pop-up boxes) It might take several minutes to process but it effectively resets everything on your lot and gets rid of any errors.

The Stuck Object remover is a clear object in buy mode; you'll see the outline of where you're putting it in the game and what it does is "zap" any invisible (and visible) object(s) that is blocking your sim's path. You can try playing with that around where the steps are.