Sim Clock problems I haven't seen this on the board, but please forgive me if it is already there. I have a sim house I downloaded from the website. I've been playing this house for about a week, but only recently it's gotten a lot worse. 1. I can't invite people over. Well, I can, but then when I try to interact with them, clicking "Greet" or "Ask to Leave" it disappears as soon as I click it. People get stuck on my lot. Often, they will be sims just walking by, who then get stuck and keep walking from A to B over and over. The newspaper delievery guy gives me a paper every 30 seconds, so the ground is littered with them. 2). The clock is slowing down. Speed three is now slower than speed one originally was. Basically, I have no fast forward anymore. I've tried using the slow motion cheats, but nothing works. This is also the only house it happens to. In every other neighborhood, and in every other house, time moves normally. I've moved the family to other houses, and that works too. However, I only did this an hour or so ago, so that may still change. Basically, I guess my question is... has this ever happened to anyone else? Any suggestions?
My bad. Your neighborhood has turned into a Big Fiery Ball Visible From Space. It is unlikely you can save the house. Move the family out from the neighborhood screen (don't try to load the house again) and then bulldoze the house and everything in it. Leave the moved out family alone and build a new, tiny house. 4 walls and a door. Put in a phone, fridge, toilet and NO sims and then package the house to the Sims exchange and post a link to the new house here. I'll look at it and tell you if you game has picked up a viral hack and if it possible to remove it and save your neighborhoods. Also post up a link to downloaded house ... if you can find it again. NEVER download houses with or without sims unless you know what hacks come with it. Too many houses on the exchange are packed out with garbage that no donwloader would want. Always read the info behind the warning triangle sign.
Links Here is the link to my house: http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=530701 The link to the problem house: http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot...ountry=&view=new&hideFramework=&languageCode= Thanks so much!
Well the good news is that the house is very pretty adornment for your neighborhood. It looks unplayable to me. I don't doubt you have played it, but as you now know, the playability deteriorates. There are a lots of ways in and out, a lot of fences (those low walls give the game merry hell trying to figure out routes. All those sims who have been and gone without being greeted have left little invisible destination markers everywhere. I can't imagine where the paper boy is leaving papers. The wall goes right out to the paved path. Normally the paper girl tries to drop the paper between the path and the house. At a pinch they will drop it on the strip between the path and road ... but not more than a square or two from the mailbox. In short that house is well and truly broken. You "could" remove it and reinstall a fresh one from the downloaded Sims2Pack, assuming you kept it, but I wouldn't advise that. Just keep it as a pretty decoration. It sure is a nice looking house. Checklist. Your uploaded house is "virus" free. The downloaded one is likewise clean. Always avoid downloading houses with sims living in it. Unless you have a very powerful computer avoid houses on large plots. I stick to playing lots smaller than 3x4 (most of mine are 3x2) though I do make large lots to decorate my 'hoods. Finally avoid placing fences close to the road. Leave an unfenced area at least 3/4 squares from the mailbox/trashcan to give visitors somewhere to mill around and avoid too much fencing, period. Fences are bad for performance. Tree's are also heavy users of video power (all those fiddly shapes have to be drawn ... that will slow down your game) In short, you can have "pretty", you can have "fast" but you can't have both unless you own a $10,000 water-cooled, gamer's dream machine. You're very welcome
