Sims refuse to leave their homes...

[elisera]

Hi!

I've just created a new neighborhood for a fresh start and built some houses, community places, added a collage etc. So when I started out actually playing a family they all refused to leave their home. So I decided to create a new sim, tried making him go shopping for clothes/do anything outside his home. But he refused to go aswell. I tried the "Walk to lot..."-option aswell as calling a taxi. I called a cab but they won't get in once it arrives.

The action slides up in the que once I choose to walk to another lot, I pick a place and it slides up into the que, but it fades instantly and the option to walk somewhere is removed from the pie-menu. Also, the option to go somewhere by car isn't available.

Worth adding is that I haven't downloaded any custom content at all since I made the new neighborhood, and the options to go somewhere on my other ones/Maxis original still works. So it's that one alone.

Anyone that knows what is going on?

Update: I checked Pleasantview, Veronaville and Strangetown aswell - neither of the sims in those towns can leave their houses anymore. Ugh!

[Mordant17]

Please go through the Game Problem FAQ (http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Game_Problem).

[elisera]

Unfortunately I had tried that already, including the manual testing of the custom content (one file causing it or clashing with other files). I tried creating a new neighborhood but it still refused to work, so I had to reinstall my entire game from scratch and it is now working with my old cc just fine. :)

[Darby]

...I had to reinstall my entire game from scratch...

It's great that your game is working again, but "had to" reinstall is unlikely. I'd suggest that if something like that occurs again, you do the part of the FAQ that has you generate a fresh set of files and test in a clean neighborhood. It's entirely probable you'd have found everything working properly in a clean, vanilla (no CC/mods) 'hood. You'd still then need to find and solve the cause of the problem in your saved 'hoods, but that's usually far less hassle than reinstalling.

Plus, if the problem is neighborhood corruption or something in your Downloads, and you're using your backed-up 'hoods in your new installation, you're likely to end up right back where you started. Or did you start over completely fresh? Nothing wrong with that, of course, but for many, it's a sad sad thing to lose everything due to feeling like they have no other choice but to reinstall and start over.

Which is why I'm bothering to make this overly long-winded post: The notion that reinstalling is a viable solution for any game problem other than corrupt installation files that can only be restored by reinstalling (as opposed to game files that can be refreshed easily) is something I seriously hate to see perpetuated. Unless one has good reason to believe their installation files have been corrupted, reinstalling is NOT the answer to the majority of issues people encounter with their games.

[elisera]

I started over from the start, completely. I'm not really that bothered about it because I lost *everything* in my game when my previous computer died on me. I'll remember the fresh files-thing for the next time, which I hope there wont be :) Thank you anyhow!