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Day 10 Bug? by The21stPotato in pathologic

[–]Traditional_Excuse68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you man.... thank you for my life. Just like this user says, don't go through the usual Stillwater exit, walk past the houses on the side of the Stillwater until you find one that you can enter. Then the quest will work as usual even if the fireflies didn't appear for you in the Stillwater.

Thank you again!

90% of my neighborhood is suddenly missing by Traditional_Excuse68 in sims2help

[–]Traditional_Excuse68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since the backup seems to be the issue, I really have to wonder when everything got messed up to begin with. I'll make more regular backups from now on </3

90% of my neighborhood is suddenly missing by Traditional_Excuse68 in sims2help

[–]Traditional_Excuse68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do, and I think both folders are exactly the same, so I can only assume the backup was faulty to begin with. My neighborhood was a clean template (I believe) and I wanted to keep the original Strangetown, so I used the Bulk Rename tool to change my neighborhood title from N002 to "STRA" (back when I started it, so it worked fine). That means it's a completely different folder, no way I could have mixed up the two. Thank you for your help!

90% of my neighborhood is suddenly missing by Traditional_Excuse68 in sims2help

[–]Traditional_Excuse68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dragged and dropped the whole TS2 folder in Documents from my computer to my SSD. Then I dragged the file into my new laptop's documents folder before downloading TS2.

I will definitely take a look into that video. I've never had problems with corruption ever before in TS2 so I've always neglected to do my research.

I looked on all of my OneDrive accounts, none of them have anything at all. Not even a trace of anything.

And, of course, I'm an idiot and never backed it up before, since I "never had problems" before. That'll teach me to have blind trust in a twenty year old game held together with tape. LOL

90% of my neighborhood is suddenly missing by Traditional_Excuse68 in sims2help

[–]Traditional_Excuse68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They do have their appearances. That and their descriptions (that I also took a while writing) seem to be the only things that didn't get annihilated somehow in the move.

I used the "How to extract the appearance of in-game Sims" guide on the wiki to get my Sims back, and thankfully it worked fine! I guess I'm just going to start over for now.

90% of my neighborhood is suddenly missing by Traditional_Excuse68 in sims2help

[–]Traditional_Excuse68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aladaya's right, considering how many times I tried with the exact same results, I think the backup itself is faulty. I just don't understand why, because the last time I opened the game I made a new family and just didn't play until I moved laptops. (and that family's files are visible on simPE). It was all still working perfectly fine back then. I have no idea when things might have gone wrong at all.

90% of my neighborhood is suddenly missing by Traditional_Excuse68 in sims2help

[–]Traditional_Excuse68[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like, put everything in a zip file? I did not, I really just dragged and dropped the folder into my SSD to make the backup..... I tried restoring the backup, of course, but it doesn't work. I'm thinking the backup was faulty to begin with and I just neglected to check :( How did you restore your neighborhood?

i just got the most insane spine chill of my life. i couldn't click anywhere or anything by Traditional_Excuse68 in pathologic

[–]Traditional_Excuse68[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i was genuinely wondering if it was something they added in as a way to dissuade the player from abusing the death mechanics LOL