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Post by deadspear » October 13th, 2018, 6:25 pm

This might give a clue to a more mod savvy user: Overrides the Uni setup XML file inside Sims University.world from main University game folder and will conflict with any other package that modifies this file.
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The thing is I dont think I have anything that modifies that same file.

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Post by igazor » October 13th, 2018, 6:46 pm

Yes, that would be a totally unexpected side-effect. When you get a chance, I bet that AussomeDays would appreciate a bug report over on their MTS page for that mod. They are still active on TS3 and have contributed to the mods over here on occasion. It could still be GoHere that is producing the heartburn attack on the game, but how we get from that to all pre-made sims refuse to allow themselves to be created on a newly started world I have no idea.

It seems totally illogical for such a side-effect, but sometimes the game just does that. It took me ages to help figure out which mod was breaking Ani's very popular Have Coffee With Me mod long ago after we inherited it from her, but only for some players, and it turned out to be conflicting with the NRaas Careers base mod. All fixed now, but my sims consumed so much coffee during the testing that they were unable to sleep for weeks.  :)

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Post by deadspear » October 13th, 2018, 6:58 pm

I'll send a report to her, I didnt use GoHere so it must be some other XML conflict.

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Post by sittingbear » October 13th, 2018, 7:02 pm

deadspear post_id=58543 time=1539469532 user_id=18506 wrote: This might give a clue to a more mod savvy user: Overrides the Uni setup XML file inside Sims University.world from main University game folder and will conflict with any other package that modifies this file.
0x0333406C-0x00000000-0xE51DF1C5C044A949

The thing is I dont think I have anything that modifies that same file.



 
That's the Character Import XML it's long been known to CAW users that tampering with that XML is a Big Huge NO NO. The side effects from tampering with it can be minor to totally game breaking.
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Post by Chain_Reaction » October 13th, 2018, 7:04 pm

It's because all character import xml's have the same instance number so it's overwriting them in every world you enter with the university one. Those can't be overwritten.

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Post by LoganDownUnder » October 15th, 2018, 11:06 am

Hi everyone,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I knew it was "too easy", and I'm so sorry it got overlooked. Hopefully, it hasn't stuffed things up too badly. I'll tell Amanda to make a note at MTS to USE AT YOUR OWN RISK and only after a new game has been started. With over 300 downloads since May, I'm surprised it hasn't been reported before now....I feel horrible!

Sorry again,
Logan :(

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