community lot frozen with sim on it

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rwills:
Fairly serious problem. That community/business lot may now be broken beyond repair.

What may have caused it:

One or more unpatched EPs/SPs
Incompatible or otherwise corrupted custom content on the community/business lot

You should be able to save the Sim, however. Drastic fix, but try this:

Go to another occupied residential lot in the 'hood and use the Summoner to summon a family member (teen or older, blood relative or spouse) of the stuck Sim.
Make that summoned Sim selectable
Have that summoned Sim use a phone to sell the community lot
Use the Deleter to delete the summoned Sim

That should free up the family lot and the stuck Sim, and you should then be able to enter the blocked residential lot of that family. The stuck Sim should be there now (if not, use Family Tree to 'Restore Family').

As mentioned above, though, that particular community lot may well be beyond repair at this point and will have to be bulldozed.

Dizzymental:
Haha problem solved. I really thought this one would break the game, but not so. Thanks for replying and giving me some additional ideas. I fixed the frozen lot in the end by summoning (as you put it) the sim on another lot using insim and then evicted the sim from the house I'd moved him into. That somehow freed up the house that was frozen and the community lot that was frozen, though I had the sim sell the community lot first before evicting him, just in case. Everything is saved, both frozen lots and the sim. Fantastic.  :cool:

Forgot to mention something strange I noticed in my game whilst trying to fix this problem. I have no cigen package file in the EA games folder.

amc462000:
cigen is created when bodyshop is used, not during normal game play.

Dizzymental:
Thanks, that explains why I don't have it.  :p I don't do bodyshop.

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