Bulldozing a lot with a gravestone on it?

[kaitco]

How bad would it be for my game to bulldoze a lot where there is a tombstone remaining on the lot?

Details:
I recently have found an issue with some older lots I haven't played in close to a year where the lots refuse to load. I can click on the lot and even see the dots go across the screen, but even after an hour of letting it sit, the lot still will not load.

The first time this happened, I as not very attached to the house and moved the family in with another family, bulldozed their home and set up the family in a similar house from the lot bin. The second time this happened, however, the lot is the very first house I ever built way back in late 2004 and is home to my patriarch sims family.

Using Any Game Starter, I loaded a previous backup of my neighborhood where I stopped seeing the loading issue and was able to move out the family and extract the house. I now have the same lot loaded back into my normal game and I am about to move the family into that house so they will retain all their possessions and paintings, etc.

My concern at this point is what to do with the broken/corrupt house, especially since I have a tombstone sitting on that old lot. The original plan was to resurrect the dead sim and then figure out kill the zombie so I can have my tombstone on the new lot, but I'm not sure how well that will work and I would really like to bulldoze the corrupt house to get it out of the way.

TL;DR:
How much will it screw up my game if I bulldoze a lot if there is a tombstone sitting on it? Is it the same as when a tombstone is just deleted? Will the family connections get erased if that lot and tombstone are bulldozed?

[Ghost sdoj]

If the family is not in the lot, family connections should be safe. But bulldozing the lot with the tombstone is just as bad as deleting the tombstone. You are going to need to get the tombstone off the lot before bulldozing it.

(Zombies are virtually impossible to kill, as far as I was able to discover. If you spend a little more money and get a sim with a reversed personality, or even a lot more money and get a perfect resurrection, the resulting sim will be a lot easier to kill. And if you don't have someone who has the resurrectonomitron, there are cheats to unlock career rewards. You can call this an emergency.)

[Whiterudder]

In terms of corruption, a tombstone/urn is a sim. Don't do anything to a tombstone that you wouldn't do to a sim.

[Mootilda]

Basically repeating what's already been said, but just to be completely clear: deleting a lot with a tombstone on it will corrupt your neighborhood. There is no known way to fix this kind of corruption.

[kaitco]

Okay, great stuff to know! I think I'll just move the lot to the far side of the neighborhood until I figure out a way to get the tombstone off that lot. Many thanks!

[mr_db1]

if you can't get into the lot
there is still a way to call that dead guy from inside another lot to where ever you want him to be

in the downloads section there is a sims-transporter with options to - just move living sims, kill and move a sim or bring sims back to live and move
after the use of that prop your grave should be gone and the then empty lot should become save to remove again

but I never got that prop to work in my game

[Ghost sdoj]

That only works if you can load the lot. As the problem is that the lot is glitched and won't load, moving a sim in to collect the tombstone won't help much.

But if the dead sim is brought back to life it will remove the tombstone. Then you can have the sim move in with another family and the tombstone will be gone from the lot.