I get nothing when I click on a rabbit hole building - fixed

[Fizzy9]

I've searched many boards and have not found anyone else seeming to have this problem. I kinda hope I'm not the only one :|

I get nothing when I click on a rabbit hole building. I can click on other things and the menu pops up like normal.. but when I click on any of the rabbit hole buildings it does absolutely nothing.. then I click the sidewalk and "go here" pops up like normal.. click the building, still nothing.

Does anyone know if there is a mod associated with this problem?.. or maybe something else? I do have WA installed and patched up to date. The game seems to run good for the most part. I do have a few mods but sadly I'm not that organized right now (and I am planning on organizing better). I did remove the no mosaic and hidden traits already.

I hope someone has heard of this and knows the fix. Thank you.

[Claeric]

Remove all your mods.

Test.

Does it work?

It is one of your mods, and it is your job to determine which. We can't do that.

[Fizzy9]

Remove all your mods.

Test.

Does it work?

It is one of your mods, and it is your job to determine which. We can't do that.

yes I know.. I explained above the mods that I did remove, but I'm unsure what others I have.. that is why I admitted that they are not very organized, and that I am planning on organizing better. I never used the helper monkey until much later. (btw.. I did uninstall the monkey) So I am in the process of figuring out what mods I have. But just in case I miss something I was hoping someone in this awesome community that we ALL rely on might know of this problem. So thank you Claeric for pointing out the obvious and making me have to re-explain. Please someone only respond if they have something helpful to say. Thank you. :)

[Claeric]

No, listen to me. I know you said which ones you removed.

You took out the mods you know you have. You have to take out all your mods and see if it works. If so, it is one of them. We cannot help you figure out which one, we cannot take your folder and test them.

If there is a problem with the mods but no problem without them, you put back half the mods. Is there a problem? Then it is a problem with one of those files. Is there no problem? Then one of the files you haven't put back is to blame. Piece by piece, in halves, you narrow it down. This is the procedure for finding problem content.

If you don't know whta mods you have, neither do we.

[Fizzy9]

whatever Claeric.. you really are not helping me by telling me something I already know. I know the procedure for finding bad files. Since installing WA, load time has greatly increased. So finding bad files is very time consuming. I am NOT here asking anyone to check my downloads for me. I am obviously asking if anyone has seen this issue before.. which we are perfectly allowed to do here in the forums. So please Claeric, get off my back and stop being so rude.

To anyone out there that is more civil.. if you have heard of this issue I would appreciate some help. I am still having this issue and I have removed all the mods I believe I have. Again I say I'm not sure of all of them. My next step is the time consuming checking of CC. Thank you.

edit: I just re-read your last post and the part where you said,
You took out the mods you know you have. You have to take out all your mods and see if it works.
This makes no sense. How can I remove a mod if I don't know it's there?

[Claeric]

Perhaps it would've made sense to actually say that you removed all your mods.

How was I supposed to know you had already done it, when you said you only removed those you knew of?

[Fizzy9]

Perhaps it would've made sense to actually say that you removed all your mods.

How was I supposed to know you had already done it, when you said you only removed those you knew of?

I did say that. I said that I removed the ones I know of. And, yet again, I will say that I am not sure of all of them. Hence my problem and why I am here asking for help. And the help that I am clearly asking for is if anyone knows of a mod or something else that can cause this. I did not ask the questions that you are leaving answers to.

[Claeric]

Well then I'm sorry, but your english needs work. When you say "I removed the ones I know of, but I am not sure of all of them." I see "I removed the mods whose purpose I know, but I don't know about the rest of them.".

When I said "remove your mods" you should've just said "I did."

[mangaroo]

Claeric, you may not post again in this thread. Your attitude is out of control and you've just been sent to your time out chair.

Fizzy9, for all that Claeric's advice is worded abrasively, he is correct: to solve this problem yourself, you need to remove all .package files from your Mods/Packages/ folder. When you talk about "mods," I think you are referring to only game-behavior-modifying hacks. Any piece of cc can be the culprit. You've already said that you know how to test for conflicting cc, so I won't belabor the point.

I will leave the thread open in case anyone has had the same problem and can point you toward a quick solution, but assuming it is cc, I think you'll find it faster yourself.

[OnTheRocks]

I'm having the same problem. But with only one of the rabbit holes (the grocery store) in one my games. It's rather annoying - but not to the point where I've actually removed all my CC. I only have CC and one mod (Delphy's breast slider).

[Fizzy9]

Thank you very much mangaroo :)

I really wish I had put all hacks in a separate folder from the start... lol. Like I said, I installed helper monkey late, which as we all know makes a hacks folder for you.

Well anyway, I just checked The Sims 3 forum again and I found one person that recently posted on this issue and someone replied that it's known by EA.
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/128907.page#1581452
:blink: I'm thinking maybe it isn't any CC at all. Going to test that in a few. BBL

[xylune]

I'm having the same issue with the grocery store in Riverview, but only one of my sims is affected by it and it didn't happen until after he got back from a vacation to China. Everyone else in the house can use the market except for him. I have no mods in my game since doing a fresh install for the expansion.

Fizzy, did any of your sims happen to go on vacation before this happened? I'm just wondering if this is a glitch caused by the expansion or if it's an old one that the developers are just ignoring.

[edejan]

I have a similar issue...I can't find the city hall or the science center. I haven't gone on a street by street "walk through" since I've not had time yet, but on the quick forays I've made into the my WA game in the last few days, I haven't been able to find these two buildings to send sims to classes. I don't know if it's related and I need to dig further to see what's going on. And I'm patched up to date with mods removed.

[aeval99]

I've had the same issue here and there. I'm playing a house with 7 sims and at one point one of them couldn't bring up the menu on the grocery story, yet the other 6 were not affected. After a few Sim days I tried it again and the problem had corrected itself.

Last night, I had one Sim who couldn't fish (he had just returned from France the day before). I'm hoping that it will also fix itself.

It's very odd!

[xylune]

I wonder if the coding for vacation restrictions are carrying over to rabbit holes. There are embedded limits on how soon you can go abroad again after returning home. I wonder if the code is confusing hometown shopping and rabbit holes with going out of town and purchasing at stores overseas. You can also learn new skills abroad so that could possibly tie into taking certain classes at home. Since my problem sim went on vacation alone and starting having this issue after returning, it makes me suspicious.

[Fizzy9]

:D I finally figured out the file that is causing this problem for me.

'Gain_75_Skills_Plus_Hidden_Skills.package'

Here is the link to it.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=344997

There are multiple files there to choose from, and I only used the one I listed above. I wonder if it was the gain skills quickly part or the hidden skills part that messed it up. I hope someone makes a hidden skill hack that is for sure compatible with WA. I will miss this feature till then. :(

good luck to everyone else having this problem. I hope you all get yours fixed now too. :)

[xylune]

Hmph...how strange. My problem seemed to correct itself on its own after a couple of sim days, like another poster's. My suspicion that it's vacation related remains because the problem seemed to go away when my sim was eligible to go abroad once more.

[EmoElmo107]

I have this problem also i cant go any wher but the pool also all the skill books have dissappred even the pre-set ones from buy mode in bookshelfs also i can't axcess anything in my sims house no computer no gutar no frige only the chairs i'v had to resort to the testingCheatsEnabled true thing to keep my sims hunger, bladder, energy, and hygine up my sims bord all she dose is swim in the comunity pool and sit on the sofa all day i cant interact with anything or anyone i cant talk to anyone please help me :!: :!: :!: :!: :( :help: :cry:

[Srikandi]

EmoElmo, have you removed ALL your CC? Go to the Help section, and read the FAQ on removing custom content. If that doesn't help, take your question to the Help forum, which is linked at the bottom of that page.

[Aya_Alexa]

Guys, i had the same problem too with the Hospital and Grocery Store when i was having my "kids get kicked out of school" problem. what i did was delete the rabbit hole object and replace it with a new one. after that it worked fine for me. why don't you guys try it, just go to >Edit Town >Click the community lot that has problems >Build/Buy mode >Delete Rabbit Hole object >go to build mode >click the small store looking icon beside the basement icon >look for the Rabbit Hole your having problem with and replace.

@ElmoEmo: do i know you from somewhere?

[tornado9495]

I've had this problem in the past - and figured out that I had a mod that allowed me to purchase ALL fruits and vegetables and fish from the grocery store. When I updated my game, I forgot about it and it conflicted. If you have any mods that specifically change the things you can buy at the grocery store (or the prices of those items) I'd suggest starting with those.

[KyleTheArtist]

Aya: Mine don't work att all. When I replace witha new one it disapears, and where hospital/and pretty much most rabbit holes, are supposed to be it shows it as community lot. That is all in riverview.