I'm feeling so frustrated. I'm experiencing blue lots of doom too and couldn't find any solution for this. They must release a patch for this, right? I mean, something like half of all players in the world are having this problem! o.o"

I bought WA on Wednesday and played it on Wednesday with no problem. Thursday morning the exact same thing happened to me. I had to delete the game & start a new one. Seemed to work fine until just a few minutes ago when my new game did the EXACT SAME THING only this time it was after the game crashed.

I've been having tons of problems with TS3/WA that I'm getting pretty tired of it and it's about to go in the corner to sit for a very long time.

Another tip for those with blue lots, you MUST save the game from the Edit Town view. Otherwise, upon loading the game will not read all of the lots.

I have read through this thread, and many others on different sites. I am still a bit confused. Everyone has their own theories pertaining to this blue lots issue. Can anyone confirm that if I fresh install and play with no CC, I will be able to avoid blue lots? If not, I'm not bothering to even load the game anymore. Why should I waste my time?

If the issue is only CC, then I can't wait for updates or a patch to rectify the conflict. Particularly for Lemoncandy Plants because those are some of the best contributions to the Sims community.

Can anyone confirm that I can safely play on a clean game? Thank you. Have a nice day.

Well I hate to rain on everyones parade...but I don't think it is a CC problem. I had the blue lots and reinstalled the game 3 times. I have some CC but no hacks.
In frustration I called EA. He told me to completely wipe all Sims related files from my computer and explained how to do it. I just got rid of my downloads folder and started fresh. Second time I played all of France had blue lots.I hadn't even put the stuff I'd bought from the store or Riverview back in. I called EA AGAIN and he told me to just play the base game for a few weeks till they can sort the mess out.

Were you saving the game from Edit Town view or inside the lot?

The only time I save now is when I finish playing...Save and Quit. I don't 'save or save as' because I thought that was part of the problem.

Hello I finally got mine to work.I followed these steps


I installed the base game, updated and installed WA.I didn't update afterwards and i got a few times error while saving (13 and 16) but if I play a little more it lets me save like usual and I don't get blue lots anymore.(even when my game crashed once)

I also deleted some of my cc like lemoncandy's plants( mostly i left the clothes and hair) but the breast and pointed ear sliders don't work(when i put them in the game stops showing cc).Also the slider hack works too.

I really don't understand why you keep telling people this is relevant -- it isn't. You're wasting their time. In the same way as when you told people to remove all their plants, when it was only some plants (and several other categories of objects besides) that caused the issue.

Just to prove that, I've come from a game where I added in some blue lot-causing content, and saved from edit town view. Blue lots.

Then I loaded a pre-patch save without any CC, and re-saved it from edit town view. Blue lots.

The way to solve the blue lot issue is to test and sort all your content by placing it in houses and reloading, and then to create a fresh post-patch save to add all your sims and houses to. Or you can wait several months for the patch to the patch. What view you save from has zero to do with it.

Are you the same person who was whining a few posts back about how EA needs to fix your game for you? News Flash: you need to be self-independent and do it yourself. I had blue lots, invisible sims, and all sorts of mayhem ensuing, and now the game is running flawlessly.

And yes, it is indeed relevant. I have tested this myself. When I choose to save from inside the lot it produces the blue abyss effect. However, choosing to save from the Edit Town view enables the game to read the save file properly. For the record, I am not alone in this mindset as many others from the official forum have also come to this conclusion. Perhaps you're just not executing the save properly.

Lastly, you need to get out of that emotional rut you've built for yourself. I don't see anyone else moaning and crying about their corrupted save file. In fact, most everyone has been helpful.

Last edited by Jasumi : 29th Nov 2009 at 9:27 PM.

My problems are fixed, like I mentioned. The issue I have with you is that you seem to keep picking one irrelevant aspect of your own game install and touting it as the fix for everyone's game issues. All you're doing is spreading bad information. It literally took me ten minutes to prove that saving from the map view doesn't prevent blue lots, as I also mentioned.

Just so you know, I'll keep following you around the boards and pointing out when you spread inaccurate information about game issues -- hopefully it'll save people some time.

Staff has discussed the direction this thread has taken, and we agree that it is no longer helpful. The arguing back and forth solves nothing and everything we can possibly suggest to do is contained within the thread. If people are still having trouble I suggest *reading* it carefully and trying the things suggested.

lemoncandy has now updated her plants, so it's advised that everyone update them, as they are probably responsible for some cases of blue lots.