Hi, Fi! I’m an old TS2 player super tempted to play again, and I have what might be a rly silly question. I installed the UC last week and spent some time playing premades, but it’s only this week that I found out about clean hood templates & how susceptible the game is to corruption. So my question is: do you know if I need to do a complete reinstallation now before I can safely replace the hoods, in case the one I’ve played in has become corrupted? Thank you so much in advance for your time!!

Hi there! Ahhhh, this question has been sitting in my inbox for awhile, I’m sorry. :’D I’m not sure what you ultimately ended up doing, but just in case, here’s my two cents~

There are two types of corruption, game corruption and neighborhood corruption (you can read more about it HERE). As long as you haven’t done anything during your gameplay so far to cause actual game corruption (corruption of the game’s actual program files), a complete reinstall shouldn’t be necessary. Neighborhood corruption shouldn’t require a complete reinstall, but depending on the degree of corruption, you may ultimately have to delete the neighborhood. Some neighborhoods remain playable for months or years following an “incident” that causes corruption, so even if you know you did a no-no, you don’t necessarily need to start over immediately. 🙂

SO, if you haven’t become too invested in your hoods yet and don’t mind replacing the neighborhoods with clean templates, you can go ahead and do so. But you shouldn’t need to reinstall the whole game, if that’s what you’re asking. 🙂