I saw a post dated from January the 18th 2006 describing the same kind of problem. To give some insights on my situation, I have 6 adults, 1 teenager (14 years old) and 3 children, I only play in normal mode but since I like to control things I usually let the game paused when not playing, meaning the game can be paused for long periods of time. I don't understand how this is relevant but it seems to be important on the post of the 18th. Appart from that I reached level 2 in science, building and of course harvesting, I have 1 doctor, 2 scientists, 2 sims harvesting (well planting and watering only right now) and 1 female builder currently nursing. I'm very satisfied with my actual population and ongoing game, things went quite well untill to crops disappeard out of nowhere (i.e. it is not linked to any island event), is there a way to save my game to avoid restarting from zero if this is a bug ? Please help my sims survive this situation