My very first game ... both wife (lawyer) and husband (I forgot what job he had) each had 3 copyright infringements before I got frustrated and deleted that family. <edit: fixing wording>

Now the 2nd generation son of my next family has had 2 copyright infringements (translator) today.

What might be up with this issue? Is it supposed to happen a lot like what my experience has been?

This issue (for me anyway) is really frustrating. BOTH times (for my 2nd gen guy) he was close to his next level of paygrade.

Yikes!!

I've had it happen twice so far and I thought that was alot. Someone should really look into this.

Deb

I had hugh chunks taken out as backtaxes several times from the same family when they were trying to save for the third upgrades. I finally learned to start copying my LDW files and pasting them into another folder before answering an email. Then if you get something hugh like that taken from you you can copy / paste them back into your LDW folder.

Lewanda, is this the address of the file you copy:

C:\Documents and Settings\peggy\My Documents\LDW\Virtual Families

?

Because I've had huge amounts taken for taxes as well, along with having the OP's problem several times now too. I just want to make sure that if I copy that folder, that's the one I would put back if that happened.

Thanks for all y'alls thoughts and comments

Copyrights? o.o I don't get it.

Some of the jobs, such a lawyer or technical writer, etc. will have it so you get an email and it says that some other person who works in the same field as you (so, another lawyer or another technical writer) is claiming that you "stole" their work. Well, not you of course, but your little person. That's called "plagiarism" but "copyright infringment" is similar. Basically it's stealing another person's work or ideas.

So, what happens is there is an email claiming that your little person has done this and then your little person loses all the progress that they have made on that career level. So, if your little person is on level three and the bar is almost filled up to reach level four, it wipes out all the progress and it's back to the very beginning of the level three bar.

That's what the first person was talking about and it actually happens A Lot in this game, which is extremely frustrating.

Oh I see thanks <3

happens alot in all of my games too, I didnt know there was a career for a lawyer though. i haven't come across that one yet

Yep -- the top pay for the Lawyer is $300 a day. I can't remember what they start at, I think it's $90 per day though.