Did EAxis bork sharing beach front lots too?
dizzy:
Looks like placing a "house" is the same as dictating what the terrain looks like.
What they really *should* be doing is finding the outline of the house so that the house can be applied to whatever terrain you place it in. But maybe this is a case of nobody remembers how to code that because that's all SC4 code. :P
Sleepycat:
I haven't had any trouble placing beach lots I have built on my flat terrains, usually I place multiple copies of them to save time. Some have been placed in different hoods (using one of my flat terrains) with no trouble either.
I don't usually download other peoples lots so I have no experience with trying other peoples beach lots. I wouldn't even try placing a downloaded beach lot that has any kind of slope on one of my flat terrains, it'd probably break/mangle them.
But... I do understand other peoples frustrations over this problem. I am planning on trying to make a couple terrains (or atleast one) soon that have different sections of beach, with different levels of terrain. maybe that will help? not sure how well I'll do but I can atleast try ;D
KatEnigma:
I have no problems placing lots built on your flat terrain anywhere else on flat terrain. So I'd stick with those, instead of trying to make different slopes. It's the sloped lots that bork the neighborhood in the first place, as Pes has long warned us about. It's too bad EA didn't listen. ::)
Sleepycat:
good! saves me from the headaches I would have gotten trying to do different levels for beach lots *laughs*
jolrei:
Quote from: Sleepycat on 2007 October 24, 15:47:02
good! saves me from the headaches I would have gotten trying to do different levels for beach lots *laughs*
I generally do what you do - build my own lots (apart from one or two EAxis houses that I use for "emergency move ins" when a house isn't ready when a sim graduates from uni). If I want to keep the house, I generally make sure that it is built on flat terrain so it transfers nicely from hood to hood. On the other hand, I have a couple of non-flat lots where I like the house enough that I use it anyway. I have never managed to get beyond Gen3 on a hood anyway before I feel like seeing something and someone new, so the "your uneven lot will bork your hood" problem has not affected me so far. Admittedly, the uneven lots are not beach lots, so I have not run into problems placing them.
My beach hut and beachfront comm lot were built using your flat terrain and I have had no problem transplanting them so far. On the other hand, I will probably continue to build other lots as I need them (all that mucking about with clean installer and finding downloadable lots is too much work, and I get more satisfaction from having sims live in something I have built myself).
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