Selling House And Leaving Furnishings
J. M. Pescado:
Don't mess with the "package" method. That does funny things to the lot instance ID and will eventually run your game out of lots if you keep doing it.
witch:
Damn, I was hoping that would be an easy answer. Lately I've got into the habit of building the lot/business and furnishing it before the sims move in. I package it whilst empty. Is that bad too?
amjoie:
I need an explanation of that, Mr. Pescado. You were a bit too cryptic. :)
Are you saying for each package I put in the bin, I lose a potential empty lot? Or is it when I put a packaged lot into the hood, that I lose an empty lot?
Is it a lot lost for each neighborhood individually, or all lots across all hoods in the game?
Would I solve the problem if all houses are used only in the hood in which they were created?
Is there a way to fix the messed up lot instance ID?
Does the messed up lot instance ID get corrected when doing a fresh install -- and if so does it stay corrected if I put an old hood back into the game?
Where does the lot instance ID reside? Is it in the lot catalog, the neighborhood manager, or deep in the bowels of the game?
How many lots do I have, before I eventually run out?
Please give me the skinny on exactly what is happening here, in order for me to understand why my favorite method is officially "not a good thing."
Pyromaniac:
I'm a tad confused as well.
I always build lots in 'construction mode' instead of moving Sims in to do it, and after I'm done furnishing the lot, I go to the neighbourhood screen and move the furnished house back into the lot bin. If I proceed to take the lot out of the lot bin to place into the neighbourhood, I have both a packaged lot in the bin AND one placed in the neighbourhood. Both are fully furnished and ready-to-use.
If there's a problem with this method, I haven't encountered it. :P
amjoie:
I have both downloaded other people's incredible houses (which are beyond my capability to build), and put my own fully furnished houses (which are beautiful, but not architecturally spectacular) back into the game, ever since I first got Sims 2. I have filled whole hoods with these "introduced" houses and played the hoods with no problems. I have transferred empty houses from one hood to the next with no problem. I'm talking transferring whole hoods of empty houses via the bin. I have never run out of lots, regardless of how jam packed the transferred hoods were. So this is not making real sense to me ....
BUT, I have also reinstalled the whole game from scratch with each expansion. And I have started over with hoods several times, because I made some of the early VBT mistakes before they were discovered as mistakes. Before the days of empty templates, I wiped hoods of townies and when I found out that was a problem, I nuked the hoods and adopted the empty templates. I have started over so many times. Sigh. The only saving grace is that I could recreate my favorite part of the hoods, because I had saved the houses, and I could use the templates of my Sims to make new families. So there was some continuity.
Now, if I cannot even save my own furnished houses or download other people's architectural creations ... well, I guess I would have to say there comes a point that "safeguarding" the integrity of the game is choking the enjoyment of it.
At this time, I am inclined, unless dramatically convinced otherwise, to just continue packaging my houses and downloading houses. If that causes me to run out of lots in the far distant future (although I haven't had it happen yet, and don't see how it could), at least I have enjoyed the game in the meantime. After all, I can always fresh install and start completely over, as a last resort.
But despite this almost "back against the wall, dug in" attitude, I am still willing to be taught. So I am eagerly awaiting an answer by his awesomeness ....
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