Yay!!!  Once your finished working on it, I think you should upload it to either crammyboys thread or in your own in Peasantry so people can find it in the future (after this thread dies).

with the dorm cheat you can tear down the entire building if you want... 


I spent app. 12 hours yesterday 'remodeling' every freaking vacation hotel that was already placed in all 3 vacation subhoods (except for the couple I just bulldozed) and editing the vacation community lots    Most of my hotels now have only 2 suites because why on earth would I want a bunch of suites for vacation townies.


my next step will be building new ones (hotels and community) to replace the ones on the huge lots because I woke up this morning knowing I will not enjoy taking my sims to those huge lots.      I like playable lots, something maxis/ea dosen't know how to build.

just using the dorm cheat gives access to build mode in my game, for dorms and hotels.

Yay!! My Sims and I, Thank you again! 

InSIM has the option to enable buy and build mode, I forget just where it is but it is there.  I hope you get your family back soon.

oh please add that option and if possible, one to sunbathe naked also *begs* 

the ACR adjuster is only needed on-lot for teens and elders to do ACR actions, adults don't need it.

My Sims (and I) thank you very much! 

 

I really hope someone will update Crammyboys nudist hack.

heh, here is Squinge's increased bills hack, it is the x5 ver.  I have no idea if it is compatible with Bon Voyage or not.

One report so far says YA's can not get married to each other (on any type of lot) so the guide may not be correct about weddings on dorm lots 

I have no YAs to test with *shrugs* haven't even attached a Uni to my new hood and don't think I will be any time soon.

you need the 'Toddler Play with Toilets Fix" hack by twojeffs
http://box156.bluehost.com/~aestudi1/forums/inteenimater/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=348

Bon Voyage allows weddings on any kind of lot now, including dorms so it implies dormies can now get married which would explain the change. although it also sounds like maxis/ea screwed it up as usual.

I also always had to have dormies move in before my sims could marry them pre-BV. Half the time I also had to use the debugger to give them the extra want slots & locks afterwards.


edit - provided magicmoon has BV of course

you'll want to read JM's tutorial --> http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,151.0.html 
that thread answers a lot of questions.

in short - you can leave the houses & sims in place, do the terrain surgery, move the houses so they are back on roads, then if the terrain is a bit warped in the spots where the houses were, re-do the terrain surgery to fix it. 

I prefer smaller terrains. The one I'm using has plenty of room and I spread most of the houses out. If I need more room I can either move the houses closer together so more will fit or just add on a custom subhood.


/on topic

From what I have seen in BV so far, I love it... even though I haven't seen much at all *laughs*  but I was pleased to discover that unlike weather, you can see the waves/spray through windows!  I'm going to end up redesigning some of my sims houses so they can have large windows facing the beach 

I've already placed some of those food stands on some of my community lots. I've made a public beach (for those poor saps that can't live right on the beach) community lot and a campground community lot that once I can take a sim there to see if it plays well, I'll re-zone it to a hotel...provided it does play well, otherwise I will re-do it.

can't you have 3 vacation homes if you have 3 vacation subhoods?

your welcome Orikes    and thank you    (I just added a few more pictures to that thread of mine. I managed to finally get some sims moved in)

You could consider doing terrain surgery on your hood after SimPE gets updated. (I'm assuming simpe needs updating to be able to do terrain surgery but it may not)

Orikes, theres some really nice beach terrains at -> http://www.simsanne.com/Forum/filebase.php?cat=12&sid=c19a3c3542ad24cd48c62d1eb02b6440
I'm using Insel-19 for my new neighborhood (Despair) and it's great! 

I have some pictures up at -> http://www.the-isz.com/theisz/index.php?s=&showtopic=518&view=findpost&p=6232


CEP needs to be updated, it blocks the new stall recolors so you have to choose between CEP or the new maxis stuff (not sure if anything else is blocked by CEP but I removed it until it gets updated)


I haven't had a chance to play any sims in BV yet, been to busy setting up my new hood but so far, I'm loving the new beach lots and the new building options/stuff and the new turn ons/offs (finally reached the point of running sims through CAS so I'll be able to actually play soon)

sims can own their own vacation house but can't live there permanently.

I suggest making a new subhood that uses a terrain made for beach lots.

theres some at -> http://www.simsanne.com/Forum/filebase.php?cat=12&sid=ac4c240cf02b923b2383ed2a1de82d46

BV has the option (somewhere in the options) to force the clock to 12 or 24 hrs. not sure if that helps any but I thought I would mention it.

just un-zip and stick the .sc4 and the .png files into the My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SC4Terrains folder 

well if that bug thread is the same one I started reading, I don't blame them for closing it...most of the 'bugs' being reported were caused by hacks they didn't bother to remove and they even admitted they didn't remove them

I don't know German either but Downloads (up at the top) and SC4-TERRAINS are in English 

if you want some nice, new terrains that are made for the new beach lots, I recommend the ones at -> http://www.simsanne.com/

ahhh...thank you, that explains those Suburb files *totally forgot about pets and weather adding them*


I'm still annoyed at maxis/ea for dumping all those sims in my hood before I even attach any of the vacation subhoods though.