I do have in mind to do exactly this with my next world attempt, as the theme will call for it. This being my first attempt at new worlding I took some shortcuts.

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Here are some lot placement shots for you.

I took these with the default grass texture so you could compare it to the one I used. It could be my computer settings but the darker one I used fits the "lush" look I was going for and is a lot less noticeable in it's repetitiveness. Unfortunately, any lighter grass textures I try have the extreme visible tiling or they are too yellow. Perhaps I just haven't found the right texture pack yet.

     

Here's a bird's eye comparison of the grass:

 

I'd be happy to upload an alternate version with the lighter grass if you would prefer.

*edited for correct pics

Adventure!



Bounded on the North, East and South by picturesque mountains, Bayborough rests nestled along the banks of the Arbormill River. Originally founded by the survivors of an exodus gone awry at sea, this settlement has grown into a quiet, idyllic town perfect for the growing family, prosperity seekers, and adventure!

     
Map Size
Large

File Size
V1. = 69mb
V2. = 80mb

Game Requirements
Base Game
World Adventures
Riverview

Zoning Information
Po' Folk : 12 lots
Low Income/Working Class: 10 lots
Working Middle to Upper Middle Class: 16 lots
Upper Crust: 10 lots
Big Cheese: 1 lot
1 woodsman's cabin
2 farm road lots
1 vineyard
2 warehouse district lots (1 empty 1 single family)
2 downtown apartment complexes

VERSION 1: Community and key residential lots only
Included specialty lots:
Small Abandonded Factory - MTS plasticbox
Italian Vineyard -  MTS Black0rchid
F.R.I.E.N.D.S Project: The Apartments - MTS xteenah
Vista Alegre Gym - MTS delry
Hans' Museum - MTS rhans
Windfall Motel - MTS Sarasvati
New Old Library - MTS isarpgista
St. Helena - TSR matomibotaki
Devlin Saints - by me
Bayborough Chapel and Cemetery - by me
Branch Street Row - by me
Center Park - by me
Cabin in the Woods - by me
Bus Stops/Monument/Rest Stop - by me
Rabbit Holes swiped from both Sunset Valley and Riverview

VERSION 2: The Meat
All the above plus houses by:
Lucidity, Harmony, Cobbler's Cottage, Azalea Cottage, and Cypress Manor by Romagi.
Several of Plasticbox's WeeBarnoids. Please note, all of Plasticbox's lots are available for any version of the game (base game compatible) with absolutely no custom content required.
Puggle Farm and Aunt Helena's by ninotchka
Hacker's Nest by Armonia
2 Cherry Tree Lane and 1 Cherry Tree Close by hillcrest
Hitman Bloodmoney - A New Life House by Kristoph
Stargazer Way by stouffers3
Woodstone Starter by GiveTheNineARide
Once Upon a Time in the 70s by snrubsy
The Rich Guy's Smaller House by lewjen




*If this world is (or the lots included within are) reused, shared, or redistributed in any way, please give credit where credit is due!

I leave the potato-ing up to you!


Community and key lots only download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/qjdzmz2mmtq/BayComLots.7z

Plus Residential download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/zznnkzoz2jt/BayboroughLots.7z

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Do not ever install a beta world into your play game! To completely remove all traces and make a final version playable it is necessary to remove the dcdb files created during installation.
To test a world:
1. Remove your play game dcdb files (in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3) and place them somewhere safe.
2. Install world.
If Riverview is included in your installed content you will need to remove it via the uninstall world method below. You can then reinstall it in your test game for use with your testing.

To uninstall a world:
1. Use the uninstall option from the game launcher.
2. Delete all caches (including and most definately worldcache).(in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3)
3. Delete all dcdb files from your DCCache folder.(in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3)
4. Make sure all .world files are removed from your InstalledWorlds folder.(in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3)

You can then replace your play game dbdc files and install the final version of your new world for play. I recommend always testing a world before deciding to add it permanently to your game.

FWIW I discovered unchecking the the little option box that enables the store/shop while you play increased my performance by great measures. YMMV

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=395024&c=1&ht=1&page=3&pp=25#startcomments

"New" creation over at MTS. It took longer than I expected but there it is. Bring on ya hookerz!

We all keep hoping for that miracle. We all keep hanging onto the hope, with every "fresh new hood and a brand new install" THIS will be the one that doesn't stutter/freeze/chop/blue screen/error code/hang/general borkedness/EIAFBVFS.

In essence: Computer specs really don't seem to make any bit of difference (by perusal of the many different specs listed in the multiples of threads covering these issues). The game runs like crap. It's how it was built.

This forum exists. I brought coffee.

Working in my latest "spankin fresh hood" atm.

Any plans to share your whole hood? 

AM does in fact have this feature.

Funny, I was just thinking that the NRAAS Supercomputer is shaping up nicely as a sort of insiminator type mod... without the crap.

Yes. I adjusted Absimliard's mod with suggested tweaks from Lion found in the mod thread.

I'm thinking maybe it's not so much a "conflict" as it is just some voodoo being applied to the extended ages.

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So on topic: Possible for a "Go To" or "Visit Household of" from the relationship panel?

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the constant loading of cues for inactive sims.

Starting a spanking fresh hood with only 1 sim results (at least for me) in a very smooth game (after the initial NPC generation). It's when the population starts rising that the random few second pauses start occurring, beyond just pausing for sim spawning.

On the "townie teenager was a toddler 2 days ago" subject:
I have recently noticed randomness with age transitioning. In active householsd, upon birth through birthdays, sims are aging up into a random day within the stage they are aging up to. That is, babies have a life stage of 4 days. I just had twins born. One of them was, immediately upon birth, already at 2 days until aging up. The other was at 3 days until aging up. A newly transitioned YA came into his YA-hood with 67 days left rather than the full length of 84 (I think it's 84. It's 80something). It would make sense if this is what's happening to inactives. They're randomly being assigned an age several days further along in the lifestage and so then aging much faster.

 I *do* have Absimiliard's aging mod with Lion's tweaks in and I wonder if the others noticing the odd age transitioning have an aging mod in as well.

I second this. Here I was thinking my generation kids would be growing up alongside their peers. But nnnooooo. EA says why the heck would anyone want to do that!?

The story announcements are part of AwesomeMod not AwesomeStoryMode.



Is this confusing enought for you yet? 

Oh I did indeed lol. I still do every time she gets ready for work.
I set the config in-game, turning the edit career outfits on. It added the tab for career outfits to the UI in CAS but clicking on that tab resulted in nothing: no outfits to edit.

What I did find is that I can actually click on the dresser and have her change into the correct career outfit and she'll keep it on when she goes to work. This is seperate from the EditCareerOutfit and I'm not sure if it's default game or AM related. *shrug* It works, though she still tries to dress like she's auditioning for Saturday Night Fever if left to default.

Now I just need to dig up some more info on the NULL KEY lifetime rewards.

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@Sandman - I don't know if the announcements you are getting are from AM or ISM but AM does have a story announcement. Disabled by default but when enabled it does all those things you are saying you are getting: jobs, moves, marriages, pollinations. I don't recall it announcing births but I don't think I've had any birhts in a good while either.

You *can* use AwesomeMod and IndieStone together. You *can not* use AwesomeStoryMode and IndieStoneMod together.
ASM is (inside) AM, not enabled by default and not exactly the same thing as AM.

Paragraphs please!

You do realize there is an AwesomeStoryMode integrated into AM, yes? Of course you have to turn ISM off and ASM on to use it.

I can only think that she is indeed the offending party that set me off. I went on a spree this afternoon having grown bored with the default and store items and unfortunately landed myself in her PMBD folder.
She is not the only offender, however. Several MTS contributors are announcing their crap is listed for every category as well. Like it's a good thing.

This is a rant directed at the horror of the current state of too many CC items. It may belong more appropriately in Retardo Land. Whatever. If I had the ability to throw a  brick at 90% of the custom clothing creators making their "goods" available for TS3 players, I most certainly would apply it directly to the forehead.

Lacy underwear and bras DO NOT BELONG IN EVERY CATEGORY!
Use some god damned common sense you lazy fucknuts.
On top of you being too fucking stupid to realize suit tops and skirts do not belong in sleepwear NOR do they belong in swimwear you use the craptastic sim3packs for installation which means if I want to use your design I get to waste MY time extracting your shit to fix it just so it's usable in my game.


No one learned from the nightmare of TS2 binning?
Tabernac!, Choleque de merde!

I've been unable to locate any fix to this via searches. Recently I edited the age of one of my sims down from adult to YA. Naturally this borked all her outfits, including her career outfit. I attempted to try the experimental edit career outfit available with AM but was not able to get it to work. Clicking the tab resulted in absolutely nothing. Reset sim did not work either.

Currently my little surgeon is working at the hospital dressed in this:



(it's the female)

Any ideas how one might get her back into her labcoat?

Definitely a much better time line. Throwing it in my game immediately.

Asking a sim to break up with their partner is not so easily done when all romantic interactions result in +0/-0 because they are already partnered before your sim had a chance to get out of the cab. I haven't yet seen the mean/break up options on a nonromantic relationship. I admit I could be missing it.

I agree that forcing a lesser chance during YA stage would result in some not so ideal family age gaps. It's a great theory but since we're talking about the sims I believe it would end up being as Naples describes. Forcing a "YA must be at least ## days old" won't work because of the differing age cycle options. 

Still, the speed at which unplayed sims are partnered is annoying and frustrating. Literally minutes to a few short hours after they exist in the world romantic prefs are rolled and they're off to the Mausoleum with someone.

I have witnessed that these partnerings are happening without sims even having met. The game rolls and matches them via some unseen compatibility measure. Maybe if there was someway to force any single existing sims to adhere to the same social standards as played sims? That is: MySimA has to work through a pie menu tree of social interactions in order to build a relationship of any sort. UnplayedSimB should have to jump through the same hoops, being actually and actively social with AvailableSingleSimC rather than simply being rolled into the partnership via the games autopairing.

I could make them sacred but that would defeat the purpose of them performing as unplayed townies.
I don't want them to be untouchable, I just think it would be nice to slow the auto-pairing down and maybe force some more detailed compatibility checks. Just a note on my observations and me being curious if it is at all a possibility with ASM.

Going back to the topic of romance, could we slow it down a little?

I have been trying to start a new hood lately, a sort of Legacy mash-up where it'll just be one played family throughout how ever many generations I can manage before the whole thing blows up. I create my patriarch and plop him down. Knowing the only sims auto-created with AM running will be work related and not likely any I'll want my sim to procreate with I then make and plop down a few more sims, both male and female to allow for future population of the hood.

So here's the problem:
I don't even get through a full 24 sim hours of play before all romantic prefs are run and the available females are snatched up by the available males as partners. If I do not create males, they are auto-generated for jobs and wham-o, snatch up all the ladies. This way at least allows a little more time to work on the woo-ing.

I did not consider creating premade couples and specific singles because I thought it would be interesting to see the partnering results.
Unfortunately it's leaving my patriarch sim in the cold for a partner.

So I guess my inquiry is: Is there anyway to get the auto-story partnering to slow the hell down? Maybe a 48 - 72 hour wait before any romantic prefs are initialized for non partnered sims?

As a note, I was having the random hangs in a Sunset Valley hood. I roundaboutly discovered my Riverview was corrupt, pitched and reinstalled it, then did a full reinstall of all my "store" items and am no longer having any hang issues in Sunset Valley.

Perhaps corrupted files or are causing these pause issues?

My game is running smooth as butter (beyond the normal freeze to load objects in a new area) with the most recent build (no library - recipe options enabled).

I'm also experiencing a large dose of cheating sims. Large as in everyone who's married is cheating on their spouse with everyone else who's married as well as with available singles.

Save Game: Sunset Valley, empty of all inhabitants, cribbed for pollination and all plots lotted with the exception of 15 Summer Hill Court. As might be deduced, this was sloshed together for a Legacy type hood.
I do not claim any credit beyond plopping down a few lots here but I thought perhaps the lazy might could have a use of it.
I've done my best to lot streets in keeping with the existing architectural style of houses already built on them.

Originally cribbed by twoftmama here

Lots included by (from MTS & MATY):
Krib (Kribensis)
Myskaal
Sinead19
tregnier2795
jcperk
calisims
fling-89
nivaso
Townieforsims
pereira
minkkkk



Download Here:
http://www.box.net/shared/29kx6ql57u

Yes, it's quite large.