Placing one floor tile also works to make a lot accept move-ins. Just FYI.

Can sims sleep on benches/in tents on community lots?
Can they sleep/shower/eat at neighbor homes?
Can they harvest from public harvestables or steal from neighbor gardens?

Uh, no. For one...it's flat. For two, rabbithole lots can be placed on uneven lots/terrain quite well. I do it all the time. I stick them into hills and such. The important thing is to make sure that the approach to the entrance is flat. Otherwise, you get random sims melding into the sidewalk.

I've never had any longer load times on my 'hoods (in fact, they seem to load faster than Riverview and Sunset Valley). I've never had display problems in town view.

Try copying framework to the HELS directory and moving your mods there.

Using moveobjects is fine. Just make sure that the area in front of the entrance is clear and flat.

They can be used on lots with greater depth, but tweaking is necessary and they will never look right on lots with more than two or three additional squares of depth. This isn't really my concern, though, as I'm building my 'hoods for me and sharing for karma. Kinda like Poof's house...the 40x40 size makes placement in an existing 'hood challenging, but it is awesome and it is primarily for her enjoyment.

The hidden area kind of reminds me of one of the tombs in Sim Egypt. I think it was the Tomb of Eternity?

9x10, I think. It became a two-story one bedroom/one bathroom set up for roommates. I'm done with the smalls. Am working on the last section, which is between 14x17 and 20x23.

As for compatibility, I've heard that worlds built with WA will not install on non-WA games. Have not heard about lots yet.

I think my biggest lot is 20x32. Is so ginormous!

Lot size?
It looks too big to sit in my custom 'hoods, but exceptionally well done!

Tch, she should be honored.

You get beaten down every time you post because you are an imbecile who refuses to USE YOUR WORDS.
Happy early Grammar Day.


You obviously have seen the instructions. Follow them. Protip: Do not put it in your special place. It won't work from there.

Have you tried replacing the stove?

The good thing about having an on-going project that would be hurt by having new game objects available is that I'm barred from downloading right now. Cursing at myself for having to build on a 22x32 lot is preferable to cursing at the PtB because my game no worky.

Why don't you just subscribe for a month and test it out? The cancellation policy here is pretty agreeable.

She said she changed the rotation after a few lots, silly.

Your CAW seems to hate you. No way no how have I ever had that sort of drawing constraint.

Your post is offensive to guns, trichotillamaniacs, and wiccans.

First, pinpoint what the exact problem is. Then search the forums. I can guarantee you that someone else has had the same problem and a solution has been posted.

Part of meatspace is much, much better and the rest is still stuck in limbo. Asherton is coming along, but definitely taking longer than expected. These are all original houses, and only two are loosely based on houseplans so far. There aren't too many repeats (there's a set of four townhouses off two models, three copies that are meant to mimic a housing project, and seven homes that are based off the same two models with slight changes over by the office park).

It's over 2/3 done.

In the example pic (the problem one) you only have a one-tile gap, right? I ran into the same problem. That's actually why a few areas in Asherton feature sidewalks running through the residential areas, because the damn CAW just wouldn't let met place more than a few one-tile-spaced lots together and I had to space out some more.

Changing dimensions can sometimes help. For example:


Here CAW was being cooperative. I was able to have four lots the same dimensions with a one-space buffer.


Here, I had planned to have a five-lot block with the two lots on each end and just one spanning north-to-south in the center. CAW decided it wouldn't allow that middle lot with a one-space buffer. It would allow something with the same depth but a smaller width (two-space buffer to the other lots). That didn't look right. I was able to get CAW to accept two smaller lots in the center space with a one-space buffer between everything where it wouldn't accept just one lot. If I recall correctly, this was the only size combination I could get to work in the space. Why wouldn't CAW allow it? Who the hell knows.


Here, I had major, major issues with CAW allowing one-space buffers at all. I finally could get it to work by staggering depths and fitting in a two-space buffer every few lots. Again, why?

Sorry about the dark photos. I playtest during sim day and build during sim night.

It's definitely general bitchery with CAW. I can't see a pattern, though.

The BV buff has to be set in CAW in the lot properties. I chose not to in my 'hoods because, really, is it that important? I've only had one non-grumpy sim go negative, after her dad died and her mom made a pass at her husband.

Hah, it kind of reminds me of that, too! Incredibly straight lots on a terrain with trees in every available blank space. I was forever cheating into God mode to add trees in SC4.

12 West Gardner Ave. Yeah. I know that lot way, way, too well. It was very bad in the version I first uploaded. It was mostly fixed in the fixed version and I noted it in an edit. Populated version should be perfect. I hate that frakking lot.

Lot placement is too condensed for the small-town feel you seem to be going for. Also, those trees are going to be a huge problem for slower systems. Even if you remembered to cluster. Terrain sculpting on the unpopulated area seems interesting and you have some lovely river action, but I can't really see it for all the laggy trees.

AFAIK, I think JadeElliott used the tax level that's become the standard in most whole-hood challenges: 10%. As someone who has run several 'hoods in TS2 based off my own formulas and odd rules, I can tell you that 5% is barely felt and 20% will make it so that spawn will have to live on an empty lot with a tent until they are halfway through adulthood. Monique's computer (maintained by Chaavik over at Insim) can help handle the finances.

Not sure what she did about elections. My next Mayor was a resident in the Political career line. The closest to Mayor was pegged for the next one and moved into the mayoral mansion on the previous mayor's death day. If no sim was in the Political line, any townie who already had the job of Mayor was jerked over. Otherwise, it was a random roll among the residents.

In my two matriarchal caste 'hoods, the eldest female child of the eldest female child in the Orange/Government caste was always the next mayor and she and her compatriots from the other three castes wore tiaras in addition to their caste rings to show their status.

Yes, but you didn't share. You just hinted at witchcraft and smirked about your superiority, as if we weren't already aware of it.

If you're going to go Plasticbox route and you have Awesomemod, enter each lot and input the cheat "wandhere", then exit the lot. It will drastically reduce lot price. I don't think he does that by default. I know he didn't use the magicwand on TS2 houses. A typical $23k home will reduce to around $14k with "wandhere". Huge difference. Huge.

Mainland on my populated version is complete as of a couple of minutes ago. There is now a trailer park. Sleeping space is being planned in order to try to constrain population below 300 (seems to be the magic game crapping number for a lot of us) and maintain a good proportion of all age groups with Awesomemod Story.

Precisely. Since most cc creators distributed in .package form, very little cc was affected. The few that used Sims3packs were the paysites AFAIK. As I stated before, all this fear-mongering about EA being against cc tastes metallic. More likely, the changes in the 1.8 patch were an attempt to curtail the effectiveness of pirated Sims3pack Store items, which it did...for awhile. Within three to four days, MATY members (not me) had figured out how to get previously pirated Store items to work and a day or two later had figured out future Store content installation.

Considering that EA's last few Sims titles have been leaked on pirate sites up to a week before release, the patch was a stellar example of piracy prevention, actually taking a few days to crack. I'm sure they are super proud of themselves.