I do love the multi-leveled basement, especially the pool. Nice touch, considering I had no idea you could build a pool underground. Looks like I'll have some new things to try when I build Pescado's lair for the new version of What's This?

At any rate, I will snag this and probably desecrate it by turning the third floor into a few more bedrooms since I tend to have larger controllable families. Good work!

I was referring to the Plasticbox houses, and yeah, I know they all used to work just fine, so I blame EA unequivocally. I'll see if I can't scrape together an updated hood soon. Kind of sucks that I didn't catch this before starting another new hood using this world, but oh well.

Yeah, that's how I discovered it, a sim I had radar tagged was seemingly stuck at home and I switched to see what the problem was. I'm going to go through the houses and dump the bad ones at some point...

I don't know yet what all will be added to Pets, but I'll make whatever's needed to support it.

I've actually noticed this myself, and I assume it's an issue with the original houses as they were built because I didn't change them at all. I have been considering fixing this in a new version, but any update to the hood would now require Generations. I think I'll leave this version as is, and re-release an update to fix the minor issues that will require Generations.

Thinking ahead, I'll probably have to do another re-release for the Pets EP to add a pet store and probably a dog park to the neighborhood, so there will be at least a few changes and new versions coming eventually.

About time someone did that. Of course, I'm still hoping for outright replacements for the EA ones, mostly because I'm paranoid some poor sim will be generated with the EA options. Although I'm not sure: do game-generated sims ever get body hair applied? It seems like a good idea if they did--but only if the EA options are completely replaced. Still, the more options the better.

Why don't you check the lifetime rewards, which are now categorized and have a drop-down filter?

I'll leave that up to the people who actually have a Facebook account. I won't waste my time.

Well, sure would be nice of them to share that on their website proper instead of putting it on FACEBOOK.

LOLWUT?


I suspect it's more like they don't want people to have the new features for the base game yet since the EP isn't officially out. I won't even mention the fact that the link above still works. Next time check your sources before spouting crap about "X says..."

Can 3booter be changed to work around this problem?

Looks like an AM error, but whether it was caused by the hood specifically or by a bug in AM I do not know. You may want to try destroyAllHumans (or whatever the command is to completely empty a hood) before using Jfadeland. Some people seem to think that helps. I've not had any issues myself, though.

Very odd. I'm up to like third generation and haven't had any problems. I started with the completely empty version though. I wonder if some of the sims that the game generated were borked or something...

I've never had any such problem. Perhaps Pescado would know something about that. It doesn't look like anything specific to the hood though. Try making sure it's clean before playing. Destroyallhumans and then start using it. That's the only thing I can think of.

Bizarre. I might have to replace the house with something else then. I'll try to replicate this myself and see if I can get any insight on it. I don't doubt you or anything, it just seems odd. I'll have to see where I stole that home from too.

Thank you. Really, though, if I hadn't been able to nab so many lots from other places, I would probably have never bothered. I am enjoying the military base myself, which is funny cause I didn't expect that.

Yes, that comes from Jeromycraig's lot. I dunno if I could remove that from the World's Sims3Pack file, so that will be left to the user to remove.

Thanks, jeromycraig, for this wonderful response. Next time you want to try and spork someone, BattyCoda, I suggest you read the whole thread. Novel idea, I know.

I may've used a few store items accidentally. It shouldn't be a big deal though, they should just replace with EA objects.

I know about this. I'll fix it for the final version.

Hmmm, good point. I'll look into it.

This is intentional. I did it to get all the trailers the same size. There was a miscalculation of the roads. To fix this would require a buttload of work. The same applies to the butterfly dome. It doesn't bug me enough to necessitate a fix.

Refer to post number one.

Heh, yes, it's pretty cheaty, but whatever. It works. No worse than the Riverview fishing lot.


Cool beans. I'm sure other people who play MATY self-sims will like this. I play a mix myself, and the populated version I'll ultimately release will not contain self-sims.

I wonder if there are skill books in the library in the west suburbs? I stole that building from Sunset Valley. I'll have to go and see when I play later today.

My Sim just went to the library to skill gardening and found a skill book on the shelves. But it seems like only one shelf has the skill books... Hrm. I wonder if it just takes time?

Really? Bizarre. Sorry, then. I bet you could somehow get around that though, couldn't you? Use a third party tool to extract the files and plop them in the right place? Or is it not that simple?

Odd. I thought categorizing a building as a library would automagically fill this need. Maybe I need to steal the library from Riverview or something.

Good! I have noticed a bit of slowness with my hood, but I chocked it up to how many people I have radar tagged at the moment, since that was an issue before in another hood of mine. I like what Sim Jeebus is doing. Seems wildly appropriate. Trepie is beating up people in my hood too.

Yes, any ideas as to why it would do that?

Introducing Jfadeworld! A shiny, brand new world for you to play around with. I just finished this last night and have started playtesting myself, but am looking for more people to help me find and squash any bugs there may be. Here's a broad overview of the town:



Here's a broad, higher up view from CAW. The town is comprised of a central downtown and 4 communities that are on the north, east, south and west:

In the east, we have the Military Base. It's a small, government built housing area that originally was designed for Military Sims and their families. Now it's open to the public. The homes feature simple floor plans that emphasize having as much bedroom spaces as possible. Houses available in either 2 or 4 bedroom size. The base also has a community pool and gym on site, and a subway station for easy access to the main part of the city.

Far south of downtown, there's a tiny cluster of farmhouses located near the junkyard. As you drive past them, heading north, you'll hit the south edge of the city, where there are plenty of small starter homes courtesy of plasticbox of MTS. (Plasticbox's terms allow for lots to be shared with credit given, so yay! Thanks plasticbox!) Just a bit to the west of the starter homes is Bob Beckman's World Renowned Luxury Living Community, otherwise known to the rest of the denizens of the city as the trailer park. Five different floor plans, ranging from under 10k to about 13k are available for your poorer sims to choose from. The trailer park features a community playground and pool, neither of which is recommended for use by anyone sane.

On the west side of the city, well, that's where the rich and privileged sims live. Is there anymore that needs to be said?

The north side of the city is, for the most part, a step up from the south side as far as size and quality of the houses. To the east of the sports complex, the houses are definitely nicer and more expensive. The same holds true to the west, at least near the shopping center. The houses north of there, near the school, are more affordable for Sims just starting out. Finally, far north of there, on the very edge of town, is a large, creepy looking house out by its lonesome. The road it sits on is mostly empty, so there is plenty of room for more houses, should you desire to add them.

At last, we come back to downtown, where many of the rabbitholes and Nightlife party areas can be found.

Stats, Info, and Download Stuff

Keep in mind that this is a test release. I'm still play testing, but haven't had hardly any time to really get into it. Hopefully, between everyone who grabs it and gives it a try, I can get everything nailed and fixed.

Credit, again, for the myriad of starter homes goes to plasticbox of MTS. Jeromycraig also provided the laundromat and The Cube, a modern house on the north end. All other houses were either built by me or stolen from EA hoods.

For some reason, several of the Nightlife and Ambitions lots had funky errors with them, name wise, when installed. I've included an empty save file where I've renamed them back to what they should be. You don't NEED the file, but it may save some time.

All houses are AwesomeMod Ready (they have cribs) and all lots EXCEPT the ones on the west side (I had to rewand the entire hood. It resets the house values, apparently, when you export the world. So, yeah. I just used "wandworld" on the hood and resaved, so everything is wanded now.) have been wanded. If you want to live on the west side, you'll have to pay for it!

At the moment, decor in the hood is sparse. Playing the hood works just fine as far as save time for me, but saving in CAW is about a 3-5 minute process, and editing in game then saving is almost 20-30 minutes. It was getting to the point where editing it was a major pain and I wanted to make sure that it all was working, layout wise, before I invested any time in decor. Then again, the sparseness doesn't bother me, so I may not do much additional work on that anyhow. We'll see.

Lot Breakdown:

Location:	Total Lots:	Res:	Comm:	Empty:	Sizes:	Community Lot List:
North:	49	33	16	10	24x24 (1), 25x25 (10) 29x29 (2), 30x20 (19), 30x30 (15), 30x40 (2), 60x60 (1), 64x64 (1)	Diner, Spa, Bookstore, Grocery Store, Bistro, Stadium, Theatre, Butterfly Dome, Laundromat, Salon, School, Pool, Gym, Hospital, Consignment Store, Fire Station, Subways (2)
East (Military Base):	17	14	3	0	20x20 (16), 40x46 (1)	Military Base, Gym, Pool, Subway Station
South (Trailers, Farm, Starters):	59 (30, 7, 22)	55 (28, 6, 21)	4 (2, 1, 1)	6 (5, 0, 1)	10x15 (28), 11x20 (1), 14x15 (2), 14x18(1), 20x20 (1), 20x30 (4), 24x24 (12), 24x19 (6), 40x40 (1), 50x50 (1), 64x64 (2)	Large Park, Pool, Small Park, Subway (In Large Park)
West:	31	26	5	8	40x32 (2), 40x40 (10), 40x50 (1), 40x64 (3), 50x50 (11), 64x64 (4)	Large Park, Library, Art Gallery, Spa, Bistro, Bookstore, Grocery Store, Gym, Subway (In shopping area)
Downtown:	29	7	22	0	12x20 (1), 16x36 (1), 20x23 (1), 20x40 (1), 20x50 (1), 30x30 (1), 30x40 (4), 30x46 (1), 30x50 (2), 30x60 (3), 32x50(1), 40x40 (2), 40x50 (5), 40x60 (2), 40x64 (2), 50x50 (2), 50x60 (1), 64x64 (1)	Criminal, Library, Restaurant & Business Tower, Hospital, Science, Police, Disco Club, Watering Hole, Vampire Club, Grocery, Chess Park, Boxcar Diner, Poolside Club, Exclusive Lounge, Courthouse, Dance Club, Sports Bar, Fusion Lounge, Dive Bar, Fire Station, Community Garden, Graveyard, Movie Studio, Subways (7)

Requirements:
I have all EPs up to Late Night installed, so you'll probably need the same. While I do have one of the SPs, I don't think you should need it. I was careful to avoid using anything from the SPs, and if I did, it should just be automagically replaced with something from the base game upon load.

Download:
Download the Hood
Download the Empty Save

Updated:
Feb. 4th, 2011 17:56 EST - Replaced the empty save file with a new one: Renamed one of the lots I missed and wanded the world. See above crossed out text in the description for why.

Enjoy! Feedback and bug reports greatly appreciated!

I am curious about this too. Before my current save got borked (a baby disappeared from the house. Resetsim didn't work, his picture was still in the family list and everything, but he wasn't present. I tried some things that I found via search to fix it but nothing seemed to work. I'd grown bored of the hood anyhow and deemed it a good time to start over.) the town seemed to not really be making anyone get married. Old sims were dying off (the first gen) but none of the second generation were hooking up. Only a new, married couple I added to the game started to have kids. Otherwise, the only kids present in the game were the ones from the house I controlled, and the ones I forcibly made in other houses. So I am curious if it was my computer or what. I didn't have a population maximum set in AM. I have more RAM now and a better video card, so I'm curious to see if I'll hit the same problem in my "reset" hood.

I think the funniest thing about that was the fact about how WRONG all of those people are. "Core mods are extremely dangerous and cause about 1/3 of the CC problems in your game." Seriously? I use AM, I have downloaded clothing, lots, objects. I have other non-core mods, including one of Twallans. Does my game have problems? None whatsoever, other than crappy EA caused problems. The TWO crashes I've had were unexplainable, as I started the game right back up, did the same things, and nothing went wrong. Plus, half the other things they were saying ("You'll have to completely uninstall and reinstall your game" etc) were also just stupidly wrong.

Meh. Stupid people irritate me. At least I have a great place to start with for the List of Common Misconceptions when I get back to writing it.

I'll update the zip in a bit, but yes, in the future, just replace the s3rc.exe file.

Windoze says it does, but that sims3pack I sent you that didn't work before was one of the ones that Windoze said s3rc stopped working with, and you fixed the problem caused by it, so I'd say it's a genuine error. lowprofile should probably try to narrow down which file caused it, which wouldn't be hard to do (find which files hadn't been modified by sorting by date in your downloads folder.)

I didn't respond to most questions because most questions asked were by people who DIDN'T READ THE MANUAL. (That and I've been busy and away from the sims for quite a while.) Did YOU read the manual? If so, repost your question at my site and I'll respond since I'm checking in again.

For those of you still confused and/or messed up with the command line stuff, you can use the GUI version which is available here:

http://forum.jfade.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=473

I'm content that it works as anticipated.