They could have had a collection of theme sets for the lazy people-retirement community, young community, "hip" district.  And new randomized townies.  Instead, we get weird noses, plaid shorts, and in the case of this moron, constant crashing

We're in an abusive relationship with EA!

SimPE it is.  Thanks for the quick replies.

(EA did not have to make this so hard.  Townie creation should be a box on the create neighbourhood screen.  Though they probably would have messed that up, so eh.)

Alright. I reset everything and tried it once more-and I know there's no point in arguing "I followed the instructions"-"Then why doens't it work".  But it crashed again. 

For the record, it always crashes when generating "Pets".  I'm going to give it a rest before I FUBAR something important. 

Well, the default strays don't bother me that much.  But trying again, renaming both folders...crashes.  Creates a new "N001" folder.  The invisible pets neighbourhood becomes visible. So, no dice, at least for me.

Should I have?  Because I renamed the N001 folder (double checked, tried it a couple times), and remain unawesome.

I am not awesome-this method is not working for me.  I have pets, and the only custom material I have installed right now is the Pets director's cut.

Whenever I attempt to create a new neighbourhood after renaming N001, the game quits and the invisible "Pets" neighbourhood becomes visible (I can't do anything with it though).  I get a whole new N001, defaut townies and all.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?