Converting to a world file
witch:
I had a look at CAW when it first came out and figured it was going to be a PITA. Pity, I used to make nice hoods in Simcity 4 for Sims 2. That was clever marketing and all that jazz. I would love to make my own world but ain't going to battle with CAW for it.
I don't take my sims travelling at all, apart from Uni and the future, the rest of it is just too buggy. Plus creepy.
ETA: Might have been Simcity 3, I don't remember now.
ETA2: I'm just cruising Pinterest and I found a page of worlds. One of them is a modded version of the first EAxis world.
http://sunnyccfinds.tumblr.com/post/46216521041/moonskin93-grumpysims
So maybe there is a way to do it. Have you checked with Simlogical?
Sita:
Confirming, it was SimCity 4, or SimCity Rush Hour, Witch. User-made worlds were much easier to make.
I think CAW has that effect on most people. :-\
nyxus:
i think the mod you want is NRAAs "porter" it essentially lets you save your sim families back into the bin with all of their relationships intact (it works for multiple families/households as well).
So you could create your world as you like it, save it. grow your sims up in whatever hood you like, then use porter to save them. load up your original saved file and use porter to import your sims to your new world.
make sure you follow the readme, though. its a pretty straight-forward process, but i believe there are couple of "you must do this, or all will be lost" steps.
Madame Mim:
Most of us here are familiar with the Porter. It's not what's being looked for (at least not the first part). It is a poor second for a tool we know EA had (did anybody ever find a way to load a custom neighbourhood with intact dead?).
I know that Richaard (?) from Naughty Sims was interested in this at one stage and some studies had been conducted. I do not think there was ever a simple way to do it, but . .
I will go and ask my sister, who is a regular at Naughty's, if she can point me to the right threads.
<edit> She tells me that it was never reliably achieved. Sorry. The best I can say is to create a copy of your save and empty it with Pescado's rapture (or whatever) then resort to the mover tool.
Simsample:
You could try the method by CassieJ here:
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=418812
In post #16 she outlines a method which worked.
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