More Awesome Than You!

I'm trying to make a world specifically for lot building (see this thread (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=387962&c=1&ht=&page=1&pp=25#startcomments)).  I got a weird problem with placing lots. I can't draw more lots after only a few lots (8, 11, 13, something like that) . Roads can't be drawn in that area as well (you can see they stop going towards the lots on the pic).  Expanding the gap between lots to 3 does not solve the problem.

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I have been putting dozens of lots together with one square in between. Proof:

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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:

(http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/8804/screenshot2jl.th.jpg) (http://img707.imageshack.us/i/screenshot2jl.jpg/)
Here CAW was being cooperative. I was able to have four lots the same dimensions with a one-space buffer.

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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.

(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5706/screenshot3re.th.jpg) (http://img6.imageshack.us/i/screenshot3re.jpg/)
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 pattern appears to be that you have this compulsive inability to draw parallel lines, so the lots are trying to get closer than 1 tile.

No, I had one-tile gap, two-tile gap, three-tile gap.


Very funny.


I can attest to that. Sometimes CAW just does not allow one-tile buffer and demands a two-tile buffer instead, for no reason, even when everything is snapped to grid, and the ground is absolutely flat.

But my weirdness is not quite like the two-tile buffer though. After I lined up a bunch of lots, I could not draw any lot or place road in a roughly 100-tile radius.

Check the coordinates of the lot. Perhaps they've suffered floating point error and are no longer quite right.

Tried again, and this time I changed the grid rotation after a few lots, and still got stuck. You can see the distant lot is where I can draw a lot again. What's wrong with my CAW?

(http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj244/Lioness_018/0002-7-1.jpg)

Well, for starters, your concept of "straight" is horribly broken.

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.