More Awesome Than You!

Okay, so by switching a lot type between residential and community, I was able to place a stove on what would become a community lot, and with the option in AM to keep items when switching between lot types, the stove stayed put, but there is no interaction available with the stove now that the lot it's on is a community lot.  In WA, though, the home-base (in China, at least) has workable stoves and fridges, and it appears to be a community lot.  Is there any known way, yet, of unlocking residential stoves or fridges for community lot use, as they seem to be in the China home-base hostel?

Also, does anyone know yet how to place open tents in community lots, so that sims can use them, like in the remote campsites in the World Adventures?

You don't normally interact with stoves, you interact with fridges. I'm guessing the lack of fridge is what is keeping your stove inoperable.

That's not the right way to do it.  Instead, make a clone of the stove using the two pass method in s3oc, delete everything except the OBJD, then take it back to s3oc to renumber, rename, and edit the catalogue flags to make it valid for community lots.

No, that is the right way to do it. You shouldn't crud up your game with unncessary content that can break. Plus, this is how it is done in EAxistan, too.

So, there is a way, then.  Thank you both, Pescado and Inge, for your wise words of wisdom on this subject.  I wish I had the capacity to implement them, but I am utterly, completely, and hopelessly non-awesome.  I've never been able to understand the Sims modding tools, no matter how many times I've read the tutorials and studied the programs (which has been a LOT of times!).

I do, however, know enough to put a fridge with the stove, yes.  All I can do is get quick-meals from the fridge, and can't cook anything at all, once the lot's been changed.

I know y'all are busy being awesome and having lives and stuff, but is there any plan to make community-enabled stoves or fridges, for those poor unfortunates who, like me, are incompetent and not to be trusted with the power of s3oc or other modding tools?

Hmm. I imagine the base camp stoves work, not because of anything intrinsic to the stove itself, but because the sim actually lives on the lot as his LotHome. Perhaps that is the key. I will look into this matter.

Thank you ever so much, Pescado, for saying you'll look into it.  I am unworthy, and abase my nonawesome self in awe of your awesomeness.

Just thought I'd pipe in here to say Ms_Tamany is not the only one interested in a fix for this, although I'm not sure what would happen if a sim started a fire on a community lot.

You assume fires can start on community lots, chances are EA disabled that from happening.

Fires on community lots are normally disabled, yes. This can be bypassed, though.

I'd like to submit a request for ‘Community Fires' to be added to the AM configure tool.  Yes, I am a cruel overlord.   

Do Fat Gwilly People have to ask/nag/etc?

I had a fire in the camp in France. From Fireplace.

Yes, but the France basecamp and China basecamp are odd because they DO have operable stoves (regardless you cannot buy one) and also can have fires. I'm not able to play right now, but I'm supposing those basecamps are actually "residential" lots then labeled as "basecamp." Or something like that.

I also second having community lot fires enabled.

Yeah, well, you're not exactly Fat and Gwilly, now are you?

See, someone who knows how this works!