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Does anyone know of a solution to this?

I'm trying to convert some Life Stories lots to be used in Sims 2, but the neighborhod terrain was uneven. The lots refuse to be placed down again once I pull them into the bin. I have five lots that are doing this.

I've already changed Slope Value, but that did not help.

Would it help to do terrain surgery on the neighborhood?

Edit: Oops, never mind. It turned out to be a completely different problem with the same symptoms. Loading the lots in LS and saving them solved it.

Lots built on uneven terraain can only be placed in the same place they were taken from. Otherwise they corrupt the terrain, which is bad.

How bad is it to corrupt the terrain? I mean, assuming that you could actually get an uneven lot to be placed?

I've placed uneven lots many times, I've only had one instance of corruption where a lake lot made an indelible dip in the landscape.

I think under certain circumstances, you'll get a gap where two irregular lots can't reconsile to being next to each other.  Would you want to look "behind the scenes" if your neighbor relandscaped their house?

Corrupting the terrain can cause any number effects, from merely minor terrain damage and ridges permanently etched into the landscape, to the neighborhood sinking in part or whole into the sea. It's generally a bad thing, although not unrepairable if it happens, if you can do terrain surgery. So, yeah, definitely don't try it on a Mac.