Exchange a new hood with an old one

[Mizz Rose Bud]

I had this hood, and it got destroyed when I installed Pets, and I didn´t had the enegy to fix it so I deleted it ... which I regreted later *geez* 

Now, when cleaning up my folders, I found a back-up  But in the meantime I have been building up a new mainhood (only lansscaping and houses), and I´m really satisfied with it and would rather use it instead of the old mainhood.

The situation in my old hood is that all my sims is still on campus except for 3 sims who have graduated and have moved to the mainhood.

If I move those 3 sims to the sims-bin, can I in some way exchange the new mainhood with the old mainhood I know how to do the terrain surgery ... 

Rose

[ElfPuddle]

Do not put sims in the sim-bin to move from 'hood to 'hood. Don't. It's a surefire way to blow up both 'hoods.

[Mizz Rose Bud]

Well ... I didn´t intend to move them to another hood ... I just wanted to replace the old main hood with the new mainhood (including the hooddecor and houses) ... like terrain surgery ... but I need to know how I can do it ... do I make sence ?

Rose

[ElfPuddle]

Replacing the old with the new amounts to the same as moving from hood to hood. The problem is that the sims are going to bring memories of people who, according to the hood, don't exist. The game will then create copies of those missing people....this is a VBT!

[Mizz Rose Bud]

But there is no sims in the new hood ... it is a completely clean and empty hood ... never played just buildings and trees ... all townies and memories etc is cleaned out with SimPE

I had the idea that I could just remove the old N00x.package and replace it with the new N00x.package ... but since there is a university connected to the old N00x.package, I´m not sure if it would work

It´s times like this that I realize just how poor my english is ... I know what I want, I just can´t explain it properly ... sorry guys

Rose

[Weaver]

Do you want to use the three graduated sims in the new neighbourhood which is currently empty?
There is no clean way to transfer the sims between hoods without garbage files and problems.

So you'll need to export the sims with SimPE Sim Surgery and re-create them in CAS.
All achievements, memories and relationships need to be reapplied which can be very tedious.

Personally, I would create the sims as adults and use the FFS Debugger to "Upgrade Pre-Uni Sim".
The basic relationships can be made, important memories can be reproduced although I'd let them start fresh.

[Mizz Rose Bud]

No, I do not want to move the sims out of the hood ...

I want to have them in the bin, while I switch hoods ... like if I was doing a terrain surgery ... but instead of just a new terrain upon the old terrain, I want to "paste" a terrain with trees and houses "upon" the existing terrain that also have trees and houses... the sims should stay in the hood ... in the bin ...

Rose
 

[ElfPuddle]

This is what I hear you want to do:

Take three sims who live in a populated hood. They've met people, have friends, lived their pixelated lives, etc.
Put them in the sim-bin.
Create a blank hood..never used never populated...blank.
Take the three sims out of the bin and move them into the blank hood

Yes?

[Mizz Rose Bud]

Exactly what I want to do ... can it be done 

Rose

[ElfPuddle]

Yes, it can be done.
No, it shouldn't.

Let's call your three "Tom, Dick, and Kari". When you move them into the bin, the game tries to retain all of their memories (met Joe, potty trained by George, kissed Sue, etc.). In order to do that, the game creates a copy of each and every one of the sims Tom, Dick, and Kari have ever met. That isn't a big deal if they move into the hood where those sims live (Joe, George, and Sue). If you move Tom, Dick, and Kari into a hood where Joe, George, and Sue have never lived, then the game is going to add Joe, George, and Sue into that hood...just so that Tom, Dick and Kari can keep their memories.

This sort of thing causes very bad things to happen to the game. Don't do it.

Others who are more awesome than I can tell you how to clone Tom, Dick, and Kari so that you can get a hood with just them in it, but you shouldn't put the originals into any hood they didn't come out of.

Does that make sense?

[Mizz Rose Bud]

Yes, it make sence, and I assume that I can´t let them stay in the hood, while switching the hoods, like I could do if I did the terrain surgery, right ?

Rose

[ElfPuddle]

Right. That causes the same problems as moving from 'hood to 'hood.

[Mizz Rose Bud]

Oh well ... thanks for helping me, before I ruined my game completely

Rose

[Lana B]

I think you should be able to do it.
Go to your NEW hood and put all the empty, unplayed house into the lot bin.
Go to SimPE and perform terrain surgery so the OLD hood has the NEW terrain.
Go back to OLD hood, place houses and move sims in.
As long as the sims never leave the sim bin, as opposed to the lot bin which they should NEVER be in, it should be fine, but wil take a bit of work.
If you have lots in your old hood you may want to delete them before the terrain surgery.