Where to find GOOD custom worlds?

[Zazazu]

Good god, the drama in this thread is simply palpable.

That said, I do like the look of that Old Town remake. I just wish the lots included weren't so blah.

Sims 1 was blah, lot wise. I do like the terrain, though, and if I hadn't been 90% done with my latest project, I would have scrapped it and just went with the Old Town remake.

This is my current project, Chesterfield. I still have to finish off all the community lots and build all but one of the residentials, so it will be a long time before it is done.
       

       

[jezzer]

Looking really good, Zaz.  I like the fog in the last pic.

[Claeric]

The thing is, the old town LOOKS salvageable, but it isnt.

They put sidewalks. Everywhere. Around every fucking lot. So you can't customize the area at all, you're stuck with the lot sizes (the extremely, extremely unconventional lot sizes) they used to begin with.

The downtown is laid out as if they didn't spend even half a minute thinking about it and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.

[Zazazu]

Unconventional lot sizes stop you from being a lazy ass and downloading creepy-doll infested lots off the Exchange.

Looking at the photos, I mostly see the sidewalk-encased lots in the downtown area, where you would expect to see that sort of thing. Of course, I haven't downloaded it and I'm only going off photos, but I see many large lots (or fucking ginormous wastes of space to me) with no sidewalk around.  As for downtown, it's definitely not to my taste (I'd be sledgehammering the whole section), but seems similar to the default 'hoods. It's certainly not a glorified square like that one creature churns out weekly.

I'd tell you to just go create your own world because you'll find ample opportunity to bitch about anything non-EA and, despite your brother-fucking obsessions, you actually do have some laudable creative skills. But, we know how scary CAW is for you, with it being all system-intensive and stuff.

*Any extra bitchiness can be explained by frustration from spending the last 20 minutes trying to make a driveway on a smooth 35 degree decline with the piece of crap excuse for terrain elevation tools we have in-game. Also, see: Shouty Vole.

[J. M. Pescado]

Conventional lot sizes also render everything you build there and everything you've previously built completely unusable. It is EVIL, much like NON-FLAT EDGES.

[Claeric]

Whatever. It's a legitimate complaint. The downtown looks like shit, they didn't think about the placement of the actual lots at all, and because they loaded it with sidewalks there's barely anything you can do about it unless you absolutely love going around building stupid sized lots from scratch with no room for non-hideous rabbit hole lots.

[Shazaam]

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[Menchii]

I've been looking for a massive world.  One that feels like a big city.  Like Detriot or New York.  I mean tons of buildings and tons of people.  I hate going outside and seeing the same shmucks day in and day out.  How about a huge place where you see new people everyday?  Or a place that isn't deserted at night.  If I go out after dark and all the people are sleeping and no one is outside.  Show me a big city!!   

[Claeric]

The game doesn't know how to handle too many sims, so you're likely not going to find a world populated with so many that you "meet someone new every night". And places are deserted at night because that's how the game is set up, sims go to bed at night and there's no lots that are set to be populated in particular at night. A custom world won't change that.

[jezzer]

The game doesn't know how to handle too many sims, so you're likely not going to find a world populated with so many that you "meet someone new every night". And places are deserted at night because that's how the game is set up, sims go to bed at night and there's no lots that are set to be populated in particular at night. A custom world won't change that.

Hopefully that'll change with the new L&P.  Although it would be particularly hilarious if EA forgot to make sure their nightspots are populated.

[uknortherner]

The game doesn't know how to handle too many sims, so you're likely not going to find a world populated with so many that you "meet someone new every night". And places are deserted at night because that's how the game is set up, sims go to bed at night and there's no lots that are set to be populated in particular at night. A custom world won't change that.

Hopefully that'll change with the new L&P.  Although it would be particularly hilarious if EA forgot to make sure their nightspots are populated.

Yes, I can see it now. The hottest places in town - empty by 9PM.

[Claeric]

You can, however, mod the game so that places are populated at night. If you want your town population of all ages to freaking love hanging out at the park at night, I'm pretty sure there are values you can change to get that to happen.

[ascarrott]

You can, however, mod the game so that places are populated at night. If you want your town population of all ages to freaking love hanging out at the park at night, I'm pretty sure there are values you can change to get that to happen.

There is a mod made by Shimrod101 that sort of does this here: http://ts3.tscexchange.com/index.php?topic=3954.0

[Noclue]

This one loads fast, hasn't crashed, as yet, and has small lots. Of course it needs small houses and some sims.  It plays well for me but is limited in space. 

http://simscrossing.blogspot.com/search/label/Worlds 

[Menchii]

The game doesn't know how to handle too many sims, so you're likely not going to find a world populated with so many that you "meet someone new every night". And places are deserted at night because that's how the game is set up, sims go to bed at night and there's no lots that are set to be populated in particular at night. A custom world won't change that.

So if I put down a ton of really tiny houses and say populated them with AM or just dumped the max limit of sims inside each one would my game explode into a bfbvfs?

You can, however, mod the game so that places are populated at night. If you want your town population of all ages to freaking love hanging out at the park at night, I'm pretty sure there are values you can change to get that to happen.

There is a mod made by Shimrod101 that sort of does this here: http://ts3.tscexchange.com/index.php?topic=3954.0

I will look at that mod and see how he did it.  I can probably convert it into making sims come out at night and during the day.  Shimrod101 mentioned some of the values he changed.  It will just take a little tweaking. 

[Zazazu]

The game doesn't know how to handle too many sims, so you're likely not going to find a world populated with so many that you "meet someone new every night". And places are deserted at night because that's how the game is set up, sims go to bed at night and there's no lots that are set to be populated in particular at night. A custom world won't change that.

So if I put down a ton of really tiny houses and say populated them with AM or just dumped the max limit of sims inside each one would my game explode into a bfbvfs?

It'll get slow and skippy. When this happens depends on your system, and most likely how much cc you use. I use a shitload. I'm perfectly safe at around 140 sims, so I set AM to a limit of 120.

[Menchii]

That number is a lot higher than I thought.  I have all the store content installed and hardly any cc.  Got a quad-core processor, 4 gigs of ram, Windows 7 Ultimate and a 512meg video card.  Lacking ram on the video card.  Should upgrade sometime.  Thanks Zazazu.  I will experiment with how many sims I can cram into my hood until my computer has a heart attack.

[uknortherner]

I will look at that mod and see how he did it.  I can probably convert it into making sims come out at night and during the day.  Shimrod101 mentioned some of the values he changed.  It will just take a little tweaking. 

I've got that mod running in my game, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. The town is still largely deserted by 9PM except for a few stragglers.

I think at this stage it may be pointless playing around with this mod until the next base game patch is out (probably a couple of weeks from now, going on EA's past record). If EA's messed around with the code to get more sims out at night (especially vampires), then it could be a wasted effort.

[Menchii]

True.  I might just leave it alone for now.  I keep forgetting there is a new L&P coming up. 

[daisylee]

Zazazu, that is great fog in the last pic. What effect did you use with the fog emitters to get that? I have tried the spirit fog and the graveyard fog and so far can only get ground fog.

[Zazazu]

Just normal fog, no options. I put a crapload in, though. There are perhaps 15 fog emitters along the coast (in the water) and ten or so on land in that lower section, which is going to be the lower-income section. I'm still finishing the mid-to-high income sections around downtown and the one cul-de-sac, then have the more rural homes to do before I get to that portion.

   

The fog doesn't work as well as I had wanted it to. That coast is awfully close to the end of the world, as it is, and I wanted the fog to make the lighthouse appear to be further out than it is since I couldn't place it back where I wanted. It still looks like it is where it is, but I guess the fog gives it purpose.

[daisylee]

I will try adding a heck of a lot more. As an existing hood that I made, I added 4 on each lot in my swamp area, but did not have as much of an effect as wanted. Shall throw more in and see what happens.

I also added a heck of a lot more trees to my hood in game. Do we know if they cluster automatically when added in game for an existing hood? My saves are longer, so wonder if I added too many, or if they only cluster when added in CAW?

[Skadi]

Thanks to the new EP I am trying to find worlds with a few larger lots - 64x64, but still having smaller lots for everyday houses.

[jezzer]

Maybe someone will create some night spot lots of a more manageable size.

[Moryrie]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who found all the lots enormous.