Writin_Reg wrote:
Amjoie - it is a lot of links as this has been a growing problem since at least LN, but most of those conversations went on over in the CAW forums. Most of the long time world creators are aware of this issue - but check Magic Dancers thread when she remade Sunset Valley and added streets, flattened area _ it's called Sunset Valley 2 I believe - but she first released it with no lots at all and people came out of the wood work asking her to place the lots. I have found out that adding more than 4 or 5 small lots seems to break routing - which gives you the bad playability of any world with broken routing - constant hiccups that grows excessively worse. But i believe the earliest discovery of this problem was when I was with a group of simmer in the CAW forums we called ourselves the "Sims of Caw Lane" and were totally comprosed of World/lot creators, and testers - that worked together helping other simmers test their worlds so as a group we could cover a world in no time and find all the kinks, then we would check over each others lists of problems to verify and find the problems - but along the way we started noticing the trouble with using the ingame editor - that placing more than one or two big lots would break the world - and placeing over 3-4 medium lots, and 4-6 small lots, seem to break it. We only later found out what was happening was placing the lots was breaking the final routing done on all worlds when they are ready for others to use. The only way to fix of course was to put the world back in CAW and it is not always a easy thing to do - especially EA world. But it seems with each ep we are able to place less and less lots before the breakage occurs. But anyway in Magic Dancers thread the people talked her into adding a ton of lots in CAW so we did not encounter the Hades of the fickle world editor. (ETA: I am one of the first who found this problem - it's just been reaffirmed constantly through others since. I also was one of the ones that found the work around for the fishing/seed/ and shopping problems with WA - so I find and try to fix or find fixes to most problems - but there is no fix for this if you don't use CAW).
Thank you for letting me know. I'll check it out in the CAW section. I need to place at least one large lot and one medium, as a minimum, in order to do what I want to that map. This is really making me sad. Well, I'll read about it, and do what I must. Better to know, now, before I redo the world. Sigh.
As far as the mausoleum, I have the LL rabbit hole, which looks like every other LL rabbit hole. So I can always get the function without worrying about looks. Those LL rabbit holes hide nicely in shell buildings. I just don't like
using the mausoleum, but probably not for the reason you might think. The truth is, when they come out with their hair all stuck up and blackened all over, I dissolve into a giggle fit of almost unmanageable proportions. Why, I have no idea. I do the same thing when the sim gets almost electrocuted and has the same look. I laugh to the point of feeling helpless and weak. So I avoid using it. I also avoid electrical traps in WA tombs, etc. It may sound silly, but I have asthma, and when I laugh that hard it can start me coughing really hard, too. Between the laughing and coughing, I'm in rough shape. ;)
