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- I am having the opposite problem of most people here. I am doing every eco thing possible, and can barely keep it in the neutral range (on the side towards industrial). I finally picked up and moved to the green neighborhood, and there is trash everywhere, even though it says it is green! I hope this is something that is fixed soon, because it is such a huge part of this pack.
- elliebretonSeasoned Veteran@kristenleighwhite I read on Carl's guide that trash is not to do with the eco footprint and is set as a world layer in all the neighbourhoods. The only way to get rid of the trash is apparently to use either of these NAPS: Modern Development or Green Initiatives.
I have now industrialised the other houses in the port area and am going to try again to see if I can keep the area industrial:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/1cbtecmv66f6ptw/06-07-20_11-35-09%C2%A0AM.png?dl=0
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/oq9znyuzmqgkvhy/06-07-20_12-05-06%C2%A0PM.png?dl=0
It is a real shame about the container door. They made the container walls industrial but the door green. I wonder if that was a mistake. But I am sad that building containers uses a 'green' door. - Generator is easy to plop down. If you don’t like it you need to change the wallpapers and flooring and remove all trees and bushes (they tend to add 2 eco points)
- If you upgrade fridges(probably other appliances as well)so that they won't rely on a power source anymore,they become industrial.
~snipped (by me) to save space~"jimbbq;c-17529084" wrote:
Look like a balancing issue with the footprint score.
Hiya @jimbbq
Just checking in and wanted to let you know:
I started a new build and discovered it was not the program, it is I who is to fault.
It would seem, I am not as clean and green as I thought. ~sigh~
I use almost all stone and brick when building which includes the flooring (the area just beneath the roof counts too).
Ya'll are doing a great job of untangling the ECO quagmire on this thread.
Thank-you!
~happy simming~- elliebretonSeasoned VeteranSo... after I had changed all the neighborhood houses to deck them out with industrial stuff and took away all their plants and green stuff, I moved my family into Port Promise in a nice little industrial container. I had them using a bonfire for most of the day and generally being unclean and ungreen. Next morning - exactly the same as my last try - eco footprint was neutral.
I give up. This is not good. - I'm a bit disappointed by how hard it is to get a polluted state. It looks like it takes too much work, at least from reading the responses here and watching videos. Adding pollution to worlds was a major feature for me!
This puts me a bit on the fence about this pack, so I'm waiting for a sale now. - WrenrySeasoned Novice
"Camkat;c-17531656" wrote:
"Wrenry;c-17531522" wrote:
"elanorbreton;c-17531258" wrote:
So... after I had changed all the neighborhood houses to deck them out with industrial stuff and took away all their plants and green stuff, I moved my family into Port Promise in a nice little industrial container. I had them using a bonfire for most of the day and generally being unclean and ungreen. Next morning - exactly the same as my last try - eco footprint was neutral.
I give up. This is not good.
I'm wondering now if the Bar and whatever version a person picks for Community Space are having more of an impact on the footprint then just the residential lots. My Port is stuck at neutral but Knox, Bess and my lot show the industrial sign while the bar and Maker's Market just have the neutral sign.
I'm guessing your right and all lots impact it, not just the residential. I'm playing in Willow Creek and there's a park in my neighbourhood and I'm sure it's pulling back. The park is green (which does make sense) and my residential lot can't override it very easily. It can be done, but it's work for sure.
...At this point the Gurus need to explain how to keep from slipping into Neutral. I started a new save with every lot being in Industrial accept my lot that I cleaned off:
https://i.imgur.com/Vhddmu0l.jpg
After going to each residential lot and the bar and unchanged Community Space removing trees, bushes, flowers, Green wallpaper, flooring, and doors and windows and replacing them with windows and doors with no foot prints, the linoleum flooring that causes minor environmental loss and Industrial wallpaper, everything slid into Neutral:
https://i.imgur.com/ILSjznQl.jpg
And though I had changed everything, my sim's panel said the foot print was still Industrial so I played to the next day to see if the lots would slide back into Industrial. And nope, the message for the next day was Port Promise was now in Neutral.
So...loaded up another file with everything starting the same as the top picture. But then bulldozed all the residential lots and the bar and Community Space, which were both marked as not complete since I didn't change them, and the foot prints still slid into Neutral without anything on the lots:
https://i.imgur.com/dZj1gFDl.jpg
Doing all this just makes it looks like there's no way to stop sliding into the neutral foot print. Even when using items marked for the Industrial foot print or no foot print at all. Maybe its a glitch like not being able to use the apartment balconies or there's just some combination that's being missed. I'll see what else may work besides the cheat code, but it be nice if the Gurus clarified how to keep that wonderful Industrial look. "Simmerville;c-17528245" wrote:
I noticed that my restaurants all got an industrial icon, even when not being played much. So maybe the chef's kitchen has a very negative impact?
EDIT: I got this wrong. A couple restaurants I never visited are still neutral.
I tried to change the eco-footprint of the bar in Evergreen Harbor (now a restaurant) and after placing green roofs, green wallpapers, green floor, green columns, removed the fireplace, lots of water containers, lots of solar pannels, a huge amount of plants... it's still "neutral". Definitely the eco-score system is broken.- I put a ton generators, the industrial water thingies, and fireplaces in all the apartments in my district along with changing all wallpapers and floors... and it's still pulling green. Cheating by using Eco_Footprint.Set_Eco_Footprint_State 2 doesn't help because I have to keep cheating over and over again to keep it industrial.
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