The Original Couldn't Be more different

I don't think so. I have one lot where I wanted to be lazy and placed a Maxis lot, but hated it and bulldozed it to start from scratch. Could never get the Maxis tag off of it. Made searching for in my library a nightmare.

So I am assuming there is no real way to change that without starting over completely. It is probably a mechanism to make sure original creators get credited. While that has its positives, it certainly has its negatives as well.

There's no way. One of my lots is flagged with a different author for the original because I downloaded a replacement version of the original lot from the gallery.

The best you could do is 'box up' the lot by saving bits of it via the room tool (since it's outdoors you'll need to do some wallbuilding) and then place that 'room' down on a clean lot?

"viola-illyria;c-18132167" wrote:
There's no way. One of my lots is flagged with a different author for the original because I downloaded a replacement version of the original lot from the gallery.

The best you could do is 'box up' the lot by saving bits of it via the room tool (since it's outdoors you'll need to do some wallbuilding) and then place that 'room' down on a clean lot?

That sounds possible, but it also sounds complicated, because we're talking a 50x50 lot that includes terraforming...

Oh well... There's at least one 60x60 lot in the game. As long as the lot is saved to my library, I can give it a shot...

"Loanet;c-18132176" wrote:

"viola-illyria;c-18132167" wrote:
There's no way. One of my lots is flagged with a different author for the original because I downloaded a replacement version of the original lot from the gallery.

The best you could do is 'box up' the lot by saving bits of it via the room tool (since it's outdoors you'll need to do some wallbuilding) and then place that 'room' down on a clean lot?

That sounds possible, but it also sounds complicated, because we're talking a 50x50 lot that includes terraforming...

Oh well... There's at least one 60x60 lot in the game. As long as the lot is saved to my library, I can give it a shot...

I hadn't even considered the terraforming.

I guess if you've done it once you can do it again?

If you're entering competitions is there any way you can explain why it has a different creator name in your submission?

"viola-illyria;c-18132195" wrote:

"Loanet;c-18132176" wrote:

"viola-illyria;c-18132167" wrote:
There's no way. One of my lots is flagged with a different author for the original because I downloaded a replacement version of the original lot from the gallery.

The best you could do is 'box up' the lot by saving bits of it via the room tool (since it's outdoors you'll need to do some wallbuilding) and then place that 'room' down on a clean lot?

That sounds possible, but it also sounds complicated, because we're talking a 50x50 lot that includes terraforming...

Oh well... There's at least one 60x60 lot in the game. As long as the lot is saved to my library, I can give it a shot...

I hadn't even considered the terraforming.

I guess if you've done it once you can do it again?

If you're entering competitions is there any way you can explain why it has a different creator name in your submission?

Well, the terraforming could probably use a touch-up as it is.

The really frustrating part is that when you lose terraforming, a lot of the things that were on the terraformed land vanish. Some of them do, some of them don't. It depends on how severe the terraforming was. Some of them are easy to put back, like trees, and then there's lots of little things like scatterings of flowers. what will 'float' if you don't watch where you're putting them.

It's not that there's a prize in the competitions, but a lot of them simply won't look twice at entries that aren't 'original'.