"minimonsterscott;c-17167529" wrote:
To help further the discussion in this thread, and trying to do it in the least non-aggressive manner possible, the very first time that I ever noticed something 'going on' underground was in Brindleton Bay after C&D was released. I immediately cleared the 64x64 lot, hoping to build a something spectacular on it, and of course doing my usual of cutting out the under-ground only to then start building up on it, but instead of having a clean, open sub level, the water from the ocean/bay next to the lot was what I saw filling the open space after clearing the top ground level. IIRC, that has since been fixed (if silently), and it was right around then IIRC that they released the first-person camera mod that they basically said was 'modded-in' by someone in-house from the dev team. To add just a bit of salt, the whole extra two sub-levels that came out shortly thereafter acted (to me, from my original bug report) to have been 'modded-in' as well, in that there were too many issues that I was experiencing (verified by BryonyRae) with being able to not only add paint to the inner walls of a sub-three or four (sometimes even sub-2) floor, or being able to alter any walls without experiencing the 'dirt flooring issue' that we now have as a permanent fixture (until it gets solved). We who use & know this method of building are seemingly few, but for us who do use it a lot and enjoy it, it is a nightmare to have...
You got a water level? :o
It does look as if Maxis are making experiments to the Terrain Tools and they need to know that it impacts builders options but Maxis's problem has been to get water into the terrain tools to work anyway and we still haven't got it yet. Now we have sea levels in Island Living it might come in a later patch and we might lose a couple of basement levels if the house is on ground level to start off with. Does it still have problems if you set your house on a high level and not ground level at start? I've never used the 'remove floor' option for my basements so cannot comment on that, maybe something is coming in a new pack that has affected it perhaps because Patches tend to get us ready for upcoming Packs anyway.
It can't be easy for Maxis to sort this out but I, myself, am willing to give up a couple of basement levels to get my Sims swimming in Brindleton Bay and the other worlds.
Both would be better though and I sympathise.
