Yeah, I think so (I say I think so because I don't remember there being actual water, but it's been a while since I played Veronaville). The last time I played it, months ago, I flattened most of the lot and put in a long driveway as I didn't really want to work with all the unique "features" that lot had going on for a change. I think I left the right side and the lowest part of the hill alone, but I used CFE to flatten the rest of the house to the level of the backyard square/courtyard thing they've got going on. I also might have moved the house over a tile or two. CFE was a pretty tedious way to do it though--there might be an easier way, perhaps you could flatten the whole lot with the lot adjuster?

I have a question:

Is there a list or thread on random neighborhood scenarios (as opposed to just lists of scenarios for a single sim or household)?

Hi everyone! I have a quick question about when you have a male sim woohooing with a female sim on his lot. If I made the female sim selectable just for the woohoo (I have ACR with a risky percentage of 20%), made her unselectable and save, is there a chance that the female sim might be pregnant when I go back to play her on her lot? Or is it not possible? I've been doing this but haven't had a sim get pregnant yet. Wondering if I'm wasting my time.

I tried it with ACR once using the method you described and got an error message as soon as the female sim left the lot because the pregnancy controller kept coming up as error until I deleted it. Though I also have a Chris Hatch mod that seems to allow 'try for baby' options to work with non-playable sims. After the female sim went home I loaded her lot and she was indeed pregnant and everything progressed as normal.

Might as well try and get a sim pregnant on purpose just to see if it does work. From what I know it's not going to corrupt your game just to try.

@Phantomknight
I tried using the in-game lot flattening tool to flatten the thing, but it somehow keeps the hole in the front, I don't know about the others though...
What do you mean by random neighborhood scenarios? Like, the Monty-Capp feud, or some random event that affects the entire neighborhood?
@Finaleia
I believe yes, they should stay pregnant IF she gets pregnant. I even remember this working with a townie, but my memory may serve me wrong...

No, it won't work. It's because the pregnancy controller only exists on the pregnant Sim's home lot. This is why, for instance, pregnancies don't proceed on community or vacation lots. If you do the above and a pregnancy happens, you'll just get a borked pregnancy controller on the lot, causing errors like BigSimsFan described. You can clear the borked controller, but you still won't have a pregnancy.

What I'd do is have your Sims do the deed and roll a die/use a random number generator to "decide" if a pregnancy happens. If it does, then when you play her home lot, knock her up with the guy Sim's DNA, using one of the many modded objects that will allow you to do that. (Sim Blender, Sim Manipulator, InSimenator, even the Tombstone of Life & Death.)

Thank you both! I was thinking I read that somewhere, but needed to have it clarified for me. I'm going to just roll for the chance.

about making another lot's resident pregnant, some ways to check::
-insimenator hack, or Sim Manipulator or Sim Blender. all 3 hacks can check/modify pregnancy status or make pregnant if not already.
-Tombstone of L & D spawn object. it also can cause/manipulate pregnancies.
-any WooHoo object. if the "Try For Baby" social is absent in pie menu, she is probably pregnant.
-wait for the "bump". the belly of pregnant sims grow about 25 sim hours after conception; and again around 50 sim hours.
-check for symptoms. 1st day pregnant sims at times vomit.

Maybe you only get errors with townies? Because I've definitely used the 'make selectable' method with playables. That's how my Leod McGreggor was (finally) able to have kids--he was seeing uni playable Sarah Love and she was able to get pregnant while selectable on his lot. I didn't have any problems with the pregnancy on either of their lots and I was able to have her give birth on Leod's lot while she was selectable awhile later. So Idk what's going on there.

@sugoisama, did you use the constrain floor elevation cheat before you flattened the lot? I used that when I renovated. I'll double check my game tonight and make sure the hole is in fact gone.

And by random scenarios, I mean just a list of events you can roll to implement in the game later. Like, roll a 5 and that means a plague should sweep through town next rotation, but roll a 10 and some politician running for office donates a park or a statue to the town, etc. Though I guess family feuds could be on the list, too. A list of simming ideas, basically, for when you get stuck or to introduce randomness into your hood.

I'm sure I've seen such lists, PhantomKnight, but I don't know specifically where. If you check the neighborhood-level challenges, such as Test of Time, Prosperity, and Build a City, though, you should be able to find some.

Good idea, Peni! Thanks!

With certain mods, yes. I can do with inTeen.

I don't use inteen, but I do have insim. That's how I do it. I tried with sim manipulator, but couldn't get it to work. The trick with insim is to make her selectable a minute or two before you try to impregnate her. That gives it enough time to do whatever magic it does.

Johnny Utah currently has two women pregnant this way. I invite them over every day to let their pregnancies advance. They don't have to be selectable then, but they do have to be on the lot. I'm going to let them give birth and then he will get get custody of the children.

Ah, inspiredzone, that makes sense, then--I have ACR and inTeen, so that would explain how I was able to do it if it wasn't ACR.

Sometimes I still get confused about the in-game clothing. There's that fluffy GL fur coat I thought was outerwear, only to be reminded that it was formal when one of my townie guests showed up in for it in a summer wedding. Another townie guest showed up in a wedding dress when she wasn't the bride (although she was the groom's former lover), and a random walkby in a pirate outfit invaded the party to grab some food before leaving, but that last part's not related. Maybe.

Question: I have this default replacement for an AF hat hair that isn't a hat, but it's apparently still flagged as a hat because she takes it off when changing clothing and gets into another hairstyle. I'm not sure what to edit; it's categorized for all outfits and the flag is 0 (unhidden, townie-enabled), not 2 (hat). Now that I think about it, the Diva has the same problem, except that her DR hair completely disappears whenever she changes clothes, though everyone else with the same hairstyle doesn't have that issue. Hmm...

I'm having a problem with apartments in Belladonna Cove. When I loaded Jessica Peterson's trailer park, she went to her neighbors' trailers to introduce herself, but when she went inside two of those, everything in them was dark, the furniture was black and so was Jessica and the neighbors. I checked another lots, they have the same issue. Deleting the lot, then putting it back seems to solve it. But what could be causing it?

I saw this post by BigSimsFan of Jessa's video and gave it a try on the PV townies. I do like the townies, but some could stand to do with a bit of minor plastic surgery and some of them in their taste in clothing... ick.

So I'm likin how BS remade townies are comin out so thought I'd see bout makin them perm replacements. Where would I find the originals? And is it as easy as just makin the body shop sim, then a CAS sim (that if read correctly sounds funny ... create a sim sim...lol.. but anyways), and then puttin the newly created sims file in place of the original? Would this also work with premade uni students? And what 'bout ...err I think it's Martin Reuben's borked face? I do argon's fixes.

Argon's fixes won't have any effect on sims that are already in the game. To fix Reuben's face, use your favorite method of plastic surgery to make some small change to his face. It doesn't have to be a big change. Then use the DNA fixer in my signature to make the surgery permanent/genetic.

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I thought NPC's had to be selectable/playable for pregnancy to advance.

that's why they have to be on the lot :3 They will come over, hang out a bit, pop a tummy or give birth, and leave.

I thought of it more as a roadside ditch than a moat. In Veronaville (my original 'hood -- the one I've been playing since I first started up the game) towards the end of my first year of playing I added a more direct route between the house and the street by building steps that lead down from the foundation into the bottom of the ditch and a concrete path leading back up to the street. Pictures (from 2013) below (spoilered).


The Summerdreams and their visitors are quite happy to use my new front entrance (the second picture shows Bottom running to show her mum her wonderful report card), but going down into the bottom (pun unintended) of the ditch only to climb back out again, seems rather inelegant and a waste of effort. So my silly question today is: would it be possible to build a simple bridge across the ditch/moat? As I recall the top of the foundation of the house is level with the road and sidewalk. Maxis must have built the foundation on levelled ground four clicks lower than street level.

By chance the Summerdreams are now due to be played in my very loose rotations, so I have the opportunity to build them a bridge now if it is possible.

I hate that moat. I believe you can do a bridge with CFE.

I have an old neighborhood I've been digging around in trying to get rid of corruption and such. It has a total of 300 Sims and a good lot of them are duplicates? How on earth did that happen and what can I do to fix it? Can I fix it? Is there some way to merge those files to create a single Sim from them?

I would extract and clone all the sims that you want to save.

I was thinkin more of doin to him and the other uni students with the the body shop change and using them as perm replacements.

I just wasn't sure if in doin that it would correct his borked face.

Shoot, I was afraid that might be the only solution. This family has alien offspring as well as human and they'd end up losing their genetics. And they have so many custom paintings and career rewards.