So if you make/package a new Community Pool (for instance) after Pets or higher is in your game, that lot will ALWAYS show up at the front of your Lot Bin, despite whatever you try to cleverly renumber it to. Virtually the same as above, but with a twist: the lots will load in reverse numerical order & the date the file was created is now a deciding factor in how it's "ranked" in the bin. (Other people have used systems that include altering other digits according to price & other factors, but I haven't got that deep.yet! ) For instance, I changed the 3rd digit in the file name to 1,2,3,4,etc if the lot was a resident, park, restaurant, store,etc. This works brilliantly (yes, I have done this) & you can get as fancy as you want. To change how the lots show up in the Lot Bin, you just need to renumber them! (Backup the LotCatalog folder first if you feel better about it.) (My Documents\EA Games\Sims2\LotCatalog)īelieve it or not, this is one time Maxis used their brains the lots actually appear in the Lot Bin in numerical order! (Lot cx_00000005 will be the one right before cx_00000006, etc etc.) Exit the game & go to your LotCatalog folder. Now go into your game & write down the lots in the order they appear in your lot bin. Well, be driven insane no more! Now you have the power to get that stupid bin to group things the way YOU (not some turkey at Maxis) want! The secret? It sort of depends on what EP/SPs you have.įor Games With Nothing Higher Than The Glamour Life SPįirst get a paper & a pen. (I'll post a link to the original thread at the end of this post, but since it tends to wander a bit as threads like to do, I will post the upshot of it here in my own words first.)ĭoes it drive you nuts that that stupid Lot Bin displays stuff in a seemingly random way, with no regard to what's a residential lot, what's a park or what's a shopping mall? I will say from the get-go that this was NOT my brainchild, as much as I wish it were! It was actually proposed as a speculation by ZepherZodiac over on TJ's Simbology site & things snowballed from there. Still, lots you have packed up from a College town (like Student Unions or Libraries) will be effected, as these will show in your regular Lot Bin too!*** Colleges are a different animal & have their own Specialty Lots (like Dorms) & other rules about what can/can't be placed there. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.***Note: this is mainly only about the Lot Bin in base, shopping or downtown hoods. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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