Natalie Pop

One of my favourite business tricks is to send one Sim to the community lot, then have him call up the rest of the household employees and invite them over. This way they’ll arrive with maxed motives, and when they all go back home again, only the first Sim’s motives will be changed because the others are still doing whatever they were doing when he left. Plus, if there are minors at home, there’s no bother with those annoying pop-ups warning you that the Social Worker’s spies are everywhere.

Saw this on Facebook and lol’ed

Oh, thanks a lot! I don’t mind sharing but there are so many problems with meshes and textures and this is the reason why I gave up the idea.

I can offer you a short tutorial:

Just in case you forget this exists.

You can browse the most popular ones or search for certain colors, themes, and even specific hex codes!

When you find one you like, you can download a wallpaper swatch of it and also select the specific colors it uses to look at more palettes that use those same ones.

Important!!!

For the secret lots to funtion like secret lots, there’s some special requirements that need to be fullfilled. (Taken from this tutorial)

Far East Secret Lot: Has to have a Tea Time Table

Tropical Secret Lot: Has to have a microwave, cheap dishwasher and Feel the Breeze Hammock

Mountain: Has to be built on a medium sized lot, have a residential mailbox and the cheap stereo.

Let’s begin!

Step 1: In Game

1. Create a community lot and place it in a throwaway vacation hood.

2. Make the changes you want to make, don’t forget to save.

3. Open cheat bar and type “changelotzoning secretvacationlot” without the “”.

4. The save button should now be greyed out. Exit to the vacation hood (if you just exit to the desktop right away the lot zoning might revert back to community).

5. I would place the lot in the lot catalogue and then place it down again, so that I have a copy.

5. Exit the game and open SimPe.

Step 2: SimPe

I’m unsure if SimPe looks different to people depending on what version of SimPe they have, but this is how it looks for me.

1. Open SimPe, select Tools -> Neighborhood

2. Select Neighborhood Browser…

3. In Neighborhood Browser select the Main hood that has the vacation hood attached to it it.

4. In the Options box scroll through the list and select the vacation hood. Click Open.

5. In the Resource Tree to the left you’ll find the Lot Description. Click on it.

6. Select your secret lot from the Resource List. This opens the Lot Description Editor.

7. Make sure that the Hidden box is checked. This will make your lot invisible in hood view.

8. Make sure the Lot Type is set to SecretHoliday. If you didn’t change the lot type while in game you can change it now in SimPe.

9. Save.

10. Go back into game. Have a sim visit the secret lot to make sure it spawns it’s unique NPC character.