80s and 90s Obsessed Simmer

after working so hard for the past week, my whole system crashed completely...

after three days of troubleshooting and reworking game code the sims 2 is ALIVE!

My troubles have been saved by Slig they had flatten the 3 og maps and added more roads. 

Link to Fixed Maps:

So for my SimCity uberhood i chose to set it up in 3 parts the mountains will be where the farmlands will be. It will have one major highway like Strangetown, but i think for terrain i want to use @criquette-was-here’s dirt terrain on MTS. for some reason it doesnt work with rual roads or curious b roads so ill have to figure it out. 

The main urban area will be flat. I can alway alter it in the sims 2 but for now i just wanna focus on setting up roads. That will be lush, mainly because i dont like the whole map straight up cement. I’d rather use some effects to blend it.

My coastline will be where most of the apartment/condos will be. This will be about as heavly populated as the urban area but have more rich families and neighborhoods in it.

Issues Ive run into:

So I have this plan for an Uberhood and its... a lot. What I want to do is of course connect all the neighborhoods into one, but add a variety of subhoods to match under the banner of SimCity. Where I grew up there was an urban landscape, a beach, farmland and national parks. I think it would be cool to intergrate that with the premade towns of the sims 2. 

The main hood will be my version of SimCity. I will use a lot of @criquette-was-here @lowedeus for the hood decor and effects. For now this all I have planned out entirely, I know every other town will be subhoods, but I’m tempted to change their maps and even combine some (like pleasantveiw and bluewater village)

So I’ve been playing the sims 2 for a long time and as windows has updated, my shortcut icon for the game looked more and more out of place. Recently I came across a thread on reddit by  u/LuqiRN where they made a HQ .ico in two versions. I use this on @lazyduchess Sims2RPC shortcut since its meant to replace the normal one anyway. YOU NEED TO EXTRACT THE ICON YOU WANT AND PLACE IT WHERE YOUR COMPUTER CAN FIND IT.

How to change Shortcut icons on Windows 10:

1.) Right click on your shortcut and click on the Properties tab.

2.) Click the Shortcut header.

3.) At the bottom you should see the Change Icon button and click it.

4.) A new window should open asking you select a new .ico image, instead click Browse and navigate to where you placed the new .ico image. For me I keep it in my Sims 2 Tools folder with lot adjuster and all that. 

5.) After that hit Apply and OK. It should have switched over.

This is their link to all their old downloads I found. its SFS and here for your personal use. 

Curious B Link:

Recently I’ve gotten more into finding 1t2, 3t2, 4t2 and Mt2 conversions for my uberhood rather then hunting down new things of clutter. This link is to a Live Journal where someone has found and organized all these items (esepecially my kryptonite clutter 😅)

Personally I don’t use all these but I reposted it here to make it easy to find.

SimsFileShare links to @simbology Mods from:

ancienthighway

christianlov

darkwolfjr

jase439

jenflower

jordi

lizzlove

theo

tunaisafish

Here is the Sims Store items as well as PDF files of the Prima Guides. These are originally by @naterxandersims but I compressed them and posted them to to SimFileShare as an alternate link. (if you dont want to use Mediafire) 

Links to SimsFileShare:

Sims 2 Store