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What's Wrong With 25 Toboggan Way? Won't Convert to Apartment
Cinebar
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So I spent several hours building more apartments on the 25 Toboggan Way lot. (Tiny House/large lot). I was building them the same way Maxis built the house on that lot, I thought they would make cute one bedroom/single apartments.
First problem, I know this is due to M&G but I couldn't place stairs because if you place a wall first you can't place stairs after M&G..argh.. (question, where can I find Lordy Darcy's fix (?) for the M&G bug concerning this? I think it was Lord Darcy who fixed M&G stair placement problems. ETA: the message will say can't place stair, this is if next to a wall, you have to remove walls then place stairs.
Second, how many tiles do we leave empty above a stair case in TS2? Because the game will allow you to cover some space above the modular stairs and the other ones, (just like the Maxis lot) but if you cover above the stairs for second floor etc., (not sure how many spaces overhead it needs) the lot will say Invalid apartment on lot. Argh. So, I discovered this is a problem with TS2 allowing to place one too many tile or carpet or whatever over the stairwell. This is possible even without move objects on..so how many spaces above stairs are needed empty before it will throw such an error?
Third, after I was able (I just removed all tile above the staircase and left a big gapping hole in the floor) it converted but the residential mailbox would not convert to the apartment mailbox. Argh.
I searched my downloads and removed the 'buyable mailbox' thinking it may interfere with the Maxis mailbox converting but nothing I do will convert the residential mailbox to the apartment mailbox.
It says I have apartments for rent, and has the icon overhead but when you enter the lot, the mailbox has not changed.
Btw, once you level the pond on that lot, the lot is still not level and that was another problem when building second floors. I had to redig pond, then level it again to make it level out so the grid would not be so low I couldn't place furniture. What a buggy lot!
First problem, I know this is due to M&G but I couldn't place stairs because if you place a wall first you can't place stairs after M&G..argh.. (question, where can I find Lordy Darcy's fix (?) for the M&G bug concerning this? I think it was Lord Darcy who fixed M&G stair placement problems. ETA: the message will say can't place stair, this is if next to a wall, you have to remove walls then place stairs.
Second, how many tiles do we leave empty above a stair case in TS2? Because the game will allow you to cover some space above the modular stairs and the other ones, (just like the Maxis lot) but if you cover above the stairs for second floor etc., (not sure how many spaces overhead it needs) the lot will say Invalid apartment on lot. Argh. So, I discovered this is a problem with TS2 allowing to place one too many tile or carpet or whatever over the stairwell. This is possible even without move objects on..so how many spaces above stairs are needed empty before it will throw such an error?
Third, after I was able (I just removed all tile above the staircase and left a big gapping hole in the floor) it converted but the residential mailbox would not convert to the apartment mailbox. Argh.
I searched my downloads and removed the 'buyable mailbox' thinking it may interfere with the Maxis mailbox converting but nothing I do will convert the residential mailbox to the apartment mailbox.
It says I have apartments for rent, and has the icon overhead but when you enter the lot, the mailbox has not changed.
Btw, once you level the pond on that lot, the lot is still not level and that was another problem when building second floors. I had to redig pond, then level it again to make it level out so the grid would not be so low I couldn't place furniture. What a buggy lot!
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1) Removing the wall is the only way I know to get the stairs to work. I was looking for the mod you mentioned, but can't find anything anywhere. That stinks I would have liked that myself.
2) I always fill the open portion as much as I can, then delete one row of tile. That always works well for me anyway.
3) It is either your buyable mailbox, all research I have done on this says that most of them were not converted for apartment life, which messes with the mailbox. I found this, don't know if it is the one you were using or not but they all seem to have the same issue.. https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/946800-the-sims-2-apartment-life/45259317
OR you might have more then one copy in your downloads folder (they are sometimes included with lots), that will mess with it even if the version you are using is up to date, Or if you moved the mailbox while building, it will not convert.
I read about other people having modular stairs mess up the apartment transition. Especially if you were using staging or something to make a L shape. People say this is not allowed, I haven't tried to make apartments in ages, so I can only tell you what I found.
I built apartments before without any trouble converting before M&G. It is one reason I put off ever installing M&G years ago. (due to it doesn't see enough space left open above staircases which is perfectly fine if it remains a residential lot). 4 spaces for residential, six to seven spaces above stairs if you have M&G installed. That ruins lay out of design sometimes, but I did test all this last night, lol, and drove myself crazy until it finally converted. M&G seems to be the problem about spaces over stair cases and can't place modular stairs if a wall is already built.
Don't know how I'm going to solve the mailbox issue this is new and probably the buyable mailbox in my downloads/not on the lot it was a reg. Maxis one, since removing it from downloads didn't fix things for it, but made things worse since it's in German or Russian or something and I can't understand the language. It must have come in a lot I downloaded.
ETA: @Jules111, I just rechecked and yes, the one in my downloads is the bad one SEDD_BuyMailboxBV.package...I guess I try to find the AL one. thanks!!! You are awesome!!!
ETA: Found it for AL so my game will work again (I hope)!
Scroll down to download (small print) and replace the BV mailbox and other related files (see notes).
http://daydream.etowns.net/
daydream58.com
Hope everyone's mailbox/trash can problems are still being helped and thanks for the link in the first place, much appreciated. Now back to happy simming!
xo
Deedee
Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Thank you so much for posting your link I could not believe my eyes when I saw sims 1 stuff there as well as I was only thinking yesterday if I should try run it on my new second win 7 hard drive instead of it being on my old vista laptop-) Then i moved onto 2 and was delighted to see the pizza hack for community lots, then a quick look at 3 and again delighted to see a home world university as that is on my to do list.. and while I don't play 4 so much can appreciate you have stuff for that too.. I have a lot more checking through later today when I have more time but just wanted to jump in and say thank you for such a wonderful resource..
Apologies to the op for going off topic if he/she ever comes back