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"Nancy Scott" <nanschellscott@sprintmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Madame Mimi" <swingles@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:8DsSe.21521$FA3.16421@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > So, did it work or not? It cannot be the neighbourhood manager because I
> > have taken a neighbourhood folder and copied it, renamed it and the
files
> > within it and had it be available at a new number.
> >
> > Madame Mim (on her fathers PC)
> >
> >
> > "Nancy Scott" <nanschellscott@sprintmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:UXhSe.6444$FW1.6003@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> >>
> >> "Jeanie" <taureanmoon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:0T1Se.304820$x96.132239@attbi_s72...
> >> > Nancy Scott wrote:
> >> >> "Jeanie" <taureanmoon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:rzYRe.323361$xm3.207329@attbi_s21...
> >> >>
> >> >>>Nancy Scott wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>I am whiling away the weeks until nightlife arrives and I reinstall
> >> >>>>by
> >> >>>>organizing my downloads including some that I had never installed
for
> >> >>>>various reasons. One thing that I am trying to install is Madame
> > Min's
> >> >>>>Pleasant Valley. Since it was labeled N001, I assumed it would
> > replace
> >> >>>>Pleasantview which I had been actively playing and hadn't tried it
> >> >>>>out
> >> >>>>before. I was right that when I put it in the neighborhoods section
> >> >>>>it
> >> >>>>seems to have wiped out Pleasantview, but nothing appears in its
> > place.
> >> >>>>Just putting it in seems to have worked for my own custom
> > neighborhoods,
> >> >>>>but the are N004 and N005. Can someone tell me what I am doing
wrong
> >> >>>>and how to correct it?
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Neighborhood maps don't go in the neighborhood folder. That's where
> > you
> >> >>>have your saved games. Instead, put them into the SC4Terrains
folder.
> >> >>>Then, when you are ready to start another custom neighborhood, the
new
> >> >>>template should show up as one of your choices to build in.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Jeanie
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Isn't that just for new terrains though not neighborhoods? When I
> >> >> reinstalled my own custom neighborhood I just put it in the
> > neighborhoods
> >> >> folder and it seemed to work just fine. I've never tried to put it
a
> >> >> custom terrain, although I have downloaded and saved a couple of
them.
> > I
> >> >> am fairly clueless sometimes and don't have Sim City 4000 (still
> > playing
> >> >> 2000 occasionally). New terrains don't go to downloads but to the
> >> >> terrain folder? Sometimes I miss Pong....
> >> >>
> >> >> Nan Scott
> >> > If you are trying to install an entire neighborhood with houses and
> >> > sims
> >> > and the whole bit, it won't work simply by putting the folder in the
> >> > neighborhoods folder. You also have to include the file called
> >> > NeighborhoodManager.package. You already have one in there that
> > includes
> >> > information about the neighborhoods you have been playing, so if you
> >> > replace it with Mim's file, you will lose everything you've done in
> >> > your
> >> > game. I think! At least, it worked that way for me when I tried to
> >> > replay a neighborhood I'd saved on a CD. I also saved the
> >> > NeighborhoodManager.package file and when I put that in there, it
> >> > overwrote the one I already had and none of the other neighborhoods
> >> > were
> >> > the same again.
> >> >
> >> > Jeanie
> >>
> >> Thanks! I see what you are saying now. I did finally figure out my
> > problem
> >> though, it was much simpler than it should have been. I had created
> >> subfiles in the subfiles in N001, that doesn't matter in downloads, it
> > does
> >> there. Oh well, at least, as my mother used to say, I don't have to
> >> worry
> >> about premature senility any more.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> It did and it is a delightful neighborhood. I'm going to be playing it
> instead of Pleasantview until Nightlife appears and then reinstalling it
as
> one of my permanent neighborhoods. Thank you so much for sharing! There
> is a lot of work in that. Did you build the houses too? They are very
> playable.
>
>
Thankyou. I feel so much better about those houses, which I hated building
(I hate all the houses I build). Please keep me up to date on your Ancestor
Sims Neighbourhood, because (as far as I know) you are the first person to
actually play them. It will be great for me to get the feedback on how you
think they conform to the 'real' ancestors in looks, because most of them I
had to create from scratch with the Body Builder.
MM
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