Jump to content

DEDWD Large School Set  1.02

   (37 Reviews)

2 Screenshots

About This File

Welcome to deadwoods' Large School Set. A series of school lots to grow as your rural areas grow into cities. There are three lots in the setwith increasing student capacities that you "upgrade" to as you need to.

I had originally intended to make the upgrades work like the Maxis airports, but the upgrade mechanism is built into the game. Instead, I have created three lots of the same size (7x6) all based around some anchor buildings (a small schoolhouse, a gym and toilet block). Each of the three stages have different lot layouts and student capacities. All three lots have 4x the coverage of the small elementary school. All three lots also provide education for both elementary (primary or K-6) and high (secondary or 7-12) students.

The stages are:

  • Stage 1 - Designed for a rural community with a small school and some paddocks where students can learn animal and farming skills. This has a capacity for 750 students.
  • Stage 2 - Designed for a small-medium town or a growing suburb. The main buildings are the same, but the increased capacity has been filled by portable classrooms (portables). A soccer field has been added for sport and a better carpark introduced. This has a capacity for 1500 students.
  • Stage 3 - Designed for large town or medium/high density suburb. A large 28-classroom building has been added for increased capacity (now 3000 students). This school runs night Adult Education classes and so also helps the education level of adults.

These lots do not automatically upgrade. When you find one starting to reach capacity, you should bulldoze it and plop the next stage lot. You may need to tweak the funding settings to get the new school equivalent to the previous one. The bulldoze costs for the Stage1 and Stage2 schools is zero. The plop cost of the Stage2 and Stage3 schools is lower than you would expect as it's an incremental cost.

These lots are BSC Tracking Enabled (BTE) which means they may contribute to Reward Chains.

Please see the readme for all technical details and dependencies.

Thanks to the BSC for assistance with development and testing of these lots.

  • Like 7
  • Thanks 1



User Feedback



Recommended Comments

A nice progressive style of building. The only way it could be improved is if the Stage 1 buildings were Victorian, new Stage 2 built in the 1960's, and new Stage 3 built in the present day, (like quite a lot of schools in my area) but this is still one of the best schools on the STEX.

Share this comment


Link to comment
Share on other sites
If you donwload this lot and download the DEDWD Mega prop pack, you will still need to download the shools prop pack for the DEDWD_ShoolSet_commonfiles.dat file that contains the query. I'm travelling and can't add this file to this download. Sorry.

Share this comment


Link to comment
Share on other sites
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love your schools--now I can build a city without going completely anal with my residential layouts!

Share this comment


Link to comment
Share on other sites

I really like this LOT. It has served my smaller, more rural cities well. However, with the street lights not functioning properly in stage 2 and 3, I have no other option than to go with another school.

It is only in stage 2 and 3 that I am getting the brown boxes for the street lights. I have a fully patched SC4 1.1.640.0. I thought that maybe they would show up if I reached max capacity before upgrading but that didn't do it. I have all listed dependencies in the readme file as well as all of the dependencies under DEDWD dependency list. I have re-installed all the dependencies, the lot, and even a fresh install for the game and yet no luck.

Once this is figured out, my sims will be able to get educated at this wonderful lot yet again.

Share this comment


Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sign In or register to comment...

To comment in reply, you must be a community member

Sign In  

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now

Create an Account  

Sign up to join our friendly community. It's easy!  

Register a New Account

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    No registered users viewing this page.

×

Thank You for the Continued Support!

Simtropolis depends on donations to fund site maintenance costs.
Without your support, we just would not be in our 24th year online!  You really help make this a great community. *:thumb:

But we still need your support to stay online. If you're able to, please consider a donation to help us stay up and running. This helps sustain a platform where we can share our community creations for years to come.

Make a Donation, Get a Gift!

Expand your city with the best from the Simtropolis Exchange.
Make a Donation and get one or all three discs today!

STEX Collections

By way of a "Thank You" gift, we'd like to send you our STEX Collector's DVD. It's some of the best buildings, lots, maps and mods collected for you over the years. Check out the STEX Collections for more info.

Each donation helps keep Simtropolis online, open and free!

Thank you for reading and enjoy the site!

More About STEX Collections