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DEDWD Large School Set  1.02

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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.

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ten1902
wow 1st view...oh yeah btw wow what a great idea...too bad the aiport upgrade wont work but this is exactly what the education system is missing...great work

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magpieshooter
Excellent. All Aussies need this as the inbuit schools are un realistic and barely any schools in Down Under are any more than twostoreys.

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lakeyboy
This is cool. It's a pity you couldn't let them grow in stages like the airports but that doesn't matter. Some people including me would want the Stage 3 one straight away. 10/10

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aldara6166
These are truely awesome! I was working in LE to create something similar for my own personal use, but now I don't have to! 10/10

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jmyers2043
The buildings are well done and the lots are creative. I like the upgrade path. I had dome something similar to this with the lot editor using Maxis buildings which I will now ditch. I'm going to bump up the bus coverage costs a bit more for my game.

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rhino120
Thanks for these! Any added variety to the education system is always a plus and these look good to boot!

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bltsandwich
it's about time we had a decent school set. other than simgoober's schools, i hadn't really seen a decent looking one. the maxis schools are awful! 10/10!

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Vlakhaas
The long cane did a snake dance in the expert hand of Master Bates and a solid stream of tears gushed down the cheeks of Willy Wanka. This was rural Australia and spitting at a teacher is a serious offence ... Willy realised that this was not the inner city and shrieked as the next blow connected.

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