STEX Lots Service

[Fledgeling 1]

Hello mrbisonm,

I have just learned through your lot upload of this project (I rarely wander off of my beaten track in the simtropolis forum anymore) and I think it's a splendid idea.

Anyways, I really like the German Small Houses Set , the Dutch Corner House Van Speijkstraatand, and the Dutch 9 Building Pack -all by haarlemmergold- , but all these houses are 1X1 lots. I do not use 1X1 if I can help it and I almost never see these. Is it possible to make these structures on 1X2 and 1X3 lots, respectively?

Thanks!

[City Planner 121]

Originally posted by: mrbisonm

To start off with , I took the liberty to take City Planner's last BAT and first remake the lot, the size and also the utility of. Now it is a growable, a R$$ and on a 1x2 lot. No dependencies except the .model file that you have to get from City Planner's upload.

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Very nicely done.  Im suitably impressed and now realize how much difference a good lotting can make.  When I created this BAT, I wasn't planning on releasing it and one night in a fit I decided to slap it down on a lot figuring if people liked the house they could relot it maybe.  It appears that putting it into your lot gives the house a whole different look about it.

I shall take more time in the future to lot my BAT's more responsibly and try to achieve the beauty that you accomplished with this.  Excellent job.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Fledgeling, I will keep this in mind and will come back to it later.

City Planner, Well I am pleased to see that you like it. When I first saw your BAT, I fell in love with its simplicity and beauty, but the lot was terrible. If you ever need help on lotting or want me to lot your next BAT, just pm me, I don't even want the credit. It'll be my pleasure.

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I'm back with another Nexis lot that I created some time ago and was going to upload it two weeks ago, but someone else was faster than me to upload a similar lot and therefore by not wanting to create any competition or comparison, I decided to wait until today.

This is a lot that I use in my own cities to get rid of the garbage without all that pollution and costs. Like I said in  the readme, I have no idea how these Sims get rid of all that garbage, but they do a great job , even without any smoke on the burner.....hm. So don't ask too many questions.

Stats:

Plopcost  500$

Bulldoze  80$

Maintenance 180$

Waste energy 50,000

Power produced 5,000

needs water connection to produce properly

sits on a 4x3 lot

and is extremely low on pollution, so low you can even hide it in a residential area (maybe it's the high fence) , without the Sims knowing it's there. And it also has some jobs.

So it is indeed very practical.

This is one of my first stat-tweated lots and I am proud of it....lol.

You can download it here

I wanted to have as much diversity in my cities to get rid of the garbage as possible and this without high costs and the pollution to give me a better chance to build some of my cities.

Here are 2 pictures:

Have Fun with Nexis

mrb

[patfirefghtr 160]

Mr.B you have turned into a lotting machine!!! Sweeeeeet looking stuff... I love the City Planners new lot of the cabin, that turned out really nice.......

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I was a little Lotmaking last night and I did this one, among a few others, for an industrial park that I am creating in my CJ, so I was wondering if any are interested in having this as a growable ID lot with a few jobs, and if anything should be changed like maybe the fence....etc.....It is supposed to be a storage lot for barrels waiting for the transport to pick them up.

Front view, view from the street. Right now it is on a 3x4 lot, but that can be changed. It could be bigger or smaller, just need your opinion.

....and here it is from the side.

.........waiting for your comments.

Right now I am also looking for some good BATs on the STEX that have empty lots or simply just need re-lotting. Could you help me finding these, that need it ?

mrb

[Dalton 23]

it looks good, maybe a bigger. Kinda stock yard/warehouse kind of look.

[existenz 2]

Me, I like it like it is - overcrowded etc but it may look better one more tile deeper so you can drive a forklift from the front to the back of the building. Great work as usual.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

You're both right, a little bigger, maybe a 4x4 should do the trick. I will enlargen it and come back in a few days.

[pnorrell 4]

I'm not sure if your intention is just to re-lot or fully re-mod some of these existing works but I would like to suggest the SWA Warehouse by ak47. The building is great - very useful as a ploppable to give the right look to industrial areas - but the garbage production and electricity consumption are disastrous.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Originally posted by: pnorrell I'm not sure if your intention is just to re-lot or fully re-mod some of these existing works but I would like to suggest the SWA Warehouse by ak47. The building is great - very useful as a ploppable to give the right look to industrial areas - but the garbage production and electricity consumption are disastrous.quote>

 

I will have a serious look at it and see what I can do with the garbage producing and electricity consumption. I will also maybe re-lot the whole thing, while I am at it. Do you want the growable or LM, or both?

Today I uploaded an old Nexis BAT that I did a few years ago for my CJ. It used to be in the parkmenu and just lately shadow_prophet asked for it for private use. When he told me that he tweeked the lot to become a LM with jobs, I wanted it back and offer it to you all, since this bldg has been asked for ever since I've shown it the first time in my CJ.

There are no nightlights though, since I never play in the nightmode anyways.

It sits on a 4x4 lot and can be found here to upload.

some pictures........

[pnorrell 4]

Originally posted by: mrbisonm

Originally posted by: pnorrell I'm not sure if your intention is just to re-lot or fully re-mod some of these existing works but I would like to suggest the SWA Warehouse by ak47. The building is great - very useful as a ploppable to give the right look to industrial areas - but the garbage production and electricity consumption are disastrous.quote>

 

I will have a serious look at it and see what I can do with the garbage producing and electricity consumption. I will also maybe re-lot the whole thing, while I am at it. Do you want the growable or LM, or both?

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Hey - great! I'm more interested in the ploppable but would be glad to have both...

[SC4BOY 20]

Just took a look at the Nexis Electronics Inc. I noted you said it was "an old lot" that you decided to release. I think you need to apply the lesson learned from RippleJet earlier on... It looks like me that its going to be a "Empty Lot Growable".. Just thought you should know. Nice work otherwise..

edit: hmm.. there may be a few prob's with the numbers too, but you'll no doubt find those as you go through RJ's guide..

Looks like its going to be an impressive addition when cleaned up.

[stormblade 0]

i love harleemergolds lots (the dutch ones) but almost all of them are 1x1 lots, which i doesnt work for me... can you make 1x2 or bigger lots for me? i think 2x2 and 3x3 lots, which would be like a dutch cluster of houses would be great... thanks!!!

[RippleJet 36]

Nice bat! Could become a growable CAMeLot...

Originally posted by: mrbisonm I don't know exactly how high it is, but it is surely high enough to see the whole citytile from up there......lolquote>

 

But I know (just check the model files in Reader)!

Part 1 (the lower part) is 110.4 m tall

Part 2 (the upper part) is 542.5 m tall

All in all, 653 m tall!

Originally posted by: mrbisonm Today I uploaded an old Nexis BAT that I did a few years ago for my CJ. It used to be in the parkmenu and just lately shadow_prophet asked for it for private use. When he told me that he tweeked the lot to become a LM with jobs, I wanted it back and offer it to you all, since this bldg has been asked for ever since I've shown it the first time in my CJ.

There are no nightlights though, since I never play in the nightmode anyways.

It sits on a 4x4 lot and can be found here to upload.

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Did you or shadow_prophet test it in game as well?

The building exemplar doesn't have the Occupant Type or Occupant Group properties to make it a functional landmark... these are usually left out if the modder doesn't follow SimGoober´s tutorial Making a Functional Landmark. The most important part in that is to make a growable lot first, from which you would copy certain properties in Reader to your functional landmark.

Leaving those properties out might result in the lot not appearing in the menu, the lot not getting any jobs, or the lot getting the maximum number of jobs, without anybody working there at all.

Finally, SC4BOY is abslutely correct. Even if this functional landmark wouldn't appear in the menu as a ploppable, it does belong to the in-game building family 0x4000003B. Other buildings belonging to this family are "Blue Platter Limited" (CS$$$48x32_5EuroLuxuryStore5_062B) and "Boutiques" (CS$$$44x26_5HouLuxuryStore5_05EF), which will grow on the following in-game lots (two variations of each lot):

3x3 Stage 6

2x4 Stage 7

3x2 Stage 8

2x3 Stage 8

In other words, your headquarter will appear as an invisible building on these lots. The in-game props will be visible, but the building itself will not show up.

This is of course due to the fact that your building exemplar doesn't have any building, the RKT1 is missing. The "building" as seen in the game are two props stacked on top of each other on your lot, but they are of course not available on the in-game lots that grows building family 0x4000003B.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

RippleJet, to be honest, I have no idea what you're talking about. I don't really tweak the lots because I simply do not know how it works. All I know about the LE is how to change the plopcost and name. It is shadow_prophet who gave it jobs and when I tested it ingame, it seemed to work perfectly giving me almost 5,000 $$$ CO jobs and the building of course showed up (look at the pictures) . So, I didn't see any problems. I don't know how to change what's wrong with it, so I might just take it off the STEX. That is why I don't BAT anymore, what's BATting when you cannot make the lot functional and useful....lol

Thanks for telling me how tall it is....

Thanks to you both (RJ and SC4Boy) for letting me know, I will probably take it off the STEX now and go back to my Lotting.

[SC4BOY 20]

If you'd like it to be added as  a CAM lot, I think there are folk who offered to lot it for free.. or give you a lot to use.. I forget the exact details.. check FREE CAM LOT for BUILDING and grab one for your lot.. be a shame to lose it from the public..

Just a thought

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Thanks SC4Boy, your comment is much appreciated, but I don't use CAM at all (only have tried once but never again) and I don't want my Nexisbats to become CAM bldgs neither, sorry. If someone would fix this lot as a simple Landmark with working CO jobs and make it a functional working lot, I would appreciate it most.

mrb

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stormblade, I will have a look at these lots and see what I can do.

[RippleJet 36]

Originally posted by: mrbisonm I don't want my Nexisbats to become CAM bldgs neither, sorry.quote>

 

Why so negative if people want to use your bats?

Originally posted by: mrbisonm If someone would fix this lot as a simple Landmark with working CO jobs and make it a functional working lot, I would appreciate it most.

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There is only one way of doing that with the tools Maxis provided, and that is by following SimGoober's tutorial "Making a Functional Landmark Lot".

The skill needed for following that tutorial is certainly something you have:

1. You need to use Plugin Manager to make one growable lot and one landmark lot.

2. Then you need to use Reader to delete certain properties and copy other properties.

3. Finally, use LotEditor to finish the now functional landmark lot.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

 Thanks for the info RippleJet.

shadow_prophet is looking into it at this moment and hopefully he will be able to repair it and make it functional. I am no good, and I mean really no good, with tweaking lots and using the Plugin Manager and other modprograms etc. Also I don't really have the time to learn how to use them in the first place. Too darn busy irl.

The reason for not wanting my bats to be used for CAM is simply that I don't want bother to make them so ( and not knowing how to) and then be responable again if they don't work etc. It's just a hassle that is timeconsuming. If YOU however want to make a camlot out of, well do it so and go ahead, I'll give you the permission and when uploading it somewhere or anywhere, just make sure to mention that YOU  made a Camlot out of it and not me.... Thanks for understanding, it's got nothing to do with being negative, it's just I don't want to bother. Besides I don't play with the CAM, had some major problems with it in the beginning and I just like life when it is not complicated anymore, mostly after almost 40 years of running three successful buissnesses irl that brought me a lot of complications. So, if you like to make a CAM lot with it, don't hesitate. All my BATs and Lots are free of use for whatever.

I might later in this year, when I slow down irl a bit, start learning how to use these modifying programs to tweak the stats of the lots and then start BATting again. I loved it years ago, but for the moment I will continue to do some lots once in awhile.

mrbisonm

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I downloaded the newly uploaded LBT Ford dealership and since I didn't want to add another heavyweight propack to my plugins, which is already too heavy, but while liking very much the BATbuilding, I made a new lot and an Autoparts shop out of it.

Here are some pics:

Unfortunatley I won't be uploading it to the STEX yet, but give it at least a month or so time for the LBT-team BAT to have its glory. Maybe then if I have enough demands for it.

I also had a look at some of the Batlots that stormblade last demanded and I think I will be able to do something with them later.

Here I dug out another of my three to four year old BATs , and probably put it on the Stex, anyone interested? These are two park lots, which represent an old vikingshipwreck, one for a town or city as a archeological touristic site and another one that I used in my CJ *Lavender* long time ago, when the first settlers arrived in a region by sea. The last one I used to seed it with some mayortrees and bush right anywhere in the country.

......and finally and last I have been working on the barrelstoragelot (described earlier on this page) and will be finished by the beginning of next week. I made a final 4x4 growable IM lot out of it.

Have a nice weekend

mrbisonm

[Dalton 23]

Love the new dealership....

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

hmmmm, I think I have some things that are just what you are looking for; A+ BATs with F- lots. I just need to take the pictures and Ill show them to ya'. Happy loting!

[existenz 2]

I like the dealership especially with the two parts to it i.e. service/parts and showroom and will download it when and if you release it. Nice work mrbisonm. I also like the viking ship park.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I just uploaded the Viking shipwreck Citypark after having tested for quite awhile. It is available here:  https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=19378

Have fun with it.

mrbisonm

[Almighty Nienaber 3]

sweet! ive been looking for one of these.

on Omaha, Nebraska there are two building i would like you to make.

there is the Woodmen building, and the One Natinol Bank Building.

i would appriciate it if you could make one.

thanks

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Originally posted by: Almighty Nienaber

there is the Woodmen building, and the One Natinol Bank Building.

i would appriciate it if you could make one.

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I don't think that you quite understand this thread, I don't do any BATS on demand but different lots only. Sorry.

[Almighty Nienaber 3]

oh, i was told diffrent. sorry

[Godzillaman 21]

Hello mrbisonm, do you think you could redo the old Toronto buildings from the sc4 exchange? I like the BATs but the lots are crap. Think you could do it?

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Godzillaman, send me the link to this bldg please and I will have a look.

mrb

[Godzillaman 21]

http://simcity.ea.com/exchange/lots/results.php?search_avatar_id=10595654 It's actually multiple buildings......I hope you don't mind that fact...