How do i get more VARIETY!?

[Darkdemon501 0]

  Okay i downloaded a pencil pack and like 30 individual mostly ploppable and growable, and i am getting the same building clustered together everywhere and its really unrealistic..

Any ideas? is their any easy fix or tips for me?? Thanks

[joshriddle 29]

Oh, to me none except remove the pencil towers. There isn't much you can do about it, excpet for bulldoze the ones you don't want.

[Darkdemon501 0]

if i remove the pencil pack will it glitch/ruin any of my city? I'm happy with it now i just want more variety in the future

Btw: Awesome quote that is what's happening to America 

[joshriddle 29]

Originally posted by: Darkdemon501

Btw: Awesome quote that is what's happening to America quote>

Thanks! I know it is sad.

It can. If the pencil towers are in your city and then you remove them then the pencil towers will show up as giant brown packages tied with string. So if you don't wanna go around destroying a bunch of boxes what you can do is remove some of the files out of the Pencil tower folder. That will take some out of the game, therefore making them grow less. But that will cause some boxes, just not so many. Just go around and destroy the boxes that is unless you want the gift box tower in town.

[tkuelker 2]

Download more buildings!

[wwetom1 831]

Exactly what I was gonna say^ More downloaded buildings = more variety.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

Bixels buildings are notorious for popping up a lot, simply due to their density (large population over a small lot). That isn't really his fault, but the game likes to fit as many people on to a lot as possible, demand permitting.

How do you fix this? Well, you give the game more options by downloading more, preferably of similar lot sizes. If you think 30 downloads is a lot, I have 5.5GB of plugins which, if I left them uncompressed, would be over 20,000 files (Lot files, model files, desc files etc).

So, unless you only have limited amounts of HD space, go make friends with the STEX search and have fun.

[Darkdemon501 0]

Geez ^ lots of stuff... okay thanks.. Btw i didn't listen and i deleted the pencil pack and another cobb building that showed up alot and it didn't do anything they just turned into different buildings.

[Livin in Sim 83]

Welcome to Simtropolis.

Originally posted by: joshriddle

Originally posted by: Darkdemon501

Btw: Awesome quote that is what's happening to America quote>

Thanks! I know it is sad.

It can. If the pencil towers are in your city and then you remove them then the pencil towers will show up as giant brown packages tied with string. So if you don't wanna go around destroying a bunch of boxes what you can do is remove some of the files out of the Pencil tower folder. That will take some out of the game, therefore making them grow less. But that will cause some boxes, just not so many. Just go around and destroy the boxes that is unless you want the gift box tower in town.

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A few thoughts about this; it is not a good idea to remove plugins especially  model files (using the file extension SC4MODEL file or packed together in a DAT file) unless you first bulldoze all the lots in your city.  If you miss a lot, you will get the message, "Missing plugin" and a number, and your game may crash.  Sometimes, the designer will make a building a prop, and then it will show up as a brown box if you are missing the prop file.  You may, however, remove lots from the plugin folder, which use the extension SC4LOT file--just be sure to bulldoze beforehand and don't remove them all or nothing will grow.  Sometimes if a particular plugin is "over growing" you can look to see if there is more than one lot in the file, and remove some of them.  I'm doubtful that is the case with the pencil towers, tho, because as Todd says, it's a small lot with high occupancy.  I think bixel did do quite a few different pencil towers.  Do you have the newer ones?  It's possible they will be less likely to do this if they were lotted using the adjusted occupancy Filling Degree/Growth Stage ratio with the new SC4PIM.

[Darkdemon501 0]

 Idk how do change all those settings. But all i know is i deleted like the pencil pack and a building and they just turned into different buildings but took the game a lil longer to load..

I don't wanna make a new thread but is there a ploppable Enron, World Com, and Bernard Maddoff lipstick buildings in here? I want those infamous buildings..

[Livin in Sim 83]

Originally posted by: Darkdemon501

 Idk how do change all those settings. But all i know is i deleted like the pencil pack and a building and they just turned into different buildings but took the game a lil longer to load. quote>

No worries...you should be fine as long as you bulldozed the lots in the game before removing the pencil tower pack files from your plugin folder.

[TowerDude 2,186]

When i first started to download pencil packs i also had the same problem as you, luckilly for me I<3chinese architecture. so that means i downloaded all HKBAT's and pencil towers available, and it worked i have a great HK,china style tower variety. but i think that if you want to change architectural style in your city you must have a lot of building. hope it help