build week #3: fun with the lot adjuster

Did anyone ever try this before?

This is my campus pub, a 3x1 lot, overlapping my new campus parking lot, which is a 5x4 lot. Both lots are fully functional where they stand, and don't conflict with the other.

What I did was place an ordinary lot, 2 units wide by 4 deep, next to my campus pub. I built on it just a little, because that's a prerequisite for using the Lot Adjuster. It won't let you change a lot that hasn't been built on yet.

I exited the game and opened up Lot Adjuster. I popped the left side out 3 units.

And that's all! lol!

So I went back into the game, and the important part is this: do not move your lots! If you move your lots, the game won't let you put them back together like this again.

I had only one nuisance with the road not showing up. Normally, I'd just plop the lot somewhere else to get the appropriate roads to show up, but since this one can't be moved, that wasn't an option.

So I found these matching road tiles. They match well enough anyway. It's not exact, but you'd have to be an anal-retentive Virgo like me to even notice the very slight color difference, lol!

Also you might notice a little bit of fuzziness on the floor tiles in front of the pub. This is caused by the pub floors bleeding into the lack of floors here on the parking lot. So I just matched some sidewalk tiles in front of the pub to be just the way they are from the actual pub lot. That stops them from going fuzzy as you move around the lot.

The campus pub still plays perfectly well. Here's a view from the campus pub lot, with the parking lot in the background. There was a little bit of the fuzzy floor tiles bleeding over from the parking lot, so I just matched them on the pub side, and they don't cause me any trouble anymore.

This is from the parking lot view again. Of course, I had to add a bus stop to it ;)

And here is a finished view of the parking lot. I made sure to mostly fence off the area where the pub still exists, because I imagine a silly Sim would love to walk right through it. Not that it would really be a big deal. They'd just walk through it like it wasn't there.

The Lot Adjuster also has options now for moving a lot completely away from the road entirely, and I think that might be my next project to try. But for now, this is a fun way to make use of that bothersome empty space behind smaller lots.

If only I had remembered that you can't zone the lot to community if you want your cars to stick, lol! Remember that on my behalf, so you don't have to place all those cars twice! ;)

The road tiles I used are linked above, and you can find the newspaper boxes, and yellow parking blocks from Retail Sims. (My new favorite place, for sure!)

And as always, BACK UP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD before trying any of these new tricks. And remember, this is totally not a tutorial, but just something I tried once, lol! Have fun! :)