A can of worms, and how I have opened it.

[strangetomato]

Thank you for all your helpful suggestions on my last post about the Summerdreams lot. It turns out that the problem is indeed that the lot slopes downward to the back and is, in fact, far below the water table. And even though Orikes mentioned something about the actual water showing up if you moved the lot, that wasn't enough to stop me from trying it for myself, resulting in the same flooding. Thus a minor irritation became a huge problem. Go me.

So I dug deep and found some building skills I didn't even know I had and successfully modified the terrain, even the part that was under the house, leaving all but the very edge of the lot above water. Now I'm stuck. Is there any way to modify the very edge of the lot? Is "flatten lot" my only hope? I've done so much decorating to the Summerdream house, I really want to salvage what I have rather than start over (I just flat out refuse to start over, actually, so my other option is to creatively disguise the edge of the lot with more trees and brick walls and maybe more height).

My final question is, who designed this lot and why on Earth did they think it was a good idea to create such a slope when the house was not on a hill of any sort? Argh!

ETA: Yeah, so flattening the lot does nothing. Maybe I'll check into the lot adjuster and see if that offers any hope.

ETA2: The lot adjuster did the trick! ^_^

Comments

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

...Sorry, I didn't see your edit until just now. :P

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Haha. No problem. Great minds think alike? :P

The lot adjuster crossed my mind before, but it's more than a little intimidating, so I didn't really consider it until it was a my last and only hope. I've gone this far, so it's hard to turn back now. I'll take my chances.

But first, a backup is in order...

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

I agree, it is a little intimidating, which is why I never got around to trying it out, either (I sort of wanted to make a custom terrain with smaller areas between roads than what you get with SC4). If you just backup it should be okay, though. Backups are good.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm doing it right now, and wonder of wonders... it appears to be working! All I did was set the properties to keep elevation as it is (my fixed version) and then allow the edges to align with the neighborhood. I'm still entering the lot to see the final results, but it seems to have worked from the neighborhood view! :D

Now I'm thinking aout other Maxis lots that could use a little extra space. I might have to do some fiddling around later.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :D