How do you make over the hobby lots?!? I didn’t know that was possible :O btw your builds are so awesome! :D

eulaliasims:

Hey, nonnie! There’s instructions here on MATY–the basic gist is that it involves a little mucking around in SimPE. The hobby subhood and each of the lots need to be temporarily recategorized in order to make changes and have them save.

Each hobby lot also needs to be visited before you edit it or the lots won’t work correctly, apparently. I gave my usual testing sim all the hobby cards by maxing her hobby enthusiasms with boolProp and using the add missing hobby cards option on the Batbox, then sent her to the lots.

I’m not sure how well this method has been tested, so if you want to have a go, make sure to back up your neighborhood first. As far as I know, this method should be okay, but this is TS2. I assume the hobby subhood is hidden for a reason, though whether that’s because we shouldn’t be mucking around it or just because EAxis has this thing about hidden lots being genuinely hidden, I can’t say.

Personally, I make monthly backups of Middleground as well as one before I do something weird, like making over hobby lots or that time I decided to make a bunch of vampire downtownies, so I can rollback if something goes boom.

By the by, I just went and tested one of the edited lots and everything seems to be working. 😀 Hobby maven and some townies were there and all that.