Very good question, anon! I’m actually rather bad at filling up custom hoods. :3 Out of all my custom hoods, Sycamore Cove is the most complete, you could say? Even though it’s far from being full, as you can see. XD I tend to focus on one area at a time to give the illusion of having a crowded, densely populated urban hood. I’m starting to spread out into the more “suburban” areas, but I still have a long way to go before I even come close to filling the terrain. Hood deco is a LIFESAVER when it comes to making your hood look nice and full without having to actually build things. 😀 I didn’t even have to plunk down the trees – voleste included a decorated version of the neighborhood for download. 😀 

As for filling it with Sims, it all depends on your play style. I like to play in rounds, so starting off with 3-5 households is usually sufficient, especially since they’ll marry off and have kids, and before you know it you’ll have a ton of active households. 🙂 I’ve also been itching to try a BaCC (although I haven’t decided what rule set to follow/how strict to be with it). But generally most BaCCs have rules for how many families you should start with and when you can start “unlocking”/building community lots, etc. It might be nice to have some sort of guidelines to follow while you’re getting your new hood off the ground instead of being like me and building 800 community lots before completing a single round of gameplay. 

It will never look as good as, say, speakinginsimlish‘s stunning custom hood. But a girl can dream, eh? 😀

Hi hi anon! That would be the magic of hood deco. 😀 The only actual lot in the picture is the one I was playing – the skating rink. The other buildings are conversions of assorted TS3 rabbit holes and Late Night deco buildings by Delonariel and CuriousB. I also have this mod which allows hood deco to be placed on lots – allowing me to overlap deco buildings with my lots to give the illusion of a densely populated city. 😀 

I hope this helps!

Awwww, thank you, friend! 😀

An uberhood is a combination of any of the Maxis premade neighborhoods using one as the main hood and attaching any number of the others as subhoods. So your Strangetown Sims can visit Pleasantview and interact with Pleasantview Sims, and more! I assembled mine using these templates by meetmetotheriver​. 🙂

As for CC, I have about 17 GB right now – obviously, I’ve accumulated all of this content from a number of places. 😛 For starters, you can check my resource page (although it’s a bit lacking in build and buy mode recommendations at the moment). You can also look through my WCIF tag. 🙂 I’m always willing to answer WCIFs – I just ask that you be specific with what you’re looking for! 

I could do that! Is there anyone in particular you’re looking for? 🙂

I was going to wait until I finished playing through everyone’s respective storylines, but at the rate I’m going that could be eons from now, so there’s no sense in keeping them all to myself. :3

Hello! Gosh, I’m pretty bad at explaining things, but I’ll try. :3 When an item is repositoried, it takes its texture from another item that’s already in the game. For example, many cc creators make the same piece of clothing for different age groups. In order to save space/make smaller file sizes, they will often link the textures to a single age group (which is referred to as “repositoried” or “texture-referenced”). A TF outfit that is repositoried to the AF outfit will take its textures from the AF outfit – that means the AF outfit must be in the game for the textures on the TF outfit to show up. As another example, whattheskell has a massive Maxis repository project going that repositories age conversions, gender conversions, add-ons, separates, etc., to their Maxis counterparts to save space. And space, as we all know, is a valuable thing for our games – it means room for more custom content. 😀

I hope that makes a little bit of sense! I’m not the best at explaining things (even less so when I know how the repository-ing actually works XD) but hopefully this helps. I’m sure there are other simmers out there who have explained it way better than I could. XD

Hi hi friend! The secret is camera-man mode, also known as the “tab” key! Click up to the highest floor, then press the “tab” key – from here, you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to move up and down without going down to a lower floor. This nifty keyboard chart shows you all the camera controls, you can get some really great angles by playing around in camera-man mode. 🙂 Hope this helps!

Oh wow, thank you so much, anon! This is such a sweet message! I’m quite sure I’ve been reduced to a mere puddle under my computer desk. :’D *hugs you forever*

For the dormitory roof, I used the roof pieces that came with Apartment Life (found in Build Mode under the “Architecture” tab). You place them like regular objects – much easier than fiddling with that dang roofing tool, in my opinion. XD There are also some really neat add-ons here (for both the AL and M&G roofs) that let you create some really unique roof shapes. 😀 Hope that helps! And thank you again!! ❤ 

Coming right up! 🙂