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SimCity Parking Lots - 5 Lots - NO CC

by Zarathustra Posted 1st Jul 2015 at 11:53 PM - Updated 2nd Jun 2016 at 6:36 AM by Zarathustra : Upload .gif wasn't working right- went for a normal screenshot instead.
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#2 Old 2nd Jul 2015 at 10:11 AM
Absolutely brilliant, thank you. I remember having the same idea but never got around to it. It might be an idea to have community versions using Mog's decorative parking spaces, as I'm sure many players use it anyway.
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#3 Old 2nd Jul 2015 at 12:10 PM
Very creative thank you for sharing
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#4 Old 2nd Jul 2015 at 6:06 PM
What a great idea! Seems like something Zarathustra would think of!
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#5 Old 2nd Jul 2015 at 8:29 PM
I really like this idea. I have a couple of my own in Plainsboro, but I never get the dimensions right and end up with poor parking spaces and drive patterns.
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#6 Old 2nd Jul 2015 at 11:08 PM
I have made several parking lots for my communities. If you begin with the lot as residential, design lot and place your cars, you can rezone the lot as community and it will still show up with the cars in your previews of the communities. Thought you might want to know.
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#7 Old 3rd Jul 2015 at 1:22 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Sims2Insomniac
I have made several parking lots for my communities. If you begin with the lot as residential, design lot and place your cars, you can rezone the lot as community and it will still show up with the cars in your previews of the communities. Thought you might want to know.


Not in my game, I'd actually tried that when I was working on these- you just end up with an empty parking lot... either one of the few mods I have had the unintended effect of blocking that, or one of the mods you have allows that to happen.

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#8 Old 19th Jul 2015 at 1:16 PM
nicely done! Thank you
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#9 Old 28th Nov 2015 at 10:46 AM Last edited by gazania : 28th Nov 2015 at 10:57 AM.
My first download from you, and what is it? Not your magnificent buildings, but the 3x3 parking lot. (I work mostly with smaller lots, so this and the smallest size would be ideal, for the most part.)

Oops. But they are magnificent parking lots!

While I was creating my strip mall, my husband looked over my shoulder and commented that the total effect looked really good to him; very similar to the strip-mall stores near us. After many, many hours of my trying to get my stores to look the way I wanted, I found myself puffing a bit with pride. Then he commented. "But ...."

But?

"There are no parking lots near your stores!"

He was right there. When I looked at my strip mall again, I saw that indeed, it is odd that a strip mall has no parking! I looked around for a decorative parking lot. Unless your Criminal Sims are doing something ... untoward ... late at night, this isn't the kind of lot where your Sims would be hanging out for hours at a time. But alas ... no hood decor parking lots from reputable sites exist that I know of! (Well, there are deserted lots that look pretty desolate, but I wasn't exactly trying for a post-apocalyptic look here. Not too good for business and all that.) Good thing I checked your description before making it a community lot, though.Thank you for telling us why these are residential! ;)

These are actually much better than hood decor lots, I think. And these are one of those things that you don't think you need until you download them and think, "Well ... maybe I do!" I also like that they're nice and preshrunk for our convenience. Thank you!