Tutorial: How to DISABLE the "stealth 'hoods" for The Sims 2

[meetme2theriver]

It has come to my attention that very few people know that you can actually do this, and rather than explaining it to a handful of people in #sims2chat over and over again, I decided I'd write a little tutorial for how to do it

Comments

[ritaxis]

Do I understand this correctly, that you should only do this before you start pkaying a game, and not after you've already got going?

[meetme2theriver]

Yes, it won't have any effect on an already existing neighbourhood. I should probably specify that in the post. Thanks!

[murrealism]

This, this is delightfully simple!

[hafiseazale]

Thanks, meetme! This is great and will work for my future challenge hoods.

[lovey626]

Sorry I think I am confused by the statement below. When you say never use them I am not sure I understand how they would be used. Is it when you add subhoods or that you would be using them for the additional sims that they add to your neighborhood ? I thought I understood in the previous paragraph that they were essentially junk to begin with .. Sorry I just need a little more clarification if you could. Thanks

"Note that disabling them doesn't cause any harm if you never use them (I never do) - sims will still get access to the secret lots, but I wouldn't recommend actually trying to send them to these lots when they do not exist. I haven't tried it, but my bet is that it would crash the game."

[meetme2theriver]

Are you familiar with the secret hobby lots and secret witch lots?

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Hobby_lot

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Fortress_of_Eternal_Darkness

http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Palace_of_Neverending_Light

These are located in the FT and AL stealth 'hoods. If you disable them, you won't be able to go to these lots anymore. I think these secret lots are completely pointless so I never use them anyway, but if you want to use them you shouldn't disable the stealth 'hoods for these EPs, but use empty templates instead. Even with the stealth 'hoods disabled, your sims will still get the "access cards" to the hobby lots, so you can actually attempt to send them to these lots - which probably would crash the game since there aren't any lots to send them to.

[lovey626]

Got it Thanks. I did not realize that you were saying you saying you did not use the secret lots at all.

[truly_kristan]

Thank you for this!