I'm a regular user at http://www.gaysimsclub2.net/ and the Admin, Scotty, figured I should share my findings with other Sims 2 Community and not just them.

If you're a member of gaysimsclub2, here's the original thread. http://www.gaysimsclub2.net/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=2204&st=0


Now here's a re-post of that thread:

Not sure if anyone has done this before, or at all. Or in a different way. Anyway whatever.

Anyway, yes I have managed to connect all three default neighborhoods out of sheer boredom. Families/Households can now travel freely between Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Veronaville.

Special note about the pictures. I dunno why some of the pics shrunk when I uploaded them on photobucket. But I have a bigger 640x480 pics that you can clearly see things. If you want to see them PM me so I can email them or something. Or contact me at wyrmking@aol.com.



As you can see, it still looks like three separate neighborhoods. But don't be fooled. Pleasantview is actually the main neighborhood, while the other two is just associated with it.

Here's sample screenshots:





I had one of the students in Sim State University, call up a taxi, and the menu pops up to which lot I would go. As you can see there are options to go to not just Pleasantview, Downtown, and Sim State, but also Strangetown and Veronaville. I remind you, PM me so I can show you a bigger version of those pics. I dunno why they shrunk.



A picture of Kent Capp, member of the Capp family from Veronaville. I moved him to Strangetown (not by packaging a lot, that would cause him to loose his ties with his family)



You see he still has his family connections.



And other families from Veronaville, I have not given them a home yet. But I'm just showing you that they appear in Strangetown's family bin (and they show up in Pleasantview's and Veronaville's).



Don Lothario calling Erin Singles from Strangetown. When I was experimenting by having Erin go to Pleasantview's community lot, they met. I was gonna invite her over but I forgot that Erin does not have a phone yet in her new house.

Now these are my favorite screenshots. I moved in Bella from Strangetown with Loner (forgot his name). And then I resurrected Bella from Pleasantview by using SimPE. And now they all live together!



They look slightly different, not too much. Pleasantview Bella is on the left.

Now, as you all know, Strangetown Bella has no family tree or any connection to anyone from Pleasantview.



Now, Pleasantview Bella does.



Anyway, I haven't played much with it. So I don't have a lot of screenshots. I'll be taking more soon. I'm still trying to see if there are any bugs or whatever. The Summerdream household did get a little buggy in the beginning, the whole house got flooded with that terrain water. It was weird, but it's all fixed now.

So if anybody wants to know how I did, just say so.