Good news! I fixed my game by uninstalling Pets, turns out my wheezy laptop couldn't handle three extra fluffy lifeforms as well as Sims and Skyrim ah well, at least it works now!
Nope, no luck. Tbh I pretty much gave up after that headache-inducing attempt until a later date at least as I'm not even sure I was doing it right heh.
Kind of working, hmm not quite haha. I used a full medium-size desert-filled map and the only thing that transferred into the top-right corner (making it useless for my plans anyway) was the path terrain paints. Not the grass/sand/rocks, just the dirt paths. Completely flat too and nothing else. I'll look into it some more if anyone at MTS just points me in the right direction
Yup I think that's the max lot size. And yes I think it would! My plans however are just to add a jungle expanded from the village and make an underground vampire retreat for my story, it's a proper story btw, full of vampires, spies and wars, the only sim-related thing inn it is the fact I'm using them for the pictures

And the person who suggested a full-map size, do you know just how massive that is? Even the medium map size surprised me on comparison to the original coconut island size lol. The very thought of the possible lag/loading terrifies me :L

Oh and btw Iggy, I've been wondering what map size and height map did you use for Coconut Island? I've never been able to figure it out heh, might be useful info when experimenting with map size stuff.

For the map I used small flat(#?), and I'm not sure what height values I used. What it is now is how it was when it was generated. (everything was underwater/ shallow sea)

I have zero patience to do anything that involves redoing flora/rocks/objects/terrain, lol. So I'll bargain with you all, how does this look?



60x60 biotches!(can I say that? ). I also included those other sizes and they're all flat, ready to go if you want to import your own homes. They also each have a private beach lot for whatever you wish. I may do something similar to Stoney Port Island, but not another 60x60, that's too big for that island. If I do a 40x40, it would be a castle style home with a front garden using the Stoney Square ground. We'll see!


I love the world at night, all the street lights dotting the paths... I love how The Dunes has none and how splash park glows even far away.




If you ever get around to getting WA, and you use the Traveler mod, you can instantly turn a vacation hood into a normal hood without any loading. You can also pause a vacation too...

I think the problem is your system. You said yourself that you're using a Laptop that doesn't like EP's being added. Using a laptop for this game is not really adequate. If a hood is 75% water, how much lag can there be? No land = no lag.

EDIT: Sorry if that sounded rude, It wasn't supposed to.

It doesn't matter, I'm not enlarging the world But I did enlarge Stoney Port! Some really nice changes were made.



Coconut Island, now with 100% more bulge.

Wow, this just gets better and better. I just compared it to my version, and it looks like there could be as much as 20% extra land in this new build.
I especially like the section in the bottom left, cause I used to have an absolutely dreamy 40x40 holiday home in TS2 Twikkii Island, and I will attempt to recreate it in that very space right there.
Definately can't wait to obtain this. :)

It's amazing that you could add so much and still keep alll the great aspects of the island!

Swat, that's too funny that you used the Martinez Family in your legacy, I included them on the Island,


They're the only ones I included from the bin because I always use them as test Sims and their bio deserved to be rewritten.

Haha yup! But watch out though, If you breed a male from them you may get hitler syndrome.

That's unfortunate!

I don't think this is supposed to happen



The blonde jumped in right after.

One quick question - is the link in the first post the last version, or are you still working on it? I'm reinstalling the whole game, and I expect I'll start playing again in two days or so, and would looove to have this as my starter neighborhood. I just want to know if I can go ahead and download it, or if I should still hold on until you give it even moar awesomeness! ^_^

PS: Thank you for showing me the land of my dreams - this place made me think about retiring abroad, somewhere tropical-y.

I'm still working on it and the next update is pretty big

-a 40x40 island with its own dock and private community lot
-expanded Barbary island to include a 60x60, 40x30 and a 30x30.
-expanded Stoney Port to include a 40x40, 30x40, and two 20x30's.
-lots of new Sims; locals, tourists, adventurers, etc.
-completely overhauled The Adventure at Basecamp. 4 Quests traveling through 12 locations complete with a story connecting Coconut Island to the Sims universe.

This update will be available in a few days to about a week. *lies! I'll need testers for The Adventure. I'm vigerously trying to get Quest #3 nearly full proof, but if I can't then I'll release the update with just Quest #1 and 2 ready to go.

Wonderful! I can't wait to play it! Now if only I can squeeze in my computer all of the expansion packs...

Not sure if you mentioned this, because the thread is getting to be a little tldr, but any harvestable plants need to be fenced in with single-wide gates so the horses and deer can't get in and eat them all up.

there was a little discussion about Pets, pretty much summed up with, "Coconut Island hates horses" But I went ahead and locked up the garden lot with two single gates to keep it from becoming an animal buffet.

Haha indeed, ooh they can eat plants? I never found that out before uninstalling D;
Sorry for not replying for ages but my game's gone worse, rendering it practically unplayable until I get a new pc in a few months. :( Skyrim still works fine however so I'll probably do the DB and take my rage out on those unsuspecting targets ;D
Anyway the island's bulginess is looking just brilliant, I can't wait to see the next update 8D The Quests too! ^_^
Do you think, with the final release, you could also upload a sim-less version? Nevermind, just rembered Nraas can do that haha.



Ah it's fine, it did sound like that at first but I can see you didn't mean it like that :)
And yus, the problem is my laptop. The only thing that works 95% ok now is CAS xD the rest is either pretty much graphically broken or incredibly slow.

I was originally going to put out a non sim edition...but then after I made about 5 dozen Sims I thought, "Screw them, they can eat my Sims for breakfast" ...or Nraas can eat them. ...or EA's story progression! *ba-dum-chhh*

The good thing about the next update is it's pre-final. Meaning it's the last update before final release! I held back putting out another update and decided to just finish all 4 Quests. I suspect it will be ready on Friday.

I'm so excited!

Wow! A final update?! This world seems like it's been in constant development forever! haha!

Hahaha EA Story Progression does appear to have a thing for moving out and killing the original sims :,)
Ahhh I can't wait either! To see it in a rather blocky form anyway, I may just kill everyone off and play one sim just to do the quests ^_^

Loving the new update to version 3, love the larger lots and I can definitely see some great improvements to this world.

Here is version 2 I think of Coconut Island, you were looking for as a sims3pack
https://www.box.com/s/305c0d61deca8e76946d

It says it was last updated in April 2010.

Went through all 4 Quests last night without a problem, felt great!

MissA Is this the same file posted at Sims3.com?

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/ ... 56125.page

I haven't checked it out yet, but thanks