Ok, I decided to read the DOT tuorial and it is so bizarre.  Limes, slides, TSR fonts.. what?  Drawing arrows to things does not made a valid argument. Others have mentioned the techical faults with this so i won't repeat it all but her talk about checking the 'blue' doesn't prove anything.  When I first bought a mac I found the screen was too bright so I clalibrated the monitor to my liking so I don't even know what TSR is supposed to look like colour-wise.  When I installed bootcamp to dual boot XP the drivers were different and were set to the Windows' default which I adjusted to my taste but the colours still look different on each OS but it's the same computer.  I noticed that according to Dot, TSR uses 'clean' blue and gold but the fakes are 'dirty' so poor clean and sweet TSR is tainted by the dirty blues and golds of the fake screenshots. If Dot wants people to look for dirty colours to prove her point it's far too subjective: your idea of dirty blue could be something I love and choose to paint my house with.

I was more curious to see what the several new "developmened techniques" at TSR were because lot shrinking was fairly new but nothing became of it after that set.  I didn't mean to sound like I was knocking deco objects that look like arcitechtual elements: I have objects like that from all over the web and have even made a few things myself to solve minor annoyances.

To qualify what I said earlier about this set being useless: unlike the Lot Adjuster it did not add any useable space to a home: if you wanted a communal wall on the lot's edge it had to be a deco object causing the game to think part of your house was still outside or you had to place a wall on the usual edge and be left with a 2 square wide room.  That room would be good for bathrooms or closets but it was outside and you couldn't do anything above the ground floor because there were no usable floors to walk on.  You couldn't put a roof over them or have working doors and windows.

TSR was trying to cash in on the interest surrounding the Lot Adjuster and keep the sheep in the TSR paddock but did not have the knowledge to make their own alternative.  I mean a program like the Lot Adjuster is in a whole other league compared to what Anoeska made and as I'm constantly fiddling with my neighbourhoods and existing homes Lot Adjuster has been fantastic and it's free.

Ages ago I got a copy of the Anoeska rowhouses to see what the deal was.  There isn't any lot shrinkage involved, it's nothing but a useless set of fake wall & floor pieces textured to match a few basegame wallpapers and floors. You're meant to just plonk them down as deco objects to fill the gaps on the edge tiles while all the usual building restraints still apply.