Did EAxis bork sharing beach front lots too?
Zazazu:
Meh. Saish (community lot, two-story loft restaurant and a club up top) is my favorite lot of mine and it was originally built into a mountain in Urban Paradise. It completely screws the terrain when moved, but as I put it Downtown and never look at Downtown in 'hood view, who cares? My current Downtown has only six lots, and I haven't seen it since Gen 2. Queen's Cove is self-sufficient.
I'm on Gen 4 with this 'hood...two Gen 4'ers are children, the rest mere thoughts. UP got to Gen 11 of my Alphabet family, with a couple of others on Gen 3.
jolrei:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 October 24, 16:17:21
I'm on Gen 4 with this 'hood...two Gen 4'ers are children, the rest mere thoughts. UP got to Gen 11 of my Alphabet family, with a couple of others on Gen 3.
Oakenwald was my first real hood (after "orientation" in Pleasantview). It's still on the drive and works (kinda - this was started before I came to MATY, so it may have some pre-apocalyptic "issues"). I use a couple of houses from there. The sims are gen1-4 (gen 1 is headed for the last hula roundup and gen 4 is infants).
Mittelschmerz is my big clean-custom hood. It has Gen 3 just starting now, and Gen 1 is edging into elderhood (I have an unfortunate tendency to have sim adults drink elixir like cool-ade, so they don't age up that fast).
I'm really into Pango-Pango, my beach hood. This hood is about 2 RL weeks old and has only 1 playable family, started by my self-sim. He's married now and "my" spawn, little Alex is at the bashing blocks into the logic toy and chewing on them stage. I'm hoping to stick with this hood a bit longer. I want to incorporate an alien overlord theme into whatever story is there.
I keep saying that I'll go back and play in Oakenwald sometime (I left it after I killed off 90% of a founding family for the crime of having weak chins and long noses - there was a terrible satellite crashing disaster...in the bathroom...and a bedroom...and right by the carpool). Unfortunately, after 4 months, I have kind of forgotten all their names. I cloned my favourite sims from there and they show up under different names in all my hoods, usually as townies.
Old hoods are, at the moment, a scavenging ground for houses/lots. I tend to re-use comm lots that I build and like as well. Building new ones has its drawbacks (eg. I always forget that there should really be a bathroom somewhere on the lot).
With the beach hood and the problems with moving beach lots around, I thought it safest to build a beach comm lot, and so the Pango Mall was born, without a bathroom. It was renovated quickly after the first peeing accident.
Zazazu:
The only community lot that has potties on QC is the public beach--which is technically a residential with a ticket biz $10/hr, 8am-8pm daily. They still don't use them much, preferring to spend their time slapdancing, passing out from heat stroke, and, in the case of Stella Young, kicking everyone's ass. When it gets truly terribly hot and I have someone man the lemonade stand, then they use the public toilets. At the 1x1 lvl 10 convenience store, 1x2 lvl 9 art store, and 2x2 lvl 3 "massage" parlour, no potties. Customers go in, do their business (or in the parlour, each other) and get the heck out. Of course, I've decided that the next sim who whines to Edmund Young about the unmade bed they just got done woohooing in, I'm smiting them.
I never reuse houses between 'hoods. I have a couple in the lot bin, but they were townhouses I had in Urban Paradise that I can't bring myself to delete. Most of Queen's Cove has very singular homes...some totally random creations and my favorite being from a houseplan site (pic below)...that's where the Alien Overlords are making their home. They are completely accidental natural abductions. I have the best pic of Tre as a toddler staring down a stray at night. So scary, but very dark. All my playables but one have either blue eyes or the grey-green geneticized recessive custom ones I'm trying to keep in play.
I really need to add a true shopping center (the convenience store only has magazines, frozen foods, cell phones, boom boxes, and souvenirs), but I want to do a farm first and don't have enough spares to start one. That really should be placed outside of Badger Square (affluent section) and be run by one of the affluent sims with all employees of the lower class. Meh. Might switch it around. Kennedy Young's branch has almost $200,000 in the hopper from the convenience store and Stella's novels.
Gen 1's already dead and gone. Gen 2 is halfway there, but prematurely since Logan's wife Laura's ghost scared him to death right after reaching elderhood.
jolrei:
Yeah, I can't bring myself to cheat abductions. I'm just sending my selfsim out every night to stargaze. He needs the logic points for his LTW anyway. Two birds with one stone, so to speak.
Just so as not to derail this thread completely, did I mention that the telescope is on a perfectly flat beach lot? Very scenic.
* jolrei admires sleepycat's work on the terrain again. *
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