Unable to extend house
ZephyrZodiac:
I think Seasons broke it, and then fixed it in the patch, as I do remember having difficulty with walls when I played the Wan house. And of course, Seasons also broke their own octagonal roofs - put one on an octagonal house, and lo and behold, snow falls and sims are complaining that there is "weather in my house"!
jsalemi:
Yea, Seasons broke a couple of roofs. I have the 'Modern Marvel' house in my game (I forget which EP it came with -- might be from the base game, or maybe NL), and the slanted roofs on the two sides let snow into the upstairs bedroom. I had to put a floor beneath the roof for it to not snow inside. Pity, because I basically like that house -- it's nice and roomy, with a good size yard. Great for 'up and coming' sim families.
ZephyrZodiac:
Yes, I know the house you mean (it's in the Base Game lotbin) and agree, it's a nice house, one of the few Maxis houses that work without too much remodelling. I usually get rid of the internal kitchen walls as it's such a small kitchen, but otherwise, the house works pretty well. It really annoys me about those lean-to type roofs, though, that they got broken, although since I mostly play with weather off it's not such a problem now as it was when I first got Seasons. (My PC just wasn't coping with the weather, laggier and laggier games, so the only time I had weather on was for a few seconds to satisfy a want, so the snow or rain etc. was never around long enough for sims to notice.)
Zazazu:
The octagonal roofs, round roof, and spires are absolutely ridiculous as designed. They never fit well, and tend to be so dang steep that they look ungainly. And the slope can't be adjusted. The asian-style roofs are slightly better...you have to extend them one tile less than the normal roofs and put a layer of tiles underneath, but they can work.
I haven't seen Winter since BV came out, but I do have a double Summer in Queen's Cove that's quite good at producing sunburnt tourists and deaths from heatstroke (though last round was a little mild and the body count didn't increase). The affluent section, Badger Square, has two houses that utilize the new asian roofs and two businesses that do the same, and all required the tile trick, as otherwise the roofs would have extended so far past the walls of the house as to look comical...especially on the tiny 6x6 convenience store.
notveryawesome:
It's been my experience, since installing Seasons, that you have to put a floor under ANY roof, or else the sims will freeze or overheat, depending on the season. There are different heights for the conical roofs, but I agree that they all look too steep, even the shortest ones.
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