What do you have in your neighbourhood?
Orikes:
My main neighborhood is mostly residential with a few owned businesses on one commercial strip. There's also an unfinished graveyard. The only deaths have been in the main line of the legacy family, so those tombstones stayed on the lot. I'm about to have my first non-main-line deaths, so those will be moved to the graveyard, so I'll have to finish that.
For downtown, I've mostly done extensive remodeling of the existing businesses rather than building my own. I rearranged the default layout so that most of the businesses are all close together, making it actually look more like a downtown, in my opinion. I've got a few nightclubs I downloaded and added in (Merkabah from HolySimoly - careful it deforms the terrain, Gothika and PURE West from Cireking).
I've also done some extensive remodeling of Sim State.
notveryawesome:
I don't do much with the premade Maxis neighbourhoods (I have my main three combined into one). I pretty much just remodel the premade lots for functionality, do a bit of redecorating, and leave it at that. My custom themed 'hoods, however, are built from scratch. When building any sort of business lot, whether home or community, I try to include everything needed to keep a sim's motives up. So, for example, even the hair-salon has a TV or radio, coffee or espresso, and a BBQ grill or food served by the owner, especially if using the electrono ticket machine. That way, the customers will stick around longer, and thus generate more income (and loyalty stars) for the business. My sci-fi themed 'hood, named Asimovia, is the most developed, so that's the one I'll tell you about.
Community lots include:
The Saucer Club (danceclub that looks like a flying saucer - includes restaurant, bar, coffee, darts, billiards, and DJ booth)
Pet Planet (pet store)
Mystic Transmogrifications (combination salon, gym, and clothing store, where I use Christianlov's hacked clothing rack to change the default clothing of NPCs)
Richelieu's Rare Books (sells regular books from the bookshelves, but also some buyable single books and assorted oddities)
A few Qwik-E-Mart type places (more for neighbourhood deco than anything)
Cliffside Cemetery (high-tech looking cemetery on the edge of a cliff)
Beloved Friends Pet Cemetery (self explanatory)
Temple of the Metatron (actually a cemetery - features gigantic humanoid statuary)
Asimovia Community Centre (lake, swimming pool, barbecues, etc)
Campus Coffee (uni lot - original, I know)
Home business lots include:
Life Help (my favourite business - uses Squinge's autonomous career rewards and Pescado's comm-skilling hack, along with an electrono ticket machine, so that customers pay to build skills)
Greenleaf Farms (a farm and produce shop run by plantsims)
Krystalz Gallery (misspelling intentional - an 'artist' sells the Fire Krystalz by Oberkorn at MTS2, as well as assorted statuary)
The Play Palace (sort of an arcade meets opium den - bubble blowers and an electrono ticket machine figure prominently in this particular business)
Ground Zero Gallery (resident 'artist' sells paintings and sculptures from the Buy catalogue, because custom paintings don't sell for much and can't easily be restocked)
House of Geisha (these are not real geisha, as they run a brothel and gambling parlour)
Faktory Fitness (downtown lot - self explanatory)
Faktory Dance (downtown lot - nightclub with bar, DJ booth, and hot-tub)
Faktory Fun (downtown lot - bar, buffet, karaoke, bowling, billiards, and poker)
My fantasy/mediaeval 'hood has such things as an enchanted forest, a haunted wood (doubles as a cemetery), a potion shop, a brothel, a gypsy caravan, a few castles, some ruins, an antiquities market, a fairground, a few taverns/pubs/innes, and some other stuff that I can't remember.
gethane:
this thread needs pics :)
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2007 December 23, 19:53:54
Ground Zero Gallery (resident 'artist' sells paintings and sculptures from the Buy catalogue, because custom paintings don't sell for much and can't easily be restocked)
Well, restocking custom paintings is a pain in the neck, to be sure, but they sell for anything you want to sell them for. If I can sell Eau de Brynne for 10K, you can sell a custom painting for anything you want.
sloppyhousewife:
Community lots, non-owned:
a bus stop, with a little convenience store, toilets, a photo booth and the cell phone/MP3 player thingy
a skilling lot with chess tables and several career rewards
a fishing facility
a town hall with a restaurant, a billard café and a boutique
a dating lot with restaurant, bar, disco, karaoke, hot tubs
All of these lots are in my lot bin and standard in a new neighborhood, more are added when I'm bored.
Community lots, owned (in previous 'hoods, also planned for the current):
a flower shop
a fish market
a veggie market
a candy shop (made with Paladin's candy machine)
a deli (sandwiches and salads - needs the veggie market)
and several overpriced pay-to-stay casinos / bars to burn cash.
As for the residential lots - I start with a residential area of eight starter homes (Pilgrim's Drive, near the bus stop). Sims that had worked their way up move to the more sophisticated areas. I have four of them: Baker Street (London town houses), Abundance Square (mansions and chalets), Ocean View Drive (beach villas - planned) and Bigwig Avenue (the mayor's residence).
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