What do you have in your neighbourhood?
twooflower:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 December 26, 05:11:10
It's less gross than sims subsequently splashing in it because they can't tell that it is pee. Also, 99% of the pee puddles will actually be produced by dogs and penguins. There should not normally be SIMS peeing on the floor. Except Brynne.
That's definitely another reason to try it. So does this mean that when the nanny pees on the floor my toddlers won't go and splash in it?
cwykes:
I mostly have small single-storey, multi-purpose community lots with 1 NPC that load fast because big laggy lots really irritate me. I like to send sims on a multi-purpose outing to one lot rather than suffer the loading times from visiting a lot of different community lots. I also hate large community lots because your sim always ends up hiking the entire length of the lot several times to get to his/her target sim. So functionality is much higher up my list than artistic merit, though I do try to make them look reasonably attractive.
The ones I use as standard are designed to look nice together on the hood screen; they all have a river and a willow tree or two. They date back to base game and I've started adding to the set and updating existing lots. A lot of activities are outdoors, which doesn't work quite as well since Seasons - another reason for remodelling a bit.
Health Spa with clothes, hottub & chess
farmers market with food, chess, swings, BBQ
a couple of multi-purpose shops with swing, darts, chess, BBQ
A cross between a tiny club and a video games and magazine store - tv, dance, darts, chess, swing. myshuno, music
Swimming pool with BBQ
roller rink with BBQ & chess
ice rink with BBQ & chess
village church
They were mostly made for base game and I put them on TSR so newbies and other people with low-end PCs could find and use them. The Veronaville Health Spa is about the most popular at 1453 downloads which sucks, but there aren't huge numbers of small community lots out there. http://www.thesimsresource.com/profiles/view.php?mid=427711 They are of course free.
I mostly keep owned businesses in a separate sub-hood. Again I stick to small lots for functionality and my business ideas aren't terribly original. Sedona has a lot of starter businesses and Meadow Lawns has a business empire.
Kyna:
I mainly use Wolfsim68's Stoneyville community lots. She can be found at TSR. I've just noticed she has now become a Featured Artist, so her lots are no longer free - I'm disappointed, because when she left MTS2 to go to TSR as a Select Artist (and Insim for a while) she said her lots would always be free at TSR. Hopefully they can be found in the booty at PMBD.
Her community lots are all small 2x2 or 2x3 lots, and are all done in the same style, so look good from the neighbourhood view when placed next to each other. Some of her lots (such as the police station and courthouse) I use more for decoration to make the neighbourhood look like a town, rather than for actual use. I use some of her lots as businesses for my sims to run - they come fully stocked & decorated, all my sim has to do is hire staff and add in a few hacks, and the business is ready to go. I use other lots of hers as community lots for my sims to go socialising. Then there's the ones I add to my custom universities, such as the library and the gym, and I edited one of the dorm lots to turn it into a secret society.
cwykes:
You can see why wolfsim68 is now a featured artist - they're nice looking lots. A couple are still free, so I've DL'd those.
I do think consistency of style on community lots makes a difference to a neighbourhood - it's in the little things sometimes: same lamposts, wall covering, roof style/colour. River and willows is actually a graphic hungry style; it works on small lots, but it wouldn't be a good, unlaggy style on larger lots.
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