Researching Awesomespec: How far back? (plus draft)
Assmitten:
Hey, looks pretty good and understandable! I have a question about the following:
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Don't sprinkle your sprinklers!
Is this an efficiency issue? Cost? Aesthetics? Weeds?
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There are three kinds of trees and six kinds of plants. Plan your gardening areas accordingly. Gardening areas should be made of threes and sixes, not 11's or 17's! The number of gardening squares should not be random!
Again, is this aesthetics? Thanks.
Kibble:
Quote from: jemjie on 2008 September 06, 21:46:27
Quote from: nerakdon on 2008 September 06, 20:52:43
* The ideal kitchen contains counters that cost over $500, and no food processor. The food processor reduces the quality of food prepared on such good counters.
I didn't know this. I thought counter type was of no consequence at all except in decoration. Do you the link to hand of the post / tutorial you read for this fact? I'd be interested to read more.
Here you go: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2606.0;wap2. I will also add the link to the body of the spec.
Quote from: Assmitten on 2008 September 06, 22:08:28
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Don't sprinkle your sprinklers!
Is this an efficiency issue? Cost? Aesthetics? Weeds?
I was trying to be cute. I will fix the wording. I should have said, "Sprinklers should be placed with attention to their watering radius. Do not just plop a bunch of sprinklers down with no regard for their radius, and hope its enough. Sprinklers are helpful but cause lag, so they should not be overused."
Quote from: Assmitten on 2008 September 06, 22:08:28
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There are three kinds of trees and six kinds of plants. Plan your gardening areas accordingly. Gardening areas should be made of threes and sixes, not 11's or 17's! The number of gardening squares should not be random!
Again, is this aesthetics? Thanks.
My issue, and I'm not quite sure how to word this, is that on other sites, often I see greenhouses whose available gardening space consists of strange numbers of plots. I don't have any use for a 7-farmable-tile-greenhouse. There are 6 types of plants, so I want multiples of 6.
It's somewhere between aesthetics and function, I guess. Perhaps I should remove it from the spec, as I have seen no one else complaining about this.
Disclaimer: The following is a bit off topic as it refers to spiffy and yet non-MATY mods.
In big, commercial type greenhouses especially, I personally prefer clearly defined areas suitable for using SimWardrobe's employee gardening controllers. When using those controllers, it *is* about function. For those, the easiest type of greenhouse to run is one that consists of 4x4 squares missing a single interior plot (for a total of 15). The planting sign goes in the middle. Each 4x4 square contains one type of crop, and there are six such squares present, each of which must be separated from all other 4x4 squares by at least one tile and preferably more than one. The reason for 4x4 minus 1 is that SimWardrobe's planting controller operates in multiples of five. 15 was the first number that was a multiple of 5 and also a square minus 1 that I could think of.
Here's kinda what I'm talking about, though I almost always mix it up somehow by rearranging the six 4x4 squares into various shapes, or including fishing ponds/orchard trees.
I'd prefer slightly larger crops to optimize manpower, but I can't think of a good way to do it using the hacks available.
P: Plant
O: Plant type controller sign
=: Walkway
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Edit: I'm a doofus, evidently. 6x6, 9x9, and 11x11 would also work just fine.
rohina:
I would argue that macro-->garden makes sprinklers pretty much unnecessary. Also, I am not sure you are right about the bug houses vs greenhouses; I seem to recall a discussion about greenhouses being needed to prevent bug infestation.
Also, the coffee bush that was ganked from Castaway stories is better than a standard coffee dispenser because children can use it (and it also decreases hunger a little bit). Bathrooms being conveniently placed near coffee bushes is probably a good rule of thumb, though. Coffee bushes, like hot-tubs, may need to be weather-proofed. They can also go in the greehouse.
If you have multiple kids, it is better that the one desk have a computer on it, or no chair, and sufficient floor space for as many spawn as will be bringing in homework.
Kibble:
I agree with you about both sprinklers and ladybugs. I'm not a big fan of either one. However, they do kinda sorta function. A little. For starter houses, maybe.
I will update The One Desk info to incorporate your notes about multiple spawn. Very good point.
Also, what is this coffee bush and where can I find it? :D
Edit: Nevermind, I found it.
rohina:
Quote from: nerakdon on 2008 September 07, 02:21:42
Also, what is this coffee bush and where can I find it? :D
It is a coffee bush. You can find it in the thread clearly labelled "Salvaged Stories Crap" in Playsets and Toys.
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