Playing AL without apartments: witches enough?
vecki:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 01, 10:44:22
Quote from: maxon on 2008 October 01, 10:21:43
One (slightly) annoying thing about the ceilings - and it's not that big a deal - is that you need a floor in on the level above for the ceiling to show.
How is that different from real life?
Just an annoyance on the pre-AL homes, especially the single story ones, they didn't have floors inserted on the level above because, well, there WAS no level above to concern yourself with!
As I go through the houses with this issue I just insert a ceiling/floor above, even if I have to cheat a little to afford it on the houses that are dirt poor.
J. M. Pescado:
I have the $0 "crapboard" floor that happens when you drag doors over the area enabled as buyable. The environment value sucks, but it's perfect for frame-rate covers and ceilinging like you mentioned. I try to always cover the lower floors to preserve frame rate.
edalbformat:
I had no problems with AL up now, taking into consideration that the first thing I did was to download a mod "NoWitches".
My first difficulty was to build normal lots. I started to build a very common big lot and suddenly I found out that I could not place stairs on a balcony behind the house. The stairs tool simply denied to place the thing. I had to fullfill the whole extension of the terrain left behind the house with a basement (the house was on a basement), then I could place an access door. Very annoying once it is not possible to place basement in the last two rows of the lot. I read that you cannot make a second entrance to an appartment - but it was NOT an appartment!
There are many things that disturb me and in AL it disturbs that only appartment resident can place an add for a roommate. But the extrem dumbness is that the landlord HAS to be an NPC. I really didn't need that one! All I wished was the possibility that MY Sims could buy many houses and rent them out. AL in this point is a trash. To create NPCs is foolish.
You cannot control other appartment residents. In fact they are just visitors confined to full furnished flat. I think that I can build an appartment system self that I can control all the residents. My computer allows me to have as many Sims I wish. I hope Inge Jones comes with an alternative for the dull apartment door.
Other dumbness is that the game creates 80% of elders for the new residents. The game always chose the CASface that is used by Mary-Sue Pleasant (an asian type) so I get a lot of asian look Sims with names like Centowski or alike.
BellaDona Cove has a lot of appartments and all of them belongs to two landlords. So rich and are dressed as low class accountants!
All the original characters supplied are still kids work. They are thinned in the face like bullemists and the facial is uppered or lowered, what causes incompatibility by face blanding. One inhabitant couple at FT have ridiculous faces and caused a son that has the mouth close to the edge of the cheek and the nose hang just under the eyes (Contrary or whatever)
I'm happy that I got rid of all the NPCs and Townies (thanks Pescado), otherwise I would vomit before starting face lifts.
I made a slight modification in one of the appartments that I liked (mobile homes or something alike) and the modification was accepted when saving.
When I moved in my first Sim, all the furniture disappeared, except for the kitchen essential. Got upset but it was good. I could place my own furniture instead. The original furniture is a bore. They filled up the flats with objects that are extremely addictive (training equipments, etc). Have you ever heard of a super poor flat that is already rented out with fitness equipment that cost a lot? What about a piano??? (Which land is this? - ah yah, EAxisland!)
Animations are good.
The new objects as always are super adictive once Sims do not experiment discomfort. Oh yeah, it is very normal that you spin in a carroussel forever - the teen girl that live in a very rich appartment used it up to death (another female that was helping her to spin around, fell asleep in front of the carroussel and she was imprisoned). Exit without saving - aaargh!
The very rich appartment is as always a mix of everything that is very expensive in build and buy. Lots of peacocks in rooms without access, tons of pictures on the wall and the very expensive beds. Deleted all the appartments and the only one I'm probably going to use is the Mobile Homes - Good for a One Sims start.
Will I ever build my own AL appartments? - Doubt so!
Tigerlilley:
There's a no witches mod? Where?! Where?!
spaceface:
I too would like to hear more about this "No Witches" hack.
@edalbformat: The "rooms with out access" in the expensive apartments in Belladonna Cove have sekkrit doors. Not too hard to find if you actually try.
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