Preferrable Houses
MsMaria:
I prefer a medium sized house that is at least partially furnished. I too, like to see how others decorate. I tend to change it, but it's fun to get an idea of some else's tastes.
I don't care for crazy terrain, flat is fine with me. Easier for the gardner.
shadow:
I normally prefer to build my own but sometimes I get lazy and look for houses to download. I look for something unusual, though not weird. Usually, I remodel and redecorate them so I don't really care if they are furnished or not.
Myth:
Thanks everyone. I really appreciate your input. I'm in building mode with all of the new tools and options in NL. I haven't been inspired in a while, so I'm actually having fun building. I never upload terrains because I know they cause problems. I usually upload unfurnished lots because that seems to be the preference but really have a hard time doing it because I love decorating and think that even if all of my decor is deleted they may use the same layout or get the general idea of what I was going for, but another benefit to unfurnished is that they are very small files.
Small and medium lots do not seem like the most popular downloads but I like building on them because as cool as the huge lots can be I hate having a huge beautiful lot that's not any fun to play because it lags my PC.
Trey I tend to stick to ranch style homes for playing as well as I hate sending them up and down stairs and flipping between the levels when I am trying to see what my silly Sims are up too. I love a good ranch style home with a great floor plan. But I usually build two story homes for uploads. (They just tend to be not so blah.)
I am a horrible landscaper. My yards tend to be pretty average. Every now and then I get a cool idea, but the gardeners get on my nerves and I always forget to water the flowers and end up with dead dirt. So I stick to trees, potted plants, ponds and pools for outdoor decoration.
Blue, question about custom terrains. I didn't know about the terrains causing crashes when deleted like most simmers until after I had used a few. If I manually go house to house and cover the custom terrains with Maxi's terrains, will that make it so that I can delete the custom stuff without making my lots unplayable?
Anywho, thanks again everyone. Sorry to get so wordy, it's late, I have a huge headache and I think I'm getting delirious. So without further ado. I'm going to ditch for the night before I end up nominated in RL.
Good night. ;)
Motoki:
I generally like them furnished, particularly for starter houses. Most times I will change or move some things, but I at least like having a base to work off of and knowing the essentials are budgeted out already before I move someone in.
Playable, obviously, is important. I've been suprised how many people make houses they don't play. Just because something looks nice doesn't mean you sims won't go nuts and complain like hell about not being able to reach certain things. And in this respect, Maxis is often just as guilty as users (try hiring the gardener in the Smith house in Strangetown >:( ).
I don't really see any reasons to ever intentionally include hacks, but some custom content is okay. I don't mind walls and floors and recolors if tasteful. I'm wary of custom objects though because a lot of them can have crazy high poly counts. As mentioned, the terrains are also a problem due to a Maxis bug, which hopefully will be fixed at some point *crosses fingers*
I also generally do not use money cheats and thus will very rarely download any houses over 100k no matter how nice they look because I just probably won't ever get to use them. For the families that have over that much, they tend to be well established and I'm more or less happy where they are would rather expand than move, so I usually only download low to mid range houses.
Since Nightlife, another important factor for me is that the house either have a driveway or enough space on the left side to put a driveway in.
Motoki:
Quote from: mythchick on 2005 September 30, 04:30:56
Small and medium lots do not seem like the most popular downloads but I like building on them because as cool as the huge lots can be I hate having a huge beautiful lot that's not any fun to play because it lags my PC.
I notice this too and I really don't understand this. Besides the slowness that you noted, I just don't see the point in them. If you don't money cheat, you'll probably never have a need for them. I prefer to upgrade as I go. However, most starter houses are too small for upgrading a whole heck of a lot (although you'd be suprised just how much I've managed to fit on some small lots) and I generally have to move those sims from a starter to a mid range with room for expansion. Starters are always welcome too, particularly furnished ones so I can move in new somes into unique houses and not have to worry.
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