Preferrable Houses
Hook:
I prefer a fully furnished and decorated house with no custom content. And no families living in them. And unless it's a special showcase house I'd prefer that the creator has actually played the house enough to test everything. I don't mind the use of cheats while building as long as everything is playable and works.
Hook
shadow:
I don't think I've ever left a house 'as is.' I always change something. I've downloaded some houses that had rooms with no doors and other strange things. Maxis houses are the worst. The first thing I do after starting over is remodel all the houses in all the neighborhoods. (I know, kind of weird but I enjoy it.) I'd like to meet whoever designs the housed for them, they are so bad. I try to keep the same outside walls but move all the inside ones to make them livable.
BlueSoup:
Quote from: mythchick on 2005 September 30, 04:30:56
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?
I don't think so, mythchick. Once it's on the lot (even when you manually remove the terrain) it seems to "stick there," for lack of a better word. After I removed the terrain from the Downloads folder, I was never able to fix it with the 2 lots I tried to upload, and I tried it three different ways, probably about 10 different times.
And I tried to package the lot to a file too, and that didn't work either.
witch:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 September 30, 04:35:42
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.
I seem to end up with immense buildings often, partly because I experiment with different building techniques - like the internal spiral stairs with levels on either side at different heights etc. You'd be amazed at how much room a bit of innovation will take up. My PC doesn't seem to lag on large lots so I forget that others might not be able to play them. A new lot I haven't uploaded yet is a split level home in the retroville style inspired by the stuff released on MTS2. All black and white and grey, except for a touch of colour in each room. Probably end up huge even though I try to keep the filesize reasonable.
I usually play all my lots before uploading, I also include a lot of custom stuff in the way of wallpapers and floors, but like Motoki I'm wary of custom objects because of the possibbility of high polygon counts.
simposiast:
I like building, so I tend not to download lots unless someone I know asks for feedback or I'm playing a challenge.
If I'm playing rather than testing, I don't even put sims in my own lots. I prefer to start on an empty lot and build the house round the family while I'm playing. That way the sims get something that suits them, the house improves as I play, and it's an extra challenge to make incremental changes without going broke or having the sims live on a building site.
If someone disabled all my building tools, I'd pick lots with only maxis content, preferably unfurnished, with no view obstructions, no scrolling required (except up and down), flat terrain and no landscaping. The inside is more important than the outside, since the outside is going to be invisible when playing.
The sort of lot I'd be looking for would get culled. :)
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