Preferrable Houses
DrBeast:
I don't download lots or houses whatsoever. Everything in my game is custom-made by me. Uh. Everything but the University grounds. I was new to the game when I made the new 'hood so I just played along with the existing SSU.
sonofajoiner:
I like to download lots with basements, split-levels, spiral staircases and all the other stuff that I am too incompetent (and lazy) to do myself. And I vote unfurnished. I have never downloaded a furnished/decorated lot that I haven't immeadiately altered.
Gus Smedstad:
I've never downloaded any houses because I don't know where to find decent ones. The Sims Exchange is like the BBS, it's so full of noise that browsing through endless chaff to find anything worthwhile just doesn't seem worth the effort.
I selected "unfurnished," but on the other hand I think things like kitchen countertops, stoves, and the like make sense to include. And lights, let's not forget lights. I think a reasonable rule is to include anything you'd expect to find in a house that you just purchased in real life. So you don't include beds, but you do include toilets.
- Gus
witch:
I have a couple of unfurnished & semi-furnished homes along with the monster ones. Variousimmers.net has been down for hours but you could search under 'bolshywitch' on the sims2.ea.com if you like.
cwykes:
My PC is at the lower end of the specs, so I'm looking for something I can play comfortably. I mainly download things on small lots as the PC copes better, my sims don't have to spend hours getting from A to B and I don't lose track of what the others are doing while I deal with 1 sim.
I don't want any hacks included when I download, but custom content is fine. However, the house has got to be affordable by my sims. I don't use money cheats and my established sims don't move because of the portraits career objects etc etc, so the only houses I'm actually going to play are starter homes and maybe a few second homes. I downloaded a nice looking house from somewhere the other day - the price turned out to be 431,000$ - none of my sims are that rich or likely to be that rich!
I think there's a niche for small playable shops. The maxis community lots are not very playable -everything is a long way to walk and my PC couldn't cope with them at all before I bought a graphics card.
I also like a set of themed lots to give the neighbourhood some coherent style. more tudor lots for veronaville - some of the maxis starter lots have badly place stairs for example. I made some small lots on a theme with water and willows along the back of each lot so you could put them next to each other and get a fake river on the neighbourhood map. I'm sure one of you clever people could do a lot more with that idea and I'd love to know how it works in NL when you can see next door from your house. This pic was taken a while back, the neigbourhood has grown since then! I put them on TSR as I have downloaded so much free stuff from there, it seemed like a fair payback. they also check lots for hacks which I like. I'm cwykes there if you want to see individual lots - PMs and comments welcome!
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