Preferrable Houses
Zandi:
I perfer smaller to medium houses with out those freaking terrain paints!
I seriously ended up with over 100 of those freaking things at one point.... Took forever to be rid of them.
Custom content is cool I don't mind objects wall papers floors and what not though I end up moving the stuff in to the right floders with the clean installer so I have just skins ect in my downloads folder.
As for hacks I prefer to choose my own thank you. With my luck I'd end up with hacks that conflict with the ones I allready have.
I Hate that most people seem to focus on creation mansions of extreeme splender.
My computer can handle it but my sims end up wondering all over the place and my game ends up being played with an added mini game of pause and hunt the sims as I realize someones wondered off.
gethane:
Quote from: Gus Smedstad on 2005 September 30, 12:19:29
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
I'd agree from a realistic point of view, however, my new sims DEPEND on those "buy toilet," "buy shower," and "buy refridgerator," wants at the beginning for a nice start on a money tree :)
humybyrd:
I tend to only download houses that have significant terrain changes. I can make houses that are simple but the more spectacular ones like 'mike inside' with mountain paths and underground houses are things that are harder to do and I will get them to see how they are done. I have never had a problem with terrain paints and have a high end machine so the lag is rarely there. Some furniture like toilets and counters is ok but generally I will delete the furniture and redecorate the interior. Most of what I build I don't upload due to the size of the lots-I make recreations of historical places and they tend to be quite large. Right now I am working on a New York Asylum called "house on the hill" and even without wallpaper and decorations it is well over the 100,000 mark, and so huge that most would not be able to play it. I will get the ones from others along these same lines, like that beautiful mosque on mts2 which has custom content such as roofing peices so custom content really depends on what it is. My rule is if its simple enough for me to build in a hour or so than I dont download it.
Kristalrose:
I mainly build my own homes. I'm a history buff, and so I love building period homes (and then converting a bedroom to a bathroom, LOL, I don't make them use outhouses, though I did with TS1). But I like downloading community lots. My favorites are the ones that look like little old towns, rows of brick two and three story buildings with little shops and resturaunts.
I don't like downloading houses with custom terrains and with any hacks and stuff because I like to see what I'm getting. It's okay if it has custom wallpapers, floors, and building objects, if I can see them and I like them. :) I just downloaded a store from the BBS that had a wallpaper section. I couldn't see that in the pictures and it wasn't mentioned in the description (just housewares). So, all these blocks of Wallpaper were not noticable. And they are hideous, and they are priced at $999, so they really aren't even usable!! I had to take them out of my game.
lefty:
Quote from: mmmyrs on 2005 September 30, 03:45:40
Hack-free and custom object free. I hate when I get a bunch of stuff I didn't download myself. I hate huge palaces that don't have a live-in-me feel.
Definately the same sentiments here. I like small to medium houses, with little to no custom content, and furnished.
I haven't got a creative bone in me, and furnishing/building houses is always a chore.
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