Preferrable Houses
Motoki:
Quote from: cwykes on 2005 October 01, 09:11:04
2. for a starter home 1 bedroom is enough with room for a double and 1 or 2 singles. No point having 2 small rooms with low room scores instead of 1 with a reasonable score.
I know this was a big thing with TS1, but I find room size to not play any signifigant factor on environment score in TS2. In fact, the headmaster almost always scores little bathrooms highest and likes them best of all the rooms I show him, including large nice well lit ones with expensive furniture and artwork. Go figure.
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3. a starter family can manage with 1 bathroom, but a 2nd bathroom is always the first thing you have to add. If you only have 1 bathroom, don't put a sink in it, just shower and loo. Neat sims can wash their hands in the kitchen sink and vacate the bathroom!
I agree. For my poor sims just starting out, I don't mess with bathroom sinks. In fact, I'd say for a second bathroom if the budget is really tight, even just a toilet is fine. My parents' house and the house of friends of mine both have a toilet only bathroom downstairs with the main bathroom upstairs. Toilets are by far the more important of the 2 as they have to use them more often and guests will also need to use them.
I also personally prefer the shower or tub to be divided by a wall or off in a separate room altogether as from a functional point of view it makes more sense for sims so that they aren't prevented from using the toilet when someone is showering or vice versa. As long as the shower isn't more than 10 squares from the toilet, Bathroom Uses You should still be able to detect it if someone is using that hack. This isn't something that I would not download a lot for mind you, it's easy enough to rearrange, it's just sort of my functional sim philosophy on building. ;)
Hook:
I don't mind more expensive homes. Some of the best fun I had in Sims 1 was getting a family enough money to buy the expensive house on the hill.
Besides, money's ridiculously easy to make, especially with Uni. And now that we can take career rewards with us (in the inventory) there's no reason not to start in a small starter home and trade up when funds are available. And all this is without cheating if you prefer to play that way, which I do.
But all in all, I enjoy building sometimes and it's great fun to make a Sim house from house plans or based on a real house. After playing for a while, you get to know, just looking at a house plan, what will work well and what won't. I suspect the real houses will be the same way, as the houses I've built from real life have had the same problems the real house had.
Hook
Zeljka:
I don't download many homes, but I do prefer the smaller ones.
The first thing I do is remove all floors and wallpaper and furniture, replacing it with my own choices. I suppose my ideal would be one story, no foundation, affordable without cheats and nothing in it, but a lot of pictures of the place decorated and lived in so I can see where things should go.
It needs to have at least one unobstructed view in, preferably 2 or more. I only use the Holy Smoke stairs inside and always place my fridge near the back or side so it's not in my way. I prefer my kitchen large enough for a table and also separate toilet/shower for improved efficiency.
Kyna:
I like inexpensive houses with cheap furniture because I play with Pescado's No20kHandout mod. I need small to medium, relatively inexpensive houses for my financially challenged graduates, with 2 or 3 bedrooms - or room to expand later - and preferably a foundation and/or a second bathroom. (If they're really broke, they get the smallest lot with a 3x2 bathroom and live on the lawn until they can afford a real house).
I like houses to be decorated, even if only cheap paint and floor coverings, as I suck at interior decoration.
I play TS2U (not getting NL until Pescado's fixed it) with Pecado's Director's Cut. I want houses that work well with these hacks - so I'm not into pretty diagonal doors that make my game go ugly, or bathrooms too close to each other that won't work well with BathroomUsesYou.
I don't want to download a house with hacks. I'm choosy about which hacks I allow into my game (after a bad experience where I downloaded the alienware computer with a house) I'd prefer it if builders made their houses hack-free and let me decide what hacks I want in my game. Similar situation with custom walls & floors - I'm sick of files in my download directory with names that are alphanumeric garbage.
I hate building houses. If anyone knows a free site where I can find houses that fit my criteria, please let me know.
BTW, Cwykes, I have your Willow Walk series already. As my sim families expand, I find the houses are easy to expand by adding an upstairs ... they're the kind of houses I look for.
jewels:
I used to prefer to build my own, but they always turned into a wreck once I started adding on rooms and such. Now I much prefer to download other people's lots because they have the talent that I'm lacking. I also like to see how creative people can get in the design of the house and with the furnishings.
-J
Edit: I forgot.. I also prefer small-medium houses because they are much easier to navigate and keep track of everyone in them.
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