Preferrable Houses
Baa:
Don't get me wrong, I love building houses, but I much rather have them built for me.
When downloading homes, I mostly look at some of the featured ones because featured lots, generally are the cream of the crop offered on the Exchange. If none of the recently featured lots interest me, I search the exchange for what I'm looking for.
A few things I avoid are:
houses with the sign.- not because I don't like custom objects and meshes, but because you can NEVER be sure what you're getting from the exchange. The lot could possibly have a hack that I do not want in my game.
Enormous lotsmy game simply can't render a 453 story mansion.
Lots with a lot of terrain paintsnot only does it make the lot look horrible, I hate sifting through the enormity that is my terrain paints catelouge.
Melancholic Madam:
I like the smaller houses for my sims. I'm talking about a 2x2 lot or a 2x3 lot. my computer handles those lots much better than the larger lots. I like one story houses best, but will play a two story house or one with a basement if it suits my needs. I don't use any money cheats, so my sims have to start out with starter homes for under $20K. I will not download anything that uses any custom content at all. I did originally when I got the game, but as it began to run slower and slower, I culled everything out. while I admire the houses and the skill involved in building the houses that Maxis picks to feature, they are not for my game. now I play my game with JM's hacks only.
I don't really have a preference on if the house is furnished or not. I do like to see how others decorate, but willl furnish it myself if it is inexpensive enough to allow for it. I've downloaded many houses off the exchange, but more recently have built my own. if I see something that I like and fits my plan, then I'll download. I use the clean installer even then to make absolute sure that nothing gets through as many of the houses on the exchange still have stuff within the package even without the warning sign.
Motoki:
re: Diagonal Doors
Supposedly this is fixed with NL and once you install NL it should no longer cause any problems. I actually had an old pre-uni house with one and never noticed any issues or even realized there was a problem until I saw others post about it. The maid always cleaned that room and it did have 2 other regular door entrances so I assume she just went through those. *shrug*
re: Featured Lots on the Exchange
Personally, I find them generally to be either huge and overly bloated or very nice to look at but horrendously unplayable. I feel like they choose the featured lots based on flashy looks over any sort of playability and I have yet to ever see anything remotely close to a starter house as a featured lot. Of course I don't check every day either.
re: The triangle symbol on the Exchange denoting custom content
I'm of two minds about that symbol. On one hand, I'm kind of glad they did it, but on the other I feel like it unfairly slaps a label on lots with any custom content, even benign Maxis custom content like the room divider or garden shrubs, to an already paranoid userbase and implies there is always something wrong or dangerous with custom content which isn't the case. Walls, foors and object recolors are pretty harmless, and anyway as long as you are installing your lots with Sims2pack Clean Installer, which everyone really should be doing, you can always browse through what is packed up in the lot and choose what you want and what you don't, even right down to unselecting all the custom content and just loading the lot itself.
For objects, if you don't have one the lot uses the game will default it to another existing object of the same type. So if I load a lot that had the alienware computer in it without loading the alienware computer package then the computer will default to become the Little Sister computer instead. Disabling the custom content and just uploading a lot itself may make some of the stuff look odd and not quite match, but it will still be furnished.
Andygal:
I don't like huge big houses because they are just impatritical, they take forever for the sims to get from A to B, and they lag my computer.
witch:
Quote from: Motoki on 2005 October 06, 04:57:09
For objects, if you don't have one the lot uses the game will default it to another existing object of the same type.
That's good to know. I wondered what would happen but I rarely download lots & haven't experimented.
For those who are interested, I've made three starter unfurnished homes (under 20K) on small lots and will make probably another 3-4 over the weekend. You will be able to download them from variousimmers under 'witch' in the next few days - I just have to take some photos and upload them. New experience for me these small lots, I keep thinking, 'oh, french doors and a patio would look nice there' and having to stop because it would cost too much. :-\
The homes I made are just like real life, cooker, sink and benches in the kitchen, shower and toilet, lights, wallpaper and carpet but no curtains or furnishings.
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