Fat Dormies
Gus Smedstad:
Quote from: Hook on 2007 May 19, 03:33:54
It used to be that people used the weight benches and the treadmill. Now, they only use the treadmill.
Yeah, I noticed that too. I stopped using the community lots well before I installed Nightlife, and this is the first time I've been back. So I have no idea which expansion borked the weight benches.
- Gus
Zazazu:
Quote from: sagana on 2007 May 18, 21:51:07
And I've got the dorms gender-divided also, so they go to the community lots to date or have study dates or meet each other in the library.
What! Everyone knows that fully coed dorms are the only way to go. Otherwise you don't get near the level of debauchery that makes Uni fun.
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I don't like "everything in one lot" community lots. I like different places with different atmospheres and for them to have to move around.
The problem with everything community lots is that you only need one. That means you end up going to the same lot, over and over and over. I have one all-in-one lot downtown. It's the only lot I have downtown. It only exists so that my sims have someplace to go when some random person calls them telling they've found "a new place downtown", which reaches new levels of hilarity when there's only one lot. All other community lots are focused and either in the neighborhood or, coming soon, in Uni (I'm thinking only a coffee shop and a bookstore/clothing store, as I'm dorm-centric). Saish (named after Saish Test, my sim first family in TS1 & TS2) is a restaurant/club (restaurant level is a loft equal to approximately 3 floors in height, yummy), but that's as much multitasking as lots can do.
Gwill:
I tend to have one type of lot for each purpose. I have one date-lot, with everything they could possibly need to have a great time (including a restaurant, since dates always roll that stupid dine out want) and woohoo in every thinkable possition. I have one lot for shopping, usually a very small lot; with absolutely everything a sim can buy. Then last I try to build a "fun" lot for outings, but I never manage to get them right (neither the lots or the outings).
Gus Smedstad:
Well, I made a mini-campus lot with a dorm, student union, library, and gym as separate buildings. In testing it, I rather liked the effect. It felt more "real." It's sort of deliberately inefficient, since the travel times to stuff like bookcases and computers are somewhat long, but that's not a huge drawback for students who have too much time anyway.
However, even though my computer has moderately beefy arms, it was a bit slow. I turned on the frame rate monitor, and found I was getting 7-10 FPS, vs. the 17-20 FPS that's more common for my normal dorm. I suppose I should have expected that, the Sims 2 has always been kind of slow compared to other games.
The real problem of course is when the game's really stressed. On my normal lot 10 FPS isn't a big deal, but 2 FPS on the mini-campus is painful. So I guess I'll stick to what I'm doing, though I kind of like the design of the dorm-section of the mini campus better than my current dorm.
- Gus
Sagana:
Too bad, it sounds like fun. But yeah, that'd be my other reason for avoiding 'all in one' lots - my computer barely runs the game, really. I can tell when a lot in my bin is too big just by mousing over it - there's a distinct pause before it's willing to take a glance.
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