You can, you just have to befriend the ghost first. Also, the ghost must be 'in' the grave when you pick it up, ie, not haunting. I've resurrected two pre-dead ghosts now, it works.

Children (regardless of traits) and older sims with the insane or childish traits can fish in the pool, and they do actually catch fish. I think they might need a level of fishing skill before they catch anything, but they can gain skill without catching anything.

I would be in favour of ghosts not aging, so long as you could still use a birthday cake or shift-click to force aging.

Elder ghosts just don't seem to die, I had one live twice as long as she should have as an elder before I gave up and forced an age transition, ie, death. But, I've heard that the 'So-and-so on another lot is getting pretty old' message just keeps popping up for them. That's really the only thing keeping me from playable ghosts, because at some point I would want to boot their undying arses out.

The one ghost I had was a drowning ghost, so I gave her the Hydrophobic trait. I think I'd give electrocution ghosts the Technophobe trait. There's not really a negative fire trait, though...

I'm not seeing the same-ness. Maybe in the pre-mades, but born in game sims look different enough to me. For example, here's a set of triplets shortly after becoming teens:



The middle one most closely resembles the made-in-CAS father, so any oddness there is not the game's fault, exactly. (Though that blasted smiling made the mouth rather difficult.)

At some point in the law enforcement career (mid-level?) you get given a police car, as a regular owned car. My ex-law enforcement sim went on to a life of crime, it was amusing seeing him come home from work in his police car. Heh.

Later on you also get a free laptop, but that seems to be identical to any other laptop.

I switched households after stocking one sim's pond with deathfish, and the new household was able to drop by and catch a few deathfish, in broad daylight.

And yet playing the toddler xylophone gives a bonus towards playing guitar later in life.

I've had a Sim trotting over the countryside for unknown special seeds, and there does appear to be a small chance of them growing into death flowers. He has four perfect death flowers now. (Also, I think he brought one home from work once as a random thing. Science career.) Life and flame fruit plants are far more common.

Also, it seems that money trees drop their seeds once they reach perfect state, I noticed this sim's trees (he has six now, thanks to those unknown special seeds) slowly increasing in health over time, and no seeds dropped before they reached perfect. Haven't played long enough to see if they die or more seeds drop, though.

As for novels, he had written three of each (including satire - possibly unlocked by three humour - and fantasy - three sci-fi?) when I noticed Vaudeville was an option. It definitely wasn't when he had only written two of each type. I have no clue what unlocked it, though.

Bah. Ghosts. I'm assuming as playable, otherwise they'd be no different to Sims 1/2. But what can ghosts even do? "Ooh, look at me, I'm slightly see-through. Uh, I mean, BOO!"

I'm finding these stretched toddlers hilarious. They look like something out of sci-fi.

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Speaking of, I know it's a minor question with the wealth of crap to wade through, but do we have alien abductions in the game? Or any 'supernatural' element?

You know, those people (like myself) who've been there since the Sims 1, no bloody A, B, C, or D expansion packs, and have to get them all. Completists. Of course, I'm quite happy to be a pirate cat completist, especially since my issues with BV and SecuRom. It doesn't matter how I get them, or even if I like them, I just have this compulsive need to have them. It's stupid, but there it is.

Home Away From Home, a simple community lot. I decided not to extend the buildings at all, but I did gut and rebuild the interiors. If you wanted to buy it and own it as a business, you can expect to be set back around $57,957. I have play-tested it, and everything works.














Download it here. (I have ALL EPs and SPs.)

Heh. Reading comprehension for the lose. Thanks.

Hm. The separate buildings present an interesting challenge. I think I'll actually try and keep them separate for now, see how far that gets me.

Does this also prohibit building a second story above the gap? (You'd have to build in underneath temporarily in order to place the walls all the way across, but it could be done.)

Putting them on Power Idle and locking them out of sensitive areas usually does the trick.

I just keep the non-apartment version of the lot in the bin, and convert it to an apartment in the uni subhood.

The 'requirements' that change month to month are always optional, anyway. Just so long as you follow the 'leave external walls in place' (though not necessarily external) rule, you're golden. Replacing them with other types of wall, ie, greenhouse walls, is also generally allowed.

The tombstone can be on a different lot -- I used to routinely resurrect dead dormies at the SS lot, before AL and the mod that allows uni apartments. Their tombstones would disappear from the dorm when I sent my sims back from the SS lot.

That's why you put everything 'interesting' on the first floor, and the second floor is just beds and bathrooms. Only one of my residential 1x1s doesn't follow that, because I was going for something specific.

I know the feeling. I came straight from a series of 1x1s, so the apartments I've made out of this one all feel kind of large and sprawling to me, especially the red and dark blue ones.

Hmm, I had that happen on one of my uni apartment lots, but I typically have everything bar beds in the common area (especially so in this one, which was actually built as a dorm) so I didn't really notice any motive drains. Certainly neither of them died. I actually used it later on to move their old townie roommate over to the other flat, via 'propose... be roommate'.

I have everything except TSS, Ikea, M&G, if that makes any difference.

I think I tried clearing everyone off with the teleporter cat (but I'm not sure about that) and the residents certainly had moved back to the main hood, and had actually been played since. The woman kept showing up pregnant, which she certainly hadn't been when leaving uni.

Go ahead! Heh. I didn't actually rotate them though, that's a floor with a horizontal and vertical version. What I did was make a big X across the gazebo, then fill two sections with one floor, and the other two with the other, but rotating for two of the sections would also work. I did it in the September house too, probably even with the same floor.

74 Seaside Boulevard apartments. Rent ranges from $547 to $1,144





Basement: Three apartments. Pool.


Common area: Multimedia Room. Gym. Bar out the back.


Upstairs: Two apartments. Veranda.


Around the side: Garage apartment. Pagoda.

(Note: Garage apartment does have a ceiling, but it was temporarily removed for this shot.)

Download it here. (Or download the residential version here.)

Compatibility: I have everything except TSS, Ikea and M&G. AL required.

Good call with this house... It's so huge and oddly shaped. And huge. (I've been working with 1x1s lately...)

Definitely a challenge!

It is basegame converted, isn't it? Never mind, I can't read... But still, as long as you have one EP from later than OFB, it should be fine, shouldn't it? Missing OFB objects, but so would a base-game version.