At a guess, considering they seem to mostly have wedding items, pro-nup, nup as in nuptial.

Personally I think that entries are still 'valid' until the next thread is posted. Also, this one wasn't posted until a week into February, the shortest month.

But honestly, it's not really a competition as such, there's no deadline.

Six lots this time -- lots 9 through 14. Lots 9, 11, and 13 are community lots, designed to go next to each other. 10, 12 and 14 are residential.


10 Cosy Lane ($41,368)



Interior:


Roof:


Children's cubby house:


Lower level:


Upper level:


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12 Cosy Lane ($30,330)



Downstairs:


Upstairs:


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14 Cosy Lane ($28,756)



Downstairs:


Upstairs:


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Cosy Lane Pool (#9; $23,244)



Downstairs:


Upstairs:


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Cosy Lane Books and Coffee (#11; $21,639)



Downstairs:


Upstairs:


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Cosy Lane Witchery Emporium (#13; $15,730)



Downstairs:


Upstairs:


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I voted:

Personally I doubt it'll do much good. Unfortunately. When was the last time a write-in candidate won, in anything?

It's just the island snack shop thing... None of them looked quite right for that place, but the island one was closest.

I held on to Win 98 for as long as I possibly could. I liked it. By the time I replaced that computer, all the secondhand ones around were already on XP, which I've been using ever since, even paying extra to get it on my new PC last year instead of Vista.

Win98 caused me fewer problems than XP, which also has been mostly flawless. The biggest 'issues' have been with compatibility for older games. (GRRR at Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire. The patches are what broke it, the patches that were rolled into the CD version I was trying to install from. I had to 'pirate' it to get an XP-working version.) Said issues are more than enough to convince me to not go newer, at any cost.

Can you not just knock on the apartment neighbour's door and ask them to come out? Works for me. (Except after 10pm, as apparently neighbours need their beauty sleep.)

Hmm. I went in to check, and you're right, it doesn't appear to be there in AL.

Unless I'm looking in the wrong place?

There's a roof slider? Hmm... In AL, you say? I must look into this.

Okay, so, I'd actually finished the lot when I exited out to hood view. I went in today and experimented with roofs (Really, spell-check? Roofs? Shouldn't it be rooves? No? Okay then.) since I figure this lot should look decent in the hood as well as in the lot itself. (Especially as the exterior is far more imposing than the interior.) I had to raise the roofing from the 10 degrees of the old picture to 35 degrees to make it not look horrible in hood view. (It could have gone down to 30 if I hadn't roofed over the food thing.)

Anyway, it's a comm lot, imaginatively titled Tomb of the Ancients. The blurb is as follows: Located deep in the jungles of your local neighbourhood are wonders and mysteries just waiting to be discovered by you, the lucky one millionth visitor!

Price: $45,281

(If you want to change the roof yourself, the cheat is roofslopeangle 35 where 35 is the degree of angle you are after.)



'Upstairs' (original building)


'Downstairs'


And the hood shot:


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And I'm done for the month. Hurrah!

I was working on another, a community lot, and I was quite pleased with the look of the roofing, here:


But I'm not so sure about the roofing in hood view...

Heh, well, I do have a fondness for shades of brown, and beige is one of those. But, noted. It is a little extreme with the beige, now that I take a look. That may be what was bothering me about that one, there was something 'off' about it, I just couldn't put my finger on it.

Pond Row really isn't intended for more than one or two Sims, as is, though the upstairs could always be extended where the roof is. But there shouldn't be a problem with the stairs, they're the modular type, which allow for multiple passengers at any one time. The only problem might be the roof-top landing not allowing sims to pass, being just one tile, but there's nothing to do on the roof but stargaze, so I don't imagine it'd be a high traffic area. And, of course, the stairs can be locked at ground level, to keep pesky visitors out. (I recommend setting the BUY in the stairwell bathroom to family-only.)

As for that 'idea' I had... I present 10 Old Road, also in dorm and apartment flavour. (The pictures are of the residential version... The apartments include the bathrooms, the dorms just cover the bedrooms. In the case of the basement, the bathroom door was moved on the dorm version. The dorm version also has the dorm-chef stove.) I tried to give it an 'added on' look, with the three story part of the building obviously of different construction to the two story part, as if some enterprising sim had tried to add to the original, but was unable to find exactly the same materials.

Price: $54,777 / Rent: $363-$473

Sleeps 8 in residential, divided into four in the dorm and apartment versions. (Each area sleeps two, though dorms can only have one occupant.)





Basement:


First Floor:

(I recommend replacing the gnomes at the end of the walkway with The Cheat.)

Second Floor:


Third Floor:


Download the residential version.
Download the dorm version.
Download the apartment version.
(I have all EPs, FFS, GLS, K&B, H&M)

I'd be interested in hearing about that too. I mean, it does seem like it would work, as apartments. (Two, the upstairs rooms, with the bottom level - kitchen/living - as communal, most likely.) If anyone wants to do that, excellent!

I'd convert it myself, but I've just had another idea for an apartment-style version of this lot. (I suspect I'll be offering this one in both dorm and apartment versions, but it all depends on how well the build goes.)

My entry on page 1 of this thread, or one of the two on page 5? I'm thinking you mean the first, from the gist of your comment (external staircases, tiny studio apartment-sized floors, etc) but the individual floors already have bathrooms.

I see. That's about what I expected, really. Since I don't fancy trying to keep things around forever, I think I'll give custom genetics a miss. At least I have decent default replacements.

I haven't got any skins in my game that are not default replacements at the moment. What I'm wondering is, what would happen if I installed and later removed custom skins? Would it break any Sims 'wearing' them, would those sims just default to some other skintone, or what? Same goes for hair and eyes.

I'm thinking of getting some geneticised skins, or geneticising them myself if I can find a tutorial. Would removing a geneticised skin be different to removing any other skin? (ie, would they 'default' to a close genetic match?)

I had a quiet day (hurrah!) and an idea rattling around in my head, so I've made another already... 10 Pond Row costs $31,896. It was inspired by O'Neill's cabin in Stargate, though at best it's just a vague likeness.







Obviously I took out all of the trees, replacing them with different trees, in different places. I did try to preserve the feel of the lot, though.

Upstairs:


Downstairs:


Download it here. (I have all EPs, FFS, GLS, K&B, H&M)

I've been hanging on to this one for a week, because something just wasn't right. I went in today, finally, and decorated it. I used the same street name as one of my lots last month, and I think I'll do this in future, build little 'theme' sets of House of Fail houses.

Anyway, here it is at last, 10 Cottage Hill. It can be yours for just $44,190!





(Yes, every tree and shrub is in its original place.)

Downstairs:

(The three 'nursery' rooms can be converted to single-bed bedrooms and/or bathrooms as needed.)

Upstairs:


Download it here. (I have all EPs, FFS, GLS, K&B, H&M)

The platinum aspiration is pretty much permanent from what I've seen. LTW satisfaction can be toggled, aspiration satisfaction can not. Which is annoying sometimes, because my born in game sims all manage to get there before leaving uni.

I was initially not that hot on OFB, but, since I've purchased it, I've realised it really is my favourite EP.

That said, I am so not interested in seeing what goes on at my Sims' day to day jobs. If I wanted to see my Sims being bossed around, I'd be bossing them around. All 'going to work' would do would be to interrupt the flow of bossing.

Besides, how would that even work? Different sims are in different careers, and all. I can just imagine trying to follow 8 sims through their individual but coincidentally 9-5 Mon-Fri jobs. No thanks!

I would be happy just being able to fill my existing ally slots with my own vessels. You can fill your creature pack with your own creatures, after all.

A heads up here, the octagonal roof bleeds over the single bed a bit, but my test sim had no problem relaxing on it, it seems it's purely graphical.

Okay, I tried the lot adjuster thing, and it was a lot easier than it looked. This is what I did with it:

8 Cosy Lane (Price: $20,377)



Downstairs:


Upstairs:


Download: Here

I'll look into the lot adjuster thing, but the excess space doesn't really bother me. I'd be too concerned that I'd build the lot in the wrong place and cut half the lot off if I tried to shrink it. Heh.

As for the greenhouse, I actually built it with plantsims in mind, which is why the lot is packed with those garden lights.

And the house on stilts was made because I was missing Darwin in this heatwave. Though I'm not sure why I made it so dark. I never do dark.