I thought I had planned well enough for visitor control, but apparently I missed something.  Would you mind explaining it for the non-awesome?  I would like to understand so I can improve my future houses.

No problem, TaWanda.  I just wish I had done it earlier for you (I found your house a few days ago), but I didn't realize that the link hadn't been fixed already.  It might have been interesting to see how your scheme worked out.   

I fiddled around with the address and found Tawanda's page, and then I found Tawanda's house.  Probably too late, but maybe not.

Thanks Amber!     I look forward to trying it.

Well crap, Rohinas can't even be bribed with gnomes to tolerate patchwork.   


Oh well, I'm sure you're right about the commute time to school and work from the upstairs.  I'll try to scale down next time.  It's hard for me to maintain a balance between having enough room and too much.  I always err on the side of building too big.  Next year I'm going to have to build on a 2x2 lot.

Amber, I really like your house.  It looks nice and affordable, as well as playable.  Do you have it available anywhere else for download?  I can't download most stuff from MATY anymore.   I keep getting a WordPress error -- whatever that is.  I am non-awesome about such things.

Cool, I'm glad to hear it works for you.

You're right, Jordi.  With some rearranging of stuff, the stage could be used to do a split staircase for anyone who wanted to build a similar house without building cheats.  That would also open up many other wallpaper choices for that wall.

I'll take it you're a knitter, then.    My apologies for the lame dishcloth offer.  I've never written a pattern before (gnome is my own design), but I'll do my best to write it up for you.


Vilia, Eleonora is correct, except that the 2x2 room is 8 'clicks' high.  I hope that helps.

Thank you, Amber. 

LEVEL 3x3 lot 
$138,455
Requires all EP's through Seasons + Family Fun

I tried to follow AwesomeSpec v5 when building this.  Only a copy of this was playtested, so reward & craft items were placed through various collections.  Lot cleaned with Clean Installer to remove all non-Maxis content.

Features:

-4 spacious bedrooms -- girls' and boys' rooms have plenty of room for additional beds
-4th bedroom could be used for another purpose, such as a game room or music room
-3.5 baths (1/2 bath for guests right off the Vomitorium) -- all baths have BUY
-Perimeter fence secures lot from hole-digging critters and wandering guests
-Reasonable amount of trees/shrubs.  Most trees provide leaves for compost, but could be replaced if less raking is desired
-Compost bins located in front and back yards
-Greenhouse accessible from indoors only
-Trash can inside perimeter fence to prevent kickers
-Mail table directly inside perimeter fence
-Theft-proof gnome-kicking area (or replace gnomes with The Cheat or flamingos if desired)
-Exterior burgular alarm on outside of garage (behind ivy trellis)
-Guest-friendly fishing area with secure enclosure (or you can lock guests out if you choose)
-Guest areas secured with actual doors
-High traffic areas provided with double doors
-Secure kitchen protects your food from fridge ninjas, smoke alarm also included
-Kitchen includes muffin stove for neglected children
-Dining area includes seating for 6, Caffeination Station, dishwasher & trash compactor
-Nursery includes skilling toys plus 2 separate crib cubicles for screaming infants/toddlers
-Garage has attached workout room which could later be turned into a home business/break room, or you could take the windows out of the workout room for a vampire's lair right off the garage
-3rd floor attic with stealth stairs to store boring stuff or to use as a mausoleum
-Double modular staircase to ease stair traffic
-2 small storage areas (under and next to staircase) to store Awesome Stuff like the Lot Debugger
-Sun room could be made into a covered hot tub area, observatory (probetarium), or an additional greenhouse
-Pet areas for both a cat and a dog -- dog area features a water wiggler so the dog can wash itself
-If desired, dog area could be removed or relocated to make room for a small outdoor pool





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Bribes:




For El Presidente -- Hand-knitted Real-Life Stuff to Kick (sadly, flamingo didn't get finished)  + 2 hand-knitted 100% cotton dishcloths like the one pictured (may request color preference) + submission of my simself for humilation and torture and/or mutilation

For Rohina -- 2 hand-knitted dishcloths like the one pictured (may request color preference)

edited to remove extra copy of my lot 

I hope you're not wrong.  Thank you for replying quickly.  I'll keep working on it.  I just have to do some photo-editing and write up the info.

So can you define the end of the day for me?  I have a potential entry.  I have to know when the last minute is.    I have bribes.

I love your lot --  what a wonderful idea!  I just hate loading community lots so much.  My poor sims never get to go anywhere. 

Maybe you could try uploading it to one of those free online storage/sharing type places.  I have a free 1 GB account at box.net, and I've seen that a lot of people use www.4shared.com.

I'm glad you shared this, because I've had the same problem.  I love to use skillinator, but it seems inefficient with the reward bookcase.  I'll try "concentrate" now.

I can't resist jumping in here to say how bad I miss Sagesims as well.  At one time I had a lot of their elder clothing, but lost all my downloads around Christmas.  I was so disappointed when I looked for the site again and it was gone.  If anyone has these that they would be willing to share, I would also be very grateful.   

I noticed a very odd problem with the Ottomas family (from the bin).  The mother Samantha was already pregnant and gave birth to twins.  They're not related to their father.  Their "father" is Patricia Wan (O'Mackey -- she married Gabe), who Samantha has not even met.     While amusing, it seems to be a serious glitch, possibly a VBT.

I noticed similar problems -- that sims stay in well beyond when the bars were full green, but then eventually got out autonomusly.  Fortunately, the aspiration level held out that long.  Their temperates were elevated, though.  Who knows, this could be a new Seasons "feature".    It's just one more micromanagement issue to have to babysit Sims in the energizer now.

Seasons ate my Pets too.     Thankfully Seasons works fine after reinstalling Pets, but WHY did that happen?   

Marhis, I downloaded this a few days ago and have had a lot of fun with it.  There had been no problems, just a lot of renaming and fixing townies with bald heads and/or default clothing. 

Just thought I'd share a couple of highlights.  Since Mortimer is now Morticia, I decided to age her back to adult when she married Dion Caliente:


I thought the moustache was a nice touch. 


She looks a little better after a makeover.


Oh yeah, and some Risky Woohoo made the Dawn Lothario - Cassius Goth wedding a little more interesting since she is pregnant with Niels Caliente's baby.

Anyway, I just want to thank you for sharing this neighborhood.

This is just way too awesome!  It's even beyond the level of awesomeness I have come to expect here.   

When I played the Apocalypse Challenge, I zombified most of the townies.  I'm looking forward to checking out the neighborhood with this installed.  So far the zombies have only been stealing newspapers and kicking over the trash can.  Brain-eating seems like more realistic zombie behavior.  Okay, now I'm excited and just a little bit nervous.  I'm not a big fan of zombies, so it should actually be a little scary for me.  Still, it's so cool that I just have to try it.

I have had problems with stages causing game crashes too, so I try not to use the stages if I can use foundations or dummy levels instead.  They seem to be useless for most building projects..  Here is a very interesting tutorial and thread at MTS2 about them that may be of some use to you:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=183590

I had the same problem in my game with noinstantlove.  The playable sim was the one that didn't even have a crush, although he did have a one bolt attraction for the girl and a 100/100 relationship on his side.  She already had a crush on him early in the relationship.  I eventually overcame the problem by having him drink some love potion.  I was surprised it worked, but it did.  After a few romantic interactions with the girl, he finally fell in love.  I was just glad there was still a way to make it work.

I really appreciate you for making this!  I have it bookmarked to share with the next whiny person who can't open one of my uploads because it's a .rar file.   

I'm a little slow noticing there is an update OFB, but I'm so glad.  This was one hack that I really missed.  Thank you!