Originally Posted by Outfit_Planner

In the spaces behind the lower level of the castle I added wall lights, 2 pistores, 2 back room beds and 2 bath tubs.
To do this you need buydebug on and moveobjects on. The back room bed is a grey cube. Since I now have 4 advisors, this keeps them from filling all the benches up when they need a nap. It also keeps traffic down outside the monarch's bathroom.
Since I now have 4x the guards, I also bought some more guard positions for the castle. In buydebug this is the shield icon which becomes a red cube in furnish mode. It is invisible in play mode.

By the by, has anyone figured out what the green cube is?

Originally Posted by ladyskye

I guess if it gets really busy there you can get more inspiration and make more money that way. If you were able to hide an archive there somewhere you could write there as well. I guess you could put one outside or something. Can a bard use a scribe's desk to write or just an archive? Never tried the scribes desk.

Originally Posted by ladyskye

I did it when playing my Monarch. I used shift+click and then chose buy on this lot. I imagine you can do it with any Hero, but in my experimental Kingdom (in the Eternal Kingdom) that I only use for playing with lots and whatnot, there is only a monarch. The money for the modifications come out of the money of the Hero you're playing when you do it. So far my Monarch in my other games has had the biggest pot. Otherwise you can use a 'motherlode' or two to do it.

Originally Posted by ShadowTek

it would be cool if there was a mod so that only family members of that building could enter a room, like my royal bed chambers, and kids room, if only my family could enter these rooms

Originally Posted by ShadowTek

Thanks for the tip off of the grey cube, I use a mod that also doubles the staff, also I added one to places like the tavern as the bar maid has nowhere to sleep.

I also added a bunch of bathtubs in the hallway in castle so the npcs would not always use my familys bathtub.. it would be cool if there was a mod so that only family members of that building could enter a room, like my royal bed chambers, and kids room, if only my family could enter these rooms, I know theres a lock door mod in grimms core, but that doesn't help as if locked, nobody can enter. mabey a mod that does what grimms mod does but family members can pass.. now that would be cool

Also I moved a door to another room, will that work? the side door on the wall in upper castle room, I moved from the left/center room to the right/center room.. is that ok?

Originally Posted by happyopi

I'm fairly certain that is an option shipped with the current patch, you have to click on the floor of whatever room you want to lock and set the privacy.
It is kind of working ok for me, I guess.



And thank you people for the grey cube tip ! Will try it asap
I grew tired of seeing my barman's wife (rightclicked him to woo her) attempting to sleep in my bard's bed. And failing because it was assigned to the bard.

Originally Posted by ladyskye

But a word of warning using the buydebug on. Whatever you put in the game will stay in the game. You have to use the undo function to get rid of whatever you placed, so choose wisely. If you have saved, have auto save, or have gone on to another piece of property, you're stuck with what you did. You will still be able to move whatever it is, but you can't sell/delete it.

Originally Posted by ChickieTeeta

Thanks for posting this, thought I was going insane trying to get back in to change something I'd done to the castle garden lol.
I found though that I was unable to move the object I picked up and could only sell/delete it.
I think you started this thread a while ago, so don't know if something has changed since you posted this, although I'm using shift-click 'buy on this lot', which I think is not the same as 'buydebug on' since I don't have access to the spawners (not that I've noticed anyway)
I've found that my camera won't autotrack a sim now if they're up the stair, it will swing to the correct spot but on the lower level. Just in this one kingdom, the rest of my kingdom castles still work fine, (even the other one I re-did the garden in.) The camera worked ok before I altered the castle garden, so thought it probably has something to do with this.
You seem to have played around a lot with decorating the no-go areas, is this something you've experienced before?
It's a brand new kingdom so haven't done anything else to it that I shouldn't have. Would be nice to know if you've found a specific area that shouldn't have an object placed on it so I can avoid it in future kingdoms.

Originally Posted by ladyskye

Not sure what caused the camera tracking problem. Can't say as I've had that problem. When you use the buydebug on there is a plethora of stuff available to you. You will find the wizards tower and all sorts of things. But you can't use the extra buildings they're just big space takers. Someone did a post on the castle gardens they had buily to the side of the castle. Be careful not to move anything too close to the property boundries. Otherwise, I didn't find any spot that I wanted to steer clear of because it caused problems with the camera view or with game play. You will notice little red cubes if you use buydebug on. These little red cubes are your sentry stations. If you put furniture too close to them you will end up with route fail problems. Also I did run into the problem of not being able to delete certain things that I picked up with buydebug on if I had already saved or left the property. But other than that, I haven't found too many problems. If you read through the thread you will see some of the things that people have created and also a couple of the problems they ran into.

But I don't know what's causing your camera problem or why it would stop tracking your active Sim correctly. I've now made well over 70 Kingdoms and haven't had camera tracking problems with any of the 'wow,-I-didn't-know-I-could-put-stuff-here' areas. It's just been a trial and error crapshoot since nobody realized you could do some of this stuff until some of us got bored without our Sims build function and started to experiment. I found out I could make the Jacoban Cathedral more interesting by adding a fish spawner and letting people fish there.

If anybody has had this problem please let ChickieTeeta know and also what you did to correct it and if you know what caused it.

Originally Posted by ChickieTeeta

I started the game to test my stand alone no jealousy mod and ended up building uber fountains, adds a whole new level of fun =D
I put in the lion head fountain with the waterfall, and the 'small waterfall' sound file, it sounds excellent, definitely what the ones in the reception halls are missing. Tried out the fish spawners too.

Do you know what the various balls are for? There's no description only a string of numbers, and I'm not brave enough to throw one in.
I assume the backroom bed square works? I threw a few beds from buy mode into a corridor in one of my castles a while back, can't say I noticed it making a huge difference. If these squares work (and I assume they do) is it one square per bedless sim, or does it just direct all bedless sims to the corridor it's in? Just curious I'll check that out at some point , but if you know the answer I'd be glad to hear it.

Originally Posted by ladyskye

I started fooling with the balls and almost immediately stopped. Whenever I added one and then tried to save, I ended up having an endless save loop that I had to use C+Alt+Delete to shut the game down. It crashed the game every time I used one. So I never figured out what they were. I think they are some kind of coding for particular actions or things.

If there is a search function on the coding tool you use for mods then try copy and paste the number string into the search function and you may get an answer. They may be coding markers used with the different building and place functions in the game. I don't know what the green cube is for either. If you are able to find out, let me know because I'm curious.

Originally Posted by ChickieTeeta

Oh I came across a few of those balls that were social jigs, don't know if they all are though and it didn't say which was which.
I saw the green cube while I was looking for the red one, and wondered what that was for too. I couldn't find the red one though, and didn't want to try and clone the ones that were there, incase that caused problems.

*EDIT* Meant to say that I fixed the problem with the camera tracking. I'd put a spit in the castle garden forgetting that it's used from the side and not the front. I had to move it inside the castle and the camera worked again.
Don't really see why this would have caused a problem since I have items in the exact same place in other kingdoms and never had a problem with that.

Originally Posted by ladyskye

I tried cloning the red ones and had the same freeze/crash problems. (Now this may be something that my computer does and that yours will not. I play on a laptop and the game does have some issues with laptops.) But I was never able to establish what the green cube does. There is a white ball called magic that I tried placing and again had the freeze/crash every time I used it.

Originally Posted by ChickieTeeta

I saw the white one too, again not really brave enough to place it. I wonder if it has something to do with placing the wizards tower building into the game when you buy it?
Yeah I figured if the red cubes weren't even available in buydebug mode then placing more might not be such a good idea and again my bravery problems lol. Have you tried moving the ones already placed to different places? If you have, does it object to that too? I assume there's been no sign of a green cube anywhere that's already been placed by the game? I also have to assume that with 70 or so kingdoms you must have redecorated absolutely every part by now, so would have come across the green cube somewhere by now if it were there.

Originally Posted by ladyskye

I was unsure whether to put this under gameplay or information. I chose information to keep it safe. A little while ago we had a thread discussing kitchens and what not.

There's quite a bit you can do in the game. I made the two gardens on each side of the castle. One is a meditation garden and the other is a chess garden. With buydebug on I was able to use the herb spawners to pseudo landscape with. And it gives my Master Spy plenty of places to gather herbs that are quite close buy without having to take days to travel the kingdom. These also regenerate faster, than if you use the ones that come in the game. I was able to use the Jacoban cathedral windows in the throne room and in my spy's private quarters. No other windows are available in buydebug on which is odd since the Peteran windows and the plain windows should show up but don't You will have to use your ?key to lower the windows as they start out quite high.

I used mineral spawners and herb spawners around the blacksmith shop and the merchants yard. If you use wildflowers to landscape the merchant yard she/he will not have to wander from literally one end of the kingdom to the other gathering them. I also added an extra mail drop. It is usable but the Sims will walk right through it so it's a little freaky.

But a word of warning using the buydebug on. Whatever you put in the game will stay in the game. You have to use the undo function to get rid of whatever you placed, so choose wisely. If you have saved, have auto save, or have gone on to another piece of property, you're stuck with what you did. You will still be able to move whatever it is, but you can't sell/delete it.

The fountain in the meditation garden was created with the move objects on and I added the two statues on each side of the fountain.
I found that with the tavern I could sink the corner fireplace well into the wall thus saving space and still retaining function. If you do this in a room that has another room directly to the side, it will cut through the wall and show on the other side. The wine casks can be sunk into the wall by quite a bit as well and still function creating much more room upstairs for the Bard.

There are a number of rabbit warren hallways that are behind walls and rooms that you can accidentally get into when trying to deal with camera views when decorating. Should you find yourself in one of these, add a wall lamp and a chamber pot. I think the Sims are programmed with certain functions and will use your personal quarters less when they have these stupid chamber pots left randomly in these empty hallways. At least I've had fewer staff wandering into the Queen's private chamber since I started doing that.

Anybody else got any creative uses for stuff someone hasn't shared yet? I'd sure like to hear it. It keeps the game from getting boring.

Originally Posted by l8nytsimmer

Wow! How did you manage this? I've never been able to do ANYTHING outside the buildings. There is so much wasted space in this game, that could be made useful. I haven't tried adding any Mods to the game yet. I'm terrible when it comes to doing this stuff, and I'd need some step by step help from some very patient soul who knows what he or she is doing. I have got a lot of Mods and CC in my Sims 3 game, tho. I know I'll need that resource.cfg file to add to my Mods folder. Can I find that here at MTS? Secondly, I've tried over, and over, and over again to get the Testingcheatsenabled thing to work, and have no luck at all. Is there anyone willing to help an old dummy with this project?