As I said above - No. I don't think the L&F things should be included. Only things finished and released by Maxis.
As for recolors of the Exchange/Pre-order stuff - just like some of the EP/SP game content, some of it has color choices. There i\are also CC recolors; but, CC recolors is CC - I would think

:blush: I have mine in with the program files.... no stars for me. Sorry, I didn't realize (actually, forgot) the Exchange stuff was starred.

Personally if we can't have defaults or recolours then we shouldn't have any downloads at all including bonus content. Why not just stick to no extra content at all and be done with it.

Good point, Tiff.

But my bonus content didn't come as a download, it came on my disks. If something came either with the game disk or digital download of the game then it should be allowed.

Ah, so if it's from the disks, fine. It doesn't go against the idea of having to download it from elsewhere on the Internet.

I guess its the difference between a deluxe version of a game or a regular version. Not that there is a lot of that content I don't think probably only a few items. The only one I know for sure is a small doll holding a toilet roll (I think she is holding a toilet roll anyway lol)

I bet you didn't realize all the nitty gritty bits that would come up.

OHHH Yesss! Never thought questions like this would come up. But I thank you all for opening my eyes to these type of questions, I learn from you all each night I check in with this contest. Must be one of the most intriguing and aggravating contests to date for folks to see, especially how the rules keep adjusting every so often, lol.

I think once the scoring occurs and seeing how the scores are portrayed, folks will feel more at ease.

A number of us have been in previous contests so we knew what to ask. Better to get things sorted out before the first round is judged.



It's not even a toilet roll, it looks like a ceramic statue and part of it is a ceramic toilet roll. Or so I think, I will have to go on a hunt through my deco section and find the thing. Now a real looking toilet roll that would have gone on the wall would have seen a lot more use, but EA did love to include useless items. I don't think those without it are going to be crying lol.

If its with the disk then yeah thats fine, but someone going to find and download items from the exchange, that shouldnt be allowed, I dont even think that items you get on disks need to have been mentioned as now its gone and confused alot of people into thinking they can now download stuff that was on the exchange.

And Im sad Honeywell wont be joining in anymore

HW is not joining in any more?!?

They would be pretty desperate to want these bonus items so much. I think most were pretty useless. Some like the swimsuit are nice-but that is for sims not lots.

I think Honeywell "going to forget the contest until next week" means that Honeywell's going to wait until next week to see what's new to develop in the contest (e.g. waiting until the next round comes about). I don't think Honeywell meant stopping participation in the contest.

phew! I need to read and not skim!

Jo if I remember correctly you have a Mac as well, yes? Because that's the same with me, for some reason they released semi-updated & semi-patched, expansion and stuff packs, since they came out later for Mac computers then they did for windows. All I know is that I have some of that Maxoid content, not listed as custom in my game with no recollection of ever downloading and it showing up in my games at first installation, so I already consider that Maxis/Aspyr content.

Also, quick other question. Does anybody know if the pre-order content is useable in any expansion/stuff packs or only for their respective packs? Wondering for the big IFF I ever get my game up and running again if I can download items from different packs that do not match the ones I have.

trambling101, no I'm on a Windows 7 desktop, perhaps you are thinking of esme.

Oh gosh, there it is. Kind of creepy.

Both converted shipping containers and similar-looking purpose-built modular temporary buildings seem to have been around for all of my adult life, and I'm one of the older members around here. I first recall seeing modern containers (lifted by special cranes with lugs at each corner of the container) in the mid 1960's, and very soon after that people started converting them into huts - they're just the right size! Even before World War 2, British railways had wooden containers, lifted by conventional cranes using chains, and they too got converted into sheds, as did the demounted bodies of ordinary old railway vehicles. Dedicated temporary modular buildings, which can look a bit like shipping containers but are built for the job, and can be a bit larger, have been around since the mid 1950's; Portakabin, the leading British supplier of such structures, started in 1961. The Wikipedia article on such buildings is worth looking at. The illustrations include a couple of particularly messy examples from British construction sites, which might give some inspiration to anyone else thinking of joining our contest. One shows a Portakabin-type structure sitting at a crazy angle on top of two converted shipping containers! I think most of the examples in this contest so far, certainly the ones used by Jones & Moltke, are dedicated modular buildings rather than old shipping containers. Jones & Moltke's units were manufactured by a specialist SimCity company to Jones & Moltke's specifications.

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I have a confession to make. I used Mootilda's Turn On / Off All Lights mod to turn on the interior lights for my floor plan and cutaway views. I feel this should be a permitted exception because:
1) All the light fittings are standard base game Maxis ones, and I don't use any lighting mods, so the rooms are lit up exactly as Maxis intended.
2) I thought I was just conforming to the standard instructions for uploaded lots here, in that the lights should be turned on for floor plans so that people can more easily see what's in the rooms.
3) I know of no other way to turn the lights on, other than moving Sims in and telling them to switch the lights on, or playing the lot with Sims till it gets dark.
4) I have two toilets without windows, and therefore without natural light. Moreover I don't seem to be getting natural light from my windows the way other people are. This may be because I have to play with low resolution graphics. So my rooms will all look dull if I don't switch the electric lights on.
5) I very much doubt if anyone would have spotted that I've used this mod, if I hadn't admitted it. I never gave it a thought till the question of the Lot Adjuster (which I definitely haven't used in my entry) came up.

I feel I'm already at a potential disadvantage in this contest, as I suspect I'll be the only contestant without Apartment Life, and therefore unable to put ceilings in my rooms, I've also declared my lot at the higher price I got in AGS Base Game where it was built, rather than the lower price which I get when I import it into my full game, which d_dgjdhh was generously prepared to let me use. (I feel that if the value if the Moneywell computers has unaccountably dropped by §100, something else must have depreciated too, even if we can't identify what it is.)

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I think I've always had it, but, because I started with Double Deluxe, I've always had the OFB game engine, even when Nightlife was my highest EP. Double Deluxe includes the Celebration! Stuff Pack which in turn is based on the OFB game engine.

You can make a picture with the price of the lot showing in AGS base game using FRAPS, but you have to take the picture in Neighbourhood View. See the last picture in my entry (post #115).

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I hope I didn't put anyone off entering with my post #113. I am a complete newbie to these contests, and really was afraid that a flurry of entries might keep me out of the contest because my pictures weren't ready. I needn't have worried. With 4 days to go, we still have space for nine more contestants. So come on, the rest of you and join us! I'd love to see some more people in this -- especially contest newbies like myself. I'm wondering what (for instance @Zarathustra might make of this theme?, or @Pizzatron-9000? (I have visions of a shipping container perched on top of a ziggurat, with a thousand steps to climb to reach it! )

That's fine, Andrew, for the lights on/off object, for picture taking purposes (so long as the box doesn't appear in the images, of course).

I am only taking part in my second contest and the first one was a storytelling one, so I am almost as new as Andrew For me, I will abide by the rules, enjoy the contest, learn a lot AND am still stocking the juice bar for the party Hard Juice on the Rocks, d_dgjdhh - from Tennessee okay?

This is my first one too, AndrewGloria! Go newbies, go! xD


For some reason a song came to my mind.
Remember that one by Sade which went "it's never as sweet as the first time" ?
^.^

Contests are great for learning new things and for getting to know other simmers :D

No such luck on my end, I'm afraid, much though I'd love to get into a building contest again... Between work and moving house, I wouldn't have time to do it justice right now.