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#10001
24th Sep 2020 at 3:48 AM
I have no motivation for any of my projects, and that always makes me feel bad since I know some people really like seeing new posts of mine...
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#10002
24th Sep 2020 at 9:06 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by Zarathustra
I have no motivation for any of my projects, and that always makes me feel bad since I know some people really like seeing new posts of mine... |
While I am definitely a fan of your majestic builds, I also understand lacking motivation for building. Your builds wouldn't be half as amazing if you just built without desire, inspiration or a plan. I know mine could look better and I have used your dedication and care as inspiration from time to time.
#10003
24th Sep 2020 at 12:32 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Zarathustra
I have no motivation for any of my projects, and that always makes me feel bad since I know some people really like seeing new posts of mine... |
Why don't you play for a while and see where that takes you.
#10004
24th Sep 2020 at 4:21 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by Zarathustra
I have no motivation for any of my projects, and that always makes me feel bad since I know some people really like seeing new posts of mine... |
Just a hint-go into your game and ask yourself, "what building have I not built yet?"
Versailles comes to mind for me..but the game would probably collapse and die from the sheer size of it.
Lord knows, I've tried-but everything over 3x3 size makes it lag unbelievably.
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#10005
24th Sep 2020 at 4:52 PM
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@Zarathustra -I've been lacking inspriration to play so I just went into the game to start building more apartment lots because I've been lacking enough up to date options in my game and would love to not have to keep editing them every time I place one down.I also started playing a BACC to build up a town and came up with some ideas for story and drama suitable for a small community just starting out.
I can't wait for winter to begin in Dodge so I can see how this one will turn out.
I can't wait for winter to begin in Dodge so I can see how this one will turn out.
#10006
25th Sep 2020 at 1:57 AM
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managed to build a house with a foundation and an attached garage! I know this is ho-hum for most of you but it's my first and I couldn't be prouder. It's still a bit boxy to look at but I've come a very long way from the boring boxes with hipped roofs I usually build.
#10007
25th Sep 2020 at 10:08 AM
Well done @Clashfan , split levels are tricky! Especially the lighting.
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#10008
25th Sep 2020 at 4:21 PM
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Thanks, @simsample! I'm feeling quite chuffed next up is trying to tackle dormers. I've never been able to make them work.
#10009
25th Sep 2020 at 5:04 PM
I always find dormers easier to make using the wall tool and not the pre-made dormers.
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#10010
25th Sep 2020 at 5:14 PM
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@Clashfan -Great work on that house!I've built dormers using the build tools like walls and roofing after covering it with floor tiles.Functional walkout basements might be another great idea to try out.I've done a few different types of those over the years of playing.
#10011
25th Sep 2020 at 6:50 PM
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*jumps up 'n down in excitement* ... I did it! I did it! I figured out... all by myself (well with the help of Mootilda's tute) how to make a subhood. Just took me like forever to understand what to do. Didn't matter how many times I read it .. it still took me a while to understand what I was supposed to do :D
#10012
26th Sep 2020 at 12:55 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by simsample
I would turn them into apartments so that two families could live there, do you have Apartment life? |
To be honest, my game has more than a hint of utopia about it, and, if I don't like something in real life, I tend not to like it in my game either. I really don't like the idea of anyone, real or Sim, having to pay rent all their life for something that will never be theirs. Moreover I believe that in TS2 rents are high in comparison with house prices, so with my aging-off playstyle, renters in in my game would pay many times the value of their apartments in rent.
Tybalt and his girlfriend Lexie are planning to buy the large double house in Chorus Court next door to Gloria and Andrew. The plan is to run a boxing-themed pub in one of the houses, while Tybalt pursues a new career as a boxer. (I hope I can find suitable CC for the pub.)
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#10013
26th Sep 2020 at 3:11 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by AndrewGloria
The "double houses" in Veronaville have always kind of puzzled me. Maybe they made sense in the 16th and 17th centuries when they were built -- servants' quarters, or a dower house? -- but how does a modern family use them. Especially bearing in mind that they're all grade 1 listed buildings in a conservation area -- it's hard to get planning permission to make substantial changes. But I've found a use for them now. When I had a Sim with 'flu, by far the easiest way to isolate him was to send him to bed in the smaller house, while the rest of the family went about their lives in the main house. P.S. I've just noticed that this is the 10,000th post in this thread that I started nearly five years ago! |
I always use them for three generation families, like my real life family. My folks love having their grandkids around, but even better is being able to send them back to us when they get tired of dealing with kids.
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#10014
26th Sep 2020 at 8:10 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by AndrewGloria
No. My highest EP is Open for Business. As you may recall I play the Sims on a netbook with an onboard graphics chip. From what I've read here, burnt-out motherboards started with Pets, so I think I'm safer sticking to the first three EPs. Anyway I've got some mods that I believe were never updated for the late EPs and I feel that, by and large, I've got my game playing just the way I want it. To be honest, my game has more than a hint of utopia about it, and, if I don't like something in real life, I tend not to like it in my game either. I really don't like the idea of anyone, real or Sim, having to pay rent all their life for something that will never be theirs. Moreover I believe that in TS2 rents are high in comparison with house prices, so with my aging-off playstyle, renters in in my game would pay many times the value of their apartments in rent. Tybalt and his girlfriend Lexie are planning to buy the large double house in Chorus Court next door to Gloria and Andrew. The plan is to run a boxing-themed pub in one of the houses, while Tybalt pursues a new career as a boxer. (I hope I can find suitable CC for the pub.) |
Pets is the one I can't imagine playing without. I've always had a pet in RL and most of my sims end up with at least one.
#10015
26th Sep 2020 at 12:05 PM
Quote: Originally posted by AndrewGloria
No. My highest EP is Open for Business. As you may recall I play the Sims on a netbook with an onboard graphics chip... I really don't like the idea of anyone, real or Sim, having to pay rent all their life for something that will never be theirs. |
In real life, I am a landlord myself- as well as owning the home I live in. Renting a property is great for people who need somewhere to live but don't have the savings to make a deposit on purchasing a property. I saved from the age of sixteen for the deposit for my first house, not all people have that luxury. My tenants pay a minimal rent (we are still running at a loss) but compared to my house, theirs is a palace (just like my sims' houses)! They have good central heating (supplied by us), full double glazing (supplied by us), a new cooker (supplied by us), new washing machine (supplied by us), and I personally fitted a new bathroom for them two years ago. By contrast, my house has finally had double glazing fitted this year (second hand windows that a neighbour was throwing out!) fitted by yours truly... the 50 year old central heating boiler has finally packed in so I'm getting a new one next week, and my cooker is at least 20 years old (it was here when I moved in and perfectly good although the door has to be propped shut with a brick ). The bathroom is original (early 60s) and still useable, so it's staying for now! Us landlords get the benefit of having a (hopefully) valuable property when we've paid the mortgage off (the rent just covers our mortgage- nothing more); the tenants get a home (needing no down payment) with functional utilities and certificates of safety, for which their tenancy is protected by law but which they can quit at any time with short notice. And they don't have to fix anything themselves, nor pay for it to be fixed. They don't even decorate, unless they want to, we do it all and provide new carpets as needed too. Again, more than my house has! So that's what my real life tenants are paying for, I don't know about anyone else's tenants and I certainly have no idea why my sims' landlord charges so much, the only breakable object in the place is the toilet! And he doesn't redecorate it for them nor give them new carpets every few years, either.
Quote: Originally posted by Sunbee
I always use them for three generation families, like my real life family. My folks love having their grandkids around, but even better is being able to send them back to us when they get tired of dealing with kids. |
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#10016
26th Sep 2020 at 6:16 PM
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@Simsample -I grabbed a haled rent Mod from here to fix that overpriced EA rent in the apartments because I've always hated that.My apartments cost half of what they would if I didn't have that Mod in my game.I used the version compatible with apartment lot rights from Simlogical as I also hhave that and a rental agreement clipboard.I also have the NPC townie neighbor generation disabled with a global Mod and just use CAS generated playable townies in their place if I needed neighbors in apartments or the empty unit can also remain empty until a family moves in.I just don't use apartments yet in Dodge because the town is just startint out and has a small population as it's only a year old.
#10017
27th Sep 2020 at 3:10 AM
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I finally talked myself into installing a lifespan mod. I guess I never thought I needed one before but since I've come back to the game I've really noticed how shortchanged kids get. Maybe it's because I have so many kids right now that it's really hitting home. I'm loving it so far but I do notice an issue with ACR as far as the "Try for baby" percentage chance. I'll have to think about it. It makes sense but I'm going to have to work out how that translates to my gameplay. Kind of interesting to add in a biological clock though.
#10018
27th Sep 2020 at 3:36 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by Clashfan
I finally talked myself into installing a lifespan mod. I guess I never thought I needed one before but since I've come back to the game I've really noticed how shortchanged kids get. Maybe it's because I have so many kids right now that it's really hitting home. I'm loving it so far but I do notice an issue with ACR as far as the "Try for baby" percentage chance. I'll have to think about it. It makes sense but I'm going to have to work out how that translates to my gameplay. Kind of interesting to add in a biological clock though. |
I happen to like usin BO's aging mod as it allows me to set different agein for individual sims. The way it's done doesn't affect the % either. I have inteen, but as BO says, I make sure it loads last.
#10019
27th Sep 2020 at 9:50 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by simsample
Oh, yes- I remember now! (Sorry, I'm only recently back here after a long absence due to bereavement, I seem to have forgotten more than I remember! ) |
My condolences.
#10020
27th Sep 2020 at 11:14 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
My condolences. |
I had been helping to nurse my dad for over 10 years so his death was expected, but still traumatic to see him so ill. One cat had a slow growing tumour so we knew things were inevetable for him, but the other was sudden with heart failure. And Neil Peart was the icing on the cake really, he has been a role model of mine for over 40 years, I never thought he would be gone. That hit me the hardest I think, I couldn't listen to music or play music or do anything creative for a while. I blame Lemmy, everything was okay until he died!
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#10021
27th Sep 2020 at 1:11 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by simsample
Thanks @Charity , I lost two cats, my father and Neil Peart all in a couple of years.
I had been helping to nurse my dad for over 10 years so his death was expected, but still traumatic to see him so ill. One cat had a slow growing tumour so we knew things were inevetable for him, but the other was sudden with heart failure. And Neil Peart was the icing on the cake really, he has been a role model of mine for over 40 years, I never thought he would be gone. That hit me the hardest I think, I couldn't listen to music or play music or do anything creative for a while. I blame Lemmy, everything was okay until he died!
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*hugs* ... too short.
#10022
27th Sep 2020 at 2:55 PM
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In real life I live with my mother, aged 91, and in failing health, with very limited mobility and perpetually short of breath, and with our little cairn terrier, Fudgey, aged 16, blind for nearly two years now, and with visible tumours which are probably malignant. Myself, I feel quite fit, but I'm only one year (and ten days) short of my threescore and ten.
I think those are the main reasons why I'm so keen to keep Death out of my game, where I have a little bit more control. I kind of like the company of young, happy fun-loving Sims.
We've (almost) always had pets (cats, dogs, and some smaller pets) in real life, and, yes, I'd rather like my Sims to be able have them too. But not of course at the expense of wrecking my game. So, if I ever move my game to a computer with better graphics, then I'll very seriously consider adding the Pets EP, even though it will mean me having to update some of my most important mods. I'll also want to mod out Werewolves; I'm just absolutely not into any of this supernatural stuff. I like my game to be like Real Life, but a little bit better.
I think my Sims are, like myself, fellow players in this game we call "life".
I think those are the main reasons why I'm so keen to keep Death out of my game, where I have a little bit more control. I kind of like the company of young, happy fun-loving Sims.
We've (almost) always had pets (cats, dogs, and some smaller pets) in real life, and, yes, I'd rather like my Sims to be able have them too. But not of course at the expense of wrecking my game. So, if I ever move my game to a computer with better graphics, then I'll very seriously consider adding the Pets EP, even though it will mean me having to update some of my most important mods. I'll also want to mod out Werewolves; I'm just absolutely not into any of this supernatural stuff. I like my game to be like Real Life, but a little bit better.
I think my Sims are, like myself, fellow players in this game we call "life".
#10023
27th Sep 2020 at 3:01 PM
I agree @AndrewGloria , I've been rather keen to not have too much death in my game lately. I did have a death of old age this week, but that sim had a great life and died during a party, and that's the way I'd have wished my loved ones to go! So I didn't mind too much.
Thanks for the hugs, @Charity !
Thanks for the hugs, @Charity !
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#10024
27th Sep 2020 at 8:37 PM
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Oh my, @AndrewGloria if I'm doing the math right with your location and mine, you share my oldest son's birthday! He'll be eighteen this year. It's a great day for a birthday, neither scorching hot or up to your ears in snow, end of the harvest season here.
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#10025
29th Sep 2020 at 1:05 AM
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I've been slowly converting my build mode recolors from one creator to another. Today I finished up with stairs and fences. This means the next time I load the game I'm going to have a heck of a lot of fixing to do not only residential but on community lots as well. It's a slightly daunting task.
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