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Gormless Georgians
Posted On Nov 28, 2006 | Click here to comment
Just one final tip should you decide to download the Georgian Goods lot. Sims making food in the kitchen of this lot seem determined to serve it on the table in the employees' area before taking it outside to their own designated area by the pool (which is much closer). The chairs at each table have the same comfort rating so I'm at a loss to understand why they do this! You have been warned, lol. Cancel the serve interaction as soon as they've made their food and they'll happily place it on a counter (or, more likely, the floor) from where they'll take their own plates out to the table by the pool.
Phew! Got that?!
I actually hired several employees for this lot and played it for a few days and not one employee got hungry. So, if it works the same way for you, you may decide to remove the employee BBQ area altogether - which will solve the original problem, too!
One last pic of the front of the lot:
Shameless Plug...
Posted On Nov 27, 2006 | Click here to comment
..for the Georgian Goods lot. I've just been play-testing this lot and I have to say that I don't feel the photos do it justice. I know, I know, it sounds big-headed of me (and obviously I'm biased, lol) but it really does look good in game. Please don't be put off by the three floors, either. Because the place is so compact, it's easy to see the whole building on your screen at once and therefore it's easy to play, too.
Ok, I'm done imploring you to download it ;-) Here's a few interior shots of the Georgian Goods shop, which I hope will tempt you instead.
The shop is built over two levels (plus there's an outside area for sculptures).
The ground floor sales area:
Second floor sales area:
And the outdoor sculpture area:
I hope to submit this lot in the next couple of days so it should be on the site around the end of the week.
Yuppie Heaven!
Posted On Nov 26, 2006 | Click here to comment
I designed Georgian Goods with a yuppie couple in mind: the top floor is an open plan area with everything your average yuppie might desire ;-) Most of the accomodation is on this floor, although there's a study area on the middle floor and a kitchen on the ground floor (leading to the dining area by the pool). Here's a few pics:
Yuppie heaven:
Study area:
TV Room (doubles as employee break room):
Kitchen and ground floor bathroom:
Pics of the shop area to follow soon!
Fancy a Challenge?
Posted On Nov 24, 2006 | Click here to comment
There's a great competition running in the forums at the moment, courtesy of Strawbz. Come and have a look! The challenge is to build the North Pole and/or Santa's Toy Workshop. The prize is a Christmas decoration from South Africa, which personally I think is a lovely idea. Anyway, I just thought I would mention it here in case anyone had missed it and fancied having a go. I can't enter as I'm helping to judge. But the Build a Lot Forum is a really friendly place so do come along and join in if you'd like to :-)
If you don't fancy a competition but are up for a challenge, there's lots of ideas there, too, including the Graduate Starter Challenge that I started a couple of weeks ago. It's still got a week to run so please come and join in if you'd like to have a go!
Georgian Goods
Posted On Nov 23, 2006 | Click here to comment
So, coming next is Georgian Goods, a home business selling furniture. I built this lot for amythestfenix's Maxis Makeover Challenge in the forums. It's a makeover of 33 Gondola Way which is a horrible little building in Bluewater Village (apologies to whoever made this lot at Maxis but it IS! Perhaps it was conceived as a lot which would inspire a makeover - let's give them the benefit of the doubt ;-) )
Anyway, here's a couple more photos of the exterior - an overview of the lot (it's on a 3x1), showing the outdoor sculpture sales area, the employee bbq area and the pool:
And here's a detail of the pool and outdoor dining area:
Worry not, having nearly drowned a poor Sim during testing, I have moved the pool ladder so that Sims can actually get out of the pool... *evil cackle* .... you'd think the choice between meeting the Grim Reaper or having to climb through a hedge as you get out of the pool might be a bit clearer to your average Sim. (Though I admit that the hedge situation is not ideal.)
Last pic for now! Here's the logic area (for recreation) hidden behind the building:
Back soon with some interior shots ;-)
The Snapdragon Set...
Posted On Nov 21, 2006 | Click here to comment
...will be available for download on Thursday. You can download the lots individually :-)
Right, on to the Georgians...
Snapdragon Slideshows
Posted On Nov 17, 2006 | Click here to comment
Here we go - links to slideshows of the two Snapdragon lots:
Simply Snapdragons (OFB lot) is the business lot full of Snapdragons for your Sims to buy and own. Don't sell them all at once! Wait until your Sim has hired someone to make some more or has learned to do so themselves! There are also a few other flowers set on trays in the little garden for Sims who may visit the shop but are not wealthy enough to afford Snapdragons. BTW, the flower-making machine (can't remember its name!) is hidden away around the back of the house, along with a couple more Snapdragons.
And Snapdragon Starter (Home Business) is, as the name suggests, a small starter home business. The shop already has a few daisy bouquets on the shelves and there are four Snapdragons hanging about the house / shop to keep your Sims' moods up, too. This starter also has a small second bedroom so it's suitable for a small starter family.
Both lots should be on the site by the middle of next week. They'll be available as a set or individually :-)
Here's one I made earlier...
Posted On Nov 15, 2006 | 1 Comments
RL has been a bit frantic over the last few days and I haven't had chance to finish testing the two Snapdragon lots... so in the meantime, I've submitted a little unfurnished Tudor starter that I uploaded a while ago. It will be on the site tomorrow and the Snapdragon shops will be coming your way soon!
Unfortunately, I can't seem to attach a preview pic to my blog this morning :-( but you can see it on the left hand side of my homepage, listed under "Upcoming"
Back soon!
Slave to the Snapdragon
Posted On Nov 10, 2006 | 1 Comments
So where, you ask, did I get all the Snapdragons? They were in fact manufactured by a trusty band of slav... er, Sims, who worked non-stop from Monday morning until Friday afternoon, building up their skills until they were able to produce the precious flowers. As long as I kept hitting the max_motives cheat, they kept working.
Snapdragon Manufacturing Area:
I did feel a bit mean when one of them broke down in tears after they'd finished, due to aspiration failure. But I bought him a telescope and he soon perked up. Simple things...
Here's the shop from the Snapdragon Starter lot:
Both Snapdragon lots are now in final testing so they should be available to download sometime next week.
So...
Posted On Nov 07, 2006 | Click here to comment
...what I really wanted to create was a Snapdragon shop where Sims could go and purchase these valuable flowers. Of course, this isn't possible to do because unless the snapdragons are set for sale, Sims visiting a lot can't buy them... and as they are not available in the catalogue, the only way set them for sale is to have a Sim buy a shop full of them and price them up. Still with me? I say all this nonchalantly as if I was fully aware of this but no - only through (failed) experimentation has it become blindingly obvious ;-)
So, instead, I offer you an OFB lot to purchase and (when it's finished) a starter home business version (under §20,000) of the same lot. The OFB lot is FULL of snapdragons - all tested and guaranteed to be of the pink vapour variety. Though if your lot-purchasing Sim does not yet have the skills to make these flowers, I do suggest you don't sell them all at once! You might like to replace some of them with more regular flowers and store the spares in your Sim's inventory. Here's a couple more pics:
The shop downstairs:
And upstairs:
