Apartment building tutorial on the official site

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 3, 2008 daman19942 wrote:

Very cool. For those without the Prima Guide, this is very helpful.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 Grammy_Moon wrote:

Thanks for the info! I will definitely check it out.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 tdyannd wrote:

That's a great idea for those struggling!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 Rabold8 wrote:

Ohh! Cool!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 paterdave2 wrote:

will this also work for hotel's????

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 Rosannep wrote:

Thanks -- this is very helpful!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 SandDancr wrote:

This is great...thanks!

What is the Prima Guide and where does one get it?

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 SimonettaC wrote:

The prima guides are available from most gaming stores, amazon or play.com. Play is a pretty good site and has free shipping to the UK. I know thwy ship Internationally, just to the USA though i think. Amazon is worldwide, but you pay for shipping. You can also get these guides on Ebay (new or used as a book) or a download for your Pc. I would personally recommend buying the actual books as you can refer to them easily whilst playing your game. Plus if your Sims mad like me, the books are nice to have as part of your collection. They provide a step by step guide to everything from game play, tips, cheats, build modes, everything basically! Hope this helps. SimonettaC.xx

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 SimonettaC wrote:

Read the tutorial, very handy. The game is in the post to me as we speak as I am out in Italy at the moment, so I am really excited at the prospect of getting the game any day now. I think I will def need this tutorial, so i am very grateful for it. Thankyou so much. SimonettaC.xx

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 cadiva wrote:

paterdave2 - This is designed for Apartments so no, the cheats are different when creating a Hotel.
You do use the same zoning lot cheat however. For a hotel you would need to create your hotel on a residential lot and then change it using ChangeLotZoning Hotel

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 4, 2008 daman19942 wrote:

There are also different objects required for Hotels. Such as the Hotel door, and the Check-In Desk.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 Raven98590 wrote:

Very instructive tutorial, I was wondering what the "Unique Seperator "as for. I knew it had something to do with Apartments, but nothing else. I guess I'll have to give Apartment building a try now. Thanks for the heads up on the tutorial.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 StoryGirl wrote:

Could be useful, but adobe hates me, so I'm glad I have the guide. This has better pictures, but it's hard to look at easily. Thanks for pointing it out as it does have useful information.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 cvscorpio28 wrote:

thanks this is great

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 MoonlitMaiden wrote:

Not a terribly informative tutorial, unfortunately, and a bit misleading. It tells you to decorate and furnish your apartments "as if someone lives there," but the fact is that if when you move a Sim in, unless you use the testingcheatsenabled true cheat and then shift-click on the apartment door to rent it furnished, all your hard work will be for nothing -- the Sims will have an empty apartment with only the "essentials" mentioned in the tutorial. Plus, the medicine cabinets disappear, as does the garbage chute which certainly qualifies as part of the building. EA needs to address these issues, which we builders have been struggling to understand and overcome since the EP came out.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 BBKZ wrote:

We have no prima guides here in Poland, so that kind of tutorial is very helpful for Polish players. For me too, because I have few ideas for new AL lots but no idea how to do this. Thank you so much for writint this tutorial and sharing with us. Barb

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 _*sandy*_ wrote:

Thank you so much for this tutorial, it helped me out a lot ^^

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 tekkengal wrote:

Great stuff! Thanks for the link!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 paterdave2 wrote:

cadiva
Thanks Now I finally can make my own hotels, or remake some of maxis

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 5, 2008 cadiva wrote:

Gina, the furniture disappearing is intended. Your Sim isn't supposed to have a furnished apartment without using the boolprop cheat. If, however, you furnish an apartment which an NPC Sim rents and you visit them, all the furniture will reappear.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 6, 2008 FluffyAuntyDi wrote:

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 6, 2008 MoonlitMaiden wrote:

I know the disappearing furniture is intended, Cadiva. My point is that the option to rent furnished or not should have been included in the apartment door menu as an option without requiring players to use the testingcheatsenabled cheat. A grievous oversight on EA's part, IMHO.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 6, 2008 paterdave2 wrote:

Does anybody know what the code is to make a house a community lot?

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 6, 2008 cadiva wrote:

Well, I've never rented a place furnished, but I agree it should have been an option instead of requiring a cheat

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 8, 2008 cylon8 wrote:

ok i am a bit confused why does what is supposed to be an acual
feature of the expansion pack have to be enabled as a cheat. i bought the expansion through the ea store which by the way is an excellent
delivery method. i hope a patch comes that amends having to use a key feature as a cheat

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 8, 2008 ladyjane wrote:

I would like to know why EA did not include curtains that could go on the new windows in the game. If that isn't stupid. I guess they want you to buy them for their site eventually.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 8, 2008 kakashiswife wrote:

Thanxs! Your help was SUPER!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 9, 2008 ~Lin~ wrote:

Thanks for the how-to!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 9, 2008 Birba32 wrote:

Good! Thank you!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 9, 2008 cadiva wrote:

cylon8 - It's not a cheat, it's a command the same as the one you use to make dormitories, hotels or secret lots.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 10, 2008 FluffyAuntyDi wrote:

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 10, 2008 Valgrida wrote:

Thank you for this info! I just got myself this new EP and was devastaded because I couldn't do anything!! Felt so stupid !!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 11, 2008 phoophiecb wrote:

I do ok for the general apartment. What I don't understand is the driveways. I built a 2 unit without the drveways attached to units but when I tried to buy a car for my Sims it wouldn't place, even with the moveObjects on cheat. Could someone tell me how to place the driveways with making a garage?
Sabelsings

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 12, 2008 LD202 wrote:

i follow it but when i put the cheat code in wont work

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 12, 2008 Ses wrote:

I'm going to have a proper stab at this tonight now; struggled with getting to grips with the apartment-building side of things the other day so hopefully this will help

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 12, 2008 silverpixigirl wrote:

ZOMG! I can't wait to get my hands on this EP!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 13, 2008 sparkle777uk wrote:

Thank you

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 13, 2008 kimmyburke2222 wrote:

Thank you for the information.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 14, 2008 MagySims wrote:

Wow... very cool tutorial. I loved that

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 15, 2008 pinto-00 wrote:

thanks that helpt me out a lot

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 15, 2008 alikat2k wrote:

I just got paid today, so have ordered my copy. Can't wait to get it now!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 17, 2008 MotoD wrote:

Great

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 18, 2008 qvisn wrote:

I totaly agree with MoonlitMaiden, Its a nuisance to have to use a command to move your sims in, it does work but its a shock at first when your furniture is invisible. How will this work for uploading the lots, will every one that downloads have to do this. Also does anyone know when simpe will upgrade for AL, im not able to recolour just now.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 19, 2008 rudypa wrote:

Thanks alot I needed this to play the game.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 19, 2008 MotoD wrote:

Nice

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 21, 2008 voltina1983 wrote:

hi to everyone who can't get the cheat to work have been on ea site and on there the cheat is listed as changelotzoning apartmentbase exactly like that i tried it and it worked. hope this helps!

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 27, 2008 Sunnyhead wrote:

Hi to all! This is very helpful. I built an apartment following this and it worked very well. However, I can't get the apartment mail box. Do I have to delet the original mail box to get that? Is there any cheat code? Someone please help.

| Unpublish | Delete On Sep 28, 2008 whiterugmom wrote:

Thanks, I haven't bought this pack yet & I am struggling to decide if I want to. It seems like a lot of hassle to build. Also I am kinda ticked that Sims 3 is coming out when I have so much money invested in 2 & thousands of custom downloads GRRRR

| Unpublish | Delete On Oct 5, 2008 Murphy75 wrote:

Thanks for the tutorial, I was having trouble with more than one entrance! Duh!!