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Quick Update!

I just checked and my 'Beach Haven' lots I submitted today have already been approved and are set to publish on June 12! Yippee! ... tey

Lo and Behold!

Hello fellow simmers, I have finally submitted the Maxis version and Custom Content (CC) version of my 'Beach Haven' beach lots. They are both a traditional style beach house as can be found up and down the Texas coast. They are loaded with everything needed to have fun in the sun and into the night!

I will soon be submitting a higher-end beach home sure to please and satisfy the more 'luxury' seeking sim's palate. I will try to submit a couple of screenshots over the next couple of days. In addition, I have been working on more walls--just having a little trouble finding wainscoat and borders to my liking. I am so picky, picky!

You know, I decided to get back in gear with my Sims 2 creations as a way to keep me busy until I am able to replace my computer for one that will support Sims 3. Then, I will be able to create for Sims 2 and Sims 3! Yea!

Thanks to all the TSR creators that are sharing their Sims 3 experiences and creations already! I have marked several Sims 3 lots that are simply awesome--but I would'nt expect anything less from our amazingly talented TSR creators! Thank you all for sharing your wonderful creations and feeding my simming addictions! LOL!

I am off for now--wishing everyone health and wealth of mind, body, and spirit!... tey

I'm back!

After a long time I'm back in town! True health problems I had to stop creating for a while and I'm sorry for that. A BIG "thank you" to the crew for understanding my situation!

So, I started to create a new lot for Sims 3, but don't wurry: I still make stuff for Sims 2.

See you around....Happy simming!

Stefaan. :D

First upload!

Yay I uploaded my first lot and seems people are enjoying it! ^___^ I feel so happy! I've been playing this game for a long time, almosot since it came out and yet I waited this long to start uploading, don't ask me why.

   A modern home for the successful bachelor. Or any other sim who's able to afford this lot. A bargain at 83,773 simoleons! Spacious and luxurious, your sim will love it! Features an underground garage with 1 parking spot, a decked pool and quite a few staircases having 2.5 levels! Enjoy. :) This is my first upload and I hope it will make some sim very happy.

- Clicky -

I will be uploading some more now that I've found out what fun it is to be on the creating end. :) Seriously, it sees that I have wasted so much time by not creating and just playing the game :D

Cheers,

The_Silhouette

Getting to Know Sims 3

For a long time now I haven't really played Sims 2, but have spent my time building lots for them.  I've been playing quite a bit with Sims 3, it being the new toy and all, but also have been trying to get to know its build features.

For play, there's a lot to like: Sims 3 seems to be running more smoothly on my desktop than does Sims 2, but then it's only the base game -- I have all the expansion and stuff packs for Sims 2 (except the H&M one), plus just tons of custom content, so I think it's bound to be a bit heavier than Sims 3 at this point.  Sims 3 doesn't run very well on my laptop at all (an Athlon 64 4000+ with 2GB RAM running WinXP).  It loads quickly and such, but about five to ten minutes in, everything bogs down to a crawl.  If I leave it be for another ten minutes or so and come back, it's usually straightened back out again and can go for a short while before the process repeats.  I'm absolutely sure that a lot of that is my graphics adapter -- the 128 MB Radeon XPRESS 200m just wasn't built for this sort of intensity.  World of Warcraft?  No Problem!  Sims 3 -- aaaarghle!

A lot has been streamlined in Sims 3.  Babies no longer leave bottles all over the floor (baby food and bottles miraculously disappear when the tot is done, and can be magically pulled out of thin air whenever needed), and such.  There are dozens of details like this which make the game "less bother" in some terms.  Buying groceries is no longer a hassle: if a Sim wants to cook something that's not in the fridge, they just pay for the ingredients out of pocket and continue with their cooking.  I'm actually still trying to decide whether I like these new features.  Part of enjoying the Sims for me has been dealing with the minutae of their lives.  I sort of miss cleaning up after the baby, making the grocery store runs and so on.  I think this is part of some players' desire for washing machines, dryers, and dirty laundry for their Sims: they play to get into every last detail.

Some things that have definitely been too streamlined for my tastes.  For example, whenever a Sim needs to travel to a community lot, they just go -- you don't need to pick a method since they'll just choose whatever's convenient.  If they're going to drive or take a taxi, they'll just walk to the curb; the conveyance appears out of nowhere and they fade out (fading back inside it) and are off.  I don't like that warping -- I want to see them walk to the vehicle and get inside.  I'd noticed this "warp" behavior in other games from other companies (Space Colony, Stronghold), and it always struck me as very lazy on the part of the animators: no climbing into equipment or anything, the people just fade out and fade back in on the item they were going to be using.  Watching Sims repeatedly slam the doors of cheap cars to get them to close properly always amused me -- perhaps because my own car is a '92 and I could feel their pain.

I haven't had much problem with Story Progression while I've been off a lot but then I turned it off in settings, I save obsessively, and I don't change families that often.  I have noticed a disturbing number of deaths within the town around my Sims -- relatives and acquaintances are seeming to drop like flies around them.  The problem I have been having is with things just going missing.  Example: I was playing George Dean for a while (he's a resident of Riverview (the free town available on the Exchange);  he started with two cars on his lot, and earned a third through work.  I left him and his wife at home, and went to build another lot (keeping the story paused the whole time), then came back to George and his family to find they had no cars.  The cars weren't in their inventories, nor anywhere else to be found, and they didn't have any extra cash.  I still haven't figured out what happend to them.

Maybe eventually the mystery will be solved.

The Sims 3 Creations

I be  coming around with with creations for you and everyone once I get a new computer with more memory I need a new computer anyways but I will still be able to play my sims on my PC. There nothing wrong with my PC. I just having trouble uploading sims.

Here I am

Hello averyone) I know that I'm a bit crazy and strange person with a bugs in a brain, but anyway... Welcome to my blog!) 

My 1st Sims 3 Home

This is my first house in the new sims 3. It is not finish yet i still have the 2nd floor to do yet and i have been recoloring some of the furnture. There are also lot of new things in the house that i got from the sims 3 store.  I will upload frunshed and unfrunshed so this way if you dont have not bought the the same furnter as i have in the house then you can do it the way you want

Late Night Thoughts

Ugh, why is it that I always feel the most creative at night? Lately I've been reviving my rotations in Pleasantview, but I've come across a big problem. How do I begin to match up sims days to real-world years? I've already gone through about five differant schemes! Heck, I've even thought about keeping the wacked up MAXIS system and incorperate it as a possible.

Anyway, for a long time I've had the urge to condense a whole neighborhood tree down to one person and ship him or her over to another neighboorhood. That way I'd end up with just one to play, which would make rotations easier... not that condensing all the playable sims into one is EASY. Nor is it FAST. 

Getting hard to keep my eyes open...Zzzzzzzz

Problems on my computer

 My computer had some problems so i can not design for a while..I hope the problem can be solved.

   ~Qaen