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8th Jun 2009, 08:19 PM
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 Why cant we build our own lots?
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zanev
Original Poster
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Mar 2008 |
I dont want to use their 'preset' lots because they have none at the far edge of town 'away from it all' is there a way I can make my own lot and place it where I want? |
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8th Jun 2009, 08:20 PM
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Gwennero
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Jul 2006 |
No. You can build on an empty lot, but you can't place a lot where none exists. |
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8th Jun 2009, 08:23 PM
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zanev
Original Poster
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Mar 2008 |
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I know... thats my issue, I was just wondering if I could you know make my own lot and put it where I wanted like in S2 instead of having to use EA's suggested placement |
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8th Jun 2009, 08:57 PM
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kennyinbmore
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Join Date: Dec 2004 |
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Not as of yet. We're supposed to get a neighborhood tool soon after release to be able to do so. Stay tuned |
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8th Jun 2009, 09:17 PM
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kattenijin
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I'd suggest getting the Riverview "world" also. It has quite a few "off the beatten path" lots. |
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8th Jun 2009, 09:20 PM
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ntense
Test Subject
Join Date: Feb 2009 |
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I was very unimpressed with the Riverview neighborhood it does however provide a different town that you could delete all the buildings from and redo the entire thing using lots from the exchange and here. I think I may use it for that. |
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8th Jun 2009, 09:23 PM
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Ravvid: Phase -0
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Jun 2005 |
I had to choose between beach front, or the biggest size lot. I also had to choose between evicting and not, replacing community or not. I'm sentimental, argh! It doesn't even have the most minute facet of fairness! I ended up not having beach front because they put the huge lots on a hill surrounded by a bunch of snobby houses. How can I build an oil rig there? I wanted to help make things green(and toxic)! Case in point: They should have included a lot designer so that I could put my own lot out there and surround it with lava or something that constantly flows into the ocean causing a thick layer of mist that I would charge for. I've played too many insane sims, already. ;-; |
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I am, "The Man". I will get you down... Don't stick it to me... "Drink milk and be non-puntable" Thank you Mimewhite for making the Seph trench coat. |
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8th Jun 2009, 09:37 PM
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crocobaura
Mad Poster
Join Date: Mar 2005 |
I understand your pain. I wanted to build a gemstone museum for the sims, as a community lot. Firstly, there were too few empty lots to choose from, secondly they were littered in the middle of nowhere, and thirdly, when the lot was finally done, the stupid game calls it a PARK. |
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8th Jun 2009, 09:41 PM
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Ravvid: Phase -0
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Jun 2005 |
I believe we should have the freedom to designate whether the park is recreation, educational, historical/museum based and so on. |
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I am, "The Man". I will get you down... Don't stick it to me... "Drink milk and be non-puntable" Thank you Mimewhite for making the Seph trench coat. |
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8th Jun 2009, 09:52 PM
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crocobaura
Mad Poster
Join Date: Mar 2005 |
It was not a park. It should be gemstone museum and nothing else. And the stupid neighbourhood icons must go! Whenever I use the neighbourhood view it takes forever to find the lot I need to go, especially if it's some other sims house. |
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8th Jun 2009, 10:38 PM
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Dafoe2029
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Nov 2007 |
The guys down at EA left a few good features out. Including this one. You should be able to choose the lot size and build just like you could on The Sims 2. Why they left this out i don't understand. I know it was one of my favorite features on TS2. |
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8th Jun 2009, 10:52 PM
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Little wishbone
Test Subject
Join Date: Dec 2005 |
This really bugs me too. You can move stuff around but still only onto existing lots - this is a major thing for me. In sims 2 all I did was build towns. Bit gutted but I am enjoying playing with the actual sims a lot more than sims 2 so can't complain too much. |
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8th Jun 2009, 11:13 PM
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Srikandi
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Remember that you CAN move or bulldoze the lots that are there. There's also a toggle to switch between residential and community lots. So if you see a location you like, for instance one of those remote fishing holes in SV, you can make that a residential lot and build a house there. Or if you want a new community lot downtown, bulldoze one of the swimming pools  Or move it to the burbs. Want a bigger lot? Consign one of the massive mansions to the Lots Bin.My main objection is that there's no way to add spawn points for fish, rocks, seeds etc to the community lots we make  If you get rid of all the community lots that came with the town, you're losing a lot of those resources, which sucks. NO idea why they didn't give us a build mode tool to place those ourselves as community lot objects.
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8th Jun 2009, 11:23 PM
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crocobaura
Mad Poster
Join Date: Mar 2005 |
Why give us the tools if they can make more money by selling us small pieces of the game? I didn't know about the spawn points, but then again we don't need seeds and gems everywhere. Riverview hardly has any seeds and I have yet to find a gemstone in that town on the ground. The only one I found was by rummaging in a trashcan, and my sim still had a good life just by growing stuff in her garden. Besides you can't do much with them besides dispaly or sell. |
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8th Jun 2009, 11:30 PM
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bluegenjutsu
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Riverview has lots of seeds and gems. You need to get the collector's reward if you want to be able to find them quickly. |
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8th Jun 2009, 11:36 PM
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crocobaura
Mad Poster
Join Date: Mar 2005 |
In Sunset Valley, I don't need the collectors reward, I just walk around the hood and I find them. I can see them on the ground and there are plenty in the town centre. In Riverview not so many. Maybe they scattered them out on the hills, but in the town centre and the area around my sims' house I found about 15 seeds in about 10 sim days. No gemstones, no space rocks, and no metals. |
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8th Jun 2009, 11:48 PM
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Srikandi
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Have you looked around Stonehenge, the mine, and the graveyard? 
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8th Jun 2009, 11:50 PM
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bluegenjutsu
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Go to the stonehenge in Riverview and around the riverbeds. |
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8th Jun 2009, 11:53 PM
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Annalisa
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Jun 2005 |
I posted this in some other thread a day or two ago, but I think the answer to why we can't place lots ourselves should be fairly simple to everyone -- these neighborhoods are pretty complicated. It's very likely that future expansion packs will build on the neighborhoods we've been given already, adding new lots and sections to the neighborhood. Most likely the spaces where there are no lots placed are reserved for future expansion. |
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9th Jun 2009, 01:17 AM
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Lot's and NPC's #21 |
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JazSimmer
Test Subject
Join Date: May 2009 |
 I totally agree with Dafoe 2029, I was bitterly disappointed when it came to choosing house and business locations. For starters you can't build your own community lots, which was half my fun in the Sims 2, secondly you only have limited locations that you can build  . I wonder if they will make it so that in a future expansion pack you will be able to place your own lots, and have multiple lots within a saved game, because the way I used to play the sims 2 was that I'd build sims that I wanted my other sims to meet and play their lives so that they interact with the other sims that I wanted, you don't have that option at all in this one, if you want your sim to start out unmarried and to find their perfect match you can only select from the NPCs already in the game, unless you make them instant housemates, but where's the fun in that?? I also was disappointed by the NPCs in the game, they at least had some decent looking ones in the sims 2 for your sims to meet, perhaps I'm just shallow and require my sim world to be full of beautiful people. |
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9th Jun 2009, 01:20 AM
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KayleeMarie
Test Subject
Join Date: Jun 2009 |
The NPCs I've come across all look quite attractive, so... |
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9th Jun 2009, 01:24 AM
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JazSimmer
Test Subject
Join Date: May 2009 |
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Maybe I'm not playing in the right part of town... lol :D |
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9th Jun 2009, 01:43 AM
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NiKKname
Test Subject
Join Date: Dec 2008 |
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actually u can make multiple sims in 1 saved game, just go to the options button inthe corner of the screen and press edit town. then press change active household. then create sims=DDD |
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9th Jun 2009, 10:53 AM
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JazSimmer
Test Subject
Join Date: May 2009 |
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Ok Cool, I read most of the manual that came with it to try and figure out if you can do that. Well that really helps me out, I thought that the guys at EA might have left that one out. Thanks for making myd day :D |
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