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31st May 2012, 05:20 AM	Additions To Make Your Town Suck Less? #1
heartbreak Original Poster Field Researcher Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 295	I just got back into playing again and have been enjoying Appaloosa Plains... but it's not exciting enough for me. Their lame bar got a bit of a makeover and I also built an arcade for all the old people to die in, yet I still feel like something is missing. What are some buildings/lots that you like to add to EA Towns to spice them up a little bit? Need some ideas :P
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31st May 2012, 05:30 AM	#2
kiwi_tea Site Helper Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 3,455 Thanks: 5748 in 6 Posts 19 Achievements View My Journal	I am a total back country yokel so I usually build some farms. But this being Appaloosa Plains and all... You should make a hilariously hick-town bar. Like one full of hay bales, where they probably have incredibly scary barn dances and still play Billy Ray Cyrus on the jukebox.
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31st May 2012, 03:05 PM	#3
Chocklitkiss Lab Assistant Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 147	I built a Turkish bathhouse type lot. 2 hot tubs, an exclusive bar, buffet, a bookcase, a pool and a caretaker's bedroom. Fights beside the hot tub are HYSTERICAL!!

31st May 2012, 05:37 PM	#4
kewpie Forum Resident Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 763	Download an emptified save file and try a "nothing is free" challenge. It gives you an excuse to fully customize your own town. I like taking a sim's lifetime to figure out what lot I will dedicate to them that fits their personality. It makes the town very much a legacy and personalized indeed.

31st May 2012, 06:49 PM	#5
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31st May 2012, 08:20 PM	#6
brokendeity Test Subject Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 41	I like to delete most of the rabbit holes (bookshop, spa, etc) Then combine them on one big lot. Include some nice seating areas and pretty eating area with a bar outside the bistro. Maybe even include a playground on the lot. I've just started building a motel with woohooium next to every bed. Also considering the idea of attempting to build a zoo or aquarium. Getting all the animals on the lot (using buydebug spawners mostly) will be a pain.

31st May 2012, 09:09 PM	#7
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1st Jun 2012, 03:30 AM

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Loving the idea of a little outdoor bistro. Never would have thought of that.

Same with the uber-country themed bar. I'm thinking those will be great to add, because things like that are seriously lacking (imo) in AP.

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I like to delete most of the rabbit holes (bookshop, spa, etc) Then combine them on one big lot.

That's what I did with the giant dog/cat parks... made them into one, medium sized park and included a minor playground for the rugrats. It seems to be the all the rage, too. Even saw a two women go into labour there. Finally got some spark in the town.

It was getting depressing seeing everyone crying in the arcade because another person died there. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A HAPPY PLACE.

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1st Jun 2012, 05:18 AM	#9
DigitalSympathies Mad Poster Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 3,890 2 Achievements	I like building little strip malls with like, a laundromat full of crack dealers, an 80's arcade-type thing for the teenagers to hang out in, a dive bar . . . for the teenagers to ALSO hang out in (they don't card, ohoho), oddities shop that just screams "THE CHLOROFORM'S ON US", and whatever strikes my fancy like a dingy, soul-eating workout place or a dance studio that's one week away from being closed down.
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1st Jun 2012, 09:40 AM

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Loving the idea of a little outdoor bistro. Never would have thought of that.

The bar keeps the same hours as the bistro. Never built a bistro before without using a rabbithole before. Does sound like a good idea.

I've got an odd habbit of building a pool on a disco lot and putting the disco in the basement so they can see the bottom of the pool lol.

1st Jun 2012, 09:51 AM

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1st Jun 2012, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by DigitalSympathies

I like building little strip malls with like, a laundromat full of crack dealers, an 80's arcade-type thing for the teenagers to hang out in, a dive bar . . . for the teenagers to ALSO hang out in (they don't card, ohoho), oddities shop that just screams "THE CHLOROFORM'S ON US", and whatever strikes my fancy like a dingy, soul-eating workout place or a dance studio that's one week away from being closed down.

How do you make the strip malls, do you place the individual lots right next to each other or do you have one lot with everything and just classify as "hangout" or "visitors allowed"?

2nd Jun 2012, 02:02 AM	#13
Vault boy Lab Assistant Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 91	Meteorites, and Tiberium. Lots of Tiberium. With Nraas' Story Progression, you suddenly get a massive economic war amongst all of the families which enriched themselves quickly, suddenly buying out rabbitholes left and right out of each other. After that, I end up adding up an arcade hall, and some workshops with several AMB artifacts.
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2nd Jun 2012, 02:53 AM	#14
kiatyn Field Researcher Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 331	I wiish that y'all would work on those lots and upload them here...

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