Can't search for "vampire" on the Exchange
Really? Is "vampire" suddenly a bad word that has to be censored on the Exchange? Then why is it that I can do a google search, and come up several items with "vampire" in the title that are on the ...
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@lisasc360:
Thank you for searching on it. :) I hadn't seen the one called Axom's Lair, I don't think. That one looks really good and I think might fit in very well.
Yeah, it's @Rflong7 's Supernatural World that I'm trying to fill up. I think I ended up filling all the lots in that area except for two lots. Axom's Lair would fit into the smaller one. I haven't decided whether I want to make the larger lot residential or commercial yet, so I'm leaving it alone for now. While a really good castle would look nice there, I'm thinking that I don't really want another residential lot there, so I may put in an amusement park... if I can find one that I think fits the world.
It's an absolutely gorgeous world, and Rflong has done some really interesting thing with different special effects in each area, like fog throughout the vampire area but nowhere else (I have no idea HOW she did that - I'm going to guess some sort of fog emitters, but fog emitters which then can't be seen on the lots that are placed on the area is something I don't understand), which means that as you travel from one area to another, you can really tell that you're in a different area.
@Hidehi's lots are all gorgeous, and I used almost all of them. I think there was one I didn't use, although I don't recall why.
I eventually found that searching on "gothic" would bring up builds that had the right kinds of styles, although it also brought up many builds that were inappropriate for that area. It meant I had to search through a bunch more to find anything I might want to use. A couple of my own builds came up with it, and I know those wouldn't work at all in that world.
I still have to wonder how EA set up the search function on the Exchange, though. I've programmed database search functions before, and it seems to me that it would work most effectively to search using whatever key words the user entered in both the title field and description field of the build. Otherwise, what exactly is it searching on? How is it defining the key words for a build, if the key words aren't words within those fields? Whoever did that programming job seems to have done a rather clumsy job of it.
Thank you for searching on it. :) I hadn't seen the one called Axom's Lair, I don't think. That one looks really good and I think might fit in very well.
Yeah, it's @Rflong7 's Supernatural World that I'm trying to fill up. I think I ended up filling all the lots in that area except for two lots. Axom's Lair would fit into the smaller one. I haven't decided whether I want to make the larger lot residential or commercial yet, so I'm leaving it alone for now. While a really good castle would look nice there, I'm thinking that I don't really want another residential lot there, so I may put in an amusement park... if I can find one that I think fits the world.
It's an absolutely gorgeous world, and Rflong has done some really interesting thing with different special effects in each area, like fog throughout the vampire area but nowhere else (I have no idea HOW she did that - I'm going to guess some sort of fog emitters, but fog emitters which then can't be seen on the lots that are placed on the area is something I don't understand), which means that as you travel from one area to another, you can really tell that you're in a different area.
@Hidehi's lots are all gorgeous, and I used almost all of them. I think there was one I didn't use, although I don't recall why.
I eventually found that searching on "gothic" would bring up builds that had the right kinds of styles, although it also brought up many builds that were inappropriate for that area. It meant I had to search through a bunch more to find anything I might want to use. A couple of my own builds came up with it, and I know those wouldn't work at all in that world.
I still have to wonder how EA set up the search function on the Exchange, though. I've programmed database search functions before, and it seems to me that it would work most effectively to search using whatever key words the user entered in both the title field and description field of the build. Otherwise, what exactly is it searching on? How is it defining the key words for a build, if the key words aren't words within those fields? Whoever did that programming job seems to have done a rather clumsy job of it.
