My Studio

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Comments, suggestions, and recommendations are always welcome! ;)

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Comments, suggestions, and recommendations are always welcome! ;)

One of my main sims got cursed while in China, so I have to get to Egypt sooner than planned. Their plane takes off in three simdays. I may also send a second household to France to help...

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Up next:

• Abandoned Barn;
  
• Chinese vacation home (TBA);
  
• The Nomad Camp of Unknown Origins (should be uploaded by next week).
  

Eventual updates:

• The Excavation Site/Underground Reservoir;
  
• The French General Store & Youth Hostel;
  
• Han's Barn.
  

Postponed:

• Mayan Travel Neighborhood
  
• An Upgraded Consignment store (TBA).
  

Also, feel free to browse around in my studio!

"rosemow;15260131" wrote:
It is great that your sims are now back from their travelling. The Shang Simla lots that you have uploaded will be great for simmers to have in their game! :)

For most of my updated lots, I just complete lots left behind incomplete by EA... Would have been great if they would have wrapped things up themselves...

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Comments, suggestions, and recommendations are always welcome! ;)

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Comments, suggestions, and recommendations are always welcome! ;)

"Lexers615;15238868" wrote:
Okay, so, first, here are two of my longer lasting pet projects:
The Pomegranate Library and The Excavation Site/Underground Reservoir.

The Pomegranate Library
...(I) quickly realized the absence of a "Library" lot in Al Simahara, so I converted one of the empty house in one. Later, I thought that it would be a good opportunity to mess with Tomb Building, so I gave it a try. The active "Mummy", and the "Island Paradise" chest are the most recent addition.

@Lexers615 - I love this lot. It is great to have a library full of skill books while your Sims are on vacation. I don't want to give anything away about the tomb. It was fun to figure it out. I am glad I had two sims explore it together. If this was your first opportunity to mess with tomb building, well, I think you are ready to design larger tombs.

"Lexers615;15238868" wrote:
The Excavation Site/Underground Reservoir
I quickly realized that something else was missing: a pool, as my sim almost always have a wish to "Go to the Pool". I decided to give him a treat and set one in Al Simahra. It is meant to be an ancient Egyptian reservoir recently excavated and turned into a pool. Again, it's a very basic tomb, with a rather generous amount of Ancient coins hidden inside. There is some issue about the "Mummy", as the room is too small, so I might fix when my sims travel back home.

I don't know if you can control and limit the number of NPC Sims that visit the lot. Not long after my Sim arrived at the lot, the pool filled up with NPC Sims. I wouldn't want the lot to be "no visitors allowed" though. While this tomb is small, you definitely were generous with the treasures and coins hidden inside. I wondered why the Mummy didn't attack my Sim.

"Me1620;15266447" wrote:
@Lexers615 - I love this lot. It is great to have a library full of skill books while your Sims are on vacation. I don't want to give anything away about the tomb. It was fun to figure it out. I am glad I had two sims explore it together. If this was your first opportunity to mess with tomb building, well, I think you are ready to design larger tombs.

"Libraries" are a must, and sometimes, when nearly everyone in the household have a "Partnership Certificate" and/or the "Prepared Traveler" reward, travel duration can be incredibly long. At the moment, the minimum duration for my sims is 27 days, I think... Back then, it was about 15, so they had plenty of time to do something else, so I thought skill building was appropriate. As for the tomb, it was not my very first, but one of them. I am considering *eventually* doing big tombs, after my Maya neighborhood pet project.

"Me1620;15266447" wrote:
I don't know if you can control and limit the number of NPC Sims that visit the lot. Not long after my Sim arrived at the lot, the pool filled up with NPC Sims. I wouldn't want the lot to be "no visitors allowed" though.

The problem, like in France, is that the NPC have nowhere to go, so they all go to the few public lots they can. In France, that's why the "Nectary" is always a "Hotspot": NPCs have nowhere else to go on their idle time. If I'm right, adding lots where NPCs can go should reduce "traffic" accordingly... I'm considering trying to convert one of the "Fishing Spots" into a "Beach". That way, Egyptian NPCs would have another lot to go to. At least, in China, NPCs can go to the "Chinese Garden" and "Academy".

"Me1620;15266447" wrote:
While this tomb is small, you definitely were generous with the treasures and coins hidden inside.

Well, back then I didn't really knew the actual value of ancient coins, and I never rebalanced it ever since...

"Me1620;15266447" wrote:
I wondered why the Mummy didn't attack my Sim.

That's because the "Mummy" is trapped in a room that is too small, as hostile tomb "Mummies" can't use doors. The game can't find a place to set the "Fight!" interaction. I need to move the sarcophagus and rework the room a bit.

I have to go out of town for the weekend, and then I'll be into books for the midterm exams. I have to delay some uploads...

f I did not have enough trouble already, I just had a "system corruption" issue that forces me to change my user account on Windows...