The Mall

"JoAnne65;c-17080441" wrote:
@Karritz Amazing! I love the Victorian style of the building and the stores are lovely! (see you found room for a Katy Perry shop as well haha). The restaurant is a great idea (love the wall paper by the way; is that an in game pattern or CC?) and the magic shop. And it’s great how much furniture you can buy. I also love how green the flower shop is (her name is Kara, one of my favourite premades).

Thank you. There is no CC anywhere in that lot. I haven't loaded anything to the Exchange since I first started putting CC into my game. So nothing in my Studio has any CC in it.

There were a few Base Game only sims I loaded after I got my new computer in 2017. I made and loaded them after I installed the Base Game and patched to 1.55 but had nothing else relating to the game and definitely no CC on the computer. I added some more sims after installing some of the expansions but stopped loading anything once I started adding CC to the new computer.

"JoAnne65;c-17081857" wrote:
Going to see if I have the pattern then. It’s also possible it came with a Store set I don’t have. Or the recolouring makes it unrecognizable for me.

It is 'Floral Aura Wallpaper' and is in the Miscellaneous tab and has a store icon in my game. It is $7.

EDIT: In my game it shows up below the expensive wallpapers. It doesn't sort properly in value order. It looks sort of stripey with the flowers loosely arranged in vertical stripes.

Skipping to the end to post how impressed I am with this! It gave me a LOT of inspiration to build my own mall (I don't use CC.) FANTASTIC job, though, quite impressive!

@AbellaKellaher Thank you :smiley: Have fun building your own, hope you'll share pictures when it's ready.

My 40x40 mall lot for Hylewood - Each business on the inside has a different facade (wallcovering) on the outside, and each business on the first floor has its own separate entrance in the front of the building. Where I live, we call that a strip mall. But real strip malls are only one story, so this mall is kind of a hybrid.

https://i.imgur.com/j8B33pX.jpg

Playground on the left

https://i.imgur.com/1eiErBX.jpg

Picnic area on the right

https://i.imgur.com/vvVSWkS.jpg

On the left, the gym, with a pool, occupies the lower two stories.

https://i.imgur.com/7gohnU1.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/gzXF3K0.jpg

The restrooms on the second floor are all-in-one bathrooms, because it's the only way I could fit in multiple toilets, showers, and sinks.

https://i.imgur.com/Rae7ka5.jpg

The third floor houses a bowling alley/arcade.

https://i.imgur.com/Ii6gsnv.jpg

On the lower level, left of center is the salon, with its own restrooms behind the stairs.

https://i.imgur.com/hPIzJbB.jpg

Salon Reception Area

https://i.imgur.com/mzMWlQQ.jpg

Salon Restrooms

https://i.imgur.com/FMBsyjo.jpg

On the far right, the consignment shop occupies the first and second floors

https://i.imgur.com/xQe2XJh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/KniBp1h.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1bb8VAE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fxxwVaD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/tmUQVvm.jpg

The martial arts academy is on the second floor above the salon.

https://i.imgur.com/xfkgGEb.jpg

There are three restrooms with showers along the back wall.

https://i.imgur.com/NS7uWt5.jpg

The second floor landing outside the martial arts academy: the lion statue doesn't disappear while on the first floor, so I may remove it, if it gets annoying enough.

https://i.imgur.com/9Z0eQTj.jpg

I placed a fountain at the other end of the stairwell.

https://i.imgur.com/jhcnKAd.jpg

The right half of the third floor contains a recreation center. Near the stairs are a coffee bar and tables.

https://i.imgur.com/Tl7B5VO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/AJrTbE2.jpg

The basement contains the rabbitholes and chess and dominoes tables. I chose a green stone pattern for the concrete block floor, because it's easier on my eyes than stark white blocks.

https://i.imgur.com/B13k1iZ.jpg

Sometimes sims will buy food at the coffee bar on the third floor, ignore all those nice tables nearby, and take it to the basement to eat it.

@IreneSwift I love that! It combines a gym and a mall, every town needs this!

@simgirl1010 Thank you, yes, so far it is fun, though there’s not much to the business part of it all. It’s rather the sims’ behaviour I enjoy. It might be nice in the future to make my sims really buy their clothes and furniture there.

@Karritz I hope you will! Like I said I was inspired to start building this mall when there was a topic here showing them. Maybe it was yours? As for the savvy seller registers, for me the problem wasn’t that sims lined up, the employees didn’t stay at the register they were hired for but walked around, and I hardly had other sims anymore (like in the pictures on this page like mr. Bald and Naomi and mr. Sunglasses; those pictures were taken before I hired the cashiers). I fired them all now and customers indeed return now ánd they buy. Not even sure what the function of the cash registers is?

Going to see if I have the pattern then. It’s also possible it came with a Store set I don’t have. Or the recolouring makes it unrecognizable for me.

Thanks, I’ll look for it next time I play :smiley: