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Fanphoria
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Option to buy bookcases un-stocked, and to stock them in build mode please

I don't really like that all the bookcases start with the same generic books--I much prefer to buy books that suit my specific sims, which means I end up tediously deleting all the books they come with and buying new ones fresh all the time. So, it'd be nifty to be able to bjuy slightly cheaper versions of the bookcases that don't have any books in them.

But my real issue is with bookcases in public venues, which all have the exact same books no matter the venue. Like, what's the point of reading a book at a library when they only ever have the exact same books that come with the bookshelf you buy at home? The Willow Creek library is the only exception to this, and basically, I want to be able to build a library like that.

Here is an incomplete list of things that I've found myself wanting to to but is super annoying to try and actually do in the game as it is:

Build a research library with advanced skill books already stocked

Make a science lair hang out for a science club with specifically science based books like logic, engineering, and rocket science already in their bookshelf

Refurbish and restock venues that have bookshelves, like the museum in Brindleton Bay, with books that specifically suit the character of that location

Redecorate dorms in build mode and be able to pre-stock the bookshelves in those dorms with things I think it would make sense for them to have

Basically, I want the freedom to be able to put the books I think should be places in the places I think they should be, and to not have any books I don't want to be there. Why does the university research library have such a limited catalog, and include children's books? Please let me pick the books for places, and stop automatically giving me books I don't want every time I place a bookshelf!

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  • i think bookshelves when bought residential should have no books until you buy books

    for venues its bit tricky

    maybe let players stock them like you would normally on residential lot

    I also think we should be able to leave objects to museums and art galleries somehow but i also know this would probably glitch game when townie sims start leaving their stuff around

    what i want most of all though is to edit the lab in strangerville

    i know they are trying to dodge the error of people editing it unfunctional which results to problems but i think they should at least let us add objects cause it would make great place to use get to work science things
  • "calaprfy;c-17957915" wrote:
    I recently downloaded a set of all skill books and added them to every library in my game.


    Don't they disappear once you read them?
  • "Chazzzy;c-17957820" wrote:
    How many books are included by default?


    I believe there are 11 books that come with with basically every bookcase: Reel Her In, Untamed Treachery, and Love in the Time of Sandwiches (all Romance), Crisis Barn and the Lucas Dark one (both Mystery), The Glutton Spiel (SciFi), Orbital Pudding (Non-Fiction), Downfall of Rodiek (Fantasy), and the 3 children's books, The First Unicorn, Lord of the Swings, and Pizza-Cat Polka or something like that. Most of them are only 1 simoleon, but a couple are 10. I think the total cost of all of them is, like, 30 simoleons or something close to that. (I'm listing this mostly from memory, so forgive me if I'm a bit off here and there. But, you can easily just check by placing a bookcase somewhere and looking at what's in it lol)

    The children's and toddler bookcases are a bit different of course, which I actually like--I kind of wish there were more specifically stocked, themed bookcases.

    Like, it's just weird to me that every book case has these exact books. My goodness, about a quarter of the books provided are romance books, and that's just not going to suit every sim and every location!

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