How do you make your big houses playable?
I've asked in the past about what to void of build elements to limit lag on larger lots, so that's not what I'm asking now. I just would like to know how big mansions/castles you actually play without much lagging. Okay, if you have a good suggestion regarding limiting lag, go ahead ad include it if you like :)
In my game there is a castle, and it is a nightmare to load and play. Once loaded, and if played for a while it normally gets better, but I realize it is too big and too packed for my low-end computer. I mostly run it to take some pictures of the royals. Lately I moved a copy of the castle to a different save, deleting all private sections, keeping only the public areas like offices, entrance hall, throne room etc for quicker pictures. The built is packed with cc, and it covers 3 rather full floors on a 64x64 lot. So, it IS too much.
I know many simmers build spectacular castles (they are probably on the gallery), but I never understood how they can be played - unless you decorate just a small part of it and leave most of the building empty. Or you have only the king and queen living there, sending all kinds away to be raised with relatives, too limit the household size.
If you play a huge castle, can you actually equip the entire building AND include servants and perhaps a snooty dog, too? Or do you manage thanks to your imagination? Or do you split up the residence so that very private sections are at one lot, while party or official stuff are on other lots - same building just different parts of it equipped on each lot? In this game there is a lot of compromises anyway - RL royals would have several hundred servants, while we must deal with perhaps 2 or 3 depending on whether the queen wants top have a dog or not... A gala dinner that in RL would have 240 seated guests, will in game perhaps have 10... And his is fine, we can still enjoy it and pretend everything is bigger and that the 8 household members limit never existed.
Curious to see how you handle those castles! :)
In my game there is a castle, and it is a nightmare to load and play. Once loaded, and if played for a while it normally gets better, but I realize it is too big and too packed for my low-end computer. I mostly run it to take some pictures of the royals. Lately I moved a copy of the castle to a different save, deleting all private sections, keeping only the public areas like offices, entrance hall, throne room etc for quicker pictures. The built is packed with cc, and it covers 3 rather full floors on a 64x64 lot. So, it IS too much.
I know many simmers build spectacular castles (they are probably on the gallery), but I never understood how they can be played - unless you decorate just a small part of it and leave most of the building empty. Or you have only the king and queen living there, sending all kinds away to be raised with relatives, too limit the household size.
If you play a huge castle, can you actually equip the entire building AND include servants and perhaps a snooty dog, too? Or do you manage thanks to your imagination? Or do you split up the residence so that very private sections are at one lot, while party or official stuff are on other lots - same building just different parts of it equipped on each lot? In this game there is a lot of compromises anyway - RL royals would have several hundred servants, while we must deal with perhaps 2 or 3 depending on whether the queen wants top have a dog or not... A gala dinner that in RL would have 240 seated guests, will in game perhaps have 10... And his is fine, we can still enjoy it and pretend everything is bigger and that the 8 household members limit never existed.
Curious to see how you handle those castles! :)
