What did you do with Oasis Springs?

I bulldozed the Landgraab house and I'm using the lot to build the Snowbird Retirement Village. In my current save I have one household for each neighborhood and the desert seemed like the place to send the elders.

I also replaced most of the community lots with updated versions and added a pool and a Mexican restaurant, and many of my sims take their clubs and dates to those lots in the winter to avoid freezing conditions.

"Hermitgirl;c-17019233" wrote:
I wonder if you could build a little overhang to protect the tv's on your movie theater lot @BlkBarbiegal .... that looks wonderful. Not sure if it would work I'm not a builder but would be a shame to have it all indoors.
All the areas look great.

I may try an overhang for this is a great build. Thank you.

I haven't used it. I love cool worlds with lots of trees and nature. I wish the vacation world from Outdoor Resort were a regular world. I tried modding it, but the mod didn't really work for me.

It's less performance-hogging world, but world is too bright to my liking, I only added some game center in there even with that I rarely visit the world.

town like any other. I've lived in it, I've visited it.

I did not alter much, but I play the world more often. Verde is top notch, Dusty Turf middle class, Nookstone the poor area. In the latter, I have a sim running a simple hotel/lodging, with small cabins in backyard and she serves meals in main build. I imagine there is a funfair in the distance (the huge Dino).

I use this world as my imaginary extension of Del Sol Valley, because it has enough lots to feel like a proper town with individual style neighbourhoods, and it's always sunny. I demolish most of the houses and replace them with either modern mansion style houses, or with traditional Spanish/mexican style houses for the smaller lots, so then it feels like it used to be a smaller traditional town that's developed and become richer over time. Each house has a pool too because it's so sunny and warm all year round it's great for enjoying the warm outdoors :smile: I especially love the neighbourhood by the lake (I cant remember what its called at the mo, but its the top left) because it has grass too and feels like a private estate, which is perfect for my rich and/or famous sims.

Oh I love Oasis Springs. It reminds me of a tiny mountain village called Cloudcroft I grew up near. I bulldozed all the homes and turned them into log cabins. I took the community lots and just changed the design on the outside to look like log cabins to match the rest of the lot. Added my own families and imagination and it was the only lot I ever played until Strangerville came out.

I think I only have a couple families left there, most of the lots there are community lots. I downloaded someones Grand Canyon Spa.. And someone else’s restaurant that has a slip and slide in it. I have someones beach (that I added a pool to) I even downloaded someones Dragon Inn, that my sims go to to relax. I have a drive in theatre there I built and a park I built. I still have the gym there and the rattlesnake bar I have put more activities in, I have the solar lounge there ( my criminal sims go there to play poker and drink.) I updated the big park, and I recently downloaded someones ice cream place, and made it an ice cream restaurant. I can’t remember what else, but it makes a nice tourist community. Oh, I also have a photography shop there and a large science building that has many floors. And I almost forgot, I have a big hospital/mall retail lot there that I put together using a combination of other peoples rooms and expansion of someone’s refurbished factory. It looks like the kind of hospital or mall you would find in a good size desert town.

https://abload.de/img/oasisspringslckzd.jpg

Before you ask: No, I didn't create this map specifically for this thread, just translated some of the names. I'm a control freak when it comes to my worlds and actually have a map like this for all of them, with blue names marking played families and red ones for public lots.

As you can see, I've evicted all the premades to make room for my own sims, with the main residential district being in the upper left corner. Up right is the shared property of a group of soliders, cops, and spies, right next to an old military base that was repurposed as a bar / gym combo. In the middle we have the "Area 51" neighbourhood that is all about space mysteries and exploration, featuring an alien family, a planetarium and a Sixam-themed nightclub. And last but not least, the Selvadorada "travel centre", if you want to call it that, consisting of the home of two archaeologists, an archaeology museum, a Selvadoradian cantina and restaurant, and a souvenir shop.

You could say that Oasis Springs was basically my StrangerVille before we got StrangerVille, a spacy alternative to the more down-to-earth atmosphere of worlds like Willow Creek.