What do you search for in the Gallery?

"So_Money;c-16578446" wrote:
I find myself searching for restaurants a lot. The worlds need more of them, and I don't enjoy building them.

Also, one BR starter homes and bowling alleys.

I try to put one restaurant in each world. I have the Sunny Side Diner in Willow Creek because it suits the "family" theme I get from that world. Oasis Springs has my La Cucina restaurant (servng Mexican and Selvadoradan foods) which replaced Hogan's Burger Bar (with Seasons it was a bit open to the elements). Newcrest has Chez Llama which is my formal restaurant with all the experimental dishes. Uptown Eats with all the CL recipes is in San Myshuno. Windenburg has The Diving Pelican seafood restaurant down on the docks. And the Salty Paws Saloon in Brindleton Bay is The Greenery with an all vegetarian menu for my veggie Sims.

I build a lot of regular, ordinary homes myself (smaller stuff), so I usually download those really big, elaborate lots that have tons of cool little design features, like 'Blekinge Sweden' and 'Old Japanese Village' (both by Simoniona), the Vampire Diaries house (by Xhexenia1), 'The Block' by Melcstro, and others - there are some truly amazing builds in the gallery. I love lots of details, and I know how much time (a LOT) it takes to build something like that. :)

Legacy Homes

I play my own houses, I like downloading builds of a certain style or theme for dumping SIMs and then I can go visit them and explore the lots. This is especially in a play style like my 100 baby challenge that has been going on since 2015 and we are at baby 19 still a toddler. However I have remade all of the worlds with some of mine and some of others builds and adult children get their own ad hock story progression.

I also like to download all sorts of venues especially to fit in with a theme, this could be parks, pools, roller rink bars, bowling restaurants whatever works. I love building libraries but also download some. It’s nice in a long game to make fun and unusual maps and revamp them periodically. I created a WC and OS where all the lots had an eco theme from houses to cafes to gyms and parks all with other peoples builds and its really neat. Windenberg in that save is totally boho and the spice district in SM is really little India with a gorgeous restaurant and Festival of Lights park.

I download and use a lot of art in my builds.

I also download to admire and study builds that blow my mind. I really appreciate the creativity in the gallery and follow many fantastic builders so I want to download their stuff to support them.

I usually go into the gallery and look for whatever it is I could use for my game at the time I am playing it. I sometimes need a new teen for the neighborhood so I look for one and then put her/him in someone home and then have her/him in the neighborhood. Sometimes I need more so my teen sim can choose his preference. Also I do this with other sims depending on what I need. I have taken an elder sim I liked and made them in CAS be a younger sim or even some adult sims I changed to teens. Just depends on what I need at the time and when I do this I get them skilled so that they fit into the game and are not playing catchup really it does not matter what they look like or the traits it is by what I need at the time as long as they are skilled and I then put the first one I see that may fit the situation into my game.
For houses and buildings I usually use ehaught58 as his builds seem to fit my playing style.

I use the Gallery mostly to find houses for Sims I don't plan to directly play (sims I add into the game just to have more people in the world, or options for dating, etc.) I also use it to put community lots in the game like restaurants or clubs. For the most part though, its just nice looking homes to fill up empty lots

I mainly like to just make my own house. But when I just don't feel like making a house for some reason, then I just go on the gallery and just search for a nice, popular home. I also use the gallery to fill lots in the New Crest world (venues mostly).