New Game, New Ways?

[dejadejavu]

(27-04-2008 10:51 AM)Randomly Cassie link Wrote:I want to spend more time building houses. During TS2, I have a habbit of creating these gorgeous Sims who live in some pretty shabby houses. Well no, not shabby, they are reasonably good, but compared to the beautiful houses I download, they are awful. I have some really good ideas when it comes to building styles, but I can never be bothered to bring them to life - building takes such a long time, I'd rather just get straight down to playing. But this time, I'm going to try and break that habit, because I want to make a really lovely home that I can be proud of.

Oh yea, that's another thing, I want to create houses! I've tried my hand at a few houses, but I'm much better at remodeling/adding on extensions then creating from the ground up. I think if I figured out how to make custom roofing, then I would like my houses better. The layout always looks good but the the roof is kind of out of wack.

I also hope that sims will have more intelligence as far as watering plants. As it is now they can't water plants unless they can stand right in front of the arrow that shows up for placement. As a result you can't even put places in the most basic places. For instance no:

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1  X  X  X
1  X
1  X
1  X

The 1 and  ---- represent some sort of wall. The X's represent plants/bushes. With this setup you can't reach the X in the corner. I've always wondered if this was just a problem with my game. Because how in the world are people creating all these beautiful gardens in their houses if in a few days they'll just turn all weedy and then the environment score will plummet. Also I'm confused because the game comes with houses that have non fuctional plant placement. Hahaha.