Someone at Maxis must've really liked playing pool.

I've heard that the chess game follows real moves and rules too. Now if only they'd done the same for mahjong...

It is a real chess game, but it's always the same one.

OH MY GOD! I JUST realised something after 20+ years of playing this game! The reward for the slacker career, the hydroponic garden, always confused me. I didn't see how it was relevant. IT'S MEANT TO BE DRUGS!! Duh! Either I'm incredibly dim or just sweet and innocent. I love that I'm still figuring stuff out after all this time.

I'm loving the new version of SimPE. The updates are very helpful for me as I try to get back to the grove of organizing stuff in my game. Thank you so much Chris Hatch.

I don't know why but the turn ons and turnoffs in the newest version of SimPE do not show up under any circumstances. Does it matter if you have default replacements for them for this to happen?

I put down lots of trees to hide the eyesore that is the Chancellor's Acienda, fill up the horizon for screenshots and look more welcoming for everyone and the dogs. How come Voyage trees are so much taller than normal ones and don't have snow on them? They can't be put in the same spot as other trees in winter. There is winter in Three Lakes.

The homespun streetlamp has the same detail on the imposter than the actual object and is on the center of the tile, unlike the preventek streetlamp.

Has someone created more Decorations out of imposters? Like trees & lamps.

https://imgur.com/a/EfqyUTZ

https://lowedeus.tumblr.com/post/67...v-mountain-tree



ePSYlord used to have some LOD replacements here for the Preventek streetlights but the thread's been removed, not sure why. The files are still there though:
https://chii.modthesims.info/getfile.php?file=2210996
https://chii.modthesims.info/getfile.php?file=2210997

Lowedeus has one too but it has requirements, but it lights up!
https://lowedeus.tumblr.com/post/15...lights-as-lod90

The trees work. Nice. A couple more trees remain without snow. One of them is a clump of trees with reasonable height.

https://i.imgur.com/jrleeqV.png

I see that the Preventek city lamps have increased in detail without entering their lots. It wasn't clear what this mod was supposed to do. I wish they put a summary in the package.

I put down the seasons streetlights and set them to hide models to have a glow on the ground (but not on objects) without z-fighting. They match that precisely with the imposter from the opposite house.

I really wish SimStationDance had its own TRL or public access-esque VJ parody clips included


Tim LeTourneau mentioned the animator for the pool table was a huge pool player in the producer walkthrough

I always thought that was the Golden Gate Bridge lol.



So does that mean that the same person always wins the game?

Not unless they cheat, which all the mean ones will.

I mean if Black wins once then the person playing Black will always win regardless of logic points etc. Not counting cheating.

@simsample Those snowy trees will be very useful for Aberon Garden, I hope I remember all the necessary links when I upload it in a year or when I finish, I always forget about these things xD.

I was told that the moves in chess were real, but there wasn't much logic behind them. I think making a chess game would be really hard. I wish they could get up, fetch food or go to the bathroom, and continue. They rarely finish a game. They cheat often if they can.

It actually is the Golden Gate bridge, but the description of the painting iirc says it is a bridge in SimCity. Strongly hinting that the city of SimCity takes San Francisco influences. Which makes sense given where Maxis was founded... I had actually used the pre-order Golden Gate bridge to make that screenshot. It was a bit difficult to place in CS2 though due to game limitations and the map I am creating SimCity on, which is the vanilla "Barrier Island" one that seems NYC-inspired. I chose that map for a reason since other SimCity artwork tends to suggest the city is also strongly influenced by NYC as well. I'm trying to go for as much accuracy with my SimCity city build as possible within the limitations of CS2.

I used Lot Adjuster to make a 1x1 lot for placing a streetlamp. Somehow its value became -$88. Lol.

What is the most direct way to make a lot invisible with the least side effects, like flipping one value somewhere? But so that I can still pick it up in the future. I wonder why the lot didn't have any shading on the ground after editing, but then the shading came back ater I placed a streetlamp on it. By invisible I mean not have the shading, but for the streetlamp to obviously be visible.

https://imgur.com/a/ggjNX8L

I was doing the last couple graduation parties for a batch of YA sims, in the middle of the last one.
Must have fallen asleep.
Woke up, and for some or another reason the game showed the uni hood screen (I was confused, clearly).
Went back into the lot.
It had reset to the last save point, which was (of course) before I'd started the first out of the 2 parties I had left.
GAAAAAH!!!
Had to do it all over again.
But at least I finished it this time, plus remembered to save after the first one just in case (and I think I know what happened - since I didn't click anything the first time around, the game probably defaulted to "no, don't save" when the last sim tried to move out).

I don't know if I'll ever live to see any of my playables graduate university, but if I do, and several want parties, I think I'd just have one big party, and provided the other new graduates go to the party and enjoy it, I think I'd just manually fulfil their "Have a Party" wants. Much like I do with "Go out with" wants -- I send them to a community lot, and manually fulfil their "Go out with" wants. After all, they have gone out with the desired Sim.

I'm just curious, why not use one of the decorative streetlamps found in the neighborhood deco? Seems like it would achieve the same thing without the ugly shading.

My neighborhood deco only has the PrevenTek city streetlamp. In side streets I want the wooden one.

When you go do something and forget you left the game unpaused:



This is the third time I've done this in this neighborhood

Maybe you need those ugly fire alarms hidden behind something. Lol.

I realized today that I've been working with Pooklet hair colours for too long. I went to get my hair coloured and when my hairdresser asked which shade, I straight-up, without even thinking about it, said "oh somewhere between Pyrotechnic and Comburent." It took a few moments to figure out why she was staring at me with a blank look.

On the plus side, once I was done embarrassing myself and explained what I actually wanted, she knocked it out of the park!

I wish I had that problem. Today I used Lot Adjustor to turn a 3X3 community lot into a 1X3 lot and it went from $209,000 to $207,000. What a savings.