That makes sense, thanks BO.

There are 2 items in game that I have no clue what they are for, forgot if they're career or aspiration rewards. Audio Augmenter by Little Mole Inc., and "Starstruck" Personal Fame Stars. Are these useful in any way?

Audio Augmenter is the Intelligence Career reward. It does have some function, but I do not remember which.
Personal Fame Star is - I believe - the Show Business Career reward. If I remember correctly, it improves the Social motive of sims that are not too far away from it.

Audio Augmenter- When using this item, Sims might receive hidden cash or get caught spying by neighbors.

Sorry.

@Annaminna: Cleaning skill? Are you sure? Interesting!!! If I use anything, I'd take the Prints Charming fingerprint scanner from the Law Enforcement career, or a book from the Education book case. Nice to know there is yet another option. Thanks!

Can I have vacation lots in the mainhood?
I am building a big hood with vacation places and i would like my sim to have a mountain cabin apart from his house.. is that possible or just in vacation destinations?

@amora_selvagen: Check out the Lots and Houses bin. If vacation lots also show up there while you're in your main hood, then I see no reason why they could not be used there. If they don't then I'm afraid you're out of luck.

The only vacation lots that are vacation specific are hotels. However, I believe what you are asking is if you can buy a residential lot in the main hood as a vacation home, and the answer is no. You can only own one residential lot in the main hood.

You could make the residential lot a community lot, and use mods to enable sleeping, and pretend the community lot is their second home.

Thanks for the pic, BO!

Thank you .. yes.. I mean buy a vacation home.. thank you.. my english is terrible..lol

Thank you BO for the answer too!!

It was no trouble at all, DJ. You're most welcome.

@gummilutt, thank you for correcting me, Now *I* learn something as well. :D

I needed a character to become a vampire in Bigg City, so he befriended the Master Vamp, invited him over, and I made him selectable to tell him to bite.

While I had the Count selectable I noticed that no matter how many wants of his I filled, his aspiration meter advanced not a bit. Does this mean he has incomplete character data and I need to return to the previous backup?

in response to post #312, might test it with another character of same type; probably within a temporary neighborhood.


a question of my own::
if the last guardian sim is selected when doing the Move In social or either wedding social, would Child and younger automatically come; or would they need to be also selected?

The game will tell you of other sims moving in with the adult.

You would have to select them and be sure they moved to the other side of that window or they'll be left behind.

Obviously there are some big differences between a lot zoned as a dorm and one zoned as an apartment, but how close can I make them in terms of appearance and functionality? Like, can a Myne Door block off access to multiple rooms effectively like a Unique Separator does? Will a dorm function right with virtually nothing in the way of public spaces (no cafeteria, certainly!) Etc... you should be able to tell well enough where I'm going with this!

A Myne Door has to be locked by the Sim living in it.

I actually don't know if there has to be a cafeteria - but I don't think so! Reason - the cafeteria only works if you add the shiny top stove (or whatever it is called) - if you add another stove, the cafeteria stops functioning, but the building still functions as a dorm.

The principle - the Sim has to have access to his dorm room/ apartment by one door only from outside - is probably the same.

I play dorms with almost nothing in them - my Sims only sleep and (once in a while) eat there - they go to the community lots on campus to skill, social, etc. So these beautiful dorms on MTS do not suit my game at all.

So - I think they can look exactly the same - apartments and dorms.

But people expect a cafeteria at a dorm, it's one reason players send their sims to a dorm and not a house, because they don't have to cook.

Yeah, I know, and the project I'm working on will have plenty of normal dorms on-campus, cafeteria and all, but I've never seen a college town that didn't have student apartments near campus, and since apartments don't work in a UNI subhood, a modified dorm is the next-best thing. So, if I make a kitchen (or at least a kitchenette) in the areas behind Myne Doors, the Sims who live there should still be able to use them, right?

I forget, will any of the name-changing mods/methods work for pets? I can't think of names for my Sims puppies, so it'd be nice if I could change them later on.

I don't know of any mods will change pet names, but I do know you can do it in SimPe same as you can a Sim.

Zarathustra - try it and find out!

You might want to upload individual buildings to your Creator Feedback thread for other people to playtest for you, as well as doing your own playtesting. It's a great way to ferret out weaknesses and discover strengths your own play doesn't turn up. Like giving someone else a paper to proofread.

If every sim has a functional kitchen(ette) in his/her room, and that kitchen is equiped with ANY stove except the ShinyTyme Cooktop, everything should be fine.

I think the ShinyTyme is a no-no there, because on a dorm lot that thing would invite a 'lunch-lady' to cook. A private cook in every room sounds like a bad idea to me...

If you are going to play with only one sim in dorm you can build mansion behind his Myne door (without any other access) and lock it straight and never unlock so other dormies will have not access to your goodies. For these pests you can build 1x2 room where they can vanish with Myne door what they can claim. They need only at least one bookshelf with some sitting place nearby and some desks with chairs so they can do their stupid autonomy study what they don't need anyway and at least one common shower and one common toilet if you don't want see pee puddles and stinking clouds. And dormies never clean anything even if they have 10 points in neat.

But will you still get whiners and feet stompers when they can't reach someone else's stove, sink, fridge, table? lol ... gotta love them sims who have everything they need in 'their own space', but still want to go into someone else's and use it.