How much time do you spend on houses?
melscape:
This was a perfect topic for me to happen upon because I recently changed my time spent on houses. I got the Sims2 shortly after it came out but I always used the lots and houses bin, or had friends make them for me. If ever I tried to make a house for myself, I usually built it badly, messed it up so it never looked nice asthetically. I experimented with making basements etc. but after that I built for playability. I never decorated. I never used curtains or rugs and they only got that cheapest square mirror when they needed charisma points. I built one story houses because that was what was easiest to raise a child in so that the toddler was never stuck upstairs etc.
When my friends would send me their houses to use they were always full of couchs and such I never knew the Sims even had.
Well, I like to write fanfics. And in a fanfic I wrote I had to envision a mansion. And after writing the story for about a year I decided to try and build the mansion on Sims. It's pretty square, it took me 10 hours spread over 4 days to build and was the first time I spent longer than 20 minutes building a house. I downloaded custom content to make it look exactly the way I pictured it in my head. I used curtains, rugs, fish tanks, sofas I'd never used before, I built a full kitchen with the dining room as an actual separate room. And I had so much fun. I loved it.
I couldn't believe building could be so much fun. I always thought I wanted to play and that building WASN'T playing, and now I'm really happy to have finally after years discovering this aspect of The Sims 2. Now, I totally want to build cool places for my people to live.
After the mansion/estate, I built a loft house and it only took me a couple hours over 2 days. Thus the mansion was a great crash course because I was like, oh I'm done :lol: and felt like it hadn't taken any time at all.
I do have to say even though I may try harder to make my houses pretty, I will try to keep them small. When I got done making the mansion which I had built on the HUGE lot. It was actually too many walls for me to actually play without horrible lag so I had to play it with walls down. Plus it takes Sims forever to walk from Point A to Point B. And they always pick the toilet with the bathroom that's furthest away when their bladder need is extremely low. I agree with Shadeaustar. Sims are a bit dumb and if they have a large house with lots in it, they don't function well.
Bertie:
I usually get very carried away and take a week or so for a large lot (villa and extensive gardens, landscape etc) Then go back and spend another three or four nights for finishing touches.
I never worry about neighbourhood screens as they lag me too much because of extensive foliage etc
MaryH:
I only build houses when I need a specific type house for a specific family-otherwise they go into a downloaded one. Of course this doesn't mean I don't decorate, but I don't go overboard on that, either. My simmies don't need all that stuff, anyway, and they wouldn't appreciate the extra work I would put into a house. They'd whine about something!
I'm a player, not a builder, and they would be the first to agree with me!
Stelio Kontos:
If I'm just playing a house for the hell of it, I take around an hour or so to make a half-decent house w/o major landscaping.
However, when it comes to story sets, that time might become at least 5 or so hours a set, depending on the complexity of the set and any hacks I need to make the set work right.
caffeinated.joy:
Yay! I'm happy to see this thread come back from the dead! See? I knew I wasn't the only insane homebuilder. I've reached a personal best lol. The last house I built took me three weeks of work; anywhere between three and five hours a day.
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