Here are the rest of the community lots available for base game only, no store content, patched to 1.67. (Personal opinion, there is absolutely no need for patch 1.69 other than to force tie s3, especially it's digital content, to origin. If you own all content, baring store content, on disc you can get away without patching to 1.69.) Altogether for base game only sims 3 there are 14 community lot types available beyond rabbit hole lots. Of the 14 lots only 10 of those lots can be purchased by an active sim. Of those 10 lots 1 will require store content or an EP to be added. I didn't save the game yesterday. So I started with a fresh game again today (7/1/17); this time however I have saved the game so I can come back to it for additional lots, or questions. Your guide is once again Angelica Branis, and we are once again on Industrial Island. If she looks puzzled it's because she's not only at the other end of town from yesterday, but she's also in a nicely furnished ea house that runs at over 71 thousand move in cost. Freerealestate, like motherlode has it's uses. ;) As in handy when building up a town, but boring for starting up with; unless your story involves someone inheriting a fancy place. :) Here is the end of the island being worked this time. It holds 16 20x30 lots, all of equal value. Now to change the zoning of 14 of those lots over to community lots. Take note that while in Edit Town mode the values for the lots haven't changed, rather they've stayed at the 1,200 cost. This like the cake, is a lie. Trust me I'll show you soon. One wee step to take care of before popping back to Angelica in live mode. To make finding the lots wanted easier, let's change their lot info. For those unfamiliar with the process, to change lot info you click on the paper icon next to the buy/build icon on a lot's information panel, and that opens the Edit Details window shown below. If you plan on sharing your lot, or even just saving it for future reference, it is recommended to give the lot a name as well as fill in the "Lot Description" box. In the past I have deleted lot's I had downloaded because they didn't have a name or description. I would also mark down (take away) points when scoring for a build competition if there was no name & description. For this tutorial I'm just naming the lot's what they are; pool, no visitor, hangout, and so on. Now that we're done editing lot types as well as lot information let's switch back to live mode. Ruh, roh .... Out of the 14 lots that were rezoned only 12 have icons on the map. Those two without icons are the "visitors Allowed" and the "Visitors Not Allowed" community lots. Without jumping to an ea world for confirmation today, I'm going to hypothesize (guess) that those two lot designation might be reserved for the different Rabbit holes. Let's check out the cost of lots now that we are in live mode. There's one other detail that need's to be taken care of. As a fresh from the bin sim Angelica really doesn't have the funds to buy any of those lots, so let's fix that with the family funds cheat code. Now it's Angelica's turn again, and she has plenty of cash to not just buy the lots but build on them. Today she's going to show off the phone real estate command menu. It's pretty straight forward*, but it doesn't hurt to show it off. (*I've been simming since The Sims 1, so I've had 17 years of sims command menu's.) You can stay in the buy real estate menu until you are done buying/selling as many lots as you want. So now let's take a look at the Town View and see what she now owns. Well there went two more lots; the small park and the vampire lounge. So we went from 14 to 12 down to 10 ownable lots. This will probably vary depending on which EP's/SP's/SC's owned and installed. Notice all of those round circles with slashes through them. All of the owned lots are considered "Closed" by the game mechanics. So even if townies & Npc's hangout on your lot you won't earn any money. Now lets take a look at the requirements for 1 Star and getting those lots to earn money for your sim. So ... um ... laundry, yeah not happening anytime soon. Yes I could download a laundry set from the store, but I'm not going to. I find the game far more enjoyable without laundry, I do enough in rl. ;) Moving on from laundry. :) Yesterday I built up an Art Gallery so this time let's build up a Big Park. Some things to note when building up a community lot: * Grass, terrain paint, does not add any value to the lot. * Use the most expensive build/buy items available, you are not building a starter lot. * Watch where you buy from; the picnic bench in build mode is free and does not add to the lot value/cost, the picnic bench in buy mode runs around 200 something and does add to the lot value/cost. * When you own a community lot you can build on it while there are active sims on the lot. Now let's Build up for two stars. And the final 3 Star build up. Again as with the Art Gallery, I didn't go for pretty I went for fast & meets requirements. With each build up level there is a certain amount difference with cost from what's needed to the added money value of the lot. Now let's address the question of does lot size make a difference. I converted a 40x40, which also has a nice view buff on it to a Big Park. The 20x30 lot has an added value of 12,000 to it's base cost of 1,200 for a new cost of 13,200. The 40x40 lot has an added value of 12,000 to it's base value of 8,192 for a new cost of 20,192. So the answer is no size doesn't really matter the cost for a Big Park looks like a constant +12,000 to the cost of the whatever base lot you pick for building on. Could you skip all of that and just build up a lot and convert it to type? Yes, but your sim won't own the lot and if you want your sim to own the lot you'll still need to buy it.
As of now I have the world saved, and might do a few more lots in the future, however for the immediate now there's an Apocalypse Tournament starting. ;)
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Rosemow's thread for Building Tips & Tricks on the forums.
Hotkeys List for Sims 4 Carl's Guide for Sims 4 Builds SimsVIP Guide Ruthless_KK - Simply Ruthless guide for Sims 4 Archives
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