More Awesome Than You!

This is an apartment building I've just finished, that I thought people might like to try.  It plays without problem for me.

There are four apartments, all a little different.  Ground floor rear apartment has a small garden with pond and greenhouse, and two double bedrooms. Ground floor front has 2 double bedrooms. First floor rear has two double bedrooms and a nursery/third bedroom.  First floor front just has one double bedroom.  All apartments have just the one bathroom, not good in the morning rush hour, unless you're snapdragoned, but the nursery could convert to a decent bathroom. There's a one-tile buffer zone along the communal wall with the next apartment, since all the neighbours my Sims have ever had have opted to play loud music at 4 am. 

They're all furnished pretty much the same.  It didn't seem worth individualising them when you might choose to rent them unfurnished anyway.  Rents go from $1947 to $3594.

Ground floor common area has seating area, chess and mah jong. First floor common area has seating, bar, piano and pool table, plus stereo for those smustle moments. There is an outside pool, children's play area, and landscaped garden, which the Sims completely ignore.

Available here: http://tinyurl.com/648pyj (http://tinyurl.com/648pyj)

Edited to add new link. I clean out old files in 4shared, and old pictures in flickr, once they've been there a couple of months.  Someone asked me for to restore the link to this file, so here it is. The pictures are gone for good,though.

I do like this. What a smart idea to make the buffer zone hold the closets, I haven't played with closets yet. This has a real attractive yet functional look. Sort of semi-urban. I like the ornamental garden, even if the sims don't.  Can you pick veges from the communal garden?

Very nice! I'm yoinking this one...

This is lovely! I really like the buffer closet space too, nice idea! ;D

No, you can't, nor can you fish in the pond ornamental pool.  I suppose it comes under not being able to pick anything up from communal areas.

Sims can interact with any objects in the communal areas, so they should be able to garden normally. I have had sims harvest fruit (I switched some of the Belladonna Cove trailer park trees for fruit trees just to see if they could). I also put a pond in one corner of witch's Poncy Promenade lot and my sims fish there very happily.

If they can't fish in this lot, it could be because of steep pond edges or the paving around it.

I am also going to nab this one, thanks.

The pond does have steep sides, I didn't know that mattered.  I'll get right on to infilling, and have them plant up some nice veg.  Nothing enhances a flowerbed like a bright shiny eggplant.

All the apartments I've used so far have had completely useless communal area, so I am loving the number of activities you have given them. A very yoinkable download.

Necromancing Peasantry threads when you have a question about the upload is allowed, right?

Specifically, I wanted to know if you used any custom trees in this lot - I recently got several errors during a thunderstorm when the lightening hit, to the effect that the fire animation "was an empty string".  Without really knowing much about such things, I am guessing that some broken custom object was hit by lightening but having problems catching fire.  Other trees on the lot have successfully caught fire.

This doesn't really bother me much - I just hit delete and the errors stopped.  I'm mostly just wondering why it might have happened.

thank you. this is wonderful. i hope you dont mind that dL-ed the other ones to beside the apartment one.