More Awesome Than You!

When I'm decorating houses, I find myself wishing I had my TS2 custom content. Off the top of my head, I would most like to have the following objects:

A simple, backless stone garden bench without carving in it
A small fountain for fish ponds
A non-fugly lamp (all the EAxis ones are horrible, imho)
A buffet/cabinet thingy for dining rooms on which you could set plates of food, knick knacks, etc.
A larger indoor potted plant

oops, 6! a normal looking modern desk

I have a whole list of build mode things, too, like half-walls and split-level foundations, but maybe we'll get those in an expansion pack.

1. Bunk beds

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head that i really want.

Hmmm, let's see...
- a free standing shower like the one that came with university
- a shelf with many slots to display stuff on
- useable placement slots on top of the short bookcases
- a square one tile table
- clutter of any kind (more plants, kitchen pots and utensils, bathroom supplies, gardening tools, etc.)

Babby BBQ.

Even though there are more slots on tables, I would love OMSP's so that I can at least place the objects where I want.  Clutter of any kind, SHELVES, and pool items (diving boards, slides, etc)

Yes, too many of those in my hood.  :D

I want targa stairs, really prefer Spaik's attic stairs,
The ability to build stealth stairs without them rising up when I level the floor,
Aquariums, both large and small,
Tools, so the creators can make livingroom and bedroom sets to die for.

I miss pillows for the sofas and beds!

Cabinets or shelves for display items...useful cabinets / closets / display cases
Object mods that introduce new animations or behaviors to the game that add realism, story-telling possibilities or new gameplay options.
Recolorable stairs / stoops / ladders in a variety of shapes and sizes.
More USEFUL clutter and the ability to put clutter in more places, and clutter that is IN SCALE with Sims
NON-TACKY landscaping decor premades like small bridges and docks, bird feeders, bird baths, gazebos, koi ponds, stone lanterns, rocks you can sit on

Also:
Hair and clothes meshes that don't suck rocks.
I also wish there were more hidden surprises, such as, if a Sim approaches a rose bush, it finds it can cut and display a bunch of cut roses in a vase in its house...or unadvertised rabbitholes or useable beaches (for swimming), etc. You can exhaust all the variations and awards and so on that the game offers in less than a couple of days.

Decorative objects for yard and house.  Houseplants galore!

Lighting, lighting, and more lighting!

Nice outdoor deco, including furniture and more plants, and plants that look good under water!  I am creating a saltwater pond in a Sims' yard.  The bramble and banana plants make great under water plants for it but I need more!

Many more decorations, houseplants, and lights.

And lots and lots and lots more of the aforementioned stuff.

A napping rug for toddlers.

Nursery furniture. I don't care if the sims use it or not, I just want a goddamn changing table in the room.

OGOD SHELVES.

Spiral staircases or ladders...

A smart car. Or a VW Beetle. I don't know what it is about those little cars, I just like them so much. :3

Ankle socks.  I don't want my sims to wear shoes with no socks, but the big socks look stupid with short pants or shorts.
Customizable maternity wear.
Guy's hair that doesn't make them look like a tool or a grandfather.
Pajama pants.  Not sweatpants, pajama pants.
Shelves, but that's been said a million times.

Some of these exist under Decorations/Misc.

ETA: I want real pajamas for female sims. I hate that the only available sleepwear consists of either dresses or t-shirts and undies. It's sexist and offensive to wiccans.

Wiccans are offended by t-shirts and undies?

*sigh* It's been a running joke at MATY since Apartment Life came out. In this instance, it really has nothing to do with wicca. I was trying to make a funny.

Okay, if you don't get the 'offensive to...' jokes then don't say anything at all. I'm being serious, people.

This 'wha...?' boobery is offensive to Emmas.

They're generally called "spiral staircases" or just "spiral stairs". "Rotating stairs" would imply that the stairs had angular momentum, which I can only imagine being logical in one of those carnival fun-house things with the wacky mirrors and spinning hallways, or perhaps if it were a spiral escalator.  ;D

Shelves like we had in AL, and more instruments (I miss the drums, violin and piano).

Thank you, now I want to try rotating stairs!

I think they could have the potential to be very amusing. For about five minutes.

Escalators are very amusing. Picture someone falling down an upward-moving escalator.

The piano, the piano!!

I just want shelves for all those bloody crystals and fishbowls. You watch, when we get them (or if we get them) they will not be able to be placed on them. Damn you EAxis!

*shakes fist

Inge's sidewinder and half-landing stairs.  I used those almost exclusively in TS2.

More miscellaneous decorative goodies. I'm not fussy, I can find merit in most items, but I'm disappointed in the shortage of choices in this one.

I'll second the less toolish male hairstyles, too. Ugh, so much scene crap in there for both genders. Is anyone else wigged out by the children all having cell phones too? I wish I had a hack to disable those. It feels really wrong to me. I loathe cellphones themselves with an irrational passion, but kids with them is especially... ugh.

Anything lethal.

1) A rejuvenator   - the game is hopeless without one
2) A piano    but that's asking a lot.
3) Yes, spiral staircase - lovely.
4) A love tub oh that should have come 2nd.
5) Anything, anything, anything to make this game less boring.

We love you lots and lots and lots xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ooohh!! I agree on the

- bunkbeds  (I love the Grand Trianon collection!)
- spiral stairs

Plus:
- multi-junction and modular counters
- shelves like in BV (so I can store my collectibles in one spot) or those clothes hangers/shelves in OFB (so I can create a walk-in-closet space)
- mirrored closets (or at least the doors are)

and in Build mode:
- half and unleveled walls (building split-levels and placing roof(s) are a PIA in TS3)
- steps (configurable to whatever number instead or multiples of 4, which I'd wish EA had done instead of the stair width slider they did)

I really, really miss the spiral stairs and bunkbeds and toddler blanket, too. The stairs in TS3 are a pain in the ass! You have to place them 2-wide if you don't want everyone queuing up as well.

I also want Numenor's wallwindows and shelves. The fishbowls are taking over the house! How about a fishtank?

I was a bit put out when I couldn't take my sims to a nightclub - where are they supposed to pick up dubious men? The library? I tried to make one, but it's byob. They can't woohoo in public either - it sucks.  :'(

They can woohoo at the theatre. Get the option with a couple that are hot for each other.

o.O! I will definitely try that! Nothing sexier than a graveyard  ;)

They'd just fall forever! Heh.

Sims can also woohoo at City Hall and the science lab. In all four cases, the sims you want to have live dangerously need to go on a tour together.

Hell yes!  Those are number one and two on my list.

More cars.  Seriously...who in Sunset Valley wouldn't love to take a nice drive along the coast in their convertible?
Changing Tables...it just looks weird to toss the kid in the air, and boom...clean diaper.  Other baby/toddler accessories would be nice too.
Stationary bicycle.  I prefer those to treadmills thanks much.  What about an elliptical or stair stepper machines?  Those would be a nice addition to any home or gym.

I know it's not buy mode...but I want my half walls back damn it! *shakes fist at EA for taking them away*  It's fugly as all hell using a fence in place of a half wall.

Fireplaces which can be stacked atop each other, sharing one chimney. It's idiotic if I want fireplaces on 2 floors I have to partition off so much space.

Custom paintings with recolorable frames. How EA missed this, given we can customize everything else to death, I don't know. A few nice, empty (recolorable, damnit!) frames which we can choose the pictures for.

Moar fence choices, or the ability to recolor what we have.

Square-cut male trunks for working out and swimming that don't hang down to the knees.

Everything else has already been mentioned.

A program/tool to import TS2 meshes directly in TS3.
Flowers, bushes, potted plants and watever green that can be placed anywhere. The only pots I can place on a tea table are ridiculous small or stupid look.
Stackable foundations in 3 different heights, connectable by stairs and passable thru normal doors. Spiral stairs are good to save space but very few use them. Instead it is useful to make indoor stairs that can change direction - who would place spirals on appartment buildings?
Swimmable seas and ponds.
Sims can dive from pool borders, not just close the nose and jump on fat lady style.

I put a double bed on the beach bar and my female sim had no issues with woohooing Gus Something. When a teen female sim showed up Gus went up to her and asked her to leave. It was quite funny. I am presently redecorating my hood and incorporating apartment like features in the community lots. It's like free hotel for homeless sims.
Anyway, I would really love to have back the possibility to stack stairs on top of another on multiple floors, like normal buildings have. Alternating the location on each floor takes up too much space.

I may be late, don't get to play much. I was amazed when Ruby Broke dived in the pool, a real nice smooth dive. Buck Broke did the close nose, flat splash.

There were ways to do this in TS2 before OFB introduced the stage. If I'm not mistaken, the constrainfloorelevation cheat exists in TS3 as well, without the "boolprop", to put it in layman's terms.

Unfortunately, CFE is much more broken in TS3 than it was in TS2.

At least one of them does stack.

1.  A grandfather clock
2.  A working crock pot
3.  A working rocking chair
4.  A Sim cloner that spits out the clone as an infant
5.  Edible chicken dishes

1. Deadly weapon.
2. Spiral staircase.
3. Anything with craftables (like the pottery wheel from FT).
4. Rejuvenator
5. Thinking Cap and Smart Milk

I know spiral staircases and the rejuvenator have already been mentioned. Just shows how popular they are!

Makeout option only.

They can woohoo in City Hall, Theater, Military Base and Science Lab.

How do you get that to happen? I've sent horny young couples on tours together but nothing happened...

Once they enter the building, click on the building again and the option should be available.

I've never had that option. Must be yet another glitch my game has.

Bunkbeds, of course, for maximum spawn in minimum space.

Some flowers/bushes, because I think the ones that came with the game are all ugly. Not to mention some of the ground plants are freakishly huge in comparison to the Sims. Call me crazy, but I liked the little squares from TS2.

More styles of double bed, maybe one with the best stats but without that canopy. I just hate it for some reason; it never seems to look right to me.

Of course, the toddler floor blanket and the toddler mirror, too.

-"Woohoo Bush" for residential and community lots.
-Kitchen knife for murderous housewives and psycho door to door salesmen.
-Shelves, maybe even just storage boxes like a safe for gems and metals.
-A portable Easel that goes in a sim's inventory and works automatically like the guitar or laptop. If a painting is completed it should automatically go in their inventory so they can start another, otherwise it stays mounted on the easel. I was pretty bummed that sims couldn't do this by default.

Others have already been mentioned numerous times.

I'd like a bathtub with shower and curtain, like the most expensive in TS2 (the less expensive was ugly).

Things other people said I very much agree:

Spiral stairs
Customizable stairs/fences
The free standing shower from Uni
Bunk beds
More houseplants (and bigger) (and taller)
The portable easel
The piano

Bottles: I miss the VW Beetle too. It was my favourite download from MTS and half my sims in TS2 were Beetle drivers (I never had one, instead I drove one of these (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2cv-club-red.jpg)).

All I really want is an aquarium, to get rid of all the stupid fishbowls. Or shelves. Something to get rid of the multiple fish-on-coffee tables.

Ah, this!
I might be alone here, but I'm really not a fan of the cluttered look. Having a million fishbowls spread out over every available surface in my Sims' homes pisses me off to no end. If there was just one giant aquarium that held all the fish, that would be fantastic.

Also, a three-tile dining table that isn't all Art Nouveau or whatever that style is supposed to be.

Some object on residential lots that sims can use to WooHoo other than the bed. I don't care if it's couches or cars or even a bush as someone suggested earlier. I like a little variety.  ;)

Other music instruments would be nice, but would you earn Guitar skill for using them? I'm not sure I'd go for that.

Oh, and sectional seats!

A changing table, an aquarium, a sectional, a diving board, & a hot tub would be my first 5 choices followed closely by better overhead cabinets and a stand-alone shower.

5. Shelves to put decorative items on, particularly wall-mounted shelves
4. Spiral stairs
3. Aquariums (as someone else suggested, something other than those bloody fishbowls)
2. A single tile non-fugly dining table

And my number one wish, probably impossible but I can dream, is...

1. A reworking of the guitar skill. I would be very chuffed to see the skill modded to be "Music" instead, and that would bring with it a variety of instruments, including drums, piano, a violin, a saxophone, a trumpet, and most importantly, a viola ;)

1 Spiral staircases
2 Spiral staircases
3 Spiral staircases
4 Spiral staircases
5 Spiral staircases

Thats my 5
 ;) ;D ;)

Better expensive furnitures (I'm sure the developers have never been in rich peoples homes)

1) The best moodlet wise sofa is a hoorible antique thing, I want big corner sofa's with built in recliners
2) More display space with more logical spacing squares, inc shelves
3) Sunken bath, baths on legs that can sit in the middle of the floor, better bathing in general
4) More useable stuff for children, toys etc and furniture specifically for them
5) Beds with a better spread of comfort (any new bed, no matter how cheap, is not going to be that uncomfy it requires more hours of sleep), also a quality bed that is not a four poster.

Franc Kaos

'Down and out in London and Paris' George Orwell (not a quote, a book worth reading).

1.) I want my jacuzi's back!
2.) What happened to the diving boards?
3.) Glass roofs (like the ones from Seasons EP).
4.) DJ booth. I loved it from the Nightlife EP.
5.) Anything else from the Nightlife EP.

1) More cars, real world cars!! Especially expensive ones - base game cars are fugly!
2) The instruments and the ability to choose a style of music on the guitar >.>
3) As said many times, Aquarium.
4) Robot Gardener. Having more than 10 plants is unbearable for singleton sims, if they have a life.
5) Modular sofa.

I've had a lot of play time to think on this.

1. Customizable stairs/fences/chimneys
2. Ceiling fans as lights (they don't need to spin)
3. Shelves to put things on
4. Aquariums of various sizes
5. Backless benches and footstools (chairs) for my sims to sit on

Also, something that is not a buymode thing:

The ability to adjust the height of different sections of roof independently.

1 - windows that coordinate with the doors.
2 - draperies and other window treatments that don't let the window 'poke' through (the ones that came with game are as bad as some of the ones TS2 creators made way back when, makes one wonder).
3 - hanging ceiling lights that aren't grotesquely huge and therefore stupid looking.
4 - a ditto on the shelving unit that came with Bon Voyage (although, I did discover that you can put stuff on top of the dressers!)
5 - a ditto on the aquarium thing...the fishbowl thing is really stupid and you have to click each bowl to have a sim feed the fish.

1. Standalone shower
2. designable fences, stairs, etc
3. more woohoo objects
4. bunk beds/lofts
5. spiral stairs

1. A hot tub! This object has been important for relationships in Sims 1 and 2 and it also would be helpful in Sims 3.

2. Aquariums in 4 different sizes (1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 3x3) with the ability to hold (and show!) all the fishes a Sim puts in there. So the lifetime wish for the perfect aquarium would make sense at last.

3. Elevators

4. Spiral staircases!

5. A coffee-hack which fills up the energy bar. Oh and while we talk about coffee: A cheap coffee machine would be great, too.

Simple school-library type desk/table that can accommodate 2 or 4 chairs. ( 2 notebook user + 2 book reader) There are lots of such table for dining table.
But all current office desk/ work table can accommodate only one chair. Many tables in public library are actally dining table. This leads to strange choice behavior among surface. So we need table that is suitable for actual library desk/table.
No need to rewark mesh. Just change type of dining table and surface usage property.

PS. Need to fix problem that, on dining table, sim puts laptop on table from opposite side of chair. This should be fixed.




 

A buy mode TOOL that I would like is to adjust the hight of wall-hung decorations. I liked how in Apartment Life you were able to lower and raise anything that could be hung on a wall. It's weird having nice paintings stagger in different hights when they are right next to each other.  :-\