More Awesome Than You!

Same drill, this time: Find the least awesome houses in existence! Do they choke your game? Are they utterly unplayable? Thoroughly non-awesome? Pick them out here, and point out the awfulness. Houses explicitly billed as purely decorative not qualified for awfulness on nonplayable grounds.

JUDGES: EMMA, BANGELNUTS.

This explains the lockitude of the noneawesome house contest posts.

"Modern Cube House" (http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=232893)

What the SUCK?  So much ROOM!
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images14/MTS2_532369_JoniBlair_snapshot_00000011_135c7d38.jpg)
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images1/MTS2_532376_JoniBlair_snapshot_00000011_f35c7d34.jpg)

"StartBlou? (http://modthesims2.com/creator/showthread.php?t=232704)

Bathroom door blocks sink.
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images20/MTS2_531045_patul_etage1.jpg)

Is the bathroom door opening on to the sink actually a problem?  My experience is that the Sim can still use the sink, and has no trouble entering / exiting the bathroom.  The only issue is that someone using the sink blocks the doorway, but sinks are the least used item in bathrooms.  I often do that kind of thing if I'm really cramped for space for some reason.  Sure, the door swings THROUGH the Sim if they go in and use the Sink directly, but that I can live with.

Of course, I always make a point of having the door swing away from the sink, not toward it as in this photo.  Does that make a difference?

It's far more serious if the toilet is placed so a Sim using it blocks access to anything else.  I've made a couple of bathrooms where one Sim was using the toilet, and another tried repeatedly to get to the tub, but couldn't.  Or one Sim was standing in front of the toilet, tried to shoo another Sim next to the tub, and the other Sim couldn't leave because Sim 1 was blocking the exit.  I've since learned not to do that.

 - Gus

I don't really see anything wrong with house no. 1. Yeah it's small, but I've had sims living in even smaller houses. I regularly use 10x10 lots which leave you about 6x7 blocks of indoor space, but with 3 floors they still fit a family of four.
The lay-out could have been a bit better. With a bit of shifting I'm sure it would have allowed a 3rd bedroom. Besides the fact that I thoroughly dislike modern cube houses, I don't think it is that bad.

It's not awful, but it's typical (read: crap). I took the "so much ROOM" comment without sarcasm. There's barely any furniture, but it's swimming in empty, unused, inefficient space. And it's not pretty, which means it sucks.

I currently have a family of six in an 8x8 three story home. It's pretty, it has three bathrooms/three bedrooms/nursery/living-dining, and no stomping pissy sims blocked from getting around stuff to date...at nearly the end of the second generation.

Li'l didn't show the outside. Wood panelling with a few floor-to-ceiling windows and a completely unembellished flat roof? Ew.

Just a point of clarification here: Does houses mean all lots, or only residential lots?

My first problem with the first one is that it sleeps three sims but only has one bathroom.  My rule of thumb is: number of bathrooms = (number of sims/2) +1.  So I'd need to add another bathroom to it.  Fortunately there's room in the master bedroom for a small bathroom with shower and toilet.

And what's with the couch placement?  It's looking at the back of the stairs.  The stairs chop up the usable space in the living room into two barely usable spaces.  I think if I downloaded that I'd move the stairs and do a total redesign of the upstairs.

I wouldn't bother downloading it.  If I download a house, I don't want to spend time redesigning it to make it work.  I may as well just build the lot myself instead.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=168794

A Moroccan themed house. The base shape/layout of the house isnt all that bad, but the addons, like the outside stairs and the flooring make my eyes hurt.

I think if I had to choose between being homeless and living in house with those roofs/dormers I would totally choose being homeless.

Holy crap, now is the time I get to freak out. x.x

Bah, I'd "help" but I'm too lazy.

If the door has to block something, due to the limitations of space, the sink is generally the second item after the "dead tile" of the showertub, although in this case, the door is simply installed backwards, as there's no need to block anything.

Oh shit. I'm gonna see one of my houses here, I know it... :P

LOL! I am just waiting for one of my 'bathroomless' houses to appear :D I think I'll sit this contest out and just point and giggle.

Great, in that case, you're a judge. :P

Well, that's appropriate, since Emma builds cool houses. You should make witch a judge, too, since she has all those good houses.

I could be a judge actually, I wasn't planning on entering this one. However you might like to see the Whine and Cheese thread, if you want to see why I'm not entering.  ;D

Oops, wrong thread - still never mind, same applies, I won't be entering this Stupidass Houses either, though I'm looking forward to thoroughly enjoying it. I'm just so busy at the moment, if I could only stop reading forums and get out of bed, I have so much to do.

Okay, I'll be a judge, and thanks Rohina :-*


I'll enter the contest, I've made the house-just gotta take pics and package it :)

Here's something (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/lots/residential/traditional/0-19999/486624/) I found on TSR:

(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/suckhouse.jpg)

Terrible terrain-painting, terrible design, and lack of space if there was stuff in it. I hope this is suitable.

Bomb craters?!?

Nope, bet you a hundred they're rather awful terrain paints of flowers. I had too many to count from there that looked great from the posted image but were disgustingly oversized in game.

TSR....oh how I love to hate thee. I used to contribute there, but they threw back all of my lots because they had too much custom content (well, that's granted, though why they waited several months to do so is beyond me) but they approve craptastic stuff like that. Plus, paysite mumble mumble.

I didn't think this contest was going to be too horrible. Well, I guess I was wrong. :P

yeeurgh! that thing is hideous all over  :P

That is hideous.  Too simple to have real functional problems, though.  For that, you need something on the order of one of the Maxian houses.  I always did better just gutting those and starting from scratch.

 - Gus

I've actually kind of been waiting for this contest. I hate stupid houses. Anyway, I thought I'd try my hand at this "posting" and "contributing" thing you all seem so keen on.

I haven't even bothered downloading any of these (since I've gone a bit OCD on my downloads folder recently and I'd rather not add a bunch of crap to it that I don't even want), but feel free to try them yourselves.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=70477 "Royal Flush Giant Toilet"

Who wouldn't want to live in a toilet?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/MTS2_75397_asdf_toilet.jpg)

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=85433 "Moi's Guingsdon Islet Bridgie House (19.9k starter house)"
...? ...?!?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/MTS2_116845_niol_Moi_Guingsdon_Isle.jpg)

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=95120 "Falling Water (with & without expansions)"
If killing your game with lag is more your style, I guess you can try this one out:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/MTS2_139129_WabiSabi12_16a-Floorpla.jpg)

Toilet house! So ridiculous.  :D

Hehe I wonder what that toilet looks like in n/hood view :D

Hehe.  I'm soooo tempted to download that toilet house.  I have some sims I don't particularly like, I could send their sim-lives down the toilet.

You'd hate yourself in the morning though.

Can we nominate maxis houses that come packaged with the game? Cos if so, oh boy!

SWEET. That is DEFINITELY the house for Sim-Brynne!

I'm casting my vote for the pool house.

First thing i do when I download any lot is remove all the herbage & decorations. I don not need 50 billion tons of custom content crap move-objectsed over the top of each other just because some wanker with design-aspirations thinks that it's ok to put all that crap there.

And what the hell is up with the "i'm going to twist the leaw of nature so this floor is now a roof that can't be recoloured because I'm such a wanker i have to fuck up other people's games.

I'm going to enjoy June, I think. I like getting snarky at these arsemonkeys and now I have an outlet.

(I don't know what the categories are for this contest so I'll make up a few of my own.) I'd like to nominate this house ( http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=125524&asset_type=lot&user_id=682153 (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=125524&asset_type=lot&user_id=682153)) for "Unplayable Houses from Creators with Multiple Featured Lots on the Exchange", "Creators with Huge Egos Who Don't Playtest" and "Houses that Kill."

Not only has this house clearly not been playtested, but the total unplayability of this house makes me wonder if GodlyAce plays the sims at all or if he just builds unplayable houses all day. I downloaded this house because I was sick of building new houses for sims who had to move because of University bugginess. Unfortunately there were so many problems with the house that I had to spent a ton of time renovating it and then finally just moved my sims out.

Here's some of the problems I remember:

• No lights. Anywhere.
• Desks and the chess table all used living chairs. You know, the kind of chairs that you can't pull out to sit in
• Main floor bathroom door was blocked by a couch
• Main floor bathroom had two toilets. While double bathrooms like this might be cute in remote master bedrooms, when they're the only bathroom on the main floor, this leads to much stamping and whining from sims who see an empty toilet but can't enter the bathroom because someone is in there using the other one.
• One tile wide hallways and single staircase lead to more stomping and whining as sims constantly blocked each other from getting anywhere. While these hallways look very elegant there's a reason why I make all my hallways two tiles wide.
• Beds were blocked by plants or other objects. While it's ok to put a nightstand by the head of the bed, sims won't get in bed if there's a plant or statue in that spot.
• Rooms were too small and objects were frequently blocked. More stamping and whining.
• The slope that leads to the front steps is at a weird angle. If too many sims try to enter the house at once, some end up stamping and complaining they can't get to the stairs.

But the real reason this lot sucks and I've had it in for it for two years (I think that upload date is wrong) is that it killed my favorite sim. Here's how: The kids are at work. My favorite Sim is making breakfast while her husband naps on a twin bed upstairs. Breakfast catches on fire. There is no fire alarm, of course. My favorite sim panics, catches on fire, dies. Ok, that sucks but I've woken up her husband to go plead for her life. He wakes up, rolls out of bed and goes ... oh wait, that side of the bed is blocked by a plant. That's right, because he got out of bed on a different side than he got in, he's now trapped. And because Death is there, buy mode is greyed out and I can't move any objects. And so my favorite sim dies, killed by a lack of playtesting. I don't save and restart games so she stayed dead. I moved the family out shortly after that but I left the empty house up for her to haunt as a reminder to me to be more careful when downloading houses.

Imagine the lag in autumn when all the leaves fall.  Not to mention that you'd need 3 gardeners to rake it all up - if they could even get to the leaves with some of the slopes those trees are on.

Well....even though it's like shooting fish in a barrel, it IS worth nominating Buntah. Here are just five of her many crimes against taste lots.

First, this strange, strange lot. Words fail.
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/MATY%20house%20contest/wildflowerslot.jpg)

This wouldn't be so bad if she hadn't drawn glyphs on the top and turned it into a freakshow.
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/MATY%20house%20contest/swadobehome.jpg)

It may not be too bad inside, but the outside's enough to keep me away.
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/MATY%20house%20contest/seaworld.jpg)

yes, it's a house of windows. Windows EVERYWHERE. She must have discovered the move_objects on tool that day.
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/MATY%20house%20contest/houseofwindowsx.jpg)

This just in: Pool water defies gravity!
(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/MATY%20house%20contest/buntahsplace.jpg)

I don't think there is a more nauseating shade of green than the ground cover and roof in that first Buntah lot.

There was another lot earlier with ghastly ground cover.  Don't these designers (and I use the term loosely) even LOOK at the screenshots before they post them?

here's 2 by some guy on sapphiresims2. that site is the epitome of everything tacky:

(http://i17.tinypic.com/6auetrc.jpg)

(http://i17.tinypic.com/624n0xv.jpg)

and this egg house by numenor. nicely done but when the fuck would you need an egg house:

(http://i13.tinypic.com/52x495t.png)

(http://i17.tinypic.com/4q7owf4.jpg)

I've worked Buntah out. Ex Pac-Man designer.

Buntah is a universal suck!  Who'da thought?

What is up with all those weird-ass fish on the roof?

Buntah: "Oh no, this house doesn't quite fit the quality of suck that I usually aspire to. How can I make it worse....FISH!"

Aw, you beat me to the egg house. Bummer.

No one has posted the Community Lot shaped like a black cat, yet.

If no one finds it before I do, I'll post it.

damn, I want to play too but I delete things I hate almost immediately.

I do recall downloading about 30 sucky dorms from TSR when I first got Uni...

*thinks the pool 'waterfall' idea is kinda cool, if not for the hideous tiles around it.

http://www.xmsims.com/sims2/ehtm/simerhouse/residential02.htm


Not as bad as some of the TSR ones, certainly, but the strangely square moat defies logic.  I cringe at the thought of the foundation problems a real house would have if it looked like that.  And what about the bizarre roof configuration?  It's bigger than the house itself.  The whole thing gives the vague impression of a water cleaning plant (you know, with the separated square pools of muck) crossed with a marijuana farm (assuming that's what the green things in the lower left corner are - I'm certainly not downloading that into my game!).  I get the feeling some people would object if that actually appeared on the Champs-Elysees in Paris...

How strange! Looking at the first floor with a top-down view shows her penchant for ceiling lights, while she only has four on the second story.


Just looking at the house in picture number two hurts my head.

I just waded through 19 pages of feeEssen's crimes, just in case she had a lot in there somewhere...  The woman has committed 295 crimes against good taste, ranging from "New Mesh - Edible Carrot!" to "New Mesh - Spirited Kitchen Cupboards!" to "Winter Japanese Autumn Horn" to my personal favourites, "new Mesh - Mangle!" and "new Mesh - Street Lanterns with and without dog!"  No houses, though.  It's just as well - I'm not sure I could stomach an entire house full of strangely lumpy pastel things!

Eeek These buntah houses are hideous ,I am glad I am not a judge.I build boxes with roofs but at least they are useable :P 

If I've been paying attention to the history of that statement in these contests correctly, you are soon to be a judge now.

Heeehee. Unfortunately, my grilled cheese zombies are already being tortured by having to live in the House of Brie and the House of Swiss (yup, shaped like cheese wedges). Otherwise that would be a great option.

Oh, and I want that egg house. Seriously. With the chickens. My neighborhood's on crack already. All-knowing mimes living in a phone booth, eleven GCZ's stealing papers to hoard in their houses of cheese, a cheerleader who beats the crap out of everyone she meets, children who turn into maniacal murders later on because they were scared too badly when plummeting in an elevator....yeah. The house would fit right in.

WTF on "Hitler's House?"

It's the German crest!  That is NOT a Nazi symbol like the swastika!

Honestly, I don't understand why so much of Niol's stuff is featured. It's crazy, stupid, and a complete waste of space (both in the Sims and in cyberspace). I mean, my grandmother could build better places than that... and she's dead.

That's because new stuff by featured authors is automatically featured. It is a small cabal at MTS2 that decides what stuff gets featured, so stuff by "friends" or members of the cabal is automatically featured regardless of the actual value.

I have noticed that some websites love the big shiny 5x5 over-decorated lots that would lag many computers, and tend to feature them a lot.  4+ floors, every square inch of the sloping yard landscaped (using move objects on to get multiple plants in one slot), glitzy floor covering and walls, high poly cc furniture, multiples of every luxury object in the game - including the ones you don't let your sims use, excessive use of decorative objects, etc.

When I go looking for lots I don't want "big, shiny and unplayable".  I want functional and playable.  Much shinier, in my opinion.

I really can't fathom the attraction for these big shiny lots that really aren't shiny at all.

(http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/lot/78/42178/usr_image_1.jpg)
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=42178&asset_type=lot&user_id=359090

It's hard to see from the grainy picture, but the front walk is covered in green carpet, the wrought iron stairs clash horribly with the Moroccan door, and there's not a single wall in the place that goes in the same direction for more than one tile.  And then there's the strangely inaccessible outhouse/prison/garden shed and the strangely placed strips of foundation...  If it's supposed to suggest a fascination with billiards, there's probably not even room for a pool table in there.

(http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/lot/30/140430/usr_image_2.jpg)
(http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/lot/30/140430/usr_image_3.jpg)
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=140430&asset_type=lot&user_id=359090

I nominate this one for incredibly bad use of space.  What is the purpose of that incredibly large first floor bedroom?


(http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/lot/64/36864/usr_image_2.jpg)
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=36864&asset_type=lot&user_id=359090
This person seems to have difficulty grasping the concept that in normal houses, all the carpet in a room is generally the same colour...

(http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/lot/55/36255/usr_image_1.jpg)
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=36255&asset_type=lot&user_id=359090
I don't even know what this is supposed to be, but the creator is right about the "disaster" bit!

I think that last one is supposed to be the top part of an ice cream cone splatted on the ground. The red... thingy is the cherry that goes on top?

Oh, I kind of see it now...  I thought it was some sort of silo that was leaking milk all over the grass...  :P

As hideous as most of these lots are, I nominate the insiduous. The gorgeous lots that will crash your computer to smithereens and are impossible to play due to horrible lag. And yup, they typically can be identified by their "featured" status.

13-level apartment house with wall-to-wall windows, fully furnished for even more lag (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=279438&searchPage=exch&search=1&asset_type=lot&key=&order=RATING+desc&nrows=15&game_version=&custCont=&zoneType=-1&lotSize=&lotLevel=&lotValue=&familyFund=&familyWorth=&familySize=&locality=&country=&view=new&hideFramework=&languageCode=)

Only five levels, but a huge lot, again chock full of windows and items. Plus, I hate most water terrain paints. Too unrealistic (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=231761&searchPage=exch&search=1&asset_type=lot&key=&order=RATING+desc&nrows=15&game_version=&custCont=&zoneType=-1&lotSize=&lotLevel=&lotValue=&familyFund=&familyWorth=&familySize=&locality=&country=&view=new&hideFramework=&languageCode=)

Ok, I love HP, too, but this is going a bit far. Again, too many levels, too large of a lot, too many items. Lagtastic. And if that isn't enough, the design is so inefficient it would take an hour real-time for a sim to get from the mailbox to their bed. (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=163827&searchPage=exch&search=1&asset_type=lot&key=&order=RATING+desc&nrows=15&game_version=&custCont=&zoneType=-1&lotSize=&lotLevel=&lotValue=&familyFund=&familyWorth=&familySize=&locality=&country=&view=new&hideFramework=&languageCode=)

A computer to go next to your toilet. Actually, I really like this one. (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=89487&searchPage=exch&search=1&asset_type=lot&key=&order=RATING+desc&nrows=15&game_version=&custCont=&zoneType=-1&lotSize=&lotLevel=&lotValue=&familyFund=&familyWorth=&familySize=&locality=&country=&view=new&hideFramework=&languageCode=)

(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images9/MTS2_533838_perdita_x_dream_main.jpg)
An Elvish treehouse! (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=233114) - Only, no roofs means your sims' stuffs are gonna get covered in snow.  And WTF with those "ruins" down on the bottom level? I didn't know Elves built on top of ruins o.O

Looks to me like it'll take forever for a sim to get anything done! Also, swimmable lake? Look at the size of it! WTF?




(http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/7938/62478625ho1.jpg)
Magic Forest (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=228968) Community Lot! Becuase going to community lots isn't enough of a hassle with load times. That looks like a lag-a-mangle just waiting to happen.




(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images7/MTS2_423702_Matheus_snapshot_00000001_f288ab21.jpg)
Four Legs Pet Shop (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=209307)
The idea isn't so bad, it's almost cute in its uniqueness, but it isn't executed for SHIT.



ETA: OH. MY. GOD.
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images7/MTS2_407733_darkwytche2006_1.jpg)
A Trojan Horse (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=203476)/me dies from laughing too hard

I thought I'd bring in some horrible Dorms today. MTS2 supplied these beauties.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=64113 "The magician dorm"
This one has over 3500 downloads. WHY?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/MTS2_64471_Whobleyh_magic_.jpg)

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=160114 "Octopusal Dorm (32 Rooms)"
I wouldn't even play this dorm for eight minutes. What makes him think I'd want to play eight whole semesters here?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/MTS2_300935_tuckerkao_Entrance.jpg)

Hah! I almost posted the Octopusal dorms!
There's also one that has 54 rooms! (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=144429) Yeah! Because everyone wants 60+ NPC dormies roaming about their lot at a time!


This one looks nice (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=217424) but is unplayable because of all the fucking ELEVATORS! DUDE! I tried it, and kinda liked it, until my sims kept getting stuck on their room-floors because people were hogging the freaking elevators.

Take out the toilet and I guess the Elven treehouse could work for the Email Challenge...

Is it Grand Blocks or Great Bricks? I don't think they can make their mind up.

I'm actually using it for that purpose.

If insane largeness is what you're looking for, then Madisim has that covered and abused. Here is just a sample of his too damn big community lots. And all pay!

(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/big1.jpg) (http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/Madisim/downloads/sims2/lots/community/385212/)
(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/big2.jpg) (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/lots/community/342234/)
(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/big3.jpg) (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/lots/community/329098/)
(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/big4.jpg) (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/lots/community/325299/)
(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/big5.jpg) (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/lots/community/315951/)

I wonder if Madisim can even play his own lots.

Play?  These lots are works of art!  They are not meant to be actually played!  Barbarian.

On a more serious note:

I kinda like that computer lot.  But I'd probably rezone it as commercial and turn it into an electronics store.

The only thing Madsim's lots are good for are neighborhood decoration...they provide the shorter skyscrapers that make your playable lots not look freakishly small in comparison to those godawful towers. I entered one ONCE....bork, bork, bork.

For neighbourhood decoration, I suppose they would work nicely. Wouldn't it just be a lot easier to make actual decorations though? Save space and keep the detail!

Just to sort of "defend" some of the creators of large monstrosities, I'll tell you what I think about 'em. Once in a while I create a large lot, like my large dorm. I use those types of lots for their "aesthetic" value in my hood, not for actual play purposes. I don't normally say so when I upload because, 1. it's not important and 2. users should know the limits of their own machines. Still, I've never gone above 4 stories, but I'm building "Chicago" right now. You might just see the Sears Tower and that has to be larger than the neighborhood deco buildings. (Maybe, I probably don't have the patience.) So if you see it and you KNOW you can't run it, then bypass the lot or use it as deco.

Anyhoo, I want to nominate anyone who builds sucky-ass basements, hundreds of split-levels (without the split-level tool), and anything that will completely distort my neighborhood terrain! No pictures necessary, I'm sure something will have popped into your minds.

Well, in the authors defense:


So, in "real life," the horse wasn't actually very horse-like.  THAT'S why the Trojans let it in!  They wanted to figure out what it was, but got drunk and fell asleep first!

A couple of 'pay' houses from the queen of grotesque:

(http://isc.ibibi.com/images/scaled/w-250h-203-223702.jpg)
(http://isc.ibibi.com/images/scaled/w-250h-188-198573.jpg)

Spartans didn't make it... Greeks did. Spartans = Greeks, but Greeks =/= Spartans :P

Ah, it's all Greek to me...

Yes, this IS supposed to be what it looks like.  Doesn't everyone want to live in a bodily organ?  How about the Spleen House?  The Gallbladder House?  Somehow, people seem to be focused on a single organ....

(http://thumbs.sexysims2.com:443/images13/SXS2_318386_khakidoo_Project2.jpg)


And just in case anybody was in doubt about what he'd created, the author helpfully adds another view:

(http://thumbs.sexysims2.com:443/images8/SXS2_318385_khakidoo_Project1.jpg)


I guess if you're looking for a cock house, it's actually fairly skillfully done....

I think its upside down  :D

What's with the incredibly tiny closet off of the master bedroom in the cock house?  It's not big enough for career rewards, and I doubt most dressers would fit in there.  They could have easily not added the extra wall and just had a larger master bed, or they could have used it to give more space around the dining table so that it is no longer a deathtrap (three chairs against a wall = someone's gonna get stuck.  Although it could be fun to invite Goopy over to eat, and then have my playables sit in the two blocking chairs until he wets himself and dies.)

Um... IS there a door from the master bedroom to the rest of the house? I can't see one. If it's on the wall that you can't see the face of, then there's a chair blocking it. I'd love a cock house, if it actually worked.

Actually, I think the "closet" is the doorway.

Clearly a house for a romance sim ... and a careless one at that, since it has two bedrooms for the kids.

 :D Cock house! :D

Now I want to see the boobie house. Find one!

... or the extra wives/girlfriends.  :o

At least give a link if people want to live in a dick why deny them....
http://www.sexysims2.com/showthread.php?t=168600

built by a heterosexual female.... that was cocklot #1 - limp style I'm still wiating for inspiration to build one erect... or even half-hard for that matter...
I'm considering a boobie lot, which I'd like to make decked out for the Asylum Challenge... and call it the boobie hatch...

Oh and I NEVER build closets - and the house is 100% playable and of course there is a door to the master bedroom.  It's right there, in the sweatiest part of the nutsack. First an archway, then a door... cute little corner for a little plant or something in there too...

(http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/4520/sxs2318386khakidooprojekx7.jpg)


sillies just don't appreciate a nice dick when you see one :)
And now I guess I can't enter it in the Building Contest of Awesomeness, I was sure it woulda won. ;)

What worrys me most is the "walkway" or "open sore" leaking out of the side of the thing... I tried at first to make it come out the tip, but alas, it didn't work out...

I was inpired to build it after getting seasons penis-errific new round pool options... which seem only good for making dick shaped pools...

Any plans for a boobie house then Khaki? :D

But it's not a nice dick. I've seen plenty of nice dicks and that's just not one of them.

aww... Nobody's seen more dick than me, and, well, just my opinion, this is one of the nicest around... as far as limp ones go... but I guess we all have our own preferences :) Though it does have a bit too much trees/pubic hair than I prefer...


Emma a boobie house is a definite possibility...

I'd like a piece of that, when you're done, since that's where I'm at. If you are in a sharing mood.

I don't know anything about the political beliefs of the person who designed that "Firebird" house, and I'm not inclined to attempt to infer what they are. However, I will point out that the swastika is an ancient religious symbol, traceable back to Neolithic times, and in widespread use in the religions of Asia (the word "swastika" appears to be of Sanskrit origin). Swastika designs can also be found in artifacts of Christian Europe (on priestly robes in 15th-Century paintings, for example). Observe that the swastika used in Nazi regalia is a right-facing design, whereas the one used on this lot is a left-facing design.

The design of the house itself is taken from the graphic used by Pontiac for its Firebird automobile.

That said, as a design for a building, it is really rather dismal. have you checked out the enormous quantity of ceiling lights in it??


Like a kidney stone??

A kidney stone? Down there?

I think you're on the right track, Hegelian.  The maker includes the following comments:

"This was made for my fiance, James, because he deserves it."

"....might I recommend downloading AceHole's '74 Trans Ams with mesh or some of SixStringSlim's recolors?"

"Additional Credits:
- General Motors, specifically Pontiac, for making such a gorgeous car. When you bring it back, please don't make it ugly.
- My beloved, James, for letting me buy him a '97 Trans Am."

But I can see the similarity to the referenced coat of arms.

The Swastika in the flowerbed is a big giveaway it isn't as innocent as you believe, though.
Unless the Pontiac also has one in it of course.

I actually just went and downloaded it.  It made me laugh.

As Hegelian pointed out, the flower design is left-facing, not right-facing like a Nazi swastika would be.

Anyway. That's my final comment. I enjoy these contests and don't want to continue to side-track it with disagreement. People will interpret what they see as they will.

This is an interesting observation, considering I didn't say what I believed one way or another.


Well, it's gotta come out somewhere. Maybe it got lost.  ::)

okay..... that last submission is just giving me the giggles.... omfg...

I'm intrigued by the swimming pool in the Windows Windows Windows house, partly because it seems to have a wall - or tombstones- instead of windows; but mostly because it doesn't seem to have an edge for the sims to get in and out. Does it even have a pool ladder? Or does it exist solely to kill sims?

LOL!

He did say "This unusual house was originally created for creating a series of sim-movies (to be aired on MTV) concerning the adventures of Chengwin and Chunk (http://www.chengwin.com/main.html)." So it's not just insanity.

I think the cock house is awesome! Fitting the rooms into the, er, ballsack is interesting. Just wish it wasn't so blatant - I don't like to play with mods/items that'd make me embarrassed if someone saw my laptop screen on the train. Any chance of revising it into a nice, family-friendly snail shape?  :D

And an entry:
The Most Baller Thing On Sim TV Cribs (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=181967&c=1) by SimPimpette22.
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images14/MTS2_352075_SimPimpette22_snapshot_b1bcd78e_11db6422.jpg)

This house features 17 bathrooms + 1 "public" bathroom, yet only 6 bedrooms. The creator writes:
Fully Funished, My house cost me 2.1 million bucks...I'm not sure of the price unfurnished (which unfortunately this house is when downloaded)...

REMEMBER...If it doesn't cost over 2 million....its just not baller

The house is so unplayably big that you can't even see all the details on this really zoomed-out screenshot:
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images2/MTS2_352077_SimPimpette22_snapshot_b1bcd78e_71db62d4.jpg)

When downloaders quite rightly pointed out it would take "forever" to furnish the house, and asked why she didn't upload the version with all the furniture, she replied:
Yea...so my house doesnt come furnished because i didnt feel like putting all those links...

Serious points for style there, kid. Not.

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Reading the comments, simfanatic3 wrote: Ok I admit you did a good job on this house....but you know our house battle isn't over yet, cuzzo. Just wait till i upload my mansion hehe. House... battle? So then I went to his profile and found enormous monstrosities galore (http://forums.modthesims2.com/member/download.php?f=143&u=328280), of which my favourite is Bill Gate's House (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=193727)(sic).

The outside is... bland.
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l107/simfanatic3/Bill%20Gates%20House/snapshot_00000005_922b2761.jpg)
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l107/simfanatic3/Bill%20Gates%20House/snapshot_00000005_722b2615.jpg)

The inside is dizzying. (Scroll down the MTS2 post for the part with "Foyer" and try not to fall over as you scroll through the maze of twisty turny windows, all alike.)

The "Lowel Level" kitchen is vile (why do people make such enormous kitchens then fill more than half of the worktops with crap so it's less usable than a kitchen with a quarter of the floor area?), while the "Upper Level" kitchen is just bland.

The fish eye camera angles of the dining room, office and "Party room" really make it, imo.

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Also by simfanatic3, Paris Hilton Home (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=196520). Apparently based on Paris Hilton's actual home, although I wonder why anyone would spend n million dollars on something quite so bland:
(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l107/simfanatic3/snapshot_00000005_523d7038.jpg)

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And speaking of bland: Neutral Nonsense (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=221137) by courtney176. I believe this was created as a joke rather than a serious upload, but it's amusingly bad. The creator writes: Since my first lot went down rather well, I went and uploaded this "colorful" lot. Neutral Nonsense is a 3x3, §136, 930 residential house modeled almost completely in...BEIGE!
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images2/MTS2_471309_courtney176_Neutral_Nonsense.JPG)

Mmm, tasty.

That first house you posted ows my eyes.

This is titled "Prancing in Pink" , apparently it's for a sim with no furniture who likes to run stairs?


(http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/9074/prancinginpinkaj7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Actually it's part of a set of 10 called "Chromatic Commarancies " all in different fun colors:

(http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4800/setpv4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/sets/496603/

There's nothing more fun than messing with "boolProp constrainFloorElevation false" ....unless it's doing it in multicolor.

That one's truly impressive in its unliveability!  Wake up in the morning, run up the stairs to make breakfast, run up the stairs to take a shower, run up the stairs to study for that last skill point needed for promotion before the carpool comes, then run down all those stairs to go to work.  Perhaps the creator can be sentenced to live in such a house. :-)

It's you.

They look crappy in neighbourhood view :D I like how someone wrote-



I wouldn't even bother. Mind you if sims could get fit from running up and down the stairs they would be useful houses.

Ding-boobies are round. At least mine are :D Nice try though!

What's who?

Exactly! I tend to want "starter" lots that are 2x3 or 3x3 - room enough to expand a house, put in a pond/garden/whathaveyou but wow, a 4x4 lot is seriously looking too big to me right now, and a 5x5 is just... i dunno... nouveau riche or somethg. I want playable!

To avoid confusion, this is what that post was referring to (and her response accordingly):

I agree; it doesn't look much like a boob to me. *shrug*

My contribution.  I ran across this yesterday at MTS2.  Ughh!

(http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/40811f1fb0.jpg)

I wish people would learn how to turn the lights on when they take interior shots.  Or is it that dark?

(http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/0b0657a895.jpg)

Need I say more?
(http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/7bf6be7ff6.jpg)

Gail   ;)

MOD EDIT: Fix sizing, and remove the useless links on the images.

My eyes, the pain!

That was hideous! I think one if my biggest problems with lots like that is the creators slap them down, bang in the middle of nice green countryside. It probably wouldn't look quite so bad (from the outside anyway) if it was in some space-age neighbourhood with appropriate terrain paint and decorations. Unfortunately the interior has no redeeming features and I can still feel the after-image burned onto my retinas.

Oh my god... Those jagged walls. Think how long it must have taken to make those!

I'm trying to figure out the whole 'bed of nails' thing they've got going at the top...as well as the untethered steel columns around the outside.

And...that is a smilie face on the roof, isn't it.

Umm.....

:::::blinks rapidly::::::

Okay, so there are a million things wrong with this build...I'm ....stunned into silence.

DUDE. MY EYES! THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!

The smiley face on the roof adds that special touch! It's says .."I know I'm ugly, but love me anyway." Oh wait...that was me looking in the mirror.  ;D

I'd like to nominate this lovely lot, made by me.
(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/3377/lotpp2.jpg)
I uploaded this lot cc object free to the exchange, thinking I was so cool because I packed it with OFB snapdragons,...
but little did I know that my snaps were made by a sim with a low aspiration level, and they gave off motive decreasing vapors...
Download it here  http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=458481&asset_type=lot&user_id=2734714 
put some sims you hate in it...

House of slow death! Hur.

I'm sure you aren't allowed to submit your own stuff.

woof, I'm still reeling from that blue monstrosity with the smiley face...
no seriously, I feel nauseous!

Well hmph.   ;)

I like that it has the word "comfort" in the title. Exactly what your sims will NOT be getting. Still, it looks nice.

This has no hope of measuring up against some of the other shit in this thread, but it made me laugh.

This is the "Rare Ghost House" from Sapphiresims. Castlevania-inspired, apparently.

(http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5353/ss2oatsnapshot0000000eddv0.th.jpg) (http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss2oatsnapshot0000000eddv0.jpg)
(http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7450/ss2oatsnapshot0000000edqi5.th.jpg) (http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss2oatsnapshot0000000edqi5.jpg)
(http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/3727/ss2oatsnapshot0000000e9ga7.th.jpg) (http://img77.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss2oatsnapshot0000000e9ga7.jpg)
(http://img77.imageshack.us/img77/1685/ss2oatsnapshot0000000edlm1.th.jpg) (http://img77.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss2oatsnapshot0000000edlm1.jpg)
(http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/3108/ss2oatsnapshot0000000edpv1.th.jpg) (http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss2oatsnapshot0000000edpv1.jpg)

I you were, I definitely would have submitted my previous MATY house... not that I, personally, mind when the driveway is on the roof.

 ;D

That's not a house, that's a Carvel ice cream cake!

Why is it called a ghost house? I'm not seing a ghost. I'm seeing a splattered santa, or something. Maybe it's santa after being run over by the sled a few dozen times....

Like many of the lots available from Parsimonious, this one is beautiful to look at, but completely unplayable. Please note how the interior screenshots are all closeup details of the furnishings, and show nothing in the way of room layout.

http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/data/chrrage_amere/gallery.shtml (http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/data/chrrage_amere/gallery.shtml)

And another:

http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/data/scre_t_/gallery.shtml (http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/data/scre_t_/gallery.shtml)

And yet another:

http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/data/chrconstellation_loft/gallery.shtml (http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/data/chrconstellation_loft/gallery.shtml)

And, yep, you guessed it... another:

http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/sbrcosmic_castle.shtml (http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/sbrcosmic_castle.shtml)

Seriously, I could nominate probably 75% of their lots, but I will end it here, with THIS LEVIATHAN (http://parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/scrla_villa_du_coin.shtml).

Are they actually 10 different houses, as billed? To me it looks like a mere 4 different houses, with the 10 different colour schemes. Or possibly 9, as there are two in blood red.

The rooms look unbelievably small in the screenshot - 2 x 4 or something like that? You wouldn't even be able to get a double bed in there and expect the sims to be able to use it. That's pretty stupid.

I'm guessing it's another cheapass way of making Neighbourhood decorations - the castle is supposed to be plonked down for show in the Neighbourhood view, but you're not actually supposed to try to have sims living in it.

I thought you said they were beautiful to look at? :P

Who's judging this month's monstrosities, apart from Emma?

More horrors from Mod The Sims 2:

Green Building (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=200544) by Matheus.
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images11/MTS2_400369_Matheus_1.jpg)
I think it's supposed to be a block of flats/apartments rather than a single family home, but it's just so ugly. It looks like it's made out of Lego or Stickle Bricks, but it's not that cool.

Does anyone else get pissed off with houses that are billed as from some historical period, but don't actually resemble houses from that period very much? This "medieval" house (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=195102), billed as a "genuine slice of Old Europe sitting ready for the true renaissance family" is a fine example of that. It's not a particularly stupidass house - it seems perfectly playable, although the decor is not to my taste. But the windows, the outdoor stairs, the open balcony area halfway up the house, the convenient positioning of the driveway - none of these things are at all period. It takes more than covering the outer walls in stone to make a house medieval.

I must also confess an unrelenting hatred of most "A frame" houses. Take this example (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=234551&highlight=a+frame), which I can't actually nominate as it was posted on 3rd June. My problems with them are that firstly they look really weird, and secondly there's a whole load of floor area that's inaccessible to the sims and their furniture, unless you use move_objects on.

And one more entry: Moi's Slideur002 (http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=216188&highlight=a+frame) by niol. Again, tons of the floor area is inaccessible (http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images20/MTS2_449027_niol_Slideur002_001F-a.jpg). The stairs waste even more floor area (http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images13/MTS2_449030_niol_Slideur002_001F-c.jpg). And it's perfect for voyeurs (http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images20/MTS2_449047_niol_Slideur002_001F-e.jpg).

But I've saved the best 'til last with the main screenshot:
(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images16/MTS2_448028_niol_Slideur002_0000-tout.jpg)
Yes, the roof has fallen off the house, and the flat area that remains has sprouted little rooflets, like crystals. How very weird.

Yes, well, I lied about that one. I was mostly referring to my first entry when using the term 'beautiful' but I see now that the other descriptions were perhaps a bit misleading. It is huge and unplayable, though, and two out of three ain't, er, bad (in this case, maybe that's not such a good thing). It certainly is, um, green.

Edited to fix quotation tags.

The advantage of A-frame houses is that you don't have to pay for the outer walls, because they are roof walls, and therefore free. So it's a good technique for starter homes, or when you are trying to keep the cost down.

You do in Seasons. In Seasons, the "roof walls" don't count as anti-weather and therefore it still gets hot and cold in the roof-wall.

Yes, which totally screwed up my usual way of shoving a couple kids into attic bedrooms.  ::) Although was interesting since the first time I discovered this I was playing a lot where I'd made one guy the poor gardener, living in an apartment over the garage, and it did lend a little extra something to the story to have him freezing cold!  ;D I finally took pity on him and redesigned it with walls before putting the roof back on.

Since I never yet found a lot that I didn't want to tear apart and rebuild, way back in TS1 days, I only download lots for neighborhood eyecandy. I always avoid custom terrain paints ... they are never better than utterly ghastly. So it is with the greatest of pleasure that I submit my entry (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=458481&asset_type=lot&user_id=2734714). I make this submission in good faith because I am devious, cheating bitch.

Awesome Mirelly! However did ya find that house? :P :D

Umm..

How about this masterpiece?  ;D

(http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/images19/MTS2_548315_pearselives1916_thumb_snapshot_00000009_12bfa9c1.jpg)

Too pretty to be judged?

I didnt' download this, but more images available at http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=235587 (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=235587)

PS. There's a nice spot for a little bonfire in the house ;)

I can haz Awesome fixes 4?

I have more entries. Because I just have that much free time. ::) While the crimes against taste at parsimonious are many and varied, their houses don't suck quite as much.

There's still enough to taunt, though.

http://www.parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/chrlucent_illusion.shtml "Lucent Illusion"

At first I was gonna let this one slide, because, while annoyingly ...foofy, it's not the worst thing parsimonious has to offer. The gallery pictures are an abuse of the fisheye cameraman mode zoom, though.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/gallery2.jpg)
But then I noticed this picture...WTF toilets?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/gallery4.jpg)

http://www.parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/etrskyes_mountain_retreat.shtml
"Skyes Mountain Retreat"

Please step away from the terrain paint tool, Ethan. The house itself doesn't look that unplayable, but seems only suitable for one or two sims. Given the outside yuckyness, this seems a waste of perfectly good space.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/gallery4-1.jpg)

http://www.parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/etrdreams.shtml "Nightmares""Dreams"

WTF is wrong with you, Ethan? Stop it.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/gallery3.jpg)

I was going to say what's wrong with it? Sure, there's plenty of poor-taste decorating in there & stuff, but nothing I'm not guilty of myself. And then I saw the roof. Hooboy.

It's not even remotely a contender with some of the horrors of this thread, but a good home it is surely not. Nice find.

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/254/550167454_b63d0c3bee_o.jpg)
What a beauty.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/550167468_83a8431f85_o.jpg)
It even has an elevator! Death from plummeting,anyone? Not to mention the mechanical nightmare if the unit breaks...since there are no stairs. Notice the nice open floor plan. Please note the lack of doors.  Visitors and spawn can freely roam the premises.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/550167470_6e03ee95ea_o.jpg)
And two, count 'em two, hottubs of doooom.  There is just too much that went wrong with this build.

This little number is also missing a bathroom. But to be fair, they claim that they added one after they uploaded it. There were some other random pics of a bedroom. Hard to tell were it's located. Probably on ground level. It is also loaded with custom content! This baby comes in at around 160K. They 'think' the lot is 4x5. I was going to download it to double check it's dumbassedness (it's a new upload), but sadly, it's been pulled...probably for good reason!

Devious cheating bitches are my favorite bitches!

Hehe.  Houses with only elevators and no stairs are a recipe for psychosis. Just ask Charisma. Oh wait, you can't, she went nuts and drank the whole neighborhood, then was eaten by her own cowplant.

What are those things on the deck? I'm guessing just 1x1 room pillars, but they almost look like showers.

That's what I thought they were at first.

a) What's actually wrong with that house? The roof is kinda ugly, but the floorplan isn't all that unworkable... is it? (I'm peering at the tiny screenshots and trying to see the flaw.)
b) How on earth was it submitted on Thursday, 11 October 2007? :o

YUCK! That roof... it burns! Just as well there's a spot for the bonfire...

Shame it was only uploaded today, so won't be eligible for the competition.

:o :o :o

Does that monstrosity have any flat terrain that the sims can walk on, or are they doomed to be stuck in their house forever?

If you look at the gallery, it looks like there's a flight of stairs for sims to run, run from the horror! get down to the road. At least I think that's where the stairs lead to. With that lot, who knows. ::)

Speaking of Parsimonious creations, "Analyze" caught my eye (http://www.parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/etranalyze.shtml). At first it looks relatively not-hideous, except, well...the roof's full of "skylights." AKA holes. I'm not sure the game would even consider it a real roof. Soooo...who wants to play that lot with Seasons? ;D

Please see here for details. (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8567.msg239983.html#msg239983) Because Mirelly is a cheater. :D

That's a very good question... or am I just really really confused... Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sept OCTOBER... nope I'm not confused, wtf... ... what fucking year is this anyway? I admit I sometimes have trouble keeping up with what day or date it is,,,, but usually I'm pretty good about knowing what the year is....


khaki tries to cover up her super secret time-travelling ability by acting confuxed

The site upload dates are borked. You can see the proper upload date if you look on the simpage/lot uploads.

I have to say, Khaki-you have some lovely lots! Very prettyful.

It's possible those are clear floor tiles. I have a few in my game that I've used occasionally....most of them being on the community pool lot, which is an entirely glass building. 'Cause I was just that bored. I made the second floor's floor translucent instead of clear because it did look a little too odd to have sims walking in the air.

I'm pretty sure I can see the ceiling/floor-edge things under the minifences. With glass tiles, that disappears. (At least with the ones I have, from Avenida, it does)

Nope, no translucent floor-tiles in the Analyze lot -- they are holes that would wreak havoc with Seasons. I once downloaded that particular lot, and whilst it is a very cool design, most of the interior space resides in the basement, and the garden is huge and impossible to maintain. Overall, it proved to be mostly unplayable.

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/tlbutler70/eyeclorox.jpg)

Do Seasons-only problems actually count if a lot was uploaded at least a year before a weather EP was even announced?

I don't think that will be taken into consideration, no. It's only ones who have made their houses with Seasons exp installed that will be pointed and laughed at if they make them un-weather worthy.

http://www.parsimonious.org/realestate2/home/etranalyze.shtml

This one that was mentioned for roof-holes is from March of 2005. I've no idea if it's actually playable, though, since 90% of my downloaded lots are from plasticbox.

Doh! Now I feel stupid... I even read the whole thread before posting, just didn't notice it was the same house.

Aww, so we can't make fun of people without Seasons who still are making roofs that aren't watertight?  ;D
I put some sims in this starter house last night, and while I'm not seriously entering it in the contest (as it's appropriate for the theme it's in) it was a lot of fun when a thunderstorm came.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showpost.php?p=1632231&postcount=11

I downloaded the "Dream" House and several others from Parsimonious. I was young and stupid, and thanks to the spectacular lack of houses that only required TS2, I was forced to deal with those . . .  "houses".
It's a horror story.
the family I put on the lot, I couldn't locate for a couple of minutes. Those spike make it impossible to find an angle to play because no matter how low the walls are, the terrain remains the same! I finally got frustrated and flattened the whole lot.
Bad. Bad. Bad.
I just deleteded the whole lot, and my family.
I build my own stuff now.  ;D

i know this doesn't count, because it was just released...

...but just for the Lulz factor, I had to share this monstrosity building from Sky Sims:

(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/buterfly.jpg)

But wait! That's not all!

(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/LOLcatz/casatiendaelectronica.jpg)

(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/LOLcatz/casaluna.jpg)

(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/LOLcatz/casaflor.jpg)

i don't know when these were uploaded...but they almost make Buntah's houses look reasonable.

No, wait, they don't. They just take Buntah's ...um....taste to a new level.

Ewww! They look like they've escaped from a Nintendo platform game. Give the creator their some credit though, they might be in the 'pass me the vomit bag' range aesthetically pleasing, but they do at least look well constructed and playable... if you wear sunglasses.

Ergh! They are really horrible :D

Are Sky Sims houses built by a child?  They really look like something a child would make and feel really really proud about...

They might work well as a theme neighborhood -- image an entire neighborhood exclusively built in that style.  Weird, but in a deliberately cute and colorful way.  It's hard to see it as a serious house for normal sims.

my retinas they burn...I think you need those glasses that are meant for viewing solar eclipses to look at those blindingly awful um cutesey houses  :P

I bet Peggy's sim neighborhood looks just like that, if she ever actually plays the game.

I think the cellphone house is cute. It would be good for an electronics store.

The butterfly one confuses me, the interior and exterior shots don't seem to match up around the head.

That's probably because the interior shots were taken with the walls partially up.

Ooooh, you know what would actually be kind of cool? A Monopoly neighborhood. You could even build real houses, they'd just have an enormous front yard. I doubt you could really share it because of copyright issues (although, if shared freely as it should be, it would be free advertising). And really, all one would need custom would be some floor tiles with letters on them...which would be useful on commercial lots anyways....Hmmm...

You can build it on this: http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=189057&highlight=simopoly

;D I knew I'd seen something similar before, thanks. I'd seen the terrain.

It's not exactly what I was thinking, but yeah...similar. I was thinking that the home lots would contain the square's info stuffs as well...not just the home/homes. Some squares would have one small home, some two/three homes, some a hotel and a home, etc. I don't think I'd dedicate a whole 'hood to a board, though. I already have one theme community lot based off of Chutes'n'Ladders, so one of these days I'll do a whole board game themed neighborhood. After I finish my Alpha challenge. At ten generations in, it's a shock I haven't ditched and moved on yet.

Oooh, I want to see!  I can has screenshot?

Seconded.

Okay this technically dosen't qualify since it was only posted yesterday, but its still a stupid looking house. If it were real it would topple right over. Not to mention I don't have enough patience to send my sims tromping up and down all those stairs
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i235/vintageharmony/MTS2invertedhouse.jpg)

see more here http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=236980 (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=236980)

Omg, if one of our houses gets picked do we get like a flashy award banner to put on our site? Please say we do, that would be highly amusing!

If you win, I might have Bippy make you an award if you want: "More Awful Than You!".

Apparently, it was thrown into a vast expanse of nothingness when I had to uninstall and reinstall Seasons recently. I didn't think to back up my saved lots because I thought I had plopped down everything I liked and could just save them again from my backed up neighborhoods. Not so much. The Chutes'n'Ladders lot and this castle restaurant with a maze garden are gone. Grr. The castle I don't care so much about, but I'll have to rebuild Chutes'n'Ladders.

You know, the engineering building on our University campus looks a lot like that, in the old 1960's concrete style.

I'd just like to point out the ironic fact that the 'Bill Gate's House' appears to have a Mac as its main office computer:

(http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l107/simfanatic3/Bill%20Gates%20House/snapshot_00000005_d22b2d64.jpg)

At least, it looks more like a Mac than a PC to me :P

And according to the server clock, it is now July in Malaysia. Judges EMMA and BANGELNUTS, make your decisions! Also, death to Emmas.

No 'death to Emmas' until the judging is over, though. Right?  :P

Ugliness (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/lots/residential/traditional/0-19999/486624/)

(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/suckhouse.jpg)

Unplayable (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=160114)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/tea_elle/Sims%20Pics/Stupid%20Houses%20Contest/MTS2_300935_tuckerkao_Entrance.jpg)

Too frikkin' big! (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/lots/community/342234/)

(http://users.techline.com/speterso/img/big2.jpg)

WTF (http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot_detail.php?asset_id=42178&asset_type=lot&user_id=359090)

(http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/lot/78/42178/usr_image_1.jpg)

Please, just stop. (http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/cmid_99563/sims2/lots/)

(http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u194/MusicalMaven/MATY%20house%20contest/wildflowerslot.jpg)

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/tlbutler70/eyeclorox.jpg)

My vote goes to Madismim for oversized unplayable dwellings and Buntah for mass building hideous dwellings.

Bangelnuts is alive?!

Hooray!

Poor Banglenuts, we thought the last couple of contests had borkinated you.

Banglenuts deserves lots of cookies.

@Emma: Exactly the ones I would have chosen. Bleccccch. (And since you actually build nice houses, you know whereof you speak, which is a nice bonus in any contest.)

The Garden Starter looks like a house I constructed in Sims1 for my trashy Hick family, only even then I spared them mis-matched siding. (The hell? WRRRYYYYYYY?)

Aww thankyou dear ;D

Yes,I am alive ! I'm just extremely busy with College and a fulltime job.Emma: I have many of your houses and I only had problems in one of them ,it had no bathroom however the design was such that a simple modification to the floor plan and the home was complete with a bathroom . the unplayable monstrosities here would only be useable as decoration for the neighhood or better yet bulldozed.my eyes still haven't recovered from Buntah's brand of ugly

LOL! Which one was it? I am hoping to discover this bathroomless house I made, 'cos I can't find which one it is :D

as soon as I get back to playing the sims2 I will let you know as a sim currently lives in it his family has lived in this  house now for 6 generations so lots of fond sim memories in that house

AHA! I *KNEW* it existed! Give it to me, so I can torture Emma!

The house indeed exists,however in order to *give* it to you  I would have to disturb Melvin Hartkins who lives in the house who incidently is a descendant of my ethiopian challenge sim Nathan Starling and Bella Goth who was an illicit affair Nathan had as he never married ,no female sim was that stupid!! Nathan was the heir born in the game.I don't have the package file anymore only the house.

Pictures please, maybe I can recognise which one it is :D


What, you don't torture me enough? :P

Actually, I think you can just package the entire family, which doesn't disturb anyone at all, and I can process the inhabitants out manually. Or you can just copy the lot package file, which is all that is actually needed. Now go! And kill gruesomely in my name!

No, the bathroomless house is classic EMMA.

I have just looked through all my uploaded stuff at Laverwinkles and I can't see one house that doesn't have a bathroom...I am really puzzled ??? Unless it is one of the unfurnished houses that all have the same flooring 'cos I was a lazy Emma on that day. I really want to see this house Bangel-hurry! Pictures!

/me pokes Bangelnuts

Because I myself have made that same mistake once, I just want to say:

BATHROOMS ARE FOR WUSSIES! 

And indicate which bathroom is the one YOU added and partitioned, that was not present in the original Emma.

give me a chance to finish my midterms and I will get a screenshot for you,yes it was an unfurnished house except for the kitchen.I still love the house !

Lol, ok ;D

Well, thinking back, you don't want too many lights because lights = lag. Unless you have the fastest computer on the planet, which won't be the fastest computer on the planet by the time you have finished reading this post.
Defending idiots is for fools!

BTW, is this Pescado in his true form? (http://static.moreawesomethanyou.com/images/necromancy.jpg) Or have I just been playing Kingdom Hearts 2 too much?