Building Contest Of Awesomeness!

[J. M. Pescado]

Okay, so every other site has a building contest, so why not us? Only this contest, is not a contest of who can make a pretty, but functionally useless house. This contest...is about making an AWESOME house! It would also be quite nice if entry screenshots included a labelled summary of the architectural features you've incorporated that seem most awesome. And a summary of how your house should awesomely handle the various scenarios of the game, such as parties, headmasters, and othersuch.

Rules:
1. Any size of lot may be chosen, from large to small. However, not-choking-the-computer is part of technical merit.
2. There is no budget limitation. However, less is more!
3. Only Maxis and Awesome content may be used. They may be placed using hacked collections if necessary.

Scoring:
Houses will be evaluated based on how awesome they are, in terms of technical, logical, functional merit, as well as not looking like a total eyesore. Creating something that works well enough to be in my game, *AND* looks cool, is bonus. Important points should include adequate space for future expansion, coverage of all standard in-game situations, and, of course, room to hold and use all the relevant career and aspiration awards a sim-family may have or acquire in the future.

The top winners will receive a code for a free month's subscription to MATY, usable either to extend their (or someone else's!) subscription, or to addict a friend. The biggest losers will be made fun of.

Let's see some AWESOME houses!

[Nailati]

Dammit, this would come up when I'm supposed to be working on my face templates (which should at least be Tubular if not Awesome). Time limit?

[MsMaria]

Time limit? Sorry, you missed the boat.
Kidding, I haven't a frickin' clue.

[Nailati]

OH NOES I REALLY NEEDED THAT FREE SUBSCRIPTION

You guys build really fast!

[Magicmoon]

How do we submit our entry? I'd like to have 2 subscriptions at the same time in case one gets worn out.

[J. M. Pescado]

Time limit? Sorry, you missed the boat.

I haven't entirely decided, due to some uncertainty in collecting the submissions, but how does the end of June look?

How do we submit our entry? I'd like to have 2 subscriptions at the same time in case one gets worn out.

That part hasn't been worked out yet. I'm trying to decide how to work that part.

[Nailati]

I haven't entirely decided, due to some uncertainty in collecting the submissions, but how does the end of June look?

I'll have my people contact your people.

[witch]

Hmm, might have a think about this... have three days off over the coming weekend...

I'm quite keen on function, will usually take function over form, but also still like to combine the two if possible.

[J. M. Pescado]

I'm quite keen on function, will usually take function over form, but also still like to combine the two if possible.

Well, obviously, combining the two produces the best results. Otherwise you get a Gali-style monstrocity that combines none of them.

Scoring, of course, will be conducted by examining your house, and seeing what changes I'd make to it to better accomodate a more awesome lifestyle. The less changes I have to make, the better your house scores for function.

[witch]

I've had a minimilistic, modernistic style in mind for some time, might have a bash at that, it's not my usual style.

I've got a newspaper pic of a real house that uses roof angles to create interesting and tricky perspectives for the eye. I've been wondering whether it would work in the sims.

PS If you saw my RL house - it's definitely function over form!

[Ancient Sim]

No point in me entering this, I'd automatically come last.  I've never built a house in the game yet.  I can't even work out how to extend one if it has those deck things, because I can never delete them or add to them.  I also hate furnishing houses, it's incredibly boring.  I'm really only in it for the gameplay, I suppose.  Be interesting to see what others come up with, though.

[ZiggyDoodle]

Any rules regarding the number of occupants?

A swinging single's den would have no need for any headmaster inspection. 

[J. M. Pescado]

Any rules regarding the number of occupants?

A swinging single's den would have no need for any headmaster inspection. 

Figure that the building must be capable of accomodating anything, from 1-8 (or maybe even more!) sims. Accomodation for yet unplanned scenarios is a bonus.

[Nec]

Yes, count me in. This I can get into, definitely'

[Ellatrue]

What about starter homes? Do they need to accomodate as many sims?

[J. M. Pescado]

What about starter homes? Do they need to accomodate as many sims?

Yes, although your costs will be taken into consideration, as well as your potential for expansion. If you've built a low-cost, but dead-end, home, that will still count against you.

[Argon]

So can we do two versions of the home? For example, one as a starter house and another as an example of what the house can become once funds are available (with little change to the house).

If that's the case I have one of my template houses that works pretty well.

[MutantBunny]

Please a definition is needed for us unawesome people: exactly what is considered "awesome content"?

[jsalemi]

Please a definition is needed for us unawesome people: exactly what is considered "awesome content"?

Anything from this site, and only from this site.

[Ellatrue]

What about ingelogical content, like the no-autonomy fridge?

[Mirelly]

I'll be submitting one of my designs ... it's time I was giving a good laughing at, I suppose.

[J. M. Pescado]

Only Awesome and Maxian(OFB) content will be permitted, because otherwise when I download the house to look at it in-game to see how it measures up to your blueprints, the objects will be missing, and this does no good at all. If anyone's aware of the vagaries of the "not-expansion" pack and how those lots are formatted, and whether they're even readable, lemme know. For obvious reasons, I'm not equipped to read those if the formats are incompatible.

[MutantBunny]

That's what I thought...darn. Maxis doesn't have any good, cheap privacy fencing......

I can tell you this, whatever it's worth: I have one custom object that was made with FFS installed and the one object is fine in my game, no problem.

[Ellatrue]

I downloaded a lot by someone with FFS- it worked fine, but everything was replaced by other default furniture, etc in my game, and it looked ugly. Otherwise no problems if you only have OFB.

[Paperbladder]

I've got a few ideas for this, so I might actually give this a shot.  I barely even use CC, so that part won't be a problem.