I decided to play along because I was tweaking my buggy game anyway and had reduced my DLs folder to MATY stuff and EAxian crap anyway.
Full Disclosure (the Cons): I usually build boxy houses and let the game put a fugroof on top because I don't care about hood views. My game is buggy, so buying / building after inserting a family can be problematic. Don't get me started on comm lot issues. I tend to have a standard house that I tweak minimally for variety's sake. Huge kitchens, sometimes openplan floorplans, flat lots to start with bumpies and ponds added after, that sort of thing. Basically, whatever will allow for a lot of Sims to fit in a room and me to be able to screenshot. I tend to build 2-3 story homes with bedrooms on the second floor and either a third floor or basement for asp rewards / superfluous fun stuff like karaoke machines. AwesomeSpec requires bedrooms for sprogs on the main floor, so my original 2x3 lot was scrapped in favour of a too-large-for-my-taste 4x4. Also, I did not skimp on building materials or buy items, so AwesomeHaus is for the wealthy Sims in your hood.
AwesomeSpec2.0 Haus is slightly bigger than my usual houses. I tried to build something that was not a series of boxes. I also wanted some extra high ceilings in some areas. This means AwesomeHaus can be expanded into the empty and inaccessible second floor if desired, but it is intended to be played on one floor. Also? I don't usually have one than one baby simverse-wide, in all hoods, so had not yet used baby controller. There are four on the lot, and you only need one. That was non-awesome.
- AwesomeHaus has shitty roof. I apparently suck at roofs. This is a case of form trying to armwrestle function and winding up with a sore arm, then running away like a big candypants, whimpering. Poor form is full of lose. But that's just the roof. I never look at the farging roofs in my game.
- AwesomeHaus is not cheap. Really not. No, seriously. On the plus side, it costs about what a real house in my area costs in US dollars. (Oy!)
- AwesomeHaus has three superfluous Baby Controllers, because Lorelei don't know nothin' 'bout bithin' SimBabies. My bad.
Now for the Good Parts (the Pros): * AwesomeHaus conforms to AwesomeSpecs thusly:
- Perimeter is completely secure from invasion. Mail / news / garbage functionality is all fine.
- Vomitorium for invited guests, and APO in all rooms. As a bonus, vomitorium resembles AwesomeCat Pescado, as a tribute. If AwesomeCat wore potted palms in his ears, I suppose. Vomitorium leads directly to three areas of Haus: the PrimeLoo, the Skillination Station, and the HomeBiz (or family recreation area, though it is designed specifically to lure in 'hood Sims and separate them from their Simoleons to help underwrite the cost of AwesomeHaus).
- Burgurgler alarms duly installed, ditto phones and smoke alarm.
- APO in all rooms. Confirm or deny? Accept or reject? It's in your hands.
- There may be EAxian Bonus Item content, but all content is Awesome or EAxian.
- Hot tub is covered. Pool is not. Pool has requisite ladders, of course.
- There are actually two home businesses; a lemonade stand has been provided for enterprising kidlets.
- GreenHaus installed and dirtpatched. Fruit trees installed and taunted for being needy. (Who talks to trees for five hours straight? WTF?)
- Kickable Cheat!
- Garage with gym item and mid-range sedan included.
- FOJware closet included for lotboxen and other tools of Awesomeness.
- Optional closet for Asp rewards, or it can be incorporated into Skillination area.
- One floor in play means only one "on deck area" to manage.
- Jeffistani QuadMod SprogPods installed, in case you are masochistic enough to attempt four SimSproggen at once, or are faced with multiple twin events. SprogPods are separated from other Pods and have a counter to put crap on. You can opt to put a SmartMilk dispenser next to each cot, or put decorative items there, or add another light, as desired.
- AwesomeHaus is not a big honkin' box with sub-boxen. I herd u liek hexxagunz! (And Mudkipz!)
- Skillination station has two One Desks, a charisma mirror (get out of the loo), easel, peenanner to play Simsongs on, chess area, bookshelves, and room for pet crap, if desired. Two direct routes to One Desks: carpool drop-off, or garage. Also includes nappable / make-out-able cuddle couches, when not being used to read and skillinate. Direct access to Asp Reward closet, which includes some counters to place crap on.
- DogHaus in garden with gnawlabone and bowl, also bowl in kitchen for pets; Dog can patrol grounds
- CatStuphph available also: litterbox, maus and feesh on a steek toys, bed, scratch post, tower of knives-out death from above for aggressive Cats
- Beware of Pets signs posted
- Windkeeper JMP mod for mailbox. Not enough? Also has CrapDrop table right inside front door in Vomitorium. Good for date fleurz, newspapers you don't immediately compostinate or discard, maybe souvenirs from BV once it is more than L&P.
- Main business has separate entrance to street front. Ticketron is included. Pool table, bar, poker, MyShuno, video gaming, jukebox, cuddle couches, tacky bar neon. I call it Kermit's Korner, but only when I hit my head too hard.
- AwesomeCat foyer / vomitorium makes me roffle.
- Ginormous kitchen area for eight Sims. All standard appliances and Simclock. Direct access to GreenHaus for fridge stockery and juicer stuffing, or use the Fruitbowl Of Awesomeness. Of course, all food-bearing items are under lock and key in a separate pantry area. Room for a buffet. Birdcage for social, though with room for 8+ Sims, you'd have to be sad to need a bird to meet social needs. Two highchairs and LS converted espressinator included. Counters optimized for food prep. Room for birthdays, headmasters, parties.
- Direct access to SprogPoddery and ToddlerTraining / SprogSkillinationStation area with diaper benches for tandem diaper wrangling. Toddler and child tows included. Pod bays can be upgraded to no-frills Child Pods.
- Bathrooms with BYU, four in total, room for several more. Toilets are segregated partially from main loo area to reduce shoos. Two loos have dog-enabled bathtubs, two have showers. Bathrooms share common colour theme for easy spotting. PrimeLoo is available to visitors and returning house Sims, and is next to Poddery. Bathrooms either lack windows or have privacy windows to reduce neighbor peeping.
- Half-assed gardening flanking GreenHaus leaves plenty for aspiring landscape designers to do.
- Fishination Station, Probination Station available.
- Wide hallways allow for renovation and later expansion, if desired.
- Master suite has loo door, all non-baby bedrooms have Sleepclocks, dressers, and mirrors for clotheswrangling.
- Backyard is left open for gardening, snowmen, snowangels, balloon fighting, weddings, grillination station. Swings included.
- Two-vamp lair with no windows and impressive double gothic door, includes additional access to windowless garage.
- Lounges and fountain at entrance of OFB biz for customers or family to enjoy.
- Total Sim accomodation space: 2-8 adults (if two are vampires), 4 baby-toddlers, 2-6 children, depending on your desires. Default beds: 4 cots, 2 coffins, 2 singles, 1 double.
- Lights in all rooms. Some outdoor lighting, pool lights.
- No flaming Xmas trees, zapping reindeer, inferno fireplaces. Room to add, if desired.
- Minimal art installed, to accomodate personal tastes
- Views of 'hood are pleasant, if one cares about such things. Camera movement within Haus is easy, though individual spawn pods and 2 bathrooms are deliberately tight. How many pix of peeing Sims and identical-looking babies-in-cots are needed?
My fave places: Hot tub area, Skillination Station and AwesomeCat foyer.
Bribes: MOAR fakecats, offer to Simize some forum members who feel left out due to not being happy with their self-Sims, promise to set aside Dominions II training time even though classes are back in session now (so Pes has new fresh meat to clobberinate at a game), continued destruction of payseiten.
Get it: http://www.4shared.com/file/18291038/732db362/AwesomeSpecsHausv20.htmlWhy not attached? "Your attachment couldn't be saved. This might happen because it took too long to upload or the file is bigger than the server will allow. Please consult your server administrator for more information."It's not too big. so it's too slow. Ugh, dial-up.
Pix and links to follow.
I'll try to attach Haus to post next time I have Wifi access. Haus available at http://britpoptarts.4shared.com, or, for Pescados, at Kludgemush incoming.ETA: Regarding bribery:* Eek the Cat!, Steiff Tiger and other assorted Fakecats have been located in storage and removed, ready for life as Fakecat memes.
* Though not intended to have any relevance to bribe, have made a Jordi Sim to help counter the gender imbalance in MATYhoods.
* Actively destroying payseiten through cunning, guile, logic and metric craploads of verbiage at PMBD. I kill j00 with wordswordswords.
* Have located DII manuals, have plans to print out same for light bedtime reading.
Author