Welcome to Round 2, @pinkdynamite

I'm happy to see it in its intended environment :D

I have to give credit to @shastakiss for the beautiful textures I shamelessly "borrowed" from her tavern door recolors

Oh . My . Goodness! ...

You guys have been so busy! WOW!

I have sooooo much sympathy for the judges this time around! Oh, wait... Aaaaaaaah
*throws hands in the air* Everybody wins. Done.

Well. First day was a disaster. I hired two people to work as a server and as a bartender. But they didn't show up when i opened the place. So I had to call them in myself. Off to a bad start. Next up I realised that I couldn't assign an employee to the bar. It's not something I discovered while playtesting it. So I guess a point off for that. I also had to replace a flowerbed as it died. Maybe having the flowers under a roof was a bad idea. As for the customers? Well I earned some money... but they were all unhappy with the service. They also received food that wasn't on the menu... which I found odd... turns out, you remove stuff from the menu, you don't ADD to it. So I had all this high skill foods on it... no wonder Amanda burnt it all.

Oh and the server dropped the food all over one of the customers...

So yeah a disaster. Anyway... pics for those who like.



And this is the place they live. There's quite a few houses in this style where I live so I tried my hand at it. I might make more in this style... tho I'll try to keep enough room for a driveway next time.

@simsample my jaw genuinely dropped and this is absolutely no exaggeration.

I've added an extra picture to my entry, and hope to add a lot more over the next few days. Amanda, Tyler and Tyler's boyfriend Ian, are now in the restaurant and preparing it, and themselves, for opening it.In my experience fledgling businesses seldom make enough money to pay employees, so the three of them are planning to do everything themselves.

Just for laughs

The Resident Rats (Not sure if I have the quota to include this in the upload so...)

I have finally finished the Tavern for Round 2!

Presenting: The Peacock


Required Photos:


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The following default replacement and medieval friendly custom contents have been used:

Fire Alarm - Skillet
https://modthesims.info/d/489080/4-...oke-alarms.html

Invisible Chef Stove by Sunni
https://modthesims.info/d/400503/in...chef-stove.html

Ancient Microwave
https://www.medievalsims.com/forums...hp?f=108&t=3191

Medieval Mixer
https://www.medievalsims.com/forums...hp?f=108&t=3661

Enchanted Harp Radio
https://modthesims.info/d/248031

Sunni's Versatile Podium
http://www.insimenator.org/index.php?topic=106889.0

A Medieval Default Replacement of Easy Swing Door by @Monsieur_Oshima

I hope I have not missed anything!

Are any of these lots going to be available for download after the contest is over?

I hope our contestants will upload them

I'm glad I'm a judge of the lots and not the restuarant's food, otherwise it'd be like this:






Btw, how much time do we have to get our reviews in for this round? I'm going to be out Vegas way visiting fam and celebrating my 30th b-day this week. Won't have much time to do reviewing.

5 days after the end of the round (I have said I will extend the round if needed, though, by 5 days, because I slipped up when I started the round too early).

And may you have a fantastic birthday bash

Happy Birthday!

@simmingregency O_O That peacock, do you know where it came from? Some time ago i started building a wild life park (on one side like many of my projects) but I would love to have a peacock.

@HarVee Happy Birthday! 30 is a great age to be.

When is the end of the round? Do you mean the timer was started too early? So it's not over in four days' time?

Edit: I was fed up of my hood being snowy every time I loaded in and tried to build so I decided to load a lot to get it to switch to some more springlike weather and, well... the invisibility problems are getting a bit out of hand



(It instantly crashed when I tried to load a second lot, so, I hope I can fix this!)

I will have to take a look the next time I load my game. But I will defo let you know when I do!

I don't know if this has been asked yet but can I use the Impresso Espress-o-Matic coffee bar instead of the alcohol one?

Time Zones and things Good morning, all.

@simsfreq - yes, I said in the original post that there would be 5 days for the judges between rounds and forgot all about that when I started Round 2. Modder pointed it out and I decided the best thing to do was to add time at the end of the round if all the entries are not in (discussion was earlier).

That lot looks like a headache to sort out - I hope you can fix it!

@Meowingcookie - It has to be a juice bar.

Edit: @simsfreq - have you tried to lift the lot and place it down again?

The lot isn't broken, it's pink souped. I just have the mod which makes things invisible instead of pink when the game throws a tantrum. I have no idea what is causing the game to throw tantrums which is what is concerning me, but I think it might be too many hood decorations. I started a new, blank hood just to build in and haven't had any invisiblising problems so far 🤞

I don't have any pink soup problems - why I don't know if it is caused by too many hood decorations, I can say that I am far too lazy to decorate my hoods, so it may well play a role.

Not just the amount of 'hood decorations, but also the mesh quality of the deco and the size of the textures they use. Especially the latter of those two. Hood deco with more than 512 textures will increase the chance. And also using the high-quality lot imposters from the RPC tend to dramatically increase the likelihood of pink soup.

Yep. I went on a downloading spree a while back and got loads of stuff which is ported from other, more modern games so who knows what the texture sizes on them are. Ugh. I love having really immersively-decorated hoods, but it is a pain for the texture memory limit.

Hood deco and hood water were always a big part part of mine pink flashing. My new folder and hood has far less and so far zero pink until I installed brighter cas fix after doing DVK (whatever that is called) They clashed. I now also have sims 2 on Linex which promises to be much more resistant to the pink. So if you can get a new SSD you could try jumping on the Linex train, it's becoming more and more popular.
Apart from that you could open hood deco in SimPE and swap for smaller texture sizes.

@simmingregency The Australian wild life park thanks you kindly for the shipment. They were nervous to start with but appear to be settling in well, even chasing after the wombats.

I am glad to hear that they are settling well. I hope the wombats arent too traumatised by the peacocks!

Just popping my head in to ask if anyone might find my medieval/regency/victorian builds useful for your game? If there are, I will launch a clean game folder to clean up the lots for uploading after the competition (also for next build to save myself more work. )