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#301 Old 28th Feb 2025 at 7:48 PM Last edited by Justpetro : 28th Feb 2025 at 10:39 PM.
Welcome to Round 2, @pinkdynamite
Field Researcher
#302 Old 28th Feb 2025 at 8:59 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simmingregency
@Monsieur_Oshima

Look how beautiful your default of the Swing Door is! Thank you so so much!

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
Mad Poster
#303 Old 28th Feb 2025 at 11:57 PM
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.

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Instructor
#304 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 12:49 AM
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.
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Lab Assistant
#305 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 2:08 AM
@simsample my jaw genuinely dropped and this is absolutely no exaggeration.

might as well have a signature
Mad Poster
#306 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 3:12 AM
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.

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Test Subject
#307 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 3:14 AM
Just for laughs

The Resident Rats (Not sure if I have the quota to include this in the upload so...)
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Test Subject
#308 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 5:10 AM Last edited by simmingregency : 1st Mar 2025 at 5:24 AM.
Default Round 2 - The Peacock
I have finally finished the Tavern for Round 2!

Presenting: The Peacock


Required Photos:


Extra Photos 20:


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!

My little pixel citizens of the sims world shenanigans can be found at SimmingRegency Tumblr
Mad Poster
#309 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 8:43 AM
Are any of these lots going to be available for download after the contest is over?
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#310 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 11:25 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Charity
Are any of these lots going to be available for download after the contest is over?


I hope our contestants will upload them
Mad Poster
#311 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 3:47 PM
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.

Previously known as HarVee. Just call me Yin from now on.

Mad Poster
Original Poster
#312 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 3:53 PM
Quote: Originally posted by HarVee
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
Mad Poster
#313 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 5:00 PM
Happy Birthday!
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#314 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 9:46 PM
@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.

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~Call me Jo~
Mad Poster
#315 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 10:05 PM
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!)
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Test Subject
#316 Old 1st Mar 2025 at 10:37 PM
Quote: Originally posted by joandsarah77
@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.


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

My little pixel citizens of the sims world shenanigans can be found at SimmingRegency Tumblr
Lab Assistant
#317 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 1:29 AM
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?
Mad Poster
Original Poster
#318 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 6:28 AM Last edited by Justpetro : 2nd Mar 2025 at 12:14 PM.
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?
Mad Poster
#319 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 5:27 PM
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 🤞

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#320 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 5:34 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsfreq
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.
Mad Poster
#321 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 8:12 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Justpetro
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.

Previously known as HarVee. Just call me Yin from now on.

Mad Poster
#322 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 8:31 PM
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.

Check out my thoughts on Psymchology (Sim Psychology) - latest post is on the main six aspirations.
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#323 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 9:28 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsfreq
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 dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives." - Unknown
~Call me Jo~
Test Subject
#324 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 9:49 PM
Quote: Originally posted by joandsarah77
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!

My little pixel citizens of the sims world shenanigans can be found at SimmingRegency Tumblr
Test Subject
#325 Old 2nd Mar 2025 at 9:59 PM
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. )


My little pixel citizens of the sims world shenanigans can be found at SimmingRegency Tumblr
 
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