Just replied to you, Cat

We have our 3 judges now. We actually need a 4th as an emergency judge to stand in if one of our 3 judges cannot, for some reason, judge a round. If nobody else wants to do it, I will do it myself, but I honestly hope we can get a 4th judge.

I have made a slight change to the Screenshot rules (I will check them myself) above, which means that contestants who cannot take a close enough top down image from a floor plan may take 2 more. I always have to do that when I upload a map, so I think it is fair to allow that.

Now we ony have to wait for contetants and entries Let's hope there are some simmers out there building their first round lot! And if you are busy, please have fun. One learns more from building contests than I could define in one post as well.

I will check in later to see if there are any questions as well.

I'm building! Trouble is, I have to do real life things too, which gets in the way!

I'll upload additional floorplan photos when I have time later this week.

Yay! @simsample is building

@Modder - all good, you have time until 17 February. Thank you

Andrew Jones-Moltke, in his capacity of MD (Managing Director) f Jones & Moltke Construction (Veronaville) Ltd., has called round at Josh Anderson's house in Monopolis to discuss requirements:

Josh is saying that the new building must wind- and water-proof. Milburn Pennybags, the billionaire financier behind Monopolis is also involved in this planning meeting.

[POSTSCRIPT]

Requirements, building regulations, trade union demands

I hope they at least have tea and cake during the meeting!

Monica Anderson (Josh's wife) did better than that -- she fed them all on spaghetti!

By the way, did you see the postscript that I added to my last post? I think I enjoy contests more when I can integrate them with my gameplay. And I think real judges of the houses and community lots I build are the Sims who live in them and visit them! Anyway, we're on site now, and construction has started.

I look forward to seeing your creation! (Or would that be Josh's creation? )

I saw, @AndrewGloria. And I can certainly see that the weather in Veronaville is discussed seriously in the planning meeting. Can't wait to see what Josh has built

I was of course around when the company was founded. It seems that is has not only lasted, but done very well.

Me too - "around when it started."
I can't wait to see what he builds too!

Also - now might be a good time to remind everyone of a 'peculiarity' of one of the judges (me).
Although, I'm not as traumatized as I once was... I really do NOT like the color orange. Love the fruit, not the color.
I try to be very fair in my judging. I won't take off points for building an all orange building.
But, if it's a tie... the not-orange (less-orange) one will win my vote.
In the interest of fairness, now you know.

You were quite fair to me when I send in very orange buildings

The confidence of not having Seasons. :P



You do realise that you have just challenged someone to win your vote with a totally orange building. XD

I've been downloading all of the orange CC I can find just recently.

I thought it would be a nice idea to send Cat some flowers.

Ack! Oh noes!!!

...and thank you, Petro. They are lovely.

All this talk of not liking orange... but I like orange.

Cat would probably love you if you took the orange flowers off her hands then. XD

No reason @HarVee cannot have his own orange flowers?

Here they are

In the meantime, I am not around for the next 2 days, but I will check via my phone if anything here is urgent. Back on Sunday, when I hope to add a judge and some contestants!

For those of you who are building, enjoy
For those not building - How about starting?

I just need to take photos now!

I am hoping some new-to-sims2 players might join this contest.

Anyone can join, to any newbies reading- get building! We are kind and fun and really hip people (do people still use that word?) ) and we want you all to have fun with us!

And we are helpful too and will answer all your questions!

I feel so guilty!! I was the one who mentioned having a contest again, which led to Simsample rekindling Justpetro's other post about this, which eventually led to it happening... And now I'm stuck without my laptop for a few weeks probably, which means I can't participate. Luck was on my bad side this time. Still, I am very excited to watch it get going, the rounds seem well thought out and I think this will be very enjoyable to follow! Good luck to everyone ~

Ooooh maaan!
I'm not about to click the 'love' button - cuz I do not love your predicament! I hope you get ahold of a computer sometime soon!
Maybe you could squeak in an entry just before the round closes?

I can't wait to see what all ya'll are building ...I know there are a few who've started.

I'm also working on my entry :D

Looking forward to the entries! You still have 1 week and 14 hours left, there is no need to rush. Make sure you are satisfied with your lot.

1. Follow the rules (In my first contest, I knew nothing about building. I managed to do quite well because I did not break a single rule ). Keep in mind that real builders and architects deal with building regulations, trade union demands, etc. every day in real life. Relax and don't let it be a burden, rather think about how you can make the requirements into something looking good.
2. Don't worry about using building cheats if you are not familiar with them at once. Perhaps try those later in the round. (My journey into making Paternoster started with trying out a gable in one round - abandoned it, could not get it to work. I only made one in the next building contest! Still was not perfect, but that was the start).
3.Building skill does not mean you have to make intricate things - it means your building should look appealing, have a sensible layout and should make sense overall.
4.If you run into a problem, feel free to ask. Builders are very helpful people! If you see something you'd like to make and don't know how, there will be plenty of help if you just ask.
5. Have fun!

Amen, amen, amen!
Especially #'s 4 and 5: