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Bit disappointed with the new venue...
Voltron
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1) Sims teleport into the carousel. =[
2) No moodlet from the carousel.
3) Nothing can really go on inside that tent.
4) Only pink cotton candy.
5) Plain popcorn?
6) Tiny stage - what can we do on there?
7) Re-skins of Smack-A-Gnome being classed as "Premium Content"!
The venue is beautiful and all but erm...tsk...quite disappointed with its functionality to be honest.
2) No moodlet from the carousel.
3) Nothing can really go on inside that tent.
4) Only pink cotton candy.
5) Plain popcorn?
6) Tiny stage - what can we do on there?
7) Re-skins of Smack-A-Gnome being classed as "Premium Content"!
The venue is beautiful and all but erm...tsk...quite disappointed with its functionality to be honest.
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I put concession stands from season inside of the tent for now. Trying to come up with more ideas.
I know some people were disappointed in the Whack-A-X machine, but I actually really like the new animations on it. (Not sim animations, those are the same. I mean the animated pictures on the machines themselves.)
I'd quite like the tent to create some Showtime lots, but it's not really a must have, as you say it has no real function.
The carousel would probably be fun for the first few times, but then end up languishing in my bin forever.
I mean if you look at the carousel there is an "outer" ring and an "inner" ring and I've never seen any Sims on the "inner ring" of it. Are they not able to ride there? Or is it just in the videos I've been watching there's not enough Sims to fill it up?
(Yes... I'm in a silly mood)
I had several sims ride the carousel:
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
My childish sim was the only one who got this moodlet:
I edited it a bit and put in a showtime stage. Also, my performers can just drag and drop their performance items from their inventories and perform for tips.
The tiny stage is MY FAVOURITE PART of the actual venue! I adore it! It reminds me of the magician stage from TS1 Magic Town. I'm definitely building a few more of these little babies! I thought it would be nice to have one in my park and I could use the seasonal lot marker to make a podium appear occasionally and my polititions could give a campaign speech, or a rebel could lead a protest, or my horticulturist could give an educational talk.
Anyway... MAGIC TIME!
I think you have to be a little bit creative with any content we get. The game is at an exciting point for me now because there are just so many options now!
I took the tents and made a wedding pavilion in my churchyard (this was my first attempt, I'm going to do it better next time)
I'm going to make my own circus but I was looking at the venue and thinking (with a little tinkering) it would make a great country fair!
Which reminds me...
Can I get some bunting please Mr.C?
Anyhoo... I'm off to play my game now. If anyone would like my circus sims they are in my studio, I uploaded them on a lot so they should have all their skills, career levels and performance items. Ta ta! Toodle pip!
I love what you have done with the new venue!
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I'm making the world for myself also, so I'm constantly trying to think about what else I'll add once I get my content back in. I left space for the Stone's Throw Greenhouse, a slightly larger lot so I could add more harvestables and maybe the tractor, but I look at that tent and think how nice it would be to have a flower show in summer! I'll have to give it a bigger lot! :XD:
I've also got quite a few lots that I'll build with the seasonal lot marker. Instead of having one festival lot, I'm thinking I'll have different festivals popping up on different lots each season. So I have a big field which will be empty for three or four seasons before the Midnight Hollow circus pops up in fall!
So I need to get the 'light' version finished and uploaded so I can work on the second version which will include more store content. I just have a lot of terrain sculpting left to do.
Sorry... that was a bit of an outpouring of information! See what happens when I've not been in the forums as much as usual!? I store it all up and have outbursts! :oops:
@YJ...I can't wait to see what you get up to! Make sure you poke me on twitter!
Hi Cinders <waves>
Ooh lots of inspirational pictures! I can't wait to get creating once today's shift is over!. I love your wedding pavilion shot.
Thanks for sharing your circus sims I will grab those if I may <clicks to ransack cinders studio> 8)
Hugs
Starby
They only seem to be able to ride on the outer ring but that's fine I am just pleased to have such a wonderful PC item. It's what made the whole set worth while to me personally
I love the wedding pavilion and your ideas for the little outside stage. Was it much trouble to expand the tent to fit the ST stage inside?
Hi cinderelli! Wonderful pics as always.
Ransack freely, that's what it's there for!
I'm like that! Too much I want to do! I wish I had a real life relativity mod to slow time down.
I was a bit sad they hadn't left room for the showtime floor.
I bulldozed the steps and first bit of platform on each side, and the pillar in the centre. Then I put the steps back. It was a bit of a fiddle but it only took about five minutes.
Of course, the performers don't need the stage if you're playing them. You can just drag the items out of their inventory and place them anywhere, which is what I did in the pictures.
There's also a hidden smaller stage in game already (don't know why it's hidden) and there's a mod at Mod The Sims that unhides it. I don't have it but it's been available for a long time and I've never seen anyone complaining about it.
In that picture I'd dragged the Box of Danger out of his inventory and onto the stage. He wasn't performing for tips, I think I just got him to perform the stunt. (I think we might have to actually click on the performer to get the interaction to perform for tips).
It was a bit of a set-up to be honest because the sims were my active household. So I just clicked on them all and told them to sit down and be quiet! I dragged them away from the juice bar, which is what they're all complaining about!
Normally in that situation, when I want sims to sit and look like they're listening, I serve coffee and use Ani's 'Have coffee With Me' mod (also at MTS) to get the sims to come over.
*edit* Oh I forgot about routing in the venue too. My sims got popcorn from the machine inside the tent. Instead of her sitting at one of the sofas inside the tent, she walked all the way outside. She was pregnant too so it seemed like she was never going to stop walking so she could finally enjoy the popcorn.
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Ok I understand. I think I've seen that stage in my game but I'm not sure. I did pop over to look for the mod. But I couldn't find it. And now I believe it's all your fault that I downloaded 5 mods that have nothing to do with what I was looking for.
emmiemouse, that's a good idea! Those things would make a really nice bundle!
Here is the link.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=414895
Ooh goody! Do you think you'll be uploading it, Tiki?
I too am really enjoying this venue so far - soooo many possibilities and ways of making it such a fun place for our Simmies to hang out
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