Is 60x60 or 64x64 too big to you? «12...Next Go

SimKeats

So, I assume, that being into outdoor activities and/or landscaping makes a huge difference.
That being said, landscaping and outside areas of the house are the thing I spend the least amount of time on.
I know alot of us like playing some sort of challenge legacy or otherwise and alot of them suggest using a ginormous lot and doing all your own building. How many of you, like me, really feel like thats way more space than you really need? Do you ever just give up after doing a bunch of building and seeing tons of empty space?

What kind of lots do you like best for long term game play?

Charlottesmom

Most of the time 40x40 suits me fine, but the occasional 50x50 or 64x64 is needed for something huge, though I haven't created a something huge in awhile.

LaBlue0314

Once I created an outdoor shopping mall, which there were 8 rabbit holes on it, and I needed the largest land spot for something like that.

BSIRegina

In real life we own ten acres and live on the edge of nothing. You might be able to figure out my answer from that.

SimKeats

BSIRegina wrote: »

In real life we own ten acres and live on the edge of nothing. You might be able to figure out my answer from that.

Well, to that I say, i would find a huge lot a... lot less intimidating if it already had features and character, like hill lots with less direct conact with the road etc.

TreyNutz

I like playing overstuffed households for long periods of time, and they tend to accumulate a lot of objects. So I usually end up with a 60x60 or 64x64 lot. Especially if the household is into gardening or nectar making. Add a snowboard half-tube, the soccer net, some play ground objects for kids and the space fills up quickly.

The one game where my overstuffed household stayed on a 40x40 lot (Twinbrook which didn't have any other real possibilities) they bought a 40x40 lot across the street as an additional home just for more space. That worked out pretty well.

CravenLestat

The big lots are reserved for Big Show venue and larger lots from EA.Any store venues get the big ones like the Lucky Palms Casino.Am like Charlottesmom and just do 40x40 or smaller.Have seen people with these 3 and four story homes on 60x60 etc and it honestly never made any sense to me.Sims get more done with everything centralized and could never see needing to go up 3 stories to go to bed then walk 10 sim minutes to get to a bathroom.

BSIRegina

SimKeats wrote: »

BSIRegina wrote: »

In real life we own ten acres and live on the edge of nothing. You might be able to figure out my answer from that.

Well, to that I say, i would find a huge lot a... lot less intimidating if it already had features and character, like hill lots with less direct conact with the road etc.

I like them mainly flat. The most difficult decision is where exactly to start the house.

SimKeats

One thing I've been trying to do in Legacy Island 3, ( @BSIRegina I think theres a sim of you in that town ) in the 60x60 lot in the center, is make a mid century style compound with a big central courtyard, but honestly, I cant figure out what to do with that much space, its like enough room for 4 houses with a park in the middle lol.
I was going to make the rooms along the outside roughly 10x10s, which is pretty huge IMO, for things like kitchen/dining/living room.
It may be another of many projects I never get around to finishing.

BSIRegina

I would imagine that poor blue Sim is in Legacy Island. She's kind of made the rounds in several of Rflong's worlds. I've never installed it in my game because it has stuff from expansion packs I don't have. The pictures of it look great, though.

Part of my thing with large lots is that I got all used to playing Legacy style in TS2. #1 rule was that your Sim purchased a 60x60 lot. I carried this over into TS3. With large lots the house doesn't have to be huge, as in it doesn't need to take up anywhere near all the lot. All that empty space can be turned into gardens or play areas or fish ponds or you can build a garage for multiple cars or even get your Sims a miner. Or take your imagination farther and build a pretty garden right on top of a basement with a hidden entrance that goes down to the family treasures. There are so many things that can be done with a large lot. Only on rare occasions do my Sims have rooms as large as 10x10. Even sometimes in very large houses their bathrooms are simple 2x3s and the other rooms are just large enough for furnishings and Sims to comfortably fit into them.

And shoot yeah, take a 60x60 (or bigger) lot and put your Sims a park in the middle with four "houses" around it, then connect all of those houses with bridges. Each "house" could have a special purpose. One of my favorite TS2 houses was built based on what houses were like in Texas when it was first being settled. I got the inspiration from reading James Michener's book, "Texas". They had two separate buildings with a breezeway between the two where the kitchen was. The breezeway helped that area stay cool so cooking could be done without heating up the rest of the house. On one side of the breezeway was a long building with bedrooms and a couple of bathrooms. On the other side was the living room and bathroom. It was an extremely efficient set-up and looked cool to boot.

TadOlson

I use the largest lots for residential lots most of the time and love it when I either have to play my own lots like Evermore Falls or the world has a larger munber of the biggest lots.Gibsons works very well for a legacy town because I have to place most of the lots myself.

IreneSwift

I like the large lots when my sims have lots of things to keep outdoors. Many of my sims garden, so there's that. And, when they have children, of course there has to be a slide, swing, sandbox, and if the money is available, a treehouse, and other playground equipment. They also often have the gnubb game, a horseshoe court, soccer goal, and/or other, similar things. And of course, there are always pools and hot tubs. One of my recent sims needed room for the group science project in her yard, which is another very large item.

lasummerb

Most of my larger homes are on 40x40 lots with a couple on 50x50. My farms are 64x64, custom farms and Grandpa's Grove. I like to have enough room to lay tracks and plant trees. Also I have a horse on the farm and they need to run around. The house itself will not be gigantic, but the land is.

I also need room to add the cows and the chicken coop



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MiyuEmi

For me personally, yes. My lots are usually 30x30 or 30x20. On a rare occasion they'll be 40x40, but generally I like the property to feel realistically urban/suburban and affordable to my sims. Also, I've discovered over my time of Sims playing that I just don't do well with large lots. I never use the entirety of them and if I live on a lot that's too large, despite my family size, I will almost always relocate them.

Jessa_Dakkar

Generally yes, far too big for me. I have only one in my game and it is a fishing hole/camping spot. I felt I needed it that large to accommodate a fishing pond, campsites, horseshoes, public restrooms, etc. My favorite sized lot is 40x30.

GITTE2001

I rarely build houses. But when I do, it are small ones. But it pretends on the house I think. I big house with a big garden just needs to be on a big lot, otherwise it isn't possible. Someone already built a house like that for me and it isn't too big at all.

Jessa_Dakkar

I think if I had a sim family who had horses, a big lot would be the way to go. There would be plenty of room for stables, a barn, pasture and lots of room to run and practice jumping.

suzses

60x60 farm has barely enough room with space for horses:




I don't feel the need for that size *home* lot without all the kinds of things you find on something like a farm, however. Venues are different, of course. That being said, I'm very glad they exist in game for occasions where I do want one. If I find myself using one where I don't need the space, I just fill it up with some trees, maybe a pond.

Surreal

When I first started playing legacies, I always went for the 64x64 lots - but now just cheat the funds down to the appropriate starting cash. If you're doing a farm lot or a lot with horses, a 64x64 is almost a must. Used to play really big houses with all the bells and whistles but found it just takes too long to get things accomplished so my lots are much smaller these days.

Pinkusfamily

It depends on what World I am building in.. Some have lots, of big lots...( No pun intended ...LOL)

Right now I am building " the Munsters house" in the World that came with the Supernatural EP.. There are Big lots near the cemetery- so I am building on a 60 x 60 lot...

Usually ( if I think I am going to share my creation) I build on an average lot size between 30 x 30 and 40 x 40.

It takes me a long time, to build.. I try to make every section of the house perfected.. To what I want in it...

I have built on most worlds cemeteries..I have taken and put them in a folder and build on them if I want a haunted house . ( I turn them into residents.)

I now like building different homes from TV shows that I have watched as a child.. I have Built " The Bewitched " house- The "Brady Bunch " house and now am working on the " Munsters"..

JoAnne65

I love building and decorating houses in 3, but I have to admit I'm a bit lazy where it concerns the surrounding space. I just don't know how to fill that in a good way. So a 64 x 64 lot is far too overwhelming for me, I wouldn't know where to begin. Most of the time I choose 30 x 30. And when I do build on a larger lot, there's a lot of emptiness in the garden (grass, a few bushes, some flowers, a bench and ready I am). I love the farms shown in this topic, I'd like to create something that cosy myself and spend a generation there. It's funny, but I can spend hours and hours decorating one room, but when I start doing the garden, all of a sudden I'm in a hurry.

nickibitsward

Mainly 30 x 30 or 30 x 40 and sometimes 40 x 40. My sims have lots (and lots) of collectibles, gems, metals, insects,vases, etc. Combined with a large lot, it slows playing the lot down. For homes, the largest I use is 40 x 40. I'll use the bigger ones for community lots.

BSIRegina

JoAnne65 wrote: »

I love building and decorating houses in 3, but I have to admit I'm a bit lazy where it concerns the surrounding space. I just don't know how to fill that in a good way. So a 64 x 64 lot is far too overwhelming for me, I wouldn't know where to begin. Most of the time I choose 30 x 30. And when I do build on a larger lot, there's a lot of emptiness in the garden (grass, a few bushes, some flowers, a bench and ready I am). I love the farms shown in this topic, I'd like to create something that cosy myself and spend a generation there. It's funny, but I can spend hours and hours decorating one room, but when I start doing the garden, all of a sudden I'm in a hurry.

If I'm building/decorating a house AND doing an outside garden I give myself a break in between so I can give the garden all the time and attention it deserves, otherwise I tend to do the same thing because after a while of building I would just as soon get back to playing.

lisasc360

It depends on what I'm building. I have used a large lot for a house but not the 60 x 60 or the 64 x 64, unless I'm trying to build a community lot. I just built me a small farm in Hidden Springs using a 40 x 40 lot.

TadOlson

I use the largest lots for my early settlers and leave smaller lots for their kids when they get to teen or older and move out.I start out on empty lots and have them build their house.They usually end up farming on the lot though it can eventually become a large estate with a mansion over the generations.

JoAnne65

BSIRegina wrote: »

JoAnne65 wrote: »

I love building and decorating houses in 3, but I have to admit I'm a bit lazy where it concerns the surrounding space. I just don't know how to fill that in a good way. So a 64 x 64 lot is far too overwhelming for me, I wouldn't know where to begin. Most of the time I choose 30 x 30. And when I do build on a larger lot, there's a lot of emptiness in the garden (grass, a few bushes, some flowers, a bench and ready I am). I love the farms shown in this topic, I'd like to create something that cosy myself and spend a generation there. It's funny, but I can spend hours and hours decorating one room, but when I start doing the garden, all of a sudden I'm in a hurry.

If I'm building/decorating a house AND doing an outside garden I give myself a break in between so I can give the garden all the time and attention it deserves, otherwise I tend to do the same thing because after a while of building I would just as soon get back to playing.

Yes, that's good advise. When you feel like hurrying, just take a pause. I also read a tip to start with the garden. Decorating the house (inside and out) is my favourite part, so maybe it's just wiser to leave that till last ^.^