Show me your Oasis Springs «123...Next Go

JAL

I was inspired by the "show me your Newcrest" post, and thought it would be fun if we showed each other all our worlds and what we've done with them. All worlds in one post, however, would be way too big and hard to keep track of, so lets start with one of the base game ones.

So show me what you've done with Oasis Springs!

How many community lots do you have? What kind are they? Do you have any cool builds that you're really proud of? l'll post mine in the first comment. I look forward to seeing what everyone has done with the place.

JAL

My oasis springs:



I've kept the same number of community lots and while I've changed the insides and given some of the buildings new purposes, only one is really changed on the outside and that's the gym which I've removed entirely. You can see some of my lots behind the cut:

The Perfect Balance Spa
The one building I've really changed is the gym which I've replaced with EAs The Perfect Balance Spa we got with Spa Day. To the Spa I've added a pool and some landscaping, because I personally think it looks better that way, and it makes sense with a proper normal pool as well.




The only other thing I've added is a thermostat and this fridge from the pack:



I've uploaded my version of the spa to the gallery here.

Desert Bloom Park and Pool:
As I said, I made changes to all the other buildings, so in the case of Desert Bloom Park, the first thing I did was add a pool in that large empty space in the middle - as it seemed to be screaming for one. In the background you can also see a kiddiepool, because toddlers want to play in the water too.


I also added a sandbox for the toddlers:


Expanded the playground area for kids with a set of swings:


And added a ping-pong table, a dart board and a foosball table for teens and YA (or just adults wanting to play for that matter). Some lights on the table makes sure kids and YA can hang out in the park late at night. There is also a bonfire behind the house - have your YA bring a keg and a boombox and they can party all night. There is even a woohoo-bush on the grounds. I've had great parties on this lot.


You can find my version of the park here.

Future Past Nightclub:
I never saw the point of two museums in the base game worlds, when a museum really doesn't do much. As Willow Creek seemed more the museum type of town, I changed the Future Past Museum into a nightclub instead.

The ground floor is much the same, a closet and some tables are added, that's all. But once you go up the stairs you'll find the bar:



On the next floor you'll find the dancefloors and dj-booth (even if you don't see the dj booth very well in the picture):


You can find my nightclub here.

Rattlesnake Mexican Restaurant:
I always thought the Rattlesnake bar looked like it should have been a restaurant, so I made it one. Adding an additional bar with open cooking behind it and a waiter station and host station was really all it took. The changes are minor but in my mind it suits the place.



You can find my restaurant here.

The Solar Flare Lounge
Is actually much the same, though I made the stage area raised and added a poker table and a foosballtable. Other than that there are no changes here.

When it comes to houses, I've moved Johnny Zest to a smaller lot and made his trailer smaller as well as added more worn out furniture (CC). I've downloaded some houses from the gallery that I then decorated to my sims' tastes:

* Southwest house with pool by baaadlilsim
* Arid Ridge Villa Rental by nugsutin

And built this one myself:

* Slipshod Mesquite Rental

BoergeAarg61

Mine looks like this.



Vista Quarry and Raffia Quinta had basements as the households grew.

Raffia Quinta started two sims. As a male sim had alien twins, something had to be done.

Zests house was also changed a bit. Zest died from old age long ago, though.

Stormkeep

Oasis Springs is a special world in my game, being the only world where I have assigned a lot the "Pool" lot type (other worlds with pools have them in their gyms). It's also the only world where I have a lot assigned lot type of "Museum" and the Desert Bloom Park is one of the most family friendly parks I have set up as well.



For renovations, every single lot in the world has been renovated, but most of the residential still maintain a similiar, if not identical, exterior appearance. Commercial lots however got complete and total renovations. In the Mirage Canyon neighborhood, the museum was replaced by a lovely 2 story spa and the Solar Flare lounge was rebuilt from the ground up to be larger and fancier. Burners and Builders gym was demo'd and a new Public outdoor pool was constructed in it's place and Rattlesnake bar was significantly upgraded to be a more upscale experience.

The Desert Bloom Park is the most family friendly park in my game, with activities for the entire family, including toddlers. It it is one of the more heavily visited parks in my game as well, in part because of this and also because the weather in Oasis Springs is just more conducive to year-round activity.

The Bedrock Strait neighborhood is still residential, with most of the homes resembling the originals with renovations. The largest renovations were Slipshod Mesquite, which has had a few additional trailers added and Agave Abode and the Nookstone which got some pretty major exterior renovations alongside the interior ones. Sandtrap Flat was also torn down entirely, to make room for the new town museum whose original location was displaced by a spa.
The end result is that the neighborhood is far more upscale, overall, than it was originally.

In the Parched Prospect Neighborhood, Springscape was demolished to make room for a new Diner for a budget dining experience, while the rest of the neighborhood remains largrly unchanged.

Acquisition Butte, home to the Laandgrab family, remains largely the same, with mostly just interior renovations and some landscaping changes.

And the Skyward Palms neighborhood is still the same wealthy neighborhood as always, with just the addition of the Arid Ridge Nightclub (on the previously empty lot). This neighborhood is home to the Caliente family.

Elliandre

@Stormkeep I really love what you did with the outdoor pool park

Stormkeep

Elliandre wrote: »

@Stormkeep I really love what you did with the outdoor pool park

Thank you, but I cannot take any credit for that. Other than some very small changes, that lot is the work of Jenba-sims, Calico Community Pool, available on the gallery under username silrosse with #jenba.

Elliandre

@Stormkeep Ahh I'm so happy I can download it, thank you!

JAL

@BoergeAarg61 I really like what you did with the roofs.

@Stormkeep as always the maps you use are beautiful. I love the reno on Solar Flare Lounge - is it downloadable? I really don't like the place, but keep it because Johnny Zest needs somewhere to perform.

Stormkeep

@JAL, I'm pretty sure the build that I started with is the lot named "The Solar Flare - Reno 2" by Kaiotic_Neutral, which comes up on the gallery if you search for #SolarFlare and sort by most popular. It's a really well done build that I don't recall needing to do any changes to at all (which is unusual).

Kilov17

I’d be too ashamed to show mine.. All the homes I have are pre-made or self made... I have to admit in the creative area, to say “I leave something to be desired” would be an overly nice way of putting it still lol.

I would download others beautiful, thoughtfully built created homes but I have only bought so many packs and only buy sims stuff I have taken a particular interest in— bot going to buy no pack to get some created home because it uses content from a pack I don’t/ haven’t bought. Only purchased about 6-7 thus far..

(Plan to eventually buy ‘Strangerville’ and that Starwars content one, but waiting til I am feeling a bit bored with what I got, BEFORE I add new/ more world areas with new life... Only pack I don’t have that I am interested in...)

So yeah, either my homes are ugly or homes EA built and people have seen before so... Nothing to see in my game lol— unless you like eye sores lmao

spend4zen

You guys have inspired Me to make over the town. @Stormkeep, Your Oasis Springs is just as it should be in my mind, I love the pool idea in that lot. I never know what to do with that boring Museum. I will have to give that a try. I will keep up with these make over threads. I do make over towns now and then but have not done much in my current save.

Stormkeep

@Spend4zen, I love redoing all of the worlds. It's always the first thing I do when I start a new game, and has been since the TS2 era.
I spend days and days in the new game on lot renovations before ever loading up a household to play in LIVE mode.

That's also part of the reason I almost never actually start new games. Once I spend all that time setting up the worlds, I want to play in them for a very long time.

JAL

Stormkeep wrote: »

@Spend4zen, I love redoing all of the worlds. It's always the first thing I do when I start a new game, and has been since the TS2 era.
I spend days and days in the new game on lot renovations before ever loading up a household to play in LIVE mode.

That's also part of the reason I almost never actually start new games. Once I spend all that time setting up the worlds, I want to play in them for a very long time.

I do the same. I don't start playing until the world is "right".

elanorbreton

I do the same as @Stormkeep and @JAL - I have even spent weeks setting up every world so that I can keep a base save to play any new games from. And when I get a new pack with a new world I always set up that world before I will start playing it.

So, here is my Oasis Springs, I haven't yet gotten around to all the families in my rotation:


The Parched Prospect area (starter homes), which currently houses my Thompson family, the Lotharios (with a child-aged Don), the Dreamers (with a child-aged Darren) and the Brokes (with a child-aged Skip):

The Bedrock Strait area (more starter homes), which currently houses Johnny Zest, Roberts, Johnson and Morales households:

Acquisition Butte area, which houses the Landgraabs and Jones families (Jones being Hannah and Aiden from TS3 Riverview, and their 4 kids):

Skyward Palms area (expensive), which houses the Calientes (Dina and Nina as kids), Toledos and Simmons:

The commercial area (Mirage Canyon) which has (L-R) a Morrocan restaurant, pool, arts centre and bowling cafe

Lastly, Novigan Park, which I copied from TS3:

musteni

I really want to post my Oasis Spring, but I also don't have time to open the game and go through all the areas right now. I've been working on this since I got the game although most of the builds are form the gallery.

Simmingal

Another world I have close to empty at the moment
I just really have this there now

I thought that maybe I can pretend the beach area is continuation of Del Sol Valley
so I put this modern house there (really not so good at building modern houses but i want to make modern area there)

insides is just random really


I put Johnny Zest there with Sofia Bjergsen and Vanessa Jeong
cause they all were homeless due to me messing with their lots and i just needed to put them somewhere


then I also built this Ballroom while waiting for wedding pack
someone had built similar one in my couple dancing thread but I couldn't find their version so I just built my own version

I just really have seating in for now

some cafe equipment cause why not

plenty of room to twirl

and some backyard fun

(idk what up with hot tub but I needed to put something there so )
then I have couple studies on sandhouses cause I was feeling very... deserty

I think I will probably move them elsewhere though cause its not really neighborhood for that

and I saw house similar to this somewhere and i tried to recreate it but not my strong suit indeed
always torn if i want to make that area modern or nah

then I had this castle in place of Yuma Heights cause why the heck not

with fabulous throne room


and loyal guards

I had plans to make maybe like big gardening area or village next to it on landgraabs lot

but then the mailbox got stuck off lot ( I think cause I used terrain tools and it jumped there for some reason)

and I couldn't find a way to destroy/ remove it

So I got frustrated and moved it to another save where there isn't mailbox there
but I'm still annoyed by the stuck mailbox so the lot remains empty

oh and I had ufo landed in the park area before for like ts2 strangetown vibes
but then I decided that actually no cause I could just think the ufo crash site is also where strangerville lab is

so I'll probably build something else there... one day

BoergeAarg61

JAL wrote: »

@BoergeAarg61 I really like what you did with the roofs.

Thank you. They are from Eco Livestyle.

Ziafar

How do you put pictures under spoiler?

BoergeAarg61

Ziafar wrote: »

How do you put pictures under spoiler?

Add the pictures first and then put the spoiler code around them.

Elliandre

Ziafar wrote: »

How do you put pictures under spoiler?

@Ziafar
On the menu, see the symbol that looks like a backwards letter P? If you click on it, you will see 'spoiler' in the drop down list. You can highlight your pics and then select that and it will add the spoiler tags around it for you.

Ziafar

Thank you @Elliandre

Simmingal

basically just write spoiler in [ ] and

write whatever insert whatever and then add to the end of section you want in spoiler

/spoiler inside [ ] instead

hopefully that made sense

same way you do img and /img

Stormkeep

I'm surprised more people haven't shared what their Oasis Springs looks like. These threads where people show their worlds and what lots they put on them are some of my favorites, but I guess I'm in a minority on that feeling.

simgirl1010

Here's mine.

Stormkeep

@Simgirl1010 Is that like a Taco Bell on bottom left corner?

mightysprite

@Simmingal the sand houses are so cool!