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dicreasy2So this is only slightly late but the 30th June 2007 was the day I published my first chapter. I've tried very hard to get a chapter out on that day ever since, but it's not happened this year. To make up for it, I've put together a tour of my neighbourhood and some of my favourite houses and a couple of new community lots for you. Enjoy.
A Tour of Regalton
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Date: 2011-06-30 11:42 pm (UTC)Altering the house generation by generation seems exactly right. You can build a wedding chapel on a community lot, but bringing guests becomes tricky. I finally built one as an extension of the main house and was much happier with that, but I don't have to worry about being period-specific.
What was up with those crimson dining rooms? Is it kinder to aging female complexions? Does it make the florid features you've got from eating all that rich food look normal by contrast? What were they thinking?
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Date: 2011-07-02 11:31 am (UTC)Yeah I really do like the idea of each generation having added an extra something to the house, so when I look back at the end, I can think "that's the room William built first and Bertie re-decorate."
Yes, I've been trying out having some of the cousins marry on a community lot to see if I can come up with a way which works. Before BV, I had to have a chapel, which is why I first built it, but I would prefer to get rid of it, because of accuracy. I just need to see if I can come up with a way to shoot a wedding on a different lot, without all the glitches and irritations I'm getting at the moment.
Hee. *puts on history geek hat* Dinning rooms were considered to be masculine rooms, and were therefore meant to be decorated in dark and sombre colours to reflect that, with a Turkish carpet on the floor. Most Persian rugs have red in them, and the advice was that if the rug had red in it, then the walls and upholstery should also be red to match. As new aniline dyes were discovered and gained popularity, then crimson did start to be replaced with blues and purples, but crimson still remained very popular. /geekery.
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Date: 2011-07-01 12:00 am (UTC)This was so much fun to see! As I've said a hundred times before: I love your hallways. :D
Thanks for sharing! <333
p.s. YAY VICTORIAN DARGENT HOUSE YAY.
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Date: 2011-07-02 11:36 am (UTC)You're welcome. I'm happy people enjoyed seeing it.
Dargent House II is definitely my favourite house at the moment. I cannot wait to get a certain couple moved in there. :D
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Date: 2011-07-01 12:21 am (UTC)Also, I must have a Morning Room in my next house. MUST. I have no idea what it's used for (um, morning stuff?) but I love the idea. :D
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Date: 2011-07-02 11:45 am (UTC)Heee, I have the same problem,. I'd kinda like to build a house with all of my favourite rooms in it, but I think it'd end up with about 5 drawing rooms, 6 morning rooms, 4 dinning rooms, and 11 bedrooms.
*grins* You need one. The morning room is basically like the lady of the house's sitting room. Slightly less formal than the drawing room, it's where the lady of the house received visitors, and ran the house from. It's completely awesome.
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Date: 2011-07-01 12:56 am (UTC)I would totally live in any of those houses and feel privileged to do so. Even Marielle's little cottage. They're beautiful.
Thank you for the tour.
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Date: 2011-07-02 11:49 am (UTC):D Aww, that's a real compliment, thank you. *blushes*
You're welcome. :D
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Date: 2011-07-01 01:48 am (UTC)As for the Apoc restrictions, well, no, Marina hasn't lifted Artist, so the easel is illegal in that sense. But she HAS lifted Music, and if you work on the assumption that Lex also lifted Music in that timeline, as long as he stayed in the house as a Rock God, the easel WAS legal. So if he were still living in the main house and still a Rock God, it would be legal for Harry's family too.
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Date: 2011-07-02 11:55 am (UTC)*nods* That's cool to know, thank you. I've not thought too much about who was made heir instead, but I'm thinking Jon, with Lex moving out as he does anyway. It's the only thing (with the exception of making the house 4 squares longer) that I really compromised on when building, so it doesn't bother me too much.
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Date: 2011-07-02 04:40 pm (UTC)And I don't blame you at all for making the house longer. 8x8 is hard to work with at the best of times, and you kept the general idea. Also, yeah, you can't have a computer, so some sort of creativity-building something is rather necessary.
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Date: 2011-07-02 12:19 am (UTC)I love your simplistic style! It looks so authentic and I wish I could visit these lots in real life.
The terraces are jaw-dropping!! I have the same problem with apartments, and the terraces I've tried to build never work spacially.
The church is also amazing! I love the arches!
Any chance of the terraces and church being available for download? *makes puppy dog eyes*
Love it!
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Date: 2011-07-02 12:05 pm (UTC)That's good to know. I've tried very hard to make them look real and true to the era and country. I had quite a few nice downloaded lots, but they looked too American to fit in with my world, but it's so difficult to find British Victorian house plans on the internet, so I've had to make these up as I go along.
Building the terraces is a pain, because you have to stick to certain dimensions due to how the lot adjuster works. Both Evie's house and the cottages should be a tad narrower, but you can't do it because you have to have an interior space 8 tiles wide, on a lot 10 tiles wide. But with a little patience, it can be done.
Thank you. I'm so, so pleased with the church and the cathedral. I've wanted lots like that for aaaaaages.
I don't tend to upload lots any more, because of the amount of cc in them, but if you don't mind sorting through the cc yourself, I can see what I can do.
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Date: 2011-07-03 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-07-03 11:38 pm (UTC)That sounds pretty nasty! I hope you get it worked out!
Hi :)
Date: 2011-07-03 04:08 am (UTC)Re: Hi :)
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Date: 2011-07-03 04:14 am (UTC)Re: Hi :)
Date: 2011-07-03 11:08 pm (UTC)I wasn't going to. Like I say above, I don't tend to upload lots any more, because of the amount of cc I use. It takes hours and hours to sort a lot for upload properly. I have to track down ToUs, package the lot cleanly and then subfolder and sort all the cc I'm uploading too. It's more wok than I want to put in.
Hey, that's fine, I don't mind if people don't get round to leaving comments. Ad long as you enjoy it, that's fine with me. :D
I have got the Sims 3, and I've kinda thought about doing a DITFT, but the game bores me. I tend play in very short bursts, maybe once a fortnight and then go back to playing or creating cc for TS2. I really can't see myself wanting to tell a story with it in the near future.
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Date: 2011-12-03 10:26 pm (UTC)I've been lacking inspiration to work on my historical sims lately. It seems like so much work for so little progress what with balancing play times with real life. And when the game is constantly gliching it feels like we players spend more time fixing than playing, ya know? But seeing this makes me wanna pull up my britches and get back to work simply because I love creating that little world. Thank you <3
ps did you create that kitchen stove yourself or DL it somewhere? It look familiar but I'm not certain if I've seen it in your legacy or eleswhere. Then again, it's authentic enough that I may be mistaking it with one I've seen in RL :D
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Date: 2011-12-04 03:57 pm (UTC)The whole reason I started to make my own cc, was because I couldn't find what I wanted, made by someone else. It's been a good learning curve. That red damask paper is up for download at the Emporium if you want it.
Oh I completely know what you mean. I've not played since August, but I have a list as long as my arm of things I need to do, before I feel I can play again. Who knows when I'll get back into playing and writing regularly. But at the same time, I want this to be the final version of Regalton, and for it to be the most historically accurate neighbourhood I can make. That means a lot of preparation work. But I'm glad if I've inspired you to play again. :D
Which kitchen stove? I've used several. The one that's shown in this version of the legacy house is from MTS by Numeanor. Then there's a stove from Blacky's which I recoloured to look like it's been black leaded, which I can upload for you.
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