I make it quite primitive but still very simple

So, this is the most up-to-date map of my neighborhood. Version 2.4, I must admit. There's always new inspiration and ideas, but slowly everything is coming together.

A small overview of houses and buildings that I would like to have in my city.

Green = Finished Yellow = In progress Red = Not yet built

Roaring Heights needs some OFB gameplay. And new mods!

Yeahhhh, @sunmoon-starfactory gave us a f'n mine shaft!

I made a Sim, inspired by my decision to craft an abandoned lot with an abandoned, overgrown mineshaft. I was also inspired by wanting to implement Katy 76's functional banking set

lol couldn't have taken a better shot... sorry there, Sir... anyway, this is Buck (the III) Schwabb. He is very disciplined and honest (I made him after reading about John Rockefeller) He wants to own a bank, but oops! The house they furnished was way too expensive!

I BUILT IT FROM SCRATCH

So, I decided to start Buck out with a "trial" business before he takes on owning a bank...

For owning a bank, I will be using (and modifying/fixing) Katy_76's functional banking set .. mostly changing the feature of "killing" bank robbers... I am trying to make them get electrocuted instead. And yes, Sims will rob your bank! Or so the mod says...

For now, since Buck Schwabb's hobby was chosen by the game as Nature, I want to make a functional mine and gemstone shop.

The hoity-toity and snooty denizens of Roaring Heights should love it!

Here is Buck's wife, Laura. She is wearing the purse from Katy's bankset which was cloned from the Noodlesoother... however it was glitched because it actually puts Sims immediately in platinum... or maybe it was intentional. Regardless, I removed that. It now gives them a tiny bit of comfort and fun as long as the Sim is wearing it.

I believe that all the things that Buck can find in the mine shaft are sellable through OFB. So, it looks like Buck is going to have to learn Sales in order to sell some precious stones and minerals...

His Born Salesperson trait using Sims 3t2 traits should help tremendously.

Artemisia Isles is probably as developed as it can get without doing huge renovations, but all the subhoods are still really early in having stories/styles developed since I just haven't spent as much time with them.

current thoughts (no promises)

i’ve been poking my plantsim default and have decided to try making a cactus-based plantsim. mainly have been looking at images of maractus and cactaurs and saying “what the fuck” to myself over and over again but i have some ideas.

the “human” skins of that set are probably on permanent hold. some part of my mental illness has made handling that many image files not only difficult, but impossible. i may look into having someone else help me make recolors in the future once i have a game plan for the base textures. 

i’m also looking into fixing some texture issues with the rainbow sand desert default i made, and possibly making a couple of undertone recolors. maybe desaturating it would produce the look i’m after. 

also want to redo the grass texture completely... the original idea i had made it very difficult to make a nicely tiling image. will probably have to break out my tablet.

Hi there!It’s always nice to hear this kind of comments <3 thank you so much! It’squite hard to limit the answer to the top 5 and, to be completely honest, Ianswered a “similar” question a while ago and this post I wroteon MTS might be helpful too (especially if youhaven’t decided yet what to play in terms of hoods) - but, of course, I’ll takein account the fact that your PC is not very powerful! :)

I’lldefinitely skip the lighting mod (as wonderful as it is, the game lagssometimes during the dusk/dawn) and any graphic edits in general - maybe youcould try to use a default terrain anyway? In any case, I advice you to get allthe mods listed in the first post of this topic, since they fix some Maxis annoyances and makealso the game run smoothly :)

Ok, now mytop 5 (random order, eh!):

NoSim Loaded: it’s more a fix but it helps keeping the game/household corruption freeand it cleans some specific errors – it’s also a good fix for the “Super Duper Hug”

CommunitySkilling: for Sims to gain skills point when visiting community lots, outsidecollege where should be a default behaviour 

WatchTV from all chairs: this is a must especially if you’re an abuser of theoff-grid placing cheats like me!

PerfectPlants & Gardens: again, a must if you like to decor off-grid, but it makesthe Gardner useless 

Macrotastics:I think this is one of the few “cheating” mods I can’t live without, but youneed it – trust me! It allows you to input an action/series of action for theSims (without having to select individual ones), like “do homework”, “Clean”, “repair”and “pay bills” - a dream coming true!

Bonus (Iknow, I’m a cheater, but I’m bad at lists – actually I think this are someessential hacked objects):

Clothingtools to change appearance and clothing of any sims, including NPC and townies!

Batbox:to clean/wipe away corrupted stuff from your sims/lots – suggest you to getshastakiss versions, is much more pretty :D