Sunnydale Public Housing!
Street view!
Overhead view!
Front view!
Here's the first apartment lot I've created as an exercise to help me get over my impossible anger at specialty lots. Did it work? NO. But it came out pretty decent!
The first thing I zeroed in on to hate in Apartment Life were, of course, the apartments. WHAT? MAXIS MAKE WELL-DESIGNED APARTMENTS? WHAT KIND OF NAZI-SPEAK IS THAT? Half the apartments had absolutely terrible lighting, like whoever designing them just got sick of that shit and quit halfway through placing windows. The cheap apartments were completely unsuited to running more than two sims, let alone raising families. If you wanted more than one bedroom, you were looking at $2,000 or more a month and barely enough living space left over. Combine that crap with genuinely awful floor plans and you've got something that SMELLS A LOT LIKE MAXIS. THANKS GUYS.
With that in mind, I set out to create a set of apartments for lowish-income families. Sunnydale Public Housing to the rescue! It's got six units for your living pleasure, modeled after the boxy, pseudo-suburban public housing and cheap tenements you'll find in small-town Midwest US. Nicer than trailers, nicer than inner-city projects, but not nice enough to NOT be government-funded, Sunnydale Public Housing has:
--LIGHTING! Seriously!
--INDOOR PLUMBING! What?! No way!
--ELECTRICITY! HOLY CRAP!
Each unit comes with two bedrooms (one large enough for a double bed and a smaller children's room or nursery), two furnished bathrooms, a furnished kitchen, space enough for a small dining room and living room, plus a bit of space on the second floor hall for a small sitting area, desk, or bureau. THE POWER...IS YOURS.
The communal area has a small playground for the kids and four basketball hoops. Since Simlandia is nicer than the real world, there's no pool to collect dead leaves for the landlord to let accumulate for 20 years, no bar and grill area for your drunken neighbors to pee on, and nobody out in the fucking parking lot at 2 in the fucking morning blasting fucking duranguense from their fucking pick-ups when you have fucking work at FUCKING SEVEN AM THE NEXT FUCKING DAY. ALSK:DJAL:KSJDKLJASDNLASD.
Rental Prices: $1,503 - $1,643/w
Unfortunately, this lot is stupidly expansion pack-heavy. (I know, I know, I'm sorry!) This sucker requires:
--University
--Nightlife
--Open for Business
--Seasons
--Free Time
--Apartment Life (obviously)
...i.e. everything but Pets. On the upside, there is absolutely no CC in this lot, which is--trust me--a MIRACLE.
Someday I may make a version of this lot requiring only AL. THAT DAY IS NOT TODAY.
Download is located here. Enjoy!
Lessons learned:
--holy CRAP apartment complexes are time-consuming. This thing took probably 8 hours to put together and I rushed it. I think I forgot to put ceilings in more than half of the units. WAIT, YES. YES I DID FORGET.
--PUT THE CHEAT IN PROPERLY.
--Terrain first. Lot lag + terrain brush = hilarious yet suicidally grim?
--MAXIS HATES TO FINISH SETS.
MORE SCREENSHOTS:
Flavor 2, Overhead First Floor
Flavor 2, Overhead Second Floor
Flavor 1, Overheadish Playable View
Flavor 1, Overhead First Floor
Flavor 1, Overhead Second Floor
Flavor 1, Walls Down, First Floor
Flavor 1, Walls Down, Second Floor
Edit: I will soon replace these pictures with higher-quality ones because I just realized my camera settings reverted when I installed AL. Hurr hurr ME SMART.