10x10 Community Lots Have Been Added!

Enjoy an updated picture of Serenity Point!  The winning lots from my 10x10 Community Lot Contest have been added to the world.  Also, the lighthouse decorative objects has been replaced with a residential lot that has a working lighthouse on it.  I think it matched a lot better!  I've also done some more sculpting on the cliff behind the town.  I need to decide what I'm going to do with that big expanse of flat green on the way to the lighthouse.  It's just sort of blah right now, but I think I have enough rocky areas... perhaps I'll make that whole area a little rolling hill.  I plan on adding a little flowery meadow in between the Cherry Lane houses and the forested country homes.  Butterfly spawners, etc... it should lead into the Butterfly Preserve well.

Oh, I'd had some lagging issues in my world before.  Not when creating it, but after exporting it and installing it in an active game.  My sims/world would freeze for long periods and it would eventually happen so often that I couldn't play the world.  That didn't happen at all when I was testing the 10x10 community lots.  Either the world is working better now that there's more in it or it's because I hadn't painted the routing paint separating the campground on the plateau from the rest of the world.  If the routing paint is causing issues, I'm going to have to rethink the separate campground.  It's still a Go for now, but it is the biggest thing I'm focusing on when I enter the testing phase.

You're Now Entering Serenity Point... Enjoy Your Stay!

My world finally has a name!  The husband and I discussed a few ideas, but as soon as he suggested "Serenity Point", I was sold.  I love it.  Not only does it have a geographic "point" that is decorated with asian homes and flora (very serene), but it's a nice Firefly association which is even more nostalgic when considering that the world also has a valley.  (If you haven't watched Firefly before, the spaceship Serenity was named for Serenity Valley where the captain and his first mate were part of a losing battle.)

Now that the world has a name, I'm going to start getting together the next contest which will be for community lots.  I will probably run several at the same time, but the 10x10 version will run the longest as they [usually] take more time that decorating around a rabbit hole.  I had wanted to have a City Hall completed before starting these contests, but it hasn't worked out that way.  I have a pretty cute idea for one, but I'll need to do some more planning.

While others are working on community lots, I have other work cut out for me on top of the City Hall.  I need to plan and complete the explorable tomb a la World Adventures for the rewards area.  I also need to place spawners and plants.  And, now that it has a name, I think it's finally time to start up a thread for my world over in the Sims 3 forum! :D

(Hehehe, while the husband I were tossing around silly names, trying to see how pretentious they could sound, he hit upon one that is just so awesome that I may have to make it into a small parody world.  It's called Disestablishmentarianism Pinnacle and would be an island where various subcultures have separated to live how they want to because they're anti, they're anti-social. ;D  I love it.  I can even use my punk house in it.  *laughs*)