Can I fix this Sims build using EA's weird restrictions?

Renovating a horrible starter home in StrangerVille, but with EA's weird restrictions

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This video is family friendly, but The Sims 4 is rated T for Teen and this video is intended for an audience aged 13 and up.

[emo]

It's so weird when EA use really expensive furniture in a starter home... like why not just use that money to make the whole place look good instead... :/

[eadenjensen]

I hate empty rooms. They just rub me that wrong way honestly. Like I need a space to feel like someone actually lives there.

[christenvalentino]

I really wish EA had leaned more into the 50s retro alien movie vibe thats hinted around strangerville. it would have been so cool and the builds could have been so fun

[Christine-zbml]

“It might be kind of fun to use a more cherry colored wood”

I think Kayla is being held hostage and this is her subtle way of asking for help

[plasticoctopus]

i'm one of the three people who plays the sims who absolutely loooves strangerville, so i actually DO appreciate any renovations done to it! strangerville is awful and poorly done but it gives me so much nostalgia for strangetown in the sims 2 so i can't help but love it.

[Naruneyl]

People who make games usually suck at their own stuff. I made a platform game as my final project in college and I sucked at playing, but I knew the game was fine because my partner, who was doing the documentation (no code for him, only for me) would just speedrun it everytime. Folks who work at EA suck at building because they're programmers, not designers or players (or so I think). I'm not defending them, because there's no reason for EA to not hire a small team to work on building designs + in-game build, but could be an explanation on why the buildings are hard on the eyes :)

[pinkcupcake]

What's crazy is that Shotgun style houses, which are very affordable as houses go, can be really cute and charming! Why EA couldn't manage having somewhat appealing homes is beyond me.

[Hiro_Trevelyan]

What if EA's restrictions were mostly about time ? EA is pretty cheap on lots of things (considering the quality of some game packs and additions or how bugged some packs are and still get released), so it wouldn't surprise me they have a very limited time to put a bunch of buildings to make the game "functional" without needing the players to build anything. If I had only one hour to rebuild the entirety of a neighborhood, it would probably look bad.

But that's just a theory.

[junerussell]

That was probably the most significantly better reno I've seen in a long time. The reno made the house actually pretty. I think I'd rather have that one in Willow Creek than some that are there. (I don't play in Strangerville, so I don't need it there.)

[flawed]

I’m guessing that the houses in the earlier packs are bad because they didn’t give people enough time to build them properly. It was probably programmers who had other things to do and spent a few hours last minute building houses

[yuhhbiscuit]

Strangerville builds are like my soul, cold and empty but even my soul has more furniture.

[ascheparker]

Video idea, what if you take a lot from a newer pack that creators made (like you or James, etc) and change them to look like EA made it. I feel like it would be fun

[kokokretin]

I definitely understand the desire to have some rooms that are a little plain or toned down so that you can slowly fill up those spaces and it can be really satisfying, especially for people like me who can't build my own shells or furnish a house completely from scratch ( I never know where the kitchen should go or which way the sofas should face :( )

[Kualinar]

StrangerVille was a normal town before the Plant. So, why have «strange» houses in it ? ALL the strangeness is a recent event. It don't affect the architecture, JUST the residents.

[lydiahubbard]

In my legacy save, that family has 5 children and a cat thanks to story progression. I had to rebuild their house just because it drove me crazy that they outgrew their house. 😂😂 and the cat needed a bowl! Couldn’t let it starve!

[Naruneyl]

At 9:30 : There's no way anyone would ever convince me to live in a house with no external walls/fences and where the bedroom has a door leading straight outside. There's no guarantee no one would just walk up to that door and that would be really unnerving. But maybe that's because I live in a country where people literally walk through your property like it's a public space if you don't put up property walls made out of bricks and concrete.

[TheMeganExperience]

To be fair to EA- when Strangerville came out they didn't have those mini recessed lights and the larger recessed light was like 250- in one of the updates like 2-3 years ago they added the mini recessed light and changed the price of the original to match it at 50 simoleons.

[violettiger]

Strangerville was one of the last packs before they decided to cut the 32 bit version, the 32 bit version was the main issue w restricting items and stuff in lots, and strangerville ended up getting the short end of the stick bc they really couldnt add much more to the game otherwise 32 bit version would be a lot worse. This isn't to excuse them, they should've prob cut the 32 bit version before that, but it explains a little of why strangerville and realm of magic worlds are so lacking

[ShadowWorldSam]

I know you normally don't build with cc, but since you're trying to rebuild strangerville for not so berry - my lifesaver has been peacemakerCCs stranger ville build extension. It just adds more doors and windows and I can't live without it anymore ^^

[malami]

Simsie is just good at everything in the sims