Sim Mideel?
22 August 2006 08:19![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mimi_sardiniaI suddenly have this crazy idea to make a Sim version of Mideel - post Ultima. Admitedly, the Lifestream would have to be a normal swimming pool, albeit with somewhat rounded edges (thankyou expansion packs for giving us a diagonal swimming pool tool!) - if I can get that to work. Before I got the expansions the pool tool was notably stubborn in as much as I could only make squarish pools - I couldn't add a second section onto an esisting pool to get a L-shaped effect.
Actually, that will be the decider of whether I can do this or not, whether I can make a octagonal pool.
On other contruction facts in S2, I think my building ability is slightly hampered. I found while poking around for more creative houses than I can build (even my Queenslander is not that creative - it was based on an actual house I've lived in) I discovered houses that are more storeys higher than the game has ever let me build.
Now I haven't tested the limits of height since I've added the expansions but it makes me wonder because the information on one such house that I read commented about building limits being restricted by the processing capacity of the computer one is running the game on. That makes me wonder at the capacity of Fëa, which I believe is 512MB in RAM. The CPU is a P4 but I can't recall the Ghz at the moment.
But really, I can't worry about that at the moment, the first thing I have to do with this computer is get a new hardrive and transfer every program I can concieve of over to it (mainly I'm thinking the two FFs, SC2k and BG2 - I'm not totally sure of S2 but I think I can recover all my games even if I do, I just have to keep a copy of the EA Games folder safe).
I really do want to move as much as I can off the old hardrive, I keep a regular eye on the space left at the moment and it keeps looking rather sickly. I managed to recoup some space by burning all my stock of S1 items to DVD and deleting the copies on Fëa so now I have a remnant of a bit over 6 gig left. Unfortunately I'm in a total frenzy at the moment of downloading more S2 content so I don't know how long that will last. It's kinda surprising how quickly space can be taken up even when downloading on a dial-up connection.
Anyway, can't go experimenting with pools yet, I need some nap time before I go to work.
In somethign totally unrelated though, I am seriously considering changing my default icon to Shelke.
Actually, that will be the decider of whether I can do this or not, whether I can make a octagonal pool.
On other contruction facts in S2, I think my building ability is slightly hampered. I found while poking around for more creative houses than I can build (even my Queenslander is not that creative - it was based on an actual house I've lived in) I discovered houses that are more storeys higher than the game has ever let me build.
Now I haven't tested the limits of height since I've added the expansions but it makes me wonder because the information on one such house that I read commented about building limits being restricted by the processing capacity of the computer one is running the game on. That makes me wonder at the capacity of Fëa, which I believe is 512MB in RAM. The CPU is a P4 but I can't recall the Ghz at the moment.
But really, I can't worry about that at the moment, the first thing I have to do with this computer is get a new hardrive and transfer every program I can concieve of over to it (mainly I'm thinking the two FFs, SC2k and BG2 - I'm not totally sure of S2 but I think I can recover all my games even if I do, I just have to keep a copy of the EA Games folder safe).
I really do want to move as much as I can off the old hardrive, I keep a regular eye on the space left at the moment and it keeps looking rather sickly. I managed to recoup some space by burning all my stock of S1 items to DVD and deleting the copies on Fëa so now I have a remnant of a bit over 6 gig left. Unfortunately I'm in a total frenzy at the moment of downloading more S2 content so I don't know how long that will last. It's kinda surprising how quickly space can be taken up even when downloading on a dial-up connection.
Anyway, can't go experimenting with pools yet, I need some nap time before I go to work.
In somethign totally unrelated though, I am seriously considering changing my default icon to Shelke.
