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I'm 25 years old and a sims RU-vidr just taught me that SOS means save our souls. I don't know wtf I thought it stood for all these years but not THAT. I feel supremely stupid rn. Thanks for the education, Satch 😂
It's save our ship. Message in a bottle tossed overboard from a sinking ship with SOS written on it, in hopes it would wash ashore and someone would find it.
@alyssa6510 I literally thought it was just morse code. I'm actually a historian and it seems like it is more likely just a morsecode message that people have ascribed a proper meaning to. Save our ship makes sense too. Save our souls is so dramatic lmao which I guess is fair if you're literally dying
@Gerrly This makes a bit more sense. A lot of people claim its just a morse code message though and people have ascribed this meaning or Save our Souls to what was essentially a generic coded message for help. Save our souls feels so emo to me haha
It doesn't "mean" anything, never did. The letters are just coincidental. It was designed as a very simple message that would be readily understood even by untrained people. It was so effective that we still recognize it even decades after it has stopped being relevant. "S" and "O" are the easiest letters to recognize in Morse code. ... _ _ _ ... There's your SOS. Any other set of letters would have been less obvious to people who didn't know the code. Plus, it was a random set of letters, unlikely to be confused with some other abbreviation.
Some of my tips: Use multiple roof pieces to minimise trim overlapping. The Crystal Clear item (island living) is useful for skylights on flat surfaces. Get TOOL if you can to move objects off the lot. If you can't, some objects are still placeable hanging off the lot to some degree (possibly MOO only). For instance, cottage living animal do not need the shed to be on the lot at all. But if you don't have TOOL be careful placing them, if you can't grab any part of the physical shed item, without TOOL they will be stuck there forever.
Oasis Springs park is my favorite community space to build on. I put a pool in, loads more playground stuff, a toddlers area with a splash pad, and a cemetery in the back for my funeral club to meet at.
I do a lot the same. Graveyards are great for parks and oasis springs is best for pools. If you use sims sessions stuff by searching in the gallery and some imagination you can make a base game compatible camp area. shrinking down fireplaces can make a camp fire work too. It fits the exploration element of the secret world by the oasis springs park..
@@royal_rose5178 Get together lets you make clubs about anything...i made one just to go mourn ghosts and make sure they don't disappear. That way, if i ever need a ghost...i know where they are.
A sunken area three levels deep is a great way to hide a rocket on the lot. A ladder will go all the way down to the base level. You can further camouflage it with fencing and landscaping or even build your house around it. I repurpose lots all the time. My favorite is Umbrage Manor in Willow Creek converted into a library. It went from a lot I never played in to one I use all the time. It’s also much better than the library that comes with the game.
Such good ideas! My favorites are the food stand court and tree house. In the past I made a shady park into a "Hunting Ground", by choosing lot traits that attract both vampires and teens.
You always have genuinely unique and useful tips! I love that you pay attention to the details. My favorite tip is - make your builds multipurpose. It makes such a difference gameplay-wise!
Sunken builds are great for astronaut sims so the rocket ship can be below ground so that you don't have a nice little house with a random rocket ship in the yard.
I put my youth center as a daycare area in the gym because base game isn't that great for youth stuff. I also always add ponds set up to look like fountains for toddlers to play in.
Also, for a lot of my builds I don't look for shells, I just look for other builds whose shells I like. Because their layouts give me ideas. I'm a pretty new builder.and always try to make sure people remember to check out the original.
@@Miluielle if I had island living I would do the same. I make a bade game sand box using just sand texture and the building blocks. It's not great, but it's interactive and something little kids can do.
I love building, but hate interior decorating. Seeing that simmer post nothing but finished exterior builds is awesome! Also the section on attics and sunroofs was extremely helpful for me. I really like the idea of making a small attic space in my builds and letting a teen take it over as a living space. But i have never been able to get it to work right. Definitely gotta try it again now with Satch's tips.
Omg thank you for the attics idea ! Please do a video about roofs! Many of us don’t know what to do with them 😅 I wish there was a automatic roof option like sims 3…
oooh I do the trailer all the time -- mostly because i get bored and want fast builds.. the base game live edit has a boat trailer that you can stick under the house and it looks like it belongs....
Honestly, after getting addicted to Skyrim Modding even until now, SOS means something else to me now lol. I actually forgot what it actually means irl.
The most searched lots on the Gallery are for Basegame but there are very few actual basegame builds, you need a dozen or more packs and kits to download them. I don't use anything other than the basegame and free stuff that was added to basegame in my Gallery uploads, most are for single Sims or couples but occasionally make larger builds for families of 4 or 5 and I add most of the basic furnishings and a wee bit of decor. I'm actually pretty new to The Sims 4, less than a year, my in-game name is still random letters and numbers but my profile pic is the same as my RU-vid pic, Yin Yang Zombies. It would be cool if a RU-vidr gave reactions or breakdowns or whatever of builds from players like myself, Basegamers. My latest upload to the Gallery is called Murgatroyd Manor, I also have a couple others like Serenity Now and Kitty's Corner as well as a couple Community Lots like The Old Swimmin' Hole, Flying Llama Park and Rocko's Gym. Yeah, builds including furnishing takes a LOOOOOONG time, I get why a lot of players prefer downloading ready-to-move-in-and-play homes if they only have an hour or two to play at a time, it would take them a week or more just building a decent home and that is a gamebreaker for a lot of people.
I like the food stand idea but do the food stands work on community lots that you build yourself? Whenever I put a food stand in a park, it wants me to hire a vendor. Is there a way to set it up so the game just sends a vendor?
Wait! Last time I played Sims 4, which was a while ago I admit, if we put the vendor stalls on a lot no one worked them, they character had to hire someone each time. That's why I never played with them
I prefer caravan. Americans shouldn't be telling the British how to speak. If I had my choice it would be the other way around but instead I think people should respect other countries saying things differently. I like to learn the differences and where they came from.. I don't want everyone the same. That would be utterly boring and be a huge loss in culture
I love building community lots for gardening. Graveyards are neat too, you can put all your graves there and plant up some death flowers and plasma trees as a useful accent. I'm working on putting catacombs under one now.
Thanks SoS 😂❤ I’ve been playing for so long and have not really understood some of the simple building tricks like the sunroof overlaying which I guess is not my level of intuition. I really like the idea of the split lot in preexisting builds because I like keeping the original concept of the build when it fits with the world, but actually having more options for my sims to do stuff around their town. Good stuff! I watch every day - favourite time of day is having my afternoon tea and watching SoS ❤❤
Been a builder since 2008 and still learning! Pretty much everything in the video inspired me, and you have such a good way of explaining how to do things 😊
My favorite trick is building second empire homes with mansard rooves. Similar to the attic trick you showed us where you put those corner roof pieces around the box, you can add windows to the box to make it a more livable space. You have to do more fenagling with the roof pieces, but it looks great and isn't too difficult once you've figured out how to do it.
I just build a few days a gow a place for everyone. It the basement there's a gym. At the first floor there's a bar with music and a arcade. Second floor there a bar with a balcony and a dance floor. Outside are a kinds of children play things. Everybody will be happy over there.
oh my this was such a cool video! I love it also because you have so much to show, when you're not ranting about the Sims (which I also enjoy) - but I feel like you're really creative!! And all I wanna build now is a basegame trailer park, how cool :D
I love the youth center! Never thought of that - but it's really needed. Also parks - I used to love doing parks in Sims 3 - I gotta get back to that. Altogether designing my own world. Thank you
We can only put two stalls?? How annoying.. but thank you for sharing this. I've tried to put one stall at at the Mt Komorebi's Lounge, but i couldn't hire any staff for that stall. It says we've reached the max amount of staff in that lot.. i wonder if Lounge, Bar, Cafe lots, can only have one staff per lot??
I haven’t tried this but got the idea after the sunken builds, maybe a sunken courtyard in the middle of a house or apartment complex, kinda like some Spanish houses I believe. (I’m not Spanish so correct me if I’m wrong please)
Wait since when could you only place 2 food stalls? I have a decently popular National Park that has several stalls no mods so hmm. Is this a new thing? TBH I haven't played The Sims that much in the past few months .
In debug, not sure if it's base game, but there's a trailer frame thingy you can put under your trailer, instead of building a frame. Just an additional idea. Great video Satch, loads of helpful information and cool ideas.
I'll never understand why people build with so much stuff that your sims just dump the dishes on, I always build with only one counter and not a lot of furniture because the sims always get uncomfortable when dishes have been left in places you have no idea about because your sim always sticks their dishes in random places which is so annoying, also your sim would never clean up the dishes that are making them uncomfortable but gets mad because of it as well, please let me know if there is a cheat to prevent that from happening
Thanks for this great video!!! I really want to try building some things, but I feel like I can never get the roof right. All of these tips are fantastic! I like the idea of the split lot. I also like the sunken garden area. Thanks! 😁💗😁
