#greenacre

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Shout out to Greenacre, Australia.

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This is a community lot in Greenacre that serves a few purposes. 1) It’s recreational, along with the riverside “beach” lot. 2) It has hunting spawners, so that if any family becomes desperate for food (like during the fall/winter when, according to the rules, crops can’t be sown/grown) household members can come here, camp, and bag some deer and catch some fish to fill their fridges. 3) It has “choppable” trees and is therefore the anchor of a couple supply chains, for those trades that require wood as a raw material, according to the neighborhood’s rules. (Toymaking, for one.)

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And for the heck of it, an overview of the neighborhood as it stands right now. It has six houses, the church (in the center, naturally), and a school (the building off to the right-hand side of the pic). The latter two lots are recycled (and slightly redecorated) from my first stab at this concept. I posted pics of the newly-redeco’ed church, and the school looked like this in its original incarnation. It doesn’t look too much different now except that it doesn’t have a road anymore, and I swapped out the clapboard siding for log siding.

Oh, and there’s also the waveless beach lot. That’s down at the bottom (sort of) center of the pic above, cut off. It now has a second lot next to it on one side, and I’ll probably build a similar one on the other side as well. Just to make pics look better, basically. They’re just decorative, not meant to be visited/used.

Now to work on the neighborhood deco a bit before bed. I unfortunately need to weed out some trees, take out the clumps and replace them with (fewer) single trees. I love ‘em, but they are resource-eaters, and I want to be able to play this neighborhood on my comp-without-a-kickass-video-card, not just look at it. :)

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Got my Simming computer up and running. Did some stuff in Greenacre. 

This is their church, which is fairly plain on the inside by design, but it has lots of landscaping because I can’t leave well enough alone. I didn’t build this, though. It’s one I downloaded long ago, but the only thing that’s really left of the original lot these days is the shape of the building. It’s hard to take pics of it, too, because it’s so dang tall...

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Greenacre’s little “commercial area,” in lot view and neighborhood view. This is the place where stuff can be sold to outsiders. (Meaning, townies. All other lots are visitor-controlled so that only playables can visit or walk by them.) The little chalet-style shops (because chalet-style = cute) are 1x2 lots and are for individual crafting families to sell their wares. More identical-but-for-colors ones will be added as the neighborhood grows and trades are added. The big undeveloped square at the end of the “road” will be a farm market. That won’t be built until there’s been a harvest or three, so that the merchant family who’ll own it and buy harvests from the farming households to resell at a profit will have something to sell. 

(I really wish floor tiles showed properly in neighborhood view. *sigh*)

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OK, so I lied. One more house for Greenacre because I decided to make the preacher-type Sim who’ll own the church and (eventually) the cemetery a real playable instead of an immortal player-made “NPC.” So, a house was needed, and there it is.

And I think I’m going to make the “priesthood” female for this scenario. Seems appropriate since the object of worship is female (the Gray Lady of the statue of the same name) and fertility and having large families are seen as virtues.  

EDIT: Oops, forgot the floor plan. It’s behind the cut below, to save space.

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Moving in Family #1! :)

But that’s about all I’m going to have time for today, alas. :(

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Spam of the no-waves beach lot, which I’m calling a riverside lot. It’s community, has a cabin on it (might add another one), so that it can be used for some overnight camping trips, especially when I want to get teens/kids out of the house for few days. It has a swing, a limbo bar, a campfire thing, and a grill. And there’s fishing and, of course, swimming in the river. So, you can camp, catch fish, and grill ‘em up, all on-site.

I’m probably going to remove some of the meshed grass to make it look a bit less overgrown, but for now it’s done. And then I’ll probably build a couple decorative “riverside” lots on either side, too, mostly for picture-taking purposes so that things look contiguous. ‘Cuz I dig contiguous. :)