Inventing

[Pam]

I've been missing out, I think, by not playing "up close". I had no idea my simbot had lipstick and eye color! I wonder how many people play the game so close, and how it affects the feel of the game.

I think you're definitely missing out by not playing up close.  For me, it makes an incredible difference.  And now I'm wondering if your style of playing is part of the problem you're having with the camera for the still life portraits.

[LlamaMama]

Could be! I'll try it again up close!

[samoht04]

The expressions on your sims are so funny, well unless someone dies then the sims look so upset they will die aswell, I would post a picture of a sim witnessing death but that is off topic - there is one in The Character Legacy Latest Chapter... 

Back on Topic - I always place my benches in the basement or their own room, in a little niche or empty area.

[Pam]

I've got a workshop in my current house (the Landgraab Mansion).  It's got an inventing table, two sculpting thingies, a shelf with all the inventions displayed, and the town trophies displayed.  I don't bother putting a shower right in the room because my Sims have always been able to make it to the nearest bathroom in plenty of time.  Now that I've said that, I'll probably have one die of fire. 

[samoht04]

I have a Fire Fighter in the house at the moment so I am not that fussed!   I also have the Fireproof LTR.   Also if fire doesn't hurt the Simbot the shower would... 

[gerrr00]

If it has been said before, I apologize, but my baby keeps interrupting me so I am unable to read all the pages in this topic. (I have tried half a dozen times over the past 2 days and yes I forgot to read it while she slept!  lol)

I discovered when I played an inventor that I had the reward "no bills" and I detonate on community lots and get fined, I do not have to pay the fine.  In SV I blew up the airplane statue at the military base, I got almost 2000 scrap from it along with a fine for 67,000+ which said I would be sent.  I never received it.  And my monies were never reduced.  I am assuming that it was because of the reward I had.  Or is this a bug? Anyone else know about this for sure?

[grumpykitteh]

One of my Sims had reached the inventing skill level that gave them a request from the Science Lab to gather items for a Simbot. A couple of days after they got the request to bring the heart shaped pink diamond an icon appeared on the town map (Sunset Valley) that denoted a pink diamond location. I collected it, but kept it uncut in my inventory. A few days later another icon appeared and I collected that diamond and kept it uncut in my inventory. Eventually I acquired 4 pink diamonds this way although it took a couple of sim weeks to do so. If you are inclined to acquire the inventing skill and are in no big hurry to actually build the Simbot then you may be able to collect extra pink diamonds for more Bots or extra $$$. 

[muddawg]

Even better than the corner shower to me (since it could conceivably be being used by a spouse, and yes, I had this happen to my first inventor, the darn housemate wouldn't get out of the shower in time to extinguish my poor little flamebe'd Sim) I like to keep my Inventor sim stocked with a stack of 'Showers in a Can' from WA.  Sure they're a little spendy, but isnt' your Sim worth it?

With that technique, you can put your inventing tables just about anywhere. Makes me wonder about having one in a public place.... Perhaps I'll try that soon.

[Xazeal]

Whoa, I didn't know the explosives were so powerful! Because my house was far, far away from the junkyard and I like free scrap, I used buydebug to place four large piles a bit away from the house so as to not accidentally detonate something in the house.

So, I place an explosive on one of the piles, and obviously they all blow up. A split second later, the entire house blows up - everything that could be ruined was ruined. I had to replace every single furniture piece aside from the large hot tub, the inventor's table, and the car, which somehow avoided the explosion.

So yeah, I'm not gonna try to do that again.

[Leto85]

Xazeal, I really advice you to read the explosion instructions next time: 'Don't try this at home.'