I decided to rebuild this lot in Britechester!
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- I want a few new places to visit for our current let's play, so I'm building this new lot!
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I have never, in my life, felt as seen as I did when you spent ages trying to curve those hedges only to delete them and use something simpler
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I agree that it's a bit weird to have Boba tea and the thrift store together. I make my lot look like two different stores. I also sometimes add a yoga studio as well so it looks like a real multi-business lot (especially since the lots are so big!).
Such a good idea!
That's a great idea! I think I'll download this lot and add another level at the top with a "book store"/reading nook to make this look more like a multi-business lot that fits into Britechester
@@chavi- That's a great idea! And if you have Get Together you can make a book club. Even if your sims aren't in the club, if you visit the lot the book club will meet automatically. That's another way to make the lots feel more lively.
@@az25blue Book club sounds amazing, thanks for the suggestion! I haven't played much with the Club System beyond joining the default clubs but it would definitely be great to have Sims around doing club activities like reading instead of randomly wandering around the lot.
Oh girl, you have big brain! I love that idea ❤️
Wish they did those poetry readings at the cafe lot too. There’s an idea for a pack refresh
The Get Together Club system surely has some option that's similar already, especially if they remembered cross-compatibility this time but you might have to settle for telling jokes and adding a mic anyway if they didn't add poetry as a skill or an actual activity. Honestly, the Club system is so much better than the NAPs, it's stupidly criminal and THOSE need a refresh. :(
I'm loving how you're playing with color as Reginald transitions to college! You've said yourself over the years you tend to stick to black and white, and the high school campus was purposefully drab - so now all the color in the dorm and this lot is really bringing vibrancy to the new stage of Reginald's life. And it'd be neat to see him explore a Pride event in college as well.
Seeing Bob and Trash’s house in the background made me nostalgic for the university LPs. I could see Ambrose complaining how the neighborhood’s changed since his youth, lol
This was a greaaaat LP! :)
I know Ambrose is (or should be) gone in the longest line's story...he's Nina's & Angus's great-grandfather. But not sure about at Reginald's point. I think Ambrose is just one generation older, so probably would be there!
I think you should just always assume that, no matter how simple they may be, we want you to upload all builds to the gallery😁
Absolutely. I’m disappointed I can’t find the “definitely still rags” versions of some of his builds. I totally get he wants to post the versions he’s proudest off, but my Sims are broke and I can’t build. 😆
I’m planning to build separate buildings for the bubble tea and thrift store right next to each other on the same lot and make them look like townhouses with shops at the bottom and flats on the top.
Yesssss... I hope they add more "dual purpose" lots to the game
Definitely looks fun, I would've put the boba shop items in an inaccessible basement and ignored it. But you blended it in super well AGAIN. Seriously, this pack has had you branch out as a builder and it shows! All your builds are amazing and it certainly looks like you're having a lot of fun with it!
It is odd the way they force you to have both the thrift store and bobba tea. But i hope they expand on this feature. It needs to be toggled on and off and we should be able to choose any community lot type or any lot type for that. Hopefully this is a sign that they are working on that for the future.
I think it could be cool if they had a "cafe/boba shop" lot trait, so you could add it to any lot and a caterer would show up to run the counters.
@@laniedragon Something like "vendors enabled". I'd love to have a park and put a coffee truck or food stand there and have it manned without me needing to pay $100 to open it.
Did anyone else get a “Friends” vibe from the boba/stage side? Especially when he was sorting out the dining/sitting area. I’m in love with this build, it’s so simple yet has so much to offer
I love the old, semi-rundown feel of this build! Most of the new thrift store builds are fairly polished and trendy. This is more like a thrift store you would see where I live! Love it
This lot type is perfect for a university town! Great job!
You’ve been spoiling us with longer videos and now this one felt so short 😭😆 seriously I love that build! Looks great, and yes please build more for your let’s play, I hope ea fixes round walls soon, hope bowser is doing well.💙👍🏼
They should really change how lot types work and make you be able to combine any of them.
I wish they had made 2 separeted lot types. Trifth store and Bubble tea shop. And, they could've added to the base game, the option of making a lot with 2 types
Gosh, I seriously want to be able to build a "mall" for my world, with a cafe, restaurant, and a store combined in a lot. In Sims 2 you could just build a community lot like that and all the stores would work separately and functional, so I really miss making lots with multiple functionality on them. Hopefully they make it a feature where we can combine lot types like that.
In my long-term save game, I've converted Pepper's Pub into a coffee shop-- I get so much more use out of it and it just makes sense to have a little café on a college campus.
I like the idea of multipurpose lot, but only having boba tea and thrift store together isn't that useful.
YES if they allowed for custom, combined lots, that'd be fantastic.
I love the building, its unique and so the thrift-boba concept. I think maybe Reginald would have his preferred clothes rack in the "tower" section because it reminds him of his old room back in Glimmer brook that was designed by Hazel.
Can we have a roof patio on this build for boba tea? Maybe facing the river? That would be cute! ☺️
I recently did a Foxbury Commons reno (it needs it) and it was so much fun to play in. I'd be excited to see what you do with it. I love watching renovations and especially yours cos you always do such interesting architectural features.
I love all the different lights here! Feels very real. One of my favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurants irl has a random neon sign on the wall that says "typewriters." Obsessed.
I keep thinking that the rounded walls update should have included spiral staircases. What a missed opportunity!
At least we had ladders already. Unlike when Tiny Homes was introduced and we still hadn’t gotten ladders or bunk beds. 😅 The Sims is good at missed opportunities.
Brichester is /supposed/ to be based on English university towns, particularly Bath, York, and Cambridge. If you are familiar with those cities you can sort of tell, but the actual university gameplay is so americanised that it's hard to tell really. I don't blame you for guessing a city in America.
I will never say no to any build you decide to make and share with us! You're so good at it and I love watching these videos so YES please make more! 🥰 hope you're having an awesome day too
This looks awesome! You killed it with the ecclectic and fun vibe.
One thought that occured to me, in real life that little room by the bubble tea area you made into a second bathroom would probably be a "back of house" area where the staff wash dishes or prep things.
I think that he mentioned in his other bubble tea shop that he would love to include a sink and give it a more realistic kitchen look, but he feels like the sims would be using that all the time.
There are similar New Age stores in my city where people watch arty performances whilst crafty types sell their handmade items and clothing and you can have tea, cake and cheese toasties. It's not bubble tea but it's pretty close.
This is honestly one of my favorite builds! It’s so cozy and feels perfectly lived in
I think I want to do something like this in mine. But I'm still going to make the Bubble Tea seperate in the sense of like a Target or Sam's. You have the store itself and off to the side you have the food court where you sit and eat pizza or soft pretzels. This way, Sims--hopefully--will be encouraged to sit at the tables rather than wandering around the place clogging up the foot traffic.
Amazing build!! Loved the colors of the interior, amazing!! I’m also loving the Lp, one of the best LPs I’ve watched in a long time! Well done James, keep up with the amazing work you’ve been doing!! 🥰💖
I started watching your videos when University LP ep.2 came out. Wow, I've been here for 3 years and enjoying it very much! I agree that tea shop and thrift store together is such a weird combination.
I like that the thrifting and boba together. I don’t really use cafes/restaurants bc ordering can be slow. Having another activity on the lot is very fun and makes it easy to make the interior shop feel full. Some of the shops feel very sparse since there are only so many clothing racks or toys you can add before things look repetitive.
I thought the same thing that it was strange that they forced both to be in the same lot, but then last week I visited a city (in the US) that had a store that was both a bar and a thrift store and was like “ohh I guess it is realistic” I also remembered a lot of bookstores I’ve been to are also coffee shops too
I look forward to seeing this in the LP. Good build.
I think for the lot type to make sense you have to approach it from a very small town lens where it’s more common to jam a bunch of things into one store. My sister lives right by a place that’s a combo general store, liquor store, restaurant, gift shop…and there’s something else in the same building I can’t think of at the moment 😂
You have to be creative and savvy to meet small town business needs and make it work! Growing up in the South in the US there were always a lot of places you could also get bait and beer 😄
It kinda has the same vibe as the bowling alley from (I think) sims 3 university. Good work James!
I love when you do these types of builds, I can follow along and hear your thought process I find it very interesting. I would also love to see you update the commons for Foxbury AND Britechester!
I love the element of you rebuilding renovating existing lots to feature in your Let's Plays. Makes it more interesting and I also loved the added elements of you putting yourself in the game by doing the announcements and when you greenscreened yourself up on the podium as Reginald to give a speech. It just adds more interest. I have been watching you since the first gemeration of Bigwallets when you started with Lady Bigwallet and even before that which was many years ago now and I never gert bored of you and you have always been and will always be my go to favourite sims content creator/RUclipsr but it's nice to add other elements to the Let's Plays to keep it fresh :). I love you so much though and every day is great if I add abit of James Turner to my day :)
A rooftop garden/hangout would look so good on this!
There was a thrift store in my town that had concerts all the time. I think it had a bar and everything.
Don't forget that when you rebuilt the original thrift shop, you regretted not putting a clothes rack outside for quick access when doing fashion looks to sell. You added one later. Might want an outside rack here, too. Great build!
Interesting build James. I look forward to seeing how you use it in your next episode.
I'm so excited for Reginald to come here! I hope you do some renovations to the commons too :)
this reminds me so much of the little coffee shops, thrift stores, and books shop from my college area. love this!
I agree. When I was in college we had a place like that. They played live jazz music on certain nights, read poetry in others. There was a spot in the back where they sold thrift store books and it was a coffee shop.
I love how you shout out other Simmers. That's the best sign of a true lover of Sims. No ego. Just love for all things Sims.
Really awesome build! Would like to see more of this as Reginald ages
As others have commented (and something I've been planning on doing too), doing two separate shops with the respective necessary items for the boba tea and the thrift store stuff on the same lot could be an option for you to try on a future build of this lot type. I've done that a few times in the past as faux-shops to have a row of 3-4 shops on one lot - for one it's unusual these days for a shop to be standing completely separate from others, they are usually part of a commercial "block", and it also helps with the scale of the buildings imo, as even the small lots often feel far too big to be one shop all on their own.
Love what you did with the place yet again though, you've been killing it with these builds lately, it's awesome to see you so inspired to build again!!
2:52 person who grew up in Boston here, and yes, parts of Boston do look like that, particularly in neighborhoods like Beacon Hill, Jamaica Plain, Allston, Brighton, and on Newbury Street. You’ll also find similar looking communities across the river in Cambridge 😊
In my hometown we had small strip malls with random stores and pubs. I could imagine a thrift store, karaoke bar/pub, bubble tea, weird creepy massage studio, etc... Then a random McDonald's, Tim Hortons, or pizza place not attached but placed in the corner of the lot. :P
I wonder if you can have a lot with functional things of different lot types. Someone mentioned a toggle switch and I think that'd be so cool to just pick what you want.
I think it looks great and it DOES fit because there's castle ruins on the background. I get the vibe that maybe it was previously a newer military support building of some kind (like a mess hall) that was no longer used and got renovated and re-purposed. Castles and forts were often built and re-built on the same spots over and over because the locations were prime for defence.
It is really fun to see the worlds change with generations of Bigwallets. It makes it more real. So I say for sure, go ahead and renovate more, when you have fun building, we have fun watching.
My favorite foxbury commons is the one Devon Bumpkin did. It's stunning. But it's always great to have new lots.
Britechester is based on England, the cars drive on the left in the world :).
Tbh I guess a lot of New England like Boston is similar to areas of England so I can see why people think it. I live in the UK and went to a uni like the one here and it seems mostly accurate, aside from the weird sims stuff.
New England really doesn't look like this - bits and pieces yes, but the whole picture - no
Looking good! Thanks for the awesome build James! I cant wait to see it in action
I think the vibes of Britechester are sort of Oxford-y? The addition of the low brick mini-mall thing does make it way more Cambridge/Boston in the sense that if you wander to any of the surrounding towns you will see a building like that pretty soon, lol. Massachusetts loves that color of brick.
I just put this in my game!! It looks so awesome 😃 Now I can watch the build video which is twice as awesome!
Love the build! It turned out so good, outside and inside especially!! Also would love to see a renovation of the commons!
I agree with the weird combining of a tea and thrift store. I can't see our local Goodwill/Salvation Army serving bubble tea and having talent night.
I completely agree it’s weird that they force you to have a combination thrift store and boba tea shop in one. But I do find it funny because in my home town there actually is a thrift store next to a boba tea shop!
Hey do you think if i delete my sims back up folder it will affect my original folder in ea?
@@gorkis643 I have no idea. I don’t think so? But don’t quote me on it haha 🤷♀️
I love MsGryphi! So glad you have her a shout out 🥰
Needs a woohoo closet 😜 extra spice and drama! Such an awesome build!
I agree also too if you have get together I almost feel like you could hide the Boba somewhere in a basement and put the coffee there and have like a little coffee bar instead too. I don’t know about you but I feel like I see more people grabbing a coffee and then going shopping rather than Boba. 🤷♀️
Oooo maybe do a separate bubble tea shop and thrift store connected next to each other. Like the shops under apartment buildings
This is so colourful that it's the ultimate peak for James, no more black and white builds 😂
Love your build. Reminds me of Urban Outfitters in NYC.
My university (ACU McAuley Brisbane) is a beautiful campus of old stone buildings, it used to be a seminary, when I was there they were building a MASSIVE structure, and they covered the entire front-facing side with reflective glass so that it reflected the historical architecture and it was such a fun idea. I don't think that's plausible or even sensible in the sims but that's an idea for anyone who wants to build a lot in a town that is kinda themed.
The thing with bubble tea and thrifting store yes they shouldve been separate but if u didnt want one u could just make a basement and make the clothing or bubble required item inaccessible.
This looks so cool. Having it be a multi-purpose lot gives it character and also makes the gameplay more fun.
I had so much fun messing around with this build. Just some clutter, a bit of trim and blended it a bit with the neighbourhood. Rounded walls are a bugger, but I think I got rid of the little gaps with short second story and roofing.
I love ur LPs james I've rewatched some of your past ones (currently rewatching the sulani one!) however I'm a bigger fan of your builds and as much as I love the LPs I've DEFINITELY missed the heavy amount of build vids you use to do so its been great seeing these!!
I don't mind the double purpose lot, I just wish it was something you could choose. Like "Main lot type" + "Secondary lot type", so you could do a pool and bar or nightclub, library and café, thrift and retail, bar and restaurant, or weirder combos.
Like café and spa may seem strange, but in Paris, at La grande Mosquée, you can go to the hammam and then go and sit for pastries and tea. We did that for a friend's wedding it was very nice.
You could also do retail and restaurant, park and musem... so many possibilities.
I know you can already fake them but having them officially would mean more efficient NPC workers and lot traits.
Okay Twilight zone moment I seriously just did this this weekend I took out that bar and built a house using the curved walls so the Sims I was playing with could graduate and have a house. So it's kind of interesting we both thought to take out the bar.
This will help me refresh my sims 4 building skills again. Thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️
The debate podium is a great idea for the shop, I can’t imagine hearing loud heated debates while I’m shopping in reality haha
One of my fave thrift stores is also a cafe, so the bubble tea makes me think of that! Might try to recreate it in the sims
Amazing details!! Great ideas!
Yes I want the dorm. I already went looking for it. lol
Hell has frozen over, James did a colorful build
Where I live there was actually a space with a thrift store, poetry/singer songwriter events and a Vietnamese lunch restaurant. So it doesn't even feel weird this combination
This would fit perfectly in the Sims 3 university town. Love it so much😍
This building reminds of a Commercial Developer "trying" to fit into historic Brichester, but just fails miserably - also, I'd actually love to see more combo lots! Retail and Restaurants (if they work), thrift shops and coffee shops! More mixed use!
Love this idea! I want to add the lot to my LP now!
This is such a great college town build! I can't wait to see you use it!
Please, put the dorm on gallery too! 😊
I think that some debug buildings would maybe look good on the top
I always love the shapes of your builds.
For Britechester it really depends - the Foxbury campus is inspired by Stanford and MIT and Britechester is inspired by Oxford University in England. So I think Britechester campus and the areas of Britechester in the middle are meant to be inspired by Oxford and the surrounding areas and such.
Discover University is such a good pack!! So happy I'm not the only one coming back to it
I would love to see you re doing the college community lot!! ✨ And also finishing plantain's house 🙈
I renovated the commons of lilsimsie too. I wanted a gym and more science stuff. My rags to riches guy pretty much lived there.
A lot of places in Sweden have cafes with triftstore in it :) I know one place particularly that has a stage for like open nights; anyone can go up on the stage to pull a joke or poetry. It's pretty cosy, not gonna lie
Oh god, university was the first series of yours I was up to date with when watching the bigwallet series, I've been watching for over 3 years
Please please add the dorm to the Gallery, your renovation was sooo amazing. I really want to play with it!
They also have that mic thing there which is a bit out of place, so I think I can see making a sort of town house type shops (bubble tea and thrift store) next to each other, but then a speakeasy underneath the 2 lots. That might seem nice.
Should probably add a bin for all the boba cups
In the next bubble/thrift build how about you do a side by side shared building that way Sims can pick which "store" to go in.
This turned out very pretty.
Honestly, I will probably put the boba Shop on the roof, Like you have a thrift store and up on the roof it's rooftop T shop and and they are events there... Just an idea I mean it's such a nice big square
A thrift store is a great idea :)
As much as I love lilsimsie's builds, yours have their own charm.
This is fantastic!! Well done James!
Sim Science: maybe test if the roof glitch is solved by keeping the original interior walls? It might not matter, I'm just wondering if maybe removing them confuses the game... I've never tried putting the curved decks together in a circle before so even though it works the same, I'd have no idea how lol. But it's possible it's just the curve cut-out always acting up since I don't think they intended for us to make Pringles Cans of Shame (or knew we would but weren't concerned because they couldn't change how it worked anyway.)
Edit: Forgot to add but I love this lot regardless! You and Ms. Gryphi have both built such lovely Thrift/Tea lots lol