Simsie: talking about how strange it is that university has fancy windows and ikea type furniture Me: so basically Europe in a nutshell, old buildings and ikea furniture everywhere

@lauren.19

2 жыл бұрын

So true 😂

@Hannah-uv8hy

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@melaniazihlavska4578

2 жыл бұрын

Literally 😂😂😂

@buttersofi

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao my house

@marveludus

2 жыл бұрын

lol I thought the same thing. the house I live in has paintings on the ceiling in the entryway but my apartment has ikea furniture from years ago (like from before I even moved in) I also live right next to the university so there's mostly students here

You should build a house for a simmer who has 8 cats, and each of the cats get their own room. Cat mansion :)

@yuhhbiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

OH MY GOSH!!! Best build idea I’ve ever heard 😂

@lillianhaaser5521

2 жыл бұрын

YES 😺😺

@vlogrilssanti

2 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@HalfBoyHalfGod

2 жыл бұрын

You are right and you should say it

@spoodlenoodleproductions5759

2 жыл бұрын

PLSSS

It's always so weird that the in-world debug buildings look normal and realistic and the ones EA builds for gameplay look like an alien was trying to understand human shelters.

@mariabacalhau1366

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 👍

@sweetpeach3293

2 жыл бұрын

This is the perfect way to explain it! 😂

@complainer406

2 жыл бұрын

There's a theory that the builds were intentionally bad so that the average player would be able to improve them

@cordeliax8972

2 жыл бұрын

@@complainer406 nahhh that gives them way too much credit lmao

@gorose9899

Жыл бұрын

@@complainer406 Even veteran players can't handle some of these buildings

they should go back to all the old packs and make matching swatches. they owe it to us

@aliopa8516

2 жыл бұрын

Or they could let us make our own swatches like in the Sims 3

@Ohmygodaprayingmantis

2 жыл бұрын

HONESTLY

@leenone8456

2 жыл бұрын

New cc pack: make maxis match (itself). 😅😭🤡

@emd4390

2 жыл бұрын

They really should update all the former packs with everything they know now.

@emerson3669

2 жыл бұрын

@@emd4390 true..but time is money, and money is something they apparently don’t have! *cough cough, multi-billionaire company**

"Do you ever just cry over Sims items?" Yes... yes I do. it's why half of my builds don't have fences because none of the gates match!

@The_queen_herself_amy

2 жыл бұрын

Somewhere far away in the universe , the gates match lol

@missink1728

2 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the snoop dog meme on youtube about fences that don't fit?

@limiv5272

2 жыл бұрын

I'd love it if some CC creator just did a whole build catalogue add on of all the things that are missing, and adding swatches to make everything match. If only I knew how to do it myself

@Eventide215

2 жыл бұрын

@@limiv5272 It'd just be a "I fixed the swatches" CC and it replaces all of the items in the game with swatches that actually match each other.. It'd be a massive undertaking but it'd be amazing.

@limiv5272

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eventide215 We're not missing just swatches unfortunately. For example we have a lot of fences without matching gates and/or stair railing.

I love it when Simsie comes up with storylines for her sim builds.

@tallulahbrown5864

2 жыл бұрын

Really I live sending my Sims to uni

@yuhhbiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

@@tallulahbrown5864 I can’t be bothered it’s too much effort to have to do that for me.

@roedor2802

Жыл бұрын

@@yuhhbiscuit if you still have this problem... There's a mod for making college easier in the Sims (sadly not in real life) so you can have more fun

Simsie: “the windows and the ikea furniture are a strange combination” Me: looks at my dorm in a very old building with old windows and ikea esc furniture

@limiv5272

2 жыл бұрын

But wouldn't such a dorm come with old cabinets and such? I think that should've been in the pack

@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059

2 жыл бұрын

@@limiv5272 Not in dorm rooms. Plus some college students are not known for caring about antique furniture/cabinets or anything else. Like most people who rent houses don't actually mow the lawn or clean the cabinets etc because it isn't thier property so they don't care if it looks like crap. The same with old buildings full of students/renters, it is cheaper to deal with cheap kitchen cabinets etc and replace them every 20 years or so, because even if it looked like Dumbledores office they wouldn't have any respect for it either, because it isn't thier stuff. It would cost a small fortune every year to repair Victorian style oak cabinet doors or mahogany stair rail posts after some drunk kids vandalized them. Plus some students are often rowdy and drunk so they will care even less about expensive centuries old furniture etc and have no problem puking and passing out on a 200 year old Persian carpet. They would be more upset about "thier" Ikea desk. The dorm I was in (1 semester in the early 90s, I hated living in a dorm because of all the noise and crap so I went home) was in a building from the 1920's but it was junky inside with Avocado colored linoleum floors from the 70's and press-wood cabinets etc. It almost looked like squatters lived there or a motel. Since the next group of students wouldn't care either, they hadn't updated the place since like 1973 or something when they turned the building into a dorm. Just because you would respect it, does not mean others will.

@limiv5272

2 жыл бұрын

@@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059 From the sound of it, it's a good thing I never lived in a dorm [I lived with my parents and took a train every day]

@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059

2 жыл бұрын

@@limiv5272 It could be different elsewhere. But I am introverted and don't drink alcohol or coffee so maybe it was just way too chaotic for me. Maybe extroverts wouldn't have so much of a hard time.

@natwel1544

Жыл бұрын

The national heritage say you must keep an old building. Grade 1-2 listed. So they convert 'em.

I think a reason why there's so little matching and overall consistency in any of the packs is the amount of temp work EA uses. A lot of the staff isn't permanent. They're temps. They get a brief, like make this- these are the perameters, and they finish, clock out, and that employee is never heard from again. And you can't really hold them accountable because they don't give a flying hoot. It was like a few weeks of paid work, and they're gone like a fart in the wind. What does it matter- its temp work, so whatever they do is 'close enough'. Because EA also downsized Quality Assurance so much, its not like someone can hold them to a high standard. Because these are private contractors, it costs EA less... And the fans of the sims just have to suck it up and deal with a poorer quality product

@Eventide215

2 жыл бұрын

EA could still easily give the people a set of textures, colors, etc they have to work with so they match better. The main issue is like woods in the game never really have the same tones. What they should be doing really is having people create just the model then another team that creates the textures that then go on that model. Like Sims 3 did to allow the create-a-style to work.

@lockboxDAI

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eventide215 that would entail like... a team. And EA only uses a skeleton crew of salaried employees. They don't need to give temps health insurance, after all, so they're not incentivized to make a lasting team to direct with a baseline of meshes, and to supply consistent textures or a "texture bible" to refer to for those meshes. it would be great if they did that, but they just don't. It seems really obvious to us, but that's because we see the thing in the totality. On the inside, I think its like the fairy tale of the blind men touching only one part of the elephant at a time. Its such an ingrained way of working that I think it's hard to break out of that now, if not impossible. (Just look at when simtubers have the creators visit the lots they build and they're shocked and surprised at being called out for missing toilets and things like that. They don't play this game and don't think about this stuff - like NOT AT ALL lol)

@Eventide215

2 жыл бұрын

@@lockboxDAI You sound like someone that has absolutely no idea about anything but just make stuff up based on what you heard and your like grade school level of knowledge about business.. I regret ever replying to you.

this is the prettiest starter home i've ever seen.

@jennifergingerhexe4493

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@yuhhbiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

This is much nicer than all of the dorm rooms I’ve ever seen.

@EmKatSam

2 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@monifhorsham895

2 жыл бұрын

Girl…be honest now

@grenesims

2 жыл бұрын

@@monifhorsham895 the inside isn't special but that outside?? GORGEOUS.

Man, I bet this lot would make a killer location for a frat house. Like, couch on the front porch, random thing like an old firetruck in the front yard, as many bedrooms as possible, hangout in the attic and all inside a beautiful old house with random clutter. I'm not into greek life but I'd love to see a take on the house.

Britechester is hands down the best world for rags to riches. Your Sims can go sleep, eat, shower, etc in the dorms and no one notices to get upset.

@tallgrl94

2 жыл бұрын

That's because most college students understand the struggle. They survive off of coffee, ramen, and dreams.

@brennan3723

2 жыл бұрын

​@@tallgrl94 And because the features of that pack don't fully work so it can't make residents get upset about squatters properly lmao

I love it when we get to see Stanley in a not-Stanley-centric video. It's like we're checking up on him and making sure he's okay. Since the videos about him tend to inflict trauma. Here Stanley, come look at this cute house in the university neighborhood!

I mean this in the best way possible but I love how Kayla’s intros are literally introduction paragraphs to essays 😭😭 maybe it’s the English major in me but I noticed the hook, relation to the topic, major points…maybe I’m reaching but it’s funny lol

I would LOVE for the university pack to get an update. Like for example to get KITCHEN COUNTERS. I think this pack would be a good pack for more KITCHEN COUNTERS (and bathroom stuff)

@yuhhbiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

Since it’s supposed to be a university pack it’s kinda strange how they didn’t add bathroom stuff.

@warmpinksoup

2 жыл бұрын

@@yuhhbiscuit university has a stall toilet though

@rachelcookie321

2 жыл бұрын

@@yuhhbiscuit why is it strange? Do you heavily associate bathrooms with university or something? I don’t think this pack particularly needed any bathroom stuff, everything in the game already works for dorms. They added that stall toilet and individual shower anyway.

@mjm3091

2 жыл бұрын

I mean I would like for it to actually have University gameplay. Cause this is just gloryfied Homework pack. Definitely didn't need this American centred shell of rabbit holes, that doesn't even remind proper University. Which is even more insulting when you consider that game makes you pay for a human/Sim right that is free education. Its not even good fraternity pack. Mostly Robotics, Bikes and Open Shower Head pack. And even that was taken, by Eco Lifestyle and Snowy Escape. Making Discover University the one Expansion that should have been returnable.

@MikaelaCher

2 жыл бұрын

Super cheap stuff, and add another countertop oven thing like the one from DHD !!!!! Why isn't it a thing in the University pack ???

it's like every frat house... looks cool from the outside, but on the inside they're a mess/not recently updated.

I think the reason for the "old building" doors and windows is that in alot of Universities (especially in Europe) they are old buildings, some centuries old, but the resident students will only be there a few years, hence the cheap Ikea stuff. None of them are bringing grannies antique dresser and thier great-great grandparents marriage bedframe.

simsie complaining about running out of money but wasting all of it on walls for the fake chimney is everything

Simsie: "We can't do that..." Also Simsie: *Does that*

@YuGamingg

2 жыл бұрын

Priorities

This is so cute, my only problem with the debug ivy is when you're playing and have the walls down it blocks your view lol

@sherrybrissette1614

2 жыл бұрын

This always makes me nuts!

I just noticed that this starter house is a replica of the starter in evergreen harbor. the size, for me, is pretty much the same, but the kitchen seems bigger and the upstairs only have 1 bedroom (but it clearly fits 2) and the stairs are bigger, so take more space I mean... I am not going to open my game just to see if they reutilized the idea, but I guess you guys get the idea

@aliopa8516

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I actually was playing with my sims on that lot a few days ago and yeah it is pretty much a replica. Sims has gotten so lazy with their builds. It's easy to spot the ones that were actually made by gamers. They should have all the lots built by gamers

@galaxyoasis18

2 жыл бұрын

@@aliopa8516 sims builders have been doing that for a few packs

@thejompi

2 жыл бұрын

@@aliopa8516 Snowy Escape, Paranormal, Cottage Living we’re done by simmers. Kayla did Snowy Escape.

@recordtapesbackward

2 жыл бұрын

evergreen harbor came after university though 😃

I've renovated this house, and I found it useful to put the staircase outside. I also built the house taller, so like 3 stories (could add more plus a basement). I think it's an interesting location, but I wish there were more playable lots in this world.

Luckily through the roommates system, your roommate will place down decorations to jazz up their room and personalize it, it's super cute actually. University is one of my favorite packs, I broke a save file because i played the pack so much using the club system for frat/sororities and I had like 98% young adults in my save 😅 I should've started the 100 baby challenge! (Why didn't i think if that)

I never play in Britechester because it feels like there are no amenities there. That is a nice lot though! I would kill for multi family town homes in the game. You always do a great job, Simsie!

They should do a base game update just to update all the prices to be reasonable and to match swatches for build and buy mode.

How does Simsie just pull the most perfect floor plans out of thin air

@haunted-but-holy

2 жыл бұрын

Because she's a fucking icon

My teachers just died from cancer so I was crying my butt of and then I saw you posted I smiled a bit…thank you for always making my day a little bit brighter❤️ Btw you always make great builds!

@yuhhbiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

OH my god, I am so sorry for your loss, may your teacher Rest In Peace 💜

@hehe9842

2 жыл бұрын

@@yuhhbiscuit Thank you❤️

@margaretdiroma5051

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry for your loss. My heart goes out to you, your school, and everyone your teacher impacted. I hope your days get easier ❤

@alice.3leanor

2 жыл бұрын

So sorry for your loss! ❤️✨

@Andiswa_Sidwaba

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry for ur loss may she rest in peace ❤️💜💙. My heart goes out to u, you deserve soo much

"do you ever cry over sims items" yes... WHY IS THERE NO CABINETS FOR THE ISLAND LIVING CABINETS ONLY SHELVES

simsie should do a plumbob themed house and put every plumbob themed decor we have in it, it would probably be horrific - seems like kayla

I renovated this house yesterday and managed to fit in 4 bedrooms 💅🏻

Wonderful video yet again. I put semi-detached cottages on this lot, I'm from the UK so this is normal lol, I actually live in a stone fronted terraced mill cottage as my town was heavily into linen weaving during the industrial revolution, and mining of course, I live in Yorkshire and most towns and villages had a coal mine back then.

I love it! You made me think of Amsterdam. They have the largest windows on the first/ground floor and the smaller windows on the second and third. It used to be for the guests they would welcome in the past, they needed the most light on the first/ground floor since that would be living space. Maybe this will create some inspiration for your next build ❤️

this build is so cute! It makes me want to play university again.

Tip for auto-columns: you can make a square with walls, put wallpaper and then again add windows. They will all be deleted. Or maybe don't delete inner walls before putting wallpaper outside, that sometimes works. 😀

I remember your Sims 3 University Let's play and it was hilarious, nothing compares to the Sims 3 chaos. That one and the Generations let's play are my all time favorites. Maybe is time to bring it back

I’m using this house for my college sim who lives with his girlfriend and their toddler lol. I turned the room with the purple bunny rug into a kids room and it works out. But when I saw the tile on the floor and walls in the kitchen/bathroom I sincerely questioned your sanity lol. I had to come look at the actual video of you building it

My first thought was that it looks like they tore down the neighbouring buildings and left that one house standing. So like they build new stuff all around and the one building is now standing on an empty field as a reminder of old times. I've see this from time to time and I absolutely love it. They seem sad and badass at the same time. I aspire to be the last building of a row still standing:)

University is easily one of my favourite Sims packs, (mostly bc it was the first pack I got and because of the beautiful cas and build items) but SO many of the hairs from this pack have become basegame (same with island living) and it makes me so sad! This pack had so much potential but it can get so boring so easily!

would be fun to put backpacks or shoes under the stairs to fill in that space as "storage" or a small narrow dresser - also pretty realistic

I live in a college town and freestanding houses that look like that aren't uncommon, they're usually frats BUT they're old and cool and even though it looks weird In the sims , it's very accurate LOL

Ok but this is one of the most accurate college housing builds I've ever seen

The original architecture is spot-on for an English village. It's called a two-up two-down, meaning the number of rooms on each level. Toilets on these houses would originally have been outside and are retro-fitted to the upstairs making one of the bedrooms smaller. They would have been in long rows of terraces, but this was pretty good as a realistic modest starter home for an English village.

I have been LOVING these building videos when you talk through them!!!!!! They’re so comforting!!!!

I absolutely love this build and it’s also SO accurate to student housing in my university town irl. Complete with beautiful historical buildings on the outside with the most cheaply designed and poorly maintained interiors (those tiles look just like my uni house). Nailed it!

I’ve always used this lot to build a set of townhomes similar to the ones in the background/to the left.

Simsie: We can’t do that! Also Simsie: Does it anyways

I really want to see more builds in Windenburg again. There were obviously heaps when the pack came out but it’s my favourite style of architecture and it’s all gone now :(

"There's totally not enough space for a dresser in this room." The Tiny Living dresser: 😟

I think that the outside of this house is one of the coolest ones bc it's very realistic, though the mood is certainly killed since it's a detached house and not a terraced house

The outro song is a song that Dankpods uses all the time, it's so weird hearing it in a different context than headphone tests.

yasss first, i'm always waiting for u to post so i could have something to watch while eating dinner!

I like how the guy just had sports equipment and a laptop and the girl has a rabbit rug💀

Petition for Kayla to do a another University let's play with Gertrude but this time in the Sims 4 !

Perks of being home sick (not covid) is that I can watch Kayla's videos as soon as they come out

@avapatino6058

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sick (with covid) and just had the same thought

@branthony8055

2 жыл бұрын

@@avapatino6058 hope you get well soon :)

"Can anyone give me an honest answer as to why they've done this to me?" Simple Kayla. Because, SIms. 😂

I was just looking at old university build videos to get ideas for my legacy challenge and you post this video, it’s perfect timing

I’d like to see you redo starter homes into what you’d want with no budget. I like the struggle but your vision without restraints is awesome to see as well

It is actually possible to find the neighboring houses in the debug menu. I had placed two debug houses with my own functioning build somewhat mimicking their exterior between them to utilize this lot. I think when there is a single house on this particular lot it looks a little out of place no matter how cute or nicely build it is.

I would love to see you do this house again, same lot, basically the same exterior but a rich sim is living on the inside. Maybe not exactly a rich sim, but a sim funded by their parents so they're living good.

it would be fun with a house. that started as nice home. got abanded. then some students moved in. So windows doors and the building can be nice. some staines and cracks added. but all the furintures are cheap.

This is one of the cutest houses I love ur builds

Dream home vibes for meeeee, I would love to see a renovation of it without money limitations!

I remember seeing someone building on this lot dorms for students, it was this type of style houses glued to eachother, so that's an idea, if you wanna try and do something like that as well

tbh i'd love a video of just simsie going through debug and reacting to it

You are so amazing at making houses, I love your builds💜

I agree that this lot is sooooo bad! Glad you did magic to it. Would’ve been nice to make this a frat house

It would even be cool if they made a lifeline in The Sims 4 or any of the Sims game you definitely need to put a police detector and fire detector in there

This build is gorgeous!!

What if you do like 3 houses next to each other, then look for roommates and block the doors of each “house” so they can only enter to one house per roommate? Idk if I explained well and if its possible (never tried it before)and also idk if I wrote that right hehe, greetings from Mexico💖

I love these small money challenges, but I really just want to watch you go all out sometimes even if it’s small! Lol

I can't get over how Simsie talks about building starter homes the same way I talk about my sims and their backstories

the amount of times that kayla says "so lets kill that window" is hilarious

You do o musch for this channel, we love you! I'm never out of things to watch with you!!

I am in love with this house simsie. You are soooooooooo good. 💛

All I want is a color slider. I struggle constantly matching colors in builds and cas that I almost always default to black and white. It limits everything so much and I can’t stand it. I realize create a style in ts3 was way too much but the only option being a handful of swatches just drives me absolutely crazy.

the more i watch kayla the more i realise how much she loves that base game brown rug bc she uses it CONSTANTLY lmao i do the same with my builds (although i hate to say it but i absolutely DESPISE that rug so it pains me every time lmaooo)

I love this style of videos so much :D

You should do a build where you decorate the same house but ones a starter home and one’s no budget

u have such good taste I'm obsessed with all of ur builds 🤩

I love your builds! They are so good!!

Challenge idea: build the neighboring debug houses! Especially in willow creek! Sometimes I think they’re just as cute if not cuter than the original EA builds!

Proper terraced housing has been my wish since forever in this game

In the Sims 3 you can color customize everything and it is so much more satisfying and fun

"You ever just wanna cry over a sims item" yknow sometimes I worry about simsie

@yuhhbiscuit

2 жыл бұрын

That’s literally the story of my life 😭

I saw this on the gallery before you even posted this 😅 I'm using it in my game actually since I can't build even if my life depended on it. 😬

I loveeee ur videos

Really loved the look of this build!

I really love this starter home. Kayla really outdone herself with this one!

I made a started home in this lot once and took the debug houses to put on the side to look like as the next to this lot

this house legit reminds me of the houses in the uk and i loveeee itttttt

love this house, it's so pretty

I need to get back into sims, I love this game so much. ❤️

thank u for making this i so often wanna play university but get caught up in hating building 😅

Yeah I have problems just fighting with the roofs. You guys never said it would be that difficult. But thanks for the tricks you have told me. Keep on simsing and game on.

i feel like you could make a townhouse thing on a large lot and then lock each door for each sim to force them to live on their own

This lot doesn't even CONNECT to the PAVEMENT!! YOU HAD ONE JOB SIMS TEAM!!

"I will spend a significant amount of money my own columns, just so I can be less sad." I think we can all identify with that.

IDEA: make a house with only wood objects. wooden toilet, wooden tub, only wood panels for walls and floors, decor only with wood etc… dont know why i thought of this but its really funny to me (obviously like beds and stuff have bedding and details that arent wood but as long as the object is mostly wood its fine)

The build actually looks very cute and realistic! You are great! :D

simsie this build looks SO GOOD

i JUST started playing with university and renovated that house into a two family town house where a roomates live in one and my sim and her gf in the other.