Parkview Dormitory
Luxury Living on Campus

[Brochure for parents of discriminating students.]


Parkview Dormitory
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Warning: Very large file: 5.3 megabytes.
The dorm is unoccupied. Fully furnished except for student rooms on the second floor.
Use a clean installer to check for game hacks.

Welcome to Parkview Dormitory, the ultimate in luxury living for the students who can afford it!

Parkview has made no compromise in providing for all your student's needs. Our spacious rooms feature maximum comfort and style in beds and bedding. Your student will surely enjoy the two desks provided with every room, including a computer hardwired into the college's high-speed network.



2-Story Great Room


Our dramatic two-story great room has everything your student will need for success in college. A special common area provides shared computers for collaborative studies and desks for the special assignments. Luxurious sofa assure that your son or daughter will be able to concentrate on schoolwork and encourage study groups to convene.



Downstairs Recreation Area


Two large wood-burning fireplaces provide a restive backdrop to our recreation area where students can gather at our state-of-the-art plasma display screen to discuss current events. The unparalleled sound system will render the symphonies by the university's philharmonic orchestra with exacting precision, accentuating the beauty and tone of every instrument.



Dining Hall


Parkview's dining hall features the peak of fine furniture where students will dine on cuisine created by master chefs. Meals are included in your student's dormitory plan.

Parkview Dormitory

[Flyer for the students]


Standard Room at Parkview


Hey kids, every room has a double bed! There's also a hot tub on the back deck, a swimming pool in the basement, free pinball, and a pool table in the loft! We've got a big-screen TV and a stereo that'll blast your brains!


The Pool Table on the Loft


Never mind the park! We're right across the street from the beach where the frats have nightly keggers! So get your folks to pony up the scratch for Parkview and have a rockin' great time in college before you're tied down to the daily grind of the work-a-day world!

I should note that I haven't play-tested this one yet, so you can install it and make fun of me for missing something essential.

If you do need to tune up the dorm, you can make it editable with this:

boolprop dormspecifictoolsdisabled false

That will unlock the build and buy mode goodies.


Bring your own park to view.

Addendum: I didn't furnish the rooms on the upper floor because you'll probably put your playable sims on the first floor, and NPC students don't really care what's in their dorm rooms.

Parkview has 14 student rooms in all.

Greg wrote:

[Flyer for the students]

Love the contrast!

it's fabulous Greg! But it is so big it won't work in my game. I had Raleigh Dorm for a while and it runs so clunky... do you ever make anything small?

WOW!!!! That's really nice, Greg.
It looks real! Great job!!

Sita wrote:

it's fabulous Greg! But it is so big it won't work in my game. I had Raleigh Dorm for a while and it runs so clunky... do you ever make anything small?

Hmm... do you know what is a practical limit for the size of a dorm in your game?

If the problem is too many NPC students, try removing some of the dorm room doors. Then the game won't generate so many students.

Well, I need to experiment some more. In terms of the Maxis dorms I tend to find that more than 12 students is too much, even if mostly NPCs - but very large houses won't play either, or they crawl along. I made a very big house (really a stately home) as a dorm, myself, at http://www.justsimming.simshost.com/sims2/communitylots/dorms/bullersdorm.html



and it simply doesn't work for me.... grinds along for a few minutes till it crashes and that was with only two playable students and a few NPCs. Same problem with it as a house.

I really enjoyed building and decorating it too but I can't play it <sob>

oops sorry for huge image lol - is there code to reduce its size on the BBS?

Sita wrote:

Well, I need to experiment some more. In terms of the Maxis dorms I tend to find that more than 12 students is too much, even if mostly NPCs - but very large houses won't play either, or they crawl along...

That could be a memory problem. I'm running 1.5 GB of RAM in my machine.

Or a speed problem; sometimes if I'm rotating a house while the sims are active, the game will freeze and the only way to get out of it is the power switch. Obviously that's a bug in the game.

Or it could be a speed problem related to how fast your graphics card can calculate all the transforming and lighting things, with an associated bug in the game software that doesn't gracefully handle an out-of-synch simulation.

The only solution I can think of to any of those, other than pumping up the hardware, is smaller houses with fewer objects on the lot.

Sita wrote:

oops sorry for huge image lol - is there code to reduce its size on the BBS?

Unfortunately, no. The only way to control the size of an image displayed by the BBS is the size of the actual image file.

There might be a mod out there somewhere that allows you to scale images, but I wouldn't bet that I'll ever find and install it.

yes. I wanna make some smaller dorms anyway so that's next. But I'll try and add some RAM.

Okay made a smaller dorm http://www.justsimming.simshost.com/sims2/communitylots/dorms/giniakatzdorm.html

- pic there - I daren't post big ones here.... still fairly roomy, 6 bedrooms so shoudl work better. Gonna playtest now.

Whoa, quite a pool!

Yeah, but the pool is "shielded from prying eyes." Darn! What's the fun in that?

The rooftop gardens are pretty cool, too!
Maybe, perhaps, I just might be tempted to reinstall Nightlife. Some day.

I'll keep trying to tempt you Greg.

Thanks people. Just wish i could make it work properly in MY game lol. Even that one crashes