Homes - Why So Few Kitchens & Baths?

You'll never usre them...

I put a dining table in my house--no one EVER sits at it unless I drag them over and force watermellon chunks down their throat. LOL.

The following comment is a observation, not intended as a slight to anyone.

I think some of you would be much happier buying The Sims2 and its expansions. Aside from the social interaction from 'real' people (some sims2 players would argue the sims are more interesting then if controled by real people) as it has all the elements some of you seem to desire.

I played the Sims2 and had a great time with it for the record.

Well funny thing is Strauss, I DO have the Sims2 and all the expansions, and I build and create content for it. I don't see SL as another extension of Sims2 though. You trying to get rid of us? LOL

heh, not quite.

However reading some of the comments here seems they want to emulate house cleaning, cooking, going to the bath room, etc. All things the sims2 does in spades with the hunger, hygine, bladder, enviroment meters and gameplay. If you want to emulate such real life tasks, I'd say spend the time in RL to do them. Why do such in a virtual world? Or at least play a game in which thats the focus (sims2).

That opinion aside, If thats what ones want to do and that makes them happy then one should play a platform to do that. All I am saying.

I don't use stairs when I build - I just fly up and down. Why include stuff we don't need?

Are you going to make a recreation of Rome without the Spanish Steps?

My house has one of those "ramps" to get upstairs, to save on prims and space most likely. And I'll admit I'd use a teleporter to get upstairs...I actually jump off the balcony as the fastest way down. But the house just wouldn't look right without some visible stairway.

For me its seem a lots of peopel, citicens of SL, is hanging on to Real Life.
I find it a littel shame. Why copy a world you all ready have, when the
potential in SL is so musch bigger?.. Do I have to consider this? Yes, I do
build things for sales. And they have to be "Real Life" as long they can be.
An example. My Dou Discutable, to seat table I build that wiht light suport
to the ground. Just a thinny prim, I actully have wanted it to flow. But it
did not work.. Some say it will never hold and the table will tip over! So
I deed re design it and to day it goes well.. It is a freebie.

To put kitchens and Bathroom simular to Real Life in SL... hmm.. Why not
in stead think ahead and use the SL potientel to show what the kitchen or
bath of the furture will be.. Mahybe even mix them togheter. A sink there
shrink and grow.. From dishwash to real bath tub! I hope more people wiht
time will open there eyes and dare.. and create what they dream on, not
just a copy of the borring real life we all know to well.


Bertram Merlin.

A step backwards... can be a step forward..

and seriously love my new house they are in. im me in world your most welcome to drop in to take a look . The builder BTW was a Pookie Flanagan.
Many Blessings everyone!

You reminded me of something that is kind of funny, and the opposite of this.

A friend of mine has this dining room set, and we always sit at it when we are in her house. (It's cute!)

What's funny is this other friend of ours also has it. And when they are both at my place, where they generally find me building, like as not he will rez the dining room set right there in the field, and we will sit at it and chat, along with anyone else who comes over!

coco

Verisimilitude.

It's really a spectrum; a range. People fall on it at different points.

For example, I don't WANT to have to use the potty, etc., like you have to in the Sims.

On the other hand, I DO want a realistic house.*

Besides, if you go on the logic of why include stuff we don't need, then you get down to having nothing on SL at all! We don't need houses at all, or ANY of it!

Except clothes, due to the TOS. haha

They birthed our avatars in SIN, those Lindens did! And expect us to cover up! (In non-mature areas, anyhow.)

coco

*Though in my book, "realistic" in SL can mean teleporters, too.

There are a lot of people, who consider themselves futuristic or something, who think we should all fast forward to the part where we just blob around as wobbly lights being very cyber and futuristic.

There is no need for houses, or tables or stairs or whatever in SL. There is no need for 99% of anything in SL. SL is not driven by need, but by desire.

The desire of many people is to create things which seem familiar, but maybe better than RL, or more interesting to them. Or to put it another way, to play dolls and houses and lego. I don't see why that's a bad thing. There is plenty of time for the future to happen, but for now, people like to work with familiar things for the most part. That's why they like needless kitchens and needless rock gardens and needless houses with doors that swish. Because they want these thing, and they are fun to play with, to create a little space that the owner likes the look and feel of. To have fun in, with friends, in a cartoon version of the real world.

Personally I'm tired of self proclaimed artists and architects who think that their personal Masterpiece In Spikey Prims is the ideal social arena or statement of the future. Their way is very dull, because it speaks only for one person, the artist. A thousand Barbies in their beach condos are much more interesting because of what they represent- genuinely non-geek people engaging in a virtual world, even if only in what elitists would consider a shallow way. Ten years ago these people would not even have got their feet wet, much less found themselves having so much fun paddling and splashing in virtual reality.

You know, mankind has had the ability to fashion any possible shape into reality for a long, long time before computers gave us virtuality to build in. We have had that power for as long as we've had the ability to mold and bake clay. There is nothing new in virtual reality. People still mostly make pots. Sculpters possibly shout and sneer at them on internet forums for being so prosaic, perhaps. People make pots and put their plants in them, or just glaze them in a nice way and put them on the porch for show.

As for stairs, "promenade architectural". I despise in house teleporters, but then I enjoy pretending to walk around pretend places.