#and obv playtest it all

[dreamingisntbad]

As of right now, I speedran DiNB prologue in about 40 minutes. But if you skip through ALL the text and ALL side events, you should be able to finish it in about 30 minutes or less. With that in mind, if you dont rush and take your time to explore, the prologue will take at least an hour to complete.

Also I've spent 10 hours working on the game today,,, help

[summer-of-sims]

Welcome to The Cove Community College! (CC-FREE)

Dorm lot | 6 rooms | 50x50 | §259,526 | Download HERE (Box.com)

Not as fancy as a big state school, but way cheaper and with a just as good of an education!

The Cove Community College has everything a young adult pursuing a quality education would need: private, spacious bedrooms in a lovely renovated estate, a cafeteria ready to serve delicious foods to power your brain, a rec room complete with a mini-kitchen for late night studying when the caf is closed, and a library with a wide range of literature and research materials plus four state-of-the-art computers. Don’t you want nothing but the best for your teen? Then send them to The Cove!

SOME THINGS TO NOTE (please read i promise it’s important):

This has been fully playtested and works well. Weeds grow a lot but it’s more annoying than anything.

This is a residential lot, not a dorm. To convert it into a dorm, place it in a uni sub-hood, enter the lot, and enter the cheat changelotzoning dorm. Save and exit and you’re ready to move your teens in! Not sure what happens when you do that in a regular neighborhood but uh don’t try it.

Personally I think this would make a fantastic machinima location so if you use it let a girl know 😏.

Bills are kinda expensive. Like, over 600 simoleons on the lowest level using cyjon’s lot debugger expensive. Dorm billing is notoriously wacky tho - you might not even get bills! One time I did, one time I didn’t. So idk.

I have the pretty water mod, which means there is a 1x1 square of pool hidden under a bush. If you don’t have the mod, edit the lot before converting it to remove the pool. Either way, sims don’t try to use the pool so it’s all good.

I placed the mailbox in the center of the lot for ✨aesthetics✨ so the taxi arrival cinematic is a bit wonky. Not sure about the cinematic for sending an already-played teen sim to college but probably. (it works fine :) )

This is fully CC free! But you should use the clean installer anyway. Also, this was made with the Ultimate Collection - not sure exactly which EP/SP content was used (other that uni obv).

This lot is YUGE. It ran just fine for me but I have very little CC these days and a decent PC so YMMV. I decided against adding a third floor with more rooms since a lot of dormies might F up performance.

If any problems arise while playing, please tell me! It’s possible something may have slipped through the cracks. Other than that... enjoy!

(floor plans under the cut)

[origin-of-creation]

when is this gunna continue? it’s annoying to see all these amazing hacks never get finished

Wow, thanks a ton for your continued interest!

We’ve been working on demos, but never really managed to crank out anything in time for FEE3 for the past few years (obvs). It’s mostly been a combination of life, family, and work that’s been keeping us tied up, on top of not really having schedules that match up.

Another issue is the constant revisions we’ve been making to the plot. We’re always trying to rewrite things so that they make more sense, and it’s been especially important to us lately because of how terrible recent FE storylines have been (with the exception of Echoes). We want the story to be cohesive, compelling, and interesting on top of having well-developed characters. The revisions alone have been a big point of discussion and debate amongst us, so it’s been difficult settling on a script when the base story is still a bit nebulous.

That being said, I’m hoping to get something done for FEE3 this year (again), and if nothing else, we might just re-release an older demo for playtesting. Our only big issue is that we’ve had issues with sprite theft in the past, and that in and of itself is pretty frustrating to deal with, since it discourages us from posting our work.

However, I do still post some FEOC art now and then, so if you’d be interested in more illustrations and lore, do let us know.

Again, thanks a bunch for asking! You don’t know how pleased I am to see someone still interested in this project.

– AK