RedMallie

*join the grumbling* Thank you for sharing your thoughts and discoveries!!!!

The height is always an issue in this type of game. I believe that the characteristics and limits reflect the philosophy of the developing company more than technical limitations of the game engine.

Indeed!!!

Perhaps for their next model, the Contractor would like to extend the foyer a bit into where the front porch is now, and place the door facing the street on the right? Maybe that can help ease the minds of those confused ZOis.

Well, it won't be a full bottle of wine for long. I like the outdoor look of your corner house! I can see the chimney right there! At least the allocated placement is done! Yes. Absolutely yes. I cannot understand why there has to be such gap. Ecologically deficient!!!

Ah! Yes! Absolutely!! Modders should not have to fix a game. It is the responsibility of the original developers, for sure! And the sooner, the better, I agree.

I agree. I think I left it to the default time for auto saving, but I will shorten it when I play next. Thanks for the tip about calling Zois over!!!

Mallie is feeling much more comfortable after checking out what they have at Nexus Mods. Yep. there's definitely room for improvement, but she'll be sleeping better in that outfit. She finally made it to Liberty Square. This guy was ok. He was the second guy she chatted up. The first one left in a rush. But then, he had her waiting because he's some sort of frustrated street artist. He went to the mic and took his dear time before he got back to her. Not sure he'll be around much, though. The Zois that you chat up do not become your contacts so I'm not sure how Mallie will call them if she wants to see them again. Got her a part time job, solved some of her 'urges'. Nothing exciting, just get a tablet and do reading and other stuff. Got her a plant and she watered it alright. There was some part of an Ambition for her to "water or interact with a plant pot 3 times..." but I noticed that only the watering action counted for this. I may go onto the Discord to mention this. Then, she was still at Liberty Square, and I tried to get her do something, can't recall what that was. The game crashed. At least I know I saved when she got to the square.

Thank you for this info, @Klinn I hope that modding becomes easier because I am definitely a user more than a modder. I am very much looking forward to trying creators mods, especially those for blocking annoying features in the game. If you ever choose to make something, count me on for testing it, ok?

There was a huge trash can inside the studio where I moved the fridge to! It was too large and I moved it outside behind the extension for the bathroom. I'm hoping that it won't be too accessible there in case Zois also like to tumble their neighbors' trash cans. Trust me to find the hard way to do something in game..., or in general!!! It was that I wanted Mallie to explore her neighborhood by foot, but she kept trying to go back to her studio, so I decided to make her move further away to prevent her from turning heel on me. I lived in the UK for three years many moons ago, and was fortunate enough to see those buses in the city. People with mobility issues really benefit from those features. I just never knew they were called "kneeling ramps"! In the figurative meaning that the bus is "kneeling" to let people in more easily, it makes sense, but it is way too funny!!! I'd bet it would be the best joke: "...and the lovely Mexican tourist looks at the bus weirdly, shrugs, and proceeds to kneel on the ramp before boarding. 'When in Rome...', she thinks." Did I tell you about the time when I probably was this close to being arrested for 'allegedly' not paying my bus fare in Toronto? I had actually bought a bus card and had been using it all the time. But then, I noticed that the drivers were not even looking at my shiny card. I thought, 'well, if they don't care to check, I don't need to prove that I've paid, right?' --I know, I know, it was my weird pride. So, the next time I took a bus, I had my card in my pocket, got on the bus, the driver barely looked at me, even though I smiled at her. I moved along the aisle and took a seat. The lady drover off, but shortly after, she was looking at me through her rearview mirror and said; "the lady in the blue jacket needs to show proof of travel (or something in those lines)" I was soo glad that finally someone was asking to see my shiny bus card!!!! I will!!! I think that the second crash must have been because of the traveling. My graphics card must not be able to support that much, let's say, exercise!

Wow! Thank you so very much for trying!!! The game lasted a while, but I can't remember how long I played before it crashed. I think it ran for about 2 to 3 hours real time before the first crash. This is an interesting suggestion, thanks. I agree with your notes and observations and I also hope that the developers are hard pressed at work to deliver a new substantial update sooner rather than later. Now, Mallie. If you recall from when the Character Studio Demo was released, Mallie ended up looking like this: The body sliders are improved and they have longer range, which is good, I think. What I am not sure about is if we can give our Zois different hairs with different outfits. I took Mallie to get new clothes and wanted an updo for her formal outfit, and she got it for all outfits. -sigh- Since she's going to have to work for it all and she will surely sweat a lot in this game, I decided to leave her hair up. The hair is not exactly the shade I wanted for her, but it can be that my graphics card cannot reproduce the shades as well? Anyways. I got Mallie the first most basic studio house; the one that is actually a studio, since the second option has an enclosed bedroom, and nope, that ain't no studio for me. So, I plopped the basic studio in the empty lot from before. The apartments, actually I think there is only one option that is not too big or expensive, and I did not want Mallie to start her Zoi Life that high in society. So, she's renting this studio. And yes, she's not rich or anything, but a damned shower she must have, and since she was saving a lot of money on the studio, we expanded the bathroom to fit the nice shower there. From the front door, you can see the kitchen first. After that, the area opens to have the bed and there is room for a desk as you see here. It was all there in the preset. I just added the curtains, lamp, and side table. The desk was also there in the preset, as well as the computer. I added a second window, ah! I also got Mallie those cute little red table lamps. One by her bed, and one on the desk. And the trash can, too. I want to get Mallie to improve skills, etc., so the first one was cooking. She made a mean salad! I saved the game at that point and left it running to go have lunch. When I came back, the game had crashed. I restarted it and got Mallie to finish making her salad--in a very Sim like fashion, she dropped what I instructed her to do in order to go write a lousy book. I allowed it because skills, but it is annoying that they can drop everything in a second before you have the chance to direct them to do something else. Then, it takes longer for them to drop that autonomous action before going to what you want them to do. Mallie wanted to 'talk about authority' (I gave her the Leader trait), so I thought she should go out and find someone to talk to. I got her on the street talking to some other Zois, but I wanted her to go to Liberty Square to do that thing in her Sunday schedule events. I saw a bus in the corner and tried to get her on it. The bus stops are quite tricky to click on, it is easy, or it was easy for me to miss the thing. Finally I got Mallie on the bus and when the map opened I could only see bus stops, not destinations to get to. I have not seen the map long enough to know where is what, so I guessed a stop by the end of that street could be it. It was the wrong one, of course. I managed to remember..., no I really did not 'remember' how to open the city map, I clicked on almost everything before I got the map up. This map did have the destinations or locations in the city and I managed to click on the option to "Go Here". That's when the game crashed for the second time. I think I have a save from just before Mallie left the house. Now, I am having a non-native speaker moment here? Why the hell would a bus have a ramp for people to kneel on it, please??????????

Well, Nexus Mods has mods for InZoi now. Maybe this could be in its own thread, but for now, I think it may be posted here? Of course, using mods at the stage in the development of the game needs to be carefully considered by each player, but I think the information should be shared. I am a leftie and the controls were killing me. There is this mod to be able to use the arrows on the right of the keyboard and it has made a HUGE difference for me in my play from just today. I hope that the devs will make an update that will allow the controls to be switched to the arrows, but in the meantime, I'll keep testing this mod. A different mod creator shared these mods; one to silence the piano music while in Building mode and another to silence the music in all menus. For me, two more lifesavers. I was totally intent on testing the game again as it is, but when I found these mods, well. They really did the experience much better for me. I'm now back into the game.

I am going to follow your example, @Klinn I'm playing InZoi in a moment after I post the pictures. I'm using a household with only Mallie to explore the world and the game mechanics. I will build something basic to get me started, or maybe I will see if Mallie would like to rent a place? Most important thing: I'll see if the game holds with the lowest parameters set since my graphics card is not the best yet. The pictures I have: I am not sure why but the stairs did not lock onto the floor easily. There is this gap as you can see. I must say I don't remember testing this, but it looked awful and I would not leave it like that even if it worked. Then, there is the void space where the floor or item I was using is making space for a wall, but I was not going to enclose that porch. The overhanding edge of the platform is horrible. Need to learn how to prevent this, too. I took a picture of the house next door. I wat to be able to build something like that. The stairs are solid, not only floating steps, and the door is very close to the top of the stairs. I was actually trying to do this and not a porch, but I could have compromised on the porch, if the stairs had behaved. And the back of the houses. I love that they have the service alley and that the garages are there. But why then can't I have that? At first I thought I had built that stone fence at the back of the property, but then I realized that I didn't. It is the division of the end of the lot imposed by the game. It does not allow me to make a similar driveway towards a garage. So sad. Ok now. I'm going to tackle InZoi and see how long I manage to play. Mallie will either have a blast, or she will blast me off for putting up for this. Either way, it should BE FUN!