Hey Roomie, wat up?
November 20th, 2009 by TirNua Audrey Leave a comment Share on FacebookRoommates - Do you have roommates in Tirnua yet? If not, be among the first to share your home or business with a roommate or two. For the time being, you can have up to 4 roommates on each lot you own.
Roommate Permissions:
Roomies CAN:
- Edit the lot - move objects on and off (the object will always be returned to the Object Owner’s Inventory)
- Edit the Lot Entry Permissions
- Edit the Lot Description
- Edit the Max Users
Roomies CANNOT:
- Edit the Lot Name
- Edit the Lot Size
- Edit the Lot Background
- Edit the Lot Entry Permissions
- Enter the Lot if the Entry Permissions are set to Owners Only
To get Roommates, you will need to acquire Keys for your lot and gift them to who you want to room with.
Here’s how:
- Enter your lot and click on the Lot Information button
- Select the ‘Keys’ button to the right of the Owner’s display
- Select the Quantity of Keys to purchase from the pull down menu (currently limited to 4) and select the Purchase button
- Once you have purchased Keys, you can Gift or Secure Trade the keys to any Persona you desire to become your Roommate
Things to note:
Known Issues
Sewing Machines - Sew your very own Custom Clothing creations! All you need is a Sewing Machine and a power source and you’ll be ready to sew to your heart’s content. The Sewing Machine is currently only available to Residents in the Tirnua VIP Store.
Once you have your sewing machine, you will, of course, need some fabric to sew with. If you don’t already have fabric bins from recycling, you will need to get some by recycling various furniture items like the chairs. After this,
- Place a Fabric Recycling Bin on your lot and select the ‘Load Materials’ action on the Sewing Machine to stock it up with Fabric
- Select “Start Sewing” which will prompt you for which of your Custom Clothing patterns you would like to sew
- You will then begin sewing your Custom Clothing. If you run out of Energy or Fabric sewing will be paused until you replenish it
- You can check on the status of your Sewing Maching machine by clicking on it and seleting ‘Status’
- NOTE: When submitting your Custom Clothing in the Dress Me Create panel you can set the quantity of items to purchase to 0, although it is not available in the drop down, by typing it into the Purchase dialog by hand and you will only be charged Custom Content Submission Fee.
Lot Resize - All lots except for Free Lots can be re-sized to a larger lot size (you cannot shrink your lot though).
- Enter your Lot and click the Lot Information button
- At the Lot Information dialog, click the Edit… button at right of the Size display
- At the Change Lot Size dialog, select a new Lot size. The maximum Lot size is 20 x 24
The cost of the upgrade is:
- Lot Upgrade Cost:
This is ( the current price of the new larger sized deed ) - ( the current price of the current deed ).
Tax: The tax on the Lot Upgrade amount above. - Lease Upgrade:
This is ( the current lease price of the new larger sized deed - the lease price of the current deed ) x ( the number of months left on the current deed )Only whole months are charged, any partial month is counted as one month.
Important: please note that your monthly lease on the Lot will be increased to reflect the new size
Thanksgiving Holiday Collection Happy Thanksgiving!!!
What Else?
- Level Up Scores - the persona web now displays your Level Up Scores and a Facebook feed like this one will be generated in order to make sure all your friends are rightfully jealous.
- New Salad Processor - the salad processor has a new look!
- VIP Store - new items added this week: purchase the moving truck and business license at a discount in the VIP Store (only available to residents).
- Manufacturing Rares - manufacturing the treadmill will produce Rare Treadmills (blue is rarer than red)
- New chat message line when you get a new in-game message.
- Zoom check box in Dress Me Panel - gives you a preview of what your outfit will look in-game. Very helpful for viewing custom content.
- Resident badge extension - the $5.95 Deal has been extended to January 4th. Get yours now!
Wow, lots of good stuff to check out!
Audrey and The Tirnua Team
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November 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Wow! What a big update! This is awesome! Love the new salad station! Now I can tell the front from the back. Yay for roomies! I’ve got some keys to hand out!
November 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Nice update, I can’t wait to start printing the treadmills. “You need an M value of 58 to be able to start printing from this disk!” That is the message I receive when trying to print the salad bar. The cap is 50, how do we get an M value of 58?
November 20th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Sorry not the salad bar the treadmills disc gives me that message.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
*Roomies CANNOT: Use the scanner and printer.
November 20th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Amrobsia: That is a bug. Looking into it right now.
thanks
greg
November 20th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Oh my gosh. I’m completely stunned by this update.
This is the best yet, you have managed to include so many things I have wished for… lol
Roomies, lot resize and cheaper cc - in a clever and fun way!
You guys are amazing.
Haven’t done any testing yet (just sitting here blinking my eyes) but I wonder how you have solved the real estate prices in this - before the update if you clicked on “Buy lot” you got a much higher price it said you had to pay, but when you actually clicked purchase, you got the lower price.
For instance:
When purchasing a 20×24 lot, it says you will have to pay 6688.80 tau, but it will only deduct 5900 (-ish).
I’m hoping the price will stay at 5900 even when you expand your lot.
Another question:
I suppose a roomie can be a roomie in several houses? Is there a limit to how many keys to other people’s houses you can own?
A thought:
Can roomies recycle other roomies or the owners flowers?
(Perhaps I should put a ‘ somewhere in that sentence, I don’t mean that we should be able to recycle other roomies. Unless you get fabric from it)
Thanks team, awesome.
November 20th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Also nothing happens when I click on the new button Earn/Buy/Become resident.
November 20th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Another thing.
If the owner of the lot is a Guest, and invites Residents as roomies.
Can the roomies set the house on “Residents only” and lock out the owner?
November 20th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Raisin lmao really , I love that recycling roomies very interesting thought, I say we should be able to scan and print naughty Roomies at the least if they lock the owner out, and printing them must be at the roomies exspence,lol more FABRIC that way ha ha ha
November 20th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
I’m willing to sacrifice Manssom if I get a few piles of fabric!
Hmm… Now I am very confused about the price for expanding a lot. I don’t understand the numbers it gives me.
I bought a lot on the 4th of november. It is 12×20.
If I expand it to 20×24 it will cost 4603 tau.
A new lot 20×24 will cost 6688.80 (deducts 5900ish) and a 12×20 will cost 3398,40 (deducts less, like 2900-ish). Difference: 3290,40 (deducts less).
So in a way I would actually get more for my money if I bought a new 20×24.
Maybe it takes the 2900-ish I paid before and compares it to 6688.80?
It’s very confusing. I’ll have to make a forum thread (oh how surprising).
November 20th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Hehe…Rue Mayte
November 20th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
^___^
You’ll have to owe me first, and you can’t afford me
Great update btw! But I can’t get my sewing machine to work >__< I’ve done everything right, I think.
But the option “Start sewing” is dark :O
November 20th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Another awesome update y’all!! One this tho, on the new items, like the fruit bar do not have any description when you click “Learn to Use” - Just FYI
thanks for your hard work!!
November 20th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Great idea roommates I got one!!!!!!!!!
November 21st, 2009 at 2:38 am
Love the fact we can have roomies now, few people want to take in bears though. We tend to pee on the floor and leave our honey pots all over the place.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:04 am
Groovy ~ you’re supposed to wait till after you’re a roomie before telling everyone that…silly bear.
November 21st, 2009 at 4:38 am
I just wanna commend whoever made that new salad processor.
IT’S. JUST. FLIPPIN’. AMAZING! It’s my new favorite item in-game, and it totally boggles my mind how awesome it is!
Question - will it be discontinued in the catalog once Thanksgiving is over? I personally would LOVE if we started getting Limited Edition items in the game… Especially if they’re holiday/season-specific, because that just makes it all the more fun!
I hope there’ll be recolors/re-workings of the sewing machine at a later date… It currently looks rather dismal. It’d be neat if you released a Christmas/Holiday version with, like, garland trim around the table legs and the tabletop… And a cheery bunch of holly hanging off the front, or something!
Does the sewing machine raise an Energy Capacity? If it doesn’t, I personally think it should raise Mental Capacity… All those complex stitch settings and fabric pilings have to be worth SOME mental points!!! lol
I’m so glad you guys fixed the dilemma for CC creators. If and when we get the ability to create/mass-produce CC Objects, I think we should have a wooden bench, complete with a hammer and an entire toolbox, etc., etc. … That would make my day.
In other news, I ADORE the pilgrim outfits (especially the hats… hope they female hat is unisex!! lmao), and roomies are perhaps the most EXCITING thing about this week! I love you guys.
Roomies were on my list of Top Ten Favorite Features of TSO, undoubtedly! Glad to see them make a comeback!
After hearing that MonkeyPantz is already working on the Xmas/Holiday update and is promising that it’ll be perhaps the best update yet… I can’t help but be stoked!! I’m totally in love with you Devs, you’re better than chocolate! :O
November 21st, 2009 at 6:23 am
Tori i didnt find a fruit bar? where did you find a fruit bar ?
November 21st, 2009 at 6:24 am
oh and are roomies gonna be able to harvest fruit from our trees?
November 21st, 2009 at 7:22 am
The sewing machine seems kinda buggy, U know. I can’t use it!
November 21st, 2009 at 7:31 am
Do you think there is a possibility of adding to the Entry Permissions: Roommates Only?
November 21st, 2009 at 7:33 am
I’m confused on the above post as I read closer…am I missing something?
Roommate Permissions:
Roomies CAN:
2.Edit the Lot Entry Permissions
Roomies CANNOT:
4.Edit the Lot Entry Permissions
November 21st, 2009 at 7:42 am
I noticed that to :p Must be a mistake :O I think…
November 21st, 2009 at 8:37 am
@Qute: I thought that since it’s both a ‘CAN’ and ‘CANNOT’ that they can edit the Permissions for Guests/Residents, but CANNOT set it to Owner Only, since obviously that would defeat the purpose of setting permissions…
Then again, I dunno if I’m right, so… yeah.
-dances-
I want the new processing station so so so bad!
November 21st, 2009 at 10:04 am
What I have noticed by being a roomie. The items permissions stay the same as before. Roomies can not use items they could not use as visitors (pick fruit, harvest, scan, print, recycle owners objects etc). Roomies can set lot permissions but they can not lock the Owner out. Owners can lock out roomies and not allow them access to their items. Roomies can not be recycled. hehe Roomies can add items to the lot and move things around. They can pick up items from the lot that belong to the owner and other roomies. The owner does not have access to these items without reloading the game. Raisin seeing how excited you were and appreciative made me smile.
November 21st, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Can we get the chances for getting a rare on the treadmills? I failed.
I am going to try again but I would like to know my chances.
November 21st, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I GOT CHARGED 400 FOR MY KEYS, THE BLOG SAYS THE FIRST 4 ARE FREE
November 21st, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Hey dev team,
if someone from Sweden helped you out with the outfits for Swedish Lucia on Dec 13 - could we get that as well in the stores for Lucia celebration? Or do we just celebrate American holidays?
November 21st, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Yeah I second that
Was thinking of it myself.
Lucia gowns are pretty easy but maybe we would need to have a longer skirt mesh or a gown (since it is a gown), and for the boys a cone hat. The crown would take a bit of doing, but we could skip the candles in it maybe and just have a wreath.
http://www.trebarnsmamman.se/bilder08/Lucia.jpg
There’s plenty of other pics if you search for pictures of Lucia. Here is a wiki article with nice pictures
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia (use translate, couldn’t find it in english)
It’s a popular tradition here - people are always searching for Lucia stuff for Sims.
) beauty-type contests, where people vote for who should be Lucia. All little children dress up in Lucia costumes and sing for their parents in the morning, or at the daycare center.
On December 13th we have Lucia processions that go around the whole community and sing. Every village, school, city, some workplaces etc have their own Lucia. The country has a national Lucia. The girls in the procession are elected in (annoying
It’s celebrated in memory of a saint named Lucia, who lived in Sicily 1700 years ago or something. It’s celebrated in all the nordic countries.
Ofc you probably can’t make costumes for every single occasion in the whole world, but this would be really fun to get. Since we don’t know a thing about Thanksgiving etc. Also it would be a golden opportunity for someone to make us a long-sleeved female mesh and a long gown mesh, lol
November 21st, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I would like to be able to see which roomie owns the items.
Right now I can’t know who owns it or if it’s myself.
November 21st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Hey idea on thanksgiving clothing….I am more of an Indian nature I want squaw clothes….lol then I am going bear hunting!!!!!!
November 21st, 2009 at 10:57 pm
LOL SUNNY!
And Gertie, that’s a wonderful idea!
We’re on our way to becoming an international game, so why not start early and celebrate more than just American holidays!? 
You should send them an e-mail about it and make sure they see it!
I personally would LOVE if we celebrated more than just American holidays.
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:03 am
Lucia on Tirnua, hmm… Don’t know about that, but if the Devs are interrested I think we should have following outfits.
Star Boy (Stjärngosse)
Gingerbread (Pepparkaka)
Lucia girl attendant (tärnor)
Brownies (tomtenissar)
and of course, Lucia. Maybe we could keep some of the outfits for Christmas afterwards
Like Brownies and Gingerbread. Just a suggestion, I think it’s more fun if we have more outfits and not just two for example. 
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:15 am
Yeah, I agree, more outfits = more fun!
I’d love if we could have a huge variety of ‘common’ clothing to mix and match with CC creations! That would be so much fun.
But realistically, since we ARE an international community… We should definitely start catering to other holidays and other cultures.
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:38 am
Atlas;
“We should definitely start catering to other holidays and other cultures.”
Yeah for instance WoW has done that - they made their own holidays in the game that coincide with “real” holidays for different nationalities, such as the Lunar Festival (Chinese New Year), Midsummer festival (Our nordic midsummer celebration) etc. It’s pretty cool.
Manssom;
“Star Boy (Stjärngosse)
Gingerbread (Pepparkaka)
Lucia girl attendant (tärnor)
Brownies (tomtenissar)”
Tomtenissar can also be translated to Santa’s little helper, or Elf.
It’s usually small children who dress up like santa’s helpers or gingerbread men.
Lucia’s attendants I would say her “entourage” but that might be wrong, anyway, it’s like the Lucia gown except that Lucia has a wreath or crown with candles in her hair and a red ribbon around the waist, and the other girls following her usually have glitter around their waist and glitter in their hair. Not that big a difference so perhaps just one gown would suffice.
If we did get these costumes, the Gingerbread man and the Santa’s helper costumes would work well for americans as well.
Gingerbread man would be so nice, if the “hat” covered the whole head (and then hand over the mesh please, bear costumes, here we come, lol)
I keep picturing Lucia with electric candles in her hair, powered by a big red battery… lol
I think we’re drifting a bit off topic now though.
ABOUT THE KEYS;
I wonder what happens if someone has sent us keys to their home, and we make our own keys to give away - and we accidentally send off one of the keys we got to someone elses home?
And; I hope we can have more than 4 roomies. I already gave away all the 4 keys but now I need more. Had a brilliant idea - the roomies can set their fruit on “Not for sale” and that way nobody can take their fruit. Perfect solution for a gym with “gym membership”.
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 am
Some thoughts about the community.
While we have our own wiki and forum, we also have a wiki at: http://tirnua.wikia.com/wiki/Tirnua_Wiki and a forum entry on stratics at http://vboards.stratics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=406 it would be useful to growing the community if we could get some help keeping those two updated.
thank you in advance,
Luc
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:51 am
Ooh, that’s a good idea about the roomies, Raisin!
I miss seeing you guys!
…Would that mean that SwedAss may be opening up to the public once more?
I think they’re fixing the keys next week, as far as labeling them and stuff… That’s the way it sounds, anyway. I HOPE they do this, because otherwise it’ll be a confusing mess!
And I’d also like to see us be able to have more than 4 roomies as well… Perhaps after the first 4 that are free, we can be charged a 120 TAU (or similarly cheap) fee per key made? That could be where rent comes in, etc. …
Btw, I just wanted to say… I love the Level feature!! It’s entertaining, and actually motivates me to get a higher Green Thumb score, etc.!
Perhaps we can get ‘perks’ or ‘rewards’ for reaching certain landmark levels? I think receiving a gift each level would become dull, but maybe we can get a Level 10 gift, a Level 20 gift, etc. :)?
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 am
Same sh*t different names
Besides, Brownies sounds yummy 
The main thing is that we get more than just one or two outfits. We could rule out Lucia attendant, like you said it’s almost the same outfit. I also agree that we should be able to celebrate other holidays than just the American ones.
The fruit thing was however a great idea. Now I can finally have my fruit, alone!
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:16 am
Luc, why does your wiki link go to a different wiki than the one we’ve been using?
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:18 am
Stratics, really, already? :\
November 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 am
Whaddya mean already!?
It’s been there since like… May of ‘08!
It’s really underused… Luc, I actually have a suggestion!
Can you maybe make a weekly-update Sticky in the forum over on Stratics? If we post a summary of the weekly blog push PLUS a link to each blog entry (starting with the next update, no need to go back in the past and do it)… Maybe that’ll interest people?
I dunno, if they actually SEE the game’s progress and realize, hey, the red flower dresses are a thing of a past, then… MAYBE WE’LL ACTUALLY GET SOME MEMBERS! :’D Lol
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:56 am
Ok I just created an account for that Wiki page….and my blury word was drugs…lmao who snitched on me….lol
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:36 pm
It would be nice if the My Homes drop-down included homes at which you are a roomie
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I agree with Cutsie!
And also, about the Lucia - the picture Raisin has linked to is just what we need. I can settle with the white gowns for men and women and the star boy hat and the lucia crown. Of course gingerbread man and nisse would be great - but the Lucia and starboy outfits are the main outfits. (if we can wish for 2 diff)
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
I NIED MORE KEYS kthxbye
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
One more thought about roomies.
Would it somehow be possible to treat membership cards for a totem, as a sort of key to the lot?
I think it would be amazing if that was possible. It would create chaos for some people, but for those who know what they’re doing it would be great. Maybe there’s some way to make it safer (for open groups).
It would be really nice if people could gain access to a lot (for instance a work out lot) if they were members of the totem. They would have the same rights as a roomie, or perhaps limited a little (to moving objects, placing objects, not editing the room description or access rights) so they could place their own fruit next to their treadmill etc.
Instant club house.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 am
Hey Luc, regarding stratics (where i think is a great place to tell people about Tirnua) A couple things the stratics people could help out with.
1) Tirnua is not listed on the main stratics page anywhere
2) on the forums page, you would have to look in the thread part to see Tirnua Discussion Hall, we need to be on the list on the left too!
3) Since the screenshots are so old, we should post some new ones.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 am
Stratics sucks! Someone had to say it.
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:17 am
YOU BEAT ME TO IT AMBROSIA, I AGREE, STRATICS SUCKS BIG TIME AND I BLAME THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE MODERATORS OR WERE THE MODS WITH THEIR FAVORITISM. DELETING POST THAT PEOPLE WOULD PUT THEN THE MODS THEMSELVES WOULD PUT THE SAME EXACT THING. BANNING PEOPLE FOR POSTING THE SAME THINGS THE MODS POSTED.
THE MODS ON STRATICS CALLING OTHER PEOPLE NAMES BUT WHEN SOMEONE WOULD SPEAK AGAINST A MOD THEY GET BANNED.
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Never noticed that on Stratics, wasn’t there for so long though so I don’t know.
I’m still using them as an example, hehe.
I just always thought the Stratics moderators were dead cool, especially Milton
I do my lobbying in other places at the moment though. Muahaha.
November 24th, 2009 at 2:10 am
MILTON HATED ME THE MOST, HE TALKED SO MUCH CRAP ABOUT ME ON STRATICS AND REMOVED MY POST WHEN I TRIED TO REBUTTLE. IF I REMEMBER RIGHT, IT WAS MILTON WHO FINALLY GAVE ME THE PERMA BAN FROM STRATICS.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:36 am
I had no real problem with stratics but it was very clear there was favortism. I don’t think its good for the community in general, however it may be good to get other players.
I am not interested in the mod drama there lol.