Hiya :)
There's an excellent starter guide at TSO MAnia
http://www.tsomania.net/gameguides/getting_started.php
It very neatly covers a lot of things we'd forget to mention so you should start with that and then you can ask more stuff as you go along. If you have discord you can join the...
Nope (It is already a total of 20 minutes before you are logged out, so I assume what you mean you would like the 5 minutes warning to be 15 minutes so you can ignore the game for a full 30 minutes before being logged out. It is awfully hard to tell when you guys don't bother to write out full...
Skill houses are not actually meant to double as service lots. All of that extra work people do to run a skill house is voluntarily encroaching on another lot type. Personally I see no reason for them to be rewarded for that.
There is currently no schedule for server restarts.
You can ask for your sim to be freed from a stuck lot in the support channel at the discord server. This will not fix THE LOT (so do not return to it) but will allow you to play your sim on other lots.
If you have not joined the discord server...
I know that the lighting in the template is a quick set up and so not exact but it could be used a a rough guide or starting point for positioning lights, but this was created before FSO lighting. Which seems to create some shadows on the objects so will softening the lights/shadows in the...
When one of your sims gets stuck on a lot do NOT try with your other sims. The problem lies with the lot, not your sim and any/all sims trying to enter the lot will be stuck.
Once the server is restarted, the lot is usable again and all Sims that were stuck there are available again.
(This isn't the correct forum. You want to post this type of thing in Community --> General forum
http://forum.freeso.org/forums/general-discussion.7/ )
Hold CTRL and re-draw over the walls.
CTRL is also used to remove flooring and wallpapers
You'll want to bookmark beta.freeso.org for this beta test. It has the links to discord (support), terms of use, and all of that good Beta Tester stuff like that :)
I let this pass on facebook figuring it was a one off impulse. Guess not. When I mentioned merging those two I was just using those two as an example of two that seemed like they might (perhaps) benefit from sharing their special objects and "hangout" was description said casually, not anything...
The .net stuff is being brought over here to freeso.org this week, which could explain the trouble you are having.
The links on this page work: http://freeso.org/download/