Penthouse

Penthouses are new additions in The Sims 3: Late Night. They are fixed-size lots on top of skyscrapers. They can be residential- as well as community lots. People can be seen moving in and out, but the active Sims are virtually the only ones living in the building.

Penthouses are similar to apartments in The Sims 2: Apartment Life, but do not feature the whole social experience of living in a community. The active Sims are the only playable Sims living in the building where the penthouse is. However, NPCs will often live there as well, but there are no determinate neighbors in penthouse they are totally random, and can be sometimes seen walking to the elevator and locking doors. Playable Sims can actually talk to them, and can ring their doorbell to get them out of their rooms in order to socialize with them. Penthouses have been compared to the "Shell" buildings in World Adventures, such as the pyramids. Apart from the residential space, there is a lobby with an intercom (to allow visitors to talk to Sims on the top floor) and an Elevator.

Penthouses are moderately-priced to very expensive, and have either one or two stories, depending on the price. Editing the walls and adding extra room to a penthouse can not be done in a natural way, though it is possible with the use of cheats.

Most of the penthouses are 1-2 bedroom units. If you are looking for additional space, you may have to delete hidden room markers to expand the size of the unit. When you do this, be sure to remove the outside doors if you do not want the NPCs to access this space going forward. It is best to make this type of building edit before you move in Sims, otherwise you could experience system errors or freezes when a family is actively occupying the space.
 * 1st. Type "testingcheatsenabled true" in the cheat console
 * 2nd. Type "buydebug" (some computers may skip this step)
 * 3rd. Type "RestrictBuildBuyInBuildings false"

. You can place pools on elevated floors in penthouses as well as windows as the siding in pools. .

Building Penthouses
Although they are referred to as penthouses, not all penthouses have rooms available on the top floor. They vary based on the chosen shell. To build an apartment, the player must make a residential lot of a large size. Then the player will need to type in several cheats The player must then go to the debug section of buy mode and search through the "misc" section to find one of 2 (27 if Patch 18 is installed) high-rise shells. The player now has freedom to build inside or outside of the unit to complete the apartment. To make public rooms, one must use the "Public Room Marker". To make hidden rooms, the "Hidden Room Marker" is used.
 * testingcheatsenabled true
 * buydebug on
 * restrictbuildbuyinbuildings off (false also works in place of off)
 * moveobjects on (not required, but makes shell placement easier.)