Mod The Sims - What's happening in your game right now

Peni Griffin

22nd Mar 2012, 5:52 PM

Nothing whatsoever is happening in my game right now, because our hard drive died. We installed the new one last night, and I've spent the morning installing stuff, including the software that will (I devoutly hope!) allow us to restore our lost data from backup. It's a program we haven't been using long, so the suspense till my husband gets to it is dreadful. He's the computer pro and wants to do it himself, so I just have to wait for him. Best case scenario, I will be able to play Drama Acres minus two weeks of real time. I'm not sure where that places me - my regular habit of making new backups every rotation won't help me here, because the drive where I put them is only backed up to the external drive once a month, so those copies should be older than the neighborhood folder that got backed up incidentally as part of the C drive backup.

So, best case scenario, I will probably have to restart Strangetown AGAIN - this will be the third time since I got the itch to make it up to Vidcund for accidentally killing him before he could have his baby, the very first time I set down to experiment - and I will lose a lot of really cool gameplay that I have no reason to think will be duplicated. Ashleigh's first date with Kestrel remains only as whatever pictures I've already uploaded to Photobucket. Ditto Castor's autonomous rejection of Georgette's proffered opportunity to cheat on Jane. Heather Beare's and Natalie Swain's pregnancies, gone. Little Dave Ottomas growing up into the perfect hair and outfit for his suburban hideousness, and drawing his Uncle Tommy into human interaction, gone. And the absolutely perfect sequence of events at the House of Fallen Trees that took place Monday night - gone with the wind. Not even a picture remaining, because I play till it's time to get off the machine and go through the pictures choosing which ones to upload the next day, but I played House of Fallen Trees Monday night and Tuesday morning awoke to the Blue Screen of Death. :(

Let me tell you about the Lost Day anyway, so you can share my pain. Those of you actually following this soap opera may recall that the House of Fallen Trees is inhabited by Tricou bastard Lora Phoenix, her husband Jimmy, her brother Derek, her friend (with a crush on her) Phoenix, her sister Bad News Beverly, and Tri, Beverly's child by Ashley Pitts-Upsnott, who is not the guy she's engaged to. Another brother, newly-graduated Jay, moved in and as I opened the game was standing at the curb.

Now, Phoenix has dated Beverly and gotten as far as making out, but when push came to woohoo she decided she needed to get up and check on her kid instead. At some point, presumably on a community lot, Phoenix stole a kiss from Lora and she fell in love with him, but she hasn't been married long and the last day I played them seemed to be deliberately avoiding Phoenix, which is only natural. Since last rotation I added a mod that caused a reset, so everyone was standing up, mostly in their jammies, wide awake and needing to go to the bathroom, so I went around, set up everyone's first actions so as not to cause traffic jams, and set things in motion. With so folks on all three floors, I have to bounce around a lot to minimize what I miss out on and make sure no one actually suffers from my neglect - there isn't hope in hell of my micromanaging them, which is one of the delightful things about playing this house.

As directed, Jay came in and made breakfast. Bev potty-trained Tri. Lora used her and Jimmy's bathroom while Jimmy worked on a painting he'd almost finished, with the bathroom in his queue so he could automatically go there after the painting was done. Phoenix used his bathroom, and Derek, who was downstairs in his bathing suit (I think he was in the hot tub at the end of last rotation) used the new powder room. I set him a couple other useful things to do, went back upstairs to check on Tri, and found him happily playing with the shape blocks while Phoenix and Beverly made out in her bedroom. Lora is practicing a speech and Jimmy, having forgotten the bathroom completely, is bearing down on her with dance kissing her on his mind.

Since his wants panel is full of erotic interactions with the ubiquitous Georgette, I figure he had some pretty raunchy dreams and is now determined to make it up to Lora for committing adultery in his heart, canceled her speechmaking, zapped down to see if Jay had finished making breakfast, and had him call the household to a meal. Suddenly, I hear the Boing of Heartbreak - Phoenix, responding to the call for breakfast before Jimmy and Lora were finished dance kissing, saw them and was crushed! (Well, she did marry him, stupid - what did you expect? And, btw, you're the one making out with her sister.)

Phoenix slaps Lora. Lora cries. Jimmy gives Phoenix a sound and IMHO much-merited drubbing. Phoenix cries. Everybody goes to breakfast and eats together, Phoenix occasionally stopping to cry. Jay spontaneously interacts with Tri. Jimmy goes to work. Lora goes out to the back porch to paint, in her nightie, occasionally stopping to cough, Beverly having brought home a cold from a recent party at which she also saw Ashley flirting another sim. Phoenix and Beverly, also still in their PJs, wander outside and Phoenix, with a look of cold calculation I wouldn't believe if I hadn't seen it, grabs Beverly and makes out with her about two squares from Lora.

Lora goes ballistic. Beverly wanders inside ("Hey, I think I hear Tri calling..."). Lora and Phoenix get into a huge argument, with arm-crossing, sneering, yelling, and the whole nine yards. I didn't even have to write the dialog - anybody could see she was pretending she was upset because he had the nerve to lead Beverly astray when she's engaged, he was taunting her for being jealous, and that relationship was going to hell in a handbasket. I'm not sure how it ended, because I had to go check on Tri (poor kid; he's alternately mobbed and ignored and never rolls wants for anything but Beverly's attention and toddler skills, which no one has the attention span/available time to teach him) and then Jimmy got a chance card. He made the wrong choice, got demoted, and came straight home. Which, ironically, was a good thing for me, because that cold was making the rounds of the house, and Jimmy's the only one who can make Comfort Soup.

At some point, Ashley shows up. He and Bev are on the outs since the party incident, but he seems to be stalking her - he wasn't invited to the party where she caught him cheating, he just showed up on a walkby, and suddenly here he was. You'd think he'd drop by to see Tri but in fact he wandered in, had some soup, played darts, and got into the hot tub with Derek and Jay without sparing his son a glance. By evening I was pretty ticked at him, and I figured Beverly - who adores Tri, in the clueless, ineffectual way you'd expect her to - would be, too, so I had her influence him to play with his kid for once, and he did, long enough that I had to send someone to talk to him so Tri could go to bed.

Jimmy was depressed about losing his job. Lora had a date want and had been cured by the soup. They'd already had a conversation about the possibility of having a kid of their own, and she'd said "Maybe when this next film wraps." She had a couple of days off, so the film apparently wrapped, and with the events of the day, it occurred to me that they both had something to prove and this was the perfect time to leave off the birth control, even though neither of them has a "have baby" want. And I heard baby chimes -

at about the same time the first ghost showed up! No one but me seems to have seen her, but she seemed really p.o.ed about something. I think it was Rainelle.

Also, Phoenix, exhausted, blew off going to work. I didn't realize it till I got the notice that his bosses weren't impressed.

Now, you know when I go back to that house, there's no way it'll all fall together perfectly like that again! And if I try to push it, I'll ruin it.

Stupid tech.

music2ologist

22nd Mar 2012, 5:55 PM

I would try the stuck object remover here.

I did plop it down in one or two places, and 'no objects were burninated'. Perhaps I'd better clear the room and put the yellow nuke box everywhere. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yazoo

22nd Mar 2012, 6:31 PM

I think I love making new families. Because I made a new family last night. :) The McKay family. They are soooo sweet and cute. I shall give the back story of each of the mothers :)

Ashley McKay was born to a rich and prominent family. But everyone called her Ash, because for a long time, everyone thought that she was a guy. She graduated from High School, with an A+. Was an Overachiever. Then went to College and took the Physics Major. She graduated with a 4.0 And when coming back home, she was told that she would marry the Heir of the Worthington family, her name is Rhona. Ashley pretty said hell no. But her parents told her there was no way out of this, and they all think she is a guy anyway. Ashley hated the idea, and wanted to just run to a nearby Mountain, and live there.

Rhona Worthington was also born into a rich and prominent family. Rhona was popular, very popular. She too graduated from High School with an A+, and was an Overachiever. She went to College and too the Drama Major. She graduated with a 4.0. Rhona returned home, with her boyfriend. Her parents told her that they had found the perfect guy for her, Ash McKay. She fought her parents on the subject. And ran away with her boyfriend into the mountains. But upon returning, she agreed to do the marriage. But she had one condition and that condition would be spoken with Ash.

Ash finally met Rhona, and literally fell in love with Rhona at first sight. They did exchange vows and were married. Rhona told Ash her condition. And Ash, reluctantly said that's fine. Ash stayed home, read, watched TV. Cooked for when she invited friends over. She was working, but really didn't need to seeing she was rich behind the wildest dream. She would wait for Rhona to come home, but by 7AM she had to be getting some sleep because she worked in the next 3 hours. Life wasn't so grand with Ash.

One day after work, Ash came home and caught Rhona in bed with her boyfriend. In Ash's bed. Ash couldn't believe it, but seeing this was a fake marriage what was the point. Ash took her ring off, and departed to an island, to be alone. For a good 2 years. By this time Rhona's boyfriend left her, when he had found out she had gotten pregnant. During the 2 years Ash was gone, Rhona gave birth to four beautiful girls: Kris, Jenny, Rose, Marcel. During the 2 years Ash was gone, Rhona realized that she had feelings for him (Her). And when Ash returned, Rhona couldn't be happier. But when she saw a new ring on her (fake husband's) finger, she fell apart. Ash reassured her, it wasn't a wedding band. She needed wanted a ring on that finger. And Ash then told Rhona the truth, that she was actually a woman, named Ashley. Rhona was shocked. But they got to talking. And realized that they had a lot in common.

While the beautiful daughters were fast asleep. Rhona and Ashley went up to the bedroom, were they continued to talk, but then Ashley asked Rhona is she wanted to cuddle. And from that point...They ended up making love. And after their passionate love making, Rhona grabbed the ring that Ashley had left, and pushed the ring back onto her finger. Rhona restated her vows, and Ashley did the same. They fell asleep in each other's arms that night.

Now, Rhona's daughters are teenagers now. Kris and Jenny dress and act like Ashley. Were as Rose and Marcel dress and act like Rhona. Kris, Jenny, Rose, and Marcel get along, and accept that their parents are females. They are doing...Well, somewhat well in High School, all C+ students for the time being. This is what is going on in my game now :)

JDacapo

22nd Mar 2012, 11:10 PM

So, best case scenario, I will probably have to restart Strangetown AGAIN - this will be the third time since I got the itch to make it up to Vidcund for accidentally killing him before he could have his baby, the very first time I set down to experiment - and I will lose a lot of really cool gameplay that I have no reason to think will be duplicated.

How'd you kill him? And was his ghost preggers too?

Peni Griffin

23rd Mar 2012, 12:55 AM

It was a total accident! Remember this was literally the first or second day I ever played, when I only had Double Deluxe loaded. I accidentally starved him to death because I wasn't prepared a) for the precipitous way his needs plummeted, b) for the 17-mile walk he insisted on taking to the outdoor card table, or c) for burned food. I thought it would be inedible and made him make a second batch. He died as he got it to the table. And Lazlo was home but I couldn't get him there in time to plead with the reaper for him because, hey, 17-mile walk. And he'd been primary caretaker for little Tycho, who adored him and had a fear of a relative dying; and then he got a fear of Vidcund's grave getting kicked, and then Loki came along and KICKED HIS GRAVE! I promised myself to come back one day and do it right, quit, and went straight over to the Beakers, where I put Loki into one of his contraptions and toasted him as thoroughly as I could. The first thing I've done in my two recent reboots of Strangetown has been, remodeling that house from bottom to functional top

And yes, pregnant ghosts remain pregnant. I later killed a CAS sim (that I only feel a little guilty about, because I built him for experimental purposes + seeding the adoption pool; still, I'm wondering if it's possible to resurrect him, when his only relatives are toddlers who forget him as soon as they're adopted) after testing to make sure I could make alien pregnancy with the Tombstone of Life and Death, and now he's haunting the house in his maternity clothes, poor thing:

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee238/PeniG/Simshots/snapshot_0000000b_9ba8c124.jpg

Alas, alack, and woe is me: the most recent C drive backup didn't work, so I'm going to have to go back to Drama Acres Version 2/6/12. Since I've spent most of March feeling crappy and simming to make myself better, that's a lot of gameplay to go through again. And I can't start it till I get my new Apartment Life disc. And I have to rebuild almost all my CC from scratch. Fortunately I made redundant backups of the things I knew I wanted to keep most, like the lot debugger and the teleporter cat. I have no surviving backup of Strangetown Mark III at all, so I may, once I'm done with the upcoming downloading spree, play it for awhile instead and make some real progress.

May this be the worst thing that happens to us all year. I'll be a lot mellower about it when I can do more real work.

JDacapo

23rd Mar 2012, 3:17 AM

It was a total accident! Remember this was literally the first or second day I ever played, when I only had Double Deluxe loaded. I accidentally starved him to death because I wasn't prepared a) for the precipitous way his needs plummeted, b) for the 17-mile walk he insisted on taking to the outdoor card table, or c) for burned food. I thought it would be inedible and made him make a second batch. He died as he got it to the table. And Lazlo was home but I couldn't get him there in time to plead with the reaper for him because, hey, 17-mile walk. And he'd been primary caretaker for little Tycho, who adored him and had a fear of a relative dying; and then he got a fear of Vidcund's grave getting kicked, and then Loki came along and KICKED HIS GRAVE! I promised myself to come back one day and do it right, quit, and went straight over to the Beakers, where I put Loki into one of his contraptions and toasted him as thoroughly as I could. The first thing I've done in my two recent reboots of Strangetown has been, remodeling that house from bottom to functional top

And yes, pregnant ghosts remain pregnant. I later killed a CAS sim (that I only feel a little guilty about, because I built him for experimental purposes + seeding the adoption pool; still, I'm wondering if it's possible to resurrect him, when his only relatives are toddlers who forget him as soon as they're adopted) after testing to make sure I could make alien pregnancy with the Tombstone of Life and Death, and now he's haunting the house in his maternity clothes, poor thing:

Alas, alack, and woe is me: the most recent C drive backup didn't work, so I'm going to have to go back to Drama Acres Version 2/6/12. Since I've spent most of March feeling crappy and simming to make myself better, that's a lot of gameplay to go through again. And I can't start it till I get my new Apartment Life disc. And I have to rebuild almost all my CC from scratch. Fortunately I made redundant backups of the things I knew I wanted to keep most, like the lot debugger and the teleporter cat. I have no surviving backup of Strangetown Mark III at all, so I may, once I'm done with the upcoming downloading spree, play it for awhile instead and make some real progress.

May this be the worst thing that happens to us all year. I'll be a lot mellower about it when I can do more real work.

Aww... guess it's a good thing my only Vidcund problems were him not getting along with Nervous Subject(did the ear-plug/lalala bit whenever I had him chat with the guy) or the Nanny, and having rather strange reactions with the former kitten-killer. He makes such a sweet daddy ^^

Yazoo

23rd Mar 2012, 8:40 PM

Kris, Jenny, Marcel, and Rose have expanded their horizons. They are all in College. Kris has taken on the Biology Major. Marcel and Jenny both are taking the Mathematics Major. And Rose, being Rose has no clue what she wants. But I am just going to guess she may want the Physics Major. Just a guess.

Marcel is crushing on a Secret Society member named Cara. Kris and Jenny are getting some good money by playing Poker with a Professor. He came over and Kris was so very nice and greeted him. And now he will not leave at all. Rose being a creepier is watching Kirs, Jenny and the Professor play Poker. Rose...The creepier.

But that's pretty much..Where they sit. Lol

JDacapo

23rd Mar 2012, 9:34 PM

Yazoo

23rd Mar 2012, 9:36 PM

Marcus has graduated and now I am making preparations for his graduation party... kinda nervous about having one in the dorms but I'll save before I start so I can restart it and try again if it bombs. Only had one party before and it was a dud, so I'm kinda worried about trying to have another party. Been reading up on them and how to make a good party though, and I finally got the myshuno game to work so hopefully this party will be a success and I'll get the special grad party cutscene.

Usually when I have a Graduation Party, I invite people that have high relationships with other Sims, and let them cheer, joke, and if it is a lover, let them do lovey dovey interactions. Because by the end, you have a rocking party. I do that every single time. :) And bam rocking. I do that also on outings, usually its a Sim that my Sim has a crush on, and they are outside making out and so forth, and then next thing I know I have the Crush sneaking by my house, and giving my Sim a gift :D Its fun ^.^ So, try that. :D If all fails, just go around streaking, LMAO xD I am so kidding, don't do that.

EDIT: Okay, well, everything WAS going well. Cara moved in with the McKay sisters, and everything was so sweet. Cara had fallen in love with Marcel. Then of course disaster struck. The evil Cow Mascot from Hell, came over. And began picking fights, you know, the usual. Then she flirted with Marcel right in front of Cara, Marcel denied the flirt, pretty much saying "Bleep off." Cara didn't see it that, way, and now she has a bad memory of the love of her life, cheating. And this is one of those times where you just want to find a way burn the cow!!! -.-"

I am so sad, really. Because I even left the house and came back, well to no way of succeeding, Cara is royally pissed off at Marcel. And the cow...Eh, I hope Cara kicks her ass. LMAO xD But yeah...Drama is so amazing isn't it?

But on the good side of things, Kris found her love, and her name is Ally. So, things are starting to look up very slowly...>.< But...Gah, I hate the Cow Mascot!

JDacapo

24th Mar 2012, 12:37 AM

Usually when I have a Graduation Party, I invite people that have high relationships with other Sims, and let them cheer, joke, and if it is a lover, let them do lovey dovey interactions. Because by the end, you have a rocking party. I do that every single time. :) And bam rocking. I do that also on outings, usually its a Sim that my Sim has a crush on, and they are outside making out and so forth, and then next thing I know I have the Crush sneaking by my house, and giving my Sim a gift :D Its fun ^.^ So, try that. :D If all fails, just go around streaking, LMAO xD I am so kidding, don't do that.

EDIT: Okay, well, everything WAS going well. Cara moved in with the McKay sisters, and everything was so sweet. Cara had fallen in love with Marcel. Then of course disaster struck. The evil Cow Mascot from Hell, came over. And began picking fights, you know, the usual. Then she flirted with Marcel right in front of Cara, Marcel denied the flirt, pretty much saying "Bleep off." Cara didn't see it that, way, and now she has a bad memory of the love of her life, cheating. And this is one of those times where you just want to find a way burn the cow!!! -.-"

I am so sad, really. Because I even left the house and came back, well to no way of succeeding, Cara is royally pissed off at Marcel. And the cow...Eh, I hope Cara kicks her ass. LMAO xD But yeah...Drama is so amazing isn't it?

But on the good side of things, Kris found her love, and her name is Ally. So, things are starting to look up very slowly...>.< But...Gah, I hate the Cow Mascot!

YESSSS! My first graduation party! The cutscene was slowed to a crawl for some reason, but oh man it was so good to have a score of "Good Time". What I did was have them play some cards, and I did the school cheer with a couple friends, did the secret handshake with the two secret society members(one of them a playable) that I invited, and even did some tickling. Despite the third guest not being a secret society member and therefore not knowing the handshake, it all went well. I finished off the party with some bubble-blowing. Hit a few snags like some dirty dishes, and of course the guests trying to 'hide'(put a stop to that using the 'control this sim' command) but I was able to get them to eat and have fun.

At the end, when Marcus graduated, he chose Ariel Winters(the playable he invited) to pose with him for the picture. Awesome. They might have some excellent chemistry there. Might try having them have a little fling later on. Before the party ended, I had him pack up everything he could, including the buffet table. 'Bout the only thing he couldn't get back was the bubble blower, but eh... it was worth it. Besides, he couldn't take the extra dough with him. Might try taking out a few things I'm not gonna use, and then see if the cutscenes will play more smoothly. Marcus grew up and now has the Don Lothario voice(not my favourite but oh well... he's still gonna be cute and charming).

I may try making some witch-dorms or at least modify them so they have thrones, cauldrons and magic books for witchy students, as well as vampire dorms with rooms that have no windows, and some special non-mirror objects that raise charisma without hurting these special-needs students. Will hafta put in a vampire sun-block mod as well for when the vamps go to class, so they won't be wiped out or die upon returning. And of course, most important - coffins for beds. This way, they can wake up fresh as daisies and make the most of their college stay.

Peni Griffin

24th Mar 2012, 12:51 AM

The person the graduate poses with (I've done quite a few of these by now) is the person with the highest relationship within a certain radius - not sure how close they have to be, but basically the most convenient close friend, since the video is a set number of frames and there's only so much time for the friend to get into position. So if you have a particular sim in mind you want to see or get a screen capture of in the graduation pose, have your graduate be right next to him as the party winds down.

I always snap up the things I want in the inventory before calling for the party; that way I can just relax and throw the party.

Don't worry about the stupid cow mascot. The red memory is essentially meaningless, and the quarrel can be made up. I've had two sims whose relationship didn't even suffer, and everybody else went around with the "furious" tag, and for a little while refusing romantic interactions, but this is how Luis Iana treated Sharla most of the time when he was furious at her over a cow mascot:
http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee238/PeniG/snapshot_99a3fef1_fb7e901f.jpg
They are now happily married; as are her brother David and his girlfriend, who actually accepted a flirt from a cow mascot at his graduation party. (Same party. Roof raiser.) So if you really want that pairing, you can make it happen.

Clashfan

24th Mar 2012, 2:14 AM

Funny enough I've been having graduation parties the last 3 days as I've got a lot of Sims graduating right now. Both my frat and sorority houses are having a complete change over, I'm usually better about staggering the students. This time everyone is synched up for some reason. In addition to the graduations I've also had to have a couple of "rush" parties at my frat house. Currently I have 7 female YA's and no playable males, just one of those things, so I've been moving in sorority's townie boyfriends to the frat house. Which means that the frat boys have to meet them first and get to know them before they can have them pledge.

Just a lot of freakin' parties lately.

I threw the last of the graduation parties today, I have a mod that allows for bigger parties and usually I don't go too crazy with the number of Sims. However the frat boy graduating was my wildly popular half alien romance Sim, Pollux. Fortunately it was summer so he had one honking huge outdoor party, I think I had about 30 Sims on the lot at it's maximum. Two buffets, 3 extra cafeteria tables an extra hot tub, the juice keg and a bubble machine were all "rented" for the occasion. The frat house itself already has a swimming pool, hot tub, pool table and a couple of pinball machines so there was plenty for everyone to do when they weren't dancing.

It was total mayhem but everyone was having a great time since I had so many Sims I wasn't able to keep up with what exactly was going on. Towards the end I know I have several missing Sims that are off in bedrooms, courtesy of the ACR, but I'm focusing on the graduation Sim to make sure he hits platinum before he ages up. So Pollux is off pranking, dancing and influencing his guests when I hear the "fall in love" sound. I can't imagine who it might be as most of the guests are already matched up and in love and it's too early in any of the new frat boys relationships.

I start looking about and I find a bed that's occupied but I can't see who is in it and I have a very bad feeling about it. Lo and behold one of my already graduated but back for the party frat boys emerges and the girl in question is not his fiancee, who doesn't happen to be at the party. She is one of the freshman sorority girls and she is currently dating one of the other frat boys, even worse it was his room they are using. He was playing pool and of course the game ended just in time for him to catch them at it. There was enough slapping and fighting to lower a roof raiser to a good time rating in a scant 30 seconds time.

Wasn't even one of the numerous romance Sims at the party that caused the problem, nope it was the shy, quiet knowledge Sim the one who didn't even have his first kiss until his Sophomore year. Yeesh, no idea what's going to happen now, will depend greatly on what wants they roll and if the fiancee finds out via gossip. Pretty much everyone who was there rushed in to see the fight that erupted between the two guys so there will be gossip.

JDacapo

24th Mar 2012, 6:42 AM

Had Marcus move into an apartment with his load of stuff. It was quite interesting, the first time I've done that. Had to correct a little problem though: in the sim bin and loading screen, and even in live mode, his face was a blue silhouette. So I used the batbox to fix flashing blue, and it had me change his appearance. At first, his face was normal except for a lack of eyebrows or facial hair, but I fixed that too. Since he's a very powerful good warlock, all he needs is his throne of light to replenish his motives. I had him stargaze as much as he could every night, then search for galaxies, then planets, and soon after he got his roommate, he got abducted and impregnated. Poor guy cried the rest of the morning. He'd be on his way to the bathtub or something, then the action would fade away and he would start crying. Then in the middle of a conversation with a townie, he rushed to the bathroom and threw up. Other than that, he's pretty much okay. His only bad memory is being abducted by aliens... pretty cool, eh? Wonder what his baby will look like, since I got multiple pollination techs. He's also gonna enjoy lower rent, thanks to networking with a townie. Right now Marcus doesn't have a job, but he can make do with selling thrones of light. He might even start a business or busk on a community lot when the kid gets older.

SimfreakoO

24th Mar 2012, 8:23 AM

Greenfoot cont.

Unfortunately, the last time I played Matthew passed away. :'-( Antigone is continuing raising her four kids Butterfly, Bayo, Bliss and Boss. Three of which are Matt's for those of you never read the beginning of my post. Antigone had an affair with Sheldon Hanby (mailman) and had a daughter named Bliss. The other three children are in fact Matt's. Butterfly is an adult and moved out into her own home, where she fell in love with CAS "roommate" Conleo Jack. :) I adore this couple!!! They're now newlyweds with twins!!!! A daughter named Chrysler Jack and a son who's name is Cadillac Jack. I don't know why, but I love "Jack" as a last name---especially for Cadillac. I decided to do automobile names for Butterfly and Conleo. I doubt they'll have more but if ACR takes control-- my only other names are Cooper-Mini and Camry. haha.

music2ologist

24th Mar 2012, 9:32 AM

Roving through the uploaded sims on this site yesterday, I was charmed by one Doctor Who, and downloaded him. Thinking he'd better land his Tardis in Strangetown, I set about building it for him. Do you know how difficult it is to build a house that's bigger on the inside than the outside? I settled for making a 4x4 entrance blue box, and imagined that the big white tower beyond it was invisible. It's the only house in Strangeville that has a lift and stairs.

Now he's romping through the Adventurer career, and has already won the Jumbok statue. He also picked up a virus from the neighbors. There was no 'sickness' notice, but he had the runs, and had to keep dashing to the loo. I visited a Family friend of his, and had her feed him Grandma's Comfort Soup. That fixed the problem.

The Doctor always travels with a young female companion, though there is never any romance. That is a problem. Who's it going to be? He finds several sims two-bolt attractive, but would he want to share his Tardis with one of them? Perhaps an alien?

Tullulabell

24th Mar 2012, 4:13 PM

Well, at the beginning of the week, I started over (for the umteenth time!) It's the story of 4 families who headed out to the old west to start a town (set in pioneer times) Sadly I've been having some CC trouble, so it isn't as 'Rustic' as I would like, but it's still fun. I'm playing the Build a City Challenge but cut all the numbers in half because it seems so daunting, and I don't have a lot of experience with sim owned businesses yet. My current 'population' is 45 (with 15 playables.)

I'm only on my second simweek and already there is so much drama! (Some induced by me of course! :giggler: ) My Sheriff/Mayor/Founder named Gilbert Grove Fell in love with BOTH of the Rothchild sisters on his own, AND thanks to ACR slept with them both. He planned on marrying Pricilla, the nice smart one who is going to be the school teacher, but then her slutty sister Deidra just HAD to get pregnant from Gilbert (and ZOMG twins!) so he proposed to her instead. Technically, Deidra doesn't know weather the twins are Gilbert's, or the town's Doctor (who wants to use his medicine for evil and be a criminal) named Frank Jones who come to her for... 'companionship' when he's lonely, even though he's in love with Deidra's niece (Who name escapes me and also just had a birthday! Yay's she's an adult now!) and is now engaged to her.

The Quinn family which is two elders, an adult, and a (now) child is the largest one I have so far, with 4 in a house. They were the first to run out of food ( Because of my own dumb harsh laws, Gilbert is having a hard time starting his farm, and winter is FAST approaching!!) So Pricilla's son (Can't remember his name) Who is in love with Rosiline (the adult) snuck some food out of his families own depleting refrigerator and gave it to her family.

Also, there has been 6 fires in the two week rotation, at 3 is when the town decided they needed a fire department and now I have Fire Marshal Randy Marshal (lol) living at the fire house putting out fires!

Macaroodle

24th Mar 2012, 8:32 PM

JDacapo

24th Mar 2012, 8:47 PM

Well, Marcus had his kid. Then he asks his roomie to move in with him(I had him do that mainly so I could actually raise her aspiration because if wants are unfulfilled, the aspiration decays, but fulfilling wants doesn't raise it past the halfway point. Plus, she aged, while he could use the elixir of life). First he transformed her into a witch, and so far has not rolled any wants for her to be cured. She doesn't want to be cured either, and it's more convenient for two witches to share a tiny three-room flat, especially when there's a baby who can't really benefit from magic all that much yet. The baby's name is Willard, because I was thinking about my other Sim, Matthew Decker. Oops. lol. Anyways, Willard's been a toddler for like one day, and Marcus gets abducted again while searching for planets. Man it's like playing the Broke family, having a pregnant warlock teaching his son to walk, stuff like that. Marcus hasn't rolled any fears of being abducted, though his roomie, the bohemian Marie Rauscher, has rolled fears of Marcus being abducted, and of being abducted herself. Hahaha. Marcus has the cute green manternity outfit, and he looks huggable with that bun in the oven XD

Yazoo

24th Mar 2012, 11:05 PM

So, I gave in, and made a new family. I wanted a huge family this time, and oh boy did I get it. Lol. There is Esther and her two brother; Adrian and Kraven. Adrian has a teenage daughter, Coraline. And Kraven has a teenage daughter named Jenny. Esther has her own, she had twins named; Vex and Amelia. And she ended in a Joined Union with Axel (I love the name Axel and Vex, hehehe). Anyway, the house is pretty freaking huge now...Well, a small house with 8 people living inside.

Esther and Axel have an amazing relationship. Of course at the beginning it was rocky. Kraven and Adrian are close to their daughters and their nieces. They are actually very nit tight family...Except one thing...I sort of made Adrian and Kraven...Look uhm...Very metro sexual. (You know a guy that takes REALLY good of himself, and makes sure he looks good). So, yeah. Moving forward. Vex, Amelia, Jenny and Coraline are of course A+ students and in Private School. And they are loving their family. And soon, Adrian and Kraven will be moving out, to try and find their way. But for the time being they will live with their sister and her wife.

But this time I'm taking things slow, letting everyone know everyone. At least I do not have a Butler this time, and letting everyone in, and having the house being even more filled. But...All I can hope is for..Is that the girls have fun in College :D And I did finally give each of the girls different aspirations:

Vex: Fortune

Amelia: Family

Coraline: Popularity

Jenny: Pleasure

So, we will see what happens :D Hehehe. I may change Jenny to Knowledge not sure -.-"

JDacapo

25th Mar 2012, 7:13 AM

I'm working on a custom Vacation destination: Badtz Maru City. Made a couple expensive vacation homes and plopped down a hotel and inn, and now I'm working on a park. Oh, I also put in a general store. Might also put in a campsite. I also made fun of the Asian stereotypes and stuff, and weeaboos XD

music2ologist

25th Mar 2012, 1:06 PM

Ooh! Ooh! Which Doctor is it? *hoping it's Ten* That sounds like a lot of fun! What in-game name did you give him?

Yes, it is the sexy one, and his name is Doctor Who. Only his wife, River Song, knows his real name, and I am, sadly, not River Song, or Melody Pond.

Hm, that gives me an idea. Should I create her as an adult, age her back to teen and put her through college? After all, an archeologist should have some sort of degree!

Peni Griffin

25th Mar 2012, 1:19 PM

You can do that if you want to play Uni with the character, but if not, the batbox has an "upgrade" function that can grant a degree.

JDacapo

25th Mar 2012, 8:30 PM

Last night I did something I've never done before - I had my sim start a business. Kinda got off to a shaky start, but he was able to sell quite a few reagents and some other things. Found out how to restock, and Marcus has a silver sales badge, while Marie, his roomie, has a bronze register badge. Might try using the benemoodus simae to 'perk up' my employees so they won't go on breaks so frequently. Wonder if I can assign a witch outside the player's family to work at a cauldron... it'd be neat if it was possible to hire a witch and assign her to make stuff.

Sunbee

25th Mar 2012, 8:47 PM

Absolutely nothing is happening in my game: I've spent the last three days rebuilding the Capp Manor. The children and teens have the top floor, the adults and toddlers have the second floor, Consort still is on the first floor, along with the communal rooms, and I have no idea what is in the basement. I'm trying to make it look both fortress-like and as something that has been added on to over the generations. So far I have Tybalt, Hal, Juliet, Hermia, and Miranda's rooms done.

JDacapo

25th Mar 2012, 10:29 PM

OMG. Marcus had TWINS! He's now got three boys to care for. He's gonna need to get married sometime. Besides, he'll need someone to help him with his business XD. Anyhoo, I named the twins Leonard and Patrick after two Star Trek actors. Wonder how they'll be once they grow up to toddlers. But right now, I'm gonna have them move to another place, like maybe a bigger apartment.

Funny thing is, Willard became a child during the second trimester of Marcus' pregnancy, and it was so cute how they would dance together. He'd also rub and talk to Marcus' belly, which was darling. He even rolled a want for a new family member. Never seen that before lol. But yeah... it's so cute!

Right now I'm having Marcus whip up some more batches of reagents so he could make some treasure chests and of course sell the others in his business and perk up the employees.

Gcgb53191

27th Mar 2012, 2:48 AM

My games at a tiny stop right now while I figure out how to start by playing differently :) I'm so excited to add all these 'rules' it'll make me less of a control freak about my sims and have more variety in my game. They were starting to get boring! I also added seasons EP since I missed it so much! It just felt weird not celebrating Christmas with my simmies xD

Peni Griffin

27th Mar 2012, 3:30 AM

@ Ms. Dacapo: Yeah, 'cause Marcus got so much time for dating now...but in all seriousness: have him invite people over! He needs a little help from his friends. Influence + magic should do wonders for this household during this difficult period.

My game, of course, hangs fire. Here's how it has to go:

Best case scenario, the terrabyte drive my husband ordered will arrive Wednesday and he'll install and partition it that night. So I will spend Thursday reinstalling everything that he doesn't want to take care of himself (mostly little fussy apps he likes to have that I wouldn't know how to find) and setting up our programs, including the game, the way we like them. Also, checking for problems that don't go away - at the moment, we have no sound, and even though I installed my word processor it crashes every time you try to open a file. If these are problems with the sound card or my installation disks the sooner we know the better.

Once that's done all done and I've dealt with any business that's been hanging fire while we limped along with this stopgap setup we're running right now, I can take all the CC I've been downloading, move it in, organize it, and load the game to make sure everything's running smoothly. And once that's done, I can restore Drama Acres to where it was on February 6th.

Yes, that's right - February 6th! So almost everything that's happened in Drama Acres since I came back to the game at the end of January is but a dream within a dream. The Scholarship House Seven have gone to college and bought new clothes, but that's all they've done. Sharla Ottomas and Luis Iana are neither married nor pregnant (at least this gives me a chance to do the wedding right this time and have Samantha there); William Ghote, Winnie Beare, Pearl Onions, and Dove Hawkins are all still babies; Luz Ghote is still an adult; Tina Traveller hasn't transitioned to teen in a blow-out party; Ernest Munny has not achieved his LTW, gone permaplat, gotten the big bonus, and taken his family on vacation to Twikkii Island, nor has his son Mark flirted with anybody yet; Ruby Gorey has dated neither Miguelito Casa nor Pollux Stacks; Sharla Ottomas has not kicked Jay McCullough's butt; Helen and Daisy Wheels do not exist; none of my Scholarship House/Alma Mater House engagements has happened; Sparrow has not thrown her graduation party or made friends with her nephew; Minerva Newson has not spontaneously come on to Marius Curian; Julien Cooke has not yet moved in; and, perhaps worst of all, Theodora Ottomas is still a virgin and has certainly not been caught cheating in the frat hot tub with an audience that includes a streaker and a cow mascot, and I have no hope whatever of such a perfect combination of random events happening a second time!

As if all this weren't enough, I'd been comforting myself for not being able to accomplish anything in the real world during March by playing Strangetown in addition to Drama Acres, making progress on my long-deferred project of making up to Vidcund for killing him before his baby could be born back when I first started the game. And now all that is gone, too. When the second iteration of Strangetown mysteriously lost the entire Smith family before I'd played them through two days, I reset the hood without a second thought, because it was hardly any trouble to start over after so little gameplay; but now the third one is gone, again without my ever seeing Vidcund's baby, I'm getting actively impatient about it. I'm seriously considering postponing the Drama Acres reload in favor of some concentrated Strangetown play, long enough to at least see what the kid looks like!

This would be simple enough if I would be content to sit down and play the Curious household for a sim-week; but of course being me I couldn't. At minimum, in order to be satisfied, I would have to:
Edit relationships, and some jobs, in SimPE, so that everybody's got the correct family tags and names, the Ottomases are military, and Tina Traveller will not bring Julien Cooke home from work;
Attach La Fiesta Tech so that Johnny can go there before 6PM the first day I play him (aging him back down would not satisfy me), and play at least him and the existing households, though I might persuade myself to delay bringing in Stella, the Davis twins, and the Student Housing kids in order to not have such a huge crop of students graduating at the same time;
Rebuild my community lots - a restaurant (only I think I'll call it the Rock Hard Cafe this time), Strangebrewski's, the Strangetown Rest Stop, and it's campus counterpart Estanque Salido (that just means Brackish Pond - it's very much like the Rest Stop, consisting of a small fishing hole, a restroom, a bunch of litter, some cactus, a chess game, a grill, and the Redneck Hot Tub) and place them;
Move all the family bin families with children + the Singles household into suitable housing - Military housing for the Military Ottomases, an abandoned barracks for the Newsons, and trailers for the Gavigans and Travellers;
Give everyone who would logically have one an appropriate degree with the batbox;
Seed the adoption pool with a Hawkins clone or two; and
Play every household in my usual one-day rotations with lots of community lot visiting so I can gussy up the townies and dormies to dress for the weather and local culture. Strangetown will be summer-summer-summer-winter, and with no big employers but the military base and the campus, the population should be dressed for hot weather and divide up visually into Rednecks, Servicepeople, Artist/Hippies, Cultists/Investigators, and Nerds.

My vision of Strangetown has a lot of hooks by which to draw me in. The whole Curious-Smith family interests me, not just the brothers, and I have yet to play the Singles household for longer than it took to move them in, furnish their house, and dress them decently. It occurs to me that it's by no means clear, in the mess of contradictory relationships and memories, how much any one person (besides PT9) knows about the family make-up. Are the alien sisters a Big Secret? As shipped, one could easily play a complex accidental-incest-mystery scenario with them. I don't think I'll go there; but I'm really eager to see where I do go. Also, I'm fairly itching to see how differently the Ottomases play as a military family, and to see the Newsons in this new environment with a more experienced player at the helm. The Grunt family just about breaks my heart. And then there's the Matter of Nervous, who I've always wanted to rescue; but the more I learn about the Beakers, and furthermore the more I think about their behavior in the three iterations of the game, the more curious I am about exactly what that Matter is.

In that first experimental game, Loki was pure evil and I got Nervous out of there and living on his own as fast as I could. In the second iteration, Loki and Circe were both evil, but I was playing a more nuanced game and my plan was to have him make best friends with Olive so she could invite him to move in, and see how that played. In the third iteration, however, Loki came home from work with Lazlo and got along great with him; interacted so well with Nervous on community lots that they had a low positive relationship score by the time I got to the house; and immediately started rolling baby wants when I played the house! His entire demeanor was different. When I read about other people's Strangetowns, it's clear that, though Nervous is always Nervous to a greater or lesser extent, Loki and Circe have a wide range of character options available to them, depending on the contingent circumstances of each player and each game.

And a close look at the memories and relative ages has convinced me that Loki and Circe did not raise Nervous. For purposes of my Strangetown, whenever I play it, Nervous will be raised by Loki's parents, mostly while he and Erin were at prep school and college back East, and Loki inherited him along with the house and his father's research projects and military contracts. (I'm sure I can make the high school memories mesh with this - even military school sends kids home sometimes). That being the case, what I probably should do is play the Beaker house, not the Curious one, first, and not be in such a hurry to move Nervous out; give them a couple of days to show me who they are this time.

Since the Curiouses start on Saturday, the Grunts and Smiths on Sunday, the Specters on Tuesday, the Beakers on Thursday, and everybody else on Monday after I move them in, the sequence of play for this neighborhood launch should probably be Beaker Thursday/Friday (possibly with a break in between to launch LFT prior to Johnny's arrival - it's really hard for me to play the same house two days in a row and fitting in University rotations for this hood is a bit of a game challenge in itself for me), Curious-Beaker Saturday, Grunt-Smith-Curious-Beaker Sunday, everybody except the Specters on Monday, and then launch Tuesday with Olive and Ophelia, with LFT filling in the cracks, and by then I should have a clear direction to play in.

Which is a long time to wait to get back to my beloved Drama Acres; especially if (as I devoutly hope) I get to feeling better and don't spend half the day incapable of doing anything more productive than simming!

So the short version is, that what's happening in my game right now is - stewing!

Sunbee

27th Mar 2012, 4:36 AM

Peni, you could always download the fixed Strangetown that Tarlia made http://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/tag/clean%20premade%20neighbourhoods (you have to pick a version--subhood with fixed dead or mainhood without from one of those posts). Then you'll have a couple days of game play with Johnny and Ophelia before they age up and all the Singles girls will be correctly named, everyone will have the right relationships, and Jenny Smith will be closer in age to her siblings. You do loose some of the dead grandparents with these, but they're the two-generations dead bunch.

Yazoo

27th Mar 2012, 5:07 AM

UPDATE: (Don't ask about the capped Update, hehe)

Anyway. Adrian is engaged to Camryn Lee. Kraven is still searching, but wants to woohoo with a bagillion people (Damn that Romance). Axel and Esther have like the perfect marriage. :) They are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo freaking cute together :giggler:

Vex, Jenny, Coraline, and Amelia are now in College, Amelia working fast, she is engaged to a girl named Nikki. And she only needs one more friend, and BAM she is in the Secret Society. Vex is just being Vex, she has reached full enthusiasm of Science. And she plays with the ball all the freaking time -.-" Jenny, is going through college like any other Knowledge Sim, and just loving being smart and getting a 4.0 GPA. Coraline, however, has yet to pick a major. And seeing she has Popularity, I may just give her the Drama Major. Because seriously...She is starting to look...>.< like an Outcast, while her sisters all have their majors picked out. Nikki, is actually loving being in their huge house. (Seriously, I can't build small homes. The kitchen/bathroom house was the only I've built SO small).

Oh, and the evil cow keeps showing up. And Vex keeps asking her to leave. :P

Gcgb53191

27th Mar 2012, 6:23 AM

I finally made the last batch of uni sims graduate. Took me waaaay too long. I say the same thing every time "Next time I'm doing it the right way" and I never do. :lol:

Liam and Scott have moved home along with Liam's fiance Ceres. Ceres and Liam will be getting married first then they'll move out into their own place. Although I'm sort of thinking about having them stay there for a while but that'll be too many people with they're parents still being a live and all. Scott's fiance will move in that day and they'll just get married the day after Liam & Ceres.

Kieran is living with her boyfriend Alexander so they have been woohooing a lot lately and then when I manually made them woohoo I noticed I forgot to put her on birthday control since the 'safe woohoo' option didnt come up!! :faceslap: Luckily she didn't get pregnant. :llama:

Peni Griffin

27th Mar 2012, 2:51 PM

@ Sunbee: But Tarlia's clean hood destroys the preprogrammed scenarios, and the whole point here is to get Vidcund's baby born. Everything else, no matter how intriguing or apparently far-ranging, is in merely supportwork for that. I'll edit those relationships as many times as I need to, in order to get little Tycho, Galilea, or whatever he's going to name it.

After I signed off last night my husband took over the computer, and we both had insomnia, so much discussing of the future course to take and futzing around in deep computer files was done. He found a mysterious hidden set of backups on the exterior hard drive which, if you follow a bizarre and illogical path, contains what appears to be a full My Documents backup from 3/17! This means a backup of Strangetown with hardly anything missing, and one of Drama Acres with only one day of play lost! Looking in the Storytelling folder, it appears that the last thing that happened was Dave Ottomas's birthday and his spontaneous interactions with Uncle Tommy! Plus, all my downloads! (I still should reorganize them, if I can.) Not to mention little unimportant stuff like a month's worth of budget planning, our entire e-mail archive, my husband's recent downloads, my submission records, etc. :)

So I feel good and hopeful this morning.

Sunbee

27th Mar 2012, 6:29 PM

JDacapo

27th Mar 2012, 9:00 PM

@ Ms. Dacapo: Yeah, 'cause Marcus got so much time for dating now...but in all seriousness: have him invite people over! He needs a little help from his friends. Influence + magic should do wonders for this household during this difficult period.

He actually does have help at home with the former townie that moved in with him, though I will have him invite some people over and see who he has really good chemistry with. Or I might have one of them move out, and then into another household in the same apartment, and then have them flirt and see if they are good for each other. Marie is kinda pretty, and the household is in a far roomier apartment now. Marcus' first son is a teenager now and friends with the former high witch who was teenified thanks to a wish from the magic lamp. His two brothers are now children and of course he is a warlock - I had Marcus change him on his first day as a teen.

Right now I'm playing the Decker household and Matthew made friends with pack-leader Clark. I saw this action in his queue that said 'be nibbled' and decided, 'what the hey', letting it happen because I had never played a werewolf before. I've got a custom werewolf overlay and it's pretty cool, though I might download a mod so he'll keep his long hair even when transforming. I just downloaded a werewolf personality mod so his personality won't change to that of an archtypical werewolf, and the personalitonomitron so I can adjust his personality in case the other mod doesn't give completely desired results. It is kinda cool to have a werewolf sim though, and this is coming from someone who has little interest in Twilight lol! I'm more into Underworld.

Also, Matthew and Alana(his adopted former high-witch daughter) have two kitties - a girl named Princess and a boy named Tiger-Eye, and they had two kittens, Dutchess and Prince. So far Matthew hasn't rolled any cure-wants and I don't have any plans to cure him right now. I want my hood to be paranormal and magical, and it would be nice to have a variety of different types of sims, rather than just plain ol' humans.

Matthew was abducted once, but no pregnancy yet, though I am still trying. Alana hasn't rolled any wants to meet aliens or become a werewolf yet, but she might later on since she's a Knowledge sim. Might hafta wait until she gets through college though, because she's getting close to adulthood and I don't want her to be uneducated. Besides that, it's hella fun playing University, and I might make a witch dorm or rental lot for her and possibly a couple roommates. I may even have her start a greek house.

Peni Griffin

27th Mar 2012, 10:07 PM

Gcgb53191

28th Mar 2012, 1:09 AM

Blegh! So Ceres and Liam got married and right after his brother got married I moved them into their own home. They somehow had enough money to buy their house so no loans for them yay! The bad news ? Right as I was about to end my session with them she woke up and showed me that she was pregnant. sigh That was not planned for them at all, they both want to get into the medical field so I put her on birth control but it failed on them. They dont even have jobs yet! :cry:

But now I cant wait for the baby to be born since Ceres is an alien and I want to see how it turns out :lol: I'm sure the alien genes will take over but you never know!

Update: Although it wasn't time for me to play them again I decided to play them since my little sister really wanted to see Ceres give birth. Ceres woke up at 5 in the morning and had a baby girl! Her name is Cosette (I just bought this awesome baby name book at my library for $1!)and she looks just like an alien. Now I wonder how her facial structure will be when she gets older. Ceres and Liam finally got jobs. :P

JDacapo

28th Mar 2012, 1:13 AM

I won't count us as out of the woods till we actually get things installed and I see them work - so much can go wrong, especially since we clearly don't understand how this backup software operates - but Mansion and Garden arrived today and also a package for my husband that calls itself a hard drive caddy.

Your teen should make looking after twins a breeze! Everything gets easier once that first kid turns teen.

Awesome! And yeah, it is getting easier. Willard is even going steady with the former head-witch now. Think I might put them in a rental lot, since former head-witch Alana is now rolling in dough with several scholarships. I'm still waiting for the pack leader, Clark, to nibble her. The kitties had another kitten, a boy named Fluffy, and I'm gonna wait a few days before having them try again because I want to give Princess a break between litters.

Edit: Alana got nibbled! Had to summon Clark, and when I did, he almost immediately nibbled her :D

Now to see if her relationship with Willard will survive a potential... savaging... ^^

Yazoo

28th Mar 2012, 5:16 AM

I am now going back to Pleasantville, and there I'll be making a new family, yes, once again. So, I'm pretty much starting from the beginning. But I have this amazing, house I shall build. BUT needless to say, there will be more for the family and home :D So, I'll keep everyone posted, oh cha cha

DasRabennest

28th Mar 2012, 9:40 PM

I'm re-establishing the previous Pirri Beach Sims at the moment...well, not all of them but the ones I decided to play out as survivors of the Mt. Vezz desaster. I have not edited any of their memories in SimPE (I'm too afraid to screw things up) and they have a little different family relations now but whatever...I'll just pretend it's them. *shrugs*

AND my Sim Thomas had his alien baby today. I laughed my a** off, the birth cinematic is definitely hilarious...and the baby is crazy cute! I've never had an alien before and before she was born I thought to build a ghetto for the alien spawn. But now that I've seen little Iokaste, I must say I'll just keep her and pretend she's not green. :D Too cute to let anything bad happen to that pixel peep.

Funny (for me at least) sidenote: Thomas called the former Easton-heiress after Iokaste was born and Mary sat in a chair next to the crib for at least an hour watching the baby. After that Thomas, Mary, her brother John, her son Noah and Thomas' sister Delphine had dinner. I could almost HEAR their conversation in my head. They were discussing the baby and how they should deal with it. Noah was convinced they ought to tell the government, Mary was undecided, Thomas and Delphine were strongly against that idea. That moment John jumped up and ran to the toilet to vomit (food poisoning) and it really looked like he was immensely disgusted at the thought of aliens and their spawn...
After that Mary started talking about making new laws (at least that's what I wanted to think the flag symbol with the 'custom'-icon means in connection with the podium symbol?) and everyone agreed except John who sat on the couch and refused to move until it was time to go home. I thought that was really great but of course I know it's just what I made up out of what the game gave me. ;)

DasRabennest

Peni Griffin

28th Mar 2012, 9:56 PM

I thought that was really great but of course I know it's just what I made up out of what the game gave me. ;)

DasRabennest

And this is different from anything else in your game how?

Let them talk to you. What you hear is the same as reality for any meaningful value of real in this game.

Our new harddrive is here and my husband gets home in about an hour and a half. :bunny: Not that he's going to want to sit right down and set things up, but he wants the machine back and the suspense over almost as much as I do, so unless he comes home sick, the job will be done tonight and tomorrow is the Great Reinstall! :up:

DickinsonVampire

29th Mar 2012, 12:29 AM

I'm really excited about starting a new neighborhood! I've been working on it for a week or two, and I just got my disc back earlier this week. I've rolled up my playable Sims' stats and begun constructing them in Body Shop. I've designed one higher-end suburban house and am starting on plans for Sim-building my own childhood house, using graph paper and my memory of the game, along with help from others in the Sims 2 general discussion forum. :)

So far, I've finished Simming 5 families to my satisfaction. Unfortunately, I've only written story/subtext for the members of one family, but I have a sense for at least two of the others.

My favorite Sims so far are these college students, who are sisters:

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/7716/collegesims.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/577/collegesims.jpg/)

No names so far. The one on the left has the Popularity aspiration, Knowledge for the one on the right. In terms of personality, both are nice enough, but the Popularity Sim is more outgoing, fortunately, and I'll probably give her good taste in fashion; I see the Knowledge Sim being more quirky, possibly with a penchant for blaring rock-and-roll in her room while she works on term papers. :D

My next most interesting family has a husband, wife, and two daughters, one of whom is a teen and the other of whom is a toddler. The wife has the Fortune aspiration, so I see her being career-obsessed and bringing home income while the husband, a Romance aspiration Sim, resents his household duties and often neglects to clean house or do dishes. He seeks the thrill of living a double life, attracting women with his easygoing personality and keeping them a secret from his family, and vice versa. Their teenage daughter is withdrawn, a bit on the emo side; she resents that neither of her parents pay attention to her or her little sister, which means she has to take care of her. It shall be an interesting family dynamic to navigate, I think; so far, all the Sims in this family have different aspirations (teenage daughter is Family), and a married Romance Sim always has potential to break a few hearts. (In this case, though, I think his wife would be more upset about him destroying her reputation and making her look like a fool.)

Some of the others I haven't written stories for, but I have all of their appearances down. Here are a few of them:

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/1953/simpair1.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/638/simpair1.jpg/)

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/1747/simpair2.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/688/simpair2.jpg/)

(The first one on the second row is the teenage daughter from the much-drama family described above.)

I can't wait to play them. They're my favorite batch so far, and with pre-drafted houses my game should be more exciting. :)

Edit:
It's really useless to continue giving us the main link for ImageShack.

If you are trying to give us links to your sims, you are failing.
My apologies! Yes, I was trying to post pictures of my Sims. I didn't know there were issues with the pictures themselves; I can see them on my own computer while viewing the thread, but if no one else can see them I've obviously done something wrong. I've gotten rid of the ImageShack links, and I will try and see what's wrong with the image links. (I thought I'd followed the guide on posting pictures correctly, but I'll check again.) If I'm still failing, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make anyone's job more difficult. :(

JDacapo

29th Mar 2012, 5:44 AM

Well, Alana savaged Willard - it's just kind of a rule I've made that at the very least the women in Alana's line will turn their men, or their men will become werewolves one way or another. Their relationship didn't suffer, and they're still very much in love. I had her drink her renu-yu port-a-chug and change her turn-ons to witchiness and lycanthropy. Might do the same with Willard. He does keep wanting to be cured but nooop - ain't gonna happen. As that line in that Yeasty Girls song "You Suck" goes, "You better. Learn. To LOVE IT!"

And omigod. Marcus is fertile. VERY fertile. I had him get abducted using a dance sphere since he is now quite rich, and when he came back I used the scanner. Omigod. He's gonna have TWINS! I'm hoping for at least one daughter.

And so far Matthew has only gotten abducted once with the telescope, but I had him get abducted using the dance sphere, and now he's preggers! It's only one kid, though I might have him order cheesecake or something, or have Alana fix some for him before she leaves for college. Also gonna play the Coles house for awhile, and have Willard do some skilling so he can bring some more money into the household I plan on creating, because some NPCs will be moving in as well. Willard is secondary knowledge, though I might change that later on using a sensorb. But really, being a werewolf is quite cool because at night, you get more energy, and if you combine lycanthropy with withchiness, you can just go to the throne of light once your wolf gets hungry, or just have a fridge nearby.

Plus, I have the werewolf personality mod so they won't all just turn extremely mean. Might have one of them turn the drama professors though - should be quite funny. Or maybe the cow mascot. Then at night he might be more inclined to leave due to hunger, or at least he'll get munchies and start chowing down. It'd be really funny if one of the students was a vampire and bit the cow mascot... he wouldn't be able to visit all that much during the day then, or he might die from the sun - heheheh XD

Going to make some more settlers though so there will be more genetic diversity, and I might make a Sims 2 version of Claire Ursine. She'll hafta live in a dorm at first, but then she might later on be able to move out to her own private rental lot - she wouldn't like being around other people a lot, and she'd probably be a slob just so she could rummage through garbage cans and stuff like that. And of course she'll be hot-headed and playful, because don't bears like romping and playing around in the wild? I'm thinking of making her a Fortune/family sim because those aspirations often roll wants to become criminal mastermind, though if she has a different LTW, I'll change it just because it's part of her story in Sims 3. Also, I will likely set her OTH to nature since she is very good at fishing. Will hafta possibly make a housing lot with a pond ^^

DasRabennest

29th Mar 2012, 7:03 AM

And this is different from anything else in your game how?

Hm, it's not, you're right. Seems like I need more self consciousness or something but while that situation occured in the game my oldest daughter (17) heard me laughing and asked what I was up to and after I explained she teased me about 'hearing things'...:D So I felt the need to explain...

For anyone interested in seeing little Iokaste, please visit Pirri Beach (http://lifeinpirripirri.blogspot.de/2012/03/birth-announcements-issue-5.html) ;)

But anyway, I think it was you Peni who first introduced me to the idea of letting the little pixel folks talk to me and now that it's starting to happen it's so much fun! They are coming alive! *insertfrankensteinmuhahere*:)

Glad to hear you're most likely getting everything back up and running! I always read about Drama Acres, y'know and missing it when I can't! ;)

DasRabennest

Gcgb53191

29th Mar 2012, 7:56 AM

The towns law's are changing and a lot of Bluewater Village's residents are trying to adjust the changes. . .

The Williams household was one of the wealthiest families in town but after one thing after another they're broke! Andrea and Christopher's daughter, Jennifer grew up so they had to buy a furniture set for her room. Then after that Christopher forgot to pay their taxes so they did that right away and it left them with forty grand. That night Andrea's contractions started and she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. She named him Andrew after her father since he looks just like him. They had to buy even more furniture..then the next day while at work a chance card came up for Andrea and she ended up losing fifty thousand dollars so someone wouldn't point out a flaw in some presentation. So by the time she got home they had zero dollars and they need to pay for her hospital fees. Andrea is very sad that she didn't put any money in a savings account, how stupid could they be?! Her dad would be so disappointed in her, he was always so good with money and made sure they always had some in case of an emergency. Luckily the house is paid off, but it looks like private school will have to wait for Jennifer.

Her half sister Melina is also having financial troubles. Melina owes a lot of money on the house and is having a hard time paying the bills. She's gone through three jobs already but has finally found one that she thinks she could work long-term for. She also sells her paintings but that takes a lot of her time up. Even with Malcolm helping by paying child support she's still struggling to pay the bills but she's hiding it well; her daughter Nora doesn't suspect a thing.

Nora is a good student and has a part time job but on the weekends she likes to take a break from school and work and have fun! On this rotation she wanted to go out on a date so I called some random person she had brought to school one day and they actually had a pretty good time and got her first kiss! Then on Saturday he called her again to go hang out somewhere downtown and they went to a high school party. This was Nora's first time at a big party like this but she had a lot of fun and met some cool girls.

Nora's dad called her and told her his wife Meadow just had the baby; another baby boy!

That's his second son. They were a bit disappointed because they hoped for a girl but they'll keep trying until they have one. I just hope it doesn't take too long since they don't have a house for a big family. Malcolm VI also grew up into a child and of course still looks more like his dad, I'm hoping some of Meadows features will show up when he grows into his face or at least hope that the girl they hope to have will look like Meadow.

While Malcolm V was out buying clothes for his son he stopped by the bank to put most of his money in an account. He had heard what happened to Andrea and was terrified of losing his dad's fortune. Before he had inherited his dad's money and business, money was super tight and he wasn't used to it since he grew up having everything. Money means more options for them and with two children it'd just be stupid to not be smart with money.

JDacapo

29th Mar 2012, 7:06 PM

Marcus had his second set of twins - two boys, Thomas and Daniel. And they're blue, thanks to the mult-P.T. hack I have. Might get him a house to live in instead of an apartment, but first I think it might be time to swipe some furniture from the one they're living in right now. Willard's working on skilling for college, saving up for the big Greek House, and Patrick and Leonard will soon be teens as well. I'm thinking of just moving Marcus and his brood out with their belongings, and then having him fall in love with Marie, because they're very good friends. Besides, marrying a rich sim(which Marcus is) will make her VERY happy.

akksgurl

30th Mar 2012, 11:02 PM

Haven't played much lately (been addicted to Mass Effect 3 :lol: ) but I did boot it up again the last few days for a few minutes here and there to finish remaking and moving sims into their MMO houses in Pleasantview and I also rolled new sims for a new BACC since I got bored and deleted my last one.

Roseblossom90

30th Mar 2012, 11:32 PM

After creating an evil Vampire-ish Sim in one of my most-played neighborhoods (the Sim looks like a Vampire and has fangs and all but I didn't want to deal with all the Vampire problems the game gives me) I decided that he doesn't fit into the storyline at all. I wanted to recreate him in a new NH and make him the evil dark lord or whatever but the NH just isn't coming together for me. I can't even seem to get a good story line going so at the moment I'm working trial and error. Here's hoping things come together for me...

JDacapo

31st Mar 2012, 2:11 AM

Decided to play the Sheridan dorm today. Talia Sinclair almost lost her life - instead, she only lost her dignity. I'd had her go outside to pay the bills during a storm. Bad idea. Left her unattended while I had Lyta talk with a dormie - another bad idea. I heard the sound of lightning striking, and a yell, then noticed her portrait had changed. I was thinking, 'oh crap. She's gonna die'. Luckily she didn't have the grim reaper portrait in her queue, so she was okay... tried to get her to the toilet on time but she missed it, then started crying about the accident. I was thinking 'there's more important things to worry about than your wounded pride, dearie - you're starving!'. She did try to get something to eat, but I decided to instead move the energizer into the building so she could use it safely(she was in gold aspiration). Then I had her take a shower. Funny thing is she didn't get the 'shocked' memory, but she did get the one for the accident :(

I hit a snag in the Sheridan house - when Talia became a witch, Lyta wanted her cured, even though there were other non-knowledge witches who were fine with their states, and even with other family members turning. So I'm replaying it and will see what happens if I instead have Lyta turn first. But either way, like it or not, anyone who becomes a playable and is teen or older gets turned.

I wonder if there's a way to mod the way memories are created, so that if a sim is cured of any creature state, no matter what aspiration, it will always be a bad memory for both the sim and everyone who knows him or her.

Well, the computer got turned off for some reason, possibly an overheated CPU, so I had to start over again from where I left off. This time, when Lyta rolled the fear of becoming a witch, I cheated up her aspiration and then ctrl-clicked her fear and set the aspiration level back to near its initial level. she hasn't rolled the witch fear after that. Wish there was some kind of mod that you can use to disregard a want or a fear, like in sims 3. That way you could get rid of some useless wants spamming the slots. Besides, it'd be helpful for those who are frustrated with family sims all wanting ten kids and ten grandkids.

Fivey

31st Mar 2012, 6:51 PM

Well, I decided to play my La Fiesta Tech crew.

I first visited a dorm with Lilith Pleasant and the Davis twins. Lilith is dating the younger twin Aldric since their situations growing up were similar, and thus they connected. They're engaged to be married.

ALMERIC (sp?) on the other hand, has removed his armor, reconstructed the relationship he has with his brother, and came out of the closet. Today, he just got engaged to dormie Nicolas Lam. It will be curious if this actually does work out, since Nick is a Romance Sim, and Romance sims HATE commitment. However, I am optimistic. Nick never rolled a want to be engaged to Al, but at the same time, has never rolled a fear to be engaged to Al. It can go either way. I might have him not talk to Nick for a while after college, and try to get him to leave Al at the altar. Then, Al will go into domestic livelihood and try to conform to the norm, but have a secret nightlife where he hooks up with random men. You know. Meet a nice woman, have two kids, and suck off that tasty brunette you spotted at the bar a few hours ago.

I then took a turn to the other side of campus, where Mr. and Mrs. Bruty occupy a small house. You see, when I first took Susanna Taylor and Jerome Bruty to college, their first instinct was to woohoo. This knocked up Susie in the process. So, they moved from the dorms to residential housing, and got married. They were pretty intent on having kids (Jerome had the marry six kids off want even though he was a knowledge sim, and Susanna is a family sim), so I let them have little Aeolia Bruty.

Speed up to now where Susanna is carrying her second child, and Aeolia is now in elementary school. Not too much happened. We had a visit from the local cow mascot. Cheryl longlastname. Surprisingly, she isn't a complete homewrecker. She's rather considerate of the family (though she still plays pranks), gets along with Jerome (first interaction was a burping contest :rolleyes: ), and interacts with the little girl. She does have the tendency to make herself at home even though nobody desired her too. Here's a picture of her under the suit (she took a shower for some reason.)

.http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/7/1/8/6/1/6/4/MTS_Fivey-1284015-cow.png

I like her expression. Deviant.

After Cheryl left, they had their basic life for a while. Then Susanna gave birth to another daughter. A blue eyed black baby.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/swallowmeup/Screenshot.jpg

She was named Doria. Brownie points for whoever picked up on my naming theme here,

JDacapo

31st Mar 2012, 11:15 PM

I made a Sims 2 version of Claire Ursine. Changed her hair after a few sim days because I wasn't quite happy with it. She does have long hair right now, but it's only because I wanted the hat with the hair.

Her personality is:

0 Neat(for rummaging and nature OTH)
2 Outgoing
10 Active(bears can get quite active and strong, and I kinda want her to be fat-but-athletic)
10 Playful(bears like to play around especially as cubs, and besides, I didn't want to have leftover personality points, and also, I wanted her OTH to be Nature since Claire is an angler)
3 Nice(so she would be hot-headed and possibly steal papers, but not completely averse to doing things like hugging)

She's the only playable in her dorm, and I think I might stick with that for the most part with CAS sims, because that way she won't have the need to 'fit in' or cut down any tall poppies.

Right now she's a Fortune/family sim, and I cycled her LTW so it would fit with her Sims 3 LTW. Might get her into a relationship with a very mean sim, possibly a romance sim, and get her pregnant, so we could have somewhat the same story as the one in Sims 3.

Gcgb53191

1st Apr 2012, 2:07 AM

Well the Milad household grew from having only 4 people to now having 6.

Ashley loves kids and the first time she got pregnant by her husband they had twins! They named them Ethan and Nadia. Ethan looks just like his dad with the darkest skin tone and Nadia looks just like her mom with the lightest skin tone :D Taking care of the twins was pretty tough on her. When the twins turned into toddlers she found out she was expecting again! So she was always really tired trying to teach the kids their skills. Surprisingly with the help of her husband Thomas they both ended up teaching both of them the important skills (all but the nursery rhyme) When the toddlers turned into children they made them share a room so now they have a baby room, Nadia and Ethan's room and a big play room for everyone.

Later that night Ashley gave birth to another girl (who had Thomas' skin tone) named Farrah. Oh did I mention Ashley also called the adoption service? So this morning when they were expecting their new family member... Ashley got morning sickness !!! Uh oh, Thomas better hurry up and get promoted soon because they don't have enough money to send everyone to college later on xD

As the Adoption lady took the toddler out of the car I noticed it wasn't the one I had made for them a while back so I had to exit without saving. I went to another household that I don't use and made her adopt all the kids until the one I wanted came up. So I went back to Ashley's house and when the lady came again the right child showed up, only since I didn't save the last session Ashley didn't get pregnant this time ( :anime: phew!)

Ashley and Thomas adopted a little Japanese girl named Rei. Their hands are full as far as children goes but Ashley is definitely not using birth control so having more kids is always a possibility. :lol:

Saturnfly

1st Apr 2012, 8:27 AM

My sim, Heidi Sims, had her adult birthday and moved out of home and onto a small farm that she renamed Heidi Orchards. She's been living there for a while now and manages her huge garden by herself, there's a dozen fruit tree's and plenty of vegetable and fruit patches. She also adopted two farm dogs, a border collie named Lucy and an Australian cattle dog called Samson. Much to my surprise, since I never really read about plant sims, she transformed into one whilst spraying the fruit trees. It was quite perfect for her personality. ^^

Heidi's twin brother, Harrison, also moved out of home and moved in with his long term partner, Lily Seavy (I think that's her name >.>). Not sure what to do with them yet, but I'm sure they'll decide for themselves in time. :D

katya_stevens

1st Apr 2012, 9:00 AM

Played a few houses in Angelos Town (my Prosperity 'hood) and upon Beth having her first child, I thought "That's funny, I've been having a long run of singletons at the moment from Trips&Quads. Oh well, it'll probably bite me in the butt when I only want one more child."

Cue Beth getting pregnant very soon after giving birth, and having quads -_-

JDacapo

2nd Apr 2012, 4:40 AM

Very interesting development in my game. For awhile, my young adult Claire Ursine was having pesky fears of casting good spells(even though she isn't totally grouchy and I'm working on having her become a very powerful good witch). I want her to be hot-headed, but not evil. Besides, even in real life nice doesn't always go hand in hand with good, and there are some good people who have mean streaks. That is what I want her to be basically. But anyways, I deliberately had her pet a skunk, and it sprayed her. Suddenly, she got some real high impact fears of her friends getting sprayed. I will have to see if this will spam out other fears that I would rather she not have, and whether this can be exploited with other sims.

saskganesh

2nd Apr 2012, 2:53 PM

I finally got around to having a Tricou child become playable. She had been grown to adult previously, and is now the young wife of an older 3rd gen popularity Sim who had never been lucky in love -- or really that motivated for that matter -- and hence had never married. And finally, due to changing circumstances, it was time.

However, the new wife doesn't really like elder Remy that much. Bad for him, good for the Tricous. They've been around as Townies forever, but never really played an important part of gameplay.

In the future, they will have to re-claim their old house. In their absence it's been populated by a completely unrelated clan of vampires. But first "Katherine" will have to get her siblings into the game as playables. Step-by-step.

Lady Scarlet

2nd Apr 2012, 7:29 PM

I just started another rotation in my medieval neighbourhood (1620-1624) and I played with the Princess' family ^^

So, Madame Royale, Princess Blanche de Croy de Valois, Duchess of Angoulême is really unhappy with her husband, Maximilian de Valois.One of her daughters died of smallpox at the age of 2 and now her husband asks her to give birth to a male heir.In 1621 Blanche gave birth to a baby boy whom they named Philibert de Valois, but only a month after the birth of the baby her husband ran away on the seas to the New World.His ship sinked somewhere around the coast so Blanche is now officially a widow.Oh yes ... and her other daughter, Isabelle is crazy >.>

Philibert with his mother's lady-in waiting.
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/LadyScarletSmith/FrancoiseandPhilibert.jpg

Blanche, eating alone after her husband left her.
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/LadyScarletSmith/Blancheeatingalone.jpg

Isabelle, Blanche's daughter.
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa414/LadyScarletSmith/PrincessIsabelle.jpg

Fivey

2nd Apr 2012, 8:30 PM

Okay, I played the Pleasant twins today.

LILITH:
As readers of my last post noted, she was in college, engaged to Aldric Davis. WELL, he knocked her up. They quickly got married and she later birthed out Faust Davis, a cute green-eyed brunet who proves that Pleasant + Davis = adorable children. Like, seriously. The kid is adorable. The kid grew up to toddlerhood, during which that Aldric proved himself to be a doting father and all three Davis graduated from college (not honors, mind you). Lilith and Aldric moved into a typical one story family home, and Faust grew up into a child. Lilith got pregnant again.

ANGELA:
So the teenage Angela with her young shotgun-wedding husband Alan Kimbrell (http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/story/69/114269/snapshot_920ebcb9_920ed207.jpg) and their toddler, Alice, still lived with Mary-Sue. Alice is a bit homely, but she makes it up in spunkiness. Alan and Mary-Sue do NOT get along, and it becomes evident after Alan and Angela age up to adults. Why? Mary-Sue attacked Alan, and well....LOST to him. Infuriated, Alan moves out with his family to a house down middle street. Alice is a day away from becoming a child. Guess who's pregnant again?

Both relationships are double bolted, so that is at least a plus.

I plan to invite Lilith's family over to Angela's, since they have now a 0-0 relationship. They should make up, right?

JDacapo

3rd Apr 2012, 8:13 AM

I'm thinking of adding the default Downtown and playing the lost Tricou Children in college. Great possibility for a story, where they have recently found out about their ancestors and their mission is to reclaim the old mansion and resurrect the Tricous. However, when I went to look at the House of Fallen Trees, there were no gravestones! What happened?

Peni Griffin

3rd Apr 2012, 12:58 PM

Let us hope that you are looking straight at them and not seeing them! The graves are in the back yard, on the right as you view the lot from the front. Flowers are planted on them.

JDacapo

3rd Apr 2012, 1:41 PM

Let us hope that you are looking straight at them and not seeing them! The graves are in the back yard, on the right as you view the lot from the front. Flowers are planted on them.

I looked around and didn't see any graves - just flowers. I think that Belladonna Cove has a similar problem, where graves just aren't there in the first place if the neighbourhood isn't the first one loaded. Very weird.

Yazoo

3rd Apr 2012, 4:58 PM

Well, since I decided to make a legacy. Welllll, this is how it goes down so far. Damocles had fallen in love with a vampire named Contessa Marion. They got married, and soon after Marion had a baby girl. She was so cute...Now she has like the fattest cheeks ever. But I am not giving up. Besides Axel surely has her father's eyes, and everything. She is a spitting image of her father. And as for Marion she seems to get pissed off when she has to hand off her daughter, because she has this "I hate anyone who touches my daughter but me"

And also Marion has this idea to just bite the crap out of her daughter. She has memories of biting her 7 times. So I am counting down the days for when Marion actually bites her daughter and changes her completely. What an amazing mother. But I got to say, Vampires are NOT bad parents. Damocles and Marion spend every waking moment with their daughter. You know except when Marion decides she wants to bite her daughter. And the best part, the great great grandchildren will have very VERY young great great grandparents. Such a young family.

Yay for Vampires :D

Mootilda

3rd Apr 2012, 5:09 PM

I looked around and didn't see any graves - just flowers. I think that Belladonna Cove has a similar problem, where graves just aren't there in the first place if the neighbourhood isn't the first one loaded. Very weird.This is a known bug in the shipped Belladonna Cove. Most of the tombstones are in transit to a non-existent lot. The HoodChecker can fix this for you.

In addition, the game has a bug where tombstones are sent to a valid lot, but the hood ID is incorrect so the tombstone ends up in limbo.

Gcgb53191

4th Apr 2012, 1:07 AM

So far I'm on generation 3 in my neighborhood :)

I'm noticing how many more sims thats going to be with all the families I have :wtf:

The Williams household managed to save up a couple grand after Andrea lost all their money...only to lose it all again with the exact same chance card! :faceslap: To top it off her mother passed away so she was really sad. At least the baby can have his own room now. I had planned on giving the house makeover but that'll have to wait until they have money again.

I really want to start building houses and uploading again but I'm intimidated by all the requirements here. I wish it was like the Sims2website where I can just upload it without worrying about too much but I think I'll still give it a chance sometime. :anime:

Yazoo

4th Apr 2012, 4:31 AM

I think I have an issue of just sticking around with one family. But this time, I have sworn to myself that I'll stick to it! I've made a new family, they are the Valentine family.

Vincent (Yes, I know the irony because it seems like he is supposed to be a clone of Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy. But he is not.) is married to Amelia. And they plan on having some babies in their future. Vincent has a brother named Marcus, and Marcus is just all around iffy about dating. He had his eye on this woman, but he noticed that she was just to lazy for him. Seeing he is super active. He was like:

"No, thank you."

So, the knight with blonde hair and glasses will just have to wait for his lost maiden. Honestly, I have not a clue why I said that. But he will not give up on that love. Marcus, Amelia and Marcus will become Vampires, that is so like the story I came up for them. In fact their bio will be written as such:

"Vincent, Amelia, and Marcus came to Pleasantville, for a new life, and to meet new people. Smart, attractive, and just all around super rich. They are a woman's and in any case a man's best friend. Vincent with his good looks, and his attractive personality, just made Amelia fall in love, and other women as well. Marcus being handsome, and smart as well. Just makes him a chick magnet, in a nerdy sort of way. And there is the Princess of the family, Amelia, Vincent's wife. Even the rich men wish to be with her, just ask Mortimer, who now has his eyes on her as well. As everyone believes that they are absolutely rich and normal. They would be utterly wrong, for the secret that lurks behind their mansion doors...They would show just how unnatural they are. For they are creatures of the night. But will their secret be told throughout the neighborhood, or will the neighborhood harbor in the night, and shun the light?"

I don't know, I'm just weird -.-"

Gcgb53191

5th Apr 2012, 4:45 AM

Today was a very sad day in my game. The first sim couple that I ever made (on this installation anyway) passed away. Fortunately they lasted a day longer than I was expecting. :)

Jack and Calissa were able to throw their daughter Kieran a wedding before they passed away. I was expecting them to die that night but I guess they had one more day in the sim world. I had planned Kieran to move out with her husband that night but I decided to let them spend another day with her parents. The next day Kieran's sister in law Noelle had her first child. She had a girl who surprisingly came out with blonde hair and green eyes. I was expecting her to have Scott's black hair and dark blue eyes. Noelle named her Calissa after Scotts mother, and right as she gave birth Death came to pick up Calissa and Jack.

After they passed Kieran and her husband moved out into their own place since her brother was already starting his own family. I moved them into three different houses because I couldn't remember which one I had decided to move them into :lol: (then later I had to go to those houses to add the kitchen and bathrooms all over again :|)

Here's a picture of Calissa and Jack when they got married http://i.imgur.com/68uFR.jpg

And one on the last day of their lives :(
http://i.imgur.com/Hb3Yu.jpg

RIP :luff:

Yazoo

5th Apr 2012, 7:08 AM

@Gcgb53191: Oh my god, that is so sweet. Their life, must have been amazing :) However I'm sorry that they had to pass away :(

As for my game. Amelia and Vincent just had their third child. They are now a baby factory. Her name is Daciana and her older siblings are: Eva and Dracul. Eva is very attached to her sister now, as well as her brother. Almost to the point she is over protective of them, and doesn't want to see them get hurt. Dracul is getting his skills up, and loves to make friends, because he has 10 on Outgoing (Honestly, I can't figure out how that is *shrugs*).

I got to say, I never knew that two Vampires could have such beautiful human babies. Amelia, Vincent, Marcus, Eva, and Dracul are all now Vampires, and Dracul is seriously way to outgoing. When he speaks to the mirror he is very excited. Then again, I can't speak much on Eva's side either, she can't stop cleaning, and punching the air playfully. >.< I swear their kids have gotten it either really good, or this is a bad thing. Because they will not stop -.-" But anyway, moving forward. Daciana will become a toddler here in the next few days Sim time, real time. In the next hour or so. :) But Daciana is so freaking adorable!

However, I am scared to know what star sign she is. Eva is a Virgo that is so shy that she freaks out when it comes to human contact, then you got Dracul who is an Aries who loves to talk. So, will Daciana be a happy medium? I can only hope. But yeah, they are one happy Vampire family, that continues to grow. I keep thinking when Amelia gets pregnant, that she is really screaming in her head:

"GOD VINCENT! YOU DID THIS TO ME AGAIN!"

I dunno. Its getting really interesting, not to mention I like watching them brush their teeth. All there is a floating tooth brush, or when they walk in front of a mirror with the baby, the baby floats. Its awesome having Vampires, except the whole, the sim will burn when walking out in daylight, other than that, awesomeness!

JDacapo

6th Apr 2012, 9:07 AM

Bluebell(a blue pixie-creature) graduated with a 4.0 GPA because I kept her happy and she got peace of mind early on.

I decided to make another student, and played around with custom skins and stuff until I settled on a very pale complexion, and decided to give her jet-black hair. I made her eyes and lips red, so she kinda looked like an alien Snow White, and the outfits I picked out for her have a red, white and burgundy motif with a Victorian theme. She's a Romance sim and her name is Antimony Pigeonblood(pigeon's blood is a kind of ruby). Despite the way I had kept on clearing gossip and trash, she did roll a fear of becoming a witch, though I was eventually able to get her to think about something else, and then invited the high good witch over. Antimony has changed, and doesn't seem to mind being a witch. Part of her story is seeing if she could teach the students in this college acceptance, since many of them are starting to become racists.

This is quite interesting though, and I will have to see if part of the issue is general aspiration level - like perhaps those with very full lifetime aspiration meters or who have achieved permaplat are not so susceptible to bigotry.

Fivey

6th Apr 2012, 4:06 PM

I downloaded the Sims 2 up to OFB on my sister's laptop so she could play, so of course she made self-sims of herself and her girlfriend in Pleasantview. I also went ahead and made one of myself in the same neighborhood. I'm not dedicated for the best for my sim-self, but here we go.

My self-sim moved into one of the white bachelor...ette pads in town. Part of the welcome wagon was Benjamin Long, who was attracted to my self sim (technically he was rolled as a bisexual, but whatever). They got hitched and have a very boring, domestic life. Both are Knowledge, so they don't roll for romance often (even then, my self-sim is rolling it). They rolled with low autonomy, so they only had ACR woohoo once. The rest was me forcing their intimacy so Ben can fulfill his baby want. My self-sim went into the medical field while Benny pursued the field of SCIENCE! While Benjamin was at work doing SCIENCE!, self-sim gave birth to Cassidy Long. Hooray?

I am proud of their house, which I decorated quite nicely for a bachelorette (now a family) pad. They are still quite claustrophobic though, so I might have them move into a more family oriented house.

DasRabennest

6th Apr 2012, 5:33 PM

I'm considering letting go of my Pirri Beach version 2. It's just not the same even though I tried my best to recreate the Sims in there.

Or maybe I'lll just let it sit there for a while until I get the hang of it again. At the moment it just depresses me that I forgot so much. Was reminded of my failure when I saw Noah Easton flirt with his sister Anna on a community lot. I didn't export their father (as I didn't care much about him) and forgot to make them siblings...gah. As said, it's just not the same.

DasRabennest

Yazoo

6th Apr 2012, 6:59 PM

So, Marcus, Vincent's brother. Just got married, her name is Alina. They are so cute together, and seeing that Blue eyes are so freaking dominant in the Valentine Family, I guess their child will be Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes. I decided to keep Eva and Dracul in the house a little longer so they can meet their cousin. And watch over her/him while the parents sleep in the day. Daciana is now a child and already the freaky music chick has stopped by when she was a toddler. I look at that as stalking, they know when you are playing pianos. They are like Santa Clause, and that's freaky on its own terms.

ANYWAY, Daciana really impressed the Headmaster and got in on her first try. Same with Dracul. However, for Eva it took 4 tries. I guess the headmaster doesn't like a very active playful neat freak. And Eva was the one that impressed the headmaster the most, and ended up getting Dracul in :) And they hugged.

Now Alina...She seems like a very closed off outcast. She doesn't really speak to anyone, not even Daciana, she kind of freaks me out actually. She is pretty, I will not deny that. But she seems very off putting. Well, when she gets pregnant, Amelia can take a breather, she has had 3 already. And they are all spitting images of her. :) They all look like their mommy. Except for the brows they got them from dad :D

frankokomando

6th Apr 2012, 10:24 PM

Right now in my BACC neighborhood Angel Davner has just gotten promoted to lobbyist. I keep trying to make her become friends with the other three families in the neighborhood, but she doesn't really seem all that interested. She'd rather just spend time with her plants.

Daisy and her bother Ezra Valmont enjoy having pillow fights with each way to much, but luckily they hang out a lot with their neighbors Emma and Zero.

Peni Griffin

7th Apr 2012, 3:27 AM

Right now this second, Drama Acres is in My Documents/Sims2/Neighborhoods folder, and my Downloads folder is in the process of recovery from the backup. If it doesn't take more than half an hour to restore, I should be able to play the Bubblers, redoing their lost day and remodeling their house with access to Mansion and Garden Stuff this time.

I am so happy I'm hardly bothered at all by the fact that we seem to be further from having outgoing e-mail than ever. I don't expect that to last, but I'm going to enjoy it while I can.

inforthekill

7th Apr 2012, 6:03 AM

Well, I just made a new neighborhood and I moved in Sam and Achilles (they're married)

I plan to make them have a baby. He has a job in the Business Field and she is a stay-at-home girl. They live in a decent house I made myself.

Yazoo

7th Apr 2012, 6:12 AM

Well, I decided to spice things up. Eva has now...Well told her mother and father that she is a lesbian. :) And they took it rather well, and Eva has a crush on an older woman (Totally making this up, because you can't crush on an older Sim, so I'm making that part up. But she is totally a lesbian). Dracul finally got a job, just using the maxmotives cheat so he doesn't die at work. Daciana is just going at it on the piano, she is now in the zone :)

Alina and Marcus are working on having their first child. Once he/she is a teen, I'll move out Eva, Dracul, and Daciana with the new member of the family, and they will head off to College to make the population all Vampires. And of course Daciana is starting to turn out like her sister, Eva. She is sort of leaning towards the female side :) But Dracul is like Eva, he likes women, xD

But Alina and Marcus's first child, will be straight just like Dracul. Then they will start the second generation of freaking awesome Vampires. :) Elves and Vampires they mix quite well :) And they make such beautiful babies. :D Except they are spitting images of their parents. More of their mother than their father :D But still I am really loving the Valentine family ^.^

Later on, though, I'll be playing Don, and ruining his love life, by cheating in front of Nina. (I hate to be mean, but dayum! Nina's forehead is fracking huge >.> I so just noticed it too. I know it was sort of low but still.) Mortimer will more than likely marry Dina. >.> Yeah...I'm like so counting down the days, not.

JDacapo

7th Apr 2012, 10:02 AM

Well, I decided to spice things up. Eva has now...Well told her mother and father that she is a lesbian. :) And they took it rather well, and Eva has a crush on an older woman (Totally making this up, because you can't crush on an older Sim, so I'm making that part up. But she is totally a lesbian). Dracul finally got a job, just using the maxmotives cheat so he doesn't die at work. Daciana is just going at it on the piano, she is now in the zone :)

What do you mean you can't crush on an older sim? Also, there's a mod where you can make a vampire a day-walker or at least give him or her sunblock, so the vampire doesn't die at work. And Nina has pretty babies... her second daughter is ADORABLE! Her first daughter is pretty nice-looking too, especially when she dresses all bohemian or gypsy-like XD

... Later on, though, I'll be playing Don, and ruining his love life, by cheating in front of Nina. (I hate to be mean, but dayum! Nina's forehead is fracking huge >.> I so just noticed it too. I know it was sort of low but still.) Mortimer will more than likely marry Dina. >.> Yeah...I'm like so counting down the days, not.

I prefer to make Don pay by getting him abducted. The mod I use, which significantly increases abductions, makes the process a lot more fun. Besides, the thought of Don crying after the abduction while the alien spawn grows inside him makes me... fiendishly delighted. :D

Yazoo

7th Apr 2012, 5:35 PM

What do you mean you can't crush on an older sim? Also, there's a mod where you can make a vampire a day-walker or at least give him or her sunblock, so the vampire doesn't die at work. And Nina has pretty babies... her second daughter is ADORABLE! Her first daughter is pretty nice-looking too, especially when she dresses all bohemian or gypsy-like XD

I prefer to make Don pay by getting him abducted. The mod I use, which significantly increases abductions, makes the process a lot more fun. Besides, the thought of Don crying after the abduction while the alien spawn grows inside him makes me... fiendishly delighted. :D

You're evil, you do realize this, right? Lol. Well, I suppose I can have Don having a butt load of Alien babies. That would be nice to see. And no, sadly, you can't have a crush on an older sim as a teen. A Young Adult, yes. A teen, no.

Nina?! Has adorable babies?! Her forehead...Is like...Huge o.o I turned the camera and it was poking out, it like scared me. BUT, have no fear. Dracul will get with her...I think. And they can have Elf babies. :D He is an Elf, and she is a human. Okay well, Dracul is an Elf Vampire, so he can bite her. Then have a human child later. Which honestly, I can't understand. You're a vampire but you are having Human babies...Its just weird.

JDacapo

7th Apr 2012, 6:22 PM

You're evil, you do realize this, right? Lol. Well, I suppose I can have Don having a butt load of Alien babies. That would be nice to see. And no, sadly, you can't have a crush on an older sim as a teen. A Young Adult, yes. A teen, no.

Nina?! Has adorable babies?! Her forehead...Is like...Huge o.o I turned the camera and it was poking out, it like scared me. BUT, have no fear. Dracul will get with her...I think. And they can have Elf babies. :D He is an Elf, and she is a human. Okay well, Dracul is an Elf Vampire, so he can bite her. Then have a human child later. Which honestly, I can't understand. You're a vampire but you are having Human babies...Its just weird.

I didn't know she was a teen... maybe I missed that part lol. But anyways, Nina had an ADORABLE daughter. She also woohooed Pascal and a very preggers Vidcund Curious. It was so cute... ACR rocks!

Fivey

7th Apr 2012, 6:25 PM

You're evil, you do realize this, right? Lol. Well, I suppose I can have Don having a butt load of Alien babies. That would be nice to see. And no, sadly, you can't have a crush on an older sim as a teen. A Young Adult, yes. A teen, no.

Nina?! Has adorable babies?! Her forehead...Is like...Huge o.o I turned the camera and it was poking out, it like scared me. BUT, have no fear. Dracul will get with her...I think. And they can have Elf babies. :D He is an Elf, and she is a human. Okay well, Dracul is an Elf Vampire, so he can bite her. Then have a human child later. Which honestly, I can't understand. You're a vampire but you are having Human babies...Its just weird.

If you have teen-adult lovin' mods, I believe you can. I've had Alexander Goth flirt with the Diva during his teen years. Now he's washed up into a trailer home with Nina Caliente with their toddler daughter. They hate each other. Lots of abuse in that family. Ah yes, storylines.

JDacapo

7th Apr 2012, 7:19 PM

If you have teen-adult lovin' mods, I believe you can. I've had Alexander Goth flirt with the Diva during his teen years. Now he's washed up into a trailer home with Nina Caliente with their toddler daughter. They hate each other. Lots of abuse in that family. Ah yes, storylines.

You have the former kitten-killer?

Peni Griffin

8th Apr 2012, 12:18 AM

In the immortal words of Sylvester the Cat: Razzer-frazzer-snazzer-frazzer.

I'm restoring Drama Acres again. Something was wrong with the copy I'd used the hood-checker on, assigning random names (mostly gender-inappropriate: Sadie Hawkins Point had become Ian Seavey, and her husband Clovis was Winifred Something) to all my CAS sims, dead and alive. So this copy is coming straight off the hard drive, which will presumably take all night now, since I had to stop it once to let the hired tech restore us to full e-mail service. Which, okay, is more important, and if I have to wait an extra day or two to return to Drama Acres in exchange for renewed capacity to communicate with the world, so be it, but -

I am so sick of troubleshooting and I miss my sims!

This time I'm going to look in SimPE before I open the game. Best case scenario, it'll confirm that everything's all right. Worst case scenario I'll find out it's broken sooner and may be able to gather more information to carry to the Help forum. Weirdest case scenario, it'll look okay in SimPE and still be borked in game.

JDacapo

8th Apr 2012, 2:32 AM

Yazoo

8th Apr 2012, 2:42 AM

I didn't know she was a teen... maybe I missed that part lol. But anyways, Nina had an ADORABLE daughter. She also woohooed Pascal and a very preggers Vidcund Curious. It was so cute... ACR rocks!

Sometimes I wonder about you. o.o

If you have teen-adult lovin' mods, I believe you can. I've had Alexander Goth flirt with the Diva during his teen years. Now he's washed up into a trailer home with Nina Caliente with their toddler daughter. They hate each other. Lots of abuse in that family. Ah yes, storylines.

There is an actual mod for that?! Hmmm o.o It would be nice for the teen Sim be all crushing on the adult sim before going to College, then be like:

"Hey remember me? Yeah, I am all grown up now..."

Okay...Yeah don't look at that as dirty, lol :D Hmmmmmm, I may need to find that mod. And...Nina and Alexander, I would have never seen that. Ever. Storylines rule :D

JDacapo

8th Apr 2012, 5:00 AM

And let's not forget that kids often do get crushes on adults, right?

Edit: Bluebell has fallen in love with one of her neighbours - Phil Jitmakusol(sp?). They have some good chemistry despite her not being particularly attracted to his sign - he's attracted to hers. Might have them both keep their last names. She's already at the top of the education career, and I might have her switch to Business when the opportunity comes up - sort of like in the original Sims game. Been making liberal use of the elixir of life, and I just might start dispensing with the formalities of making witches because my students are starting to be poisoned by gossip from bigots. And I've had Bluebell punk a few townies with Magus Mutatio since I have a mod which makes it so friendship isn't required for a playable to use that spell. Already got a few new, impressionable townies, and they seem to be 'selfed' to witchiness.

Fivey

8th Apr 2012, 8:39 AM

Sometimes I wonder about you. o.o

There is an actual mod for that?! Hmmm o.o It would be nice for the teen Sim be all crushing on the adult sim before going to College, then be like:

"Hey remember me? Yeah, I am all grown up now..."

Okay...Yeah don't look at that as dirty, lol :D Hmmmmmm, I may need to find that mod. And...Nina and Alexander, I would have never seen that. Ever. Storylines rule :D

Alex and Nina are quite the crack pairing, huh?

Basically, Dina and Alex weren't very fond of each other, especially after Mortimer's death. I set him as a pleasure sim for gits and shiggles. Wanting to get out of the house and away from the gold digger, he went to college and joined a frathouse. He fell in love with Jessie Pliferson, and got engaged to her (she actually rolled the want). One drunken toga party, Alexander caught Guy snogging his fiancee. He broke up with Jessie and dropped out of college in utter anger. Dina refused to let him move back in, and he washed up in a trailer home. He encountered Nina, and still infuriated at Dina, decided shagging her slut sister was a much better idea.

Now he's housing the woman in his home, along with their toddler Linda. Alexander also witnessed Nina screwing Don Lothario, so he HATES her. Lots of attacking and shoving. Nina is also pregnant again with more Alex-spawn.

Quite tragic.

JDacapo

8th Apr 2012, 9:05 AM

Well, Phil and Bluebell got hitched. Both rolled the want to have a baby, and I had Phil change careers since his LTW is to be a mad scientist. Bluebell's LTW is to graduate three kids, and her secondary aspiration is pleasure, while Phil's is family. Decided to move them to a house so they'll have more freedom to build and decorate, and make rooms for at least three kids. Am thinking of having them adopt as well because I don't wanna have to deal with townie kids who never grow up(or barely grow up well thanks to the half-butted EAxis coding and don't even get a 'grown up' aspiration).

fruitsymphony

8th Apr 2012, 7:18 PM

I wanted Sandy Bruty to be Elder, for logic reasons, so I added her to a random family, and set it to her birthday. While I waited for the time to be 6 o'clock she went to her work. While she was there she won §75 000 on a chance card. .. She is a townie again now, and I had to withdraw the 75K from the family in SimPE!

JDacapo

9th Apr 2012, 3:15 AM

Well, Bluebell had a kid, and so did Phil(aliens ahoy!), and both rolled the have-a-baby want again. This is the second time for Bluebell, and it happened after Angelo became a toddler. His little sister, Opal, has the dark blue-green skin with light markings, thanks to the P.T. replacement I have. Yup... I'm gonna have the two try for a baby again, because they are rich and both need an excuse to stay home and avoid Miss Glitchy-Nanny. Even with the mods, there are some nannies who will wet themselves even when they're just a few paces away from the bathroom.

Yazoo

9th Apr 2012, 4:07 AM

Alex and Nina are quite the crack pairing, huh?

Basically, Dina and Alex weren't very fond of each other, especially after Mortimer's death. I set him as a pleasure sim for gits and shiggles. Wanting to get out of the house and away from the gold digger, he went to college and joined a frathouse. He fell in love with Jessie Pliferson, and got engaged to her (she actually rolled the want). One drunken toga party, Alexander caught Guy snogging his fiancee. He broke up with Jessie and dropped out of college in utter anger. Dina refused to let him move back in, and he washed up in a trailer home. He encountered Nina, and still infuriated at Dina, decided shagging her slut sister was a much better idea.

Now he's housing the woman in his home, along with their toddler Linda. Alexander also witnessed Nina screwing Don Lothario, so he HATES her. Lots of attacking and shoving. Nina is also pregnant again with more Alex-spawn.

Quite tragic.

LMAO xD I do not know why I found this funny. But I saw it in my head, replaying, lol. So, yeah its quite the pairing, you know, except the cheating. But I guess that is what happens when we play Pleasure or Romance Sims. But hey, it spices the game up :D

ANYWAY.

Marcus and Alina had their child, Damocles. And for some odd reason, he took up too Eva. And ended up learning how to speak from her, and also how to "research" by her as well. Eva has a knack with kids, soe she will make a wonderful mother. Unless, you know, College changes her. >.> But Damocles is a child now, and will be a teen here soon. He is very outgoing as like his cousin, Dracul. So, yeah, it amazes me that how Eva is so close to all of the kids. Seeing that she is the oldest. And now she is not as shy anymore, her uncle encouraged her too be outgoing. So, yeah.

Eva, Dracul, and Daciana are getting ready for College. They got Scholarships up the arse. AND they are all overachievers. Leave it to their parents, that push so much. :)

Oh yeah, Eva got abducted by Aliens. That was just great. She was searching for constellations. And she wasn't even looking for 5 minutes, and bam cut scene. Poor Vampire, she saw Aliens. And then cried over it, because she is a Fortune Sim o.o

That's what going on in my game.

JDacapo

9th Apr 2012, 4:27 AM

LMAO xD I do not know why I found this funny. But I saw it in my head, replaying, lol. So, yeah its quite the pairing, you know, except the cheating. But I guess that is what happens when we play Pleasure or Romance Sims. But hey, it spices the game up :D

ANYWAY.

Marcus and Alina had their child, Damocles. And for some odd reason, he took up too Eva. And ended up learning how to speak from her, and also how to "research" by her as well. Eva has a knack with kids, soe she will make a wonderful mother. Unless, you know, College changes her. >.> But Damocles is a child now, and will be a teen here soon. He is very outgoing as like his cousin, Dracul. So, yeah, it amazes me that how Eva is so close to all of the kids. Seeing that she is the oldest. And now she is not as shy anymore, her uncle encouraged her too be outgoing. So, yeah.

Eva, Dracul, and Daciana are getting ready for College. They got Scholarships up the arse. AND they are all overachievers. Leave it to their parents, that push so much. :)

Oh yeah, Eva got abducted by Aliens. That was just great. She was searching for constellations. And she wasn't even looking for 5 minutes, and bam cut scene. Poor Vampire, she saw Aliens. And then cried over it, because she is a Fortune Sim o.o

That's what going on in my game.

How do you get a vampire through college? Do you give the vamp a special dorm with no windows, or do you use any mods that allow some day-walking? Or both?

Darby

9th Apr 2012, 4:55 AM

How do you get a vampire through college? Do you give the vamp a special dorm with no windows, or do you use any mods that allow some day-walking? Or both?

Windows have no bearing on anything with regard to vampires. You've basically got "inside" and "outside", and can therefore have as many windows as you want, without any change in rate of motive loss for them while indoors.

I haven't had a vampire in Uni, but I can easily imagine a couple ways to manage one:
1. Have the vampire meditate out of the way in his/her room during the day, skip classes, and spend nights doing term papers, group research, and class assignments in order to fill the grade bar to an acceptable level each semester.

2. Make sure the vampire's needs are maxed, or nearly so, before dawn. Put him/her in meditation, and when it's time for class, have him/her teleport to the very edge of the lot to minimize motive loss between coming out of meditation and leaving the lot for class. Have a coffin right next to where he/she comes back to the lot.

Vampires require a certain amount of vigilant attention, but with a little practice, they're actually fairly easy to manage.

Fivey

9th Apr 2012, 4:58 AM

I started a legacy Challenge yesterday using a custom neighborhood.

Family sim and Pisces Waverly Yule moved into a lot and build herself a decent home using what she had. She then met a Cancer named Desmond, who was a Knowledge sim. They got married, and had a daughter named Elizabeth. She aged into a Toddler last time I remember.

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Waverly and Elizabeth

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...and Desmond, who I would imagine would speak with a dopey British accent and discuss interesting things like lorries and tea. Or something.

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I do admit to using a smaller lot than what the rules require, but I couldn't resist having the lot surrounded by road. It's a relatively nice house I admit.

JDacapo

9th Apr 2012, 5:35 AM

Windows have no bearing on anything with regard to vampires. You've basically got "inside" and "outside", and can therefore have as many windows as you want, without any change in rate of motive loss for them while indoors.

I haven't had a vampire in Uni, but I can easily imagine a couple ways to manage one:
1. Have the vampire meditate out of the way in his/her room during the day, skip classes, and spend nights doing term papers, group research, and class assignments in order to fill the grade bar to an acceptable level each semester.

2. Make sure the vampire's needs are maxed, or nearly so, before dawn. Put him/her in meditation, and when it's time for class, have him/her teleport to the very edge of the lot to minimize motive loss between coming out of meditation and leaving the lot for class. Have a coffin right next to where he/she comes back to the lot.

Vampires require a certain amount of vigilant attention, but with a little practice, they're actually fairly easy to manage.

I can see why they qualify for the undead scholarship - they need EVERY SIMOLEON!

Darby

9th Apr 2012, 2:42 PM

I can see why they qualify for the undead scholarship - they need EVERY SIMOLEON!

I'm not following your thinking. Why would a vampire need more money in Uni than a non-vampire? A coffin is all I can think of that they'd need that a regular sim wouldn't, and I'd just send one with them inventory. :)

Fivey

9th Apr 2012, 3:01 PM

Played the Yule household again. I love the bathroom in this house by the way. There's a small bit of stairs leading to the toilet, so I rarely to never have to worry about toddlers playing in my toilets.

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Yeah, what now? Little DEVIL will never get to my toilet. She grew up to a very homely child during this round.

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Very homely. Hopefully her brother doesn't turn out the same way. The brother who was born shortly after her growing up.

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"My wife's giving birth! This is so hot!"

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And thus James came into the world.

Yazoo

9th Apr 2012, 5:30 PM

How do you get a vampire through college? Do you give the vamp a special dorm with no windows, or do you use any mods that allow some day-walking? Or both?

Well, I decided that I wanted them to go by stuff. Like jewelry, and new clothes. So, in doing so, I cured them all. And now they are tan again. With blue eyes. Blues eyes were very dominant :) So all of them have blue eyes.

So, leading up to that. Damocles is now a teenager, and is ready to go too College, were as his cousins are ready as well. They are excited to get out of the house, and live on their own. Amelia wants her three kids to graduate from College. And Vincent, Marcus, and Alina want six grandchildren. And I thought to myself, for Vincent and Amelia that won't be so hard, however, for Marcus and Alina might be, seeing they had only one child. But it seems the family gets along very well.

Eva is so playful though that she loves doing everything, as in:

Hugging
Telling Jokes
Flirting

And I'll just assume kissing, as well.

Eva's eyes are still set on Lindsey, whom, I think likes her as well. Because they talk on the for an hour Sim time. I was like, woooow. Three of the sims will have popularity, and Eva has Fortune. :) Dracul has Popularity and Romance. Daciana has Knowledge and Popularity. And Damocles has Popularity and Pleasure. So, yeah. I am not sure what might happen there. :P

Damocles is looking at Nina, like:

"Hey baby. How are youuuu doing?"

And as for Daciana and Dracul, they don't have their eyes set on anyone, yet.

saskganesh

9th Apr 2012, 10:13 PM

I got a whole bunch of new MP3 files today... mostly tons of rawk and punk. Classifying these into the best folders will take some work.

But seeing my simkids smustle along to Surfing on Heroin will make it all worthwhile.

JDacapo

9th Apr 2012, 10:37 PM

Well, I decided that I wanted them to go by stuff. Like jewelry, and new clothes. So, in doing so, I cured them all. And now they are tan again. With blue eyes. Blues eyes were very dominant :) So all of them have blue eyes.

Aww... I kinda like the vampies :(

I'm thinking of turning Antimony Pigeonblood into one... that is, when she gets enough cologne stocked up XD

kittcat92

9th Apr 2012, 11:55 PM

I made a set of twin adult brothers a while back Joe and Jimmy Gillman, they have a nice house and a bit of money but being fortune sims always looking for more. So today I made a mother and teenage daughter (Justine and Charlotte Jennings) and decided to do a little story. Single mother, out of work blah blah blah, she sees an add in the news paper for a room for rent and jumps at the chance. So, Justine and her daughter Charlotte move in with Joe and Jimmy. I figured Justine could fall in love with one of the brothers, add a few new faces to the family tree. Apparently my sims had other ideas. I walked away just once to go cook some food, I wasn't even gone that long, I figured eh my sims can handle themselves for a bit might even help with their relationship. HA! I come back and Justine is missing, I finally found her grave in the backyard apparently she was hit by a falling satellite. Oh but that's not all, I go in search of Charlotte to see how she is taking the loss and she is woohooing with Joe in the hot tub while Jimmy is complaining about not being about to get in the hot tub with them. I'm pretty sure I will pause my game any time I walk away from my computer from now on.

Yazoo

10th Apr 2012, 5:20 AM

Aww... I kinda like the vampies :(

I'm thinking of turning Antimony Pigeonblood into one... that is, when she gets enough cologne stocked up XD

They will return to Vampire life, just I needed to get them out in the sun for a bit, without watching them burn to death, that would sooo suck, and would make me cry. And then I would have to start all over, and have the parents make more babies. >.> Which would be a very long time. Once out of College though, Vampire they will be again. :D Maybe, lol.

JDacapo

10th Apr 2012, 9:06 AM

They will return to Vampire life, just I needed to get them out in the sun for a bit, without watching them burn to death, that would sooo suck, and would make me cry. And then I would have to start all over, and have the parents make more babies. >.> Which would be a very long time. Once out of College though, Vampire they will be again. :D Maybe, lol.

Do they have fears of becoming vampires again? Or are they secondary knowledge sims? Or are their aspirations high enough that they won't take a big hit?

BTW, I've been having Bluebell and her hubby, Phil, turn as many walkbys possible into witches. Some of them want to be cured, but they're townies so they won't go into aspiration failure. My thoughts... well, to quote that Yeastie Girlz song again, "You better! Learn! To LOVE IT!"

I'm trying to cure these witchophobes of their hate, and I might have to do the same if and when they start becoming plantophobes. I'm trying to turn Bluebell into a plantsim. I want to turn her first, so she won't start rolling wants to have her husband be cured. Their first kid is a Romance sim, though I made his secondary aspiration knowledge because he keeps on wanting to gain skill points. Might make Bluebell a secondary-knowledge sim later on just because of how she keeps rolling wants to learn stuff. She's a Family/pleasure sim, and both she and Phil have rolled a want to have ten kids. They've done well so far, and being witches has really helped them. And yes... I'm thinking of turning Goopy GilsCarbo as well... sometimes things one fears can be quite beneficial. And if that fails... Bluebell and Phil have two genie lamps, which can be used to grant piece of mind.

I'm also thinking of making all the elder townies playable, then giving them piece of mind and then having them wish for youth. That way, they can go to College and fulfill their LTWs. Besides... some of them are quite nice-looking. And I've got plans for Shelby Barrett, who was recently turned and was caught while she was new and impressionable - she has not rolled any wants to be cured as of yet, and she has lots of nice points. She might not be the prettiest townie, but she's rich, and would make a great addition to a household with a fortune sim... that, and marrying a rich sim won't give her a bad memory. Romance sims may fear commitment and babies, but they make pretty darn good parents.

Basically... think of this as the Carebear Apocalypse XD

M.M.A.A.

10th Apr 2012, 1:25 PM

Alot of first Generation elders are now dying. The cemetery is starting to get filled with gravestones. The two eldest teens, Derek Vijayakar and Renee Johnson will soon be leaving off to Townie Place University.

However, things may not seem to be so peaceful in between these families, as the narrator (me) discovers that Ocean Pederson, who is married, has a memory of kissing Marsha Beckett another married woman and who are both romance sims. Could his the beginning of an affair? It could be, or not (depending on my mood, if i want some drama and action).

On the other hand, in the same household of the becketts, Marsha's son, Jayden, went steady with his new girlfriend, Lucy Lee, since she was his first teen best friend and later on BFF.

Going to the Wolosenko's, with long-nose Logan, he also falls in love with Sasha Hanby (it should be obvious who her mother is (and father)).

However, the family who suffered the most where the Trimble's, as the Grandparents Mark and Willow passed at close time intervals. Its good that they already made friends with their grandchildren. Bruce, their first grandchild, wants to have a good relationship with his cousin, Sophie Go, but apparently, either one of them has to blow it out by doing the wrong thing, he tried to gossip with her, but she didnt like the gossip and apparently, he seems to be jealous of her other cousin, Logan,

http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1286285

as Logan seems to have formed a strong bond with her.

Peni Griffin

10th Apr 2012, 4:28 PM

Okay, two days of normal play with no signs of problems - looks like I'm back.

I had to replay the Bubblers, Phoenixes, and Points. Sam Bubbler broke in the new party room while her husband Ty was at work, but this time Ashley Pitts-Upsnott didn't crash the party and flirt with Sadie Point in front of Beverly Ku, so it was much less dramatic. Ruby Gorey spread the flu, though. I turned their old bedroom into a stair hall and added a second story - again - because Ty heard that ghosts can't climb stairs that didn't exist while they were alive, so he's hoping they'll sleep better up there. This time I got to try out the M&G roof angle changer, so now the roof of the party room doesn't block the windows of the upstairs bathroom. I also expanded their kitchen.

On to the Phoenix household. This time Phoenix McClellan decided to make out with Beverly in the second-story hall instead of her bedroom. Lora, who had been practicing for a part at the mirror, was fit to be tied; and Derek and little Tri (Phoenix apparently jumped her bones as soon as the potty-training session were over. Very romantic, that!) were upset at both of them. Jimmy calmed things down before he left for work (except the kiss he gave Lora started Phoenix up again) - I think everybody's ready for Phoenix to move out, but Jimmy doesn't want any decisions made in anger. Beverly gave everybody the flu, and this time Jimmy didn't get demoted on a chance card and come home early, so it was all day before he could make comfort soup, and Jay had already autonomously served fried chicken, so not everybody who needed the soup got some. Lora hired a gardener to tend the graves in the backyard and I didn't see any ghosts this time. Derek and Beverly went out to buy wedding clothes (the formal she bought for Lora's wedding was much too respectable for her own!) and spread the flu some more. Phoenix and Beverly made out again in their favorite dark corner of the second-story hall, and were caught by Derek on his way to read to Tri. He'd been a little angry at Beverly before, but this time he had a fit. Phoenix left for work, lost $500 on a chance card, and got a promotion anyway, coming home exhausted and stinking of grease and falling into Beverly's bed exhausted before anybody could kick him out. They still haven't woohooed, and Beverly doesn't understand what the big deal is. But Tri finally got significant aspiration points right before I closed the house - potty trained at last!

At the Points, Sadie's sister Sparrow moved in to help out with the kids while she gets her head straight. Clovis was going to stick a single bed in the computer room for her, but when Sadie asked if he was willing to cede use of the double bed when she entertained gentlemen callers, or if he'd rather restrict her to the hot tub, he saw sense. When Sparrow saw the double bed in the big upstairs room she applauded! (I really don't mind the What's This interaction at all!) Since the neighborhood had a reset everyone was up and alert with a full bladder at one in the morning, which gave plenty of time for Lance to finish his homework and Sparrow to teach Andice how to study. This all by itself was enough to make them friends. Sparrow also made friends with her brother-in-law over comfort soup at lunch (Sadie having brought flu home from the Bubblers' party - I think I've cleared it out of this house, anyway), and then when the kids got home the two of them took Andice swimming in the park. Sparrow is at about nine points with her sister and is friends with two bolts with her big-time romancing brother-in-law...and they were autonomously tickling each other in the park...I sure hope this arrangement doesn't blow up in my face!

Andice's half-brother through the alien parent, Frank Munny, showed up and Andice got him to play Marco Polo with her. Mrs. Crumplebottom lectured Andice for being in her swimsuit, making the poor girl cry; but when she tried to give Frank a hard time he stood up to her, giving her a return lecture and shaking his finger in her face. Andice admires her big brother tremendously and hopes she's half as brave when she's in eighth grade!

They hadn't taken Lance to the park because he'd brought Martine Ruben home with him. There's flu at the Ruben house, too, so after she'd taught Lance the slap dance for awhile and gotten his fun up, I force-fed everybody comfort soup again. Martine stayed till long after dark, leaving on her own about the time her father came to get her. So he joined the adults in the hot tub. He and Sadie had a thing in college (he was the second guy she woohooed with after graduation, Clovis being the first) but hadn't seen each other in so long that they'd their friendship had lapsed. Not the little red and pink hearts, though. And after an amicable evening talking about toys and logic, they were friends again. And his stepson is Sparrow's main squeeze. He's been devoted to his wife and never given a thought to anybody else since he met her, but this could get messy if I don't go in and remove the little hearts in SimPE. I'm conflicted on that score. Part of me is shouting "too much potential drama!" and another part is retorting: "No such thing!"

Sparrow didn't get to use her bed because the kids put themselves to sleep in it. I tried to set their homework out so they could do it before breakfast, but I can't find where they dumped it. I wouldn't have said there were any particular hiding places on that lot, and Andice's at least should be in the house itself, because she ran into the bathroom to show Daddy her A+, but I can't find either set. Missing one day of homework won't hurt them, but I'll have to pay close attention to where the next batch winds up or this could snowball.

At Casa Prime, Esteban took his single day of vacation to date his wife into a good mood for the transition to elder. They moved the homework desk to make room for a buffet and threw a party, including all their kids and their SOs. At first things went well, but after the transition it took a nose dive to dud and I couldn't avert it. It wasn't because Sue and Esteban were neglecting anybody, either - they were kissing their kids and having good conversations with their in-laws. Hardly anybody used the buffet, though, and I kept having smustle outbreaks, plus David Ottomas hogged one of the bathrooms by taking a bubble bath, so I guess the guests' needs got low. Sue bad-mouthed Theodora Ottomas, who she saw on a date with someone other than Emilio between rotations, to Emilio, but I don't know how much it took.

Esteban decided he was okay with Jovita moving into Alma Mater House with her fiance George Hawkins. It wasn't good for her to be sharing a house with Theodora the way she's carrying on, and Jovita is actually still a virgin. George was raised to use his Hawkins powers only for good and has a strong set of woohoo ethics, so he's not rushing things. (Though, back at the dorm, the day after she moved in he came back from class and went straight up to relax on the bed; she came to join him, though she had just called her parents to visit so they could see for themselves that she wasn't shacking up with somebody who would disrespect her. I'll make it up to them next time.) Also, Esteban's seen the Alma Mater bank balance. He'd had no idea there was that much money floating around the Hawkins family! Dud party or no party, they grew up well, and their transition clothes weren't as bad as they might have been. Esteban has to retire now, though - he won't like it, but I have a private rule that pro athletes have to retire at elderhood unless they've made one of the coaching levels, and he was an all-star.

Next door, at their son Estebanico Casa's, life with twins went on. Stephen and Natasha had turned toddler last rotation, so the neighborhood reset left them all ready for potty-training. Jim couldn't find a new law job, but settled for one on the business track, pushing paper for Harris Hawkins's matchmaking empire. He and Estebanico went to work, leaving Tosha to juggle toddlers all day, with the help of their collie, Chiquita. Natasha loves Chiquita! Finally she had a moment to call Beverly, and she arrived just as Jim got home. She and Tosha aren't friends again yet because Tosha had to go to bed before she could interact with her much. Jim influenced Beverly to play with Natasha while he made dinner; then they danced a bit; then he said good-by, put some of his personal stuff into inventory, and went to the computer to find his own place. Estebanico jumped out of bed to see him off. I don't know what he had to get into a taxi for - I only sent him next door.

This afternoon he and Beverly will get married. I had considered having Derek move in with them as well as Tri, but now that he's mad at her, I don't know...and I think Jim's plan is to get her pregnant right away so she'll be stuck at home and won't have as many chances to cheat on him. Having Derek for a live-in babysitter would defeat that purpose.

Yazoo

10th Apr 2012, 4:46 PM

Well, Eva, Dracul, Daciana, and Damocles are all now in College. And Eva is already in love. The girl that she had a crush since she was a teen, called and asked for an outing. And then that wonderful cut scene happened, and they had their first kiss. Then Lindsey smooched her at the end of the outing. I was like, sweet, Eva is already in love. And more than likely soon to be engaged. Lindsey is just one girl Eva doesn't want to loose. Eva took the Economics Major.

Daciana got the nerve to call a few of her friends, and then met this girl named Angie. (And they have a LOT in common, because within 2 phone calls. They were already friends). So, Daciana is crushing on a College girl. Daciana also decided to take up the Literature Major.

Dracul hasn't found anyone, but then again, I don't think he wants anyone. He just is rolling with the punches of College. And he took the Art Major. But is loving College life, getting everything done, so he can party up a storm.

Damocles has his eyes on Nina Caliente, his plans are to sweep her off her feet and take her away from Don. And show her what true lovin is. Damocles doesn't have much of a high standard, apparently. He took the Politic Science Major.

So I did make it seem like Eva came out to her brother, sister and cousin. It sort of went like this in my head:

"Hey guys, I uhm..." Rubs the back of her neck, "Just wanted to let you know." Gets a little scared, "I...I uhm a lesbian, I like girls."

And how they react...We knew. Lol. But yeah that is what is going on in my game. I am sort of hoping to have Damocles kiss Nina in front of Don, but it'll tricky to get them all on the lot at the same time ;)

M.M.A.A.

10th Apr 2012, 5:15 PM

Sparrow didn't get to use her bed because the kids put themselves to sleep in it. I tried to set their homework out so they could do it before breakfast, but I can't find where they dumped it. I wouldn't have said there were any particular hiding places on that lot, and Andice's at least should be in the house itself, because she ran into the bathroom to show Daddy her A+, but I can't find either set. Missing one day of homework won't hurt them, but I'll have to pay close attention to where the next batch winds up or this could snowball.

Peni, this might be the solution to your problem: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=312004

Gcgb53191

10th Apr 2012, 6:28 PM

So glad you have your game back to normal Peni :D

JDacapo

11th Apr 2012, 3:08 AM

Okay, two days of normal play with no signs of problems - looks like I'm back.

Congrats on gettin' back in the game!

I finally decided to play the Newsons... but I wanted the teens to be able to go to college and have some sanity, so I moved them in with the Goodies and had the couple adopt all of them. Managed to get both of the toddlers potty trained, and one of them learned to walk. There's two days left and I'm gonna make good use of them. And I'm hoping that the matchmaker will deliver a lamp to the house so Herbert and Faith will be able to grow down and go to college as well, and fulfill their lifetime wants... and of course have a sprog or two.

And of course I'm still punking townies with the witch spell. Might even plantsim a few of them with the 'Entangle' spell. Seems a lot better than the zombie apocalypse thing XD

_sheldor

11th Apr 2012, 9:20 AM

I absolutely love hearing about your guys' games
:) I've been lurking this site, and specifically, this discussion for a long time. Now I've decided to come out of hiding. Lol.

Most resently in my game I have created a Neighbourhood based on Los Angeles. Granted it's not very accurate but it is a ton of fun. The name is Los Imprezos. The city is young, only a population of 7(lol), and currently there are four families.

One family is the Gooder family in which the mayor of Los Imprezos resides. The mayor fell in love with, and got engaged to a random townie that arrived to his house randomly one day. She is currently pregnant.

Another family, which is my personal favorite. Is the Parker family. The Parker family started out with Liam and Denise Parker. Liam worked as a famous model, as Denise is a freelance writer. Newly weds and so in love. Denise got pregnant and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Kristen. But as time passed Liam became abusive. He beat Denise and refused to have anything to do with Kristen. Denise was done and banished Liam out of her and Kristen's life.
Kristen is now a child, and happy. Denise is in love an engaged to a very successful scientist, Dougie. They continue to now live in peace and happiness.

But oh no! Liam decided to find another woman. Lauren White. They fell in love and Lauren got pregnant. Liam actually loved her. She told Liam in absolute excitement. But he wasn't having any of that. He told her to get an abortion but she refused. Lauren only wanted the baby. She broke it off will Liam. Liam fell into a deep depression. Lauren found him dead on the bathroom floor one night. She now lives in a studio apartment terrified on how she's going to raise a baby alone.

I have one more family. The Hamtop family. Casey Hamtop moved from the country to Los Imprezos in hopes for sexual freedom, and a successful music carrier. He sings every chance he gets and makes chump change doing so. He hopes one day he'll make it big time :)

Jennbob

11th Apr 2012, 11:45 AM

In Strangetown, in Grunt household #1, little Biff Grunt is trying his best to fill his father Tank's footsteps and spends most of his time on the training course or beating up the punchbag in the family gym. He's only three days into childhood and already nearly maxed his body skill. I'm sure Tank is looking down from pixel heaven and is proud! Biff's older sister Faith has moved home and married Grete Beaker, and they've had a little girl called Freija who has inherited granddad Loki's eyebrows. I am pleased, I hope those brows go on for generations!

Next door, in the Loner household, I have been having loads of fun with the 'Group' feature. I can't recall what EP it came with, but for someone like me who doesn't relish the thought of big group outings to community lots, it's great! Ruby-Mae Loner made a group consisting of all her family (and she's an Ottomas by blood, so you know how big that is!) and invited them all over to catch up. Her twin Anthea showed up, and Anwar's twin Vikram too. So the girls, Mitzi and Cheyenne, got to meet their maternal aunt, their paternal uncle, their maternal grandma, and a few of their cousins. Cheyenne was a little social butterly and quickly made friends with auntie Anthea and cousin Peter. Mitzi obviously takes after the Loner side of the family and played in the bath tub the whole time her family were over.

Then it was time for Grunt household #2, where madness lives and breeds. Buck and Jill Grunt have six children. Teen twins Jacob and Joseph, child daughter Josie, child twins Jasper and Jimmy, and then an adopted baby, Julian.

A lot happened, as it always does on this lot. Julian aged into a toddler. Buck nearly lost his job because he missed his carpool again; his job performance isn't looking too good, but I figure he's too much of a family man and would probably rather stay at home anyway. I might have him quit next time around. Jacob and Joseph's hormones raged. I randomised their gender preferences; Jacob is gay, and Joseph straight. Joseph has a thing going on with Freida Gieke, and invited her over, and the matchmaker set Jacob up with Spencer Broke.

Jacob and Spencer may be my new favourite couple! They're so suited to each other it's scary. Both are the oldest of big family's, and both are twins, so they have loads in common. Their first date progressed quickly, and it ended with Jacob losing his v-card on his parents bed. Classy. Joseph, not wanting to be the twin that missed out, then took Freida upstairs a few hours later. I imagine Buck and Jill were not happy about the use of their marital bed, but hey, the house isn't big enough for the twins to get rooms of their own with double beds. Such is life.

Buck and Jill both have the 'Have 10 Children' want. I locked it, just because, but I'm unsure whether or not to follow through with it. It would mean having to move Jacob and Joseph to the college student simbin early and then having them wait around for their peers to age up. So I'm undecided. I might do it, just because I like having lots of Grunts running around.

music2ologist

11th Apr 2012, 12:35 PM

I created Cambridge University by the River Cam. I built seven colleges, known to the game as dorms: Trinity, King's, Clare, Gonville & Caius, Peterhouse, Emmanuel and Magdalene. These are interspersed with community lots: King's College chapel, the university library, The Eagle pub, the Copper Kettle coffee shop, Parker's Piece sports field, and the botanical gardens. That was fun.
After Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson graduated from King's College, I filled their rooms with two pretty girls from the list of available teenagers: Debbie Olfski, and Opal Raymond. Debbie turned out to be a delight: thirty-two personality points, with six creativity points, and she grew up into pretty clothes. Opal was a nightmare: no neatness points at all, and the desire to follow a life of crime. Needless to say, Debbie is getting all my attention, while Opal is left to do her own thing. Already she has had an autonomous First Kiss, closely followed by a hot-tub woohoo. I wish I could make her fail her exams and be thrown out; but so long as she keeps taking herself off to class she will sail through. This might be an interesting plot. I'm afraid Holmes and Watson have lost my interest for a while.

M.M.A.A.

11th Apr 2012, 12:57 PM

Ok, so right now, Townie Place doesnt have a Minister of Education, since BJ Ryan, former headmaster, passed away. He left behind two foster teens, who apparently dont need to work as they have a hefty sum of money in their family funds.

Logan Wolosenko has the "Blind-for-a-few-seconds" syndrome, passed on down from his mother, Angel (nee Go) Wolosenko:

http://thumbs.modthesims.info/getimage.php?file=1286546

Danielle Lillard was able to serve Crepes Suzette without burning her self (or the kitchen (again)).

The Phillippine's were able to use their new BBQ on the deck they built in the backyard gardener.

Apparently, the ratio of teen boys to girls is 13:8, so a new family (or more) will be joining the neighborhood. Probably the first one would be the Tse's.

Peni Griffin

11th Apr 2012, 2:11 PM

Jim Spitzig, having been promoted to Senior Manager his first day on the job at Dateanalysis, moved into his own place next door and walked to work (I forgot to have him bring his car; oh, well, Estebanico will like not having to carpool anymore) because he has no vacation days. He came home Vice President in Charge of Legal Stuff, probably on the advice of the company founder's favorite little sister, Pigeon, who is good friends with him. So I gave him the first level of Fortune aspiration perks and the second level of Popularity and decided to hold the wedding party at home instead of at St. Elvis's, since he could now afford a stereo and a wedding arch. He didn't have the want to get married, just to throw a party, but a wedding is a good excuse.

He invited his former housemates, Tosha and Estebanico; all the bride's family that he actually knew (I figure Jay was babysitting Tri and the Casa twins next door); including his old frat brother Jimmy; and David and Susana Ottomas (giving Jay another toddler to babysit - I hope somebody brought him some cake). He had an already-full buffet in his pocket from the last party he threw, so food was no problem, and he got the pop station on the stereo. After he got some food in his stomach, went around the guest list making gestures, and danced with Beverly, I figured it was time, and they got married. His cell phone rang in the middle of the ceremony and he picked up after he kissed the bride - Pigeon, with the first-day outing. I guess he didn't tell her he was getting married, since she and her husband dislike Beverly.

Derek, despite being furious with Beverly, is still friends with her and is 100/100 with Tri, plus firm friends with Jim, so I decided to move him in. After all, would you really feel comfortable leaving a baby alone with her? She's the kind who'd figure it was okay to leave the kid alone "just for a minute" while she ran to the store, and even if she wasn't guilty of that, Tosha's right next door with her twins all day, so Bev could just drop him off over there on her way out. And since Jim's plan to knock her up on the wedding night (which succeeded) involves her being pregnant-with-toddler, Derek forms a safety buffer. They have four bedrooms and he can always move back in with Lora and Jimmy, so it's not a big deal.

Tri didn't appear right away, but came crawling onto the lot within a few minutes of being added to the family. Jim went outside to play with him. They'd never met before, but Jim has the Fast Friends perk and Tri, who's never met his biological daddy either, wasn't about to look a Gift Dad in the mouth. So that's okay at least until the Little Competitor is born. Beverly had baby stuff in her inventory and all Tri's favorite relatives were there, so adding him to roster didn't hurt the party score at all - he could even take himself to the potty, since he got that skill right before the end of his rotation. They cut the cake and ended with a roof raiser, but David and Estebanico didn't go home for some reason.

Jim immediately asked Beverly on a date so they could get busy on Tri's competition, leaving Derek to clean up and get Tri to bed. Estebanico's a neatnik, so Derek influenced him to do the cleaning while he dealt with Tri. He soon had the house in good order, and I rewarded him by filling his wants for a TV, couch, and video game rig. I need to let him go on a date soon. I've been neglecting him, and he's worked really hard for me.

I then played Dulcie de Leche and Alon Livingstone through their first days as graduates. Dulcie moved into a luxury apartment and went on a maxed-size outing with a bunch of her college friends, but didn't find her military job. (I need to remember to cut her hair when she does.) Nothing remarkable happened, but I spotted patriarch Goz Hawkins in the background talking to the bellies of pregnant ladies who are only tangentially connected to him, if at all. It's been three whole rotations since he had a pregnant belly to talk to in his own family, so I suppose he's experiencing withdrawal.

Alon moved into a triplex on Downmarket Street, the bottom floor of a former residence, with views of the local and regional bus depots. It's pretty nice, actually - got a fireplace and a full kitchen, some decent used furniture, and the common area includes swings, a dartboard, chess, and a picnic area with a good grill. Alon has too many skill points, so he's not supposed to get a regular job, but make a living, if he can, writing books, so he took his free computer and started plugging away revising the book he was working on in between drama through most of college. He wasn't finished, but he made good progress and was ready for the evening outing.

The call came, not from his fiancee Amber as I'd expected, but from Sparrow Hawkins. He eagerly accepted and they went bowling. It was the first day of spring, so he wanted a date and a slow dance and to flirt with her, and I was wondering worriedly if I was going to have to let this relationship pick up again; but then I saw who else Sparrow had brought. Sage Ann Munny, half the Great Love Story of Drama Acres. Her parents, who never did get around to bowling in between dancing and making out. Sharla, newlywed to her Luis and invisibly pregnant (she was at Dulcie's outing, too). Her brother Harris, slapper of cow mascots and founder of the Dateanalysis matchmaking empire, whose website Alon stubbornly refused to learn from while he was dating Sparrow. The whole outing was a pointed reminder of Sparrow's standards and that Alon had gone and committed himself elsewhere.

And that concluded downtown. This evening I can finally get back to Drama Acres proper!

Orilon

11th Apr 2012, 4:11 PM

Since I can finally play Sims 2 again, I've been doing hood set up. (Running Mootilda's hood checker and using SimPE to clear up the junk, using SimPE to fix the screwed up relationships (Lucy Burb is not supposed to be related to the Goths, The Montys are not supposed to be related to Hamlet Dane Sr and Jr. etc) Playing the houses in rotation to get everyone established.

Nothing interesting is going on so far, but I'm hoping it will pick up once the set up is done.

Yazoo

11th Apr 2012, 7:49 PM

Do they have fears of becoming vampires again? Or are they secondary knowledge sims? Or are their aspirations high enough that they won't take a big hit?

No, they do not have fears of becoming vampires. And they are in Platinum for the rest of their life, so nothing will hit them hard :) However, I did start over, because I messed up on the family -.-"

JDacapo

11th Apr 2012, 9:45 PM

No, they do not have fears of becoming vampires. And they are in Platinum for the rest of their life, so nothing will hit them hard :) However, I did start over, because I messed up on the family -.-"

Well that's good ^^

I just don't like seeing all this hate for the paranormal, especially the good witches. They have so many advantages, and so do plantsims!

M.M.A.A.

11th Apr 2012, 10:12 PM

Ok apparently, im going to follow the rule of having one sim for a major job, like a one minister of education, one Cheif of staff, one Mayor, etc... So there seems to be a competition between Alvin Patch, William Vjiyakar and Stephen Go, but since Alvin is oldest, and oldest is wisest, i think that he is the one who should be chief of staff.

Two families just bought two new houses and will be moving in, the Tse's and Hart's, hoping each will balance the population and ratio of girls to boys. Hmm, maybe one of them will be expecting twins(?).

Yazoo

12th Apr 2012, 3:00 AM

Well that's good ^^

I just don't like seeing all this hate for the paranormal, especially the good witches. They have so many advantages, and so do plantsims!

Oh yes ^.^ I had a witch once, and all she did was wave her wand. And...I was like woooow go you -.-" But she was very attracted to the female that helped her become a witch.

What is going on my game is, I made a new family: The Forsythe family. They are beyond gothic. And Dracul is attracted to the maid that is having a thing with Don, Kaylynn something like that, and is also attracted to who? You probably guessed it, Nina Caliente. Esther (His wife) is also attracted to them. And Mortimer and Darren. So, okay, they think others are way hot. And they think each other is way hot. So, I guess its a good thing they three lightning bolts for Chemistry. :D

They defiantly want kids. So, I am hoping twins will happen in there, if not that's cool too. But they do plan on having kids. I do believe later on, I'll give them the Romance Aspiration, after all they are Swingers. :D Goooo Forsythe family ^.^

But their kids are going to know how to be loyal and true too the love of their life. But yes, I am really loving this family :D

And oh, yeah, Nina Caliente hasn't left my house for two weeks, she keeps playing with the train set, watching it, go around and around and around -.-" And Kaylynn keeps asking to hang out -.-"

JDacapo

12th Apr 2012, 7:51 AM

And oh, yeah, Nina Caliente hasn't left my house for two weeks, she keeps playing with the train set, watching it, go around and around and around -.-" And Kaylynn keeps asking to hang out -.-"

Wow... talk about "The Thing That Would Not leave"!

Peni Griffin

12th Apr 2012, 1:41 PM

Does saying "Good-bye" to her not work?

Madeleine Moiselle-Estic, the second oldest girl of the Generation of Lesbians, didn't want a birthday party, was afraid of it even, but that's not something her big brother Dominic understands at all. He invited a bunch of his friends over (he couldn't invite hers; she didn't have any outside the family) and since she was platinum from something that happened last time the aspiration hit didn't hurt much. Madeleine was an adorable toddler and a homely child; she is now a teen with a face that takes significant getting used to, mostly because at some angles the nose looks more like a pig snout. Daddy's broad and flat + Mom's turned-up = Oink. I'll give her a makeover next time - she was way too tired this time - and see if I can mitigate that. The right hairstyle should be able to push her into cute-homely territory. Unfortunately, she brought little plague vector Martine Ruben home from school. Maddy made comfort soup and force-fed it to everybody she could, but Madeleine was sick at the end of the day. Still, everybody had a good time and Madeleine didn't hate it as much as she expected to. She's used to having a full house, just not to the guests being focused on her.

Mary Munny's day started out like any other - take care of personal hygiene, check e-mail, play around in home music studio writing songs for the next album, go to pool hall, pick up young man to take to breakfast. This morning's date was Julien Cooke, who followed his crush on Trisha Traveller out to Drama Acres but who also knew a lifetime opportunity when she flirted with him. The restaurant was full of her relatives, so he got to meet lots of people - her son Ernest, her nephew Dom, her brother-in-law Brady, the Diva Brady's been seeing on the side... the drama potential in that restaurant was way too high to just leave in pursuit of an arbitrary number of woohoos. She ended the date on a high note and I let her free-range. For a long time Brady and the Diva just danced together without touching while Mary worked the crowd, Ernest played chess with Allegra Gorey, and Dom had lunch; but finally the inevitable happened and the Diva kissed him romantically. Ernest was outside and already hates them anyway, but Mary and Dom both charged over there. However, Mary's sister Madge had taken both of them on a vacation to her place in the mountains last rotation, so they were in a Forgiving mood, neither of them furious - but their relationships with Brady took huge hits, and they dislike the Diva quite a lot. Dom tackled her while Mary gave Brady a sound talking-to. He insisted that he had ended it, only they saw each other socially all the time and you have to be civil - "No you don't!" Mary declares; and influenced him to fight her. He duly obeyed (honestly, the only thing you have to do to get that man wrapped around your finger is be the woman he's currently talking to - no willpower), and then Mary gave her a stern talking to: "Don't you have any self-respect at all, chasing after some other woman's man? The world is a smorgasbord of men - you don't need to angle after anybody else's! What's the matter with you?" It makes a fair amount of sense that she'd blame the Diva more than Brady, given that in her world all the sexual power belongs to women and she knows all about men and their convenient carrying handles.

At the Curians, Marius went on his first and second dates with Minerva Newson. Their noses got in the way of their First Kiss a bit, but they sorted it out. Given Marius's family background - his brother Paul, from whom he gets advice, has always dated Polly Esther Skirt exclusively, and his parents barely know other people exist as sexual beings - I think I'll play his Romance aspiration, at least for now, as one of those serial monogamists who's in love with love and always thinks this one is the One for the Ages. He and Minerva only have one bolt and she has the potential to triple with Miguelito Casa, plus it's really redheads that turn him on - maybe this is the teen cohort in which I get a satisfactorily realistic partner shuffle.

Marie Curian went to work and got what I expected to be her last promotion, but dadgum it, she's still got one more level before Space Pirate and her clock is winding down. She's always had a hard time keeping her aspirations up and meeting all her life obligations, too. I could have Pierre, who's a game designer and permaplat, date her to platinum and have them both take some elixir, next rotation, when Paul will be coming home from college. Them kicking the bucket, especially without tiki drinks for Marie, would put such a damper on his return home! Well, plenty of time to make up my mind. Pierre is going to get up in the morning and retire, for sure. They're rolling in dough now, and he's lazy.

Lady Scarlet

12th Apr 2012, 6:08 PM

So, I still haven't got my laptop back, but I was too bored posting of forums and watching the same TV series all over again, so I got my brother to install Sims 2 on dad's computer (well, he's using my laptop all the time, so it seems even that I use his computer while mine's broken >.> ).
So ... I'm back ^^ But I don't have any CC here and everything seems so strange O.o I got so addicted to using CC all over my game that now everything is a little too different for me ^^" But it's still funny though ^^
Still, my brother made a mistake (he installed Deep Freeze and modified something, so I don't have any of the original neighbourhoods XD ).And I had to start it all over again into a new neighbourhood (which is kind of strange again for me, because most of the time I either play medieval or I'm playing with the premade families).

I created two adults in CAS and a dog ^^ Their names are Holly and William White ^^ The dog's Beau (a cute Dalmatian).

So, the three of them rented an apartment and William got a job in the Architecture.Holly is a housewife, because I wanted her o raise the kids ^^ And it would have been too complicated for me to have two adults working most of the time.So she stays home, cooks and cleans the house.And, of course, she sees about Beau ^^
She gave birth to their first daughter, Sophie, a cute red haired girl (she's her father's exact copy and she's adorable).I wanted them to have some more babies, but I just realized that when I'm not playing medieval, babies are expensive O.o Serious >.> And you need a lot of time to raise them.Now I don't even know if I would be able to raise twins (thanks God they are such a rarity in my game).But I'm sure I'll get used to everything in a couple of days ^^
So, they raised Sophie "perfectly".She was potty trained, she learned to walk and talk and her father even taught her a nursery rhyme ^^ They spent the free Saturdays in the town, shopping (I also discovered that clothes are expensive when you actually buy them and don't cheat to have them >.> I can't believe I spend almost 10.000 simoleons on clothes in a single day XD ), meeting people (socializing is actually fun ^^ Until now I used to let my simmies socialize only with other simmies created by me), going roller skating and using Sundays to go on dates ^^ I also met the unsavory charlatan for the first time since I started playing Sims 2 (and that was more than 5 years ago O.o ).All I can say about him is that I absolutely hate that character XD Not only he pick pocked my simmies, but he also followed them home and stayed there for couple of days, occasionally stealing more money >.> Thanks God he finally left me alone ^^
Now Sophie is a teenager and Holly just gave birth to another girl (blond hair, green eyes), Olivia.I think she'll be the couple's last child, because they are getting a little old and I still want to save some money to buy the next generations a house.
I want to populate the town with the family's offspring ^^ Of course, I won't do that, because I don't have the necessary time (I still hope my old laptop will be back by the end of the week).
I don't have any photos of this family, because I don't have Fraps on this computer :cry:

Gotta go back to my game ^^

Peni Griffin

12th Apr 2012, 6:27 PM

Use the in-game camera. I do, and people forgive me!

You don't have to buy every outfit you ever want them to wear all at once, you know. :) Their "buy new clothes" want will pay off just the same if you buy one outfit or twenty.

Yazoo

12th Apr 2012, 7:19 PM

Wow... talk about "The Thing That Would Not leave"!

Its funny, watching them fight, hehe. I was like:

"Fight fight fight!"

Anyway, Esther and Dracul, now have two lovers. Kaylynn is in love with Esther, and Nina is in love with Dracul. And of course, I did get a hack, were they can never get jealous. Because Esther and Dracul are Swingers. And they can't jealous of other lovers. HOWEVER, Esther will only have Dracul's kids, and Dracul can ONLY get Esther pregnant. It was their pact. Oh, yeah, I totally said that :P

But that is what is going on in my game.

A little about Esther and Dracul. We will start with Esther.

Esther was a humble daughter, got her homework, got good grades, and was an overachiever. But there is a down side to her story. What is it you ask? She always watched her mother come home with men, when her father was at work. She felt like her mother was not only a tramp but a deceiving woman. She couldn't get the images out of her head of home many men she came home with. When Esther went to college, she met Dracul. An amazing guy. But Esther started getting that feeling she needed more than one lover. And she did. She ended up cheating on Dracul with Dracul's best friend. Dracul caught her in the act, and Esther told him, if you want to be with me, you need to understand how I am. I am not the best cookie in the jar, but if you don't want to be with me, then that's fine. Dracul ended up allowing this, under one condition. That they had kids together and with no one else. And the deal became a pact.

Dracul was a decent gentlemen, like Esther her got good grades, and was an overachiever. But he remembered his father cheated on his mother, with a woman, whom happened to be Esther's mother. Dracul like Esther could never get that burning image out of his head, or the pain that his father put against his mother. His mother walked out on them, and Dracul was devastated. When Dracul went to College he met Esther, and instantly fell in love. Until his heart was crushed when he had found out that Esther cheated on him, with his best friend. But Esther explained, and Dracul had a secret as well. He had cheated on Esther with another woman. Esther wasn't hurt, she was just happy that he was happy. Dracul and Esther got engaged, and then ended up getting married.

People will look at them time too time, wondering what in the hell is going on, due to the fact, they are married, but yet are having affairs out of the wood works. Dracul is kind, playful, nice and active. And so is Esther. But the funny thing is. They don't give a rat's butt what people think of them. They are themselves, and that is all someone can ask.

That is the Forysthe family. Ah such a Swinger family :D

DickinsonVampire

13th Apr 2012, 8:16 PM

I'm on week two of my latest neighborhood. This is the first neighborhood where I've had ACR installed, and it's been an experience, let me tell you! I think the majority of my adult sims are pleasure/romance; it came out that way by the roll of the dice. As a result, I have several swingers in my 'hood.

The family I'm playing now are the Werners. Sonia Werner is a mother of two boys, Vincent and Nova, each of whom has a different father (at least that's my version of the story, since they're 1st generation), and both of whom are now teens. Sonia finally seduced the neighbor's wife, Umeko Yamamoto, and decided she must have her for herself. Umeko moved in with Sonia, bringing her kid daughter Haru. Little does Umeko know that Sonia's been seeing her husband Kyo all along--who, by the way, is simultaneously romancing one of the college sims. If Umeko ever finds any of this out, there are going to be some words.

If they spoke English, they'd probably talk about the day they lived without a roof in the dead of winter. "Yeah, remember when we built Haru's new little bedroom upstairs, and then she and Nova had a water balloon fight in their PJs? Nova froze over, and no one could figure out how to unfreeze him!" Well, I didn't figure it out until Vincent keeled over, too, and Sonia revived him with a blow drier. (Turns out the hot bath didn't work.) Nova lay out in the cold for a while--slowly starving to death, by the way--until I figured out how to get one of the adults to go save him. And it wasn't until everyone arrived back from school the next day that I realized the house had no roof. (Snow on the floor gave it away.)

Nova has a girlfriend now, another of my playable sims named Rosaline. I think they make a cute couple, even with just one bolt. They kind of knew each other before their first date--not yet friends, but acquaintances at least--and now they're going steady. (No pictures this time, but I like red-head Rosaline, and Nova is a long-haired heart-breaker. Thanks to a visit to the gym, he and his mom are both fit now. :D )

Vincent went out with this boy from school once, but he hasn't heard back from him since. His love life's been suffering because there only seems to be one other gay teen in the whole neighborhood. Perhaps I should take him out on the town so he can meet some other boys and give love a second shot. On the other hand, his life has improved since they fired the nanny; she'd been throwing water balloons at him all the time. He got mad whenever she did that, but he's to nice too do anything about it, so he just took a deep breath and acted like he was physically pushing it away. (I could practically hear him saying, "Okay, calm it down, it's not worth exploding...")

Yazoo

13th Apr 2012, 9:18 PM

Alright, so I have now started the "Oh my gosh my parents are whores" legacy, Esther and Dracul are teens. And both of them have VERY high Chemistry with each other. Esther is the one who wears the pants in the relationship. Though Esther does have her girly side. But never shows it. Ever. Dracul is attracted to another teen up in the neighborhood, and Esther is as well attracted to someone else.

Esther did catch her mother having an affair with boyfriend's mother. I so made Esther run out of the house, and go to reading hoping that she would forget it all. Dracul comforted her, like a good boyfriend. But she did break the news to him, telling him:

"Our mothers are sluts."

And he agreed but then told her that her father slept with his father. Gotta love a huge bi love triangle. Dracul and Esther are wondering now about their own relationship. And what sucks worse. The Headmaster is too come over tomorrow (Sim time) and with this huge affair fest. Everyone is wondering about their children's future.

Totally made some stuff up, EXCEPT: The headmaster, Esther and Dracul dating, and the affairs. I added the rest, teehee

Gcgb53191

14th Apr 2012, 6:27 AM

After not really being the mood to play sims I finally got around to playing them these past couple days. Sometimes I need to part myself with them for a bit so I can miss them. ;)

The Williams household are still struggling financially but its getting better. Andrea had no choice but to sell her flower making bench in order to get some extra cash. Thats when you know you're a parent, when you have to give up everything you love hobbies and all so your children can have food on the table :bunny: On a happier note(ish) their son Andrew grew into a child, but that also meant they had to spend their money to buy new furniture for him. And on the next rotation Jennifer will age into a teen but she'll have to stick with the furniture she has because her parents are trying to save up for their college funds. On second thought I should have just kept the bench and made her sell flowers :faceslap: She's had it for so long that it was only sold for $400!

Andrea's half sister Melina Jones is also struggling financially but she's almost done paying everything off. Good thing she loves to paint she's been selling her paintings to get more money. She's been working in the politics career and her daughter Nora works with her too helping her out in her campaign running around town putting posters up early morning and all through the day. Nora's social life has practically disappeared since she had to start working but she still tries to call her fiance Aurthur as much has she can. Nora met Aurthur at a party at S.S.U. and Aurthur being the sweet talker that he is made Nora fall under his spell. Not too long after he convinced her that he loved her and even proposed to her. Nora's mom doesn't even know Aurthur exists and would be furious to know that Nora is engaged so young (she's a teenager!!) She doesn't want Nora going through what she did when Melina's was with Nora's father as teenagers. Nora cant wait to leave home and enter college. Even though Authur will be gone she'll be able to see him more and who knows maybe they'll get married. And since she wont have to work she can go back to her partying days! :Pint:

Melina's older sister Christina is doing very well. She and her husband Matthew have reached the top of their careers, have two great kids (Elizabeth and Stephen) who are doing well, and have no debt and plenty left over for the kids if they were to need it. Its funny because when Christina was younger she hated her mom for cheating on their dad and marrying a much richer man. She hated the fact that all she thought about was status and money, money, and more money!! Thats why she moved in with her dad after college and kept her distance from Trisha. But even with all the money they have now Christina and Matthew continue living their normal life at her dad's small house. They did renovate their house a bit since the kids are getting older Elizabeth didn't want to share a room with her younger brother. They even added a patio to the back of the house with an nice hot tub for their retirement days. :beer:

At the Milad's household Ashley has decided she's not going to have anymore children. Having four one after another (including a pair of twins) is really wearing her down not to mention how much money they all cost :P And with just Thomas' salary they're barely getting by. So she decided to have surgery to get her tubes tied :P Right now Thomas got promoted by a chance card so he has a lot of skilling up to do until he gets promoted again and with all the kids being children he doesn't have to waste time on teaching them their toddlers skills anymore so he's going to get to it asap! Ashley will find a job as well once she recovers from her surgery. Since the kids are all children its been real fun seeing them interact with each other. Their favorite things to do are to play catch and playing cops and robbers. Unfortunately they have a low relationship score with their adopted sister Rei but its getting better. Ashley is also getting to know her half siblings from her dad's second marriage. Ashley was so hurt by him that she didn't want anything to do with them but now that she's older she knows how important family is.

Ashley's younger sister Anna lives a simple life with her tiny family. Her husband Armando works in law enforcement and they have a son together, Alan. Anna works as a Senator for Bluewater Village so she spends a lot of time at the office.

Their youngest sister Ava Harris is trying to get used to being a mother. Before she had Aiden she was an all star so it was really hard going from waking up early to train to being sleep deprived and sneaking in some naps during the day with the new baby. Her husband Derek works full time at the hospital being chief of staff and all so he gets home pretty late sometimes. Derek's half brother Aurthur just moved in with them since he just finished college. Ava was worried about him moving in since he can be a bit of a moocher but as lazy as he is at least he's a neat freak and cleans the house. Aurthur did bring some drama with him from college though, since he broke two girls' hearts they come around and kick the trash can and steal the newspaper often. Which makes it even harder for him to find a job! He got a job in the slacker career then quit and got another one cleaning rat cages since they paid more. Derek is too nice and doesn't even make him pay rent. He thinks that once he gets going in a career he'll want to get his own place especially since he's engaged now plus this is the home they grew up in so it'd feel wrong to kick him out.

The Landgraabs are expecting after trying so hard to get pregnant again. Meadow has finally convinced Malcolm V to move out of their small modern home and into a more traditional home. With a new baby on the way there just isn't room for everyone. While she was at it she convinced him to get rid of the ugly bachelor type furniture and buy new furniture for the new home. So for the next two days they packed everything up and moved into their new home! The first night they were there Meadow went into labor and shortly after had a baby girl that they named Madeline. After having two Landgraab clones of their father she's excited to have a cute little girl :luff: But on that same night Malcolm V received a call with some very bad news.... :blink:

Peni Griffin

14th Apr 2012, 1:45 PM

Ezekial and Pigeon Hawkins both had days off. It's amazing how little progress a toddler can make in her toddler skills when Mama, Daddy, Grampa, and Granny are all competing for her attention at the same time. Dove's a happy little girl, though, and Aunt Kestrel had time to go out to the park with The Crowd.

Next door at Harris Hawkins's, flu was rampant. Harris has it so bad he got out of bed to cough up a lung between making out and trying for a baby. But now that Gabriella finally wants another one, he wasn't about to be deterred. (Chimes!) Gabriella made gobs of comfort soup and everyone was well again when suddenly Mary Ann brought home Josephine Ruben and she reinfected everyone. Those Ruben girls are a menace.

Ernest and Sage Ann Munny continued on their merry way, permaplat and rolling in wealth and loving their jobs. Player favoritism; who, me? I went ahead and gave Ernest a Family secondary in case they needed an extra soup-maker, but the boys miraculously didn't bring home a Ruben and the house is plague-free, despite both of them having been at Tina Traveller's party, where the infection started to spread. Mark and Frank went down to the roller rink with the Drama Acres crowd and Mark began to succumb to the Hawkins pheremone. He'd thought he was immune because he's been buddying around with Kestrel his whole life and never felt a thing, but dancing with her niece Gracie showed him his folly. When he's around a Hawkins girl who's into boys, he's as susceptible as the next guy. Which is bad, because his Ma is Gracie's dad's first cousin, and that's not enough steps away given the inbreeding among the core families. Also, she's got a boyfriend. Also, she's his alien half-brother Frank's oldest friend. So he consulted with Kestrel, and she said the only solution was to go out and meet more girls. However, when he's with Frank, it's like girls can't see him. He's just as outgoing as Frank, but - must be the green thing. Frank, for his part, has one bolt with most girls and two with a couple - Tina Traveller really likes him; too bad he's starting high school and she's starting middle school - and is not interested in dating. Which Pa says not to worry about - Munny men tend to be cold till they're with The One who can warm them up. But Mark is a quarter Hawkins, which probably makes the difference.

So Mark went down to the Convenient Stores alone while Frank was harvesting his cucumbers and sure enough, he had no problem getting Marsha Bruenig to smile at him when he wasn't in the shadow of his brother. He bought some new clothes and decided to revamp his look for high school, and maybe the next series of phone calls from girls they get will be for him and not his brother. Or maybe they'll be able to smell the desperation on you, Mark...

Lady Scarlet

14th Apr 2012, 2:56 PM

I got my laptop back ^^ Me is happy again =^.^=
Now I kind of miss the old simmies back on my dad's computer, but I don't think I could ever play too long without my lovely CC folder.I missed my game so much :cry:

Well, I got back to my latest family, the Dawsons ^^
So, from the beginning.Abigail and Noah got married and bought a nice house.Noah got a job as an architect and soon Abigail gave birth to their first baby, Liam Dawson (he has his mother's blond hair).They also got a Golden Retriever named Apple who also had three puppies: Winnie, Spice and Salem (the puppies father is a wolf and they look kind of fun, especially Spice, who looks a lot like Apple, but has his father's fur color).
Noah also got accepted into a Private School (thanks to his mother's high cooking skill) and the couple had twin daughters, London and Paris (again, the girls have their mother's blond hair).Even if they're not exactly identical, they are very sweet.
Abigail managed to raise the two girls while Noah was at work and Liam at school, but everything was a little exhausting for the woman.Add four dogs and you get an almost impossible "job" for a poor housewife.Now I'm kind of happy that she didn't get pregnant again :faceslap: Though she's still eight days from becoming an elder and she might have another baby ... you never know :rofl:
So, the twins are now children and finally Abigail has some time for herself.I'm thinking to put two of the dogs for adoption, but I'm not decided yet.
Liam's also a teenager now and that's great, because he gets to help his parents around the house.

rainbowtwilight

15th Apr 2012, 6:13 AM

I just started playing my new Veronaville and apparently Mercutio fails at life. Tybalt came knocking on the door at 2 am and Mercutio got out of bed to fight him. Unfortunately, he lost and went into aspiration failure. That morning, he burned his breakfast and nearly started a fire. When he came home from school, he brought home a townie named Ralph Enriquez and rolled a want to be friends with him. I thought, "good, making a friend should cheer him up a bit!" so I told them to "hang out" and then shifted my focus to Romeo. Before I knew it, a pop-up showed me that Ralph was beating up Mercutio in the front yard!

After Mercutio lost the fight, he kept trying to talk to Ralph, tell him a joke, play catch, etc, but he kept turning him down. Then Romeo walked out and he and Ralph casually started making conversation. Mecutio went and cried in a corner :rofl:

Peni Griffin

15th Apr 2012, 2:26 PM

I played sims way too long yesterday...I think I'm going to have to go easy on myself about this till the end of the rotation. I built up a craving and need to satisfy it.

In the Estic household, Brady was bored and restless and wanted to invite the Diva over, presumably to apologize for turning on her when his sister-in-law and stepson caught them together; but under the circumstances I decided he'd realize what a bad idea that was. His problem isn't that he's unhappy with Madge, but that she's a workaholic and he's alone at home all day. So I sent him down to Doc Alan's (which is in Drama Acres, not Downtown, so the Diva wouldn't show up) to hustle pool and sing lounge lizardy songs at the open mic, then home to nap till Madge got home. He then took her out to a fancy restaurant, where his sister-in-law stopped to hug both of them and presumably whisper dire warnings in his ear. One of these day's the Diva's going to show up while he's dating his wife.

I then returned to Hawkins Prime to add solar panels, which I'd forgotten about when I played that household, but there's no way Pigeon wouldn't add solar panels as soon as they became available. There's nothing that woman would like better than to eliminate bills.

On to Merlin Hawkins house, where he had a cold, a bunch of oranges in his pocket, and a want to make juice. Well, that's a no-brainer. He's had the same hairstyle since toddlerhood and after this prolonged period of not being able to land a job and spending his days gardening and hiking, I figured he'd have started relaxing on the shaving and going to the barber, so I sent him to the mirror and gave him new hair and some nice thick stubble. This turned out to be good luck, because he went from the mirror to the computer and finally landed his science job - Project Leader! Presumably he presented his findings on the Unobtainium-caused mutations in the local insect fauna to a lab that was planning a study on the same matter, so he was a natural hire. Mysteriously, he brought home Tiffany (Sampson) Curian from work, even though she's a) on maternity leave and b) working in the paranormal, not the science, track. Possibly she stopped by to compare notes on UFO activity? Anyway, Merlin found out that some pregnant ladies would rather you didn't talk to their bellies, which bewildered him. His ma'd let anybody talk to her belly when she was pregnant.

Gallagher Newson wants another baby, but money is tight and Minnie thinks they should wait a bit. She looked for a job teaching but couldn't find one. Minerva took her little brother Eugene roller skating. She's at 100/90 with him and they're still not friends! Eugene has got to be the most anti-social kid in Drama Acres, despite his high nice points. His cousin Guadalupe, however, with the same number of social points, is busy competing with her little brother and got along great with little Erika Swain when her mother Lourdes invited that family over. They chatted and played chess. Lourdes's aspirations got a bit low during the day, running after baby Carmel, but when Garrett got home and they got Guadalupe down for the night he knew just how to perk her up IYKWIM&ITYD. I don't think she got pregnant again this time, though. He wanted to buy a green energy source like Pigeon did, but I thought they needed a second bathroom more.

Fivey

15th Apr 2012, 4:01 PM

I did a lot.

First, I played the Goth household. Dina Goth lives there with her child with Mortimer, who's name is Mina (I kept the naming theme). They also have a live-in nanny (actually just an adult I created and moved in there) named Felicity Calistrano.

Felicity spent her time teaching Mina her toddler skills, cleaning, or complaining about being tired. Since Dina started her new job in the business career, she had less time to spend with her daughter, and therefore had less of a break for Felicity. She would come home tired, leaving poor Felicity to keep working while she took a luxurious snooze. Dina also started seeing Dustin Broke. She doesn't plan on getting serious with the youthful Dustin, and is using him as a less controversial boinktoy (compared to using Don Lothario, who is now married to a CAS who has triple bolts with him. Mina grew up into a child, and I dressed her up to be a tomboy. Since Mina was now in school, Felicity took the opportunity to start dating Meredith Johnson, a female downtownie.

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That would be Mina. Like I said, total tomboy.

I then went to the Davis household of Almeric and his husband Nicholas. I moved them into a big house I made which was an experiment with basements and spacious attics. I changed Al's aspiration to Pleasure since one, I don't like popularity sims, and two, to make him a triple bolter with Nick. Nick's a Romance sim, and with Almeric's new LTW to have fifty dream dates, I will erase his motivation to be an adulterous slime (his LTW is to be an athlete anyway). I will actually attempt this LTW for once, just to see what happens.

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Al and Nick. They look way too much alike. I mean you can tell the difference between their noses, but if they wore the same clothes, same hair, and no piercings, I would be seriously creeped out. He looks more like his twin brother than Al's actual twin brother. Hence why I keep piercing and a fauxhawk on Nicholas.

Speaking of Aldric, I played his house as well. His wife Lilith felt the need to reconcile with her sister, so she invited them over (read: teleported them over with the bush) and the Kimbrells started making conversation with the Davis family. They're all popularity sims, so they all don't mind the conversation making. Angela and Lilith did not manage to make friends, but they did manage to lay the foundation for proper understanding and a lifetime relationship with each other and their respective families.

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Lilith with her niece Alice. The house is relatively unfurnished since I just moved them in a few sim days ago from college.

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The respective husbands (responsible baby daddy in Alan's case). Lazy Aldric's on the left, while Alan with his weird nose is on the right. Both are double bolts with their wives, due to personality differences. They both love their ginger girls though.

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Here we have Angela, who is pregnant. Lilith's also pregnant, so I would imagine they are both amused that their husbands knocked them up at the same time. At least they are both adults this time. Angela was a teen mom while Lilith had her son in college.

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...and Lilith's son Faust is being a very impolite host and is asleep! :rofl: Must of had a rough day at school or something. His energy was very low when he got home.

I also created a Junkyard/Abandoned Factory thingmajig that I plan to use in storytelling as a EEEVVVIILLL LLAAAIIIRRRR for my super villain. I have three servos occupying the place: Spock, Kirk, and McCoy. I won't bother with pictures this time around. They're servos.

LRmummy

16th Apr 2012, 8:24 AM

well. I downloaded the BETA pleasantview last night. Its basically all the sims like Don, Dina aged to Teen and Morty and Bella adults and together still. I really like this version. But Iv not been able to play much on account of my 1 year old :lol: He needs to be fed you know :faceslap:
Anyway... Dina and Nina are just about to turn to adult and Iv set them the family aspiration :blink: Nina will more then likely end up marrying Don. Im aging some of the teens down to child to give them more time to build skills and friendships before uni/adulthood. Thats as far as Iv gotten so far. Im going to play the Lotharios, Pleasants and Goths this morning and report back

Yazoo

16th Apr 2012, 8:34 AM

Well, I decided to leave Dracul in the dust. I guess I just favor a Sim over another. With that said. Tegan Forsythe is in College now, and is in love with Nina. And has a crush on:

Dina

Kaylynn

Allison

Well, you know, I thought it would be cool to invite Nina and Dina over WHILE Kaylynn was there. Tegan shared her first kiss with Nina. Dina and Kaylynn were in the living watching movies and chatting. That all changed of course when Kaylynn looked out the window and saw Nina and Tegan flirting up a storm. So, Kaylynn came out of the house. Then they began to fight over Tegan. Nina would kiss Tegan, then Kaylynn. Then Nine were flirt with Tegan then Kaylynn would flirt with her. It was an interesting sight. Go Tegan. Then when they left. Tegan went inside and flirted with Dina. So needless to say, Tegan is this huge heart throb. And so far two have fought over her. And I know there are others out there. Ah, playing a Romance Sim, never ceases to amaze me.

I am so having fun playing Tegan ;)

Peni Griffin

16th Apr 2012, 1:55 PM

I continue to play too much; but today I need to get queries out, so it was by way of trying to make myself sick of it.

Ginger Newson got pregnant with her fourth child last rotation; this rotation, everybody got the flu. Ginger had leftover comfort soup for breakfast; then Ginevra brought Martine Ruben home and she got reinfected! Ginger made more comfort soup and everybody had some, even Martine. Gracie went roller-skating with The Crowd. They ran into her Granny and she persuaded the old lady to skate, too.

Across the street at the Gavin Newsons, Gavin had the day off. He fixed plumbing and worked on his logic skill until Naenae's water broke about the time Annie got home from school. He really wanted a boy this time, but he's satisfied with the little girl he got. They had promised little Alma she could name this one, and the name she (via Simsample) chose was: Random! Mark Munny walked by showing off his new look and Alma brought her cousin Eugene home, but was too tired to play with him much. Annie got a call from Maddox Moiselle and they went and tried out the makeout benches at Oresha Family Dining, which got her in a good enough mood to do her homework and then to help Alma with hers.

The neighborhood reset had Julian Cooke up and alert at all hours, so he went downtown, formed a casual group with Ezekial Hawkins, and got the lowdown on the complicated relationships among his neighbors. I spotted Estebanico Casa and Bad News Beverly in the background, apparently making a close approach to cheating on their respective spouses but not quite crossing the line. Julian also worked on his tomatoes and fruit trees and got a bronze gardening badge, fastest I've ever seen it done, but he then had to sleep most of the day. He called Trisha before he went to work at five and she called him after he got off at 10. I guess they don't see each other as often since they were promoted to manage different Taco Hells.

At the Gavigans, I fed Mary and Nathan elixir to be sure they didn't die as baby Deborah aged to toddler; I hope this doesn't mean they'll croak as she turns child, but I'll worry about that in four rotations. Miguel had leftover comfort soup for breakfast and nobody else contracted flu, hurray! Mary invited the whole Hawkins Prime household - except Dove, who they left next door with Billie Onions, but including Ladybird the coonhound - to see Deb age up. She was a slowpoke about it, but not as much as Dove was. Sophie was exhausted from working and Mary was the one who aged her. I think Sophie begins to resent how Mary hogs the child. Mary is secretly gratified that the granddaughter she gets to live with is so much prettier than the one Kitty gets to live with, though of course they're both Mary's granddaughters. Kitty, in turn, not-so-secretly pities Mary for having such a wimpy-looking bunch of kids and grandkids apart from Dove. The Hawkinses made themselves right to home, including Ladybird, who helped herself to a chew toy and some toddler-licking. Neither of the two pets who live in the house took any notice of Deborah. Isaiah got promoted to sports columnist on a chance card, which sucks, actually, because the hours are terrible. I may have him quit. Sophie makes plenty of money and they've got a good nest egg.

Finally, I had saved the Skirt house at about 8 PM last time, and they still had company, so the neighborhood reset really mucked things up. Gene and Lacy were both in low aspiration; Georgette was platinum from dating Ashley Pitts-Upsnott on his rotation; and the visitors - Gene and Lacy's daughter Minnie, son-in-law Gallagher Newson, and granddaughter Minerva - kept aborting each other's attempts to mob baby Dior. I begin to see the wisdom of Maxon's policy of always ending a rotation at 6AM sharp! However, no one had flu. Gene and Lacy both went to work the next day while Georgette cleaned the house, played with Dior and got thrown up on, and caught up on her sleep. Gene got home at 3, just in time to change Dior's diaper, Georgette left for work at 4, and Lacy got home at 5 while Gene was giving Dior a bottle I don't for a moment suppose he needed. Lacy aged to elder in a nice sweater vest and knee socks ensemble, inappropriate to the season but otherwise all right. Gene put Dior on the floor in order to age into a red shirt and green plaid shorts so ghastly that I sent him to the Convenient Stores to buy new clothes and change into them before I bought a cake for Dior. He grew up into my most squeelicious alien toddler yet (see Babies and Toddlers thread in picture forum for visual proof), with his bladder and energy both in the orange and those awful hot bear pajamas. Gene successfully got him to use the potty despite his energy, but it took three tries to change the bear pajamas into one of the nice yellow pjs Gene had bought him, and by that time he was a pretty cranky baby. He's a real sweetheart though, and has already discovered his OTH playing with the shape blocks.

And that's enough simming for anybody for one day!

Fischstabchenmag

16th Apr 2012, 5:42 PM

A lot of things !
My dog dead :(

Yazoo

17th Apr 2012, 7:33 AM

Let us begin with the long and hatred story.

During Tegan's teenage years. She had...Well, lets start this off. Tegan is the child of Esther and Eli. And they raised her right. They are all very smart, and very, well, good looking. But Tegan ended going steady with a girl named Emmy, they both hated the idea of going steady, (so to safely assume, Emmy was also a Romance Sim). Tegan was also cheating on Emmy with another girl (Which I've forgotten her name). But she was flirting and hugging both. I decided that she wouldn't share her first kiss either of them.

Tegan is now in College (Which I may have said before, I can't remember) But she is in college, and loving the idea of attention. She is now going to be in her second semester of her Freshmen year. She has a maid, and oddly enough it turned out to be Kaylynn. Tegan always had a crush on their family maid, Kaylynn. So, when she found out that Kaylynn was going to be her maid, she immediately flirted with her. But when she remembered her first real crush, Nina. She called her and had Nina and Dina come over. During this time, Dina and Kaylynn had struck up a conversation inside while watching a movie. Tegan decided that she would share her first kiss with Nina. After Kaylynn witnessed this (I have a house that is literally all windows. Except the bathroom). She came outside, and started to flirt with Tegan.

Nina was getting jealous, so she began to kiss on Tegan. Kaylynn didn't like this, she ended up kissing Tegan. Nina then began to hug on Tegan. And Kaylynn did the same thing. But once it was two in the morning both, Nina and Kaylynn left. Tegan went back inside after getting fought over for attention. Tegan flirted with Dina, and is now crushing on her. During a time being downtown, Tegan had met a woman named Allison. And struck up a conversation. Soon enough, Tegan and her were friends. So Tegan invited her over, about three hours before she had to go too class. And now they are crushing on each other.

Though Don had really screwed up with Dina, Nina, and Kaylynn. He is now best friends with Tegan. Tegan wants to have a party. And invite all of her friends over. I know that this will be one hella party. Not to mention four of them hate each other. Ah. But on the side note, Tegan met a Professor for the Art Major, and now she wants to be friends with him. She is just this friendly woman who has more lovers to handle. And yet she wants to woohoo with 20 different Sims. She is officially on her way. Tegan surely had her first kiss with Nina. But she is wondering who she should woohoo with first. She is wondering if she woohoo with Kaylynn or Dina first.

But I also believe that Dina wants to get engaged to Tegan. Because Tegan is very rich. Her parents were/are very rich, and they gave a lot of money to Tegan. And Dina is very attracted to not only money, but apparently to women as well. So, there might be a huge possibility that Dina may not be marrying Mortimer, since her eyes are now on Tegan. Kind of freaky, she is like this tracking beacon and is always on the same lot when Tegan gets there. Freaks me out. SHE IS A STALKER.

But yeah, that is what is going on in the amazing Forsythe Legacy :D

Fivey

17th Apr 2012, 8:05 AM

I started another relaxed legacy in a custon neighborhood since the computer my Yule legacy beginning was on was shitty. Decided to have a Romance legacy head, because what the hell?

Roger Fleurada moved into a nice empty lot, and built himself a small, cramped home. One of the first visitors to his abode was Trina Centowski, another Romance sim. He began his moves and soon they shared a bed. He got a job as a dishwasher, hoping to one day rise up the ranks and become a Celebrity Cook. One day, he got tired of continually calling up his buddy, so he invited her to live at his home. She accepted, so they would live happily blindly rogering (heh heh) each other without a care. Kidding.

Within a day or two she received a uterus full of babby, so the two immediately started rolling engagement and marriage fears. They bit their tongues, and not wanting the kid to have a bastard-stigma attached to it's forehead, they had a quick shotgun wedding. Neither were particularly happy, but they didn't have the corresponding fears.

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In the back of both of their minds: "Who's stupid idea was this, anyway!?"

So, despite being married, the two still did their bicycle act, with Trina deciding to pull a Mrs. Robinson on one of her teenage friends. She soon gave birth to Tyler Fleurada, who is the spitting image of his father. They, of course, adore and drool love and attention all over little Tyler.

Roger managed to rise a few ranks in his career track, and still managed to be the one to age up Tyler into a toddler. Who still looks a lot like his dad.

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Yeah, I see you smiling, Mr. Baby-fear. You're not hiding your love of being a daddy very well. Either that or he is imagining his waifu nekkid. I'm sticking with the former.

The Fleuradas hire a nanny and a maid to juggle the toddler and their low wage jobs. Neither are targets for affection, but Trina did decide to get a bit of tongue with a neighboring lesbian. Even though Mr. Fleurada was fine with her macking with teenage boys, he was NOT fine with her making out with a woman, and got pissed off.

Luckily, apologies and ACR came to save the day. Soon their relationship was repaired. It helped that Roger didn't try to fight with his wife (I cancelled out the obligatory slapping when he found out, so Trina was still enamored with her husband), and he didn't try to push the issue. Tyler was unaffected by the affair, and all he knows is that mommy and daddy were mad so they kissed a lot. Or something. Not too familiar with six year old minds.

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Roger seems rather conflicted.

The funny thing was, the night after the affair, the house was robbed, and nobody has a single memory of it. Roger and Trina were too busy spooning in bed, so Tyler ran out and reported the burglar. With the phone. I forgot to put in an alarm. So, Tyler doesn't have a material memory of it, and his parents were completely clueless about the event.

Peni Griffin

17th Apr 2012, 2:06 PM

I think that I have cleared the pest hole that is Casa Ruben of both colds and flu, but don't quote me. They are all really tired of comfort soup. Amanda ate so much of it she got fat.

M.M.A.A.

17th Apr 2012, 10:14 PM

Well, since I needed to balance my population, some new families have showed up in town, the Tse's, Hart's, McClellan's, Collins's and Macarevich's.

However, most of the drama is in the Collins as Willow gets pregnant with twins! However, she knows that there is mistake here as she won't be able to handle to at once, so, metaphorically, she went to the hospital to have an abortion for one of the twins (Reproductive adjustor was used, the reason why i only wanted a single baby is because im trying to get the number of girls equal to the number of boys). It was hard for her but hey, she still gets to have a baby inside her.

As for the Tse's, last time they were played, they were not aging, as they were trying to climb up the career ladder, since their wages were low and they knew that that won't be enough for raising their new child, so Carl practiced some chess a bit and was promoted two times. So tonight, a baby will be conceived. Next day, Michelle woke up late and the carpool arrived, so didn't have the chance of eating anything or even washing up! She was really hungry when she left and as she went for work, she was even more hungrier and would have died if she was on the lot, but then ,while at work, when it was lunch break, she grabbed herself whatever was available and was enough for her and her baby. When she arrived, she was exhausted and started experiencing some cramps that could have ended her pregnancy.

I guess the rest of the households would have to pretend to have children the same age as the new families', for the story to be consistent. So, no more playing other households, temporarily.

Peni Griffin

17th Apr 2012, 10:41 PM

Wouldn't it be simpler to seed the adoption pool?

It appears that Billy Ghote's womanizing really did help his career, as he rationalizes; since his kid's birth he hasn't fooled around on his wife once, and he's been demoted twice on chance cards! So tonight he went down to Midnight Flows, scoped the room, spotted the Diva, chatted her up, and tried to take her to dinner, but when he tried to toast there they reset, which was annoying, plus his energy was really low. So they sang some karaoke, got a picture, and ended the date. She brought him a bud vase later that night. She's just his type - rich, bejeweled, on the outs with her boyfriend...

Kaiaa8

17th Apr 2012, 11:02 PM

In my game my sim has just given birth to twins who are vampire/genie, which I thought was pretty interesting and also found out that they have the option to burn things. I'll definitely be working towards getting Fireproof Homestead.

Darby

17th Apr 2012, 11:39 PM

JDacapo

18th Apr 2012, 3:06 AM

Well, Antimony is pregnant again, and the father is her live-in boyfriend as before. She threw a birthday party for her son, Kunzite, because I finally decided to try and see if I could throw a good birthday party. It was a success, and I got to see the cute grow-up scene. Then, later on, I had her throw a party for her boyfriend's twin alien sons, Evan and Jason. First time around, it was going okay, but then turned to disaster for some reason, so I exited without saving. When I got back to the household, I had her throw the party earlier, and I invited only three people I think... everyone came this time. It wasn't a roof-raiser, but it did have the "Good Time" score.

Both boys got knowledge as a secondary aspiration so neither one would want to be cured of being a warlock(mostly I am trying to not use the knowledge aspiration too much, but since they're twins and I don't know how the second twin would be affected by his brother's transformation, I decided to make them both secondary geeks). Evan is Family/knowledge, and Jason is Popularity/knowledge. Had the other family members interact with the guests, doing things like talking and entertaining, playing myshuno(which I had figured out how to play some time ago), blowing bubbles, grilling burgers and stuff, and I had Evan take care of his bladder and hygiene motives, then go to bed. Jason stayed out a little longer and did some cleaning up, while Ruby and Kunzite did some entertaining and chatting. And of course, I had Antimony joke, admire and do the school cheer.

For a long time I was afraid to throw parties because the first time I did that, it bombed. Now that I know how to throw parties, I'm beginning to actually do that more often, instead of just having the kids blow out the candles. Now I'm not as inclined to ignore the party wants, because it can be a lot of fun!

LuvSims2011

18th Apr 2012, 3:28 AM

Jaime Kline grew from a child to a teenager, and he didn't look much older with his messy brown hair, his red hoodie with flames on it and his bright blue pants. I didn't take a picture of him, though.

MsScribble

18th Apr 2012, 4:55 AM

I havent' played sims for awhile, and have just started Baskerville again. I've promised my sims that this time, it will be different. This time:
I will let sims grow up, no matter how cute they are as kids.
I will let sims age and die. Eventually.
I will take them on more holidays.
I will NOT restart the neighborhood every single time some some teenie, tiny, insubstantial thing starts to bothers me.
I will not quit without saving at the slightest negative thing. If a sim pee's their pants whilst standing right next to the loo, they'll have to live with it. If a sim get fired as a result of a chance card, I. . . I won't undo it! No matter how hard they sob in the driveway those poor little creatures, no I WILL quit when the dog eats the couch! I WILL quit when a burgular steals the telly and the kids stand around the space it used to occupy and complain and wail in disappointment!

I'm not strong enough to play sims.

Yazoo

18th Apr 2012, 5:33 AM

So, a little update.

Tegan is now in love with six women. Let me think if I can remember their names:

Dina

Nina

Kaylynn

Allison

Sandy

Contessa Rebecka

WOOT, I remembered. Anyway, Dina has rolled to get engaged to Tegan, and Tegan is more like, ehhh pffft. Though Tegan hides it, she has this huge heart for Dina. She always smiles when she is around. Then again, Tegan has a huge heart period. Tegan is now in her Sophomore year in College. And has yet to have a party, but that will all change. I want to invite Don, but knowing that I will be inviting Dina and Nina, who are now enemies with Don, and hate him with a passion. So, I may say, uhm. No to Don. Or maybe invite him to add a little drama ;)

Tegan has yet to take the step towards sleeping with one of her lovers. But I think I'll make it Dina, or maybe Kaylynn. Dina has already rolled for too woohoo with Tegan. And pretty much everyone in the Downtown area want to be with Tegan. Maybe that is because she isn't just a Romance Sim, but a Social Celebrity. I mean Tegan's friend, that she is NOT crushing on, and nor is her friend. She went up to Tegan and smooched her. And then Dina happened to walk by. Tegan of course greeted her, and they began to make out. Sandy who is now in love with Tegan began to kiss on Tegan. Then Allison showed up, and began to kiss on Tegan.

I swear...Her lovers are everywhere! No matter where she turns, BAM, another lover there. Its sweet that they fight over her, but sometimes I wonder if they are stalking her. But yes, that is what is going on in my game. I wonder if Tegan woohoo's at the party, if the party will be rocking :P

music2ologist

18th Apr 2012, 11:54 AM

I wonder whether anyone reads these self-indulgent records? Well, I do, of course. I steal other people's ideas!

So, in my game, Sherlock Holmes has badly disappointed his creator, since refusing to learn the hula in Twikkii. I allowed him his holiday perks when he returned after his dirty weekend with Dora Ottomas, and the birth of his daughter Cecily sent him into the platinum.

On the other side of town, as far away as he could get after their quarrel, Dr. Watson was celebrating the birth of his own daughter, Gwendolen. ( I was prepared for boys: Algernon and Ernest; but it was not to be.)

Meanwhile, Sherlock's smarter brother, Mycroft, has arrived in town. His face is identical to his brother's but, instead of a leopard-print smoking jacket, he wears a grey pinstripe suit. He delighted me by having the ambition to go into politics. The first visitor to arrive at his elegant Georgian mansion was, of course, Sherlock, and the brothers are already friends. A pity - I'd hoped Mycroft would noogie his annoying brother for me. Perhaps Mycroft will seduce Sherlock's wife, when he meets her. I play in hope.

Sunbee

18th Apr 2012, 7:20 PM

I think I'm going to have to restart my uberhood again. My game's crashing right after Cassandra and Don get married--stupid me saved in the middle of the party--I've tried four times.
I don't have a backup: I don't bother to back up uberhood because it's so easy to start over. I want to thin down my cc a bit--well, don't want to, but ought to. I think I'm asking my poor little computer to do too much--I suspect that's the problem with the party.

Fivey

18th Apr 2012, 11:19 PM

Trina Fleurada was once again pregnant (which she didn't like). She only likes having babies with Roger, as she hasn't been knocked up by her other boyfriends. That's good.

Roger was still a bit furious with her. Not good for a relationship. Tyler managed to get good grades in school, but was bored 90% of the time. He kept complaining about being bored, but I also needed him to do his dang homework. His parents soon gave birth to his little brother Bernard. Roger's genes are coming out strong, but then again, his wife is a natural blonde and they both have light blue eyes. Not much to compete against.

Tyler aged up into a teenager, and became a Family Sim (ironic, right?)
His life time want? To be Captain Hero. At least it isn't to have a bunch of kids and marry them off. Ugh.
He for some reason kept showing the furious face and thought of a pacifier. He wasn't furious with anybody. Perhaps sibling jealousy? Tehehe.

Roger got to a position of Sous Chef and his wife is a projectionist. Luckily Roger's sperm count seems to be relatively lacking. They have way too much woohoo to only have two kids.

JDacapo

19th Apr 2012, 5:59 AM

He for some reason kept showing the furious face and thought of a pacifier. He wasn't furious with anybody. Perhaps sibling jealousy? Tehehe.

Is he grouchy? I think grouchy sims might make that face quite a lot.

Fivey

19th Apr 2012, 6:12 AM

Is he grouchy? I think grouchy sims might make that face quite a lot.

Actually, yes. He's really grouchy. Only two points, which is from an original one point. Which is weird, because his parents are nice people. Philandering and slutty, but nice people. Which is why he probably can't find a girlfriend himself. Heh.

JDacapo

20th Apr 2012, 2:01 AM

Actually, yes. He's really grouchy. Only two points, which is from an original one point. Which is weird, because his parents are nice people. Philandering and slutty, but nice people. Which is why he probably can't find a girlfriend himself. Heh.

Try having his mum or dad encourage some more niceness. If you can't do that, he still can be a good family sim - Nervous Subject is a great daddy and childminder, and he loves his kitty XD

Fivey

20th Apr 2012, 7:57 AM

More on the Fleuradas, with a focus on the first heir of the household. Tyler.

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He had his first kiss to a townie teenager he never talked to again after he snuck out with her. *cough* Still, not too bad for the child of a Romance Sim.

When he turned eighteen, I sent him to Sim State University. He moved into a dorm and went into the psychology major.

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He has a lot of his father in him. The thing about this certain dorm though, was the constant violence that occurred within the dorm.

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This was taken three sim hours after he moved in, while he was at class. There would literally be a fight about every five minutes. It was insane. However, he still managed to find a girlfriend. He started courting a dormie named Mehrissa (weird name), but they only had one bolt. Really, he could do much better then that. So, he was still open. He did find his true love eventually. Guess. Just guess who Tyler Fleurada would find more attractive than his current squeeze.

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His girlfriend (now ex) is slapping him not because she caught the cow mascot hitting on him, but because she caught him hitting on the cow mascot. Yes, he had two bolts with the cow mascot, and with a turn-on tweak, it was a strange three bolts. Anyway, Tyler took a liking to Anna Brown, so he moved out of the crazy dorm, and moved into residential housing. Miss Cow also moved in, and proved herself to be quite attractive under that suit.

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Say what you want about cow mascots, but they're sims too. Anna is a Knowledge sim, with the lifetime want to be a criminal mastermind (go figure). I think they'll produce some attractive kiddos.

Peni Griffin

20th Apr 2012, 2:30 PM

music2ologist

20th Apr 2012, 8:52 PM

how do you age down/up sims?

Type in the cheat line: boolprop testingcheatsenabled true

Shift-click on your sim. Choose: More - spawn - more - sim modder. A baby statue will appear.

Type in the cheat line: boolprop testingcheatsenabled false

Click on the baby statue, and choose age or birthday. Select the age group.

Delete the baby statue.

If you age your servo down to teen and back up to adult, it will look like a sim.

Fivey

21st Apr 2012, 7:53 AM

Trina got fired from her job as Projectionist. Again. From that damn chance card. I chose the other option this time as well! What the hell?

Bernard grew into a teen. He became a Fortune Sim, with the ltw to be a business tycoon.

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Now, some of you are thinking. "Wow Fivey, he looks a lot like his brother Tyler! Are you sure they aren't clones?"

I'm sure they're not. Take a look. Bernard has chubby cheeks and a Leo personality. Compare to Tyler...

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..who's cheeks are more sunken in, and is a grouchy Taurus. Also, his chin is more defined compared to his little brother.

Speaking of Tyler, how is he doing today?

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What, Tyler? You got hit on by a different cow mascot, other than the one you're dating? How unfortunate. Yes, Tyler has turned into quite the heartbreaker for a Family Sim. This time though, Tyler actually cares. He feels a very strong connection to Anna. He will make everything better again. He is a Fleurada, after all. From his experience watching what happened with his parents in his childhood, he has learned three things.

1. Time heals all wounds...

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...but hot loving heals them extremely faster, or at least covers wounds with hello kitty band-aids.

2. Persistence and determination is key. If you want him or her back, you will have to devote all of your free time with them. If you are unwilling to, then why try?

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3. If you make it through the obstacles and win their delicate heart back...

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...things will always get better.

JDacapo

21st Apr 2012, 9:23 AM

Having reached the end of the rotation in Drama Acres, I decided to use my simming time yesterday to play Strangetown a bit. Francis Worthington has a crush on Jasmine Rea, Mickey Dosser can't get no satisfaction, Guy won't use the door I put on the back of the frat specifically so he wouldn't have to walk all around the house to set the table when he grills, Vidcund plays basketball in his second trimester (I didn't play the Curiouses, but every time I sent anybody to 88 Road to Nowhere, there he was shooting hoops at the basket I put in the parking lot), Nervous is friends with Vidcund and obsessed with Pascal, and Circe threw up three times in as many hours after she got pregnant. I have Strangetown set to Summer-Summer-Summer-Winter, but you'd think it was spring to look in Loki's wants panel. Oh, sure, he wanted a couple of skill points, but mostly he wanted to have a baby and seduce Circe. She wanted to buy stuff they couldn't afford and go on a vacation to a location I haven't installed for this hood, so guess who got his way? Loki is angry at Nervous for the state he leaves the bathroom in but they're in the low positives, and Circe and Nervous get along all right. When sitting to eat together, Loki kept talking about growing up. Presumably as in: Now that he's grown up, isn't it about time he took more responsibility and, I dunno, MOVED OUT?

I'm more and more convinced that, for purposes of this Strangetown, Nervous was raised and experimented on by the elder Beakers, who persuaded everyone around them - including the single overworked, underpaid social worker whose territory covers three counties, each as big as a typical Eastern state - that he had innate learning disabilities and mental health problems and they were caretaking him out of the goodness of their hearts. I don't think he left the house much. Loki inherited him along with the house and his father's notes, and though he's not moral enough to be properly appalled, he's not evil enough, or the research wasn't fruitful enough, for him to continue. This could change, but in the meantime, Nervous is old enough to take care of himself legally, has been much less violent since active experimentation lapsed, and has for the first time been able to get out and about because Circe and Loki are much less obsessive about locking doors, nor have they done anything worse than lecture him when he screws up. I think he met Pascal at the elder Beakers' funeral (no backstory on how they died yet; I expect it'll come), and Pascal went out of his way to be nice to him, so Nervous has latched onto him the way lonely children and dogs do. So I had Nervous make Strangetown's first Social Group, called The Boys and consisting of himself and the Curious brothers, and had him propose an outing. Lazlo didn't show up and Vidcund conked out early due to pregnancy bladder, but Nervous and Pascal were out late fishing, swimming, and sitting in the hot tub talking about kissing.

Which points me in a certain direction, but I don't think I'll go there. The thing is, Pascal is so much older than Nervous, and I used the batbox to give everyone a degree who ought to have one, while Nervous has never been to school at all and has only been educated incidentally, so the relationship is a long way from equal. Nervous needs somebody closer to his own age, somebody who isn't so much more experienced and capable that he can never catch up, and to whom he remains in a dependent state for the rest of his life. Somebody who's currently a college student or maybe even a teen could do it. If Ophelia weren't his first cousin I could see that. (He hasn't met Ophelia yet. She doesn't seem to get out much.) I don't have Inteen so if I went that route I couldn't match them before sending the teen to college, but someone who made friends with him as a teen and then grew into something more would bypass the power issues I have with a match between him and Pascal or anybody more than a day or two older than him.

Try having him go out with a townie or something. In my uber-megahood, he's married to a former maid, and they both want to have ten kids(bless his heart, I'm gonna fulfill that wish). I set him as Pascal's brother, because I figured he needed a family member who wasn't crazy and possibly a serial killer. He's a very happy warlock/natural scientist, and his first kid is in college(the twins will follow soon when I get around to playing that neighbourhood) again. I might have Nervous and Joy turn into plantsims sometime, but only if I have the no witch-robes hack in place.

Then of course, all the Curious brothers will want to be one as well. Go fig. If they ever get an updated creature wants/fears hack that includes no witch-hate, I'd snap it up quickly, even if I hafta go to the booty to get it. I want some of my witches to be afraid of abductions and have bad memories of them, and who don't constantly roll wants to become every creature they meet.

Anyways, right now I'm playing the Tricou kids in college, and they're doing well. I want them to graduate with honors and get lots of money for housing and stuff, and of course to resurrect their dead daddy. Then he can resurrect his family. After that, the only thing left to do is get one of them to 'know' that chick who got scared to death after moving in, and resurrect her.

Antimony had another boy, but I'd like her and Sinjin to have at least one girl together, and possibly have him and Ariel have a few flings as well. Right now Sinjin has four biological sons, two of which he got from aliens, and Antimony has two biological sons and a daughter, the daughter coming from aliens as well due to a hack I'm using. Might put kitten-killer back in and get Ashley Pitts knocked up in an experimental hood I'm dinking around with, to see if he'll be a good daddy, though I might stick with the install on my other laptop. Anyways, Antimony has a great job and lots of vacation time, so she and Sinjin might go on vacation soon, with all the kids(except for Obsidian, who will be staying home with the nanny).

She did roll a fear of having a baby, but there are advantages to having kids even for romance sims: she and Sinjin both get to throw nice birthday parties, and they're rich, so money isn't a problem, especially when they can make more by selling thrones of light or treasure chests. They have a nice, big mansion, and soon, Ruby will be going to college and possibly starting a Greek house with Alana and her boyfriend. I'll hafta keep her aspiration up just in case either of them decides to savage her XD

katya_stevens

21st Apr 2012, 12:01 PM

Money is tight in the new Wong-Vanderpol household, with both being new university graduates. With the help of a mortgage, Felix and Jonas have got a small one bed, one bath single storey house in Springvale (the downtown area); however, they've only got $448 cash to their name, bills are $432 a week, mortgage repayments are $210 a week and neither have jobs -- no jobs in the paper for the past three days.

Jonas has a want for a baby, but with finances so tight they can't afford to adopt, and biological pregnancy is a no-no because of story restrictions. The only way Jonas will get a baby is if he'd abducted, and even then they'd still have money issues along with new space issues of where to put the baby stuff.

missU

21st Apr 2012, 2:03 PM

Jamie and Jason got married, and Jake ( their son ) grew up! :rofl:

Peni Griffin

21st Apr 2012, 4:29 PM

I'm freeranging my Strangetownies more than I usually do to start out, with, um, interesting results:
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Yes. Yes, Lazlo came home from work with Loki, and tickled him. Then they pillow fought. Then they sat down to the baked-bean dinner Nervous made. Nervous wanted to pick a fight with Lazlo, but by the time dinner was over the intention had fallen out of his queue and not been replaced. He didn't seem to like Loki playing with Lazlo - perhaps he feels that the Curious brothers belong to him, or perhaps he regards tickling as an erotic interaction and resents it on behalf of Circe, who's sleeping off her first pop upstairs? Nervous thinks highly of Circe, but she's not so enthusiastic about him. She also keeps rolling wants to buy things and go to Takemizu Village even though, or perhaps because, it's currently inaccessible from Strangetown. The only things I've bought are the crib, changing table, and an abduction-ready telescope, which both Loki and Nervous have used. When Loki isn't rolling wants to canoodle Circe he rolls wants to stargaze and I'm going; "Sure, be my guest!" 'Cause I love a double pregnancy...Because his turn-off for black hair was too limiting, I had Nervous drink his Re-Nu-Yu-Vit and rolled my dice, and now he has a turn-off for make-up instead. Which is also pretty inconvenient, but I'm determined to rely more on randomness here than in Drama Acres and that turn-off at least leaves him almost the entire male population of Strangetown and LFT, so I took it. If you don't vary your playstyle, what's the point of having two hoods?

At the Travellers' trailer, Tina brought home Sharla Ottomas and made friends with her. In Drama Acres, Trisha is barely involved in Tina's life at all and she's very close with her dad, so by way of doing things differently here I had Trisha be the one to help her with homework. I've placed a small, empty community lot, called Roadside Stand, next door to them so Trent can spend the rest of their money on it and have a place to sell his crafted items and, eventually, his produce.

The Singles have moved in. Chloe invited their estranged dad over for breakfast and it was constrained but not impossibly awkward. Kristin and Erin made friends with each other, and Kristin took the only job in the paper that I decided was allowed in my restricted small town economy - cement mixer. Her LTW is to be a City Planner, so that's good for her long-term. Alas, lightning struck the tree in the front yard and the resulting fire sent her into aspiration failure, from which she had not recovered by the time she went to bed. The welcome wagon consisted of Dora Ottomas, who picked on Chloe and really liked - two bolts worth of like and that woman is not shy - PT9, and Trisha, who spent most of the time dancing to the stereo and had a surprisingly hard time relating to Erin, who zeroed in on her as a fellow popularity sim. Chloe caught some butterflies and told me she was into nature, so I got her a garden, compost bin, and ladybug house. In the evening, Chloe and Lola went down to Strangebrewski's, where Lola tended bar and Chloe played pool with Vidcund. Vidcund has already met Lola in the background of a college date, and they did not get along at all, but he and Chloe related amicably. Chloe also cruised some guys and is positioned to date a hot cowboy, but it was too late to follow through immediately. And Ophelia Nigmos broke curfew to show up at 10:30; must've been a bad night for ghosts.

At La Fiesta Tech, the five students in Oasis Dormitory passed their finals with varying degrees of success and went to the Wasteland Lounge to celebrate. Blossom and William slow-danced. Johnny charmed Klara and then rejected Stella's attempt to kiss him, with no hard feelings. They have enough grant money now to move them all into a residence, which I plan to do as the dorm cook is really in their way and anyhow I like residences, so I put the Cape Cod Classic down and was remodeling it into a run-down Spanish-style, which I trust they'll be able to make rent on and still buy beds, when I realized how late it was.

The plan is to get everyone except the Specters (who start on Tuesday night) as far as Tuesday morning and the remaining campus households to the end of the semester before I go back to Drama Acres. The Beakers are only at Saturday morning, but otherwise it's just the Gavigan first day and the Curious boys in Strangetown.

DickinsonVampire

21st Apr 2012, 7:39 PM

Week three in my neighborhood, and the drama continues, this time in the Girard household.

Back story: Leila Girard is the daughter of an Egyptian woman and a wealthy Frenchman, a woman used to luxury. She married an older man of noble heritage--against her parents' wishes--and had two children by him before he died. Only then did she find out her husband had been deep in debt, and without the support of her husband or the favor of her family, she fled to Sim City to start a new life with her children, Emir (then a child) and Nadia (a toddler).

Since then she's been climbing the company ladder in Journalism and trying to fill the void of her husband and parents' love. She's had flings with many of the locals, but from day one she felt something special for Neil Moore, a man of Irish heritage who had his own rocky past and came to Sim City to take better care of his twin daughters. She thought he felt the same way about her, and kept holding onto the hope of having him as a husband. She even had twins by him, Lapis and Ramses (apparently Neil's got the twins gene, or, more likely, this supports my theory that the first births in my neighborhoods are always twins). It wasn't long after she found out she was pregnant that she found out he had gotten engaged to some local named Constance. He proved that his intentions were true when he married Constance a little while afterwards. Things have gone downhill from there. Leila's been trying to let go, putting distance between herself and Neil, but it's obvious she's angry; she's made scenes out in public, shouting at him. What hurts worst is that she still loves him; she runs away in tears once her anger is spent, and she still rolls the want to marry him when she's on dates with other sims.

Leila's getting on in years now; she's not old per se, but she it seems her cares are making her age prematurely, with wrinkles and worry lines. She still manages to look glamorous, though, and it's clear where her children got their good looks. Emir and Nadia are both teens now; while Emir shows a strange affinity for going pale and growing fangs (thanks to Leila's romance with the head vampire and brief experience with vampirism), he has Leila's eyes and skin of bronze and would probably be a heartbreaker if his interests and goals were more people-oriented. Nadia promises to break hearts a-plenty, or at least to make the guys swoon, though she's more interested in having a good time than making everyone love her. Little siblings Lapis and Ramses are children now. Ramses has paler skin than his mother and siblings, but the shape of his face is like his mother's, while Lapis has dark skin like Leila and a face just like her father's.

Leila is still looking for the one, it seems, or at least putting in the effort so she can say she really tried. She's running out of suitable men to date, but that doesn't stop her from trying to find others. With a recent demotion from her job as a Horoscope Writer, her dream of literary immortality seems distant. Still she perseveres; it's not like there's any point in giving up.

JDacapo

21st Apr 2012, 8:21 PM

I'm freeranging my Strangetownies more than I usually do to start out, with, um, interesting results:

Yes. Yes, Lazlo came home from work with Loki, and tickled him. Then they pillow fought. Then they sat down to the baked-bean dinner Nervous made. Nervous wanted to pick a fight with Lazlo, but by the time dinner was over the intention had fallen out of his queue and not been replaced. He didn't seem to like Loki playing with Lazlo - perhaps he feels that the Curious brothers belong to him, or perhaps he regards tickling as an erotic interaction and resents it on behalf of Circe, who's sleeping off her first pop upstairs? Nervous thinks highly of Circe, but she's not so enthusiastic about him. She also keeps rolling wants to buy things and go to Takemizu Village even though, or perhaps because, it's currently inaccessible from Strangetown. The only things I've bought are the crib, changing table, and an abduction-ready telescope, which both Loki and Nervous have used. When Loki isn't rolling wants to canoodle Circe he rolls wants to stargaze and I'm going; "Sure, be my guest!" 'Cause I love a double pregnancy...Because his turn-off for black hair was too limiting, I had Nervous drink his Re-Nu-Yu-Vit and rolled my dice, and now he has a turn-off for make-up instead. Which is also pretty inconvenient, but I'm determined to rely more on randomness here than in Drama Acres and that turn-off at least leaves him almost the entire male population of Strangetown and LFT, so I took it. If you don't vary your playstyle, what's the point of having two hoods?

Vidcund has already met Lola in the background of a college date, and they did not get along at all, but he and Chloe related amicably. Chloe also cruised some guys and is positioned to date a hot cowboy, but it was too late to follow through immediately. And Ophelia Nigmos broke curfew to show up at 10:30; must've been a bad night for ghosts.

The plan is to get everyone except the Specters (who start on Tuesday night) as far as Tuesday morning and the remaining campus households to the end of the semester before I go back to Drama Acres. The Beakers are only at Saturday morning, but otherwise it's just the Gavigan first day and the Curious boys in Strangetown.

College date? Did you have Vidcund go to college again? Also, did you give Loki and Lazlo makeovers?

Heheh, with my hood, I'm trying to set up some bakeries and other lots. My latest expansion of the Pigeonblood mansion means they're going to have to wait awhile for that and for their vacation home, but the parents are quite happy. The Tricous are in Sophomore year, and I may soon move them to a residence since they have a lot of money now. Might make it into a Greek House. Of course, any pledges who hate witches will get knowledge as a secondary aspiration because at the very least that does cure witchophobia. Wonder if the EAxis programmers were meaning for it to be sort of an analogy of homophobia or the like.

Peni Griffin

21st Apr 2012, 8:26 PM

I doubt they meant anything consciously about it.

I didn't age anybody down but I'm running Strangetown as a typical southwestern wide spot in the road, a type of place I know well. The entire neighborhood consists of Strangetown, La Fiesta Tech, and an invisible military base. The Garden of Eatin' is the only restaurant in a 50 mile radius, possibly farther, and dates almost always roll wants to dine out, so it sees a lot of traffic.

JDacapo

21st Apr 2012, 9:21 PM

fruitsymphony

22nd Apr 2012, 1:43 AM

Ah. I was wondering because Vidcund has some wonky character data, which means if he gets pregnant while Inteen is installed, he gets turned into a teen with an adult body. He was a dad in my game and was able to do his son's homework.

JDacapo

22nd Apr 2012, 3:12 AM

He was a dad in my game and was able to do his son's homework.

I think all adults are able to do their kids' homework though. Did he get a teen voice after giving birth? If that happens, try correcting his age, but whatever you do, don't have him 'grow up' the traditional way, or he'll get the memory of being uneducated if there's a college added to the neighbourhood.

Darby

22nd Apr 2012, 3:28 AM

I think all adults are able to do their kids' homework though.

No, adults can help with homework, but they can't do it outright.

fruitsymphony

22nd Apr 2012, 3:34 AM

Hmm don't know, about the voice.

Fivey

22nd Apr 2012, 5:45 AM

Alright, a lot happened today.

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First off, Roger got fired because of sporks, but got his job back as an executive chef quite quickly.

He then boinked his wife (they ARE romance sims), and got her pregnant even though they are several days shy of elderhood. That's always fun.

Bernard, in the hopes of scholarship money, starts watching the stars and eventually is abducted. He IS a fortune sim.

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Trina then gives birth to little Kylie, a girl. She looks like her brothers. Of course.

Bernard, after raking in a good 30k for his family because of a hunk of cash he obtained through his job, decides it is a good time to go to college. Kylie grows up into a toddler just before Bernard leaves.

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He moves into a dorm, and starts majoring in Economics. Did I ever mention Roger makes some cute kids?

He then invites his big brother over, who finds out he still hasn't had his first kiss yet, and immediately tells him that he needs to get laid. So Bernard goes on his search for a lady of choice, and finds a girl named Marie.

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They hit it off well, with two bolts. I am going to assume another turn on tweak will make it a three bolter, since her turn ons are black hair and cologne. She's a family sim.

Later, Bernard gets a visit from one of his professors and finds out that he is a total creepo.

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The first interaction Professor Buckingham tries is to flirt strongly with Bernard, which he of course rejects. Then for some reason, Prof. Creep flashes an ex-best friend marker. This is the first time they have interacted, so I am in fact confused. Even more confusing, is that this repeats.

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Professor is on his butt since Bernie refused to catch him.

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Professor is kneeling in defeat after Bernard was not impressed with his lousy singing.
"Fine, you jerk! I'm gonna go hit on your girlfriend instead!"

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Marie doesn't have a thing for creepy professors either. Bernard was in the same room, but was focused on his macaroni and cheese. Said macaroni and cheese is also the reason why the professor wasn't able to romantically kiss him.

The strange thing is, after EVERY interaction Prof. did, he pulled out a best friend removal mark. I mean, he only had one positive interaction (a chat with a dormie), and he flung it up twice. Must be a glitch. It was funny though.

Here's a clip of it. On Youtube, of course. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaPfXSorgRk&feature=youtu.be)

Peni Griffin

22nd Apr 2012, 1:33 PM

All the coaches tend to glitch like that - they have one-way best friend markers and they're in love with everybody. They're jealous as hell. If you ever have a sim you don't recognize walk up to an elder former-university student and slap the snot out of them after a romantic interaction, it's a professor.

If you look at them in SimPE you can see it, and fix it. If there's a generic fix for it I don't know where to find it.

I've never had one this obsessive, though. They generally hang around outside a sim's house (especially during the grace period after graduation and before moving back to the hood), where they're safe as long as you ignore them, and occasionally crash parties, especially graduation ones.

Last night, I realized that I'm going to have to change Mickey Dosser's aspiration junior year. He's the most hapless Romance sim I've ever seen! He has bad chemistry with almost every woman he's encountered. The only ones he has positive chemistry with, at single-bolt level, are Zoe and a professor! Everybody shoots him down like a clay pigeon. I think I'm going to start having his frat brothers call him "Skeet."

As the Beaker household crawled toward Monday, Nervous caught flu - ironically, probably from bugs caused by his best friend Pascal (the only person with a current enemy tag for Loki) assaulting the garbage can. He spent like three hours spraying bugs, after Loki had already sprayed them - as far as I could tell, the same batch of poison-resistant super bugs every time. With Circe pregnant, we really didn't want them getting into the house. With the same motivation, Nervous is also going against his nature and cleaning up after himself - I let him leave puddles, unmade beds, and books on the floor, but anything bug-generating has to be cleaned up or put away promptly. This meant I couldn't just put him to bed all day, so I spent the first aspiration point in Strangetown to enable him to make comfort soup, and he had it on the table when Circe came down to breakfast, in case she caught it from him. I've had pregnant sims with flu (poor Sally Ruben!) and it's not fun! The only wants Circe rolled all day that didn't have to do with buying stuff or going on vacation were to go to work and make money, so after she had her soup I let her walk to work. She came home exhausted, but platinum.

Nervous had the convalescent stir-crazies after staying home till he got well, so I sent him fishing at midnight, where he ran into his mother. They had a nice companionable time fishing. He caught a bass and she caught a boot. He already ran into her at the grocery store once and took her to lunch at the Garden of Eatin', so they're friends.

I haven't been writing story for my Strangetownies much, waiting for the story to emerge. Even though I try to free range, I must still be training them into certain directions. There's very little interpersonal conflict and very little aspiration failure. Nervous seems to have gotten off to a stronger start than is typical, since I played the Curiouses first and he got a high point want (best friends with Pascal) before I played the Beakers, so he hasn't been motivated to go around picking fights. He still heads toward people planning to argue with them, but something almost always distracts him before he can. And though he's still in the single-digits towards Loki, who keeps talking to him about growing up, Loki is at 50 toward him! I can't justify Loki abusing him in these circumstances. The only anti-social thing I've had him do is crank call Pascal when his social was low at 2 in the morning.

I think Circe's a restless sleeper. Though he's besotted with her, Loki put himself to bed in the basement. Nervous had already appropriated the double bed upstairs that Circe wasn't in.

Fivey

22nd Apr 2012, 4:14 PM

Bernie lost his virginity in the stall of a changing room, after proposing to his girlfriend. On that date, they had a lot of woohoo. Oddly enough, his girlfriend was the only one rolling the boinking wants.

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Castor: NO! This is NOT OKAY TO DO IN PUBLIC! That is DISGUSTING and UNCOUTH.

I moved the duo into residential housing, because of dorm lag.

Tyler managed to knock up his fiancee, the ex-cow mascot. He decided to marry her right then and there, knowing she needs all the support she can get. They got hitched in the bathroom for some reason.

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So the foundations of Generation Three are laid.

A few days later, Anna gives birth to a baby girl named Faith (I felt unimaginative).

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Blonde hair, blue eyes. Just like her mother. Hopefully not as cowey.

At the main Fleurada household, Roger and Trina are preparing to lose their youthfulness.
They invite their sons over, and their daughter Kylie grows up into a child.

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A group picture of the immediate family, who are all in their bathing suits. If this picture didn't have Roger trying to woo his wife, I'd be worried. Tyler and Bernard both seem pretty happy that their parents still love each other despite the aging and the adultery. Kylie's just standing there.

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A few days later, Trina grows up into an elder sim. Note this a few hours after laying Heather Huffington in bed. A day later, her husband Roger follows. He was recently promoted to Celebrity Chef, and had perma-plat.

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"Oh god, I am old now. Crap."

Peni Griffin

23rd Apr 2012, 6:18 AM

JDacapo

23rd Apr 2012, 10:35 AM

OMG.

Circe gave birth to little Kriemhild Beaker tonight, right in front of the Singles Household, whom Loki (at critical for social) had invited over. Circe nursed her right away and then put her to bed in the crib in the master bedroom - these were both me-directed; I'm pretty obsessive about looking after babies. Naturally, she woke them up in the wee hours needing a diaper change, so I clicked the changing table for Circe; however, she already had making the bed queued up and insisted on doing that first. I switch to Loki as he gets out of bed and see the action: "Change Diaper."

!!!!!!!!

He did it without the changing table and left the dirty diaper for Circe to clean up while he played with Kriemhild, who is his little Viking darling yes she is, so it's not like he turned into a model husband or anything. But even Kitty Hawkins has never spontaneously changed a diaper (probably because I'm so obsessive about babies)! And I sure wasn't prepared for one of them to do it the very first time a diaper needed changing in their household!

Nervous, on the other hand, dropped the diaper on the floor even though I'd specifically told him to use the changing table while he was minding her during the crack between Circe leaving for work and Loki coming home.

Nervous has never done that while I played the household. Odd. But Loki is quite the dad as well, and very good to his babies(alien and human). Thanks to ACR he and Circe woohooo a lot, and they have racked up a fair bit of aspiration points. I may have them use the personalitonomitron to buy a few niceness points just so they don't go knocking over trashcans at households of their friends. Not good. Might give one or both some playful points, though not enough to start bouncing off the walls. They've just racked up so many points, that I eventually want them to grow old and let nature(or programming) take its course. Might do the same for Nervous, since I've seen him steal newspapers a few times. I don't want that to happen while I'm playing the Curious household.

Meanwhile, in Calopsita, the Tricou kids have all been turned into witches, and Pong Grundstrum, the vacation townie from Takemizu Village, is the one who turned them(he's their dormmate by mistake since he looked so much like one of their siblings). I had previously sent him to the good witch's palace, and skilled him up, then had him make enough reagents for a couple fortune chests, which I promptly sold(I love Pandora's mod, dangit!). Then I had them pack up their belongings and move to an empty plot I made specially for them: a very large plot on which I began to build a house. I had the Tricous, generally in groups of three, go to the good witch's palace and skill up, then rack up loads of reagents for the fortune chests.

I made the house very nice with lots of plush furniture in autumn colours, then I decided to have them go Greek. They've made quite a few pledges, and one of them, a dormie, moved in. He's a Romance sim who wanted one of the Tricous to be cured. That didn't fly with me, but I didn't want to see him go into failure so I gave him the secondary knowledge aspiration. He wanted to become a witch soon after that. After throwing a great Toga party, I had Pong fulfill his want. He was in low red, but the transformation brought him up to gold. Might ask a few other dormies to move in, but first I want at least one of the household members to get abducted into the secret society, so the Tricous can get the Resurrectonomitron and bring daddy back.

Now with Knowledge sims and creatures, I am trying to get a few of the non-knowledge sims transformed while they're still tabula rasa, because I want to have some witches who will have bad memories of abductions and not want to become every creature possible. I mean, in Harry Potter, there were witches and wizards who didn't want to become werewolves, though I don't know if there were any vampires in that universe. But anyway, with the Tricou House, when you get in, you better learn to cope with weirdness.

Also, I was thinking of making a fraternity with sims patterned after those from the movie "Animal House". It'd be funny to see how they would get along, and what trouble they would cause. Will hafta see the movie again to get a good look at their personalities though.

Fivey

23rd Apr 2012, 2:34 PM

I'll try to be as image-light as possible.

Tyler and his young family graduate college, and move into his dad's house (he's my heir). There is now six people in the house: Roger, Trina, Tyler, Anna, Kylie, and Faith. Anna is also pregnant. I feel like the ottomases are breathing down my necks.

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The house as it is today. The left building with the garage is the small home Roger and Trina are living in, as to make room for their son's growing family. The right building is the main home. They also have a pool.

Bernard and Marie worked their ways through college, diligent on their birth control to not end up like his big brother. Bernie's a fortune sim, and always cares about the finances. Anyway, they both finish with honors.

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"...what the hell is this crap? Why did I grow up into this? Stop laughing at me, Marie!"

The two move into a tiny house to enact their marriage ceremonies in, before they decide the house is just too small for a family.

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The wedding ceremony is a darling one in their backyard. They have a wedding party as well, because they enjoy the attention. It's a roof raiser, since only one of the six guests was not family. He was a llama mascot though, so nothing rotten there. Basically the elders kept playing with their young daughter Kylie, while Tyler kept flirting and making out with his pregnant triple bolt wife of bovine origins.

I was tempted to invite Prof. Buckingham (he IS a drama teacher, by the way. Found out from Heather Huffington and Brittany Upsnott), but I didn't want his antics to ruin the wedding. He might bruise Roger's ego. I also didn't want to invite any of his parents extramarital lovers, because, you know... :lol:

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Having some wardrobe issues, Marie?

The newlyweds boink each other with no intention to cease, then after a lot of squeezing through tight spaces, they realize "We need a bigger home."

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Cue a big home by the lake in their price range, huzzah.

Bernard immediately wants to fill the house with random junk, while his wife just wants to get down and mack babby.

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They compromise.

Peni Griffin

24th Apr 2012, 5:19 AM

I stayed up too late last night getting to the planned stopping point on Strangetown; and then today I couldn't stand it and played the Curious brothers again because I couldn't bear to wait for Vidcund's baby any longer, and as long as I remember that they're a day ahead of everybody else it'll be fine. We have a Tycho, with no nose just like his cousin/half-sister, and he's going to be a handful: Virgo, ten each neat, active, and nice, zero each in all the other stats! Vidcund and Pascal were mostly involved in kid wrangling all day, but Lazlo wanted to invite somebody over, so I had him call Crystal Vu so I could observe them together. Their chemistry is really low, and she laughed off a water balloon attack without actually getting into a water balloon fight with him, plus she showed no interest whatsoever in Tycho, and I was thinking I needed to find him somebody better suited to the milieu when Mitchella crawled right up to her and asked for attention. Crystal stood there snuggling and playing with her, and Mitchella's score with her shot right up to 40! And honestly, beggars can't be choosers; if I'm not going to let myself tailor relationships or use elixir (and that is the plan; I want Strangetown to be a completely different gaming experience), I need to be less fussy about making perfect matches. After all, imperfect matches might get me Drama later.

So now I've finally brought Vidcund's kid to term and can feel I've properly begun making it up to him for killing him that time. I also wrote up the story, both for the Curiouses and for the neighborhood. My backstory looks very different from the assumed one and I needed to get some of it out of my head and into text. Unfortunately this only left me time to play the first household in the Drama Acres rotation, Scholarship House at Sim State. I've enjoyed my Strangetown interlude, but it is good to be home.

JDacapo

24th Apr 2012, 8:18 AM

I stayed up too late last night getting to the planned stopping point on Strangetown; and then today I couldn't stand it and played the Curious brothers again because I couldn't bear to wait for Vidcund's baby any longer, and as long as I remember that they're a day ahead of everybody else it'll be fine. We have a Tycho, with no nose just like his cousin/half-sister, and he's going to be a handful: Virgo, ten each neat, active, and nice, zero each in all the other stats! Vidcund and Pascal were mostly involved in kid wrangling all day, but Lazlo wanted to invite somebody over, so I had him call Crystal Vu so I could observe them together. Their chemistry is really low, and she laughed off a water balloon attack without actually getting into a water balloon fight with him, plus she showed no interest whatsoever in Tycho, and I was thinking I needed to find him somebody better suited to the milieu when Mitchella crawled right up to her and asked for attention. Crystal stood there snuggling and playing with her, and Mitchella's score with her shot right up to 40! And honestly, beggars can't be choosers; if I'm not going to let myself tailor relationships or use elixir (and that is the plan; I want Strangetown to be a completely different gaming experience), I need to be less fussy about making perfect matches. After all, imperfect matches might get me Drama later.

Well, it's my view that people can be in love with each other even if there isn't much physical attraction, and good couples start out as best friends. So, Lazlo and Crystal could become a loving couple despite all their differences, or they could even tweak their turn-ons and fix it a little.

Aegagropilon

24th Apr 2012, 11:27 AM

Crystal and Lazlo have low boltage in my game as well, but they're great together. Easygoing Lazlo seems to smooth over hateful Crystal's sharp edges and while Crystal can be rather standoffish towards toddlers and children (she has a lot of problems with her Subject grandkids, mostly because her hatred for Nervous extends to a genetic level) she was a good mom to her kids, and is a good grandma to her Beaker grandkids. She's just sort of a loose-cannon sim when it comes to interacting with others (which is okay, because Lazlo gets cranky when other sims harsh his mellow so he can be a bit of a wildcard, too).

One of my more intense, act-like-crazed-triple-bolters couples -- Siggeir and Grimhild Beaker -- were single bolt from the time they were teens to not long before they were married following graduation from LFT. They're up to two bolts now, mainly due to 0-points-neat Grimhild autonomously cleaning up after herself before neat-freak Siggeir -- who was usually mopping (and heartfarting wildly) as Grimhild showered -- could get to the shower puddle. You know it's true love when a sloppy-as-hell Subject daughter -- one that has actually ran from messes on several occasions while growing up -- is willing to clean in order to satisfy a skill-based turn-on :lol:.

I've also got the oddity of teens Gavin Newson and Jane Smith who have negative chemistry, but are very drawn to each other. I'm not sure where things are going with them (and I foresee a lot of drama ahead in college, especially since Jane has a thing for Romance sims like Barnum Howe) but they can't seem to get enough clumsy more-minuses-than-pluses interactions whenever they're on the same lot. Ginger seems to think her brother is crazy and I'm willing to agree with her on that.

music2ologist

24th Apr 2012, 12:10 PM

AlexandraSpears

24th Apr 2012, 1:08 PM

Desiderata Valley--Got rid of everyone except John Mole, got him married to a CAS, Roseanna.

Moved Cyd Roseland and Tara Kat in (after getting rid of their pets with Theo's deleter--I really hate her cats LOL), got them married to each other.

John and Roseanna have two daughters, Joanna and Rebecca. Rebecca's a late child; she had just transitioned to child when Joanna left for college.

Cyd and Tara have four children: Cara, Tia, Sidney, and Richard. Richard and Rebecca are the same age and my plan is for them to marry.

Cara and Joanna are attending Sim State and are married to Ashley Pitts and Castor Nova, respectively.

My four elders grew up okay (in low green) so Sidney, Richard, and Rebecca are going to wind up winning the Orphaned Sims Assistance Fund. But the kids won't be alone; they'll be with older siblings.

Cara holds Sidney while Tia talks to their baby brother:

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Cyd blogs about Arts and Crafts, Sidney does homework, and Richard discusses aliens with one of the many townies that hang around the Roseland house:

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Peni Griffin

24th Apr 2012, 1:51 PM

I've got some passionate low-bolter couples in Drama Acres, too - Sage Ann and Ernest only had one bolt when they fell in love, and even now they're only two bolts, though you'd never know it to look at them. Ditto Harris Hawkins and Gabriella Newson. But Sage Ann and Ernest autonomously lived in each other's pockets from the day they were created, and Harris and Gabriella became best friends in high school after Gabriella was assigned to tutor him, then fell in love their first night in the dorm. I've so far had Lazlo and Crystal in the same room exactly twice: she showed up while he was at Strangebrewski's, and wouldn't stop playing poker to interact with him, and this time when he invited her over. He wasn't even thinking about her particularly, just wanted to invite somebody and I picked her because she was the highest relationship in the phone book. When she arrived he wanted to tell her an inside joke - her specifically - and then he had a generic water balloon fight want. She didn't get mad about the water balloon, but they didn't proceed to actually fight, either. She went in and turned on the sports station and he went and got a bottle for Tycho, Vidcund and Pascal both being asleep. After awhile she crossed the entire house, ignoring two closer bathrooms, in order to stand in Pascal's room and complain that Vidcund was showering (she's -1 with Vidcund). I think I need to put nicer toilets in the bathrooms off the kitchen and living areas. Lazlo was putting himself to bed. I was about to give up on her when Mitchella let herself out of the crib and crawled over to her. She forgot about going to the bathroom and made a big fuss over her.

I've got time to think about this, as even if I break up the Drama Acres rotation to play Strangetown it'll be awhile before I return to this house. I'm having a hard time getting a grip on Lazlo. He's the youngest, and famously sloppy, outgoing, and playful compared to them, but he's advanced farther in their common career. He has a memory of becoming Best Friends with Vidcund, but they weren't friends on the first day - they are again now - and his score with Pascal is pretty low. He's thick as thieves with Loki, who is enemies with both his brothers, and autonomously much more actively friendly to him than to them - he's brought Loki home from work once, and Loki brought him home twice, and they not only were very playful with each other, they gossiped about his brothers! So I don't know where he's coming from at all, but I think there's a lot of sibling rivalry going on. And it's hard to envision him taking the initiative in a relationship with Crystal. He hasn't rolled a single amorous want since the game started.

Possibilities that have occurred to me to address this situation include: Turning Crystal into a player character so she can take the initiative (I don't actually know how to do this, but I'm sure it's possible with the Tombstone of L&D or something); giving him a Pleasure secondary so he'll start rolling date wants; directing him to drink his Renu-Yu-Porta-Chug and tweaking the chemistry. These are all pretty significant decisions and not to be made lightly.

Darby

24th Apr 2012, 3:43 PM

One of the first things I did when I first played Strangetown waaaay back when was create a nicer Crystal Vu lookalike in CAS to replace the original. I liked her looks, but not her personality, which didn't seem suited to Lazlo.

I wouldn't do that again, because it was a little silly, but even now, when I get around to playing my megahood, I don't plan to keep them together. Lazlo was/is one of my very favorite premades, and while I can see the logic in his outgoingness being balanced and mellowed by Crystal, I'd much rather see him with someone who will be equally outgoing and fun-loving.

But who knows. My feelings about "mean" sims have changed over the years, and iirc, Crystal has 3 Nice points, which is really not that horribly mean.

AlexandraSpears

24th Apr 2012, 7:27 PM

I find it interesting that even though I'd turned on Super Fertility for Tara Kat Roseland, not once did she have a set of twins, just four single births.

Now her and Cyd's oldest child, Cara Pitts, just had twins, a boy (Ashley Jr.) and a girl (Courtney).

JDacapo

24th Apr 2012, 8:06 PM

David Ottomas worked through college - it took me a whole day of playing. He was inducted into the secret society, and rescued two maidens from the cowplant. He had two bolts for each of them. After his sophomore year he became a knowledge sim, wanting to be a doctor, attracted by creativity and logic. So the race was on between the two maidens, to get up to six creativity points and six logic. Joy won easily, and those two bolts converted to three, so David offered her an engagement ring.

He graduated, and took home the resurrect-o-nomicon stolen from the secret society. Dora is going to die today or tomorrow - I can't determine which. To get her up into platinum I allowed her to resurrect her son Peter. He immediately had the wish to hold one of his babies, so I forgave him for his earlier neglect. The babies are going to become toddlers in a few hours, so he can work flat out on their education. If he wants his wife Samantha back - well, he'll have to plead really hard. If he skimps on the payment, he may get back a zombi. Ha!

How did Samantha die?

BTW, one of the Tricou kids got abducted and taken to the Secret Society lot, so I had him stay awhile, and swipe the Resurrecto-o-nomicon before he left, so his dad could be brought back to life when they graduate. I'm planning on having all of the Tricous move to one lot so they'll have enough money for a nice house and to bring John Smith-Tricou back whole. Might instead make a big apartment and have them all move in, so the Tricou family will have their name. I want to make a big house for them, though I might add the original Downtown if it won't do anything bad to my game.

If I add another downtown, will it create more Tricou kids and downtownies?

Fivey

24th Apr 2012, 11:51 PM

Not much to report on, but I played the main Fleurada household.

Tyler got a job in Politics, while his wife still lumbered around pregnant. Their little girl Faith got along very well with her grandpa Roger and her aunt Kylie (who was still a child), but wasn't too fond of Grandma Trina. Probably why Trina really wanted Anna to spit out her baby already. Both her and Roger had 'Have a Grandchild' wants. Ironically, Roger had the grandkid want the same time he feared having a baby. He was cool with babies, just as long as it wasn't his dick that made them.

Anna had her baby. The poor child had firstborn syndrome, since I forgot to roll the pacifier. Heh. Anyway, I named the baby Bessie, because I am a horrible person. Might give her an obsession with cows for gits and shiggles. Let's see how she takes it in college. Heehee.

Speaking of college, Kylie grew into a teen, and since the Fleurada household was already crowded, I immediately sent her to college. She's a knowledge sim, but I am thinking about rerolling it her junior year. ACR rolled her as a lesbian, so she's dating Sam Thomas. No declaration of major yet, since her lifetime want in unspecific (max 7 skills).

AlexandraSpears

25th Apr 2012, 12:21 AM

John Mole's daughter Joanna Nova had a daughter, named Jeanette.

I love the genetics aspect of this game. John's younger daughter has black hair, recessive for blond, and I eventually want to match her up with Richard Roseland, who has brown hair, recessive for red. It'd be interesting to see what their kids have--any color can pop up! I plan on making Rebecca Mole a Family Sim, and Richard, Knowledge. They can go steady, get married in college (thanks to a mod someone helped me make, though it's not perfect), and have kids after college.

I'm also considering pairing up Richard's nephew Ashley Pitts Jr. with Rebecca's niece Jeanette Nova. Ashley's twin sister Courtney would be a good match for Malcolm Landgraab IV, once I associate Bluewater Village with Desiderata Valley.

I like pairing up born in game Sims with townies (that I generate using templates that I installed) or even other playables. I like for them to have as high of chemistry as possible.

Fivey

25th Apr 2012, 4:35 AM

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Today, while Bernard was at work doing Businessy things, his wife Marie started to give birth. All alone in the house.

OR SO I THOUGHT.

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Literally a nanosecond after I unpaused the game from taking the first picture, Anna zooms by Marie and starts freaking out about the birth. I didn't even know she was in the house. She might have pulled a Nervous Subject, and entered the lot right when Marie started to give birth. I guess this is what they meant by 'old habits die hard'. Hehe. It looks like Anna was so super excited to be an aunt, she zipped up her old costume and ran right over.

Good thing she did, because Marie decided to have twins on me.

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Marie is holding baby boy Craig, and Madame Bovine is holding baby girl Tawny. Aunt Anna was considerate enough to feed baby Tawny for Marie, and helped watch the twin babies until Bernard came home. Anna is a pretty good mommy, considering her exciting college years.

Orilon

25th Apr 2012, 6:20 AM

It figures that Oberon Summerdream had to be the first Sim to get abducted by aliens since I've been able to play again. He's pregnant of course:

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Consort Capp died of old age and since the pop up said that 13 Sims had been left money, but it only listed 5 people, I've been playing houses to see who else inherited.

I've been mainly getting the Sims that graduated from college set up in houses in the main hood.

JDacapo

25th Apr 2012, 8:38 AM

Well, the Tricou teen house has another new member - one of the Secret Society dormies. He's one of the SS dormies that come with the Landgrabb Society and pretty much every Secret Society in a custom college neighbourhood. His aspiration is Fortune, and he has light skin with a dark bowl-cut. Might either change that or give him some facial hair... or both. The bowl-cut looks fine on Vidcund, but this ex-dormie needs to either get some glasses and max out his nerdiness, or get rid of the Moe Howard cut.

Three of the original Tricou household members are in the Baté ó Pé Society now, and I'm hoping to get all household members in, just because I tend to be rather obsessive-compulsive that way. There may be another abduction soon, and if so, I'm having another SS member move into the house. I'm also having Pong spend a lot of time on campus community lots so his clock will be more advanced because I don't want to have a bunch of household members suddenly moving out and the level going down. Plus, I want to have a party for all the original household members individually, and I don't know if a graduation party will cause two graduates to grow up at once or not. Besides, I need placeholders for if and when I have the resurrected Tricou kids go to college... and if I get the lamp, possibly have the elder Tricous follow them soon after. Will save the game before I try that in case it kills them from old age.

Also, I've been having my students chat up the female cow mascot, Lois Spencer. Might see if I can get her pledged and possibly remove the cow-mascot behaviour coding. She looks pretty nice out of costume, and she's a Knowledge sim. I love Knowledge sims :D

I'm also thinking of making this cow-mascot who is best friends with one of my CAS graduates playable, because hey, I have the personalitonomitron, so I could tweak his personality with the aspiration points he earns.

Yazoo

25th Apr 2012, 3:14 PM

Well, you know when your Sim is a big heart throb (Or a whore) when they have eight lovers going on nine. So, Tegan is still in College, oh yes, making her stay there FOREVER. No not really, I made a new Tegan hehe, and she will be going into her Junior Year in College.

Raised by amazing parents, but turned out to be a complete ho bag. She is with, let see if I can remember their names:

Bella

Nina

Dina

Amanda

Amy

Contessa Celeste

Kaylynn

Allyna (I think that is how its spelt)

But she is in love with all of them, and has woohooed with all of them. But when I was playing as Dina (I jump back and forth) she rolled wanting to get joined with Tegan, so I went back to Tegan, and invited Dina over, then popped the question. So Tegan and Dina are now engaged.

As for Mortimer Goth, he is pretty much hated by Dina and Bella. But never fear! He has the hots for Brandi Broke. Don is married to Cassandra.

What would he have if we didn't have drama in the Sims? Muahahahahah. Okay not really, but still. Bella is back in Pleasantville, and she so does NOT look like the one from Strangetown. First time I saw her.... o.o She looks different, that is exactly how I reacted.

fruitsymphony

25th Apr 2012, 6:31 PM

Sim wife got home from work (as "scrubber") and is now standing in the livingroom and reading the newspaper. The sim husband wants to go and take a shower but he can not get out from the corner where he is standing! The wife is in the way. He is waving and stomping but the wife is too interested in the newspaper articles to notice him!
[---]I checked again, he went to bed, even though obviously have not had shower, the wife is now in the bathtub, and is having a bubble bath.

AlexandraSpears

25th Apr 2012, 7:03 PM

Cyd and Tara Roseland have died and their second daughter is expecting her *own* set of twins! (What happened, did Super Fertility skip a generation?) Now their teenaged sons are orphans and living with their sister Tia and her husband Malcolm Evans.

Ashley and Cara (Roseland) Pitts threw a birthday party for their twins when they aged to children, but someone forgot to turn the stereo off before 11. At least the party was good!

music2ologist

25th Apr 2012, 10:05 PM

How did Samantha die?

I lost my temper, and hit her with a cloud of black flies.

BTW, one of the Tricou kids got abducted and taken to the Secret Society lot, so I had him stay awhile, and swipe the Resurrecto-o-nomicon before he left, so his dad could be brought back to life when they graduate. I'm planning on having all of the Tricous move to one lot so they'll have enough money for a nice house and to bring John Smith-Tricou back whole.

Their ancestral home is the House of Fallen Trees in Downtown. I played all six of them through college once, and their accumulated grants plus their $20.000 arrival money for each was enough to buy the house. If I were you, I'd get rid of that irritating lighting in the house, otherwise you can't see what's going on. Type in the cheat line: setLotLightingFile clear. They are all pleasure sims, so leave plenty of room for fun objects, like a swimming pool, a basketball court, and hot-tub. I deleted the garage to make room for all that.

DickinsonVampire

26th Apr 2012, 2:59 AM

Still week three, and I have updates on the Girard family and the story of three other sims as I've played them so far: The Ji sisters, Hue and Minh, and their college friend, Rune MacLeod.

Leila Girard, who before was still getting over the marriage of long-time love interest Neil Moore, finally found another man. She met him while clubbing one night and asked him out, probably as a fling to boost her ego. However, things went extremely well between them, and before the night was over they both knew they wanted to be together more permanently. They got engaged and began planning the wedding; Leila picked out her wedding dress before she went home that night.

Even with a new fiancee, however, she wanted to be sure she made the right choice by perusing other representatives of the male population. She flirted with the first hot guy to walk past her house and went on a date with him, and following that she went on a date with another sim who she didn't even find that attractive (one bolt chemistry), though they didn't even kiss and turned out to be platonic friends. After that she seemed satisfied and didn't want to date anyone else, which will probably bode well for her future marriage, as long as she accepts her future husband's similarly loose definition of "relationship."

Things turned for the worst, however, on a particularly hot day with no pool or air conditioning. Leila's teenage daughter Naudia suffered the worst symptoms of overheating, but her little brother Ramses showed symptoms, too. Someone must have given a tip to child services because the Social Worker showed up to collect the twins Ramses and Lapis. Leila was devastated. Even now, with her wedding coming up and new affluence from all of her fiancee's expensive gifts, she can't help crying when she remembers how her children were taken away.

At the same time Leila went through her previous drama with Neil Moore, Minh and Hue Ji arrived at Academie Le Tour and met hallmate Rune MacLeod. Rune was shy at first, especially around Hue, who repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to get Rune out of her shell by dancing with her in the lobby of their dorm, but eventually she became friends with both sisters. Minh changed her hair color several times over the course of her college career, going from long and blue-streaked black to short and bright pink to, finally, white in a sophisticated bun. Hue made several friends, as is her habit, but it was more difficult for her to find a girlfriend at school. She fell for a townie and romance sim who turned out to be bisexual, but didn't show interest in her after one or two dates, preferring to make other friends instead of pursuing romantic interactions. (Personally I don't blame her; I tend to see romance sims as selfish jerks or, at best, merely inconsiderate of others' emotions, and so I also tend to play them to that role. This is at least true when it comes to how I regard townies.) But Rune and Minh each had a fling with a guy from the dorms. Rune got engaged to her little boyfriend, and they got married after she graduated. Minh thinks of her college romance every now and again, but she's more interested in her new witch powers she learned from Essie the Infallibly Good Witch--and that broomstick is just her style, I must say.

Rune and her new husband broke ground on their new house just after the honeymoon, and they had a colonial-style house of modest size built. They both got to good positions in their careers of choice--medical field for Rune and criminal track for her husband--and decided to have a baby, since Rune wanted one since the beginning of their marriage. She is now quite pregnant, but her career ambitions aren't going away, even as she stays at home to take care of herself.

Hue moved to an upscale loft apartment by the lakeside, where she made quite a happy life for herself. She made friends with all the next-door neighbors, who come to hang out in the evenings and watch the Yummy Channel with her. After ranking her way up in the culinary field and with the dream of being a celebrity chef within reach, she's taken to her old hobby of painting, which she discovered in college on the little easel they had available for residents. She's already done a painting which ties in well with her bedroom, and she plans to do more.

(By the way, does anyone know of a good source for image files specifically formatted for Sims 2 custom paintings? I've made edits of some image files on my own, but I'm having trouble finding things that crop well to the proportions of the easel paintings.)

AlexandraSpears

26th Apr 2012, 3:27 AM

One pitfall of Family Sims: the constant Fear that a relative will die.

John and Roseanna Mole's teenaged daughter Rebecca is a Family Sim and when her mom died she went into aspiration failure--but not quite enough to rock a flour sack baby. Once she goes steady with Richard Roseland, though, she'll be okay. She's an orphan now, living with her sister and brother-in-law Joanna and Castor Nova, and she has her niece Jeanette Nova, who is now a child. She and the two Roseland boys qualify for the Orphaned Sims Assistance Fund.

The Pitts twins age up to children. It wound up being a family reunion and it was a good party when the cops busted it up.

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Tia Roseland as a college student, entering a cooking contest. That's her brother Sidney next to her. She's now married to townie Malcolm Evans and her two orphaned brothers (Sidney and Richard, both teens) live with them.

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Peni Griffin

26th Apr 2012, 4:10 AM

I like that they fall apart when someone dies. It's so unsympathetic when they shrug it off.

Today was not very satisfactory, gamewise, because the vintage car at the frat was glitching and I spent as much time figuring out the problem as I did playing. I had to delete it and Daniel Kim took Theodora out in the rebuilt junker instead. Which isn't as charismatic, but at least doesn't dump you at the restaurant stuck in buy/build mode! That was a really popular car - all the sorority girls wanted to get laid in it - so to account for its absence I had Theodora ask about it and Daniel explained that the cow mascots stole the keys, went joyriding, and totaled it. "Were they hurt?" Theodora asked.

"Not enough," he responded, before getting her to divest him of his virginity at the gates of the cemetery where her grandma is buried, immediately in back of her parents' house! Hey, her folks want her to be happy, right? They didn't want to go back to the frat, because Daniel just made up with Emilio and they didn't want to rock the boat again.

AlexandraSpears

26th Apr 2012, 4:37 AM

Malcolm and Tia Evans had their twins, a boy and a girl--Jacob and Jaclyn. They're both really playful like their dad (8 points) but poor Jaclyn has only 1 point Lazy and 1 point Shy. I think I'll make them both Knowledge Sims. Maybe their uncle Sidney, who's really outgoing, can encourage Jaclyn.

JDacapo

26th Apr 2012, 6:55 AM

I lost my temper, and hit her with a cloud of black flies.

Their ancestral home is the House of Fallen Trees in Downtown. I played all six of them through college once, and their accumulated grants plus their $20.000 arrival money for each was enough to buy the house. If I were you, I'd get rid of that irritating lighting in the house, otherwise you can't see what's going on. Type in the cheat line: setLotLightingFile clear. They are all pleasure sims, so leave plenty of room for fun objects, like a swimming pool, a basketball court, and hot-tub. I deleted the garage to make room for all that.

Poor Samantha. I've never intentionally killed a sim... especially one with family, because it would really cause a big hit in the aspirations of other family members. With Samatha, I might give her a secondary knowledge aspiration so she'll want to learn some new skills and be able to do things like cooking better(so she won't starve or depend on others, not just so she can be a good wifey and cook for her big brood). Also, I'd make sure to make Dora really happy so I can get her some elixir of life.

As for the Tricous... will making another Downtown make more Tricou kids and duplicate downtownies? The current Downtown I have is a custom one. Hope it won't cause problems if I decide to put in the default Downtown.

Peni Griffin

26th Apr 2012, 6:00 PM

Well, crap.

Thanks to Mootilda's assistance in turning a townie into a lone playable sitting in the family bin, I got Crystal Vu moved into the trailer park opposite the Gavigans and successfully playtested. I'd thought she only had neutral chemistry with Lazlo, but when I saw she was neutral with everybody I realized I must not have had Lazlo flirt her - I thought I'd taken care of that when he ran into her at Strangebrewski's, but apparently not. So I had her flirt the first male townie she saw and looked in her relationship panel.

She's got negative chemistry with Lazlo; one bolt each with each of his brothers.

I can try to fix this with the Renu-Yu potion, or I can go for sibling rivalry drama.

Put like that, it's kind of obvious, isn't it? I've already got somebody picked out for Pascal, though, and a tentative choice for Vidcund; and I'd sort of intended to coddle Vidcund this time around. But we all know where the road paved with good intentions leads.

And honestly, how long could it possibly take Lazlo to get over a crush? Especially if I throw somebody else at him.

Oh, well, do nothing in haste. It's only one bolt, anyway.

Sunbee

26th Apr 2012, 8:35 PM

If you want someone to throw herself at Lazlo, and you don't mind attaching Bluewater Village, he always has triple bolts with Florence Delarosa for me.

Peni Griffin

26th Apr 2012, 8:55 PM

Just what I need, a huge addition to the rotation...I'm trying to keep from getting too engaged with Strangetown...you can tell that, right?

I am so weak.

music2ologist

26th Apr 2012, 9:10 PM

As for the Tricous... will making another Downtown make more Tricou kids and duplicate downtownies?

The Tricou children are in the university screen, in the list of teenagers available to send to college. They are not in Downtown until they graduate and you send them there.

Mootilda

26th Apr 2012, 9:45 PM

As for the Tricous... will making another Downtown make more Tricou kids and duplicate downtownies? The current Downtown I have is a custom one. Hope it won't cause problems if I decide to put in the default Downtown.My guess is that you will get duplicates. I believe that you'd have to install an empty Downtown template to avoid duplicates. However, if I wanted to answer this definitively, here's what I'd do:

1) Backup my save game.
2) Add the default downtown.
3) See whether there are duplicate downtownies.
4) If necessary, restore from my backup and install empty templates.

[Update:]

No duplicates are created. Only the first Downtown added to a neighborhood will be populated.

JDacapo

26th Apr 2012, 9:46 PM

The Tricou children are in the university screen, in the list of teenagers available to send to college. They are not in Downtown until they graduate and you send them there.

Ok... so you mean they are created only once per neighbourhood?

Mootilda

26th Apr 2012, 9:55 PM

Since the Tricou kids are shipped with Downtown, I would not trust music2ologist's post. It is clearly incorrect.

Peni Griffin

26th Apr 2012, 10:29 PM

The Tricou bastards are townies. You can access them, with all the other townie teens (including the service teens, paperboys and cashiers and whatnot) via the University "Move In Students" function at the neighborhood screen, or you can encounter them as teens downtown, coming home with your teen sims, etc. That's how the Tricous got into my game - Isaiah Gavigan brought one of them home from school, Susana Casa brought home a different one, Theodora Ottomas dated one, and so on.

I'm trying to remember where I read that if you added a second downtown it would be empty, because the downtownies (the townies, including the Tricou bastards, specifically attached to downtown) have already been generated. I think it may have been in a tutorial about megahoods? Obviously, don't trust my memory on this; I'd read up on clean, empty, and megahood construction in the tutorials before doing this.

BTW, I'm also remembering, vaguely, that you can only attach Bluewater Village to one neighborhood in your game. I'm pretty sure that was somebody as an aside in an ordinary thread discussion, though, so even if I'm remembering correctly the statement could be wrong. But if so I'm safe from the temptations of Florence DeLaRosa (though I could always clone her, make her look more Guasimalan in Bodyshop, and bring her in to live next door to Crystal...Gah!).

JDacapo

26th Apr 2012, 11:20 PM

Peni Griffin

27th Apr 2012, 12:56 AM

What I think I remember reading - and bear in mind that I make things up for a living! - is that you wouldn't be able to attach Bluewater Village to a second neighborhood going on at the same time. If you've done that, then obviously either the person posting was wrong or I've undergone memory drift.

That still leaves open whether the memory drift was distorting a memory of somebody saying that having more than one Bluewater Village was a VBT; and whether, if so, that person was right.

I'm mostly bringing it up to find out. I suspect if it were a VBT it'd be in the "non-intuitive things" thread by now. But you never know.

smorbie1

27th Apr 2012, 1:08 AM

I have been playing this game since the day it came out, but for the very first time, I'm playing Goopy. Malcolm Landgrabb married Amanda Carlson and while she was expecting their first baby, he was bitten by a crocodile and died. She had the baby, but wanted to marry again. Along came Goopy. She didn't have any chemistry with him, but I made her marry him anyway. They now have a baby boy named Gilsboro. Goopy is a romance sim, but doesn't seem too motivated by much of anything. Anyone else ever play him?

Mootilda

27th Apr 2012, 1:10 AM

I'm trying to remember where I read that if you added a second downtown it would be empty, because the downtownies (the townies, including the Tricou bastards, specifically attached to downtown) have already been generated. I think it may have been in a tutorial about megahoods? Obviously, don't trust my memory on this; I'd read up on clean, empty, and megahood construction in the tutorials before doing this.That was me, in the subhood template creation tutorial. I based that statement on observations that I'd made while fooling around with downtown subhood templates.

However, it still makes sense to backup your save game before trying to add a second Downtown, just in case. Honestly, whenever you're unsure about something, just backup first. [Update:] Having tried this myself, I would definitely recommend backing up first! ;)

BTW, I'm also remembering, vaguely, that you can only attach Bluewater Village to one neighborhood in your game.I'm sure that's wrong. There's no problem with attaching Bluewater Village to each primary neighborhood that you play.

Peni Griffin

27th Apr 2012, 1:49 AM

Thanks, Mootilda. I must now rely on pure willpower.

As for Goopy - I'm playing him now. He's the one who taught me that it's dangerous to gussy people up with too short a span of time till the taxi comes - he followed Dominic Moiselle-Estic home from a date and became part of the household. At least he wasn't wearing those plaid shorts! Anyway I moved him out and combined him with Georgette Skirt's ex-roommate into the Swingin' Bachelor Household in one of those little houses on Custer downtown. He was way too high in the athletic track, so I made him quit his job and start at the bottom, with a backstory that he skipped college to play in the minor leagues but couldn't cut it in pro basketbase. There's a very specific sort of mildly sleazy Romance male that he's turning out to be - the guy with the sports car writing checks his personality can't cash. He has what he thinks is a bad-boy look going on, with Elvis sideburns and lots of black and tight clothes, probably with a sock tucked into the front of his jeans. His housemate is a Knowledge sim with delusions of getting Georgette Skirt to settle down. He figures it'd be doing the guy a favor to disillusion him on that score.

Oh, and I renamed him Gary because Goopy is just too awful a name, even for a guy like that.

In short, he's fun if you let him be.

Mootilda

27th Apr 2012, 1:56 AM

JDacapo

27th Apr 2012, 2:17 AM

So, I decided to get the definitive answer by backing up my save game, creating a custom downtown, and then adding the default downtown. Peni is correct: no duplicate downtownies were added to my neighborhood when adding the second downtown. I had completely forgotten that Downtown templates are different than all other templates; all downtown areas after the first will be completely uninhabited (until you create new downtownies or they are spawned during gameplay).

That's a relief! Thanks!

Anyway, something odd has happened to Pong, the teen from the Far East template. He used to be able to perform Tai Chi, but ever since he maxed his body skill, whenever I try to get him to perform it, it just drops out of his queue. Is that normal? If not, is there a way to fix it?

Fivey

27th Apr 2012, 2:27 AM

Tragedy struck in the Bernard Fleurada home today.

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Poor Marie had a miscarriage. The nanny Bernie hired was inept and comes at midnight (note: Bernard is in the business track), so Marie had to raise the toddlers all by herself whenever her husband isn't home. She didn't take care of herself well, so bye bye pixel fetus.

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"Look honey, maybe it wasn't the right time for another baby. I mean, we already have two rambunctious little darlings. You know, most families aren't lucky enough to have twins on their first pregnancy. Heck, my brother is jealous. It was probably for the best."
"-sniff- You might be right, Bernie..."
"Not to mention the financial ramifications of a third child on our budget. I mean, my measly paycheck on three little ones that aren't even school age? Really?"

Ehh. Fortune sims.

Soon, the twins grow up with all of their toddler skills taught.

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Craig turned out to be quite the cutie. Tawny...

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Nice nose there.
"Hey, $%#^ off!"
Where'd you get that mouth, dear?
"Auntie Anna."
That explains it.

DickinsonVampire

27th Apr 2012, 3:57 AM

Nice nose there. "Hey, $%#^ off!" Where'd you get that mouth, dear? "Auntie Anna." That explains it.

She's going to be a character, I can tell.

Hue Ji's still into painting; she's starting what's going to be a five-part series of Korean girls in hanbok, with a bit of modern style mixed in. Her adoptive parents taught her and Minh a little about their heritage, and each has shown interest in her own way. For Hue, it's her painting; through it, she explores the definition of female beauty in Korean traditional dress.

Vincent Werner, Sonia's son, and Jen Yamamoto, Umeko and Kyo's daughter, moved into the new dorm I downloaded in Academie Le Tour. Both scored Dean's List--Jen through mind and muscle, Vincent through manipulation and delegation of labor. Vincent, apart from declaring a major in poli-sci and talking a girl from his dorm into writing his term papers, has been schmoozing up a couple of redheads, including one secret society member, and it's way too early to tell if he's going to want anything serious. He seems to like that secret society member, though, even if he doesn't return his interest--yet.

Jen, having recently declared a major in history, has focused more on her studies. She met a couple of older men at the park, though, and she likes them. A lot. Three bolts, and it was her first time off campus as an eligible bachelorette! The winning man is a townie named Steve, and he strikes me as attractive; I can't describe it in a better way than saying he looks "manly" and laid-back. I guess I have a lot of androgynous men in my game (Vincent among them), and this is the first guy in a while to look good with one of the Maxis short hair-dos. I think I'll age him up a little (with the elixir of life on green aspiration) if they get married--most likely they will, with Jen being a family sim and with their three bolts of chemistry--to go with the fact that he's older. That's one part of their relationship that piques my interest, and it will probably make Jen's story more interesting as well. Any talk of their future is speculation, though; even after admitting her attraction toward him, she only wants to make friends with her professors and get good grades. I guess she isn't one to make the first move...

Peni Griffin

27th Apr 2012, 4:16 AM

Tommy Ottomas is starting to feel the side effects of living with his late girlfriend's sister. I'm running him nearly asylum style, mostly controlling him enough to keep his grades up to the mark, and he keeps going out of his way to interact with Summer. She's no longer three bolts with him the way she was in high school, though she's still tripling with her fiance Lisandro - don't know what the difference is there - but she does like him a lot. She went into his room today to relax on one of the single beds while he repaired the computer; instead of finishing, he went and relaxed on the other one. He rolled a want to flirt with her, but didn't do it. But in the afternoon, while the guys were in class, she was worn out from the neighborhood reset starting her day too early, so I sent her to bed in her underwear. His class let out first, and he went straight upstairs and crawled in beside her. She got up and made the bed with him in it before Lisandro got home. This whole situation is way too fraught. I expect he calls her by the wrong name occasionally. I know I do!

Ted Ottomas and Naomi Gavigan are having to cram for finals because I lost track of time with them on community lots. At Alma Mater House, Polly Esther Skirt threw her graduation party and moved out. With one hour left in the countdown, Paul Curian proposed to her. Neither of them had the want, but ever since they made up after the Cow Mascot Incident they've been chasing each other all over the house to flirt, exchange backrubs, and make out. so I figure this is a case of two people who don't feel a need for a piece of paper doing what their families expect because hey, what difference does it make? Paul's dad, who made best friends with Polly Esther at the party, came over while they still had the rotating rings above their heads and hugged him. It was the good-bye hug (because Polly Esther's sister had smustled too much and decided to take a bubble bath, so there weren't enough bathrooms for the elders at the party), but it looked good. Paul will throw his party on the last round of the University subrotation, move back in with the old folks, and I expect they'll get married right away.

AlexandraSpears

27th Apr 2012, 4:21 AM

Sidney Roseland graduated from college and married social townie Ramona Finnegan, and they are awaiting their new house. His relatives gave him some things to sell so he and Ramona won't have to start out in such a small house--after all, they are Fortune Sims. His family had been just making ends meet until Cyd and Tara died and the inheritance money started rolling in.

That leaves Richard, Cyd and Tara's fourth and last child, to go to college, along with steady girlfriend Rebecca Mole, daughter of the late John and Roseanna Mole. He's living with Tia and her husband and twin children and helps take care of his niece and nephew.

Sidney's older sisters Cara Pitts and Tia Evans each had a boy/girl set of twins, so now he's wondering if he's next. Tara, his mom, had had Super Fertility on, but never had twins.

Ashley Pitts Jr. is getting to be friends with Castor and Joanna (Mole) Nova's daughter Jeanette. They're still children. Jeanette is also working on being friends with Ashley's twin sister Courtney.

I think once I get Sims paired off and everything I'll load up a family tree and provide a link to the tree on RootsWeb. :)

music2ologist

27th Apr 2012, 11:43 AM

Since Trisha and Tina left him, Trent Traveller has gone downhill fast. His mood is totally red. He keeps coming onto community lots and having agitated conversations with Professor von Ball. He has a splendid seaside villa all to himself now. He went down to the waves to sunbathe at midnight; lay down with skintone 2, and got up with skintone 3. I don't particularly like him, which is why none of his wishes come true. I'm open to persuasion, though. Does anyone here like him?

AlexandraSpears

27th Apr 2012, 1:09 PM

Never played the Travellers. I understand Trent and Trisha tend to have ugly children, from what I've heard.

M.M.A.A.

27th Apr 2012, 3:59 PM

Never played the Travellers. I understand Trent and Trisha tend to have ugly children, from what I've heard.

That's insulting, well, to them.

AlexandraSpears

27th Apr 2012, 4:20 PM

It's what I've heard. I might actually give them a try sometime in the future.

Alijah

27th Apr 2012, 5:50 PM

I like the Travelers, but I always break the family up in various ways. They don't seem to be well suited for each other; Trish wants to settle down in te suburbs while Trent wants to stay unemployed and travel the world. I feel like Trent would come to resent Trish eventually for making him give up a dream of his or Trish would resent Trent if continued to be dragged around the world with their daughter in tow. That's just my take on the situation though.

saskganesh

27th Apr 2012, 5:51 PM

I have been playing this game since the day it came out, but for the very first time, I'm playing Goopy. ... Anyone else ever play him?

I got him as well. In my game he has ridiculous sexual attraction, triple bolting everywhere, but he became playable because he's the new husband of nasty Kurt Kardesh's last wife who was also a townie. He spends a lot of time in the hottub, woohoing and eating out with his triple bolt meal ticket. He has one son - Gilbert - and two romance aspiration step-daughters.

DickinsonVampire

27th Apr 2012, 7:15 PM

Jen and Vincent just finished their sophomore year at Academie Le Tour. Jen's made Dean's List, as ever, and has made good friends with one of her old professors, named Deborah. They spend time together rather frequently now, which doesn't hurt Jen's grades, and it provides Jen with a fulfilling friendship. In her spare time, Jen's been painting on the easel in the common room; she's much improved from when she first enrolled at the college. Also, she recently led an effort to straighten up the resident hall's gardens and shrubbery, and with any luck the flowers in the courtyard will come back with spring.

Vincent's still persuading everyone to do his homework, though he's taking the time to raise his skill points for his major. The rest of his time he's spent trying to date around--unsuccessfully, since he seems to find straight guys most attractive--and to get into a hall-mate's pants; he went on three dates with him, and all seemed to be going well except that Vincent's little boyfriend wouldn't make out with him. It turns out he won't fall in love or have a crush on Vincent no matter what I do; for the sake of Vincent's pursuits I bypassed that little bug with ACR interactions. The dormie still won't fall in love, though Vincent is head over heels for him; in story terms, he's bicurious and not ready for a serious relationship with Vincent (and probably never will be). However, that didn't stop the two of them from having a wild time in the hot tub at the university gym.

Since then, Vincent's begun to look for a more serious commitment. He wants to propose to his boyfriend, but since he isn't in love with Vincent, it probably won't work out. Jen's triple-bolt chemistry with the townie Steve also seems a dubious hope now, since Jen's preferences have changed from high-ranking businessmen who know how to cook to stay-at-home guys who have a way with words. They haven't seen each other in a while, so I may be wrong, but I think part of the reason Jen liked him so much was his job as a CEO, and now that she doesn't dig high-level employees anymore, Steve's position will mean nothing. If so, it will be back to the drawing board for husband-hunting for both Jen and Vincent, but they have plenty of time for that once they get out of college.

frankokomando

27th Apr 2012, 11:06 PM

The first generation of the Reid family has died. Claire Reid the daughter of Dale and Annette Reid has just given birth to twins and her oldest child Allegro has grown up into a child. Claire's husband Anthony has proven himself to be completely worthless because all he wants to do is lay around in bed all day and not help take care of the children.

AlexandraSpears

27th Apr 2012, 11:45 PM

The Llewellyns (Rory, Jerrica, and son Reginald--based off a show I watched in the 80s LOL) have moved to Desiderata Valley. Rory is Fortune, Jerrica is Popularity, and Reginald will be Knowledge once he reaches teen.

I plan on trying to get Reginald into private school as soon as possible--as soon as his mom gets her Cooking skill up. I put Rory in the Business career track, Jerrica in Journalism.

I'm not using money cheats, either...I'm just creating the families and putting them into houses they can afford, and with college students I have them buy stuff before they head back to the main 'hood and put it in their inventories. Have them work their way up. Sometimes it's fun for them to work their way to nicer things, while other times it's fun to play rich families (such as my Mole/Nova family, now worth over 300K) because you don't have to constantly check the lot value while building.

My plan is for Reginald to eventually marry Jaclyn Evans.

Gcgb53191

28th Apr 2012, 12:24 AM

The Travellers do make ugly children their eyes come out weird and it makes them look like they're blind :P

I like the Travelers, but I always break the family up in various ways. They don't seem to be well suited for each other; Trish wants to settle down in te suburbs while Trent wants to stay unemployed and travel the world. I feel like Trent would come to resent Trish eventually for making him give up a dream of his or Trish would resent Trent if continued to be dragged around the world with their daughter in tow. That's just my take on the situation though.

I broke mine up as well. Trisha cheated on Trent a couple times and had a child by her lover. When Trent caught her he moved out to his own place and lived alone until Tina moved in with him after she graduated college. Trisha married her lover and had another child with him. :lol:

AlexandraSpears

28th Apr 2012, 1:02 AM

At any rate, Sidney and Ramona Roseland welcomed a daughter named Tara, after her late paternal grandmother. Her cousins are the Pitts twins and the Evans twins.

Immediately after having her baby and nursing her, Ramona went off to work (Dance career--that's a Fortune Sim for you). Since Sidney hasn't found a job yet (I'm going for Journalism for him), he gets to stay home with the baby. Kinda backward for me...but if you make a Fortune Sim miss the carpool to take a vacation day that can give them an aspiration hit. Both Sidney and Ramona are Fortune Sims.

Sunbee

28th Apr 2012, 3:28 AM

Trent Traveler seems to be generally more interested in Tina than Trisha does in my game--knowledge sim wants child in private school and getting straight A+ grades sort of interest.

I got my game to finish Don and Cassandra's wedding. I'm not done weeding out cc, but I can go play Twikki now with them. Wonder how many possible woohoo partners Don's gonna meet there?

AlexandraSpears

28th Apr 2012, 4:10 AM

Thinking about starting Desiderata Valley over. Or just playing a custom 'hood for a while, then going back to DV.

As far as Don Lothario...lots of times I change his aspiration to Fortune.

Fivey

28th Apr 2012, 5:39 AM

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Meet Middleground's new District Attorney Judge. This is the part where you cringe in fear.

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Theo, Tyler and Anna's newest addition to the family via loins. He just grew up to toddler...in a tuxedo. Nice. I'll probably make him the heir unless the duo produce a better choice. Not to say Theo isn't attractive, he just has a rather manly face for his age.

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Also, Faith ages up into a teen and their daughter Bessie ages up into a child.

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At SSU, Kylie Fleurada accepts a proposal from her girlfriend-now-fiancee Sam Thomas. Faith is also present. She's a popularity sim, and is being blocked from view by the professor.

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At the frat house, Castor proposes to three-bolt girlfriend Allegra Gorey...

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Kevin loses his v-card to three-bolt girlfriend Jane Stacks...

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And Joshua to two-bolt crush Erik Swain. Ashley is probably teasing him about it through song, or just trying to piss him off with his no-creativity-skill singing.

Fivey

28th Apr 2012, 9:27 PM

Using a different computer, so no pictures.

The universe decided to throw Bernard and his family a bone after the miscarriage episode they had.

First, Bernard was promoted to Vice President of his company, a step closer to his life time want. His wife, who was home that day, tidied up the house to prepare for the Headmaster. She invited him over earlier that day, since Bernie wanted his kids to have a better education.

Sure enough, they managed to score 120/90 points, and the children got into private school. The ecstatic couple celebrated with some under-the-sheets fun, and with that, their third child was conceived.

So, happiness all around.

AlexandraSpears

28th Apr 2012, 9:48 PM

Just started up Strangetown and associated La Fiesta Tech, got rid of EVERYONE except the Beakers and the Grunts.

College student Rebecca Redford met and fell in love with General Buzz, and after graduation she married him.

Buzz and Rebecca have a son named Chip, and Loki and Circe Beaker have a son named Andrew.

The boys' personalities are interesting, I'm thinking about making both boys Fortune Sims. Chip is 10 Neat, 1 Shy, 10 Active, 6 Playful and 2 Grouchy. Andrew is 10 Neat, 10 Outgoing, 10 Active, 0 Serious, and 1 Grouchy. They can both be in the Oceanography career track, since they're neat and active. Decisions, decisions....

I also changed Ripp Grunt's aspiration to Pleasure. I'm not much for playing Romance Sims. Pleasure's a good alternative.

sushigal007

28th Apr 2012, 10:18 PM

AlexandraSpears

28th Apr 2012, 11:30 PM

When I had InTeen, I have had female college students marry the professor and the professor stayed home with the baby. LOL

Never had two college students have a child together while at college.

Back on topic:

Here's Circe Beaker's new look:

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Loki sees General Buzz...and probably what Buzz is doing with his new wife, from the looks of it:

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"All right, Loki, what were you going to do with that rook?"

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I set Strangetown's seasons to Summer, Fall, Spring, Summer, so I tend to dress Strangetown Sims in cooler outfits.

Fivey

29th Apr 2012, 5:46 AM

I've got my very first college pregnancy, thank you ACR and InTeen. Accidental too. I'm looking forward to seeing how complicated this makes college for my sim.

OH JEEZ and she's just had twins! That'll teach me to think "college can be a little boring"! Doesn't help either that my dorm chef died and another one hasn't spawned, so my students are having to cook to stop all the stupid dormies from starving to death.

College pregnancies are common in my games, especially among my family sims (who keep insisting on trying for more babies after they have one on accident. Probably because I push for shotgun weddings, so they figure since they have a ring that they can spit out more kids.)

Frances J. Worthington III and his girlfriend Lyndsay Fuchs were my first experience with college pregnancy. Poor Lyndsay had to get married instead of living out her Romance Sim aspiration. I still to this day force her to stay faithful to her husband.

Peni Griffin

29th Apr 2012, 6:44 AM

Well, I just stayed up way to darn late...

Flu is definitely eradicated, the last pocket of infection at the Greeks having been wiped out, and no flare-ups occurring for one full rotation. Theodora Ottomas got her third love of a proposed twenty, a dormie , and I thought she was finally going to woohoo in bed, but the guy had, um, performance issues and the timer ran down. She's now woohooed once in a hot tub, once in a photo booth, and once in a car. I wondered whether I should go for the record and have her woohoo everywhere else before she made it to bed! And then I realized there was no way to get her access to a helicopter.

Paul Curian threw his graduation party and moved out of Alma Mater House, freeing up the second double bed. Unfortunately there's three Alma Maters ready to live with their significant others. The original plan was for the Hawkins twins, Marsha and Harriet, to get them, but then their nephew George moved Jovita Casa in. Harriet went on a date with her beloved Ted Ottomas and they discussed how things should work.

Jovita and George couldn't move back into Scholarship House, because one of the guys Theodora's banging is Jovita's big brother and that's just asking for trouble. Also, though Ted knows he can't control his twin sister, or even slow her down, he still feels responsible for her and wants to be on hand to pick up the pieces when the inevitable happens. Harriet isn't thrilled about the prospect of sharing a house with Theodora, but after the triumphant way Ted demonstrated his fitness for a role in the Hawkins family (I treat a Want to woohoo in a male sim as indicating the existence of, um, a certain physiological state enabling it; Harriet and Ted got into a make-out/woohoo want cycle that took them through three successful completions, and were working on the fourth when the date timer wound down - even Goz Hawkins never managed that! But then he's never had a car.) there was no way she was spending another night without him. But that rotation had already been completed, so she hasn't transferred to Scholarship House yet. Marsha invited the household over, though, and asked Jeremiah Gavigan to move in with her, leaving his sister Naomi behind, so the breaking up of the twin sets has begun.

Toward the end of the evening, Ted was looking like a tug-of-war rope. First Harriet would grab him and make out with him; then Theodora would tell him an inside joke; then Harriet would flirt with him; then Theodora would tickle him; and so on and so on. If you asked her, Harriet would say she's not about to compete with her man's kin; but she's not going to put up with any of that kin's BS either. Theodora's going to have to learn to share her twin brother and that is all there is to that.

I almost said "Poor Ted," being the bone between two dogs like that, but then I considered his date performance again and figured naw, he can handle it.

Charmful

29th Apr 2012, 7:59 AM

The house I was playing had a family of teen-aged twins who had born in-game. Alejandro and Salvatore. They just came home from school and they each brought a friend home and those friends happen to be another family's in-game born Twin brothers! TWIN BFFS!

JDacapo

29th Apr 2012, 8:16 AM

Well, I just stayed up way to darn late...

Flu is definitely eradicated, the last pocket of infection at the Greeks having been wiped out, and no flare-ups occurring for one full rotation. Theodora Ottomas got her third love of a proposed twenty, a dormie , and I thought she was finally going to woohoo in bed, but the guy had, um, performance issues and the timer ran down. She's now woohooed once in a hot tub, once in a photo booth, and once in a car. I wondered whether I should go for the record and have her woohoo everywhere else before she made it to bed! And then I realized there was no way to get her access to a helicopter.

Paul Curian threw his graduation party and moved out, freeing up the second double bed. Unfortunately there's three Alma Maters ready to live with their significant others. The original plan was for the Hawkins twins, Marsha and Harriet, to get them, but then their nephew George moved Jovita Casa in. Harriet went on a date with her beloved Ted Ottomas and they discussed how things should work.

Jovita and George couldn't move back into Scholarship House, because one of the guys Theodora's banging is Jovita's big brother and that's just asking for trouble. Also, though Ted knows he can't control his twin sister, or even slow her down, he still feels responsible for her and wants to be on hand to pick up the pieces when the inevitable happens. Harriet isn't thrilled about the prospect of sharing a house with Theodora, but after the triumphant way Ted demonstrated his fitness for a role in the Hawkins family (I treat a Want to woohoo in a male sim as indicating the existence of, um, a certain physiological state enabling it; Harriet and Ted got into a make-out/woohoo want cycle that took them through three successful completions, and were working on the fourth when the date timer wound down - even Goz Hawkins never managed that! But then he's never had a car.) there was no way she was spending another night without him. But that rotation had already been completed, so she hasn't transferred to Scholarship House yet. Marsha invited the household over, though, and asked Jeremiah Gavigan to move in with her, leaving his sister Naomi behind, so the breaking up of the twin sets has begun.

Toward the end of the evening, Ted was looking like a tug-of-war rope. First Harriet would grab him and make out with him; then Theodora would tell him an inside joke; then Harriet would flirt with him; then Theodora would tickle him; and so on and so on. If you asked her, Harriet would say she's not about to compete with her man's with his kin; but she's not going to put up with any of that kin's BS either. Theodora's going to have to learn to share her twin brother and that is all there is to that.

I almost said "Poor Ted," being the bone between two dogs like that, but then I considered his date performance again and figured naw, he can handle it.

How cool! BTW are you playing Strangetown right now? Hope I ain't askin' a stupid question lol - just forgot whether or not Loki got abducted and knocked-up, and how far along he is if he did get preggers. He just looks so cute in his man-ternity outfit XD

Peni Griffin

29th Apr 2012, 12:57 PM

No, when I talk about the Hawkinses and Alma Maters and so on I'm in Drama Acres. Strangetown is only an occasional play for me and I'm really trying to stick to premade families. There's no guarantee my Loki'll get abducted, because I'm letting random chance have its way and the only guaranteed abductions are Pascal's and Vidcund's, which have already produced their babies in my game. I'd love it if he did, because his features just beg to be combined with alien genes.

And all the guys look cute in their default maternity outfits. This is the only case I can think of where the guys win out over the gals in the clothing department.

AlexandraSpears

29th Apr 2012, 2:48 PM

Started up a custom 'hood, Mountainview, so I'm going to be bouncing like a ball between three neighborhoods.

I created two sisters (created their parents in CAS then deleted them), Karen and Kayla Stephenson. Karen is now married to Malcolm Landgraab IV and Kayla to Gilbert Jacquet. See, Gilbert's halfway to old age and his mom was getting on his case about not marrying and giving her grandchildren, so he decided to settle on Kayla, who's a Pleasure Sim. I gave him a secondary aspiration of Family so he won't go nuts on me.

While on a date with Kayla, Gilbert's townie girlfriend caught them. You know what I hate? In a situation like that the offended townie will Network with the "cheater" and something bad happens...in this case Gilbert's reputation dropped. *facepalm*

So now Karen has given birth to Margaret Landgraab (named after her paternal grandmother) and Kayla is expecting twins.

eldavis

29th Apr 2012, 10:37 PM

I also just started a custom hood. Enchanted Valley, at least I think that's what it's called. Super lame name, I know. It's basically fairy tale and folklore characters in a modern-ish setting. So far I've got Odile, Odette, and Prince Siegfried from Swan Lake, as well as Snow White. I'm planning on firing up body shop once I finish my developmental portfolio and my paper for Life Span Development. The hardest part has been coming up with names, mostly last names. I want to do Red Riding Hood, but I'm stumped when it comes to a name for her.

DickinsonVampire

30th Apr 2012, 3:07 AM

Week three at the Werner residence. With Vincent gone, the family has been unsure of what to do with his bedroom, but Sonia's remodeled the living room and upstairs in any case. Now the house has an art nouveau theme going on, inspired by the art nouveau staircase that magically matched the original color scheme of the living room/dining room. Umeko got a new stereo system--because she can, and because she's Fortune aspiration--that Sonia mostly uses to blare 80s hits all hours of the day. Haru got a job and ranked up to the top, becoming an overachiever, which pleases her greatly; like her mother, she has the fortune aspiration. Unfortunately she hasn't gotten her first kiss yet. She tried to change that one night while Sonia and Umeko were fighting with each other because Kyo, Umeko's estranged husband, came over and made out with Sonia. While major stuff went down in the living room, Haru and Nova, Sonia's son, snuck into their mothers' bedroom. They were lying naked on the bed when an urge to do homework overwhelmed them, and so any relations between the almost-stepsiblings were averted.

Meanwhile Umeko had it out with Kyo downstairs and finally broke up with him. However, she was still mad at Sonia for letting him kiss her. It took a day or two for things to cool down, but Umeko and Sonia apologized to each other, and Sonia finally got her chance to propose.

Haru met a boy she likes more than Nova. They got to be friends, but he seems oddly evasive ever since that date they had where one of the townies died on the lot where they went to eat. He won't come over to visit and even gives her the stupid "phone repairman" line when she invites him. So, for now, Haru's lipginity remains intact.

The climax of the week occurred when Sonia nearly burnt the kitchen down. She and Umeko were both home with friends from work, Nova and Haru at their respective part-time jobs. Sonia's pork chops caught fire and sent Sonia, her friend from work, and Umeko's friend from work into a panic. With the only phone in sight of the fire, no one could calm down long enough to dial the fire department, and so most of the kitchen began to burn while the three sims did the fire-dance. Umeko, who had been spying on the neighbors through the telescope outside, rushed in just as Sonia tried to extinguish the blaze, catching fire herself. Luckily, Haru arrived home and phoned the fire department on her cell phone from outside. The firefighter came in time to save Sonia and most of the kitchen appliances; luckily the fire just missed the sofa across the room. Everyone went to bed exhausted, and those who could eat without falling asleep on their plate had some dinner to prevent stress-induced starvation. And one can only guess what Nova thought when he arrived home from work a few hours later to find most of the kitchen in ruin and the whole house smelling like smoke.

Not far from the Werners, Minh Ji moved into a small loft house and found a job in education. She's a high school teacher now, and she loves building skills for her next promotion. On the weekend, though, she finally went on a date with that triple-bolt cutie from downtown, one she'd had conversations with all week over the phone when she felt lonely in her new house. She was a total lady the whole time, giving only subtle cues about her attraction to him, and they had a wonderful afternoon together. They had lunch at a local Chinese restaurant and then went dancing, just before Minh decided to show him her new house (I'm actually rather proud of it). They finally let their hair down there, and then they decided to get married, which they did--they threw a wedding party that night. Both have work the next morning, but the mood boost from the wedding night should, if anything, make the morning commute a little easier to bear.

Kyo Yamamoto, alone in the house since Jen left for college and Umeko and Jen moved in with the Werners, has been embracing his freedom as a single man. He loves having a job and not having to worry about catering to wife and kids, not to mention all the new company he can have over without repercussions. To celebrate, he hired a maid and replaced the old minivan with a classic midlife crisis sports car in red paint. He threw a wild party one night, where he got busy with a woman he'd barely met in the hot tub he had installed on the roof, and two of his friends did work of their own on Jen's old bed.

Mostly, though, he's been romancing Leila Girard, who doesn't seem to mind the attention, even when she's about to marry someone else. They've gone out on the town several nights, and he's gotten naughty with her on more than one of those nights, at least twice in public. One evening, though, they had a particularly tender moment, sparked while they sang a sappy love song on karaoke together. The night descending, they went quietly back to Kyo's place, where he kissed her softly and made love to her--at least in my imagination--with the most affection he's ever felt towards any woman. He invited her to stay until he left for work the next morning, but sadly I think that was the end of his tender feelings toward her, as he set his mind back on achieving culinary celebrity and getting as many women into his bed, hot tub, and closet as he could.

Fivey

30th Apr 2012, 3:56 AM

JDacapo

30th Apr 2012, 8:44 AM

Peni Griffin

30th Apr 2012, 2:46 PM

Well, but you and I have very different playstyles, Ms. DaCapo. Also, the time I absolutely needed an alien pregnancy to get myself out of a corner into which I'd written myself, I had to spawn it with the Tombstone of L&D - the hacked telescopes wouldn't work for me. This doesn't get actual aliens or trigger fears and wants related to abduction, so Ernest has near- total amnesia of the experience. If somebody wants to Summon Aliens I'll certainly let them, but if all I want is babies there's other ways to get them.

Last night Amber Dawn, senior girl at Tri-Var, came back from her last final ever looking grim. She only graduated with a 3.9 and it pisses her off to be so close to the gold ring and not get it. She also had her first-ever wants to throw a toga party and ask someone to pledge, so I did that, inviting a dormie she'd spontaneously made friends with to be the next pledge. When I took her to the phone I found that she's been very parsimonious with her friendships with younger sims - her only ungraduated friends were the dormie and Tommy Ottomas, who she only made friends with so I had the potential to do Drama with her toying with his affections and then dropping him flat for her fiance. Amber is evil - she wants to be a Criminal Mastermind. Anyway, I had her call on the frat, and on a whim also Theodora Ottomas, to see if having her at a party with both the frat boys she's dating, Emilio Casa and Daniel Kim, and Emilio's primary girlfriend, Lily Pond, who will be Tri-Var's senior girl as soon as Amber moves out, would generate anything if I let the party run itself apart from Amber working the Tommy angle.

Daniel spent the entire party making best friends with the newest Tri-Var, Helen Wheels. Emilio and Theodora did a lot of things together, but none of them were romantic; ditto Emilio and Lily. I was impressed with how smoothly he carried on the two-timing dance. When he's with either of these girls on their own, it's kiss-flirt-kiss-make-out all over the place! For story purposes Theodora, who roomed with his sister for awhile, knows all about Lily but Lily thinks of Theodora as just the younger girl Emilio dated in high school. Everybody on campus knows about Emilio and Theodora, but no one wants to be the one to tell Lily. So it looks as though Emilio got Theodora to cool her jets and be discreet, and also had the good sense not to push it. I'm getting interested to see how long he can juggle them. He triple-bolts Theodora and double-bolts Lily, but so far the Family secondary I gave him so I could eradicate flu from the frat hasn't prompted him to start wanting to settle down with either. His primary's Pleasure, so I bet he never does; but he's also Guasimalan, so I bet he'd marry to please his Mama and Papi, and if he did, Lily is much more the marrying kind.

Amber finished making friends with Tommy. She has no particular motive to hang around campus, so next rotation she'll ask him out once, and then she'll move in with her fiance and forget about him as she gets on with her life, and whatever develops is what develops. But this was the last day of this rotation from Tri-Var, and he's not going to ask anybody out because I'm playing him depressed, so I'll have to possess my soul in patience about how that works out.

Lucas Iana threw his graduation party and moved back in with his elder mom, his (reformed?) sleazebag stepfather, his toddler half-brother, and his Chihuahua. This will give his Mama the nest egg she needs to retire from being a roadie (which is definitely too physically demanding a job for her now) and buy my first-ever owned community lot to set up her own music venue. Wish me luck.

Gerry Mander has had to scramble to keep his grades up since he changed aspirations and majors, so his aspirations were dangerously low. So he asked Sparrow Hawkins to go out on their first date since she moved out and became live-in childcare for her sister. She rolled a want to marry him and I locked it, but didn't have him propose because he didn't roll a get engaged want. She's perfectly capable of doing the asking when I get to her household. I love these two as a couple, but good night, the way the Romance townies fall all over themselves trying to get her attention when they're out together!