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#26
15th Apr 2024 at 11:56 PM
Posts: 39
Quote: Originally posted by ed95
Guess she fell in love with Chad during his past as a male stripper -pardon me, "adult entertainer"- from the Chad Surprise Cake company. |
lmaoooo yeah I forgot they have the same head and I lost it when Chad's doppelganger jumped out of the cake. I think Tiffany hired a look-alike on purpose.
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I love the alternative families you have!!! I specially like the Ippies, and wonder how would they behave on Old Town. They will NOT stand for the overcommercialization of it!! I would like to see more of the Traylors and their home; really interesting and, as said, you have amazing deocrating skills!!! Wonder where your ideas for playing and decorating come from. |
I think most of my ideas come from things other people made. I'll find a piece of CC or just look at an item or a skin in the game and think "what sim would wear/use that?" Like the Traylors are carnies because I was looking at all the clowns and circus memorabilia in the game and I was like "what kind of sim would actually want all this stuff on their walls?" and voila.
I also think it's fun to decide on a particular JOB for a sim, rather than just a CAREER. I don't think every sim needs to grind and climb the career track all the way, and not every sim would want to! (Specially the lazy ones...) So Chris Roomies is the Fashion career, but she's specifically a photographer, not a model or a designer. I decorated her room with cameras and equipment and photos that maybe she took. The sim career tracks have a lot of fun things in them (animal acting coach? human cannonball???) that it's easy to just skip over on your race to the top, but really leaning into one can be fun.
That university campus is a VERY cool idea! I know there are school and apartment mods but I've never tried to use them, seems like it would be a fun challenge! I am gonna look at some school-at-home mods and see if I can
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#27
20th Apr 2024 at 11:20 AM
Last edited by ed95 : 1st May 2024 at 12:00 PM.
Posts: 169
Thanks a lot for reading me!!!!
@simsample, with that face and body Sim Sample was clearly made for modelling!! Unfortunately Maxis did really slack off on that one, since it only has two objects: the photoshoot kit and the catwalk, which you already unlock by the middle of the Fame career track. At least the catwalk is one of the more difficult fame objects!!! He could also compliment that with the Fashion studio kits (and money-making objects), thay have both at Sim Freaks and at Around the Sims, you know, as a side hustle.
On the subject of the Denvers, yeah, they definitely need more sims in town, and to have more relationships. There's only two more families and, I believe, one community lot. This actually has motivated me to build up the nhood, I got really dry on ideas on this one (guess I was starting it right before I started studying music...).
And thanks for complimenting my little university lot!!! @EphemeralToast, I find your ideas very entertaining, and I definitely will, ahem, "inspire" myself. There's some really quirky objects that pique my interest on the game -like the moosehead. Maybe a bohemian couple like the one @YoNonna did??? I also like assigning jobs to the sims, since careers get really grindy and, once they have some sure bill and food payment, you're really free to explore everything you can do with the game. I thought of John as a police officer, but the X-Treme career is one that turns up a lot on his newspaper... in any case, he has some of that "washed-out" worker vibe to me. Living on a, as you said, a "mile-high" house gives me the idea of they thinking they're very cool themselves, or being obligated by living on a swamp. Two very intereseting ideas nonetheless. Maybe he, just as Tiffany did, should look into the Bunny/ Chad Suprise Cake model...
Ah, the university!!! I didn't came around to it, but I planned to make a house with sims acting as teachers and for student sims to skill ─using Simlogical's visitor controller. It may be very intereseting seeing how they interact with each other, which is, in the end, the interesting thing about sims university. I actually have somewhere written down the careers, which were based on the game and expansions career tracks ─with an Arts& Crafts option for those sims that become workers-at-home. Maybe they would have paid tuition to the teachers household, I don't know which setup would have worked. I also have a completely built dorm house, which I will show here. Suddenly I'm very interested again on this nhood!!!
@simsample, with that face and body Sim Sample was clearly made for modelling!! Unfortunately Maxis did really slack off on that one, since it only has two objects: the photoshoot kit and the catwalk, which you already unlock by the middle of the Fame career track. At least the catwalk is one of the more difficult fame objects!!! He could also compliment that with the Fashion studio kits (and money-making objects), thay have both at Sim Freaks and at Around the Sims, you know, as a side hustle.
On the subject of the Denvers, yeah, they definitely need more sims in town, and to have more relationships. There's only two more families and, I believe, one community lot. This actually has motivated me to build up the nhood, I got really dry on ideas on this one (guess I was starting it right before I started studying music...).
And thanks for complimenting my little university lot!!! @EphemeralToast, I find your ideas very entertaining, and I definitely will, ahem, "inspire" myself. There's some really quirky objects that pique my interest on the game -like the moosehead. Maybe a bohemian couple like the one @YoNonna did??? I also like assigning jobs to the sims, since careers get really grindy and, once they have some sure bill and food payment, you're really free to explore everything you can do with the game. I thought of John as a police officer, but the X-Treme career is one that turns up a lot on his newspaper... in any case, he has some of that "washed-out" worker vibe to me. Living on a, as you said, a "mile-high" house gives me the idea of they thinking they're very cool themselves, or being obligated by living on a swamp. Two very intereseting ideas nonetheless. Maybe he, just as Tiffany did, should look into the Bunny/ Chad Suprise Cake model...
Ah, the university!!! I didn't came around to it, but I planned to make a house with sims acting as teachers and for student sims to skill ─using Simlogical's visitor controller. It may be very intereseting seeing how they interact with each other, which is, in the end, the interesting thing about sims university. I actually have somewhere written down the careers, which were based on the game and expansions career tracks ─with an Arts& Crafts option for those sims that become workers-at-home. Maybe they would have paid tuition to the teachers household, I don't know which setup would have worked. I also have a completely built dorm house, which I will show here. Suddenly I'm very interested again on this nhood!!!
#28
26th Apr 2024 at 12:56 PM
Not in my game today, but a video I was watching with Will Wright. I don't know if anyone else has seen this one, but he talks about fansites at one point, how many do you recognise?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91IWh4agzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91IWh4agzU
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#29
1st May 2024 at 11:56 AM
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What an entertaining watch it has been!!! Thanks for sharing, @simsample!! As I imagined, Will is a very clever and interesting person ─and also funny, I saw the entire presentation. I find it fascinating how he wanted the game to cross some boundaries ─and surprised himself at how far TS went, even farther than he imagined!!
Such a pity most of those sites don't exist anymore, but it's very interesting indeed all the themes, as he says, they indulged in. I remember how the simming community used to be this very creative and quirky ─maybe we grew up? Maybe nowadays we, as a society, don't have as much time to devote to hobbies? Or maybe it's the actual landscape of Internet, fast-moving and very based on simple and short messages, what made this community less and less involved? It's true that nowadays TS4 doesn't give much to imagination (in the sense of the abstaraction TS1 brought: as Will says, you can imagine whatever you want with your game, as it's so porpusefully simple; TS4 has a lot of systems and big backdrops that don't lend itselves to imagination that much), so it may be just that the game has evolved in another direction.
He seems to be a really inventive designer, as he himself admits, and you can see the ways in which he influenced TS2 and TS Online (and the ways in he didn't). It makes you wonder what would have happened if, for some reason, he had stayed on the franchise ─though he's not really one to stay too much time with a project. I really wonder what he's doing now.
Of course, the main draw of the video was the nostalgia of those PPT presentations tee hee. Since you've been more than me around here, do you think Will entered and saw ModTheSims, @simsample? I believe he would be as equally fascinated that a site so much devoted to the quality of its content popped up ─and with so many game-changing mods and personalities, too.
Such a pity most of those sites don't exist anymore, but it's very interesting indeed all the themes, as he says, they indulged in. I remember how the simming community used to be this very creative and quirky ─maybe we grew up? Maybe nowadays we, as a society, don't have as much time to devote to hobbies? Or maybe it's the actual landscape of Internet, fast-moving and very based on simple and short messages, what made this community less and less involved? It's true that nowadays TS4 doesn't give much to imagination (in the sense of the abstaraction TS1 brought: as Will says, you can imagine whatever you want with your game, as it's so porpusefully simple; TS4 has a lot of systems and big backdrops that don't lend itselves to imagination that much), so it may be just that the game has evolved in another direction.
He seems to be a really inventive designer, as he himself admits, and you can see the ways in which he influenced TS2 and TS Online (and the ways in he didn't). It makes you wonder what would have happened if, for some reason, he had stayed on the franchise ─though he's not really one to stay too much time with a project. I really wonder what he's doing now.
Of course, the main draw of the video was the nostalgia of those PPT presentations tee hee. Since you've been more than me around here, do you think Will entered and saw ModTheSims, @simsample? I believe he would be as equally fascinated that a site so much devoted to the quality of its content popped up ─and with so many game-changing mods and personalities, too.
#30
1st May 2024 at 12:13 PM
Quote: Originally posted by ed95
Since you've been more than me around here, do you think Will entered and saw ModTheSims, @simsample? I believe he would be as equally fascinated that a site so much devoted to the quality of its content popped up ─and with so many game-changing mods and personalities, too. |
I'm sure he knew about this site, as there were two or three Maxoids on here in the early days (that was the name for the EA developers and staff, for those who are young! ) I particularly remember MaxoidTom as he used to give us technical advice, which was used in developing SimPE by Quaxi and Inge and Peter Jones. Also he would answer technical questions, and sometimes our modders would give him information to use in developing the game, too!
Edit: I don't recall any Maxoid activity here later in Sims 2 or during Sims 3, but there was some Dev interaction during Sims 4 that didn't go well. I'm thinking of SimGuruGraham who I think got told not to come here any more when he couldn't take the Sims 4 negativity!
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#31
6th May 2024 at 3:55 AM
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Bob & Betty & Brad & Tiffany
So the Newbie and Burb marriages continued to deteriorate, even when I wasn't controlling them. Bob and Betty in particular were nagging and rejecting each other all over town, while Brad and Tiffany continued to just sort of icily ignore each other. And of course Brad and Betty continued to meet in secret, although I don't know how "secret" it really is when you're going out on dates to the most popular restaurant in town and then "trying on lingerie" together in plain sight of the world and Crumplebottom.
Anyway, Brad finally got sick of all the sneaking around and told Betty she had to choose! Him or Bob!
...She chose Brad.
It kind of sucks that there's no "official" way to end a relationship in this game except being a jerk to your partner until the hearts go away. Bob didn't take it well; he smacked the bejeebers out of Brad until the latter ran home crying like a little boy. But Tiffany the ice queen? She just stared silently, betraying no emotion as the last pretenses of her marriage crumbled before her. So that's fun!
Oh right, they have a kid?? I always forget! Apparently Brad did too! So Brad hugs ol' whats-his-name goodbye and sets off, leaving his son's care and education entirely to Tiffany so he can go live with his younger, hotter girlfriend. Johnny is confused but resigned, while Tucker gives Brad the sendoff he perhaps deserves.
And so Betty and Brad moved into the Maxis Tudor and became nauseatingly happy together. Betty has discovered the peace that comes from actually being able to have a decent conversation with your partner, and Brad can finally focus on weeding, watering, and soup. I've omitted about 20 pictures of them sitting around smooching and talking about how much they wuv each other. You're welcome.
They've bonded over their shared love of cooking, and Betty is even thinking about opening her own farm-to-table restaurant with Brad's produce. Betty wants to call it Brasserie Brad, but Brad thinks she should call it Betty's Bistro. I told you it was nauseating!
Meanwhile, Johnny plays in traffic.
Oh, all right, it's not that bad. Tiffany and Johnny moved into a very nice place on the other side of town. They can't really afford it, but surely those child support checks will start coming in any day now. And Tiffany has actually started to have conversations with her son for once. She even lets him chatter about that slobbery beast he loves so much. Everything is fine.
It's fine that Brad gets to throw her away like old garbage so he can run off with some floozy. It's fine that she has to work full-time and raise their child alone. It's fine that she keeps seeing Brad walk by at the mall and he looks so damned happy with his new life. It's fine. Tiffany can be happy too. Tiffany can have a new life.
There can be a new Tiffany.
A dark Tiffany.
Johnny isn't sure why his mom has started working nights and he thinks her new striped shirt and mask are weird. And all those people who keep coming by the house and saying things like "I'll get you the money, I swear, I just need a little more time!" are definitely weird. But at least now he gets to watch cartoons with Tucker as late as he wants! Everything is definitely fine, probably!
Next time: Bob & the Bachelors & the Bachelors' Couch
So the Newbie and Burb marriages continued to deteriorate, even when I wasn't controlling them. Bob and Betty in particular were nagging and rejecting each other all over town, while Brad and Tiffany continued to just sort of icily ignore each other. And of course Brad and Betty continued to meet in secret, although I don't know how "secret" it really is when you're going out on dates to the most popular restaurant in town and then "trying on lingerie" together in plain sight of the world and Crumplebottom.
Anyway, Brad finally got sick of all the sneaking around and told Betty she had to choose! Him or Bob!
...She chose Brad.
It kind of sucks that there's no "official" way to end a relationship in this game except being a jerk to your partner until the hearts go away. Bob didn't take it well; he smacked the bejeebers out of Brad until the latter ran home crying like a little boy. But Tiffany the ice queen? She just stared silently, betraying no emotion as the last pretenses of her marriage crumbled before her. So that's fun!
Oh right, they have a kid?? I always forget! Apparently Brad did too! So Brad hugs ol' whats-his-name goodbye and sets off, leaving his son's care and education entirely to Tiffany so he can go live with his younger, hotter girlfriend. Johnny is confused but resigned, while Tucker gives Brad the sendoff he perhaps deserves.
And so Betty and Brad moved into the Maxis Tudor and became nauseatingly happy together. Betty has discovered the peace that comes from actually being able to have a decent conversation with your partner, and Brad can finally focus on weeding, watering, and soup. I've omitted about 20 pictures of them sitting around smooching and talking about how much they wuv each other. You're welcome.
They've bonded over their shared love of cooking, and Betty is even thinking about opening her own farm-to-table restaurant with Brad's produce. Betty wants to call it Brasserie Brad, but Brad thinks she should call it Betty's Bistro. I told you it was nauseating!
Meanwhile, Johnny plays in traffic.
Oh, all right, it's not that bad. Tiffany and Johnny moved into a very nice place on the other side of town. They can't really afford it, but surely those child support checks will start coming in any day now. And Tiffany has actually started to have conversations with her son for once. She even lets him chatter about that slobbery beast he loves so much. Everything is fine.
It's fine that Brad gets to throw her away like old garbage so he can run off with some floozy. It's fine that she has to work full-time and raise their child alone. It's fine that she keeps seeing Brad walk by at the mall and he looks so damned happy with his new life. It's fine. Tiffany can be happy too. Tiffany can have a new life.
There can be a new Tiffany.
A dark Tiffany.
Johnny isn't sure why his mom has started working nights and he thinks her new striped shirt and mask are weird. And all those people who keep coming by the house and saying things like "I'll get you the money, I swear, I just need a little more time!" are definitely weird. But at least now he gets to watch cartoons with Tucker as late as he wants! Everything is definitely fine, probably!
Next time: Bob & the Bachelors & the Bachelors' Couch
#32
6th May 2024 at 1:39 PM
Wow, the drama! Poor Johnny, playing in traffic!
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