There I was, working on Edna Mode's house while she slept. I moved her in because I was bored working on it and it seemed like it would be more fun to move her in and build on it as her needs dictate.
[Earlier that day]
So I'm in build mode and just placed a fountain spout and turned on Live mode to see it spray. I heard the sound of a cheap car and thought it odd since Edna is isolated high on the hill. So I go back to build mode...or I try to...when I'm informed that I can't because the house is being robbed.
:x She stole her piano!
No creepy music or any warning. :roll:
Then she stole her stove.
[neat trick] But now she's just showing off. :P
And now she's making a break for it with her ill-gotten goods. :x
You're being robbed!
Edna is a master of Simfu, but I have no interaction to stop this burglar. No brave trait. :roll:
But I can give her a makeover. What burglar could resist that.
And Edna's true-blue roomie is making a call to the cops while she stalls the burglar for time.
"No no, horizontal stripes will only make you look short and fat.
Excellent, take your time.
Noo... This burglar isn't stupid.
Augh! She's going to get away.
I got your name...Selena Savage. Your day is coming. :evil:
No cops. Just a phone call saying she got away. :roll:
And Edna is too broke to afford a burglar alarm unless I sell something.
This is so much more annoying when your sim is low on cash.
Let's go to a party.
Holly Alto is hosting yet another soiree.
Andrea loves formal parties.
They can rub shoulders with the Altos, Landgraabs, and Wellingtons as snap-happy paparazzi waltz around them. They are safe and secure in the knowledge that everything is safe and secure at...
...home. :shock:
Good thing I got the burglar alarm right away.
That's right, do the clarion dance, Selena.
The good officer is on his way to collect you.
Good plan, going in all stealthy. Get in there!
The party is over and the girls are on their way home.
:shock: No.
That's not a good sign--especially the ladybug thought bubble. :roll:
That's not a kiss she's laying on him.
They sent in Officer Friendly. :?
She's not called Selena Savage for nothing. :oops:
Squashed him like a ladybug.
Yes, ladies, you're being burgled again.
Is this a glitch? I thought sims could challenge burglars.
Yet again the only thing Edna can do is attempt to give the burglar a bad makeover. She's a master of Simfu. :x
Selena is only humoring them.
So long, Suckers!
Andrea just wants to go to bed.
Oh look. She used the money from the piano and stove to buy a better car.
She'll probably be driving around in a CC Mercedes before long.
But it's ok. She didn't take anything. However, Selena will get her comeuppance one day.
(comeuppance? is that a real word?)
Ohhh, that Selena Salvage! Great story, I once had a Holly Savage rob my sims house, freaking coicidence maybe? Haha, maybe it runs in the family. I loved that one! Great work!
Ohhh, that Selena Salvage! Great story, I once had a Holly Salvage rob my sims house, freaking coicidence maybe? Haha, maybe it runs in the family. I loved that one! Great work!
I have yet to see Selena taken to jail in my game. She's gotten away with it in 3 different households.
The sunken living room is nice to look at, but I've found it somewhat annoying. Lighting does not show well in it and sims tend to want to take the long way around instead of walking through it. You might want to fill it in, like so.
Okay I've been off/on these forums (tired from cooking and eating). Bumping because it's been a good five/six days and I want to know what's going on with Edna.
Edna is in France.
I will have a great laugh if she returns home to find Selena robbing her house again.
I am laying the ground work to get back at Selena. :twisted: I want to see her burn in sunlight and weaken from lack of blood as a vampire. So Edna has befriended Jessica Talon. A vampire burglar would be interesting though. I'm tempted to leave Selena as vampire burglar.
So I have to decide if I want to turn Edna into a vampire so she can bite Selena and turn her or should I have Jessica do it. I'm leaning towards taking over Jessica.
She quit her job as Stylist and is now self-employed as a painter. Bridgeport doesn't need her services anymore. I had her party just before leaving for France.
So now she's hanging out with gal-pal Andrea in France. She achieved level 1 visa status.
Being hounded by the paparazzi...
And having jam sessions. That sim looks like a body guard. "No pictures!"
I've been planning to try out a butler with Edna. Now seems like a good time. She got Bertram.
I like Bertram's traits. He's neat, family oriented, and a bookworm. He has to get over the celebrity worship thing.
He's also Brave.
I think Selena is going to be in for a big surprise if she home invades again.
Uh oh. I can't make him stop.
Oh, well. I guess he'll keep going until he wears himself out. He's dedicated.
He "put away" three skill drinks.
No point in letting them go to waste, eh Bertie boy?
Nice traits on your butler CK. He might be a keeper.
The traits for Camilla Fortescue are Brave, Neat, Excitable, Party Animal, and Family-Oriented. She really hasn't had time to party though. I think the key traits to a good butler are Brave and Neat. I really think they need the neat trait to clean.
Selena actually appeared for a third robbery attempt. :-o
I used the reset sim cheat on Bertram because he wouldn't stop training with the training dummy. He disappeared and didn't return. Selena appeared at 5 am to rob the place again. I decided to restart the game and just let Bertram stop on his own. I didn't want to risk messing up the game. Selena didn't return.
So...speaking of party...Edna had one and invited Selena.
I invited Holly Alto, but Vita came along with her. That's Lisa Bunch-Landgraab going up the stairs.
Melonie, stop flirting with the help.
Jessica Talon made it. She's the reason for this party.
And so is Selena Savage. I laughed when I saw that dress. How bold! And her first action is to wave at Edna.
Oh Jessica...a moment, please.
Our girl is here.
Ha. Haley crashed Edna's party.
I invited this guy for Andrea.
Selena wants to take a picture.
Probably to add to her wall of victims.
"I think you should get to know my friend, Jessica Talon."
This cracked me up.
No worries. She won't bite...tonight.
Then again...
This should get the ball rolling.
I'll just take over Jessica tomorrow and she'll have Selena in her relationship list.
Bertram! The butler made mac and cheese when there is a whole table of food.
Now there is a traffic jam.
Fixed.
That hair! I can't stand it. Selena is cunning.
She wouldn't show up at a fancy party with hair like that. She'd have extensions so she would fit in.
Yeah, like this.
WHAT? Party's over? Wow time just moves too fast. There isn't enough time to really have fun. Jessica, your meal in heels is outta here. :P
I think I'd better follow her just to be sure I can find her.
Ah! You live here.
Sorry, Andrea. There was no time to get you acquainted with the gentleman.
Blame EA. I think I'd better look into that time mod.
OK, so I finally get to play with a vampire. It should be fun stalking Selena with Jessica and gaining her trust. I guess I will eventually have to take her over to ask to be turned. That's taking the fun out of it. :P
You are so right about the little time sims have to achieve anything. I got Nraas Relativity mod after reading your Generations thread. Thanks to that my sims now have lots more fun.
A funny series of unfortunate events. I don't know why, but I keep rooting for Selena, you have got to admire her dedication, that piano must have kept her in a whole lot of sushi and horizontal stripes.
You've got to see the latest pics. I'm starting to like Selena myself. I think she makes a great vamp burglar.
Nooooo! I'm rooting for Edna because Good triumphs over Evil... Go! Fight! Win!
I think I did Selena a favor by turning her. :P
Jessica went over and summoned her down.
She had an immediate social to turn her, so I tried it out of curiosity. She looked at me like: "What? Now?"
I guess it was too early to start asking that.
But it didn't take long to get a drink.
See. That wasn't bad, was it?
It wasn't long before she agreed to be turned.
Best of friends now.
Uh oh, the change is starting already.
I sent Jessica back the next day to ask her out to the club so I could observe any change effects. I was surprised to see Selena had already become a vampire.
For some reason both vamps were a bit freaked out by Kaylynn Langerak. I have no idea why.
A couple of Hemoglobin Shooters, please.
Selena seems to be taking very well to the vampirism.
Now it seems like it might be a bad a idea. She would only be a more powerful and dangerous burglar.
Nice technique. :P
I wanted to see what the deal was with Kaylynn Langerak, so I had Jessica try some mind powers on her. Jessica was not thrilled.
She was thirsty and I wanted to see how Kaylynn would react.
No problem.
Strange. I guess their behavior will remain a mystery.
Closing time. Selena bailed from the group and went home. I guess she can use her speed running powers to get away even faster now.
Jessica's ex was waiting out front, playing the guitar. He was booing her while she was playing the piano the other day. It annoyed me so I had her break up with him. :twisted:
I'm not sure what to do next. I might leave Selena as she is, but if she tries to rob Edna's house again she's going to wind up in a cage in direct sunlight. :twisted:
You are so right about the little time sims have to achieve anything. I got Nraas Relativity mod after reading your Generations thread. Thanks to that my sims now have lots more fun.
Random Late Night Happenings
My customization of Bridgeport is done and I can finally start playing it seriously. I'm making copies of the original town to play certain households. I have so many sims I want to play. I really don't know where to start.
But I continued on for a bit with Edna Mode.
Edna's roommate loves her some Don Lothario.
Forgot to change Don's pajama hair.
I caught a vampire in the act of turning another sim.
Now I'm playing 3 sims that I have been waiting for Late Night to play.
Amy Li.
I sent them out for a Ladies Night at P.U.R.E.
It turned out to be a true Ladies Night since no guys were there.
I sent Josephine back the next night with a coworker.
This time there were plenty of men. Tater has a new friend.
My favorite Paparazzo.
A third night, the other guys I wanted them to meet were there. I phoned in Coco and Amy to meet their future love interests.
This would have been a great shot except for one little issue. :P
Another Paparazzo--Shutter. He shows up everywhere. I took the plastic surgeon's knife to him.
I've been griping about some game play details lately, but that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying the game.
I've noticed details that I like while observing the other sims. Social interactions have been improved and I think TS3's charm is starting to grow.
I had my sims at the club and I was going to check out what was happening in the other rooms when I heard shrieks. Both my sims had gotten out of their chairs and were going ga ga over Arlo Bunch.
He wasn't even a celebrity. (Perhaps a glitch)
Then they both turned around and looked at each other as if to say:
"He's mine!"
"I saw him first."
This was made all the funnier since Arlo Bunch isn't naturally the most attractive sim in town. The teen years:
Don autonomously interviewing another sim. I wasn't controlling them.
Melonie Bloom's boyfriend threw a party and I sent my sims. Most parties so far haven't felt like parties, but this one was like a nice social gathering.
Melonie was tired, but instead of going to bed she made a cup of coffee and sat down. Another sim sat down and started chatting away like a magpie.
Another sim got himself a cup of coffee and joined them.
This gave me a little chuckle when the elevator doors opened.
Now that we have groups I can take impromptu sparring matches to local venues that make more sense.
Edna began meditating after she won the matches. I like seeing sims that aren't under my control doing something in character.
This guy was checking out the ladies dancing.
His attention on Melonie.
But all he did was stand there and look.
Which left the door wide open for Mike.
I wasn't controlling these sims. This was autonomous.
I really like the Convince social. It great for starting some mischief or just influencing relationships in the neighborhood.
Facial expressions are also well done.
Well this didn't take much effort to get started.
But you never know who is going to be around and take offense. I found out Eris is a good friend of Melonie's boyfriend--who isn't Mike here.
I need a Simbot Solution I was all wrapped up in Bridgeport, but I was beginning to miss the Firenzes.
Any good excuse for a brawl.
Jared Frio kept cutting in on Cairo and Francine.
Enough to annoy me...and Cairo
Francine isn't one to stand on the sidelines of a fight.
So...
They had a wish to kiss.
I did place a Simbot in Bridgeport, and it was really annoying I removed it after my first incident of one visiting a club.
But I do have my favorite Simbot in Sunset Valley and I was curious to see her dance. She's a Fembot. Simbots are a bit stiff in the area of locomotion, so I thought it would be cool to see her fluid moves.
Problem was her dance skills were still low.
So why not send her to the club for some liquid motivation?
If I can actually get her a drink.
Stupid "A Simbot!" reaction. :x
I hate this. I really do. But it made me laugh anyway...this time. :P
Pull yourself together. It's just a simbot.
Might as well try the guy downstairs while the mixologist upstairs gets it back together.
Thank you. Another freak out would have used up valuable time.
Bottom's up.
The effect was immediate.
What to do...oh, dance on a table top.
Ha! There ya go.
Ok...well...I guess I have seen this before...But IT'S A SIMBOT!
A CUTE simbot.
Oh, get off it!
Silly humans!
It's enough to make a simbot want to blow things up.
Good idea.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! SIMBOT ON THE RAMPAGE!
Malcolm's no fool. He's outta here.
That's anti-climatic. Tiny explosion. *poof
Rise of the machines?
No, just a snack.
That was somewhat fun actually.
It was worthwhile too. (This shot is going to be my simpage backdrop. :XD: )
I had her dance when she got back.
Hit it, 'bot-girl!
Ok, that's it. I'm putting in the mod that stops "A Simbot!" reactions.
I didn't realize how much I missed my Fembot, Meaghan.
I was curious to see what happens when a simbot goes hot tubbing.
She really didn't want to get in and gave me a very TS2 styled complaint for making her do it.
One accusing glance before going kaput.
I had to send over avatar me to fix her. The club was about to close.
The mixologist must have gotten bored and needed to shake her groove thing.
Repaired.
I get the feeling she really didn't like that.
The mixologist doesn't want anything to do with her. How wude!
I didn't know about the berserk interaction. I like it. Pure terror for rude simmies.
Meaghan had the interaction to brawl with the mixologist, but the "A Simbot!" reaction kept canceling it. I tried 3 times and then the club closed and she had to leave.
You are one lucky mixologist. Meaghan is a master of Sim Fu.
Shake it, girl, er, fembot! That was too cute to see Meaghan get her groove on.
On a sidenote, it's been interesting to see how simbots have been adapting to Bridgeport. While I was playing a different household, I received an invite to a party being thrown by my fembot, Melfina. I went out of curiosity and was surprised to see several other people who were not family members there. I thought the IT'S A SIMBOT reaction would make it impossible for her to interact on such a level but apparently not. The party was lame as houseparties tend to be but there were surprisingly few simbot freakouts. And as an added bonus, the dresscode wasn't swimwear! :P
I've been having bad luck with them in Bridgeport, but they will be making a comeback because I am now modded against "A Simbot!". One last spam of Meaghan pics for the road. :thumbup:
Now modded, it was time to test it out. Cue...que?..., Meaghan:
A pleasant walk-up to the club entrance without anyone stopping to freak.
How nice. Meaghan gets a friendly wave from Jolina.
No issues with the bouncer.
Ah, the perfect test.
Hi, Coco. Everyone is so nice. :-o
KTHNXBYE, please.
Service with a smirk. :roll:
I guess service with a smile was too much to expect from her.
It's better than the alternative.
Time to hit the dance floor. Awesome to walk past a sim with no drama. :thumbup:
:hunf: She looks like trouble.
Nah, she just wants to boogie.
A Simbot with a dance partner, it's a miracle. Nobody freaking out.
Hey hey hey.
There's a look of gratitude.
Thank you, modders for bringing sanity back to my game. 8)
Let's Get This Story Rolling Playing around with all these sims has put Melonie and Tater's story on the back burner. They had a little incident with a straggling friend that made me want to get their story going.
I changed homes and found my sim, Melonie, taking a stroll near the Bridgeport bridge. It was 6:00 and she was a little hungry so I decided to send her to my new bar. I clicked on the "send with" button by accident and saw four other sims were available.
Why not?
Well it turns out they were not so nearby.
Emmy Star, Don Lothario, Ethan Bunch, and Elspeth Cook, all came running from their homes. That's Don way back in the distance.
It was a wait, but now I was committed since I spent a couple of sim hours already, but I didn't know Elspeth was on the other side of the bridge.
Why was she even considered?
3 sim hours, get in the dang car.
They left her. :shock:
Well...serves her right for taking so long. She could have taken the train or something.
So they arrived at the club a little after 9 pm.
But what...where are you going?
Well I guess Elspeth refused to be left behind. She must have taken the subway near the bridge.
Wonderful, Ethan has a social disgrace thing going on. :roll:
I forgot about Melonie's boyfriend, Tater. I found him hanging out at the Diner. He's in the back. A good drummer was also there so I had him join Tater's band. Then I had them group up and head to the bar as well.
There was a decent amount of sims there and it wasn't even a hot spot.
There wasn't much time to do much other than grab a bite and some energy drinks. Tater got Jun Xu to join his band.
I got to see them play a little.
Sims started pouring out of the place at 2 am. The doors close at 3 am.
Time enough for Tater to chow down.
The new Cressida looks really cute.
Melonie and Tater didn't get a chance to interact at all. She looks way too tired now.
She give Mike a nice wave as he passes by. There is a fling in store for them, but only after Tater cheats on Melonie. :twisted:
Ethan got a ride back.
:P This was boring actually, but that's what happened. I think I'll check first before I have other sims to group up, at least when my sim is outdoors. It wasn't a bad night out and more happened than that. I just forgot to take more pics while it was going on.
If it's a memorable moment I probably have it documented in pics. So all I need to do is look back at pictures. Mine aren't really moments, but extended rounds of simming that were just plain fun.
10: Amy Li's Gift (TS2)
I was playing Amy's mom who was giving Amy's sister a birthday party.
Amy was visiting. Since her mom didn't need the baby stuff anymore I gave it to Amy as a gift.
It was so funny to see Amy walking around with baby thought bubbles after she received the gift.
I swear she looked a bit shocked by it all.
9: Javy Lupin: Vampire (TS2)
Javy Lupin, single child to A CAS father and a EA default mother. Her parents became werewolves. After they passed, Javi inherited their house and savings, bought a large house and became a vampire. She then began collecting several of the neighborhoods most attractive sims to be her vampire familiars. They took care of the house during the day and kept her amused at night. I had a great time with them all.
8: Edna Mode (TS3)
While considering which one of my sims would become the Stylist for Bridgeport I was hit by a sudden idea: How about Edna Mode as a stylist? Ridiculous. She's so tiny. :P 8) I'll do it!
I have had so much fun with my young version of E in Bridgeport. And I really enjoyed creating her house.
7: Grindelwald Dorm (TS2)
I made a huge dorm for TS2 University. It was filled with aspiration and career reward objects that helped my uni students build the skills they needed. It was much more interesting than having them read books.
Uni became so much more fun while playing in this dorm.
I followed it up with a Greek house. My usual approach to Uni was two years in the dorm, two years in the Greek house.
6: Humanized Servos and Simbots (TS2 and TS3)
I'll just throw these two together. I used SimPE in TS2 to turn my metal Servos into Androids. The first thing I did when I got Ambitions was to do the same thing to Simbots. I've been nagging at EA to do this for the longest. Maybe they made it easy to do it or maybe I just got lucky with Twallan's mod, but at least I have them.
Meaghan is my favorite Simbot--especially since I now have a mod that stops "A Simbot!"
5: Generations with Velma and Cairo (TS3)
Making up a story as I sim usally makes the game more enjoyable. I had a great time with Cairo, Velma and their family. It makes me feel guilty whenever I play Cairo without Velma in any new games. :P Even more than with Francine.
4: Lisa Bunch (TS3)
Lisa Bunch represents the first time I really began having fun playing TS3. I had a fun story scenario of her being a middle glass sim with upper class ambitions and having Vita Alto taking her under her wing. Vita has her own ambitions and Lisa is her tool.
It all started with story progression moving Miraj Alvi in with the Langeraks to be with Kaylynn. I noticed that Miraj also had Lisa Bunch as a love interest. So I sent him over to flaunt his love in her face. Lisa didn't care much for that and wanted some revenge, so I've been playing her story ever since.
3: Cosa Nostra and Trevor Syndicate (TS2)
These two were my most maniacal sims ever. They were bounty hunters. I was highly annoyed by trashcan kickers and stalkers in TS2. So whenever a certain sim gave my sim trouble and my sim wanted to see their ghost I would hire Cosa or Trevor to take care of the problem.
I had every intention of bringing Cosa and Trevor over to TS3, but they simply aren't needed because TS3 sims are boring and don't create much trouble. They can barely remember they were slapped a few minutes ago let alone a few days. The "Declare a nemesis" feature is a joke. If they really were a nemesis I would definitely need to employ the services of Cosa and Trevor to deal with them.
2: Friends (TS2)
Fun, fun fun, and will not be able to do it justice in TS3 due to half-baked apartment living. I made the cast from Friends and had a great time making up my on story lines for the characters. I made Central Perk (something else that can't quite be done in a satisfying way yet.) and their apartment building with Monica and Rachel living across the hall from Joey and Chandler. Ross and Phoebe had their own apartments, Phoebe in another building.
1: The Four Penny Curse (TS2)
This is probably why I am still playing The Sims.
Before I became a player of the Sims 2 I was mainly a builder. Then I tried stories. The Four Penny Curse was my first serious sim story that became a series. I won't get into the story, but I later went on to play the characters in the game and just enjoyed them so much since I knew their characters from the story. I made them over as children with parents, played them through Uni and then as adults with families of their own.
Story pics
Their love interests.
I brought them over to TS3 when we got World Adventures, but I couldn't do much with them other than travel.
World Adventures was perfect for them and brought features that related to my the original story of these girls. Traits has made that even more so because I can give them personalities to match the story. TS2 couldn't do that.
Now with Late Night I can finally start playing them as they were meant to be played. I just wish the dating aspect had more depth.
I suspect I will be starting their lives over with each new EP.
Your pics and captions make even a quiet outing entertaining.
The funny thing is it started out as an annoyance, but since it was something unexpected and out of the ordinary, I found it interesting. This game needs more randomness.
I think I've captured more Jim and Perry. I remember giving them one of the Urbanite buildings to test. I also set them up in a skyscraper apartment. I never got around to giving them a serious play though.
As for Melonie and Tater I thought their Drama Rama was next, but there are still a few other posts coming up. Melonie does have and extended story coming.
I was testing a new lot that I'm going to turn into a working apartment. But first a test for basic livability.
I split up Beau's household and moved out Lilly-Bo, Marina, and Bianca. They all had Beau as a romantic interest. I would have never had known. They all seem to get along together well.
So I decided to do a visitor test and invited over Beau just to see if any jealous sparks would occur.
I haven't played a vampire in depth at all and didn't take his cries of thirst seriously. I wasn't even thinking about him needing plasma since his thought bubble shows a knife and fork. I think vamps need a thirst thought bubble when they need to drink.
Oh well.
Sorry Beau. Plasma plasma every where and not a drop to drink.
Hi, Grim.
Yep, my bad. Though I don't really feel bad since this is a copy of my master Bridgeport.
Oh the humanity!
Whoops, there goes Bianca.
So dramatic.
Nice of Grim to clean up the spare ashes.
But, he didn't appreciate Lilly-Bo's attempt at humor.
Bianca didn't like the music playing during her dramatic faint.
Then she promptly fainted again.
Marina is really broken up over this--non-stop crying.
Ok, you get the biggest room. Feel better now?
I had Lilly-Bo take his remains to the cemetary.
There has to be a way to get over the grief she feels while still celebrating Beau's life.
I've come back to check this thread again. One of my favorite skills is inventing and I've created many a simbot, both male and female. One of the things that has bugged me is the reaction other sims have to them. :roll:
I found a mod at Mod the Sims that is supposed to eliminate that reaction, but I don't think it is working. It hasn't been updated since Pets. I also used to have a mod that made simbots walk normally. Have no clue what happened to that mod.
Now, I want to figure out how to make a simbot look like a sim. Reading all this, I am inspired to try. This is a good thing, because I have a bad case of PEPS for SN and it is a long wait!!!
I found a mod at Mod the Sims that is supposed to eliminate that reaction, but I don't think it is working. It hasn't been updated since Pets. I also used to have a mod that made simbots walk normally. Have no clue what happened to that mod.
Mylita
Did you exit your game and restart it? Also delete the cache files. I think I have the same one, but mine is working.
Thank you! That worked and she is watching a SimFest in the park. No one is reacting to her presence at all!
I am still looking for the mod I remember having that gave simbots a normal way of walking which would make it less painful for me to watch. I don't like the jerky movements.
But, she is really pretty and it is a relief not to have folks making puking gestures towards her.
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There I was, working on Edna Mode's house while she slept. I moved her in because I was bored working on it and it seemed like it would be more fun to move her in and build on it as her needs dictate.
[Earlier that day]
So I'm in build mode and just placed a fountain spout and turned on Live mode to see it spray. I heard the sound of a cheap car and thought it odd since Edna is isolated high on the hill. So I go back to build mode...or I try to...when I'm informed that I can't because the house is being robbed.
:x She stole her piano!
No creepy music or any warning. :roll:
Then she stole her stove.
[neat trick] But now she's just showing off. :P
And now she's making a break for it with her ill-gotten goods. :x
You're being robbed!
Edna is a master of Simfu, but I have no interaction to stop this burglar. No brave trait. :roll:
But I can give her a makeover. What burglar could resist that.
And Edna's true-blue roomie is making a call to the cops while she stalls the burglar for time.
"No no, horizontal stripes will only make you look short and fat.
Excellent, take your time.
Noo... This burglar isn't stupid.
Augh! She's going to get away.
I got your name...Selena Savage. Your day is coming. :evil:
No cops. Just a phone call saying she got away. :roll:
And Edna is too broke to afford a burglar alarm unless I sell something.
This is so much more annoying when your sim is low on cash.
Let's go to a party.
Holly Alto is hosting yet another soiree.
Andrea loves formal parties.
They can rub shoulders with the Altos, Landgraabs, and Wellingtons as snap-happy paparazzi waltz around them. They are safe and secure in the knowledge that everything is safe and secure at...
...home. :shock:
That's right, do the clarion dance, Selena.
The good officer is on his way to collect you.
Good plan, going in all stealthy. Get in there!
The party is over and the girls are on their way home.
:shock: No.
That's not a good sign--especially the ladybug thought bubble. :roll:
That's not a kiss she's laying on him.
They sent in Officer Friendly. :?
She's not called Selena Savage for nothing. :oops:
Squashed him like a ladybug.
Yes, ladies, you're being burgled again.
Is this a glitch? I thought sims could challenge burglars.
Yet again the only thing Edna can do is attempt to give the burglar a bad makeover. She's a master of Simfu. :x
Selena is only humoring them.
So long, Suckers!
Andrea just wants to go to bed.
Oh look. She used the money from the piano and stove to buy a better car.
She'll probably be driving around in a CC Mercedes before long.
But it's ok. She didn't take anything. However, Selena will get her comeuppance one day.
(comeuppance? is that a real word?)
EDIT: Spelling mistakes. :oops:
I have yet to see Selena taken to jail in my game. She's gotten away with it in 3 different households.
We shall catch them! My game is crashing at the moment, but as soon as I get it fixed, I'll go to my Bridgeport game and see if I can catch her.
EDIT: Also, (I need to stop editing...) is Edna's house on the exchange?
Yes.
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=3427427
The sunken living room is nice to look at, but I've found it somewhat annoying. Lighting does not show well in it and sims tend to want to take the long way around instead of walking through it. You might want to fill it in, like so.
I'll second that.
Edna is in France.
I will have a great laugh if she returns home to find Selena robbing her house again.
I am laying the ground work to get back at Selena. :twisted: I want to see her burn in sunlight and weaken from lack of blood as a vampire. So Edna has befriended Jessica Talon. A vampire burglar would be interesting though. I'm tempted to leave Selena as vampire burglar.
So I have to decide if I want to turn Edna into a vampire so she can bite Selena and turn her or should I have Jessica do it. I'm leaning towards taking over Jessica.
She quit her job as Stylist and is now self-employed as a painter. Bridgeport doesn't need her services anymore. I had her party just before leaving for France.
So now she's hanging out with gal-pal Andrea in France. She achieved level 1 visa status.
Being hounded by the paparazzi...
And having jam sessions. That sim looks like a body guard. "No pictures!"
I've been planning to try out a butler with Edna. Now seems like a good time. She got Bertram.
I like Bertram's traits. He's neat, family oriented, and a bookworm. He has to get over the celebrity worship thing.
He's also Brave.
I think Selena is going to be in for a big surprise if she home invades again.
Uh oh. I can't make him stop.
Oh, well. I guess he'll keep going until he wears himself out. He's dedicated.
He "put away" three skill drinks.
No point in letting them go to waste, eh Bertie boy?
Selena actually appeared for a third robbery attempt. :-o
I used the reset sim cheat on Bertram because he wouldn't stop training with the training dummy. He disappeared and didn't return. Selena appeared at 5 am to rob the place again. I decided to restart the game and just let Bertram stop on his own. I didn't want to risk messing up the game. Selena didn't return.
So...speaking of party...Edna had one and invited Selena.
I invited Holly Alto, but Vita came along with her. That's Lisa Bunch-Landgraab going up the stairs.
Melonie, stop flirting with the help.
Jessica Talon made it. She's the reason for this party.
And so is Selena Savage. I laughed when I saw that dress. How bold! And her first action is to wave at Edna.
Oh Jessica...a moment, please.
Our girl is here.
Ha. Haley crashed Edna's party.
I invited this guy for Andrea.
Selena wants to take a picture.
Probably to add to her wall of victims.
"I think you should get to know my friend, Jessica Talon."
This cracked me up.
No worries. She won't bite...tonight.
Then again...
This should get the ball rolling.
I'll just take over Jessica tomorrow and she'll have Selena in her relationship list.
Bertram! The butler made mac and cheese when there is a whole table of food.
Now there is a traffic jam.
Fixed.
That hair! I can't stand it. Selena is cunning.
She wouldn't show up at a fancy party with hair like that. She'd have extensions so she would fit in.
Yeah, like this.
WHAT? Party's over? Wow time just moves too fast. There isn't enough time to really have fun. Jessica, your meal in heels is outta here. :P
I think I'd better follow her just to be sure I can find her.
Ah! You live here.
Sorry, Andrea. There was no time to get you acquainted with the gentleman.
Blame EA. I think I'd better look into that time mod.
OK, so I finally get to play with a vampire. It should be fun stalking Selena with Jessica and gaining her trust. I guess I will eventually have to take her over to ask to be turned. That's taking the fun out of it. :P
I think I did Selena a favor by turning her. :P
Jessica went over and summoned her down.
She had an immediate social to turn her, so I tried it out of curiosity. She looked at me like: "What? Now?"
I guess it was too early to start asking that.
But it didn't take long to get a drink.
See. That wasn't bad, was it?
It wasn't long before she agreed to be turned.
Best of friends now.
Uh oh, the change is starting already.
I sent Jessica back the next day to ask her out to the club so I could observe any change effects. I was surprised to see Selena had already become a vampire.
For some reason both vamps were a bit freaked out by Kaylynn Langerak. I have no idea why.
A couple of Hemoglobin Shooters, please.
Selena seems to be taking very well to the vampirism.
Now it seems like it might be a bad a idea. She would only be a more powerful and dangerous burglar.
Nice technique. :P
I wanted to see what the deal was with Kaylynn Langerak, so I had Jessica try some mind powers on her. Jessica was not thrilled.
She was thirsty and I wanted to see how Kaylynn would react.
No problem.
Strange. I guess their behavior will remain a mystery.
Closing time. Selena bailed from the group and went home. I guess she can use her speed running powers to get away even faster now.
Jessica's ex was waiting out front, playing the guitar. He was booing her while she was playing the piano the other day. It annoyed me so I had her break up with him. :twisted:
I'm not sure what to do next. I might leave Selena as she is, but if she tries to rob Edna's house again she's going to wind up in a cage in direct sunlight. :twisted:
I love that mod.
My customization of Bridgeport is done and I can finally start playing it seriously. I'm making copies of the original town to play certain households. I have so many sims I want to play. I really don't know where to start.
But I continued on for a bit with Edna Mode.
Edna's roommate loves her some Don Lothario.
Forgot to change Don's pajama hair.
I caught a vampire in the act of turning another sim.
Now I'm playing 3 sims that I have been waiting for Late Night to play.
Amy Li.
I sent them out for a Ladies Night at P.U.R.E.
It turned out to be a true Ladies Night since no guys were there.
I sent Josephine back the next night with a coworker.
This time there were plenty of men. Tater has a new friend.
My favorite Paparazzo.
A third night, the other guys I wanted them to meet were there. I phoned in Coco and Amy to meet their future love interests.
This would have been a great shot except for one little issue. :P
Another Paparazzo--Shutter. He shows up everywhere. I took the plastic surgeon's knife to him.
I've been griping about some game play details lately, but that doesn't mean I'm not enjoying the game.
I've noticed details that I like while observing the other sims. Social interactions have been improved and I think TS3's charm is starting to grow.
I had my sims at the club and I was going to check out what was happening in the other rooms when I heard shrieks. Both my sims had gotten out of their chairs and were going ga ga over Arlo Bunch.
He wasn't even a celebrity. (Perhaps a glitch)
Then they both turned around and looked at each other as if to say:
"He's mine!"
"I saw him first."
This was made all the funnier since Arlo Bunch isn't naturally the most attractive sim in town. The teen years:
Don autonomously interviewing another sim. I wasn't controlling them.
Melonie Bloom's boyfriend threw a party and I sent my sims. Most parties so far haven't felt like parties, but this one was like a nice social gathering.
Melonie was tired, but instead of going to bed she made a cup of coffee and sat down. Another sim sat down and started chatting away like a magpie.
Another sim got himself a cup of coffee and joined them.
This gave me a little chuckle when the elevator doors opened.
Now that we have groups I can take impromptu sparring matches to local venues that make more sense.
Edna began meditating after she won the matches. I like seeing sims that aren't under my control doing something in character.
This guy was checking out the ladies dancing.
His attention on Melonie.
But all he did was stand there and look.
Which left the door wide open for Mike.
I wasn't controlling these sims. This was autonomous.
I really like the Convince social. It great for starting some mischief or just influencing relationships in the neighborhood.
Facial expressions are also well done.
Well this didn't take much effort to get started.
But you never know who is going to be around and take offense. I found out Eris is a good friend of Melonie's boyfriend--who isn't Mike here.
I was all wrapped up in Bridgeport, but I was beginning to miss the Firenzes.
Any good excuse for a brawl.
Jared Frio kept cutting in on Cairo and Francine.
Enough to annoy me...and Cairo
Francine isn't one to stand on the sidelines of a fight.
So...
They had a wish to kiss.
I did place a Simbot in Bridgeport, and it was really annoying I removed it after my first incident of one visiting a club.
But I do have my favorite Simbot in Sunset Valley and I was curious to see her dance. She's a Fembot. Simbots are a bit stiff in the area of locomotion, so I thought it would be cool to see her fluid moves.
Problem was her dance skills were still low.
So why not send her to the club for some liquid motivation?
If I can actually get her a drink.
Stupid "A Simbot!" reaction. :x
I hate this. I really do. But it made me laugh anyway...this time. :P
Pull yourself together. It's just a simbot.
Might as well try the guy downstairs while the mixologist upstairs gets it back together.
Thank you. Another freak out would have used up valuable time.
Bottom's up.
The effect was immediate.
What to do...oh, dance on a table top.
Ha! There ya go.
Ok...well...I guess I have seen this before...But IT'S A SIMBOT!
A CUTE simbot.
Oh, get off it!
Silly humans!
It's enough to make a simbot want to blow things up.
Good idea.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! SIMBOT ON THE RAMPAGE!
Malcolm's no fool. He's outta here.
That's anti-climatic. Tiny explosion. *poof
Rise of the machines?
No, just a snack.
That was somewhat fun actually.
It was worthwhile too. (This shot is going to be my simpage backdrop. :XD: )
I had her dance when she got back.
Hit it, 'bot-girl!
Simbot Dance
But I'm really tired of Sim reactions to Simbots. I needed a mod.
Hello, teelanv. Welcome to the thread.
Ok, that's it. I'm putting in the mod that stops "A Simbot!" reactions.
I didn't realize how much I missed my Fembot, Meaghan.
I was curious to see what happens when a simbot goes hot tubbing.
She really didn't want to get in and gave me a very TS2 styled complaint for making her do it.
One accusing glance before going kaput.
I had to send over avatar me to fix her. The club was about to close.
The mixologist must have gotten bored and needed to shake her groove thing.
Repaired.
I get the feeling she really didn't like that.
The mixologist doesn't want anything to do with her. How wude!
I didn't know about the berserk interaction. I like it. Pure terror for rude simmies.
Meaghan had the interaction to brawl with the mixologist, but the "A Simbot!" reaction kept canceling it. I tried 3 times and then the club closed and she had to leave.
You are one lucky mixologist. Meaghan is a master of Sim Fu.
I'm putting in that mod today. :P
I've been having bad luck with them in Bridgeport, but they will be making a comeback because I am now modded against "A Simbot!".
Now modded, it was time to test it out. Cue...que?..., Meaghan:
A pleasant walk-up to the club entrance without anyone stopping to freak.
How nice. Meaghan gets a friendly wave from Jolina.
No issues with the bouncer.
Ah, the perfect test.
Hi, Coco. Everyone is so nice. :-o
KTHNXBYE, please.
Service with a smirk. :roll:
I guess service with a smile was too much to expect from her.
It's better than the alternative.
Time to hit the dance floor. Awesome to walk past a sim with no drama. :thumbup:
:hunf: She looks like trouble.
Nah, she just wants to boogie.
A Simbot with a dance partner, it's a miracle. Nobody freaking out.
Hey hey hey.
There's a look of gratitude.
Thank you, modders for bringing sanity back to my game. 8)
CK I've been a fan of yours from Sims 2, and your posts have done nothing but inspire and entertain me so thanks.
Hi, Mckenzie. Welcome to the thread.
Playing around with all these sims has put Melonie and Tater's story on the back burner. They had a little incident with a straggling friend that made me want to get their story going.
I changed homes and found my sim, Melonie, taking a stroll near the Bridgeport bridge. It was 6:00 and she was a little hungry so I decided to send her to my new bar. I clicked on the "send with" button by accident and saw four other sims were available.
Why not?
Well it turns out they were not so nearby.
Emmy Star, Don Lothario, Ethan Bunch, and Elspeth Cook, all came running from their homes. That's Don way back in the distance.
It was a wait, but now I was committed since I spent a couple of sim hours already, but I didn't know Elspeth was on the other side of the bridge.
Why was she even considered?
3 sim hours, get in the dang car.
They left her. :shock:
Well...serves her right for taking so long. She could have taken the train or something.
So they arrived at the club a little after 9 pm.
But what...where are you going?
Well I guess Elspeth refused to be left behind. She must have taken the subway near the bridge.
Wonderful, Ethan has a social disgrace thing going on. :roll:
I forgot about Melonie's boyfriend, Tater. I found him hanging out at the Diner. He's in the back. A good drummer was also there so I had him join Tater's band. Then I had them group up and head to the bar as well.
There was a decent amount of sims there and it wasn't even a hot spot.
There wasn't much time to do much other than grab a bite and some energy drinks. Tater got Jun Xu to join his band.
I got to see them play a little.
Sims started pouring out of the place at 2 am. The doors close at 3 am.
Time enough for Tater to chow down.
The new Cressida looks really cute.
Melonie and Tater didn't get a chance to interact at all. She looks way too tired now.
She give Mike a nice wave as he passes by. There is a fling in store for them, but only after Tater cheats on Melonie. :twisted:
Ethan got a ride back.
:P This was boring actually, but that's what happened. I think I'll check first before I have other sims to group up, at least when my sim is outdoors. It wasn't a bad night out and more happened than that. I just forgot to take more pics while it was going on.
CK213's Top 10 Simming Moments
If it's a memorable moment I probably have it documented in pics. So all I need to do is look back at pictures. Mine aren't really moments, but extended rounds of simming that were just plain fun.
10: Amy Li's Gift (TS2)
I was playing Amy's mom who was giving Amy's sister a birthday party.
Amy was visiting. Since her mom didn't need the baby stuff anymore I gave it to Amy as a gift.
It was so funny to see Amy walking around with baby thought bubbles after she received the gift.
I swear she looked a bit shocked by it all.
9: Javy Lupin: Vampire (TS2)
Javy Lupin, single child to A CAS father and a EA default mother. Her parents became werewolves. After they passed, Javi inherited their house and savings, bought a large house and became a vampire. She then began collecting several of the neighborhoods most attractive sims to be her vampire familiars. They took care of the house during the day and kept her amused at night. I had a great time with them all.
8: Edna Mode (TS3)
While considering which one of my sims would become the Stylist for Bridgeport I was hit by a sudden idea: How about Edna Mode as a stylist? Ridiculous. She's so tiny. :P 8) I'll do it!
I have had so much fun with my young version of E in Bridgeport. And I really enjoyed creating her house.
7: Grindelwald Dorm (TS2)
I made a huge dorm for TS2 University. It was filled with aspiration and career reward objects that helped my uni students build the skills they needed. It was much more interesting than having them read books.
Uni became so much more fun while playing in this dorm.
I followed it up with a Greek house. My usual approach to Uni was two years in the dorm, two years in the Greek house.
6: Humanized Servos and Simbots (TS2 and TS3)
I'll just throw these two together. I used SimPE in TS2 to turn my metal Servos into Androids. The first thing I did when I got Ambitions was to do the same thing to Simbots. I've been nagging at EA to do this for the longest. Maybe they made it easy to do it or maybe I just got lucky with Twallan's mod, but at least I have them.
Meaghan is my favorite Simbot--especially since I now have a mod that stops "A Simbot!"
5: Generations with Velma and Cairo (TS3)
Making up a story as I sim usally makes the game more enjoyable. I had a great time with Cairo, Velma and their family. It makes me feel guilty whenever I play Cairo without Velma in any new games. :P Even more than with Francine.
4: Lisa Bunch (TS3)
Lisa Bunch represents the first time I really began having fun playing TS3. I had a fun story scenario of her being a middle glass sim with upper class ambitions and having Vita Alto taking her under her wing. Vita has her own ambitions and Lisa is her tool.
It all started with story progression moving Miraj Alvi in with the Langeraks to be with Kaylynn. I noticed that Miraj also had Lisa Bunch as a love interest. So I sent him over to flaunt his love in her face. Lisa didn't care much for that and wanted some revenge, so I've been playing her story ever since.
3: Cosa Nostra and Trevor Syndicate (TS2)
These two were my most maniacal sims ever. They were bounty hunters. I was highly annoyed by trashcan kickers and stalkers in TS2. So whenever a certain sim gave my sim trouble and my sim wanted to see their ghost I would hire Cosa or Trevor to take care of the problem.
I had every intention of bringing Cosa and Trevor over to TS3, but they simply aren't needed because TS3 sims are boring and don't create much trouble. They can barely remember they were slapped a few minutes ago let alone a few days. The "Declare a nemesis" feature is a joke. If they really were a nemesis I would definitely need to employ the services of Cosa and Trevor to deal with them.
2: Friends (TS2)
Fun, fun fun, and will not be able to do it justice in TS3 due to half-baked apartment living. I made the cast from Friends and had a great time making up my on story lines for the characters. I made Central Perk (something else that can't quite be done in a satisfying way yet.) and their apartment building with Monica and Rachel living across the hall from Joey and Chandler. Ross and Phoebe had their own apartments, Phoebe in another building.
1: The Four Penny Curse (TS2)
This is probably why I am still playing The Sims.
Before I became a player of the Sims 2 I was mainly a builder. Then I tried stories. The Four Penny Curse was my first serious sim story that became a series. I won't get into the story, but I later went on to play the characters in the game and just enjoyed them so much since I knew their characters from the story. I made them over as children with parents, played them through Uni and then as adults with families of their own.
Story pics
Their love interests.
I brought them over to TS3 when we got World Adventures, but I couldn't do much with them other than travel.
World Adventures was perfect for them and brought features that related to my the original story of these girls. Traits has made that even more so because I can give them personalities to match the story. TS2 couldn't do that.
Now with Late Night I can finally start playing them as they were meant to be played. I just wish the dating aspect had more depth.
I suspect I will be starting their lives over with each new EP.
So there you have it, CK213's history of simming.
The funny thing is it started out as an annoyance, but since it was something unexpected and out of the ordinary, I found it interesting.
I think I've captured more Jim and Perry. I remember giving them one of the Urbanite buildings to test. I also set them up in a skyscraper apartment. I never got around to giving them a serious play though.
As for Melonie and Tater I thought their Drama Rama was next, but there are still a few other posts coming up. Melonie does have and extended story coming.
I was testing a new lot that I'm going to turn into a working apartment. But first a test for basic livability.
I split up Beau's household and moved out Lilly-Bo, Marina, and Bianca. They all had Beau as a romantic interest. I would have never had known. They all seem to get along together well.
So I decided to do a visitor test and invited over Beau just to see if any jealous sparks would occur.
I haven't played a vampire in depth at all and didn't take his cries of thirst seriously. I wasn't even thinking about him needing plasma since his thought bubble shows a knife and fork. I think vamps need a thirst thought bubble when they need to drink.
Oh well.
Sorry Beau. Plasma plasma every where and not a drop to drink.
Hi, Grim.
Yep, my bad. Though I don't really feel bad since this is a copy of my master Bridgeport.
Oh the humanity!
Whoops, there goes Bianca.
So dramatic.
Nice of Grim to clean up the spare ashes.
But, he didn't appreciate Lilly-Bo's attempt at humor.
Bianca didn't like the music playing during her dramatic faint.
Then she promptly fainted again.
Marina is really broken up over this--non-stop crying.
Ok, you get the biggest room. Feel better now?
I had Lilly-Bo take his remains to the cemetary.
There has to be a way to get over the grief she feels while still celebrating Beau's life.
A drum solo. Yeah.
I found a mod at Mod the Sims that is supposed to eliminate that reaction, but I don't think it is working. It hasn't been updated since Pets. I also used to have a mod that made simbots walk normally. Have no clue what happened to that mod.
Now, I want to figure out how to make a simbot look like a sim. Reading all this, I am inspired to try. This is a good thing, because I have a bad case of PEPS for SN and it is a long wait!!!
Mylita
Did you exit your game and restart it? Also delete the cache files. I think I have the same one, but mine is working.
I am still looking for the mod I remember having that gave simbots a normal way of walking which would make it less painful for me to watch. I don't like the jerky movements.
But, she is really pretty and it is a relief not to have folks making puking gestures towards her.
Mylita