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CK213's trial run with Seasons: [Part of the Family Pg. 13]
CK213
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This was supposed to be just a simple trial run to experience the seasons while I wait for others to test the waters with their mods. I'm running a vanilla town for now.
It's a good way to learn now things work so I can apply the learnings to my custom creations. That didn't last long however. I couldn't make past Autumn without wanting to put my own park in and putting a festival marker in it.
The further you get into the seasons the more this EP sucks you in. By winter I was, "OMG!"
I started out in summer, which was OK, but I wanted to see Autumn and winter.
Chris found Jamie online and they eventually became a couple.
Fall had arrived by then. Things were brownish.
The park changed to its spooky fest theme.
Look at that fog.
Full moon. I have Supernatural, so I got zombies as well. :P
It's raining without clouds.
Christopher grabbed some pumpkins while at the festival and Jamie carved them up.
She's a surgeon, so no pressure.
Sorry, no pics of all the nice red and gold fall colors. I got caught up in playing.
An umbrella isn't much protection during a serious hail storm.
I could't take it anymore. I had to put in my own park. I made a central park a while back in preparation for Seasons. All I have to do is put in the festival marker and edit for each Season.
I suddenly realized my park was created with Summer in mind and I had to delete all the summer stuff and leave all the items that were considered "common".
And then I learned that trees and shrubs were also considered common and would show up with all the seasons. So goodbye spooky trees and weeds.
But I got it together, and I like it.
I only edited for Fall and Winter. I will do the rest after winter is over.
The fog and the sounds from the haunted house make a big difference.
Less scary during the day.
I'm still not sure about Simfest in the Fall and Winter, but I don't want new proprietors being spawned every spring.
Time for Chris and Jamie to play.
I like that they can win tickets to buy special items.
Jamie won. She's thrilled, inside.
Wasn't there a real life painter-guy with an orange afro on TV?
Spooky.
I like these portraits a lot more than I thought I would.
The Steeles are at a casino I plopped down in the Valley. I want to them to win enough to buy a nice house.
Slow dance.
Oops.
Winter ices up car windows. I wonder what will happen to Fresh Prince cars.
Jamie is pregnant and can't ice skate. She watches Christopher.
This is annoying. Sims keep interrupting my sim to do this and canceling takes a long time.
Winter portrait time.
Christopher, I think it's time to show your girl your skills.
No worries. The life insurance policy is paid up.
So much for that.
They both have a chilled moodlet, but no negative points for it.
I wondered if hot chocolate would make it go away, but nope.
Christopher lost his job when I replaced the school rabbit hole. He has to apply again.
Might as well watch more ice skaters.
I'm going to have to make a nice cafe nearby so sims can warm up. I sent these two to the gym.
My town could use a nice coffeehouse now.
It really started to snow after they went inside.
I am awed.
I turned on the lights at Christopher and Jolina's house, but it really made me realize that I want them in a new home for the winter.
This is the one.
Oh look, Mrs Bunch is a witch. Nice sweater.
I had them stop by to check out the house.
Oh forget it. Motherlode!
This is just a trial run anyway.
Sold!
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah!
Awesome.
It's another full moon so colors are bluish and shimmery.
Finally! I can watch this an not feel jealous of TS2 sims.
I was a little disappointed that my castle roof spires don't cover with snow.
The do get a little dusting, but the ones I have on the roof don't. Probably because I used moveObjects on them.
Time for bed.
Blair Wainwright? What are you doing out here?
Looking for a Unicorn. And a very clever one, hiding up in the tree.
Must be hard to stay up there.
Find a new hiding place.
There ya go.
Oops, another human. Tamera Donner is unicorn spotting too.
Her task is done.
"Alright! Here I am. Take a good look."
"Thanks."
"They won't leave me alone."
This picture has been brought to you by Pets, Supernatural, and Seasons.
Wonderful expansion so far. I hope my saved games run as smooth. :-)
It's a good way to learn now things work so I can apply the learnings to my custom creations. That didn't last long however. I couldn't make past Autumn without wanting to put my own park in and putting a festival marker in it.
The further you get into the seasons the more this EP sucks you in. By winter I was, "OMG!"
I started out in summer, which was OK, but I wanted to see Autumn and winter.
Chris found Jamie online and they eventually became a couple.
Fall had arrived by then. Things were brownish.
The park changed to its spooky fest theme.
Look at that fog.
Full moon. I have Supernatural, so I got zombies as well. :P
It's raining without clouds.
Christopher grabbed some pumpkins while at the festival and Jamie carved them up.
She's a surgeon, so no pressure.
Sorry, no pics of all the nice red and gold fall colors. I got caught up in playing.
An umbrella isn't much protection during a serious hail storm.
I could't take it anymore. I had to put in my own park. I made a central park a while back in preparation for Seasons. All I have to do is put in the festival marker and edit for each Season.
I suddenly realized my park was created with Summer in mind and I had to delete all the summer stuff and leave all the items that were considered "common".
And then I learned that trees and shrubs were also considered common and would show up with all the seasons. So goodbye spooky trees and weeds.
But I got it together, and I like it.
I only edited for Fall and Winter. I will do the rest after winter is over.
The fog and the sounds from the haunted house make a big difference.
Less scary during the day.
I'm still not sure about Simfest in the Fall and Winter, but I don't want new proprietors being spawned every spring.
Time for Chris and Jamie to play.
I like that they can win tickets to buy special items.
Jamie won. She's thrilled, inside.
Wasn't there a real life painter-guy with an orange afro on TV?
Spooky.
I like these portraits a lot more than I thought I would.
The Steeles are at a casino I plopped down in the Valley. I want to them to win enough to buy a nice house.
Slow dance.
Oops.
Winter ices up car windows. I wonder what will happen to Fresh Prince cars.
Jamie is pregnant and can't ice skate. She watches Christopher.
This is annoying. Sims keep interrupting my sim to do this and canceling takes a long time.
Winter portrait time.
Christopher, I think it's time to show your girl your skills.
No worries. The life insurance policy is paid up.
So much for that.
They both have a chilled moodlet, but no negative points for it.
I wondered if hot chocolate would make it go away, but nope.
Christopher lost his job when I replaced the school rabbit hole. He has to apply again.
Might as well watch more ice skaters.
I'm going to have to make a nice cafe nearby so sims can warm up. I sent these two to the gym.
My town could use a nice coffeehouse now.
It really started to snow after they went inside.
I am awed.
I turned on the lights at Christopher and Jolina's house, but it really made me realize that I want them in a new home for the winter.
This is the one.
Oh look, Mrs Bunch is a witch. Nice sweater.
I had them stop by to check out the house.
Oh forget it. Motherlode!
This is just a trial run anyway.
Sold!
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah!
Awesome.
It's another full moon so colors are bluish and shimmery.
Finally! I can watch this an not feel jealous of TS2 sims.
I was a little disappointed that my castle roof spires don't cover with snow.
The do get a little dusting, but the ones I have on the roof don't. Probably because I used moveObjects on them.
Time for bed.
Blair Wainwright? What are you doing out here?
Looking for a Unicorn. And a very clever one, hiding up in the tree.
Must be hard to stay up there.
Find a new hiding place.
There ya go.
Oops, another human. Tamera Donner is unicorn spotting too.
Her task is done.
"Alright! Here I am. Take a good look."
"Thanks."
"They won't leave me alone."
This picture has been brought to you by Pets, Supernatural, and Seasons.
Wonderful expansion so far. I hope my saved games run as smooth. :-)
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Oh and that painter guy was Bob Ross lol 'Lets put a happy little tree here, and he needs a friend right here. Everyone should have a friend'
A truly beautiful man :') the sims team created an excellent likeness to him in that little image, I think it's pretty neat that hid him there lol.
P.S LOL at the Unicorns face in the last one
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That's the original skin.
I haven't put in my replacement CC skin yet.
Painters still fascinate me.
How do they get from their vague blurry beginnings to those awesome finished paintings. I should take a class.
I want to remove all the deck objects for winter. There is a hot tub and dance floor out there.
And now I'm curious as to how my other homes look in winter. I'm starting to plop them down just to have a look.
I have a lot of home designs though. It would probably be easier just to wait until I'm ready to play my old neighborhoods. :-)
Gosh, I am so fascinated by winter. It's like TS2 nostalgia for Seasons. It's funny playing this EP and thinking back on the naysayers who were saying Winter wasn't even possible in TS3.
I'm watching my Sim couple zip through the streets in a snow storm without hardly any lag.
Coral Steele
I gave her the Loves the Heat trait, since she was born in winter.
I don't think Vita Alto should be doing anything to get Grim's attention at her age.
It certainly wasn't what I expected when I went exploring while my sims slept.
I got another surprise while my sims slept. An Alien stopped by.
What do you do when an Alien flies up to your house?
You invite them in for a chat.
The visit was short, but she does have her as a social contact now.
Baby aged up.
Coral is now a child and another is on the way.
I got the Greenhouse from the store, but be warned. It does not keep out the weather well since the glass roof is just a decoration and not a roof. You have to play tricks with ceiling tiles to keep the weather out.
The first day of spring and all the snow is gone.
I had to fix my park since those silly ghost gnomes were great for fall, but was attracting ghosts to the park in the winter.
If this had been perfected and added to Seasons...just wow. I have to be honest here. I consider this a part of Seasons and the EP cost me 57 dollars. :P I just had to do some tweaking to make it work.
Yes, horse.
It's a house.
Making Coral run a needless distance to the bus
Unnecessary.
And Jamie decided to walk to the concession store.
So slow while pregnant.
The Spring Festival looks more lively than the others to me.
Kissing Booths
Try the love tester.
Well, yeah.
Coral will hunt for eggs.
I know. That was your egg.
Let's try the kissing booths.
You just made his day, Jamie.
She doesn't seem thrilled.
A quick peck.
Oh whoa! Hold on there, slick.
Someone needs a tongue lashing for...tongue lashing.
More eggs.
Since this isn't a career rabbit hole, I shouldn't have any trouble. I hope.
They just had a family tour.
Good thing, it started raining heavily.
One more season left before the testing of my park is complete.
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thanks for the pictures, and your builds look amazing!
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Two, how do you get your Sims to have such nice hair? Or does the picture/screenshot naturally add bloom or smoothness or something? I don't know what you're doing, but my goodness Jamie's hair looks so...SMOOTH and AMAZING.
They don't seem to mind, but Christopher put just a little too much spin on that kiss. I thought Jamie shouldn't put up with it. :-)
I want some Alien gameplay, so I put the hurry on Jamie's friendship with Faon Thobanob.
I love those friendship elixirs.
I found out that Faon was an elder on the brink of dying of old age. I rushed and found an death flower and a couple of life fruits. And then I went to the magic shop to see if I could buy a youth potion. No luck.
Boosting brainpower
Not what you see in your average driveway.
Oh heck. I'm gonna do what I really want to do.
I went into CAS and made her over in the form of one of my favorite alien sims that I made for the Lunar Lakes set.
Geewii! She's an Alien/Human hybrid.
And now she has Alien powers!
I think Jamie needs a bio boost.
Ha!
Geewii's back, better than ever.
He didn't care to be probed, or was simply being grumpy.
A space rock happened to be in front of the bookstore.
A screwdriver? You would think they would have something like a sonic screwdriver.
OK. She broke it while trying to upgrade it, so now she's repairing it. Now this is what I expected. Let's see The Doctor do that.
Brain power boosting.
Who made a cheese plate?
Was it you?
Strange.
Time to age up Benjamin.
Better get a baby sitter.
"I wonder what planet she is from."
First time trying the face painting booth.
She wanted a tiger face. That is not a tiger face.
Let's try again.
What?
Sorry. That cost 100 Simoleons. You are wearing that face.
LazyGamer Reviews inspired me to change the dance floor pattern.
"Humans put wheels on their feet. Why didn't we think of that?"
Uh oh, I forgot about the full moon.
I don't think I have ever seen a zombie bite anyone in my game.
Nope, not much of a threat.
But they will kill a plant.
The festival is over. Time to go home.
Another alien visitor.
Gotta file a report on human domestic life.
The irony of an alien brain-draining a zombie.
She got your brain.
I put a few custom lots around town, but I have yet to play my master version of Sunset Valley.
Once I'm done with my festival park, I will plop it in my fully edited Sunset Valley. Then the real fun will begin.