Leroy had a break-in with no burglar alarm to automatically notify the police. Fortunately, the burglar was greedy and tried to ripoff several items.
This sent Leroy's Unstable trait into a tizzy.
Breathe.
He schmoozed with the officer a bit. He's still looking for a girlfriend.
His business is moving along.
I like that some of the customers are actually using the items they bought.
His business is now at level 3, the highest for this lot, and adding anything more to it will be just for looks, or something he really needs to have.
The property brings in 10,000 a week by itself. During a light week, Leroy could probably bring in another 10,000 with the Savvy Seller sales and consignment sales. He hasn't been making a lot of plumbots yet.
Leroy will go into serious production when he learns all the trait chips and has a capable partner.
Hello, capable partner!
Leroy met her through an opportunity. She wanted 3 trait chips.
Flirting with the delivery boy ensued after he dropped off the chips.
He invited her over a couple of days later.
Nice outerwear.
He asked her to stay the night and she promptly went to bed for she was tired. He woke her up to try to invite her to move in, but aliens had other plans for that night.
Yep, abducted for the third time, and the third time gave him an alien baby.
New rule: all alien impregnated males must go to the gym to try to work off the mysterious sudden weight gain.
They don't have a clue to what's really going on inside them.
"Dude...?"
"What?"
"Uh...never mind."
He went home to have it.
No time for alien babies. Besides, he couldn't contact the alien that abducted him. The only way he was going to keep it was if she moved in to help raise it. They beamed itup to the mother-ship.
I think I will have Leroy always keep one robot until he has it tuned up to its highest quality and upgraded until it sells at a certain amount.
He finally got Ms Chen to move in.
He has a nice amount of cash in the bank. He has his eye on a really nice modern home up in the Starlight Shores hills, but nowhere near the money for it. They can afford this place, but it's not modern enough for the technology they will put in it.
I did place a copy of the Urbanite home. It is the only home in town with the modern look and the right price.
I added the Oasis Landing's mailbox. It is much better than the base-game mailbox for this house.
I think she will get use to all this modern and future tech.
She was in politics with a political lifetime want.
Nah, forget the charisma. It's time for a career change.
She quit her job and took Logic, Handiness, and Science courses at the rabbit holes.
She spends part time working on her science skills.
The other part off the day she spends listening to a Logic Tab-Cast while she tends the register.
I am having Leroy get to know the big spenders at his store.
Thank goodness for plumbots. While they are at work, the handibot upgraded this so she can adjust her traits. She will be better at selling stuff at the consignment store. There are other features to explore that should come in handy.
I plopped my Nighthawks diner in Starlight shores. I liked it in Bridgeport and I like it here too.
It was intended as a hangout for my Private Investigator sims.
Leroy and Ms. Chen will enjoy stopping by here after a hard day's work.
Once the sell off their current plumbot, they will take a Utopia challenge to change the future of Oasis Landing. I am avoiding having a plumbot while time traveling for now.
I should have the house and the robot emporium uploaded this weekend.
The more I play, the more details I add.
I am getting really wrapped up in these sims. They were only supposed to be temporaries while Twallan completes his updates of his mods.
Leroy installed a Holoprojector chip into Dweebo. He can finally talk to Samantha Loo in the future.
I keep finding new reasons to cancel trips to the future, but this helps solve one of the issues I need to go there to take care of.
Telling Samantha that they should just be friends.
I don't think being friends is on her mind now.
Leroy has other priorities.
Sorry, Samantha.
I sent them all off to the robot shop.
Samantha took off by jetpack and they never saw her again.
This is in their basement. I put the digital picture frame there to display interesting plumbots I see in the store and to also document plumbots Leroy and Arielle make.
Leroy has discovered all the nanites and now a few appear on their home lot.
Evil gnome?
Is this new?
I do believe I will place a dark background and no lights for the holotelevsion.
It looks better in the dark.
I am really pushing Arielle up the nerd ranks. She needs a Genius trait to help her get up to speed.
A quick and simple wedding.
I am creating a plumbot creation schedule to stop long nights like this.
The next day, another happy customer.
It a good thing this guy showed up.
This is a past love interest that needs to be taken care of.
I guess she prefers Leroy's big brains over this guy's big muscles.
[Achoo!]
She's lucky this isn't The Sims 2.
Leroy greets another big spender.
Oh, wait, he is being a bit stalker-ish, but at least he won't come around and kick over their trashcan.
Leroy could use a little more muscle.
He would rather up the protein than hit the gym.
There is always time for reverse engineering nanites.
I need to spurge and get these two a hover car.
They always go home separately with the transportation they have.
Arielle has a head-start.
But it is no contest with him on that hover-cycle.
He's probably climbing into bed already.
I love this window.
I have better send her to the future, so she can learn how to use these new devices faster.
I was all "8 notifications, something happened?" Ands its all you
I was wondering why these images werent on here, I was on Starlight Shores a week ago and wondering what premade sim Leroy had hooked up with. Now I know its something Chen.
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I was all "8 notifications, something happened?" Ands its all you
I was wondering why these images werent on here, I was on Starlight Shores a week ago and wondering what premade sim Leroy had hooked up with. Now I know its something Chen.
Oops, I didn't consider that it would spam others with notices.
It hit me too that I didn't have Leroy here, and also Meaghan.
just found this thread it's cool to read as I didn't buy the EP!
:-) This isn't the story thread I wanted to create though.
I couldn't help myself with these temporary sims until my mods were updated. I think It's safer to go with Twallan's latest update now. I did learn enough to figure out what I want to do with my other sims.
More pics.
Leroy received a visit from the man himself, Emit Relevart.
Leroy reach level 10 of his plumbot building skill. He also reached his lifetime wish of creating a sentient plumbot.
There should be a statue waiting for him in Oasis Landing.
That is if they ever get to go. I keep finding new reasons delay another trip.
I am keeping my eye on that gnome. He looks like he's... up to something.
They love this bed. I should do more experimenting with dreams. They have earned some new ones.
Leroy found two of these on his last trip to the future.
It is hard to see The Sims 4 concept art in this light. It should look better at night.
Yup.
I like the new trees and shrubs. They look so dense. I hope TS4 trees look more like these.
Leroy and Ariella are starting to gel as a team.
She has the burden of learning th science skill as well as catching up with bot making.
Farewell, Cookbot.
They took the plunge on a new car.
They still have a nice nest egg, but it feels more challenging not to be sitting on so much cash.
The Nannybot is staying with them temporarily.
She was created with a quality level of 5. I have a rule of keeping a bot until the quality level is at least 7 or above.
Leroy has an occasional wish to put on his old bot costume. Well, new one, the first one did not have these hearts.
This plumbot pose has me thinking of the robot in Metropolis.
This is the Friendbot. I save each design in the bin. I will probably use a specific design for each type of personality combination.
Nannybot and Friendbot for sale.
Still loving the Quantum Omni Tool.
Leroy's plumbot emporium is complete.
They don't eat here every night, only when they get off before 9:00.
Someone is actually using the dance studio. I might get rid of the dance floor and leave the ballet bars. Classical music is playing from the speakers and this is killing the theme I have going. I can put the training dance floor in the gym.
Ariella may take up dance once they skill up a plumbot to give her some time off.
Dweebo is awesome at taking care of the crystal plant garden.
I love the nanites too.
Enough with the Quantum Power suit.
So girly now.
Comicbot.
With a fear of humans, and this place has too many humans in it.
Comicbot is certainly up for sale.
His performance is good, at first.
And then turns sour.
yeah.
A major goal has been reached!
Ariella is finally at Science level 9 and can now clone nanites. Her role is to create free rare and uncommon nanites and reverse engineer them to make processors.
She also earned this University device to play with.
Alright, now these two are a force to be reckoned with.
They have their component parts organized and inventoried. They have a 2 week plumbot build schedule. There is no guessing at what they will make and what they will need.
Ariella just needs to learn how to reverse engineer nanites.
Which she has just done.
Awesome. They have the processors they need. The nanites are now nicely organized in their chests, and don't need to be in Leroy's and Ariella's personal inventories.
It's time to celebrate!
That's one way to celebrate.
It's Sunday afternoon, but they deserve a nap.
They still need to get through the second week of their production trial run before returning to Oasis Landing.
:P I will probably be ready to start my other sims by then.
btw, have you ever considered spoiler tags to dodge the "too many images on a page" thing? Its a new technique ive learned to stop the page juddering and jumping all over when loading up a page.
Rebuilding Sims 2 inside Sims 3 one lot and sim at a time.
btw, have you ever considered spoiler tags to dodge the "too many images on a page" thing? Its a new technique ive learned to stop the page juddering and jumping all over when loading up a page.
So...hide the images and let people reveal them when they want to see them?
Yep. I dont know how well it works on this forum software, but its very close to the Xenforo software the one my one is hosted on. I'll send you an example link to it once I finish the final update tonight.
I caught on to it while thinking of a way to update a thread without waiting for the 300+ images I posted on that page to load up. Seems to work well for the couple of people that have given me feedback.
Rebuilding Sims 2 inside Sims 3 one lot and sim at a time.
Occasionally a customer will come back here and tinker with the equipment. This one screwed it up.
Ariella is too nice to have a mean interaction with the guy without and introduction. It's just as well. This is one of the big spenders in the store.
She is tutoring him in handiness instead.
I called in Dweebo to help out.
Ariella has no time to tutor this guy and fix the machine.
Done!
Thanks, Dweebo!
Mr. Poke-about now has an additional handiness skill point.
Leroy has created a new bot--Musicbot.
They are done for the day. They aren't on their new build schedule yet.
Muscibot's quality level is only level five, so they will hold on to it a bit before selling it.
The first thing Leroy want to do back at home is mess around with the group science project. His science skill is low.
He calls in Ariella for assistance.
She has mastered the science skill now.
PlumbEvil.
Such an evil plumbot.
PRAbot (Personal Robotic Assistant-bot)
I think I will have Leroy give every bot a reflex test just for kicks.
He didn't even toss at you.
That's Da VinciBot.
Leroy and Ariella should be able to retire in a mansion and let their children take care of the business while they spend quality time with the grand kids. Maybe they will run a Nectary at home. They have the plumbot labor.
I wasn't going to bother with trying to further innovate my Humanoid Simbot Meaghan, but plumbots are just so much cooler. I felt Meaghan was missing out. This is a chronicle of my little ordeal in trying to get Simbot Meaghan to Plumbot coolness.
This is Meaghan 1.0.
She's a simbot. Awkward walk, whirring gears, twisting hands and ankles, and that annoying: "A Simbot!" reaction from other sims, oh how I wish she were more like a plumbot. :-)
A thought crossed my mind while I was playing my sims Leroy and Ariella. I brought over Meaghan to their home since they had the skills to help her out. I also created a random donor plumbot to try out my theory.
We have the issue of plumbots having their on creation screen. So my old technique of a human skin won't work. I used the Master Controller mod to transfer Meaghan's genetics over to the donor bot. I was able to edit the donor bot in CAS, but what I got was simbot in the game. :shock:
I wasn't giving up.
Back into CAS we went to proceed as if we were making a human Simbot.
OK, but now I have a Simbot again. Two simbots. :P
Oh, hold on.
Where did you get that?
She can tune herself up!
[Ka tank tank!] Listen to the sound of her metal noggin!
Ok...that's uncanny. :P
Power down! Oh, I've wanted to do that to simbots from time to time. :-o
Leroy! Get down here and make me some trait chips!
Sentience, please, since she is supposed to be the next leap in robotics.
Thank you, my man.
He's tired.
Get in the stasis chamber to and also put on some clothes with eh Quantum Power suit.
He's tired, but he's also doing the simbot freakout. :P
Yeah, he could have used a shower before he went in there.
Cool! Now just boot up Meaghan and install her chips.
And here we have a problem. :roll:
He can't interact with Meaghan.
We are too close to fail now. :x
Wake up, Meghan. Perhaps you can adjust your own chips.
Um...no, she can't.
Her quality level is zero. Her trait slots are locked. No one in the house can adjust them for her.
"You are synthetic, yet you look human. Why?"
"Uhmm...., it's a human thing."
The humans aren't having it however.
Darn that simbot hidden trait. I don't know how to get rid of it. Even when I removed it with the mod, it's still there.
She does have some plumbot functions despite not having the trait chips.
That plus looking human and being able to charge and power down are good aspects. She's a simbot+.
Still, this is not what I wanted. Time to try something new. I need to get out of this household. These two are giving me headache.
I put a pure human in a game to see if I could transfer genetics and get a plumbot into human CAS.
What are you doing here, Meaghan?
That's a funny coincidence. I guess she really does want to be plumbot. :-o
This new robot was going to be called Mira.
So I had the new sim buy a plumbot, transferred the human look, edited some traits via mod, but she only got a few plumbot socials, no trait chip slots. FAIL!!!
So with nothing else to do, I had mira interact with Meaghan. Imagine my surprise when she could upgrade Meaghan's chip slots.
She conked Meaghan on the head so fast I didn't get a picture. Meaghan now had three available slots. I had Mira buy a mood adjuster chip, and I took control of Meaghan.
:-o It works!
Alright! Now to see if we can get the rest of her slots unlocked.
An alien visitor...
Once a Simbot, always a simbot.
I will have to get back that mod that stops this.
I do like that reaction in a way. It would make sense for humanoid robot, but it's too disruptive to normal game play.
"She's back!"
And she is asking for your assistance.
Changing households fixed the interaction problem.
"Ohh!"
"Ah!"
"Uhh!"
I am surprised that there are facial expressions for something not designed for the game. It must be some kind of procedural or contextual programing.
"Ribber faroar getz!"
Tuning up didn't do much for her quality level. Either it will take a lot or that meter is broken with the modification.
She did have the option to upgrade her chip slots.
[Thunk!]
Ow. That looked painful.
That did it. All her slots are unlocked.
Now, how about those chips?
She's thinking of a name for herself. Well "ServiceBot0" has to go.
Meaghan 2.0 will do for now.
I have to put her in sad mode for now.
Despite this success, she seems prone to issues that she did not have as a simbot. Using the Multi-Tab tablet will make her arms stick in place. I reset her to fix that and it changed her looks and her clothes.
I do believe she is more stable as a Simbot.
I have more testing to do and will probably just play her in limited games.
This also ends my time with Leroy and Arielle.
All this experimenting made my game a bit unstable. Also new stuff was just coming out all the time. It was easy to get distracted with new and shinier stuff. I did enjoy my time with them.
with advances in MC and so forth, its probably more doable now. I know a plumbot-human hybrid is possible, I have one in Lunar Lakes, so a plumbot-simbot hybrid should also work.
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I'll have to experiment with her again. I think others have tried it too.
I really did like Plumbot Meaghan. I have been pitching this idea to #EA for years. I wonder if they will ever allow us to create android Servo/Simbot/Plumbots. They would probably invent a new name like Simdroids or something.
I think they were inspire by my earlier photos. Those plumbots sure are shiny!
Simbot Ambitions Ambitions was coming and I was full of hopeful ideas for the new robots. I bugged EA with Ideas on the TS2 fourms and was hoping for an improvement over Servo. Like the following:
One of my hopes is that Servo will be more customizable and upgradeable, and considering that your sim is an inventor perhaps there is a chance of that.
There were some complaints about the TS2 servo. Some simmers just wanted a simple machine to do housework. They didn't want a robot with social needs and aspirations. Nor did they want them falling in love with human sims. I agree with that too.
What I proposed on the TS2 feedback site were three upgradeable levels of Servo. Not gonna happen, I think, but it's fun to think about. Maybe we will get it in The Sims 4.
Base Servo 1. A simple Servo that just takes care of work around the house. No socializing, no love, no watching TV, no wandering around town. Judging from this picture, I don't think that's the case. This servo seems to like to see things go boom.
Upgraded Servo 2. A sleeker, cooler servo that is a little more humanoid and interacts socially with your sims. It can even have nanny duties, unlike the utilitarian base Servo. You can program it for specific tasks. You may just want someone to clean up and garden, but never touch the kids.
Upgraded Servo 3.
The most sophisticated servo that is extremely human-like and someone would have to observe carefully to determine if it is actually a robot. It has no traits, but it you play it a certain way it can become self-aware, form a unique identity and receive traits. It will then want to live its own life and even fall in love and show more sim emotions.
I think it would be fun to have one fall in love with a sim and try to hide the fact that it is actually a robot. Be sure that their love isn't around when they do maintenance or recharge.
I have probably mentioned it before, but I built a new computer before The Sims 4 came out. I reinstalled TS3, but decided to start my Sims 3 folder over from scratch. All my old neighborhoods gone, and I downloaded all my Store content again instead of bringing it over from a backup.
After I had my fill of The Sims 4, I returned to TS3 and decided to give Riverview a play.
It really is a pretty place. I find it hard to believe that I never gave it a good play-though.
I saw a home with an interesting landscape, but the house itself wasn't all that great, so I began to renovate. The renovation is well underway, I wish I had taken a "Before" picture.
I wanted to use the build objects from the Amore Store Set. I had so much Store content that I had not used. This looked like a good project for it.
I am really impressed with the objects and what I could do with them. I haven't even tried the Amore Venue yet. I plan to put it in Monte Vista, but it can wait. I have plenty of time since I probably won't be playing The Sims 4.
After awhile, it occurred to me that it would be a good home for a playboy.
And then a game play scenario started to form in my mind. Cairo, you playboy, time to go on the prowl again.
Yes, a gambler, playboy, lover of fast cars, and fast women.
He's going to need an awesome garage.
Thanks to Fast Lane, that's possible.
His current car is really lacking.
The whole idea of this scenario is just free wheeling in my mind now. I am mainly concerned about building and testing the house. Cairo and his girlfriend(s) can help with that.
A Miata!
Still budget, but better than that Volkswagen Golf.
I really love the details to this place. It just feels more romantic than my other mansions.
I do intend to keep a bit of the landscaping as inspiration.
It should have all the luxuries--a pool, pool house with spa, a party area...I am really excited about the place.
While tossing a coin in the wishing well, Cairo received this. Not one of my favorite TS3 cars. I hate it really, but it is worth a fair amount of simoleons.
Enough to buy this.
Now this is a car truly worthy of this garage.
It's reminding me of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
...
[Yells]
OH MY GOD, I HAVE SO GOTTA MAKE A FERRIS SCENARIO!!!
Hi there, gorgeous.
Oh this scenario is so bad, objectifying women. They are not cars, Cairo.
Speaking of cars...
I love this fixer upper. I love building the one in TS2, but this one is even better. I actually like the car compared to the TS2 one.
So this scenario should be a rags to riches scenario as our gambler, Cairo, raises the money to buy this home and his collection of pricey Fresh Prince CC cars, along with a constant stream of lovelies until he finds The One.
But I like this one. Maybe I should forget it and just have him marry her and raise a family.
What was her name again?
Nah! Being a womanizing cad will be much more fun, besides, he loves cars even more.
Perhaps I should restore the car in the garage?
No, that floor looks too nice for this mess.
Just another reminder of why I love Create-a-Style. This lion's head was made of wood. Now it's a perfect blend for this wall.
The house is coming together nicely. I should throw a party. Parties are going to be a major part of the this playboy's social life. I need to test it out.
Haha! Can't wait to see some sleek Fresh Prince cars in that garage... BTW, is the floor CC? And the pictures from afar of the mansion really has a British countryside feeling to it. I played Riverview in the beginning of TS3 (I've never liked Sunset Valley), but I think the City Center is too cramped for good camera angles. I'm curious to see what Cairo will be up to!
Haha! Can't wait to see some sleek Fresh Prince cars in that garage... BTW, is the floor CC? And the pictures from afar of the mansion really has a British countryside feeling to it. I played Riverview in the beginning of TS3 (I've never liked Sunset Valley), but I think the City Center is too cramped for good camera angles. I'm curious to see what Cairo will be up to!
Yes, they are a kind of rug object that you put down. They are CASt-able so you can make them any color and texture you want. http://modthesims.info/d/431661
I only use the 1x1 tiles because the larger ones gives a blurry effect.
I remember someone else saying Riverview has a British countryside look to it.
I gave up on it once because I wanted to make that center island into a Mini Manhattan, but the lots were too small and I could not squeeze much in there. Coming back to it with new eyes made me see that It's really a nice place.
The maid? All dressed up? Perhaps she has the Proper trait. Or maybe she want's in into the mansion.
Number one girl drives number one car.
There are four in the household. Each one should be really unique. Perhaps have different abilities. The one on the left is an Alchemist, the one on the right is a genie created from the genie potion.
She's the one, Cairo.
This will be a long term scenario with many sims coming and going in this house until the playboy settles on the perfect life companion.
He will take youth elixirs to stay young. Of course this means that others will age up, be given a farewell party, and be shown the door.
Goodbye. Oh, this is so mean.
Oh, the girls are fighting.
That stupid Berate intelligence social is a killer on friendships.
But it does add drama. Drama is welcome in this household.
It's too cold for a pool party, but I tried one just to see what it would be like in this house.
I failed to plan their clothing, however.
I wonder who brought the chocolate gnomes. The playboy should have a collection of interesting friends. I haven't given any thought to them. Gosh this all feels so haphazard trying to play this, build the content, and figure out the rules for this scenario. I will need to start fresh.
A guest is helping out with the car--fine with me.
What are you doing answering the phone? Apparently one of the townies is about to kick the bucket.
Winter is coming. It would be nice to have figure skating back here. I am having a little trouble with the pond shape and routing for ice skating.
There you go, it's finished.
The playboy should start his rise to fame and fortune not only by gambling, but also restoring classic cars. He can make good money selling those.
Hey, we have a visitor.
Hello, not so woodland creature.
I have seen deer hopping around from time to time, but never though my sims's property.
I have seen some gobble up garden produce on other lots.
That could be a problem. I am thinking of having my playboy also be a maker of fine nectars.
I'll just have to make sure the crops are protected.
I am adding some final details to Amore Mansion. Those will certainly jack up the price, but I like them.
Everything an alchemist needs is in the attic space. I can probably squeeze in another bedroom too.
The genie is squeezing into number one girl's territory. She is constantly calling Cairo to the car to make out.
I am in love with number one car.
So this is basically what the finished mansion will look like. It just needs some minor tweaks.
Ooh, more drama.
I wish I could remember what it was about.
Ah winter.
Making nectar will require some planning. The can spend spring and summer growing crops and fall and winter making the nectar.
Kind of small though. He should own a farm too.
Maybe they will use the pool in the winter. They have the spa right there to relax in too. I removed the pond and put in the ice skating rink instead..
Gosh there should be a winter holiday party too.
This is now the death phone. Nothing but townie death notices come on this phone.
You are so the sickening playboy. (jealous)
Ok, I have the setting, but I want to start this over again and give it a serious play through in a Beta Phase. Building and playing takes the fun out of the scenario. I think I will try a new location to make it fresh. But where...
I am on page 19 fixing formatting and broken images and slideshows.
It's work getting this thread back in shape. I still have to fix all my story links. I need a break from forum burnout.
Roaring Heights.
It's so pretty at night. This is the new location for my playboy challenge, but after some consideration, I think I will call it my Bachelor challenge.
So I am rebooting the challenge. Starting over to get a better feel for how this will work. I don't have any creative stuff distracting me from game play. Amore Mansion has been relocated here. I really love this place. I want to play it.
It's an interesting fit. Stodgy old money set against an emerging modern world of art deco, I like the contrast.
Cairo won't see it for a while yet. He's busy trying to raise the money to buy the place.
He's in a tiny starter home off the beach. It's a nice location.
He's working that car to earn 30,000 simoleons by selling it.
I have a community greenhouse with nectar making machines in the basement. He spends part of this time there working on his nectar making skills.
He also spends time here gambling.
This is Roaring Heights city hall and its constant reminder of the Sims 4, but I am too lazy to remove it.
I sent him to one of my cheaty abandoned mine lots and he happened to find some rare Tiberium. I really should outlaw Tiberium in my game, but I am addicted to it. He can relax a bit since the stuff is making it easier to get out of that tiny stater home. He should find a girlfriend now that he has cash to splurge. He can take her to nice places.
Like France.
I like the idea of him being a gambling, world adventuring, girl chasing, nectar loving, car enthusiast.
He needs to buy things he needs for nectar making anyway and he can probably find some treasure here as well.
Back home already? Sorry about the skipping around. I was having so much fun playing, I stopped taking pictures. Yeah, he had fun in France with his girlfriend, buying things he needed and making more cash by treasure hunting. He then bought this house.
Now broke, he is back to restoring vintage cars.
He is also starting his car collection.
He has 4 nectar recipes that he will specialize in. His produce is all planned out for what he needs.
Hmmm....no time for romancing the maid.
Gardening takes up a lot of his time.
But he does have help from the girlfriend. She will specialize in alchemy, so she will need gardening skills too.
Her name is Angie Lee, a daughter of my Amy Lee sim.
With all this tending of the plants, I quickly realized a mistake. I should have moved him onto a farm instead. He can start his nectar making there and buy the mansion as a second home.
This place is nice and all, and has room for the other women, but he should get out of here as quickly as possible.
And thinking long term, it would be cool if he invested in and bought out the greenhouse. It would look nice in his investment portfolio. I will turn it into a legitimate nectary.
As for the girls, I really like them. Angie specializes in the alchemy and science.
Shirley Templeton specializes in business and is interested in gardening and nectar making from a purely business point of view.
Frances is his brooding tinkerer. She invents gadgets and repairs and upgrades everything in the house.
"You will give me more candy, or else... I will do something very bad. And you won't like it."
The seasons came and went.
They spent this time making nectar, restoring cars, gambling at the casino, and collecting investment profit money from local businesses.
They soon had enough money to sell this place and buy the farm.
And this is where I changed this challenge from The Playboy Challenge to the Bachelor Challenge.
It seems like a setting for a Bachelor Reality show, only on a farm...
...with an element of comedy.
Somebody put her out.
I love this tractor. It makes farming possible. There is no way a sim could manage all the plants I am planting by hand.
These trees that came with Grandpa's Grove are all wrong for his nectar recipies however. He needs cherry, plum, pomegranate, and pomelo trees.
Angie is a farming fanatic.
She hops on the tractor every time the plants need tending.
Shirley needs to keep on top of her game. She's working those charisma skills. She's also working on all the perks that would make her a savvy seller of nectar and surplus produce.
Chickens and cows complete the farm setting.
I can't believe the seedlings are still dormant. It's late spring.
I ripped out all the trees and started planting the crops Cairo needs.
I like the cows more for the sounds they make than actually milking them. The sounds really make the farm.
Picky eater.
A new girl, I was considering sending them all off to uni, but I think it might be better if this challenge starts off at Uni where Cairo meets 5 girls from different majors. They spend time with him on the farm after Uni. Each one has something special and unique to contribute to his future and he has to pick the most compatible one.
I just have to figure out what all those factors for making the choice are. I think Reagan Capp wins on cuteness.
haha! you chose the starter home I did for my Ridiculon RH game.
The international playboy thing could actually work, using the Traveller mod. Infact, I'd recommend one day doing just that, taking 7 premade girls from 7 different worlds..that would certainly be an interesting story.
Rebuilding Sims 2 inside Sims 3 one lot and sim at a time.
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Leroy had a break-in with no burglar alarm to automatically notify the police. Fortunately, the burglar was greedy and tried to ripoff several items.
This sent Leroy's Unstable trait into a tizzy.
Breathe.
He schmoozed with the officer a bit. He's still looking for a girlfriend.
His business is moving along.
I like that some of the customers are actually using the items they bought.
His business is now at level 3, the highest for this lot, and adding anything more to it will be just for looks, or something he really needs to have.
The property brings in 10,000 a week by itself. During a light week, Leroy could probably bring in another 10,000 with the Savvy Seller sales and consignment sales. He hasn't been making a lot of plumbots yet.
Leroy will go into serious production when he learns all the trait chips and has a capable partner.
Hello, capable partner!
Leroy met her through an opportunity. She wanted 3 trait chips.
Flirting with the delivery boy ensued after he dropped off the chips.
He invited her over a couple of days later.
Nice outerwear.
He asked her to stay the night and she promptly went to bed for she was tired. He woke her up to try to invite her to move in, but aliens had other plans for that night.
Yep, abducted for the third time, and the third time gave him an alien baby.
New rule: all alien impregnated males must go to the gym to try to work off the mysterious sudden weight gain.
They don't have a clue to what's really going on inside them.
"Dude...?"
"What?"
"Uh...never mind."
He went home to have it.
No time for alien babies. Besides, he couldn't contact the alien that abducted him. The only way he was going to keep it was if she moved in to help raise it. They beamed itup to the mother-ship.
I think I will have Leroy always keep one robot until he has it tuned up to its highest quality and upgraded until it sells at a certain amount.
He finally got Ms Chen to move in.
He has a nice amount of cash in the bank. He has his eye on a really nice modern home up in the Starlight Shores hills, but nowhere near the money for it. They can afford this place, but it's not modern enough for the technology they will put in it.
I did place a copy of the Urbanite home. It is the only home in town with the modern look and the right price.
I added the Oasis Landing's mailbox. It is much better than the base-game mailbox for this house.
I think she will get use to all this modern and future tech.
She was in politics with a political lifetime want.
Nah, forget the charisma. It's time for a career change.
She quit her job and took Logic, Handiness, and Science courses at the rabbit holes.
She spends part time working on her science skills.
The other part off the day she spends listening to a Logic Tab-Cast while she tends the register.
I am having Leroy get to know the big spenders at his store.
Thank goodness for plumbots. While they are at work, the handibot upgraded this so she can adjust her traits. She will be better at selling stuff at the consignment store. There are other features to explore that should come in handy.
I plopped my Nighthawks diner in Starlight shores. I liked it in Bridgeport and I like it here too.
It was intended as a hangout for my Private Investigator sims.
Leroy and Ms. Chen will enjoy stopping by here after a hard day's work.
Once the sell off their current plumbot, they will take a Utopia challenge to change the future of Oasis Landing. I am avoiding having a plumbot while time traveling for now.
I am still enjoying this EP very much.
This silly forum displays your message on the page you are on despite that it's actually on a differ page.
I should have the house and the robot emporium uploaded this weekend.
The more I play, the more details I add.
I am getting really wrapped up in these sims. They were only supposed to be temporaries while Twallan completes his updates of his mods.
Leroy installed a Holoprojector chip into Dweebo. He can finally talk to Samantha Loo in the future.
I keep finding new reasons to cancel trips to the future, but this helps solve one of the issues I need to go there to take care of.
Telling Samantha that they should just be friends.
I don't think being friends is on her mind now.
Leroy has other priorities.
Sorry, Samantha.
I sent them all off to the robot shop.
Samantha took off by jetpack and they never saw her again.
This is in their basement. I put the digital picture frame there to display interesting plumbots I see in the store and to also document plumbots Leroy and Arielle make.
Leroy has discovered all the nanites and now a few appear on their home lot.
Evil gnome?
Is this new?
I do believe I will place a dark background and no lights for the holotelevsion.
It looks better in the dark.
I am really pushing Arielle up the nerd ranks. She needs a Genius trait to help her get up to speed.
A quick and simple wedding.
I am creating a plumbot creation schedule to stop long nights like this.
The next day, another happy customer.
It a good thing this guy showed up.
This is a past love interest that needs to be taken care of.
I guess she prefers Leroy's big brains over this guy's big muscles.
[Achoo!]
She's lucky this isn't The Sims 2.
Leroy greets another big spender.
Oh, wait, he is being a bit stalker-ish, but at least he won't come around and kick over their trashcan.
Leroy could use a little more muscle.
He would rather up the protein than hit the gym.
There is always time for reverse engineering nanites.
I need to spurge and get these two a hover car.
They always go home separately with the transportation they have.
Arielle has a head-start.
But it is no contest with him on that hover-cycle.
He's probably climbing into bed already.
I love this window.
I have better send her to the future, so she can learn how to use these new devices faster.
I was wondering why these images werent on here, I was on Starlight Shores a week ago and wondering what premade sim Leroy had hooked up with. Now I know its something Chen.
See my Sims 3 studio for latest progress.
It hit me too that I didn't have Leroy here, and also Meaghan.
:-) This isn't the story thread I wanted to create though.
I couldn't help myself with these temporary sims until my mods were updated. I think It's safer to go with Twallan's latest update now. I did learn enough to figure out what I want to do with my other sims.
More pics.
Leroy received a visit from the man himself, Emit Relevart.
Leroy reach level 10 of his plumbot building skill. He also reached his lifetime wish of creating a sentient plumbot.
There should be a statue waiting for him in Oasis Landing.
That is if they ever get to go. I keep finding new reasons delay another trip.
I am keeping my eye on that gnome. He looks like he's... up to something.
They love this bed. I should do more experimenting with dreams. They have earned some new ones.
Leroy found two of these on his last trip to the future.
It is hard to see The Sims 4 concept art in this light. It should look better at night.
Yup.
I like the new trees and shrubs. They look so dense. I hope TS4 trees look more like these.
Leroy and Ariella are starting to gel as a team.
She has the burden of learning th science skill as well as catching up with bot making.
Farewell, Cookbot.
They took the plunge on a new car.
They still have a nice nest egg, but it feels more challenging not to be sitting on so much cash.
The Nannybot is staying with them temporarily.
She was created with a quality level of 5. I have a rule of keeping a bot until the quality level is at least 7 or above.
Leroy has an occasional wish to put on his old bot costume. Well, new one, the first one did not have these hearts.
This plumbot pose has me thinking of the robot in Metropolis.
This is the Friendbot. I save each design in the bin. I will probably use a specific design for each type of personality combination.
Nannybot and Friendbot for sale.
Still loving the Quantum Omni Tool.
Leroy's plumbot emporium is complete.
They don't eat here every night, only when they get off before 9:00.
Someone is actually using the dance studio. I might get rid of the dance floor and leave the ballet bars. Classical music is playing from the speakers and this is killing the theme I have going. I can put the training dance floor in the gym.
Ariella may take up dance once they skill up a plumbot to give her some time off.
Dweebo is awesome at taking care of the crystal plant garden.
I love the nanites too.
Enough with the Quantum Power suit.
So girly now.
Comicbot.
With a fear of humans, and this place has too many humans in it.
Comicbot is certainly up for sale.
His performance is good, at first.
And then turns sour.
yeah.
A major goal has been reached!
Ariella is finally at Science level 9 and can now clone nanites. Her role is to create free rare and uncommon nanites and reverse engineer them to make processors.
She also earned this University device to play with.
Alright, now these two are a force to be reckoned with.
They have their component parts organized and inventoried. They have a 2 week plumbot build schedule. There is no guessing at what they will make and what they will need.
Ariella just needs to learn how to reverse engineer nanites.
Which she has just done.
Awesome. They have the processors they need. The nanites are now nicely organized in their chests, and don't need to be in Leroy's and Ariella's personal inventories.
It's time to celebrate!
That's one way to celebrate.
It's Sunday afternoon, but they deserve a nap.
They still need to get through the second week of their production trial run before returning to Oasis Landing.
:P I will probably be ready to start my other sims by then.
See my Sims 3 studio for latest progress.
So...hide the images and let people reveal them when they want to see them?
I caught on to it while thinking of a way to update a thread without waiting for the 300+ images I posted on that page to load up. Seems to work well for the couple of people that have given me feedback.
See my Sims 3 studio for latest progress.
I have uploaded their home and business.
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=7768946
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=7768944
No CC.
My Handibot is Dweebo on cybernetic steroids.
A deluxe Cookbot.
What did you do to it?
Occasionally a customer will come back here and tinker with the equipment. This one screwed it up.
Ariella is too nice to have a mean interaction with the guy without and introduction. It's just as well. This is one of the big spenders in the store.
She is tutoring him in handiness instead.
I called in Dweebo to help out.
Ariella has no time to tutor this guy and fix the machine.
Done!
Thanks, Dweebo!
Mr. Poke-about now has an additional handiness skill point.
Leroy has created a new bot--Musicbot.
They are done for the day. They aren't on their new build schedule yet.
Muscibot's quality level is only level five, so they will hold on to it a bit before selling it.
The first thing Leroy want to do back at home is mess around with the group science project. His science skill is low.
He calls in Ariella for assistance.
She has mastered the science skill now.
PlumbEvil.
Such an evil plumbot.
PRAbot (Personal Robotic Assistant-bot)
I think I will have Leroy give every bot a reflex test just for kicks.
He didn't even toss at you.
That's Da VinciBot.
Leroy and Ariella should be able to retire in a mansion and let their children take care of the business while they spend quality time with the grand kids. Maybe they will run a Nectary at home. They have the plumbot labor.
I wasn't going to bother with trying to further innovate my Humanoid Simbot Meaghan, but plumbots are just so much cooler. I felt Meaghan was missing out. This is a chronicle of my little ordeal in trying to get Simbot Meaghan to Plumbot coolness.
This is Meaghan 1.0.
She's a simbot. Awkward walk, whirring gears, twisting hands and ankles, and that annoying: "A Simbot!" reaction from other sims, oh how I wish she were more like a plumbot. :-)
A thought crossed my mind while I was playing my sims Leroy and Ariella. I brought over Meaghan to their home since they had the skills to help her out. I also created a random donor plumbot to try out my theory.
We have the issue of plumbots having their on creation screen. So my old technique of a human skin won't work. I used the Master Controller mod to transfer Meaghan's genetics over to the donor bot. I was able to edit the donor bot in CAS, but what I got was simbot in the game. :shock:
I wasn't giving up.
Back into CAS we went to proceed as if we were making a human Simbot.
OK, but now I have a Simbot again. Two simbots. :P
Oh, hold on.
Where did you get that?
She can tune herself up!
[Ka tank tank!] Listen to the sound of her metal noggin!
Ok...that's uncanny. :P
Power down! Oh, I've wanted to do that to simbots from time to time. :-o
Leroy! Get down here and make me some trait chips!
Sentience, please, since she is supposed to be the next leap in robotics.
Thank you, my man.
He's tired.
Get in the stasis chamber to and also put on some clothes with eh Quantum Power suit.
He's tired, but he's also doing the simbot freakout. :P
Yeah, he could have used a shower before he went in there.
Cool! Now just boot up Meaghan and install her chips.
And here we have a problem. :roll:
He can't interact with Meaghan.
We are too close to fail now. :x
Wake up, Meghan. Perhaps you can adjust your own chips.
Um...no, she can't.
Her quality level is zero. Her trait slots are locked. No one in the house can adjust them for her.
"You are synthetic, yet you look human. Why?"
"Uhmm...., it's a human thing."
The humans aren't having it however.
Darn that simbot hidden trait. I don't know how to get rid of it. Even when I removed it with the mod, it's still there.
She does have some plumbot functions despite not having the trait chips.
That plus looking human and being able to charge and power down are good aspects. She's a simbot+.
Still, this is not what I wanted. Time to try something new. I need to get out of this household. These two are giving me headache.
I put a pure human in a game to see if I could transfer genetics and get a plumbot into human CAS.
What are you doing here, Meaghan?
That's a funny coincidence. I guess she really does want to be plumbot. :-o
This new robot was going to be called Mira.
So I had the new sim buy a plumbot, transferred the human look, edited some traits via mod, but she only got a few plumbot socials, no trait chip slots. FAIL!!!
So with nothing else to do, I had mira interact with Meaghan. Imagine my surprise when she could upgrade Meaghan's chip slots.
She conked Meaghan on the head so fast I didn't get a picture. Meaghan now had three available slots. I had Mira buy a mood adjuster chip, and I took control of Meaghan.
:-o It works!
Alright! Now to see if we can get the rest of her slots unlocked.
An alien visitor...
Once a Simbot, always a simbot.
I will have to get back that mod that stops this.
I do like that reaction in a way. It would make sense for humanoid robot, but it's too disruptive to normal game play.
"She's back!"
And she is asking for your assistance.
Changing households fixed the interaction problem.
"Ohh!"
"Ah!"
"Uhh!"
I am surprised that there are facial expressions for something not designed for the game. It must be some kind of procedural or contextual programing.
"Ribber faroar getz!"
Tuning up didn't do much for her quality level. Either it will take a lot or that meter is broken with the modification.
She did have the option to upgrade her chip slots.
[Thunk!]
Ow. That looked painful.
That did it. All her slots are unlocked.
Now, how about those chips?
She's thinking of a name for herself. Well "ServiceBot0" has to go.
Meaghan 2.0 will do for now.
I have to put her in sad mode for now.
Despite this success, she seems prone to issues that she did not have as a simbot. Using the Multi-Tab tablet will make her arms stick in place. I reset her to fix that and it changed her looks and her clothes.
I do believe she is more stable as a Simbot.
I have more testing to do and will probably just play her in limited games.
This also ends my time with Leroy and Arielle.
All this experimenting made my game a bit unstable. Also new stuff was just coming out all the time. It was easy to get distracted with new and shinier stuff. I did enjoy my time with them.
See my Sims 3 studio for latest progress.
I really did like Plumbot Meaghan. I have been pitching this idea to #EA for years. I wonder if they will ever allow us to create android Servo/Simbot/Plumbots. They would probably invent a new name like Simdroids or something.
I think they were inspire by my earlier photos. Those plumbots sure are shiny!
I have probably mentioned it before, but I built a new computer before The Sims 4 came out. I reinstalled TS3, but decided to start my Sims 3 folder over from scratch. All my old neighborhoods gone, and I downloaded all my Store content again instead of bringing it over from a backup.
After I had my fill of The Sims 4, I returned to TS3 and decided to give Riverview a play.
It really is a pretty place. I find it hard to believe that I never gave it a good play-though.
I saw a home with an interesting landscape, but the house itself wasn't all that great, so I began to renovate. The renovation is well underway, I wish I had taken a "Before" picture.
I wanted to use the build objects from the Amore Store Set. I had so much Store content that I had not used. This looked like a good project for it.
I am really impressed with the objects and what I could do with them. I haven't even tried the Amore Venue yet. I plan to put it in Monte Vista, but it can wait. I have plenty of time since I probably won't be playing The Sims 4.
After awhile, it occurred to me that it would be a good home for a playboy.
And then a game play scenario started to form in my mind. Cairo, you playboy, time to go on the prowl again.
Yes, a gambler, playboy, lover of fast cars, and fast women.
He's going to need an awesome garage.
Thanks to Fast Lane, that's possible.
His current car is really lacking.
The whole idea of this scenario is just free wheeling in my mind now. I am mainly concerned about building and testing the house. Cairo and his girlfriend(s) can help with that.
A Miata!
Still budget, but better than that Volkswagen Golf.
I really love the details to this place. It just feels more romantic than my other mansions.
I do intend to keep a bit of the landscaping as inspiration.
It should have all the luxuries--a pool, pool house with spa, a party area...I am really excited about the place.
While tossing a coin in the wishing well, Cairo received this. Not one of my favorite TS3 cars. I hate it really, but it is worth a fair amount of simoleons.
Enough to buy this.
Now this is a car truly worthy of this garage.
It's reminding me of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
...
[Yells]
OH MY GOD, I HAVE SO GOTTA MAKE A FERRIS SCENARIO!!!
Hi there, gorgeous.
Oh this scenario is so bad, objectifying women. They are not cars, Cairo.
Speaking of cars...
I love this fixer upper. I love building the one in TS2, but this one is even better. I actually like the car compared to the TS2 one.
So this scenario should be a rags to riches scenario as our gambler, Cairo, raises the money to buy this home and his collection of pricey Fresh Prince CC cars, along with a constant stream of lovelies until he finds The One.
But I like this one. Maybe I should forget it and just have him marry her and raise a family.
What was her name again?
Nah! Being a womanizing cad will be much more fun, besides, he loves cars even more.
Perhaps I should restore the car in the garage?
No, that floor looks too nice for this mess.
Just another reminder of why I love Create-a-Style. This lion's head was made of wood. Now it's a perfect blend for this wall.
The house is coming together nicely. I should throw a party. Parties are going to be a major part of the this playboy's social life. I need to test it out.
Yes, they are a kind of rug object that you put down. They are CASt-able so you can make them any color and texture you want.
http://modthesims.info/d/431661
I only use the 1x1 tiles because the larger ones gives a blurry effect.
I remember someone else saying Riverview has a British countryside look to it.
I gave up on it once because I wanted to make that center island into a Mini Manhattan, but the lots were too small and I could not squeeze much in there. Coming back to it with new eyes made me see that It's really a nice place.
Who are you?
The maid? All dressed up? Perhaps she has the Proper trait. Or maybe she want's in into the mansion.
Number one girl drives number one car.
There are four in the household. Each one should be really unique. Perhaps have different abilities. The one on the left is an Alchemist, the one on the right is a genie created from the genie potion.
She's the one, Cairo.
This will be a long term scenario with many sims coming and going in this house until the playboy settles on the perfect life companion.
He will take youth elixirs to stay young. Of course this means that others will age up, be given a farewell party, and be shown the door.
Goodbye. Oh, this is so mean.
Oh, the girls are fighting.
That stupid Berate intelligence social is a killer on friendships.
But it does add drama. Drama is welcome in this household.
It's too cold for a pool party, but I tried one just to see what it would be like in this house.
I failed to plan their clothing, however.
I wonder who brought the chocolate gnomes. The playboy should have a collection of interesting friends. I haven't given any thought to them. Gosh this all feels so haphazard trying to play this, build the content, and figure out the rules for this scenario. I will need to start fresh.
A guest is helping out with the car--fine with me.
What are you doing answering the phone? Apparently one of the townies is about to kick the bucket.
Winter is coming. It would be nice to have figure skating back here. I am having a little trouble with the pond shape and routing for ice skating.
There you go, it's finished.
The playboy should start his rise to fame and fortune not only by gambling, but also restoring classic cars. He can make good money selling those.
Hey, we have a visitor.
Hello, not so woodland creature.
I have seen deer hopping around from time to time, but never though my sims's property.
I have seen some gobble up garden produce on other lots.
That could be a problem. I am thinking of having my playboy also be a maker of fine nectars.
I'll just have to make sure the crops are protected.
I am adding some final details to Amore Mansion. Those will certainly jack up the price, but I like them.
Everything an alchemist needs is in the attic space. I can probably squeeze in another bedroom too.
The genie is squeezing into number one girl's territory. She is constantly calling Cairo to the car to make out.
I am in love with number one car.
So this is basically what the finished mansion will look like. It just needs some minor tweaks.
Ooh, more drama.
I wish I could remember what it was about.
Ah winter.
Making nectar will require some planning. The can spend spring and summer growing crops and fall and winter making the nectar.
Kind of small though. He should own a farm too.
Maybe they will use the pool in the winter. They have the spa right there to relax in too. I removed the pond and put in the ice skating rink instead..
Gosh there should be a winter holiday party too.
This is now the death phone. Nothing but townie death notices come on this phone.
You are so the sickening playboy. (jealous)
Ok, I have the setting, but I want to start this over again and give it a serious play through in a Beta Phase. Building and playing takes the fun out of the scenario. I think I will try a new location to make it fresh. But where...
It's work getting this thread back in shape. I still have to fix all my story links.
See my Sims 3 studio for latest progress.
Roaring Heights.
It's so pretty at night. This is the new location for my playboy challenge, but after some consideration, I think I will call it my Bachelor challenge.
I am getting a Gatsby vibe from EA's last TS3 world.
So I am rebooting the challenge. Starting over to get a better feel for how this will work. I don't have any creative stuff distracting me from game play. Amore Mansion has been relocated here. I really love this place. I want to play it.
It's an interesting fit. Stodgy old money set against an emerging modern world of art deco, I like the contrast.
Cairo won't see it for a while yet. He's busy trying to raise the money to buy the place.
He's in a tiny starter home off the beach. It's a nice location.
He's working that car to earn 30,000 simoleons by selling it.
I have a community greenhouse with nectar making machines in the basement. He spends part of this time there working on his nectar making skills.
He also spends time here gambling.
This is Roaring Heights city hall and its constant reminder of the Sims 4, but I am too lazy to remove it.
I sent him to one of my cheaty abandoned mine lots and he happened to find some rare Tiberium. I really should outlaw Tiberium in my game, but I am addicted to it. He can relax a bit since the stuff is making it easier to get out of that tiny stater home. He should find a girlfriend now that he has cash to splurge. He can take her to nice places.
Like France.
I like the idea of him being a gambling, world adventuring, girl chasing, nectar loving, car enthusiast.
He needs to buy things he needs for nectar making anyway and he can probably find some treasure here as well.
Back home already? Sorry about the skipping around. I was having so much fun playing, I stopped taking pictures. Yeah, he had fun in France with his girlfriend, buying things he needed and making more cash by treasure hunting. He then bought this house.
Now broke, he is back to restoring vintage cars.
He is also starting his car collection.
He has 4 nectar recipes that he will specialize in. His produce is all planned out for what he needs.
Hmmm....no time for romancing the maid.
Gardening takes up a lot of his time.
But he does have help from the girlfriend. She will specialize in alchemy, so she will need gardening skills too.
Her name is Angie Lee, a daughter of my Amy Lee sim.
With all this tending of the plants, I quickly realized a mistake. I should have moved him onto a farm instead. He can start his nectar making there and buy the mansion as a second home.
This place is nice and all, and has room for the other women, but he should get out of here as quickly as possible.
And thinking long term, it would be cool if he invested in and bought out the greenhouse. It would look nice in his investment portfolio. I will turn it into a legitimate nectary.
As for the girls, I really like them. Angie specializes in the alchemy and science.
Shirley Templeton specializes in business and is interested in gardening and nectar making from a purely business point of view.
Frances is his brooding tinkerer. She invents gadgets and repairs and upgrades everything in the house.
"You will give me more candy, or else... I will do something very bad. And you won't like it."
The seasons came and went.
They spent this time making nectar, restoring cars, gambling at the casino, and collecting investment profit money from local businesses.
They soon had enough money to sell this place and buy the farm.
And this is where I changed this challenge from The Playboy Challenge to the Bachelor Challenge.
It seems like a setting for a Bachelor Reality show, only on a farm...
...with an element of comedy.
Somebody put her out.
I love this tractor. It makes farming possible. There is no way a sim could manage all the plants I am planting by hand.
These trees that came with Grandpa's Grove are all wrong for his nectar recipies however. He needs cherry, plum, pomegranate, and pomelo trees.
Angie is a farming fanatic.
She hops on the tractor every time the plants need tending.
Shirley needs to keep on top of her game. She's working those charisma skills. She's also working on all the perks that would make her a savvy seller of nectar and surplus produce.
Chickens and cows complete the farm setting.
I can't believe the seedlings are still dormant. It's late spring.
I ripped out all the trees and started planting the crops Cairo needs.
I like the cows more for the sounds they make than actually milking them. The sounds really make the farm.
Picky eater.
A new girl, I was considering sending them all off to uni, but I think it might be better if this challenge starts off at Uni where Cairo meets 5 girls from different majors. They spend time with him on the farm after Uni. Each one has something special and unique to contribute to his future and he has to pick the most compatible one.
I just have to figure out what all those factors for making the choice are. I think Reagan Capp wins on cuteness.
"Milk, direct from the cow... Awesome!"
Finally! We have crops.
The international playboy thing could actually work, using the Traveller mod. Infact, I'd recommend one day doing just that, taking 7 premade girls from 7 different worlds..that would certainly be an interesting story.
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