Back from Batuu.
Sad face time. It may be a while before they return to Batuu. I believe their lack of Handiness skills may be holding them back.
They did bring back some souvenirs this time.
I will add all the Star Wars toys to my University store.
I don't want them spending credits on toys. They can save credits for things they need for missions.
It's going to be a struggle to find room.
They returned home just in time for Geekcon.
I wish Geekcons where held on Saturdays. They have to ditch school to go there.
Since Melonie is flying the Falcon, some Rocket Science skills may help her out.
Choices of Star Wars costumes for Cosplay is limited since I have not unlocked much.
Judith Ward?
Great. She can get her first autograph from a celebrity.
No?
Well, pardon me.
She doesn't mind pictures.
Olivia is going to be a stylist and own her own fashion boutique.
I think I will make it a goal to give Judith Ward a makeover.
That's it for Geekon.
The Journey to Batuu really helped. Olivia won a computer because of her programming skills.
One of the others won $500.
I am going to start work on a Star Wars themed cybercafe where my teens will hangout and show off their cosplay outfits.
Ck is your university store on the gallery its amazing?
Very cute Sim @CAPTAIN_NXR7. I noticed a lot of my old CC I made works again since the latest patch which is neat to see the rainbow recolor I did in the game again. I need to check to see if any of the CC shows up in Batuu too.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” –Helen Keller
I'm back! I missed this place RL was fun but very very busy, so nice when you do swing round and have 40+ new posts.
I've been building and it has been so much fun. Now it is starting to look like a proper home.
Here we have the living-room and the parent's bedroom. Notice the doors out to the balcony faces the morning-sun. And away from the other balcony, glass-doors so need a little bit of privacy.
1:st lvl of the basement. On the left is laundry and a big closet to play in. Lot's of toys and the only bathtub because how can you otherwise clean up the dog or the toddlers. On the right hand we have all the stuff a nice little criminal empire needs to keep on going. Tactical screen to keep track of things, some juice fizzing and robotics. Kiddos and teens have stuff to do, they hang around and learn the trade. There is another basement but that one is strictly off-limits for anyone who is not an adult. Too much fun stuff down there
I needed a lot with landscaping and houses on different levels. I like it when you get up a bit from the main road, then it is much easier to "not see it" and just pretend you are somewhere else.
@ryublue ....thanks for the info. I'm going to have to figure out how to get a fake id. The rabbithole missions are fun to me as well. I totally lol reading what you posted.
@elanorbreton ..... I could take some; but, I want do the Resistance Mission with one Sim and a BB unit once I can get one.
@sindocat .... I've got one thousand two hundred credits after completing my 1st Resistance Mission; but, I was not able to buy a BB unit because it said I needed to be at some level.
My Mara Jade successfully climbed the ranks of the First Order (and accidentally became friends with Kylo Ren which I never intended), and it became time for her to switch camps and go to the scoundrels instead. I hadn't realized that you can do both the scoundrel path AND one of the others at the same time though, so she kept being First Order while trucking along with the pirates. Huh. So, since she already had her bot by now and a bunch of kyber crystals and hilts, I thought I'd send her on the lightsaber mission, just to officially get her set with hers (a red-bladed Power and Control, since there isn't any magenta) aaaand... she kept being Jedi Mind Trick'ed by Rey and shunted out of the resistance camp. Oops.
Incidentally it wasn't Mara's first time to get forcibly removed from the resistance camp, she has a nemesis over there named Ora that keeps beating her up when they meet, and then "escorting" her out so she ends up back outside the cantina. Just you wait, Ora, I'll find out some way to get you yet...
For anyone who might be curious, in this version of the game my resistance camp only had one pregnant lady, in that same wadded coat, but she's since disappeared. Gave birth, maybe? The First Order stormtrooper ladies aren't nearly as chatty this time around, but... they all have white hair and tend to try to flirt with Mara. Yup. Don't know why. Or why Mara gets a flirty mood from piloting the TIE, but whatever, you go girl. XD
The white hair seems quite common on Batuu btw, all stormtroopers and a few officers over at the First Order, a couple of scoundrels, and maybe one so far (haven't managed to spend much time over there as you might have gathered) in the Resistance camp. I haven't encountered the name Nils anymore, but certain names seem extremely popular, as they come in threes or something like that. (I have a little screenshot I kept of two scoundrel women meeting outside Oga's that both had the exact same first and last name, the same hairstyle, the same outfit, and more or less the same features - just different colours :o )
My zabrak-dude went back to Batuu and this time he brought his girlfriend Anne with him. Could have saved up for a droid but I want to save exploring everything with droids for anther sim so he got to bring a friend instead. I like how many options there are just for friendly conversation like talking about star fighters, wookies or sabacc. Great stuff. So now we have the swindle-interaction unlocked! Finally, can't wait to use that on the poor little sims in my save. Like that it is so easy to just go back and forth between Batuu and regular life.
Anne got to take a dinner out on the town while Cannon the zabrak was working on his programming-skills.
My inspiration for my scoundrel zabrak is Mattis from Ronia the Robber's Daughter. A family man and a scoundrel. Every time he boasts about his family I can imagine him saying "jupp, that heist. Totally my family!".
It was fun trying to see the "family-loving"-trait in a new way. The cradle in CAS really made me see it as a "cute"-trait but really I can bend it into different ways. So in many ways I'm doing things differently. Often I let my sims start without a penny on a empty lot and take it from there. Cannon is the heir to a very successful family with "different areas of interest" for keeping simoleons coming in. His job is to try to keep the family progressing as before and taking care of siblings, parents and other sims that are included in it.
I like it, currently he is sort of stumbling, fumbling. But I think we can turn things around. I am very pleased that when I let him speed-date several of my sims to see which one he had a good connection with he ended up with my Anne Shirley. She's hot-headed and romantic. Think she will be able to keep him on an even keel. Not getting to puffed up with pride and still inspired enough to go through the difficult days.
Like that it is so easy to just go back and forth between Batuu and regular life.
I am forced to return because of my teens needing to go to school, but I like alternating between Batuu and normal life.
It also feel like less of a grind because I can build skills in a variety of ways back home.
Like that it is so easy to just go back and forth between Batuu and regular life.
I am forced to return because of my teens needing to go to school, but I like alternating between Batuu and normal life. It also feel like less of a grind because I can build skills in a variety of ways back home.
Yes, I liked going back and forth and working on skills at home too. I wasn't sure at first if going back and forth would work for me, but it did. I liked the contrast between normal and spaced out fantasy.
Has anyone cheated in a bicycle into Star Wars yet?
I haven't seen any mods for that.
So I tried it using bb.enablefreebuild but the stumbling block was that "Your Sim do not own this object" so he could not put it into his invatory
Just a thought. Is it possible to place a university kiosk on batuu? If your sim buys something from the kiosk it is considered theirs. This could be a work around for a bike and a laptop. Worth a try at least
Kinda wondering if anyone else is running into the same problem as I am, but when I send sims to Batuu, have them buy lightsabers, they all seem to be coming up with the most recent color put in even if I had other colors in there first.
i.e. I have one sim buy a lightsaber with a green crystal, have them install that, and then a second sim buy one in with a blue crystal, pout that in their lightsaber and they're suddenly both blue?
I am having a similar kind of problem. I constructed a lightsaber with a red crystal. I then completed the first Order missions and reached rank 5 and got a black crystal. I changed the red one for the black and although when mousing over the lightsaber in the inventory it tells me it has a black crystal when I activate it, it still show a red crystal.
Kinda wondering if anyone else is running into the same problem as I am, but when I send sims to Batuu, have them buy lightsabers, they all seem to be coming up with the most recent color put in even if I had other colors in there first.
i.e. I have one sim buy a lightsaber with a green crystal, have them install that, and then a second sim buy one in with a blue crystal, pout that in their lightsaber and they're suddenly both blue?
I am having a similar kind of problem. I constructed a lightsaber with a red crystal. I then completed the first Order missions and reached rank 5 and got a black crystal. I changed the red one for the black and although when mousing over the lightsaber in the inventory it tells me it has a black crystal when I activate it, it still show a red crystal.
I’m ready!! Mandalore the Great sounds a lot like Mandalore the Ultimate, and we all know who fought him. I’m ready for her to be canon, man!
Totally ready for it too! It won't be broadcasted here until October 30. Is it the same in US, or are you getting it earlier?
Nope. Same date for us Stateside.
Ah! Last time we had to wait a couple of months until we got Disney+. I thought by then the entire Mandalorian box set would be available, since half the world had seen it, but no, we had to wait each week for a new episode. It was unfair. Very difficult to avoid spoilers. And obviously those Baby Yoda memes didn't help either.
Kinda wondering if anyone else is running into the same problem as I am, but when I send sims to Batuu, have them buy lightsabers, they all seem to be coming up with the most recent color put in even if I had other colors in there first.
i.e. I have one sim buy a lightsaber with a green crystal, have them install that, and then a second sim buy one in with a blue crystal, pout that in their lightsaber and they're suddenly both blue?
I am having a similar kind of problem. I constructed a lightsaber with a red crystal. I then completed the first Order missions and reached rank 5 and got a black crystal. I changed the red one for the black and although when mousing over the lightsaber in the inventory it tells me it has a black crystal when I activate it, it still show a red crystal.
Black crystal results in a red lightsaber blade.
Ok, I never knew that. Thanks. I was getting a little annoyed thinking I lost my crystal.
I have black blades in SWTOR so thought it bugged out.
A question for you all, you set up a Sim and you give him/her traits and ambitions and create a personality for this Sim, whit sexual preferences and the game demands that you look beyond this preferences to obtain a goal. You have a homosexual Sim who got to seduce a Sim of the opocite sex, or a strait Sim who must seduce a Sim of the same sex do you do it? I watched drGluons video who has gotten further than me and there you had to seduce a scientist to get on in the game to, achieve a goal. How would you do in this situation?
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I'm back! I missed this place RL was fun but very very busy, so nice when you do swing round and have 40+ new posts.
I've been building and it has been so much fun. Now it is starting to look like a proper home.
Here we have the living-room and the parent's bedroom. Notice the doors out to the balcony faces the morning-sun. And away from the other balcony, glass-doors so need a little bit of privacy.
1:st lvl of the basement. On the left is laundry and a big closet to play in. Lot's of toys and the only bathtub because how can you otherwise clean up the dog or the toddlers. On the right hand we have all the stuff a nice little criminal empire needs to keep on going. Tactical screen to keep track of things, some juice fizzing and robotics. Kiddos and teens have stuff to do, they hang around and learn the trade. There is another basement but that one is strictly off-limits for anyone who is not an adult. Too much fun stuff down there
I needed a lot with landscaping and houses on different levels. I like it when you get up a bit from the main road, then it is much easier to "not see it" and just pretend you are somewhere else.
Yes.
It comes in two flavors: Britechester and Foxbury.
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@ryublue ....thanks for the info. I'm going to have to figure out how to get a fake id. The rabbithole missions are fun to me as well. I totally lol reading what you posted.
@elanorbreton ..... I could take some; but, I want do the Resistance Mission with one Sim and a BB unit once I can get one.
@sindocat .... I've got one thousand two hundred credits after completing my 1st Resistance Mission; but, I was not able to buy a BB unit because it said I needed to be at some level.
So much to figure out--yet, this is still great!
It's all just for atmosphere.
The BB unit helps a lot. He's functional.
I was going to rip out the old Get Famous set, but it was already looking Star Warsy.
I simply added Journey to Batuu content to it.
This is the area where my cosplayers create their outfits.
It's really cool that the First Order console is functional.
It's nice but...
This is why I created this.
By the way, Melonie and Olivia are my favorite sims of all time.
Melonie, since TS3,
Olivia, since TS4 base game.
Olivia finally wins one.
I was hoping the could dual up here, but it's not big enough.
They should be able to practice with a drone and also use the acting marks.
Townies might become annoying.
I set up a creative Nap since Del Sol Valley is supposed to be Hollywood for The Sims 4.
Time to repeal that NAP.
Now if I can just get them to eat at the same table and the same time.
My Mara Jade successfully climbed the ranks of the First Order (and accidentally became friends with Kylo Ren which I never intended), and it became time for her to switch camps and go to the scoundrels instead. I hadn't realized that you can do both the scoundrel path AND one of the others at the same time though, so she kept being First Order while trucking along with the pirates. Huh.
So, since she already had her bot by now and a bunch of kyber crystals and hilts, I thought I'd send her on the lightsaber mission, just to officially get her set with hers (a red-bladed Power and Control, since there isn't any magenta) aaaand... she kept being Jedi Mind Trick'ed by Rey and shunted out of the resistance camp. Oops.
Incidentally it wasn't Mara's first time to get forcibly removed from the resistance camp, she has a nemesis over there named Ora that keeps beating her up when they meet, and then "escorting" her out so she ends up back outside the cantina. Just you wait, Ora, I'll find out some way to get you yet...
For anyone who might be curious, in this version of the game my resistance camp only had one pregnant lady, in that same wadded coat, but she's since disappeared. Gave birth, maybe?
The First Order stormtrooper ladies aren't nearly as chatty this time around, but... they all have white hair and tend to try to flirt with Mara. Yup. Don't know why. Or why Mara gets a flirty mood from piloting the TIE, but whatever, you go girl. XD
The white hair seems quite common on Batuu btw, all stormtroopers and a few officers over at the First Order, a couple of scoundrels, and maybe one so far (haven't managed to spend much time over there as you might have gathered) in the Resistance camp. I haven't encountered the name Nils anymore, but certain names seem extremely popular, as they come in threes or something like that. (I have a little screenshot I kept of two scoundrel women meeting outside Oga's that both had the exact same first and last name, the same hairstyle, the same outfit, and more or less the same features - just different colours :o )
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My zabrak-dude went back to Batuu and this time he brought his girlfriend Anne with him. Could have saved up for a droid but I want to save exploring everything with droids for anther sim so he got to bring a friend instead. I like how many options there are just for friendly conversation like talking about star fighters, wookies or sabacc. Great stuff. So now we have the swindle-interaction unlocked! Finally, can't wait to use that on the poor little sims in my save. Like that it is so easy to just go back and forth between Batuu and regular life.
Anne got to take a dinner out on the town while Cannon the zabrak was working on his programming-skills.
My inspiration for my scoundrel zabrak is Mattis from Ronia the Robber's Daughter. A family man and a scoundrel. Every time he boasts about his family I can imagine him saying "jupp, that heist. Totally my family!".
It was fun trying to see the "family-loving"-trait in a new way. The cradle in CAS really made me see it as a "cute"-trait but really I can bend it into different ways. So in many ways I'm doing things differently. Often I let my sims start without a penny on a empty lot and take it from there. Cannon is the heir to a very successful family with "different areas of interest" for keeping simoleons coming in. His job is to try to keep the family progressing as before and taking care of siblings, parents and other sims that are included in it.
I like it, currently he is sort of stumbling, fumbling. But I think we can turn things around. I am very pleased that when I let him speed-date several of my sims to see which one he had a good connection with he ended up with my Anne Shirley. She's hot-headed and romantic. Think she will be able to keep him on an even keel. Not getting to puffed up with pride and still inspired enough to go through the difficult days.
@elanorbreton I love that name for your droid!! I might steal it sometime, LOL.
My BAYBEE is the red body but I went with the red flat head because I thought it was kind of funny looking - to me it looks like a hat.
I haven't seen any mods for that.
I am forced to return because of my teens needing to go to school, but I like alternating between Batuu and normal life.
It also feel like less of a grind because I can build skills in a variety of ways back home.
Yes, I liked going back and forth and working on skills at home too. I wasn't sure at first if going back and forth would work for me, but it did. I liked the contrast between normal and spaced out fantasy.
So I tried it using bb.enablefreebuild but the stumbling block was that "Your Sim do not own this object" so he could not put it into his invatory
https://youtu.be/eW7Twd85m2g
I’m ready!! Mandalore the Great sounds a lot like Mandalore the Ultimate, and we all know who fought him. I’m ready for her to be canon, man!
Just a thought. Is it possible to place a university kiosk on batuu? If your sim buys something from the kiosk it is considered theirs. This could be a work around for a bike and a laptop. Worth a try at least
I am having a similar kind of problem. I constructed a lightsaber with a red crystal. I then completed the first Order missions and reached rank 5 and got a black crystal. I changed the red one for the black and although when mousing over the lightsaber in the inventory it tells me it has a black crystal when I activate it, it still show a red crystal.
Totally ready for it too! It won't be broadcasted here until October 30. Is it the same in US, or are you getting it earlier?
Black crystal results in a red lightsaber blade.
Nope. Same date for us Stateside.
Ah! Last time we had to wait a couple of months until we got Disney+. I thought by then the entire Mandalorian box set would be available, since half the world had seen it, but no, we had to wait each week for a new episode. It was unfair. Very difficult to avoid spoilers. And obviously those Baby Yoda memes didn't help either.
Ok, I never knew that. Thanks. I was getting a little annoyed thinking I lost my crystal.
I have black blades in SWTOR so thought it bugged out.