With all the testing I did lately, real world time has been moving faster than the time in my game
The kids were doing all kinds of stuff, while Marcus was relaxing with some old friend.
In principle, this is the former (edited) guy from the register at the alchemy consignment store, who went missing in action at some point, which means he is now listed as "retired". Given the funds of the Arnett household, he can obviously afford to.
Of course, in true game fashion, that friend would have a date with Jamie next day.
They got along very well.
In the meantime, Marcus went to some party at the Applegate house. All the brothers were there. I had taken the Frios to give the family some non-pudding faces. Here's Jose, who was interested in Carla. I guess he is hard to recognize now, but that's okay in this case:
His insane brother Salvador. He hooked up with Sandi French now though.
Well, someone has to produce some other kids, I guess, or Sunset Valley will turn into West Virginia (no offense to real West Virginians implied ).
As I was looking for some change, I decided to pay the future another visit. Turns out the world is completely generated from scratch when you return, at least as far as the population is concerned. Needless to say, the nice house was gone. I'm not sure I even got that half million back. Note to self: Sell house before returning home. Now some of the "descendants" lived in the cliff house, and only two other houses were for sale. I chose the one in the lake.
On the first visit, the game had produced descendants on how Marcus, Jamie and the kids looked, and it looked into the high-school romances of the kids to determine which family names to use for the future. This time, Sekemoto and Applegate were gone from the map, probably because they had not produced any offspring in the meanwhile. Instead, the game chose two families who were having lots of children in between visits, McGraw and Hatch. Well, Emma Hatch had four children with Abraham Finkel, until he finally proposed marriage - to someone else. He kicked her and the kids out, but the descendants seemed to be doing fine. Here come some images.
The first two guys are very similar to Marcus, just with a slightly different nose.
The right guy goes by the first name "Carmen", which threw me off when I was looking for "Carmen" the first time. I didn't know that this can be used as male name in the US.
The game may still have been busy deleting the Sekemotos when I took this image. I should check whether these sims still exist.
I think the next one were Rowan's (the plantsim's) alleged descendants.
This is the family that stole "my" house I think it was Carla's branch.
It's kind of funny. Given how fluid the world is, there's not much sense in making connections though.
@cwaddell I think you forgot - those vampire gnomes fly all the time in my game.
@Mikezumi yes the girls were very brave and with the assistance of Mags Newbie the fire was all out soon after the arrival of the school bus.
So - I just dropped in momentarily and have given out likes and awesomes. I am hoping to have a few minutes to do something on my next Oscar's Childhood video. The next series I'll be working on is Caroline and Friends and I'm dying to get to that one - as I really didn't want to abandon them when I did after the last video I posted - because I just added a few extra sims to the household and I really want to play with them. She used to be alone in the original part of the series because she was chasing badges that could only be triggered by a single sim household. But she got all of those badges and now she is in a household of seven sims.
But the thing that prompted me to drop in here right now is - an observation on Sim behaviour.
I have my sims in the boarding school. I happen to have a fully fitted out kitchen on the ground floor near the entrance. There is another fridge and some toy ovens up on the next level. There are some kitchen counters there too. Well, Bruce, the only YA male sim in the household is working on his cooking skill and he autonomously started preparing a meal upstairs. Then he carried his saucepan down to the kitchen to cook on the stove. He burned his meal and was upset. The kitchen fridge was one counter away from him on his left. There was no other sim using the kitchen at the time. He set off to walk back upstairs to get leftovers out of the fridge to have something to eat. I stopped him and told him to get something out of the kitchen fridge that was right beside him instead.
Another thing I've been doing is gradually trying things to see if anything fixes the massive freezing/lag. Well it is still there but each thing I try does make the periods of active game play a little longer and the freezes or lag periods are getting much shorter. I live in hope. I'm beginning to think I might just bulldoze the entire boarding school building and start again if I ever want to take Sims to Chocolate Cake Island to live in the boarding school again. But at least now Oscar is starting to have lots of children to play with as the remaining toddlers are gradually aging up. There is currently only one left as a toddler. There are 16 sims plus a dog in the household right now. And one of the teens is a few days away from aging up to YA so I'm going to work on her skills too now. I finally have time to do it since the toddlers have moved out or aged up.
@king_of_simcity7 I guess being fluid is kind of the idea behind ITF. You do something in the present and then go and see what changed in the future. The game gave me messages that I should go and see what changed in the future every time one in the family got a LTR. Although I have the feeling the visit to Shang Simla broke a few things. On the plus side, you can mass-produce non-pudding households this way with ITF.
And sorry for being confusing again. I didn't build the house the family lost. It's the largest of the prebuilt houses which I had bought the first time I got there. Also, I'm not 100% sure I lost the money, I just think so. I will pay more attention this time. The fact that I cannot be sure whether the family lost half a million or not also means that It's not really a big deal, just a slight annoyance.
@Mikezumi I sure do appreciate those prayers! Thank you very much! :::hugs:::
Welcome back. My comments are still going to be short....but hopefully sweet. I don't have as much time as I used to with working two jobs and right now with the hurricane breathing down our necks. I just wanted to make one more comment post before I have to pack my stuff up to get it all in the car ready to leave this evening.
Rian is adorable in the high chair pics! He really is a beautiful toddler.
I like the mats for the kids to nap on, but they still sleep at night in the cribs.
@Cadh20000 If you have MC go into stylist with any of your sims. Click on any clothing category you want to blacklist items from. Press shift and ctrl and then right click on the item you don't want to show anymore and it disappears. If you make a mistake go out of sytlist, click on MC and go to settings, CAS and then you will see a category called blacklist, click on that and you can clear it or export it or remove a blacklist part, click on remove a blacklist part and a list of your items will show and click on the one you want back and it will reappear the next time you are in stylist. I have actually never tried to export the list from one save to another save so maybe after the storm I will try that and see if that works.
@meerkattime I love the pics of Odessa! I love her choice of roomies too! Well, not crazy about Jared but do love Conner!
@PalmArrow Thanks! I appreciate your thoughts. :::hugs:::
I love your RH world except it seems to rain an awful lot there. I had to get tempest when I had seasons in so I could adjust the rain to not be all the freaking time in my worlds! I live in the tropics and we get more scattered type storms that are fast and strong, but unless a gale type thing they are gone in 15 minutes, so I set for those type of storms.
I love the pics of them promenading on the boardwalk in the rain though.
@Silverofdreams30 Thanks! I do appreciate your thoughts! :::hugs:::
Great pics. Looks like Karlie liked what she saw!
@Brandontaylor That is great you were able to add WA with no issues. It sure is a great EP.
Ava looks so cute with her little belly showing!
Congrats on baby boy Jason! lol that Hank slept through it. I would have woke his tush up! lol
@rubyskywalker Congrats on the gnome! Glad you got some playtime and you posted pics! Love them!
@Nikkei_Simmer Good luck with it! Hope you getting some play time in between getting things settled.
@cwaddell Nice to see you in here again! That is a great pic of the vampire gnome! I love seeing where they reappear.
@Turjan Love the pics. Jose is quite a cutie! The future descendants are certainly very handsome and pretty!
@Karritz lol...sims are really silly at times. I still have some go outside to the fridge on the deck to get out a leftover meal and then take it back inside to eat it....duh!
This might be my last comment post for a while. Not sure if I will be able to hook into my sons wifi....if he remembers the passcode! lol I will be leaving this evening more than likely to get off the island. They started mandatory evacs this morning from the island. The storm is supposed to hit wednesday morning, but, we will get the winds prior to that and they close the bridge at sustained winds of 35 or 40 here and I don't want to get stuck on the island. The storm is now a category 4 and starting to do it's northern wobble so will depend on whether it wobbles more east or more west out into the ocean as to damage we will get when it gets to our area. The power always goes out and last time it was 6 days before our power was restored. The track looks like it will be well offshore and it is tempting to stay, but, I worry about the kitties at my sons by themselves so I'm leaving. My son is vacationing at his girlfriends family lake house! lol They are definitely out of the area. Please pray or send out your thoughts to those of us in the path. We appreciate it very much! When I went to the National Hurricane center web site just a bit ago there are three more areas in the ocean that are marked as potentials to develop.
This might be my last comment post for a while. Not sure if I will be able to hook into my sons wifi....if he remembers the passcode! lol I will be leaving this evening more than likely to get off the island. They started mandatory evacs this morning from the island. The storm is supposed to hit wednesday morning, but, we will get the winds prior to that and they close the bridge at sustained winds of 35 or 40 here and I don't want to get stuck on the island. The storm is now a category 4 and starting to do it's northern wobble so will depend on whether it wobbles more east or more west out into the ocean as to damage we will get when it gets to our area. The power always goes out and last time it was 6 days before our power was restored. The track looks like it will be well offshore and it is tempting to stay, but, I worry about the kitties at my sons by themselves so I'm leaving. My son is vacationing at his girlfriends family lake house! lol They are definitely out of the area. Please pray or send out your thoughts to those of us in the path. We appreciate it very much! When I went to the National Hurricane center web site just a bit ago there are three more areas in the ocean that are marked as potentials to develop.
Praying that you and everyone who's in the path of Dorian will be safe. Hoping that it will track wide east of the Florida Coast. @bekkasan.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
@Cadh20000 I will be sure to check out the black girl playing video games in the opening the next time I load my game
Lol, this is her if you don't feel like watching it for a 2 second at most glimpse. Though...she looks better in the vid, this rather grainy screenshot doesn't do her justice.
@Cadh20000 Sadie's performance outfit is pretty
Congrats on getting a gig at the Coffeehouse
How lovely to have a visit from Lucky He looks happy to be visiting and getting attention too
Congrats to Melody on freeing the genie
Thanks!
Thanks!
Yep, he's a frequent visitor, sometimes to play, sometimes to nap.
Melody says "Thanks!"
But the thing that prompted me to drop in here right now is - an observation on Sim behaviour.
I have my sims in the boarding school. I happen to have a fully fitted out kitchen on the ground floor near the entrance. There is another fridge and some toy ovens up on the next level. There are some kitchen counters there too. Well, Bruce, the only YA male sim in the household is working on his cooking skill and he autonomously started preparing a meal upstairs. Then he carried his saucepan down to the kitchen to cook on the stove. He burned his meal and was upset. The kitchen fridge was one counter away from him on his left. There was no other sim using the kitchen at the time. He set off to walk back upstairs to get leftovers out of the fridge to have something to eat. I stopped him and told him to get something out of the kitchen fridge that was right beside him instead.
Reminds me of the Golds and their INSISTENCE on doing the dishes in the bathroom sink and ignoring the kitchen sink 2 steps from the table...
@meerkattime The hair is so pretty, tried it on an NPC I think
thanks again.
Agreed, though I think it'd be better with a wider, slightly floppy brimmed, sunhat. Something like this
or this
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Too bad they don't let us pick hair and hat separately.
@Cadh20000 If you have MC go into stylist with any of your sims. Click on any clothing category you want to blacklist items from. Press shift and ctrl and then right click on the item you don't want to show anymore and it disappears. If you make a mistake go out of sytlist, click on MC and go to settings, CAS and then you will see a category called blacklist, click on that and you can clear it or export it or remove a blacklist part, click on remove a blacklist part and a list of your items will show and click on the one you want back and it will reappear the next time you are in stylist. I have actually never tried to export the list from one save to another save so maybe after the storm I will try that and see if that works.
Thanks! Now if I can just remember it when I'm next in-game...
Like I said in my "I'm Back" video, I did multiple recuts of this "River & Haruo's Wedding" video. Here's the Final Penultimate Cut - NO MORE EDITS! Thank God!
@bekkasan I hope that you have no trouble getting off the island I have heard about the hurricanes but my local news has become fixated on 'the B word' so all coverage is focused on that one thing!
@lisasc360, page 3653
Thank you! I play the bedrock version of Minecraft, and in my main save, I created a pretty extensive minecart system. (Nintendo Switch)
I'm pretty much going to be away in Majorca for a week, from the 7th to the 14th, meaning I won't be near my laptop for a week. This holiday is needed though...
I didn't do much in game today, but I did do some small renovations in the form of Create a style:
The end tables are a different style.
The bar's a different style too...basically, Rachel themed.
And the island counters, too.
In fact, I've been doing quite a lot in Rachel's colours.
And in this shot, you can see the pink trampoline:
So, yep. didn't really do much.
Sims 4 Family: Benjamin, Shine, Princess Roddy, Sophia and Hamish Furystrykar and Shelly Heart. Princess Roddy is my avatar, and he's a boy!
@bekkasan Evacuating sounds like the best option to me. I shall pray that you have a safe trip off the island and that you don't come home to a mess *hugs* My prayers go out to all those affected by the storm and will try to keep tabs on it's progress via news and internet.
The napping mat worked beautifully! Often my toddlers will wake up when I load my save at 3am even though they are still tired. It seems to coincide with my mods kicking in. River dressed and fed Rian before heading downstairs for breakfast
You're meant to be getting breakfast, Keanu!
Shannon's waking wish was to paint so I had him finish the painting he started a while back.
River's waking wish was to watch the Cooking Channel so I sent him to the TV while Keanu got his wish to take Rian for a stroll. Mikezumi's waking wish was to read 50 books. She's 5 books shy of her wish but it shouldn't take her long as a bookworm
Keanu went in a different direction to the previous day. Fortunately the sidewalks are smooth for miles on either side
There were only a few plants ready for harvest so I had Shannon take care of them when he finished his painting. It took him only minutes since he has mastered gardening and has completed all of the gardening skill challenges.
River rolled a wish to learn a new song when he reached level 8 the previous day.
Keanu's waking wish was to practise MA. Shannon looked on with pride before breaking space rocks
@king_of_simcity7 I hope Simon and Tammy have a good night at the cinema
I hope they don't get up to no good while Anna's mum and sister are out!
It's true that Simon was clingy so maybe he and Tammy may get on well!
Jamie doesn't look happy about Tony coming!
@Silverofdreams30 Abigail looks nice aged up
Fun pics at the pool
I hope Abigail's marriage to Matteo is a happy one
@PalmArrow Your Poirot save in Roaring Heights looks like fun! It's such a beautiful world and I love the old outfits
Poirot must be an absolute genius to hack using a typewriter!
You did a great job on Chinatown
@Cadh20000 I hate it when sims try to clean the dishes at the same time!
LOL I wonder what a zombie has to lecture about ... brains?
Nice to see Lucky visiting again Awwww sleeping in his old bed
Congrats on Sadie's pregnancy
Sorry you didn't get screenshots of Benny
I hope Chip gets a bed soon!
Benny's corner is cute
Cute pics of Benny learning his skills in the snow
@Brandontaylor Waiting outside for the wedding guests is a great idea! Sims all seem to end up clustered wherever the host is and it can slow things down a lot!
Thornton looks dapper He pulled some strange faces at a recent wedding in my game and I thought it might be because of his Commitment Issues trait
Looks like the wedding went well! Congrats!
River had a wish to chat with Rian
Chatting led to a wish to put him on a spring rider
Rian didn't want to get off!
River bathed Rian after his ride
Keanu came in when he was done
Rian played nearby
The boys didn't flirt long and went their separate ways.
Rian can use the potty chair on his own now
@GraceyManor Lovely gown Chelsea is wearing!
Lovely proposal
@meerkattime It was a shame that AiPortraits closed because I really had a lot of fun with it!
@Silverofdreams30 The reflection of Abigail's face in the pool is crystal clear!
Lovely shots of her enjoying the pool
Poor Matteo left at home to cook!
@king_of_simcity7 Does Nick have a rival in Taz?
I hope Nick doesn't prove as clingy as Simon. If Humara can't commit to one guy clingy to her would be a waste of time.
Maybe Anna just doesn't trust herself with Jamie in the same bed so is choosing a "safe" choice. Although it would make more sense for the girls to share a bed and the boys the other.
@Cadh20000 I have never seen an age up that didn't require a new outfit but Benny does seem to have had some terrible luck!
His new outfit is nice
He has good traits!
That's a good gnome collection
Congrats on Melody and George's wedding
The AiPortrait site wasn't able to cope with the heavy traffic but I thought it would come back. Maybe it will one day ... I hope!
@Brandontaylor Yay! Congrats on the pregnancy ... unless it really was bad cake
Wedding gifts are always good for money
Congrats on the new house
Yep she is pregnant!
I mostly left Shannon and Mikezumi to their own devices. They were quite happy to amuse themselves
Keanu rolled a wish to chat with Rian
Shannon also spent time with his grandson
I found the boys playing catch.
I was surprised when Shannon took Rian to the rocking chair. I later discovered that Rian had asked for it via the baby monitor. I turned it off because no effort was made with the rocking chair animations and it bores me beyond tears!
I got Shannon out of the rocking chair and had him prepare a meal for Rian instead.
The family ate together
Keanu and River watched the stars after taking care of Rian's needs.
Shannon and Mikezumi danced to River's music
Keanu tucked Rian in for the night
River made a mad dash to the bathroom in the middle of the night
I added Pets back to my game today, and so far everything is still going alright. I'm going to try and add them all by the weekend, minus the Stuff Packs and see what that does. I hope that everything goes well, I can deal with a little lag. I didn't actually play any real save, just messed around to see if things worked.
I wish everyone who is threatened by that hurricane the best and hope that they themselves, their loved ones and their homes stay safe.
@Karritz I learned to avoid lots with several kitchens and appliances (I once used a lot with two complete houses - big mistake), as the sims always choose what they use at random. If you decide to double up, two stoves is probably the only thing that makes sense. Even there, you run into diminishing returns, as the sim may decide he wants to use the stove that is already in use instead of the free one.
@Mikezumi I have been using those napping mats for a long time now, and they are a great help. I always failed to see the point in training toddlers to walk and to use the potty if you have them in a crib where they can do nothing but sit around and scream if they want anything. They can't even fill their social bar by playing with their toy, like they can on the floor. You just have to cancel the urge of adults to put the toddlers into the cribs all the time. With butlers, this becomes a bit more difficult, but you don't use any, and it's still a net positive even in that case.
Regarding my game, I thought that this image showed a family in Oasis Landing that was originally from my first visit and was in the process of being deleted:
Turns out I was right. This is the Sekemoto family (one of the descendants) from my first visit to OL, It got deleted by the game shortly after I took the image. I'm also relatively sure that I saw one of the original "Stout" families in the "Landgraab" house, where they had been living during my first visit. They are also gone now and the house is empty. This also explains why the game had to "steal" my house. The game had generated five families as descendants (one for each child), all of them sufficiently large, and OL has only very few buildings, and only some of those are good for larger families. As (at least) two of the "old" families of descendants blocked two of those buildings, the game placed the five new ones into whatever it could get. Why the game creates new families before it's done deleting the old ones is anyone's guess. I can imagine that the new families get generated while OL gets loaded and before the town gets rendered, while the old families are in the town file, which causes the overlap as soon as the town gets rendered.
I'm not sure whether mods play some role here. I noticed that, if I start a new game with all the NRAAS mods, the generated town will always be empty. No townies, and the town will subsequently get filled with randomly generated pudding families. At game start, this is easily rectified, because I can just start a new game without mods, which means the townies will be there. Unfortunately, that's not an option with ITF in my current game, as that had been running for a while and I cannot just take the mods out to make the game use townies. My OL is filled with random puddings (I use the term "filled" loosely, as there is hardly anyone in town who is not a family descendant), and I guess I will have to start a new game without mods at some point in order to get to know any of the original OL townies.
Does anyone here know of any mod in the NRAAS suite or some other that may prevent townies from spawning? Testing which one is responsible is a bit daunting, given the long loading times. Also, if it's story progression, I'm not sure how I would do that when traveling to a new world without losing all the progress the mod introduced.
Lucky is back in the active household and there is a new toddler as well! The toddler is named Aina Gold-Durelli and she is Melody's and George's daughter!
No clue what this is, it just appeared by the kitchen counter all of a sudden and didn't go away, I finally used shift-click > "Object" > "Delete it" to get rid of it. It had acted like a rug as they could walk right over it and seemed to take no notice of it at all.
As Melody and George discuss the news, Benny has the bad luck to be haunted by a rude ghost(summoned by a Gnome of the Darned). She followed him into the bathroom and refused to shoo so he could use the toilet...right up until after he peed his pants, then she finally left.
Melody got the "Oh my Ghost" opportunity and used it to add Lucky back into the active household. By the way, he has since finished Mastering Hunting and learning the final Trick.
The day after Lucky was added back to the active household the mailman decided to "Research Alchemy" after dropping the mail off...until Lucky's anti-mailperson aggression kicked in and he got chased away anyway.
Those Gnome of the Darned keep summoning ghosts onto the family lot, some are friendly, some are rude. This time it was a ghost dog Lucky was happy to pal around with. Apparently both died of old age, Lucky was the "Good" version, this other was the "Bad" version...as was the other ghost dog they summon.
Remember the ghost who made Benny pee his pants? She came back again. This time she decided the top bunk in Benny's room would be perfect for a nap and scared poor cowardly Chip right out of his sleep and bed! (She apparently floated right through his room on her way to Benny's)
Benny decided he was tired of having a human in the household and used an elixer to turn his uncle George into a Fairy at a costume party. MC and me added the Witch so he'd really fit in. By the way, Aina was born human thanks to her father but I didn't bother with any potions for her, MC all the way.
I changed a couple of their costumes while they were at the party. Benny had all 3 parts of this outfit mixed throughout his outfits when he first aged up so I decided to go all the way with it for his costume.
Sadie's new costume, a Kunoichi. I wanted something better than the rather old-fashioned white dress the game put her in. When looking through I found what I could only think of as a "ninja outfit" so I turned her into a kunoichi.
Sorry, I forgot to take a screenshot of Bryan's new armor(from the world of "Dragon Valley" I think, but it MIGHT have been from the "Ambitions" expansion's Time Machine and its past adventures souvenirs.). He was originally a hotdog like Chip.
Maybe THIS is why the Gnome of Invention went into hiding when the Gnome of the Darned were brought onto the lot?
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The kids were doing all kinds of stuff, while Marcus was relaxing with some old friend.
In principle, this is the former (edited) guy from the register at the alchemy consignment store, who went missing in action at some point, which means he is now listed as "retired". Given the funds of the Arnett household, he can obviously afford to.
Of course, in true game fashion, that friend would have a date with Jamie next day.
They got along very well.
In the meantime, Marcus went to some party at the Applegate house. All the brothers were there. I had taken the Frios to give the family some non-pudding faces. Here's Jose, who was interested in Carla. I guess he is hard to recognize now, but that's okay in this case:
His insane brother Salvador. He hooked up with Sandi French now though.
Well, someone has to produce some other kids, I guess, or Sunset Valley will turn into West Virginia (no offense to real West Virginians implied ).
As I was looking for some change, I decided to pay the future another visit. Turns out the world is completely generated from scratch when you return, at least as far as the population is concerned. Needless to say, the nice house was gone. I'm not sure I even got that half million back. Note to self: Sell house before returning home. Now some of the "descendants" lived in the cliff house, and only two other houses were for sale. I chose the one in the lake.
On the first visit, the game had produced descendants on how Marcus, Jamie and the kids looked, and it looked into the high-school romances of the kids to determine which family names to use for the future. This time, Sekemoto and Applegate were gone from the map, probably because they had not produced any offspring in the meanwhile. Instead, the game chose two families who were having lots of children in between visits, McGraw and Hatch. Well, Emma Hatch had four children with Abraham Finkel, until he finally proposed marriage - to someone else. He kicked her and the kids out, but the descendants seemed to be doing fine. Here come some images.
The first two guys are very similar to Marcus, just with a slightly different nose.
The right guy goes by the first name "Carmen", which threw me off when I was looking for "Carmen" the first time. I didn't know that this can be used as male name in the US.
The game may still have been busy deleting the Sekemotos when I took this image. I should check whether these sims still exist.
I think the next one were Rowan's (the plantsim's) alleged descendants.
This is the family that stole "my" house I think it was Carla's branch.
It's kind of funny. Given how fluid the world is, there's not much sense in making connections though.
@Turjan I did not know that the future worlds reset themselves? Sorry you lost a good build and money
@Mikezumi yes the girls were very brave and with the assistance of Mags Newbie the fire was all out soon after the arrival of the school bus.
So - I just dropped in momentarily and have given out likes and awesomes. I am hoping to have a few minutes to do something on my next Oscar's Childhood video. The next series I'll be working on is Caroline and Friends and I'm dying to get to that one - as I really didn't want to abandon them when I did after the last video I posted - because I just added a few extra sims to the household and I really want to play with them. She used to be alone in the original part of the series because she was chasing badges that could only be triggered by a single sim household. But she got all of those badges and now she is in a household of seven sims.
But the thing that prompted me to drop in here right now is - an observation on Sim behaviour.
I have my sims in the boarding school. I happen to have a fully fitted out kitchen on the ground floor near the entrance. There is another fridge and some toy ovens up on the next level. There are some kitchen counters there too. Well, Bruce, the only YA male sim in the household is working on his cooking skill and he autonomously started preparing a meal upstairs. Then he carried his saucepan down to the kitchen to cook on the stove. He burned his meal and was upset. The kitchen fridge was one counter away from him on his left. There was no other sim using the kitchen at the time. He set off to walk back upstairs to get leftovers out of the fridge to have something to eat. I stopped him and told him to get something out of the kitchen fridge that was right beside him instead.
Another thing I've been doing is gradually trying things to see if anything fixes the massive freezing/lag. Well it is still there but each thing I try does make the periods of active game play a little longer and the freezes or lag periods are getting much shorter. I live in hope. I'm beginning to think I might just bulldoze the entire boarding school building and start again if I ever want to take Sims to Chocolate Cake Island to live in the boarding school again. But at least now Oscar is starting to have lots of children to play with as the remaining toddlers are gradually aging up. There is currently only one left as a toddler. There are 16 sims plus a dog in the household right now. And one of the teens is a few days away from aging up to YA so I'm going to work on her skills too now. I finally have time to do it since the toddlers have moved out or aged up.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
And sorry for being confusing again. I didn't build the house the family lost. It's the largest of the prebuilt houses which I had bought the first time I got there. Also, I'm not 100% sure I lost the money, I just think so. I will pay more attention this time. The fact that I cannot be sure whether the family lost half a million or not also means that It's not really a big deal, just a slight annoyance.
You're welcome
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@meerkattime The hair is so pretty, tried it on an NPC I think
thanks again.
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Gavin was out and awake at 3 am
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Earlier in the evening
Teresa upped her social bar with some talking on the phone.
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since she works from home as a painter, she has to work at times.
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I looked at a nearby place Karlie checked out the guy passing her by.
All for now
@Mikezumi I sure do appreciate those prayers! Thank you very much! :::hugs:::
Welcome back. My comments are still going to be short....but hopefully sweet. I don't have as much time as I used to with working two jobs and right now with the hurricane breathing down our necks. I just wanted to make one more comment post before I have to pack my stuff up to get it all in the car ready to leave this evening.
Rian is adorable in the high chair pics! He really is a beautiful toddler.
I like the mats for the kids to nap on, but they still sleep at night in the cribs.
@Cadh20000 If you have MC go into stylist with any of your sims. Click on any clothing category you want to blacklist items from. Press shift and ctrl and then right click on the item you don't want to show anymore and it disappears. If you make a mistake go out of sytlist, click on MC and go to settings, CAS and then you will see a category called blacklist, click on that and you can clear it or export it or remove a blacklist part, click on remove a blacklist part and a list of your items will show and click on the one you want back and it will reappear the next time you are in stylist. I have actually never tried to export the list from one save to another save so maybe after the storm I will try that and see if that works.
@meerkattime I love the pics of Odessa! I love her choice of roomies too! Well, not crazy about Jared but do love Conner!
@PalmArrow Thanks! I appreciate your thoughts. :::hugs:::
I love your RH world except it seems to rain an awful lot there. I had to get tempest when I had seasons in so I could adjust the rain to not be all the freaking time in my worlds! I live in the tropics and we get more scattered type storms that are fast and strong, but unless a gale type thing they are gone in 15 minutes, so I set for those type of storms.
I love the pics of them promenading on the boardwalk in the rain though.
@Silverofdreams30 Thanks! I do appreciate your thoughts! :::hugs:::
Great pics. Looks like Karlie liked what she saw!
@Brandontaylor That is great you were able to add WA with no issues. It sure is a great EP.
Ava looks so cute with her little belly showing!
Congrats on baby boy Jason! lol that Hank slept through it. I would have woke his tush up! lol
@DillynJames Lovely new house!
@rubyskywalker Congrats on the gnome! Glad you got some playtime and you posted pics! Love them!
@Nikkei_Simmer Good luck with it! Hope you getting some play time in between getting things settled.
@cwaddell Nice to see you in here again! That is a great pic of the vampire gnome! I love seeing where they reappear.
@Turjan Love the pics. Jose is quite a cutie! The future descendants are certainly very handsome and pretty!
@Karritz lol...sims are really silly at times. I still have some go outside to the fridge on the deck to get out a leftover meal and then take it back inside to eat it....duh!
This might be my last comment post for a while. Not sure if I will be able to hook into my sons wifi....if he remembers the passcode! lol I will be leaving this evening more than likely to get off the island. They started mandatory evacs this morning from the island. The storm is supposed to hit wednesday morning, but, we will get the winds prior to that and they close the bridge at sustained winds of 35 or 40 here and I don't want to get stuck on the island. The storm is now a category 4 and starting to do it's northern wobble so will depend on whether it wobbles more east or more west out into the ocean as to damage we will get when it gets to our area. The power always goes out and last time it was 6 days before our power was restored. The track looks like it will be well offshore and it is tempting to stay, but, I worry about the kitties at my sons by themselves so I'm leaving. My son is vacationing at his girlfriends family lake house! lol They are definitely out of the area. Please pray or send out your thoughts to those of us in the path. We appreciate it very much! When I went to the National Hurricane center web site just a bit ago there are three more areas in the ocean that are marked as potentials to develop.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
Will try...hope to get the fan matter straightened around middle of September.
Praying that you and everyone who's in the path of Dorian will be safe. Hoping that it will track wide east of the Florida Coast. @bekkasan.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
My "Studio"
Lol, this is her if you don't feel like watching it for a 2 second at most glimpse. Though...she looks better in the vid, this rather grainy screenshot doesn't do her justice.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Yep, he's a frequent visitor, sometimes to play, sometimes to nap.
Melody says "Thanks!"
Reminds me of the Golds and their INSISTENCE on doing the dishes in the bathroom sink and ignoring the kitchen sink 2 steps from the table...
Agreed, though I think it'd be better with a wider, slightly floppy brimmed, sunhat. Something like this or this .
Too bad they don't let us pick hair and hat separately.
You're welcome!
Hopefully you can find it to read, I quite enjoyed it when I did.
Thanks! Now if I can just remember it when I'm next in-game...
My "Studio"
https://youtu.be/M_0ZMCZG6fo
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Thank you! I play the bedrock version of Minecraft, and in my main save, I created a pretty extensive minecart system. (Nintendo Switch)
I'm pretty much going to be away in Majorca for a week, from the 7th to the 14th, meaning I won't be near my laptop for a week. This holiday is needed though...
I didn't do much in game today, but I did do some small renovations in the form of Create a style:
The end tables are a different style.
The bar's a different style too...basically, Rachel themed.
And the island counters, too.
In fact, I've been doing quite a lot in Rachel's colours.
And in this shot, you can see the pink trampoline:
So, yep. didn't really do much.
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
You're meant to be getting breakfast, Keanu!
Shannon's waking wish was to paint so I had him finish the painting he started a while back.
River's waking wish was to watch the Cooking Channel so I sent him to the TV while Keanu got his wish to take Rian for a stroll. Mikezumi's waking wish was to read 50 books. She's 5 books shy of her wish but it shouldn't take her long as a bookworm
Keanu went in a different direction to the previous day. Fortunately the sidewalks are smooth for miles on either side
There were only a few plants ready for harvest so I had Shannon take care of them when he finished his painting. It took him only minutes since he has mastered gardening and has completed all of the gardening skill challenges.
River rolled a wish to learn a new song when he reached level 8 the previous day.
Keanu's waking wish was to practise MA. Shannon looked on with pride before breaking space rocks
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
@king_of_simcity7 I hope Simon and Tammy have a good night at the cinema
I hope they don't get up to no good while Anna's mum and sister are out!
It's true that Simon was clingy so maybe he and Tammy may get on well!
Jamie doesn't look happy about Tony coming!
@Silverofdreams30 Abigail looks nice aged up
Fun pics at the pool
I hope Abigail's marriage to Matteo is a happy one
@PalmArrow Your Poirot save in Roaring Heights looks like fun! It's such a beautiful world and I love the old outfits
Poirot must be an absolute genius to hack using a typewriter!
You did a great job on Chinatown
@Cadh20000 I hate it when sims try to clean the dishes at the same time!
LOL I wonder what a zombie has to lecture about ... brains?
Nice to see Lucky visiting again Awwww sleeping in his old bed
Congrats on Sadie's pregnancy
Sorry you didn't get screenshots of Benny
I hope Chip gets a bed soon!
Benny's corner is cute
Cute pics of Benny learning his skills in the snow
@Brandontaylor Waiting outside for the wedding guests is a great idea! Sims all seem to end up clustered wherever the host is and it can slow things down a lot!
Thornton looks dapper He pulled some strange faces at a recent wedding in my game and I thought it might be because of his Commitment Issues trait
Looks like the wedding went well! Congrats!
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
Chatting led to a wish to put him on a spring rider
Rian didn't want to get off!
River bathed Rian after his ride
Keanu came in when he was done
Rian played nearby
The boys didn't flirt long and went their separate ways.
Rian can use the potty chair on his own now
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
@GraceyManor Lovely gown Chelsea is wearing!
Lovely proposal
@meerkattime It was a shame that AiPortraits closed because I really had a lot of fun with it!
@Silverofdreams30 The reflection of Abigail's face in the pool is crystal clear!
Lovely shots of her enjoying the pool
Poor Matteo left at home to cook!
@king_of_simcity7 Does Nick have a rival in Taz?
I hope Nick doesn't prove as clingy as Simon. If Humara can't commit to one guy clingy to her would be a waste of time.
Maybe Anna just doesn't trust herself with Jamie in the same bed so is choosing a "safe" choice. Although it would make more sense for the girls to share a bed and the boys the other.
@Cadh20000 I have never seen an age up that didn't require a new outfit but Benny does seem to have had some terrible luck!
His new outfit is nice
He has good traits!
That's a good gnome collection
Congrats on Melody and George's wedding
The AiPortrait site wasn't able to cope with the heavy traffic but I thought it would come back. Maybe it will one day ... I hope!
@HillyBeth Happy birthday Mason
@Brandontaylor Yay! Congrats on the pregnancy ... unless it really was bad cake
Wedding gifts are always good for money
Congrats on the new house
Yep she is pregnant!
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
Keanu rolled a wish to chat with Rian
Shannon also spent time with his grandson
I found the boys playing catch.
I was surprised when Shannon took Rian to the rocking chair. I later discovered that Rian had asked for it via the baby monitor. I turned it off because no effort was made with the rocking chair animations and it bores me beyond tears!
I got Shannon out of the rocking chair and had him prepare a meal for Rian instead.
The family ate together
Keanu and River watched the stars after taking care of Rian's needs.
Shannon and Mikezumi danced to River's music
Keanu tucked Rian in for the night
River made a mad dash to the bathroom in the middle of the night
Zumi and the Winchester Brothers
The Watcher's Caretaker - A Limited ISBI
I added Pets back to my game today, and so far everything is still going alright. I'm going to try and add them all by the weekend, minus the Stuff Packs and see what that does. I hope that everything goes well, I can deal with a little lag. I didn't actually play any real save, just messed around to see if things worked.
@Karritz I learned to avoid lots with several kitchens and appliances (I once used a lot with two complete houses - big mistake), as the sims always choose what they use at random. If you decide to double up, two stoves is probably the only thing that makes sense. Even there, you run into diminishing returns, as the sim may decide he wants to use the stove that is already in use instead of the free one.
@Mikezumi I have been using those napping mats for a long time now, and they are a great help. I always failed to see the point in training toddlers to walk and to use the potty if you have them in a crib where they can do nothing but sit around and scream if they want anything. They can't even fill their social bar by playing with their toy, like they can on the floor. You just have to cancel the urge of adults to put the toddlers into the cribs all the time. With butlers, this becomes a bit more difficult, but you don't use any, and it's still a net positive even in that case.
Regarding my game, I thought that this image showed a family in Oasis Landing that was originally from my first visit and was in the process of being deleted:
Turns out I was right. This is the Sekemoto family (one of the descendants) from my first visit to OL, It got deleted by the game shortly after I took the image. I'm also relatively sure that I saw one of the original "Stout" families in the "Landgraab" house, where they had been living during my first visit. They are also gone now and the house is empty. This also explains why the game had to "steal" my house. The game had generated five families as descendants (one for each child), all of them sufficiently large, and OL has only very few buildings, and only some of those are good for larger families. As (at least) two of the "old" families of descendants blocked two of those buildings, the game placed the five new ones into whatever it could get. Why the game creates new families before it's done deleting the old ones is anyone's guess. I can imagine that the new families get generated while OL gets loaded and before the town gets rendered, while the old families are in the town file, which causes the overlap as soon as the town gets rendered.
I'm not sure whether mods play some role here. I noticed that, if I start a new game with all the NRAAS mods, the generated town will always be empty. No townies, and the town will subsequently get filled with randomly generated pudding families. At game start, this is easily rectified, because I can just start a new game without mods, which means the townies will be there. Unfortunately, that's not an option with ITF in my current game, as that had been running for a while and I cannot just take the mods out to make the game use townies. My OL is filled with random puddings (I use the term "filled" loosely, as there is hardly anyone in town who is not a family descendant), and I guess I will have to start a new game without mods at some point in order to get to know any of the original OL townies.
Does anyone here know of any mod in the NRAAS suite or some other that may prevent townies from spawning? Testing which one is responsible is a bit daunting, given the long loading times. Also, if it's story progression, I'm not sure how I would do that when traveling to a new world without losing all the progress the mod introduced.
Cute toddler scenes Nice to see Mikezumi enjoying herself
@Turjan Not sure of any mods myself. Maybe try and ask people on here or even the NRASS forums?
I ended up playing some The Sims 2 yesterday,
forgot its actually a fun game.
Feedback
@Turjan
You have some cute males in your game, good they seemed to get along
well.
@Mikezumi
Thank you, Rian is such a cute toddler love the photos of him.
They seemed to have eventful days.
@Cadh20000
Thanks that hat is cool too.
Great updates.
Let me TRY to get these in chronological order...
Sadie's new "Everyday" outfit.
An Alchemist-Zombie. (Yes, Chip's "Ensorcell" at work again, he keeps making them learn new skills...courtesy of my orders of course.)
No clue what this is, it just appeared by the kitchen counter all of a sudden and didn't go away, I finally used shift-click > "Object" > "Delete it" to get rid of it. It had acted like a rug as they could walk right over it and seemed to take no notice of it at all.
Bryan tried to prank his son, but Benny blew it back on him.
I guess even a sim who has the "Immune to Cold" LTR isn't immune to the "Chattering Teeth" Fairy Prank.
Bryan tried to prank Benny, but got it turned back on him
At the same party where he countered his dad's prank, he also played guitar.
Melody in her maternity clothes right after getting her notification.
As Melody and George discuss the news, Benny has the bad luck to be haunted by a rude ghost(summoned by a Gnome of the Darned). She followed him into the bathroom and refused to shoo so he could use the toilet...right up until after he peed his pants, then she finally left.
The cabby that drove Melody and Aina back from the hospital was pretty cute, too bad she was an "out-of-towner".
Melody rocking Aina after they got home.
George feeding Aina.
Melody got the "Oh my Ghost" opportunity and used it to add Lucky back into the active household. By the way, he has since finished Mastering Hunting and learning the final Trick.
They attracted quite a crowd when they emerged from the Science building.
Lucky's status
The day after Lucky was added back to the active household the mailman decided to "Research Alchemy" after dropping the mail off...until Lucky's anti-mailperson aggression kicked in and he got chased away anyway.
Those Gnome of the Darned keep summoning ghosts onto the family lot, some are friendly, some are rude. This time it was a ghost dog Lucky was happy to pal around with. Apparently both died of old age, Lucky was the "Good" version, this other was the "Bad" version...as was the other ghost dog they summon.
Melody teaching Aina to walk.
Remember the ghost who made Benny pee his pants? She came back again. This time she decided the top bunk in Benny's room would be perfect for a nap and scared poor cowardly Chip right out of his sleep and bed! (She apparently floated right through his room on her way to Benny's)
Benny decided he was tired of having a human in the household and used an elixer to turn his uncle George into a Fairy at a costume party. MC and me added the Witch so he'd really fit in. By the way, Aina was born human thanks to her father but I didn't bother with any potions for her, MC all the way.
Chip watched TV at the party...as a blue-faced hotdog with a very serious expression...
I changed a couple of their costumes while they were at the party. Benny had all 3 parts of this outfit mixed throughout his outfits when he first aged up so I decided to go all the way with it for his costume.
Sadie's new costume, a Kunoichi. I wanted something better than the rather old-fashioned white dress the game put her in. When looking through I found what I could only think of as a "ninja outfit" so I turned her into a kunoichi.
By the way, this is the dress in question.
Sorry, I forgot to take a screenshot of Bryan's new armor(from the world of "Dragon Valley" I think, but it MIGHT have been from the "Ambitions" expansion's Time Machine and its past adventures souvenirs.). He was originally a hotdog like Chip.
Maybe THIS is why the Gnome of Invention went into hiding when the Gnome of the Darned were brought onto the lot?
Sadie was NOT happy with the way her husband and their ghost-dog smelled...
Aina's little nook in her parents room until she ages up and gets the top bunk in what is now Benny's room alone. Can you tell her favorite color?
My "Studio"
Fleet Admiral Toshio "Animal" Nakamura.
Yeah, he looks different. I just wasn't satisfied with the last iteration.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~