@Brandontaylor You are right about things continuing, I've got the sensation we'll be wearing masks for a very long time. And when the vaccine is ready, will it be safe? Gah...
@AlexaKry We're being updated on happenings in Germany as well, I bet your bars and restaurants soon will close, too. Thing here, is all shops that are not considered essential, are closed. And now they have shut down the clothing section as well as the make-up, electronics, toys and whatnot in the supermarkets too! I can understand the solidarity move towards the smaller shops that are suffering economically. But the toys??? Christmas is coming! Everything is supposed to reopen on Decemeber 1, but come on! I suspect this crisis won't be taken care of in a month...
@jillbg I think, for it to be effective the shutdown will need to be for at least 6 weeks if you don't want to have to do it all again in a few months. Melbourne is just opening up over the past couple of weeks. I don't know how long it was shut down for but it was a few weeks. They don't seem to be getting any new cases at the moment, but Sydney is getting occasional new cases still. They are not shut down though.
Where I live still has a few restrictions about gatherings where people who know each other might gather and forget about social distancing.
I went to a club on Tuesday to have lunch with friends to celebrate the Melbourne Cup horse race. No one was allowed at the track in Melbourne but the race went ahead. People still had parties all over the country though but I think there was some sort of social distancing involved everywhere.
I have shut down my Isla Paradiso game and put it away for a while. I've now started work on Episode 13 of the 30 Grandchildren Badge Challenge. It's getting to the part where they children are about to start producing the grandchildren. I'm nervous. Not sure if the badge will really happen.
After nearly two months of not playing sims 3 I decided to play tonight. Well, I lost over an hour of gameplay because my game froze. If the coming update doesn't help with that I may quit for good. Here are pics from tonight, though the last three are pretty much no-longer in existence.
Henry learned to drive!
Aria's birthday, cas pic and post-cas pic!
Origin ID HillyPlays P.A.C.E- Positive Attitude Changes Everything
@jillbg : yes, bars, restaurants, fitness centers and such are closed.
Unfortunately infection numbers on children rise fastly now, so a lot of schools are partly or fully closed due to quarantaine. They don´t want to close schools and kindergardens fully, but don´t know how to stop this high infection numbers!
It´s already said that eventually the lock down will last till January! Depending on the rates.
I think this will be a very sad Christmas this year with lots of lonely peolpe....
I really hope you´ll stay healthy this time!!!!!!!
Hey everyone. I'm still here, just lurking. Been struggling a bit emotionally lately (Daylight Savings Time change really threw me for a loop when "Fall Back" usually doesn't ) so I haven't felt like commenting much, or doing much at all lately. But I have read all your posts and given out Awesomes. (I feel like give out this "excuse" a lot, but...I think that's just the blah in me talking.)
Thankfully my writing has given me a pleasurable escape from the cares of the world and also that I'm feeling ABLE to write, even if it's on and off and not on a roll like I was just on. I'll have more of Chapter 10 to share with y'all soon. 👍
Hoping I can feel a little more like my normal self soon. 🙏
Jaxon becomes a child in 4 Sim Days.
Lukas becomes a toddler in 4 Sim Days.
Maxwell becomes a Teen in 11 Sim Days.
Rosalie becomes an adult in 13 Sim Days.
The Twins, Lacey & Willow, become Teens in 20 Sim Days.
I'm trying to get Maxwell to become friends with Wilhelmina Wolff. I want some werewolf in the family. Lol.
It's summer in my game and almost Leisure Day so I'm probably gonna have my sims invite Nikki & Dayvid over or visit them. Once Rosalie maxes Painting and ages up I think I'm going to give her a career that she won't have to stay home all the time for so she has a reason to get out of the house. I'm trying to decide between Chef and Actress for her, leaning more towards Actress, since I've never really done that career yet.
@emorrill I'm sorry you are sad. I struggle too most of the time. I’m hoping for big changes next year. I gave you an awesome because you earned it for continuing writing and just keep on going. Things tend to improve over time.
Today I made a few new sims to be spouses for some of the Soon to be young adult children in my 30 Grandchildren story. I’ll try to post pictures tomorrow. I had to turn my computer off and unplug it for now as we are in the middle of a thunder and lightning storm. I’m using my phone at the moment.
I want to go for the badge in my current set of videos I’m about to make.
Haven't felt much like playing one of my narrative stories...so just playing a "freeplay" for a while.
Lost Cove...
Haruo and River are stuck on this island trying to make ends meet...something's happened here...and pretty much has wiped out what used to be a bustling city. Well anyways...they've managed to get some sort of house together finally.
River has started learning alchemy. Haruo has already mastered it.
...and has started going on to the science station.
Mornings at 5:00AM means going out and dealing with the gardening. I'm thinking about taking his lifetime wish and changing it entirely to The Perfect Garden.
River after a little morning hanky-panky with Haruo.
Haruo curb-stomping McMulty's Water Pump. Yeah, evidently it takes a good kick to jumpstart it in the morning.
Talking to Peggy Stover, the Consignment Specialist to get some simoleons for consigning gemstones (the Tiberium, Soulpeace and Pink Diamonds are going into one of the WA chests...since they provide a rather unfair advantage in terms of financial solvency).
Haruo's "River".
Haruo at the Potion table...trying not to blow himself up.
Current financial situation:
§4,407,589.00 - Yeah, they have three dogs (A wolf, a Rottweiler and a fox) and they all go hunting for gemstones.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
@king_of_simcity7 It is summer in the Ballan story and winter in the ghost story.
I hope you are able to find some useful stuff on the thumb drive.
@Celticgamer0 Bryce looks cute skating with the lady.
@--ginafz9l- Thanks for the comment about the water texture in the picture I posted. I have graphics adjusted in that save but not for water or reflections or shadows. I'm playing on a desktop now and I love being able to have better graphics set for my saves, but it did eat up ram when I combined the families in that story, so I had to reduce a few to keep from having error 12 crashes.
Congrats on your teen and bummer about the death. Sims have a pretty good attitude about life and death as a rule.
@CravenLestat Congats on being able to add her to your household. They look very happy together. Hope it works out.
@DeafSimmer I've enjoyed reading the story and it looks like Zelda is getting some feelings for Link!
Your pics disappeared this morning on the update on page 4047, but they were there when I read the update yesterday.
I love the picture of Link riding off on Epona early in the morning! Those pictures are still present.
@Emily4331 Gorgeous makeovers of the ghosts.
Lolita looks way too innocent! I don't really know her backstory. I am judging her based on @zeegee's story with her. lol
Natalia sure was a pretty sim. She is very striking now, not as soft looking.
@Silverofdreams30 It's lovely seeing the screenshots of young Ty, Audra, and Bree. Yes, that is a classic Ty pose in the tub!
Oh my! Jordan is gorgeous. Your poses and backdrops are awesome as well.
@Karritz Thanks for the comment on the palace. It really is a different style of building and takes a bit of work to make it a home for several sims and trying not to change the outer features at all. I'm not one for building basements for my sims to live in as you do. I do put storage or tombs or caverns in basements, but not living spaces or gardens, etc. Even with buydebug lights, it is too dark and unrealistic for living spaces in basements for me. I'm glad that you are still finding some time to read the story.
It is nice that Joe and Judy are getting together on their own.
I had to laugh seeing Joe climbing instead of gardening. I often find Dedric playing basketball rather than gardening and then I either let Wisteria do it or his dragon. I've actually let the garden start dying out as they have plenty of saved perfect specimens and I've got a crate of seeds if they need to grow something. I do need to send them to the WA worlds to get recipes and a few things that I don't cheat to obtain though.
I think you know I am not fond of the IF's as they have glitched my games in the past so I've banned them. I have enough sims without adding those to the stories as well. You do have yours look very individual so it is not as obvious that they were IF's.
I really should stop putting shoes on my plant sims! The flower trails are so cute in the pictures.
@GraceyManor Nice to see you again and an update on your story as well. Cute pictures of him singing to her. I hope she enjoys her backstage tour.
bummer, hope you feel better soon and that it is not the flu or the return of the covid.
@Lucy_Henley Love seeing your sims enjoying uni. oh my, what a disaster in the kitchen with fixing the sink. That is a big puddle to clean up!
@rubyskywalker I'm glad to read you are still playing the sims. It sounds like things are progressing well for your sims.
@Coconut27 Welcome and hope your game continues to play well for you. Sounds like your sim is enjoying her college years and a new boyfriend too!
@Turjan hehe, Marcel is a bit of a player!
Cute kitties!
Cute baby gnome!
Congrats to Marcel and the ladies on the babies.
@RedDestiny92 Great pictures of Lev and Cinnamon and they do seem very happy together.
Abduction! Is he or isn't he?
lol, I'm guessing him!
@sarabeth2984 Cute pictures and I love Moonlight Falls and the sims in that town. Glad to see Waylon finding a date and girlfriend.
@ilikethesims30 Do you use traveler mod? There are fewer glitches with it, but if you are using it ask over on the nraas site. They are very helpful in figuring things out that go wrong.
@Rhiannon58 Yes, pets can take a water taxi! Only in the sims!
@HillyBeth Surely it has not been two months. Bummer it froze. I'm guessing you play on a mac? Hope they get the update working and it helps you.
@AlexaKry Loved the update. It answered most of my questions that had been going on in my head. Posted comments on your thread.
@emorrill I hate the time change! I'm ready to go to bed at 8:30 and having to force myself to stay up so I won't wake up at 4 am. I'm glad the writing is helping you. Keep it up!
@Nikkei_Simmer I like building when I can't play my story saves. I've got a few pics of houses saved on my puter and will work on one of those in a build folder I've made since setting up the desktop.
I haven’t actually played for a couple of days, because my game was being rather slow. I’ll try deleting the cache and then doing an Origin repair.
I may also set up the new Jennings save, although I think I’ll have to create them from scratch in CAS, seeing as the original version has the horse (I forgot the name, whoops) and the new version doesn’t have Verity as an equestrian.
I also haven’t explored Monte Vista yet, and I’d like to! Ugh, so many choices...
@s33man Eva and Regan look like a good game idea. I hope you have fun with them.
@Nikkei_Simmer The horse just knows who's the prettiest - and it's not that puny human .
I guess staying poor in this game is kind of difficult, unless you are stuck in one of the low-paying jobs that eat up all your time.
@Emily4331 Ah, that's what happened. And here I thought Alistair was using Elisa as a flotation device .
Your Zelda actually looks related to Iliana, nice. Even if that stereotypical fake blonde is kind of iconic, your treatment makes her really pretty.
Ah, a pretty Kaylynn. Those huge eyelashes perfectly balance the face.
Not sure I recognize Cornelia, but she certainly looks rather distinguished, like if she belonged in the house she lives in.
Awesome Valentyna. And that pic of your gang of four is gorgeous.
The only resurrected SV sims I know are the older ones you actually made, so the ladies are a nice change. Those all look very fitting to what they represent.
Regarding Natalia, it's always funny how much you can change the head form by exchanging the hair. I'm not sure, did you reduce the eyes or is that because of the makeup? I'm not sure about the cheek bones, either, which may just be the lighting. She looks very real now. She reminds me of someone I know.
I can already imagine what happens if you ask "Wanna try for a baby" in real life, unless you are on very good terms and probably in a relationship. That this works in the Sims when people kinda like you never ceases to amuse me. "Yeah, why not! Better than getting juiced again."
@emorrill Thanks.
Nice spellcasting lesson. Isn't it that, if you don't extinguish the flame on a community lot, it will burn forever? Funny I never tried that.
Das and Mom of this group? Heh. I don't think Elliott stands a chance against Harvey, even if he is older.
Good luck for Sam that he achieves what he wants.
Great images, as always.
@Karritz Good to know that I'm not the only one who has to read or watch the same instructions over and over again . I guess I'll have a game in Sunlit Tides at some point, and there your tutorial will definitely come in handy.
I enjoyed the video.
Yes, I mostly just delete those horse lots, too. I never play with horses.
Anyway, I liked all your updates. That gives a bit of background.
@RedDestiny92 What don't you do for your offspring .
Yeah, Jeff is always good for some distraction. And whatever happens at uni stays at uni.
Even sims have their favorites among their children, yes. And I have the same feeling in the sims: first you do everything for the kids, then it's good to see them finally go.
No stairs is always a plus in a house. Like it.
Your JJ and TJ are a nice couple. Looks like a lovely trip.
Nice wedding pics, and yes, I liked the flashback. at what you did to Vladimir. Hehe.
Yes, easter eggs. Why not. It's the season of fertility, so they use it well.
@CravenLestat I love that Dia de los Muertos pic. Of course, the "plain" sim is lovely, too
Disappearing sims, yes, I know that. The moment I gave the consignment store lady in my tropical island save a makeover, the game decided to delete her. Kiwi is also pretty.
Mesosiderite? I guess I never played much around with the miner. Except use it to annoy the neighbors.
Grassy kitchens? You're just ahead of times.
Hamburgers without onions? Sacrilege .
@bekkasan That pic with all that water, the trees and the light really looks pretty. Nearly a bit otherworldly .
Congrats regarding Lara. You have such a nice family.
I've never seen such a float pic, either, nice . And I love that pic with the rising sun, too. So pretty.
Thank you for the comments. Marcel lives alone, and I guess that won't change. I needed one game where the protagonist didn't have a huge family at home. That doesn't mean he cannot have it elsewhere .
@Brandontaylor Thank you. Aw. Quinton peeing himself. I wished sims would just get used to situations like that if they see it all the time.
Congrats on the job. That must be a big relief. I hope everything works out well.
@Gamer43251 That's a good idea with those little standardized homes. What's the lot size, 8x20?
@gamerplaya94 Lovely Halloween pics And funny, too. .
@Silverofdreams30 I like your makeovers of the SV girls. Very nice .
@TinySpaceFox Yes, but it helps that Alistair and Elisa are witches. I hope .
And yes, I absolutely love those exaggerated doctor's utensils. Heh, I guess, in Twinbrook, you have to take what you get when it comes to hearts. When I started a game there, I first waited whether things would improve. They didn't.
Great gif
Awesome recreations of Alexandrea and Christian, love them.
@Lucy_Henley I kind of like that most people seem to use the same house at university. Ah, the brain-enhancing machine. Love it, especially the top model.
@sarabeth2984 Thank you very much. Marcel isn't really in any relationship. Bianca isn't even at "romantic interest" level. He just has lots of babies .
Nice seeing your Ravenhalls. I can understand you like the Wolff's. Lovely Waylon and Emily romance. I think I had that too in my game.
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Let's just see what happens!
@TinySpaceFox Of course you can't trust Martin's sense in girls...he clearly loves David!
Love your TS3 versions of Alexandrea and Christian! They're really cute simmies.
@RedDestiny92 Thank you
It's taken me a bit to get used to your softer Vladimir, but I love Vlad deeply so all versions of him are appreciated additions to the thread.
Yeah, the ghosts I've been doing are sims I don't typically see people playing with, so I wouldn't recognize them either if I wasn't the one doing the makeovers.
Cinnamon's outfit at the spring festival is so cute! And very fitting for the season.
@DeafSimmer "[Sim A] and [Sim B] shared their first kiss after an hour of talking." is a pretty good summary of The Sims.
@emorrill Excuse me, my Stardew Valley character, Tooty, is actually married to Alex, so if Haley could like get away from my man that'd be great.
I know that feeling all too well. Things will always brighten up. Just keep doing what makes you happy.
@CravenLestatYou're really good at building. Wow what an ugly house! No woman will want to live in that trash!
@Lucy_Henley Love the mythology accurate fairy names. Especially Oberon! I'm a big fan of the Shin Megami Tensei games and some fairies are in those, Oberon included. Have you ever seen his design in some of those games? So cute!
@Turjan I can't look at Patty's hat and not see A Clockwork Orange
I almost kept Zelda blonde, but I would've still definitely changed it from that highlighter yellow.
I was surprised by Kaylynn! I don't typically play SV so I've never really seen her aged up. She's quite lovely!
Really? Huh. I didn't really change that much about Cornelia beyond her style.
Thank you
I really enjoyed giving makeovers to the elderly ghosts! Elder sims don't get enough love.
It really is! I spend such a long time on just choosing hair for sims. I think it's mostly the makeup that is making her other features look different. I really only recall changing her lip shape a bit and giving her more mass in her nose. I could've made her eyes a smidge smaller, but I honestly can't remember. I'm glad you think she looks more real now. That's always my goal.
Ya know, I don't speak Simlish. Maybe our sims aren't saying, "wanna try for a baby?" and instead are just like, "hey wanna throw caution to the wind with some unsafe woohoo?" We'd never know!
Looks 100% like he's going to punch that genie lamp in the face.
@sarabeth2984 Thank you
LOL love the family dinner at the werewolf household. What a sight.
@Karritz Not usually a fan of plant sims, but Bertie is adorable.
@bekkasan thank you. I watch videos or read your stories when I'm supposed to be sleeping and wake up. I do it on my tablet.
I first started using basements for gardens and living spaces when I had a huge problem. I wanted a garden and more space for my sims, but I didn't want to change the look of the lot at ground level. Occasionally I do a wall one tile inside the outside wall of a basement and put lights in there and give them windows. The windows seem to brighten it up a bit. But I mostly just want to put all of that stuff out of site when I'm on the surface. Plus a basement garden is easier to protect from the zombies and weather.
The main household back in Dragon Valley have thousands of harvestables in chests. Judy grabbed a few before she left for Sunlit Tides. I have big plans to avoid having a garden in Dragon Valley. The garden in Sunlit Tides is there only because Joe wants to have a bottomless nectar cellar.
The shoes don't do anything for or against the flower trails. It is the NRAAS GoHere mod that is the problem. Once I found out about that I removed it from my game because I really wanted flower trails. They were a big part of the reason I wanted Plant Sims in my game. I also had to temporarily remove the Hybrid mod from my game so my fairy, Donna, could use Bloom. Her LTW was Greener Gardens. That LTW isn't possible to get while you have Hybrid in you game as it stops them from using Bloom. I found she did Bloom a few times and then suddenly she couldn't do it any more. I did some research and found it was due to Hybrid mod so I took it out and she could bloom again. I kept that mod out until she got her LTW and then put it back again. If I have a future fairy that needs to use bloom, I will remove that mod again for a while.
As for the IFs. I am just going through a phase. I often ignore them for years and then suddenly everyone has to have one and they all have to be made real. A few months ago I had to leave them all as they were when they became real, now I want to change them so much they have no resemblance to their original appearance.
@Turjan thank you. I rarely delete the horse related lots, I just resent them being there. So I'm pleased I finally got rid of that one. Shame I then got a sim who has the Equestrian trait.
The thing is, I did remove those lots from Sunlit Tides a few times ages ago and whenever I went into map view the original lot appeared to still be there. I couldn't get rid of it. I was expecting that to happen again but it didn't. I'm really pleased about that.
I feel that since I made that tutorial on building a dive lot I should at least have some idea on how to do it. But I think part of the reason for making the video was I knew I used to make them years ago when we first got the ability to make dive lots but didn't do it for a few years and then when I wanted to do it again I had to work it all out and it took me so long to work it out and I had to write all of the steps down and I knew I'd lose where I wrote them and I thought others might appreciate having the info too. So I made the video. It took ages to make as I had to make sure I got every single step recorded and fully documented as missing any of those steps meant the result would be something that looks like mad spaghetti or something that just doesn't function as a dive lot.
Now I'm going to try to complete the 30 Grandchildren challenge so I can put that one away and concentrate on Oscar and Louise as well as The McFluff Story, Perfect Genetics Challenge and probably Playlist 3 of The Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Just had a birthday party for my adult going into elder. His wife is a vampire, so she's definitely going to outlive him, and it's honestly a little saddening. They were such a good couple.
And then after the party today..
Just trying hard to achieve his lifetime wish now.
@Emily4331 Haha. "Punch the genie" - then get ensorceled.
I guess I never took the makeup off Cornelia, so I guess I just don't know how she really looks.
The thing is, I did remove those lots from Sunlit Tides a few times ages ago and whenever I went into map view the original lot appeared to still be there. I couldn't get rid of it. I was expecting that to happen again but it didn't. I'm really pleased about that.
The LOD view didn't update in that case. The usual way around this is to enable testingcheats, then just Ctrl-Shift-click on the lot and place an object on the lot, like a rock or whatever. This should trigger the LOD to update as soon as you leave build mode.
Now I'm going to try to complete the 30 Grandchildren challenge so I can put that one away and concentrate on Oscar and Louise as well as The McFluff Story, Perfect Genetics Challenge and probably Playlist 3 of The Isla Paradiso Bunch.
I'm familiarising myself with my 30 Grandchildren household. I don't have much confidence in this badge being awarded, but I'm going to give it a go.
Some of the 'children' who are going to produce the grandchildren have aged up to Young Adult. I age them up when they are A Grade at school and, if it is possible to do their LTW while still a teen they must have completed their Lifetime Wish, otherwise they age up to YA and then work on their LTW.
I've started making potential spouses for the ones that have aged up so far. All of these children/young adults grew from babies that were made instantly, on the same day, in batches of 4 by me using NRAAS Master Controller Instant Baby. So there is no particular age order so I just go by their skills, school grade and LTW when deciding to age them up.
Javon was the first to complete his LTW of Zoologist. He is now a YA.
Javon's traits are:
Excitable
Athletic
Loves the Outdoors
Family Oriented
Adventurous
Javon was the first sim I ever had complete the zoologist LTW. I discovered it is a very easy LTW to complete and I've since had several sims do it.
I made a potential spouse for Javon. Her name is Gwen. I added Gwen to the household and she has already appeared in at least one previous video. They are still getting to know each other.
Gwen's traits are:
Loves the Outdoors
Athletic
Savvy Sculptor
Family Oriented
Natural Cook
LTW: Surrounded by Family
Javon and Gwen have been working on their Gardening skill together. Not really noticing each other much so far. They are gardening in their basement because I have them living in a house that @Rflong7 placed in her Cake Island world. I don't want to spoil the look of the world by having a garden up on the surface.
I have the version of that world with the houses but no population. I am adding sims to it.
I originally added a few sims I thought could be good potential spouses for some of the children when they grew up. But those potential spouses went off and married each other and started having babies. So I'm now making new potential spouses and placing them in the household so I can have some hope of them getting together with the sims I want them to finally marry and have babies with.
Alecia is now a Young Adult. We had a party for her and also for her brother, Robbie in the last episode I made of this series.
Alecia's traits are:
Diva
Disciplined
Easily Impressed
Party Animal
Family Oriented
She has achieved the extra trait of Bookwork
Her LTW is zoologist and she's achieved it.
I found I'd already added her potential spouse to the game. He hasn't been in the household for as long as Gwen has.
Dennis Harper was made specially for Alecia
Dennis's traits are:
Gatherer
Party Animal
Family Oriented
Nurturing
Artistic
Dennis's LTW is: Surrounded by Family
I'm giving this LTW to all of the potential spouses in the hope they all produce 5 grandchildren and we can end this challenge quickly.
Robbie
Now, Robbie has the dusty old lamp and I was planning to marry him to the genie. But I've now discovered it's a different genie each time I launch the game. So I've abandoned that idea. He can make it real one day and it might work out for one of his younger siblings. Robbie is already a Young Adult and I want to put him to work now making babies.
Since this trait can't be achieved before a sim ages to Young Adult Robbie has aged up and started work in the Science Career. I've had several sims achieve this LTW. It does take a while though.
I made someone specially for Robbie. Her name is Candice Koski
I made Candice yesterday and just added her to the household. She is still standing in their front yard so hasn't met anyone in the household yet. The household is getting a bit too big so I probably won't add new potential spouses to it until some of these couples move out. I've made 3 more potential spouses but don't have pics of them. I'll show you to them when I can. They currently reside in the library.
Lynette is currently a teen. She is going to age up to Young Adult very soon as she'd A Grade at school and she's just completed her LTW of Zoologist.
Lynette's traits are:
Good
Charismatic
Loves to Swim
Artistic.
I made her a spouse. Was about to add him to the game but looked at it and realised it's on the verge of becoming unplayable due to too many sims being in it. So she'll have to wait until after Javon and Gwen move out and start their family.
Alecia needs to age up as she'd done all she needs to as a teen. She now has to join the Science career to achieve her LTW.
Her traits are
Adventurous
Brave
Loner
Disciplined
Her extra trait is: Bookworm
Her LTW is Become a Creature Robot Cross-Breeder
Alecia has a potential spouse I made yesterday. He's Frank and he'll just have to wait patiently in my library for now.
Dolores
Her traits are:
Excitable
Savvy Sculptor
Virtuoso
Artistic
LTW: Master of the Arts - achieved
Dolores is ready to age up to Young Adult. I made her a potential spouse named Darryl, but he'll have to stay in my library for now.
The head of this household is Gerri.
Her traits are;
Good Sense of Humour
Charismatic
Loves the Outdoors
Angler
Green Thumb
Her extra trait is Genius
Her LTW is Perfect Garden
Her children were a surprise to her. She's still a Young Adult herself and is busy with the video game career so her children are helping her with her garden. We all live in hope that she eventually manages to achieve her LTW.
It looks like the immediate plans for this household are:
See where Gerri, their mother, goes with her career. She's currently a Character Modeler, level 5 of the Video Game Career.
Age up any teens who are eligible to age up as they become eligible to do so. There are at least 3 ready to age up in the episode I'm about to work on now.
Get Javon and Gwen to know each other and get married and move out and start a family of hopefully 5.
Get Alicia and Dennis to do what Javon and Gwen are going to do.
Keep Robbie working towards his LTW and eventually get him married to Candice.
Move in potential spouse for Lynette (he's already made and waiting in my library)
I also have spouses made for Felicia and Dolores so will move them in when possible and they can all do what Javon and Gwen are about to do.
That's about it for now. There are 8 more siblings to show you pictures of and that'll take way to long to do in this post. It's long enough already. I'll post pics of them later and give you an update on how things are going.
In the meantime I think I most likely will continue with Playlist 3 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch. I miss them already.
@Emily4331 thanks! Lysander and Hermia are from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare, and although they're not fairies in it, they are lovers. Theseus and Hippolyta aren't fairies, but are also lovers in the play. Iolanthe isn't from Shakespeare at all, but a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and Ariel is from The Tempest. Iolanthe is a fairy, and Ariel is a "spirit".
@Karritz It's funny how last year around this time it seemed so carefree...
@AlexaKry It's funny, what they say here is that kids don't pass the virus on to adults, at least not frequently... Still, they are imposing masks in priary school from 6 years up. Well, I'm surrounded by about 150 students each and every day, so we'll see how it goes with immunity and such!
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@Brandontaylor You are right about things continuing, I've got the sensation we'll be wearing masks for a very long time. And when the vaccine is ready, will it be safe? Gah...
@AlexaKry We're being updated on happenings in Germany as well, I bet your bars and restaurants soon will close, too. Thing here, is all shops that are not considered essential, are closed. And now they have shut down the clothing section as well as the make-up, electronics, toys and whatnot in the supermarkets too! I can understand the solidarity move towards the smaller shops that are suffering economically. But the toys??? Christmas is coming! Everything is supposed to reopen on Decemeber 1, but come on! I suspect this crisis won't be taken care of in a month...
@Silverofdreams30 You'll get there... This is frustrating as plum!
Where I live still has a few restrictions about gatherings where people who know each other might gather and forget about social distancing.
I went to a club on Tuesday to have lunch with friends to celebrate the Melbourne Cup horse race. No one was allowed at the track in Melbourne but the race went ahead. People still had parties all over the country though but I think there was some sort of social distancing involved everywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Henry learned to drive!
Aria's birthday, cas pic and post-cas pic!
HillyPlays
P.A.C.E- Positive Attitude Changes Everything
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/950668/meet-the-helmquists-a-sims-3-story#latest
Have fun reading it!
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/953447/streuner-a-cat-s-tale
Unfortunately infection numbers on children rise fastly now, so a lot of schools are partly or fully closed due to quarantaine. They don´t want to close schools and kindergardens fully, but don´t know how to stop this high infection numbers!
It´s already said that eventually the lock down will last till January! Depending on the rates.
I think this will be a very sad Christmas this year with lots of lonely peolpe....
I really hope you´ll stay healthy this time!!!!!!!
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/953447/streuner-a-cat-s-tale
@AlexaKry "Insolently." I like that word.
Hey everyone.
Thankfully my writing has given me a pleasurable escape from the cares of the world and also that I'm feeling ABLE to write, even if it's on and off and not on a roll like I was just on. I'll have more of Chapter 10 to share with y'all soon. 👍
Hoping I can feel a little more like my normal self soon. 🙏
Keep calm and Sim on my friends.
Lukas becomes a toddler in 4 Sim Days.
Maxwell becomes a Teen in 11 Sim Days.
Rosalie becomes an adult in 13 Sim Days.
The Twins, Lacey & Willow, become Teens in 20 Sim Days.
I'm trying to get Maxwell to become friends with Wilhelmina Wolff. I want some werewolf in the family. Lol.
It's summer in my game and almost Leisure Day so I'm probably gonna have my sims invite Nikki & Dayvid over or visit them. Once Rosalie maxes Painting and ages up I think I'm going to give her a career that she won't have to stay home all the time for so she has a reason to get out of the house. I'm trying to decide between Chef and Actress for her, leaning more towards Actress, since I've never really done that career yet.
Hoping to complete the Brunch at the Old Mill set for CYS. 16 items left.
My Sims 3 Store Wishlist: https://store.thesims3.com/myWishlist.html?persona=DollyGizzy
My TS3 Blog: https://rubysasimslife.blogspot.com
Today I made a few new sims to be spouses for some of the Soon to be young adult children in my 30 Grandchildren story. I’ll try to post pictures tomorrow. I had to turn my computer off and unplug it for now as we are in the middle of a thunder and lightning storm. I’m using my phone at the moment.
I want to go for the badge in my current set of videos I’m about to make.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Lost Cove...
Haruo and River are stuck on this island trying to make ends meet...something's happened here...and pretty much has wiped out what used to be a bustling city. Well anyways...they've managed to get some sort of house together finally.
River has started learning alchemy. Haruo has already mastered it.
...and has started going on to the science station.
Mornings at 5:00AM means going out and dealing with the gardening. I'm thinking about taking his lifetime wish and changing it entirely to The Perfect Garden.
River after a little morning hanky-panky with Haruo.
Haruo curb-stomping McMulty's Water Pump. Yeah, evidently it takes a good kick to jumpstart it in the morning.
Talking to Peggy Stover, the Consignment Specialist to get some simoleons for consigning gemstones (the Tiberium, Soulpeace and Pink Diamonds are going into one of the WA chests...since they provide a rather unfair advantage in terms of financial solvency).
Haruo's "River".
Haruo at the Potion table...trying not to blow himself up.
Current financial situation:
§4,407,589.00 - Yeah, they have three dogs (A wolf, a Rottweiler and a fox) and they all go hunting for gemstones.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Thank you ,that was sort of the look I went for
*lol*.
@emorrill
Feel better soon , Im glad I could help you
with getting ankha in AC.
and coughing.
https://graceymanorsims3.tumblr.com/
@king_of_simcity7 It is summer in the Ballan story and winter in the ghost story.
I hope you are able to find some useful stuff on the thumb drive.
@Celticgamer0 Bryce looks cute skating with the lady.
@--ginafz9l- Thanks for the comment about the water texture in the picture I posted. I have graphics adjusted in that save but not for water or reflections or shadows. I'm playing on a desktop now and I love being able to have better graphics set for my saves, but it did eat up ram when I combined the families in that story, so I had to reduce a few to keep from having error 12 crashes.
Congrats on your teen and bummer about the death. Sims have a pretty good attitude about life and death as a rule.
@CravenLestat Congats on being able to add her to your household. They look very happy together. Hope it works out.
@DeafSimmer I've enjoyed reading the story and it looks like Zelda is getting some feelings for Link!
Your pics disappeared this morning on the update on page 4047, but they were there when I read the update yesterday.
I love the picture of Link riding off on Epona early in the morning! Those pictures are still present.
@Emily4331 Gorgeous makeovers of the ghosts.
Lolita looks way too innocent! I don't really know her backstory. I am judging her based on @zeegee's story with her. lol
Natalia sure was a pretty sim. She is very striking now, not as soft looking.
@Silverofdreams30 It's lovely seeing the screenshots of young Ty, Audra, and Bree. Yes, that is a classic Ty pose in the tub!
Oh my! Jordan is gorgeous. Your poses and backdrops are awesome as well.
@Karritz Thanks for the comment on the palace. It really is a different style of building and takes a bit of work to make it a home for several sims and trying not to change the outer features at all. I'm not one for building basements for my sims to live in as you do. I do put storage or tombs or caverns in basements, but not living spaces or gardens, etc. Even with buydebug lights, it is too dark and unrealistic for living spaces in basements for me. I'm glad that you are still finding some time to read the story.
It is nice that Joe and Judy are getting together on their own.
I had to laugh seeing Joe climbing instead of gardening. I often find Dedric playing basketball rather than gardening and then I either let Wisteria do it or his dragon. I've actually let the garden start dying out as they have plenty of saved perfect specimens and I've got a crate of seeds if they need to grow something. I do need to send them to the WA worlds to get recipes and a few things that I don't cheat to obtain though.
I think you know I am not fond of the IF's as they have glitched my games in the past so I've banned them. I have enough sims without adding those to the stories as well.
I really should stop putting shoes on my plant sims! The flower trails are so cute in the pictures.
@GraceyManor Nice to see you again and an update on your story as well. Cute pictures of him singing to her. I hope she enjoys her backstage tour.
bummer, hope you feel better soon and that it is not the flu or the return of the covid.
@Lucy_Henley Love seeing your sims enjoying uni. oh my, what a disaster in the kitchen with fixing the sink. That is a big puddle to clean up!
@rubyskywalker I'm glad to read you are still playing the sims. It sounds like things are progressing well for your sims.
@Coconut27 Welcome and hope your game continues to play well for you. Sounds like your sim is enjoying her college years and a new boyfriend too!
@Turjan hehe, Marcel is a bit of a player!
Cute kitties!
Cute baby gnome!
Congrats to Marcel and the ladies on the babies.
@MadIris
@RedDestiny92 Great pictures of Lev and Cinnamon and they do seem very happy together.
Abduction! Is he or isn't he?
lol, I'm guessing him!
@sarabeth2984 Cute pictures and I love Moonlight Falls and the sims in that town. Glad to see Waylon finding a date and girlfriend.
@ilikethesims30 Do you use traveler mod? There are fewer glitches with it, but if you are using it ask over on the nraas site. They are very helpful in figuring things out that go wrong.
@Rhiannon58 Yes, pets can take a water taxi! Only in the sims!
@HillyBeth Surely it has not been two months. Bummer it froze. I'm guessing you play on a mac? Hope they get the update working and it helps you.
@AlexaKry Loved the update. It answered most of my questions that had been going on in my head. Posted comments on your thread.
@emorrill I hate the time change! I'm ready to go to bed at 8:30 and having to force myself to stay up so I won't wake up at 4 am. I'm glad the writing is helping you. Keep it up!
@Nikkei_Simmer I like building when I can't play my story saves. I've got a few pics of houses saved on my puter and will work on one of those in a build folder I've made since setting up the desktop.
A bright new morning in Dragon Valley.
The Cowboy and the Mermaid
I may also set up the new Jennings save, although I think I’ll have to create them from scratch in CAS, seeing as the original version has the horse (I forgot the name, whoops) and the new version doesn’t have Verity as an equestrian.
I also haven’t explored Monte Vista yet, and I’d like to! Ugh, so many choices...
@s33man Eva and Regan look like a good game idea. I hope you have fun with them.
@Nikkei_Simmer The horse just knows who's the prettiest - and it's not that puny human
I guess staying poor in this game is kind of difficult, unless you are stuck in one of the low-paying jobs that eat up all your time.
@Emily4331 Ah, that's what happened. And here I thought Alistair was using Elisa as a flotation device
Your Zelda actually looks related to Iliana, nice. Even if that stereotypical fake blonde is kind of iconic, your treatment makes her really pretty.
Ah, a pretty Kaylynn. Those huge eyelashes perfectly balance the face.
Not sure I recognize Cornelia, but she certainly looks rather distinguished, like if she belonged in the house she lives in.
Awesome Valentyna. And that pic of your gang of four is gorgeous.
The only resurrected SV sims I know are the older ones you actually made, so the ladies are a nice change. Those all look very fitting to what they represent.
Regarding Natalia, it's always funny how much you can change the head form by exchanging the hair. I'm not sure, did you reduce the eyes or is that because of the makeup? I'm not sure about the cheek bones, either, which may just be the lighting. She looks very real now. She reminds me of someone I know.
I can already imagine what happens if you ask "Wanna try for a baby" in real life, unless you are on very good terms and probably in a relationship. That this works in the Sims when people kinda like you never ceases to amuse me. "Yeah, why not! Better than getting juiced again."
@emorrill Thanks.
Nice spellcasting lesson. Isn't it that, if you don't extinguish the flame on a community lot, it will burn forever? Funny I never tried that.
Das and Mom of this group? Heh. I don't think Elliott stands a chance against Harvey, even if he is older.
Good luck for Sam that he achieves what he wants.
Great images, as always.
@Karritz Good to know that I'm not the only one who has to read or watch the same instructions over and over again
I enjoyed the video.
Yes, I mostly just delete those horse lots, too. I never play with horses.
Anyway, I liked all your updates. That gives a bit of background.
@RedDestiny92 What don't you do for your offspring
Yeah, Jeff is always good for some distraction. And whatever happens at uni stays at uni.
Even sims have their favorites among their children, yes. And I have the same feeling in the sims: first you do everything for the kids, then it's good to see them finally go.
No stairs is always a plus in a house. Like it.
Your JJ and TJ are a nice couple. Looks like a lovely trip.
Nice wedding pics, and yes, I liked the flashback.
Yes, easter eggs. Why not. It's the season of fertility, so they use it well.
@CravenLestat I love that Dia de los Muertos pic. Of course, the "plain" sim is lovely, too
Disappearing sims, yes, I know that. The moment I gave the consignment store lady in my tropical island save a makeover, the game decided to delete her. Kiwi is also pretty.
Mesosiderite? I guess I never played much around with the miner. Except use it to annoy the neighbors.
Grassy kitchens? You're just ahead of times.
Hamburgers without onions? Sacrilege
@bekkasan That pic with all that water, the trees and the light really looks pretty. Nearly a bit otherworldly
Congrats regarding Lara. You have such a nice family.
I've never seen such a float pic, either, nice
Thank you for the comments. Marcel lives alone, and I guess that won't change. I needed one game where the protagonist didn't have a huge family at home. That doesn't mean he cannot have it elsewhere
@Brandontaylor Thank you. Aw. Quinton peeing himself. I wished sims would just get used to situations like that if they see it all the time.
Congrats on the job. That must be a big relief. I hope everything works out well.
@Gamer43251 That's a good idea with those little standardized homes. What's the lot size, 8x20?
@gamerplaya94 Lovely Halloween pics And funny, too.
@Silverofdreams30 I like your makeovers of the SV girls. Very nice
@TinySpaceFox Yes, but it helps that Alistair and Elisa are witches. I hope
And yes, I absolutely love those exaggerated doctor's utensils. Heh, I guess, in Twinbrook, you have to take what you get when it comes to hearts. When I started a game there, I first waited whether things would improve. They didn't.
Great gif
Awesome recreations of Alexandrea and Christian, love them.
@Lucy_Henley I kind of like that most people seem to use the same house at university. Ah, the brain-enhancing machine. Love it, especially the top model.
@MadIris That's large and in charge for you
@sarabeth2984 Thank you very much. Marcel isn't really in any relationship. Bianca isn't even at "romantic interest" level. He just has lots of babies
Nice seeing your Ravenhalls. I can understand you like the Wolff's. Lovely Waylon and Emily romance. I think I had that too in my game.
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Let's just see what happens!
@TinySpaceFox Of course you can't trust Martin's sense in girls...he clearly loves David!
Love your TS3 versions of Alexandrea and Christian! They're really cute simmies.
@RedDestiny92 Thank you
It's taken me a bit to get used to your softer Vladimir, but I love Vlad deeply so all versions of him are appreciated additions to the thread.
Yeah, the ghosts I've been doing are sims I don't typically see people playing with, so I wouldn't recognize them either if I wasn't the one doing the makeovers.
Cinnamon's outfit at the spring festival is so cute! And very fitting for the season.
@DeafSimmer "[Sim A] and [Sim B] shared their first kiss after an hour of talking." is a pretty good summary of The Sims.
@emorrill Excuse me, my Stardew Valley character, Tooty, is actually married to Alex, so if Haley could like get away from my man that'd be great.
I know that feeling all too well. Things will always brighten up. Just keep doing what makes you happy.
@CravenLestat You're really good at building. Wow what an ugly house! No woman will want to live in that trash!
@Brandontaylor Thank you!
@Lucy_Henley Love the mythology accurate fairy names.
@Silverofdreams30 Cute throwback pics!
Thank you!
@Turjan I can't look at Patty's hat and not see A Clockwork Orange
I almost kept Zelda blonde, but I would've still definitely changed it from that highlighter yellow.
I was surprised by Kaylynn! I don't typically play SV so I've never really seen her aged up. She's quite lovely!
Really? Huh. I didn't really change that much about Cornelia beyond her style.
Thank you
I really enjoyed giving makeovers to the elderly ghosts! Elder sims don't get enough love.
It really is! I spend such a long time on just choosing hair for sims.
Ya know, I don't speak Simlish. Maybe our sims aren't saying, "wanna try for a baby?" and instead are just like, "hey wanna throw caution to the wind with some unsafe woohoo?"
Looks 100% like he's going to punch that genie lamp in the face.
@sarabeth2984 Thank you
LOL love the family dinner at the werewolf household. What a sight.
@Karritz Not usually a fan of plant sims, but Bertie is adorable.
@HillyBeth Aria grew up so cute!
@Nikkei_Simmer Which sim did you get your new Artbreeder avatar from? She's lovely!
@bekkasan That Dragon Valley pic is gorgeous!
Uh oh, looks like there will be another dog bath today!
I love these dorky pets.
I first started using basements for gardens and living spaces when I had a huge problem. I wanted a garden and more space for my sims, but I didn't want to change the look of the lot at ground level. Occasionally I do a wall one tile inside the outside wall of a basement and put lights in there and give them windows. The windows seem to brighten it up a bit. But I mostly just want to put all of that stuff out of site when I'm on the surface. Plus a basement garden is easier to protect from the zombies and weather.
The main household back in Dragon Valley have thousands of harvestables in chests. Judy grabbed a few before she left for Sunlit Tides. I have big plans to avoid having a garden in Dragon Valley. The garden in Sunlit Tides is there only because Joe wants to have a bottomless nectar cellar.
The shoes don't do anything for or against the flower trails. It is the NRAAS GoHere mod that is the problem. Once I found out about that I removed it from my game because I really wanted flower trails. They were a big part of the reason I wanted Plant Sims in my game. I also had to temporarily remove the Hybrid mod from my game so my fairy, Donna, could use Bloom. Her LTW was Greener Gardens. That LTW isn't possible to get while you have Hybrid in you game as it stops them from using Bloom. I found she did Bloom a few times and then suddenly she couldn't do it any more. I did some research and found it was due to Hybrid mod so I took it out and she could bloom again. I kept that mod out until she got her LTW and then put it back again. If I have a future fairy that needs to use bloom, I will remove that mod again for a while.
As for the IFs. I am just going through a phase. I often ignore them for years and then suddenly everyone has to have one and they all have to be made real. A few months ago I had to leave them all as they were when they became real, now I want to change them so much they have no resemblance to their original appearance.
@Turjan thank you. I rarely delete the horse related lots, I just resent them being there. So I'm pleased I finally got rid of that one. Shame I then got a sim who has the Equestrian trait.
The thing is, I did remove those lots from Sunlit Tides a few times ages ago and whenever I went into map view the original lot appeared to still be there. I couldn't get rid of it. I was expecting that to happen again but it didn't. I'm really pleased about that.
I feel that since I made that tutorial on building a dive lot I should at least have some idea on how to do it. But I think part of the reason for making the video was I knew I used to make them years ago when we first got the ability to make dive lots but didn't do it for a few years and then when I wanted to do it again I had to work it all out and it took me so long to work it out and I had to write all of the steps down and I knew I'd lose where I wrote them and I thought others might appreciate having the info too. So I made the video. It took ages to make as I had to make sure I got every single step recorded and fully documented as missing any of those steps meant the result would be something that looks like mad spaghetti or something that just doesn't function as a dive lot.
Now I'm going to try to complete the 30 Grandchildren challenge so I can put that one away and concentrate on Oscar and Louise as well as The McFluff Story, Perfect Genetics Challenge and probably Playlist 3 of The Isla Paradiso Bunch.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
And then after the party today..
Just trying hard to achieve his lifetime wish now.
I guess I never took the makeup off Cornelia, so I guess I just don't know how she really looks.
@Karritz The LOD view didn't update in that case. The usual way around this is to enable testingcheats, then just Ctrl-Shift-click on the lot and place an object on the lot, like a rock or whatever. This should trigger the LOD to update as soon as you leave build mode.
Good luck with the challenge.
I'm familiarising myself with my 30 Grandchildren household. I don't have much confidence in this badge being awarded, but I'm going to give it a go.
Some of the 'children' who are going to produce the grandchildren have aged up to Young Adult. I age them up when they are A Grade at school and, if it is possible to do their LTW while still a teen they must have completed their Lifetime Wish, otherwise they age up to YA and then work on their LTW.
I've started making potential spouses for the ones that have aged up so far. All of these children/young adults grew from babies that were made instantly, on the same day, in batches of 4 by me using NRAAS Master Controller Instant Baby. So there is no particular age order so I just go by their skills, school grade and LTW when deciding to age them up.
Javon was the first to complete his LTW of Zoologist. He is now a YA.
Javon's traits are:
Excitable
Athletic
Loves the Outdoors
Family Oriented
Adventurous
Javon was the first sim I ever had complete the zoologist LTW. I discovered it is a very easy LTW to complete and I've since had several sims do it.
I made a potential spouse for Javon. Her name is Gwen. I added Gwen to the household and she has already appeared in at least one previous video. They are still getting to know each other.
Gwen's traits are:
Loves the Outdoors
Athletic
Savvy Sculptor
Family Oriented
Natural Cook
LTW: Surrounded by Family
Javon and Gwen have been working on their Gardening skill together. Not really noticing each other much so far. They are gardening in their basement because I have them living in a house that @Rflong7 placed in her Cake Island world. I don't want to spoil the look of the world by having a garden up on the surface.
I have the version of that world with the houses but no population. I am adding sims to it.
I originally added a few sims I thought could be good potential spouses for some of the children when they grew up. But those potential spouses went off and married each other and started having babies. So I'm now making new potential spouses and placing them in the household so I can have some hope of them getting together with the sims I want them to finally marry and have babies with.
Alecia is now a Young Adult. We had a party for her and also for her brother, Robbie in the last episode I made of this series.
Alecia's traits are:
Diva
Disciplined
Easily Impressed
Party Animal
Family Oriented
She has achieved the extra trait of Bookwork
Her LTW is zoologist and she's achieved it.
I found I'd already added her potential spouse to the game. He hasn't been in the household for as long as Gwen has.
Dennis Harper was made specially for Alecia
Dennis's traits are:
Gatherer
Party Animal
Family Oriented
Nurturing
Artistic
Dennis's LTW is: Surrounded by Family
I'm giving this LTW to all of the potential spouses in the hope they all produce 5 grandchildren and we can end this challenge quickly.
Robbie
Now, Robbie has the dusty old lamp and I was planning to marry him to the genie. But I've now discovered it's a different genie each time I launch the game. So I've abandoned that idea. He can make it real one day and it might work out for one of his younger siblings. Robbie is already a Young Adult and I want to put him to work now making babies.
Robbie's traits are:
Couch Potato
Virtuoso
Bookworm
Familly Oriented
Computer Whiz
LTW: Become a Creature Robot Cross-Breeder
Since this trait can't be achieved before a sim ages to Young Adult Robbie has aged up and started work in the Science Career. I've had several sims achieve this LTW. It does take a while though.
I made someone specially for Robbie. Her name is Candice Koski
Candice's traits are:
Couch Potato
Family Oriented
Natural Cook
Gatherer
Nurturing
LTW: Surrounded by Family
She has just been added to the family.
I made Candice yesterday and just added her to the household. She is still standing in their front yard so hasn't met anyone in the household yet. The household is getting a bit too big so I probably won't add new potential spouses to it until some of these couples move out. I've made 3 more potential spouses but don't have pics of them. I'll show you to them when I can. They currently reside in the library.
Lynette is currently a teen. She is going to age up to Young Adult very soon as she'd A Grade at school and she's just completed her LTW of Zoologist.
Lynette's traits are:
Good
Charismatic
Loves to Swim
Artistic.
I made her a spouse. Was about to add him to the game but looked at it and realised it's on the verge of becoming unplayable due to too many sims being in it. So she'll have to wait until after Javon and Gwen move out and start their family.
Alecia needs to age up as she'd done all she needs to as a teen. She now has to join the Science career to achieve her LTW.
Her traits are
Adventurous
Brave
Loner
Disciplined
Her extra trait is: Bookworm
Her LTW is Become a Creature Robot Cross-Breeder
Alecia has a potential spouse I made yesterday. He's Frank and he'll just have to wait patiently in my library for now.
Dolores
Her traits are:
Excitable
Savvy Sculptor
Virtuoso
Artistic
LTW: Master of the Arts - achieved
Dolores is ready to age up to Young Adult. I made her a potential spouse named Darryl, but he'll have to stay in my library for now.
The head of this household is Gerri.
Her traits are;
Good Sense of Humour
Charismatic
Loves the Outdoors
Angler
Green Thumb
Her extra trait is Genius
Her LTW is Perfect Garden
Her children were a surprise to her. She's still a Young Adult herself and is busy with the video game career so her children are helping her with her garden. We all live in hope that she eventually manages to achieve her LTW.
It looks like the immediate plans for this household are:
See where Gerri, their mother, goes with her career. She's currently a Character Modeler, level 5 of the Video Game Career.
Age up any teens who are eligible to age up as they become eligible to do so. There are at least 3 ready to age up in the episode I'm about to work on now.
Get Javon and Gwen to know each other and get married and move out and start a family of hopefully 5.
Get Alicia and Dennis to do what Javon and Gwen are going to do.
Keep Robbie working towards his LTW and eventually get him married to Candice.
Move in potential spouse for Lynette (he's already made and waiting in my library)
I also have spouses made for Felicia and Dolores so will move them in when possible and they can all do what Javon and Gwen are about to do.
That's about it for now. There are 8 more siblings to show you pictures of and that'll take way to long to do in this post. It's long enough already. I'll post pics of them later and give you an update on how things are going.
In the meantime I think I most likely will continue with Playlist 3 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch. I miss them already.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
@AlexaKry It's funny, what they say here is that kids don't pass the virus on to adults, at least not frequently... Still, they are imposing masks in priary school from 6 years up. Well, I'm surrounded by about 150 students each and every day, so we'll see how it goes with immunity and such!
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~