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Thank you! And yes, that’s one of my favorite things about my game. I love seeing all these completely different Sims be friends with each other. Martin Freeman is related to Willy Wonka, lol. My least favorite thing is when my game randomly decides two of my Sims don’t like each other. I’m constantly having my Sims help other Sims improve their relationships.
Today in the game is the starlight thingy, never done that before so going to go to that. I'm toying with having Tamsyn move in with Mum when she ages up to adult, and seeing what happens with mums toyboy... I hadn't properly done the acting career but im really enjoying it - sorry I don't have photos I dont know how to do them
To take photos in game, I recommend you hit the pause button. To remove the UI from the frame, click on the Tab key on your keyboard, then if you have a roller on your mouse, scroll forward until you have the right distance, (or you can just move your mouse) and click on the c key. Voila you've snapped a picture. If you mean you don't know how to share the picture, you need a third party host site. I use imjur. I also have Windows, so I have Paint. I open my Screenshots, double click on the photo I want and that brings it into Paint. From there I can crop and edit. When I've got what I want I Save As … jpeg and put it in a folder I reserve for my Sims photos. Then I open imjur, click on images, and Add images. I open the desired picture folder and drag said picture onto the imjur page. Done. From imjur click on the photo. It will open and there will be a row on screen right. Five down is the BBcode (message boards & forums). Click Copy. When you get back to the Sims forum, do a Control c and your picture will be inserted onto the thread page.
If you don't have Windows, perhaps someone else here who does can guide you.
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The Calazzo Family (Italian):
The Galindo Twins (British):
A few other sims who I haven't made full families for yet:
Thank you so much - can I ask what UI means? sorry! thanks!
The little bit along the bottom that shows all the sims in your house and their panels.
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I made new sims for the Asylum Challenge and decided I really liked one of them, so here is my new future Global Superstar, Lady Grecia Le Vou!
She's erratic, insensitive, argumentative, mean and a snob. Perfect Global Superstar material. She has her first audition and is having a hard time at the bar trying to level Charisma to 2. Maybe it's the teeth?
One of my sims, Nicolette Stafford, is a 3-star celebrity, a creative jill-of-all-trades in writing, painting, and music. She also has the Friend of the World aspiration completed, and she's not one of those snooty famous people who only talks to other famous people. She's completely unafraid to hang out with the plebs...one of whom is Lana Markov, wife of Anatoly, mother of Gennady and Nataliya, and remarkably well-liked since whenever I'm not playing her household, the game spawns her in just about everywhere whenever the sim I'm actually playing goes out into the world.
So Nicolette and Lana are close friends. Which means Nicolette decided to pay a visit to the Markov household when they were the active sims...and Anatoly's never met her before.
Which led to a hilarious case of one sim having ordinary social interactions (the Markovs are opted out of the gain-fame loop since I don't intend to have them use celebrity gameplay; I save that for sims specifically intended for the purpose) and the other doing the whole starstruck omigosh IT'S A FAMOUS PERSON IN MY HOUSE I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! social loop.
The game just doesn't seem to understand that "oh, this is just my wife's friend, she's welcome in our home" would be how people in the real world reacted to a famous person who is clearly comfortable enough with the family to just drop by unannounced to say hi and play chess or go bowling or something. The Markovs are insanely rich—last I saved, their household had 415,000 Simoleons in the bank and both of the adults have the Mansion Baron aspiration completed—so it's not like they're out of their league social class-wise.
And remember this above all. Our Roman gods are watching. Make sure they are not ashamed!
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First, they went not too far away in Willow Creek to visit the Parkers. The Parker twins, Prissy and Palmer, are two of Kaylyn’s oldest friends since childhood.
So, seeing as how the Hargroves are filthy rich, Kaylyn decided to surprise the Parker twins $5,000 Simoleons each. Surprise!
Everyone was happy, until Kaylyn smelled her own funk and had to shower ASAP.
Next, the Hargroves went to San Myshuno to visit the Springs. Kaylyn’s BFF is Sammi Springs. Soraya finally met Sammi’s little sister, Sophia.
It was Sammi’s lucky day: Kaylyn gifted her $10,000 Simoleons!
Finally, they hopped over to Oasis Springs to visit the Xandrias. Kaylyn is good friends with twins Lola and Danika.
It got late, so everyone ate dinner together. Kali is Always Welcome, so she cooked a gourmet meal.
Kaylyn concluded the night for giving the twins $5,000 Simoleons each. What are friends for?
Thought we could do with a reminder from the first post of this thread. Some people are finding it too intimidating to post in any more, just like the original one. Thanks.
I have to agree with this one.
Sea may rise, sky may fall, My love will never die..
My heart, my heart, My drowning heart, Oh all the tears I've cried
Oh I may weep forevermore, My love will never die..
Our boy Gennady Markov is a teenager now, and his dad Anatoly is an extremely accomplished sim in his own right, having reached level 10 in 19 different skills, including Parenting, and possessed of all the no-needs-decay (Steel Bladder, Never Weary, Forever Full, Forever Fresh, and Needs No One) rewards. The family is also, as I've mentioned before, ridiculously rich, with a Mansion Baron-level house and now over 500,000 Simoleons in the bank (and still counting, rapidly.)
For Gennady, this means he not only had a big boost as a kid to get Top-Notch Toddler and the four childhood aspirations with plenty of days to spare, but now that he's into his adolescence—and even while he was still a little kid—he got a massive head start on learning his adult skills.
This means he's already got Savant and Incredibly Friendly on his reward trait list from childhood, he got the Mansion Baron reward points as well, and he's working on the aspirations you can clear without needing "Become An Adult" (Bodybuilder, Friend of the World, a good chunk of Fabulously Wealthy, Angling Ace, Nerd Brain, the list goes on.)
By the time he goes to college (on a full ride scholarship!), he's guaranteed never to need sleep or food, he'll probably never need to use the bathroom or take a shower, and he'll possibly be perfectly capable of living like a hermit with no need to do anything but focus on his degree and occasionally play a video game on his beefed-up computer to top up his Fun stat. (note: I tend to take the no-need-decay reward traits in that order.)
All because he comes from money and because his dad taught him things by the time he was a teen that most sims couldn't learn in a lifetime.
It never ceases to amaze me just how much the rewards pile up on top of each other in this game and how stupid easy it becomes to crank out super sim offspring.
And remember this above all. Our Roman gods are watching. Make sure they are not ashamed!
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Just want to say that people should feel free to post whatever they want in the original thread. It's not just for serial stories and I don't think it was ever meant to be intimidating to others - just a place to share what happened in your game as you see fit.
BTW, happy 100 pages!
"I have to change," Erik said meeting Kayleigh at the top of the stairs.
"Change for what?" she said.
"Got a call from Sam. He's worried, so I have a few events to attend. Keep up my status."
Album Cover "The Lengthy, Curving Road".
"Don't worry, Sweetheart. I only have a Meet & Greet and a couple of concerts. I'll be back in plenty of time. Just keep the kids busy until I get back. I love you," he said.
"Love you, too," she said. Off he went. Kayleigh just sighed.
First order was the Meet & Greet set up in the newly remodeled Orchid A Go-Go. He supposed it was their way of a Grand Re-Opening, of sorts.
Erik kept a strict eye on the time. While he really, truly enjoyed mingling with his fans, he also knew that should he be late to that first concert, it would seriously derail his original plans for today. "The Open Air Concert Venue in Oasis Springs, and please hurry, driver," he said, climbing into the back of his midnight blue stretch limo. As suspected, the crowd had already amassed by the time Erik arrived. Nonetheless, he was greeting with warm cheers. Taking the stage, he tapped on his cell phone alerting the Concert Planners of his location and that he was starting his concert.
His last song was a ballad. Erik, still feeling the sting of having lost his father-in-law, really got into the song he wrote after having lost a friend, "Gone Too Soon". Top of the Charts, it was a hit.
Ending this concert, he hurried onto his next location. The Rock N' Roll Club in Newcrest. Again, he pleaded with his driver to make haste.
Thankfully, he got there in plenty of time, allowing for a quick costume change.
At the end of the set, he again sang the song of farewell, he'd written.
"You've been a terrific audience. Thank you! But I have got to go decorate a Winterfest tree with my kids, else there will be a Mutiny. And trust me, when it's four against two, there's a numbers problem. I love you, good night!"
The children were outside when Erik arrived home again. The sun was slowly descending into the ocean to the west of their new house.
At the sound of his father's greeting, Jamison dropped down from his perch. "Dad's home, come on, Harmony!"
"Who wants to build a snowpal with me?" Erik said.
"I do, I do, I do," Jamison danced about.
"Okay, grab some of that snow and let's do it."
"Let's have a contest," Harmony said. "Andrew, if you need help just let me know."
As they continued to work and play, the Paparazzi got some nice shots for her magazine editor. Sim Teen Magazine.
Erik and three of his four eldest children got busy rolling, patting and otherwise crafting their icy cold sculptures. Because they started first, Erik and Jamison finished first.
Harmony wasn't far behind with her creation. "What do you think," she said, "do we look alike. Twins maybe? Identical?"
Andrew just started to laugh. I though you were building Melodie, so I made you! Tell me, do they look alike? Twins, identical?" He burst into giggles.
"Oh, you're so five years old." Harmony harrumphed.
All for now. Thanks for reading. Happy Simming, All!
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I hate how origin constantly reminds me that I don't have any friends
Ivy I know boys can be really traumatizing sometimes but your brother is not a monster. Stop being so mean
I love this thread because even when some posts have same families and households they're still understandable and random.
I wanted to chime in on the feedback re: serial stories creeping in and the thread becoming intimidating for new posters and I'll start with this last part first.
To all the new posters and lurkers, welcome, come on in! Everyone is welcome in here. It is absolutely not a clique or judgy in any way so don't be afraid to jump in with a bit of your game you'd like to share or talk about. The players who have posted and commented here have been outstanding for friendliness and keeping it friendly and welcoming.
Just to reiterate what the goal was here, it is meant to be more snapshots or short bits rather than longer running stories recaps. You are encouraged to post any tidbit from your game that you want to share be it a cute picture, a text only post (I don't have an Imagur acct either), a snippet, one-shot, a slice of life, a slice of wackiness, weird things, funny things, cute stuff, sweet stuff, dorkiness and whatever. You can talk amongst yourselves about "What CC/mod is that, is your build in the gallery?" That's all good too, we learn neat things that way. Discussions are encouraged too so don't worry about that. Asking questions is totally ok too.
Another player posted a Free For All version of What Happened in Your Game Today and that's great too, it is what this thread was sort of meant to be too but maybe that thread will encourage more players to participate in the forum community.
As for the serial stories creeping in, yes, there has been some of that and those posts would be perfect for the Serial Story thread and I'd encourage posting the longer-running serials in that thread and keeping your shorter happenings for sharing here.
That said, the only things that really aren't welcome in here are hot button issues likely to snowball and start fights or cause bad feelings (religion, politics, the usual polite conversation taboo stuff) and the type of bad behavior that is typically banned from forum communities anyway. To date, the folks posting here have been very nicely behaved and no one has made me have to tell them: Don't make me come in there/stop this car!
To the regulars, thanks for sharing your game and being so much fun. I try to read every post and I love seeing all your creations and playing styles.
ETA: Maybe it would help allow for a quicker read and catch up if posters could condense image-heavy posts by using the hide spoiler thingy to hide all but the first image.
I know, right? lolol!
Boy, she sure knows a lot of twins. LOL
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L. Faba, (The weird 'townie' that kept showing up everywhere got me more interested in playing the magic realm recently. So spent a few days playing my Allursi household, also to build up their experience and skills.
Maxtim, Phette, and Lanuola, all made friends with L. (Not sure what the "L" stands for, I guess it's a mystery.
Met and trained with Morgyn Ember.
Also got familiar with Imane Ghomari and Mao Ueda.
And, of course, Simeon Silversweater.
Lanuola and Simeon became REALLY close friends.