My sims enjoy a trip to the Spice Festival on the evenings that it's in town. The nightclub in Willow Creek is a hotspot as well. I'll send my active sim to play the piano for tips and find a whole bunch of played sims and townies enjoying a night out. The Southside Bowladrome, which I put in an empty lot space in…
No, just because I don't put all that much thought into CAS fashions and whatnot. Much like myself IRL, once they find an outfit they can wear regularly, that's problem solved.
Amen to that! "Oh no, that simply will not do" might as well be the motto of the university dorms in my game! Whenever I send one of my sims to college, the first thing that happens is all the roommates get edited. All of them. And their romantic partners, party guests, and anyone else who shows up besides.
Recent months have seen me raising up a generation of "super sim" kids with all the rapid-skill-up perks and aspiration rewards, even going so far as to grab premade kid sims like Olive Tinker and fold them into the rotation (a frustrating prospect when there's not at least one parent with 'super sim' capabilities to keep…
In The Sims as in golf, you gotta play it where it lies. The game's just reminding you that the Watcher, as in the player, is "vice-god" in the world but the simulation is the One True Higher Power.
Reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from "Office Space". "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" "I tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man." So clearly your sim has to win the lottery.
The way EA has been marketing the game lately, and the way they're trying to attract a certain type of player, and assuming I'd be buying just the basegame and would take a look at the total cost of the packs and be like "I missed the boat on this one, I've got enough expensive habits, I don't need another one"... ...I…
I both have (my biggest sim generation was a mom and dad with four kids) and have not (they raised the kids one at a time) had a sim with more than 3 kids. Most I've ever had in the house at once was a pair of twin boys. Well, unless you count Simo Koivonen, who impregnated seven women who bore him nine kids, but he never…
Not to bust your bubble, but you can wrangle a simworld back to "those who play the sims like me", you just have to be willing to wholesale edit a lot of NPCs in CAS. (one look at any crowd scene in my screenshots in various threads can see my simworld's naturally "old-school" look and feel, indirectly modeled as it is on…
I bounce around all over the place. Sometimes I'll take an NPC and raise them up to the highest career level or take them on a Granite Falls/Selvadorada vacation or I'll take the kids of my prior-generation sims and follow their adult lives. Other times, sims I've played briefly in stories that went nowhere get brought out…
Not me, my nouns are still amateurs. Jokes aside, as long as they keep this safely out of the way so my simworld can have the two genders it's always had, the rest of y'all can go nuts. (and for those wondering, I put my pronouns in my signature on the forum because it's otherwise impossible to tell at a quick glance that…
Welcome again to our musical theater, as the Background Players present "Got A Hold On Me": You're liftin' me up, never let me down And I smile whenever you're around And I got a feelin' it'll work out right Can't stop thinkin' about you every day and night Oooh, I got a love (I got somebody), this love got a hold on me…
My sims get a standard progression: Incredibly Friendly, Never Weary, Savant, Forever Full, Steel Bladder, Needs No One, and Forever Fresh, always in that order. Potion of Youth as necessary until I've decided the sim's lived a "full life" and aged them off the roster. Later, they get the rewards to get rid of Tense or…
Jumping into OOC to tell this one, because it's a doozy, left me woozy: Richard Wheatley's phone rang...it was his brother Jim, who's now grown-up and moved out of the house. It was the "girlfriend is going to propose to me" Neighborhood Stories call. All pretty standard, so far...except the girlfriend in question, Kelly…
Jim Wheatley came storming into the house, angrily throwing his coat aside and mumbling forbidden words under his breath. He then made a beeline for the bathroom and drew a bath that could cook a lobster. When he came out of the bathroom, Ellie couldn't help but wonder what was wrong... "Whoa, kiddo, you look like someone…
Jim Wheatley aged up to teen first; he's going for the rapid adulthood track so he'll age up again and move out as soon as he's got his A grade in high school. Richard's still a child; he's getting maximum skill building time for college scholarships. Aging is weird.
The Wheatley Boys in: Dueling School Projects! Richard is a mama's boy. Jim is a chip off the ol' block from dear old dad. So this has become parental rivalry as well! (finally off my winter hiatus IRL and just landed a sweet contract gig. Pay's the most I've ever made, but once again my simming time's consigned to the…
Morning! Today's forecast calls for blue skies as my simworld's background players proudly present "Mr. Blue Sky" as musical theater (lots of images ahead!) Cast (in order of appearance): Steve Garamonde as the Jogger Danielle Lembeck in the Del Sol Valley scenes Katarina Garamonde as the Baby Bob Rogers, Felix Moulton,…
Ellie scored the Bestselling Author aspiration, and after celebrating with a roll in the hay with Adam after the kids went to bed, she decided to write a romance novel. She's a method actress through and through, so...
The Wheatley brothers' sibling rivalry boiled up to another level when Richard aged up first, completing all the steps of toddler development while Jim ran until he almost passed out in the backyard before Adam rescued him from himself and put him to bed. Jim's independence as a toddler backfired on him. How this would…