I took a little break from gaming to see if the computers would be fine, and now that I'm gaming again everything seems to be working. I did experience a black screen several times and some mouse trouble, but nothing even my simple mind couldn't solve.
I even bought The Sims 4, as well as its Toddler Stuff and Holiday Pack. It took awhile, but my Sims Heidi and Steve finally maxed their relationships and had a kid. I was hoping for a girl. There are cheats, but they do not work. Not for me. Anyway, they are fucking compli-cated! Underscores, letters, brackets, colons. So I've just been letting what happens, happen.
So far I've got mixed reviews, though more bad than good. It saves within five seconds, and the glass roofs were an amazing sight; but the roofs also cannot be seen in Live Mode, and babies cannot be selected. The neighborhood may as well not exist, since the only way to visit them or a communal building is to travel to a new town. During a discussion the Sims rarely face each other unless they become intimate, and I don't like how they will migrate from one couch to another while chatting. I guess my biggest peeve is that the Sims always become automatically involved in another interaction.
I can't play for very long. It's too weird, in all honesty; it doesn't feel like an addition to The Sims. But I am expecting my Internet connection to be disbanded long-term, maybe permanently; for fin-ancial, personal and computer protection. So it may not matter. And they shouldn't anyway, right? I shouldn't be on the computer as much, right? An inspired point, but I'm still owned by technology. That break I took nearly drove me to insanity, and it wasn't even a week long. If I could never, ever talk to my friends or play my games or watch YouTube videos or do any kind of research without going to the library, ever again, I would lose it.
And that just sucks. I don't want to be a lamebrain, relying on computers every day. If I had a career, it would at least be to make the world better; and not just my life, sixty pathetic seconds at a time.
I even bought The Sims 4, as well as its Toddler Stuff and Holiday Pack. It took awhile, but my Sims Heidi and Steve finally maxed their relationships and had a kid. I was hoping for a girl. There are cheats, but they do not work. Not for me. Anyway, they are fucking compli-cated! Underscores, letters, brackets, colons. So I've just been letting what happens, happen.
So far I've got mixed reviews, though more bad than good. It saves within five seconds, and the glass roofs were an amazing sight; but the roofs also cannot be seen in Live Mode, and babies cannot be selected. The neighborhood may as well not exist, since the only way to visit them or a communal building is to travel to a new town. During a discussion the Sims rarely face each other unless they become intimate, and I don't like how they will migrate from one couch to another while chatting. I guess my biggest peeve is that the Sims always become automatically involved in another interaction.
I can't play for very long. It's too weird, in all honesty; it doesn't feel like an addition to The Sims. But I am expecting my Internet connection to be disbanded long-term, maybe permanently; for fin-ancial, personal and computer protection. So it may not matter. And they shouldn't anyway, right? I shouldn't be on the computer as much, right? An inspired point, but I'm still owned by technology. That break I took nearly drove me to insanity, and it wasn't even a week long. If I could never, ever talk to my friends or play my games or watch YouTube videos or do any kind of research without going to the library, ever again, I would lose it.
And that just sucks. I don't want to be a lamebrain, relying on computers every day. If I had a career, it would at least be to make the world better; and not just my life, sixty pathetic seconds at a time.
Sorry to hear about the potential Internet loss - that would drive me crazy, too. :(
ReplyDeleteI've heard Sims 4 does suck ... you can eat different things to get the baby's gender what you want, though :p
I had forgotten about that cheat.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a cheat, just a way of manipulating the game - I think it's apples for boy babies and watermelons for girl babies in the Sims 3, and carrots for boys and something else for girls in the Sims 4. (I've really only seen gameplay of the Sims 4; I have it, but I dislike change.)
DeleteSims 3 baby stuff:
Listening to the kids' music station on the radio, watching the kids' channel on TV, and (I think) reading pregnancy books really increases your chances of getting pregnant the first time AND having more than one baby - which I didn't know before my poor Sims ended up with two sets of twins! (I misread my Sims' wishes on which gender of baby they wanted, and switched from eating watermelons to apples mid-pregnancy - I ended up with a girl AND a boy.)
It was insane, trying to keep a household (which already had three or four Sims in it) with four babies in the green. It was just lucky that one of my Sims was so into alchemy and had created seven hundred of those potions that fill your energy bar and stop it from going down for 24 in-game hours (very useful).
The four twins were cute as babies, but ugly as kids, and since I don't use cheats, there was no way to fix it. I ended up deleting the extra toddlers and just creating a cute one to move in with my family, which already had a child-aged Sim I had done that with. I kind of pretend that the house is owned by the two main Sims and they just take in orphans, lol.
In The Sims 4 it's strawberries and pop music for girls, and carrots and alternate music for boys. My toddler was dressed poorly, but I fixed that. In The Sims 3 I cheat all the time, so I always have normal or attractive Sims.
DeleteI wish the toddlers/kids I end up with if I try to have families through pregnancies were cute, but usually they have weird dents in their faces ... I'm glad I can change the outfits, though. :p
DeleteI'm surprised Sims 3 Sims can have weird dents in their faces.
DeleteMaybe you have better luck than I do.
DeleteMy Sims usually get a weird nose-bridge, way too deep, so looking at my Sims head-on, they have a dent between the eyes that gives them a dark unibrow look. Hideous! (That's why I deleted my pregnancy-made toddlers and substituted them for cute ones I made in the Sim creator, lol.) I didn't want to do it, but I did want to have a decent-looking family, something the game doesn't seem to want to give me :p
So you cheated for once?
Deletenope; I went to Edit Town, moved the kids out of my household and onto the clipboard, and deleted them from there (I tried drowning one but kids don't die easily in that game).
DeleteAfter that I had to make a cute kid, move her in, and move the adult Sim she came with onto the clipboard to be deleted.
But I did something similar when I realized my graveyard was both empty and glitch (I made a new one and killed a bunch of Sims on purpose so I'd have Sims with cool names in my graveyard) ...
Oh, and I did cheat twice - once because my ugraded sprinkler wouldn't turn off, so it couldn't be deleted, and once when my Sim was collecting fireflies and a jar lid glitched onto her wrist like a hideous bracelet; I had to use the MoveObjects cheat to get rid of the glitched things. :p
There are ways to kill off child Sims, which I don't like doing. But sometimes I do it. I've tried making child ghosts in CAS, but when I moved her in with my household, all of them became ghosts.
DeleteI kill my Sims off in time; I try to make it realistic. I age everyone in the same pattern over the period of a few Sim months, and then start killing off the oldest Sims, or even the younger ones with an accident, like a fire or drowning. I've never filled up a whole property, and sick as it sounds, I've always wanted to.
Things do that to my Sims! Normally it's pet food coming out the wrist like a Superman trick, or dish soap that leaks out the ass. My bubbles.
lol, awesome :p
DeleteMy Sims used to glitch with water effects :p