As usual I'm starting the day off with zero sleep. I'm going to be heading downtown soon. There has been a lot of sirens already, including two police cars; all heading in the same direction. Seems a little early for any activity involving the police. Usually I don't hear cop cars until between midnight and four AM.
Things are going okay for me, I guess. My book seems to have reached a good place, despite the errors I made (which reminds me, I still need to correct them), and on the 29th I deleted my Sims 3 World Adventures and reinstalled Ambitions. This time around I want to have a doctor.
My Sims live in Willow Manor, which I'm not too happy with. I've grown accustomed to making apartment-like buildings for large households, and I think I'll go back to that. I like the idea of each Sim having their own little house on one lot.
I've always loved building families, and I can't do that in World Adventures. Well, I can, but it glitches the family tree and takes out a lot of the enjoyment. So, when I install any other game, I typically go crazy making a family. Today will be Day 3, and my Sims already have six children. The firstborn was an only child; then they had triplets, then twins. Their firstborn will be the doctor. And this time instead of moving in the next oldest relative when one dies, I'm just going to manage their graves with the mausoleum. I think it'll save a lot of time and effort.
I wasn't even going to teach the children to walk, talk, use the toilet or get their grades to an A, but I've always done those things. I guess today I'll be focusing on moving the family into a house that resembles an apartment, and aging the eldest child into a teen.
And now that I've perfected the Edit Town mode, I can make a household with grandchildren in Create-A-Sim, split up the household and only control the young parents to have more children. This means that finally, my Sims will have aunts and uncles. I've done that before, but only through laborious game play. I can't wait to have a huge family right from the start.
While I was playing World Adventures, though, I followed my goals and made a Geisha and an Indian. For the Geisha, I used voice 2 in a high pitch, and for my Harpreet, I used a less-than-medium voice 3. And I learned a lot of things. Sakura was good at singing the songs learned in China, but nothing beats voice 3. Harpreet sounded spectacular. But voice 1 is terrible. And what's worse than voice 1, are male Sims. They can't sing no matter what voice you pick. Hearing them try just made me laugh so hard I almost got my juice up my nose.
Things are going okay for me, I guess. My book seems to have reached a good place, despite the errors I made (which reminds me, I still need to correct them), and on the 29th I deleted my Sims 3 World Adventures and reinstalled Ambitions. This time around I want to have a doctor.
My Sims live in Willow Manor, which I'm not too happy with. I've grown accustomed to making apartment-like buildings for large households, and I think I'll go back to that. I like the idea of each Sim having their own little house on one lot.
I've always loved building families, and I can't do that in World Adventures. Well, I can, but it glitches the family tree and takes out a lot of the enjoyment. So, when I install any other game, I typically go crazy making a family. Today will be Day 3, and my Sims already have six children. The firstborn was an only child; then they had triplets, then twins. Their firstborn will be the doctor. And this time instead of moving in the next oldest relative when one dies, I'm just going to manage their graves with the mausoleum. I think it'll save a lot of time and effort.
I wasn't even going to teach the children to walk, talk, use the toilet or get their grades to an A, but I've always done those things. I guess today I'll be focusing on moving the family into a house that resembles an apartment, and aging the eldest child into a teen.
And now that I've perfected the Edit Town mode, I can make a household with grandchildren in Create-A-Sim, split up the household and only control the young parents to have more children. This means that finally, my Sims will have aunts and uncles. I've done that before, but only through laborious game play. I can't wait to have a huge family right from the start.
While I was playing World Adventures, though, I followed my goals and made a Geisha and an Indian. For the Geisha, I used voice 2 in a high pitch, and for my Harpreet, I used a less-than-medium voice 3. And I learned a lot of things. Sakura was good at singing the songs learned in China, but nothing beats voice 3. Harpreet sounded spectacular. But voice 1 is terrible. And what's worse than voice 1, are male Sims. They can't sing no matter what voice you pick. Hearing them try just made me laugh so hard I almost got my juice up my nose.
lol at the juice-up-the-nose thing :D
ReplyDeleteEdit Town is a wonderful feature; I use it a lot!
I'm currently playing a pair of sisters who share a house, but it's kind of a duplex; shared kitchen, but one of everything for each of them. I'm thinking of having two houses on the lot, so each woman can do her own thing ... I don't know yet though, I'm still in the "max skills, get things done" frenzy of starting a fresh household :p
Hm, I don't think I've been in that frenzy when the household is still fresh. I typically go after the skills that are important to their lifetime wish, and the rest can wait. Most of my Sims max cooking and gardening, but if there are a lot of Sims I try to spread the skills out between them.
DeleteI guess my first "cool" Sim was a single Sim in Moonlight Falls. She had maxed every single skill. Actually I think I only lost her a few months back.
Aw, I'm almost jealous, lol ... that frenzy is what an OCD person like me feels about the game ... since starting this new household, I've gotten two Sims to max four skills each and I'm working towards getting one of them to perfect every recipe, catch six specific kinds of perfect fish to stock my pond, and gardening my guts out.
DeleteJust today, I threw a wish worth 4000 happiness points out the window because my stupid Sim wanted to work out for twelve hours straight and she'd get to about 11.5 and quit, no matter how good her needs were each time I started. So frustrating. :p
Lorne says I have OCD too, because everything has to be straight, closed, and facing the right way, and I can read numbers as letters. He tried to embarrass me once by showing me a quote by Stephen Hawking, where certain letters were replaced by numbers; and he was so shocked when I read it without a problem. Sounded kind of mad, too.
DeleteYeah, I've completed that wish, but never without cheats. Sims give up too easily.
lol, I think most people can do the numbers-in-place-of-letters trick ... the language is called "Leet" :p
ReplyDeleteI think I got one Sim to do it once, after many tries ... on this Sim, I gave up ... haha
I actually knew what it was called! :D I think the most ridiculous wishes my Sims have had were to have 20 children and to work out for 15 hours straight.
Delete15 hours? Seriously? I don't think I've ever had such an ambitious Sim, much less one that was up to such a challenge! :D
DeleteAnd ... 20 children?! Really? I've never had a Sim that crazy! :D
Oh, that's really nothing. In Life Stories I had a Sim who wanted fifty. I cancelled that wish. I think the Sims 3 Sim who wanted to work out for 15 hours was ambitious, athletic and maybe disci-plined.
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