Phew! My current Sim family is the largest Sims 3 family I have ever had. Its newest addition has great-grandparents on both sides, four aunts, and three uncles. That was a lot of sex!
It sucks so much ass that my game has the tendency to die at least twice a year. I actually moved my family out of Willow Manor, moved them into a new house, and then I moved my Sims' firstborn in with her husband and his parents. Both women were pregnant at the same time. This family's actually had some weird problems, though. Like for awhile, I could only have one of the toddlers potty-trained, and none of the adult Sims want to use their own beds. And I mean the interaction to sleep will cancel out every single time unless I click on the same bed everyone else wants to use.
But, I tried the ghost-hunter career. Maybe it would be fun without the glitch, but the last ghost simply does not show up. I looked everywhere in the house, but it never appeared; and when his shift ended, the music kept playing. So now I have my Sim as an in-vestigator, and it's better, but it involves a lot of digging through trash. I definitely like the firefighter career best so far.
Like I just said, my game dies....a lot. Next time I lose every-thing, which I know will happen before the new year, I'm going to install Generations and finally try out that daycare profession. I had both Ambitions and Generations installed earlier this year, but of course my computer died before I could actually experience anything. I hate these constant setbacks. I'm wasting enough of my life away without them.
It sucks so much ass that my game has the tendency to die at least twice a year. I actually moved my family out of Willow Manor, moved them into a new house, and then I moved my Sims' firstborn in with her husband and his parents. Both women were pregnant at the same time. This family's actually had some weird problems, though. Like for awhile, I could only have one of the toddlers potty-trained, and none of the adult Sims want to use their own beds. And I mean the interaction to sleep will cancel out every single time unless I click on the same bed everyone else wants to use.
But, I tried the ghost-hunter career. Maybe it would be fun without the glitch, but the last ghost simply does not show up. I looked everywhere in the house, but it never appeared; and when his shift ended, the music kept playing. So now I have my Sim as an in-vestigator, and it's better, but it involves a lot of digging through trash. I definitely like the firefighter career best so far.
Like I just said, my game dies....a lot. Next time I lose every-thing, which I know will happen before the new year, I'm going to install Generations and finally try out that daycare profession. I had both Ambitions and Generations installed earlier this year, but of course my computer died before I could actually experience anything. I hate these constant setbacks. I'm wasting enough of my life away without them.
Aw, I'm sorry to hear about all the trouble :(
ReplyDeleteBut, it's cool that you have such a big family! I can hardly wait until I've gotten all of my Sims' skill stuff out of the way so I can get them pregnant. I usually end up with ugly kids, but this time I think I'll just keep them anyway :p
I play on a whim, really. It's just the naming process that slows me down. Lately I've been speeding through everything. It helps with skill-building, and makes the process of teaching stuff to toddlers a little less tedious. My youngest Sim's father is the first Sim I think I've ever had where I didn't even bother with his school grade; I just aged him from a toddler into a young adult.
DeleteLately, I've been speeding through a lot of things, too ... I'm trying to get my Sim to cook every recipe perfectly, but not just so she gets a perfect-quality meal - so the recipe in her skill journal shows up as 'perfect', too. This is a huge pain in the butt because long before the skill journal reaches 'perfect', she's making perfect-quality dishes. (It's taking me hours to cook each recipe about a hundred times. And even using speed-setting 4, it's taking ages. I've been at it for days and only gotten 5 recipes to Perfect. And there are 51 recipes altogether, I think.)
DeleteI can only hope I don't have to get her to cook EVERY recipe a hundred times, and that it's only taking so long right now because I started with the lowest-quality meals. My big hope is that once I get to those higher-level recipes that start out at a better quality, it'll go much faster.
When I finish doing all that, I have to catch ten each of six specific types of fish so I can stock my home pond with perfect-quality fish. (You get out what you put in, lol)
On the plus side, my Sim has grown everything you can in the game to Perfect quality already ... that's definitely the easy part ... I've already caught about 60 Deathfish and they're JUST getting to "nice" quality. It'll be a long time before I get my pond sorted :(
But when all that's done, I'm going to start having kids ... I already have big plans for at least one of them (for me, 'big plans' actually involving a Sim means picking out a name and main skill beforehand). :p
Wow, that sounds like a lot of work. My biggest grievance is creating big families so that when my Sims marry and have a child, he or she will be born into a big family; and I'm debating doing that with every child my Sims had. Or at least some of them. It is a lot of work, but this is what I do; I'm a family-builder. I have never not gotten my Sims' grade up to an A, or let them reach the child stage without teaching them the basics; but I think in order to create the big family of my dreams, I'll have to. I don't even know what the rush is, or why I bother. It will become obsolete one day; it never fails. I guess it's a labor of love.
DeleteI think I understand; there's always the hope that this is the game that WILL last, and why not make it a good one?
DeleteI don't think I've played one time where I didn't say, "This is the best game yet!"
DeleteUnfortunately today my computer died, and since it is hooked up to Lorne's, it killed his, too; and not for the first time this year. I really doubt that our computers will still be up and running at the end of this week. I'm just glad I saved my book, if nothing else.
Yikes, how does it keep happening?! :(
DeleteI'm glad you at least saved something; that's a lot better than nothing :)
I'm not sure. I'm starting to think Origin is at fault, because every time I install a game I bought from there, it does this. And when I play from the disc, it's fine.
DeleteThat could be it - I had an Origin account on which I purchased some cool CC about six years ago, and my account was hacked ... I never got anything back. So, I don't use it at all; I play exclusively with discs. I don't trust online versions of things, anyway; I much prefer a tangible copy. :)
DeleteI prefer the discs, too. But they don't sell them like that; they haven't in years. So, I take what I can get.
DeleteThat's why I'm so reluctant to use a disc in a computer that might have a virus; just in case the damn thing tries copying itself onto a game I can't replace ... easily, anyway. I'm sure the discs are sold online :p
DeleteOf course. But I've been ripped off too many times to trust sites like that. The next seller might be different - and they might not.
DeleteI've had good and bad experiences with online shopping ... for sure I like to check a seller's rating before I bother ... I find that people with bad ratings deserve them :p
DeleteTypically.
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