Helloooo fellow ToTer's. Yes it has been a while since posting. But I have always been lurking in here. Wow , there are some great ideas going, some I may have to look into using myself. Anyway just thought I would let you know, I have not given up, but by crikey it is a painful progress. My generation 5 have now taken their new places in the roman era. I have updated my emperor and patrician families, but have yet to post updates for my plebeian and slave families.

Happy Simming

My computer, or whatever virus attacked it more specifically, is EVIL! I was using it to fix issues with our wireless printer (which got working just in time for Mom to use it to print something she needed to take to a Drs appt). I closed the computer, which put it to sleep, and took it back to my room. Approximately 15-20 minutes later I opened it up to find it had shut down, then IT WOULDN'T RESTART! I had to reformat to get it working. AND I HADN'T BACKED UP MY TOT TO MY EXTERNAL SINCE MY LAST PLAY! So I've lost most of my play this round. I'm pretty sure the last backup on the external is saved during House #1 (Marroquin). But I was on House #8 and near the end of it too. I'm pretty sure I was about halfway through the round! This really really sucks! And until I figure out what Mom did with my AL disc (she installed it when one of my friends/sister had the discs in the living room. Haven't yet seen her play though so I don't know why she did), I can't reinstall sims yet to find out. That and I don't have the time just at the moment. I have no words to describe how I feel right now. ~VP

You only lost one round, feel lucky! When that happened to me I was 2 or 3 generations into the challenge and lost it all. I know I'm not the only one.

Still, that totally sucks. I'm sorry your computer freaked out on you.

And now I'm seriously considering restarting the whole thing. Mostly b/c I see this new install of the game as a way to clear out my massive downloads folder (though I did manage to have a copy of that backed up, minus a few newer downloads) and I really want to change the way I've been playing it, with a few less of my rule edits and more like the original rules. That and I want to change up the way I was playing my rounds (was going to change it up once I hit the Romans anyway). But I'm still keeping it as my crash landed aliens. I love my colored skins way to much to abandon them. But I might make a eugenic set, which will require me finding a bunch of colors, or slightly editing Astiee's skintones to make some extra colors (already did that once. The yellow, white and orange tones were made by me off of Astiee's colors. Which is why I can't share that particular file. Astiee forbids altering her skintones then sharing them.) I should get back to my re-install now instead of dreaming... ~VP

Sorry to hear about your computer issues. If you feel it would be better to restart go ahead, sometimes starting fresh often gives you more inspiration. I really love how unique your challenge is in how all your sims are aliens.

Speaking of my own challenge I'm really regretting how few blonde/red head sims I started with. I started with a single blond couple and one redhead who was coupled with a dark haired sim. The blonde ones have lots of children but all except two of the redhead's children died before they reached adulthood. Since sim genetics require a sim to have two red/blond genes before they will show one of those hair colors I'm having massive issues getting these colors to show on my sims. To get as many recessive genes showing I partnered both the children with the red gene with blond sims.

The problem? The blond sim of one couple died and the red from the other is pretty much infertile. Seriously, whenever i'm not trying to knock her up, she and her partner are at it constantly thanks to ACR with the odds put up to like 100% try for baby, but no baby. Five days and she gets knocked up on the last day. Thankfully she finally gave me a redheaded daughter. I was really hoping I wouldn't have to rely on cas sims for genetic diversity.