The Random Legacy Challenge - A Late Night Spin Off.

[NutsAndDolts]

I'm in favor of scrapping the rule, for the same reasons. It makes it feel more like a legacy if they're in the same house the whole time, at least for me.

However, there's a general consensus that if an individual feels very very strongly against a particular roll, they don't have to include that roll at all when they roll for challenge objectives.

I personally don't use Deadbeat Parents, 5 Star Celebrity, Idle Career, Hands Off, Luxury, or Born With It. For various reasons, these objectives would make me want to quit the challenge, and that's no fun. I'm not sure how we should include this unwritten rule in the rules though, while still making clear that you have to go through with rolls you find generally challenging (such as putting up with Perfect Children), if you are possibly able to stand it.

[calisims]

Yeah, that's a tough call. I recently wrote Living in the Past off. I did it once, and don't want to ever do it again.
I also don't use Born With It. bleh.
But yeah, it would be hard to write that currently unwritten rule in, as it just invites people to blow off anything that's difficult to do.

[GigaRevival]

Yeah, that's a tough call. I recently wrote Living in the Past off. I did it once, and don't want to ever do it again.
I also don't use Born With It. bleh.
But yeah, it would be hard to write that currently unwritten rule in, as it just invites people to blow off anything that's difficult to do.

I agree. The only problem I had with the roll was the wording of the first part as it didn't state whether you were to re-build or not (it doesn't explicitly say to delete the whole house, just everything in it). I personally don't have an issue with it as I've been playing as you have stay in one house/town unless it is hopelessly glitched or you get Change of Scenery. So, in other words, I vote to keep it; although I wouldn't be particularly heartbroken if it ended up on the chopping block.

[NutsAndDolts]

I think it's pretty clear Giga. It says to delete everything in your house except those certain items. Then you delete the house itself and start from scratch.

[GigaRevival]

I think it's pretty clear Giga. It says to delete everything in your house except those certain items. Then you delete the house itself and start from scratch.

Ah. Well I certainly didn't read it that way... and certainly didn't play it that way. :rofl: Oh well...

[ReyaD]

Personally, I'd like to keep Change of Scenery as a roll. I can't remember if I've ever rolled it, but I think its a fun little challenge that at times can be annoying, but not particularly hard. In my mind it makes for a good roll.

But if the majority wants it removed I won't fight to have it stay. Just throwing my two cents in.

[Buckley]

I kind of wondered about the change of scenery roll. Since there are no restrictions against moving houses, it seems somewhat redundant. And I agree with Becky, it feels more like a legacy to stay in the same house, although that is totally up to the player. Personally, I was really hoping to keep my family in this house, for a while at least. I'm still considering, but I probably will end up using my joker roll. I seriously love this house.

Anyway, my vote, for what it's worth, is to scrap change of scenery. But I'm fine with whatever y'all decide.

[NutsAndDolts]

I think it should stay, then. And for those of us who seriously hate it, we just shouldn't include it in our rolls.

I know I definitely wouldn't want to move because I'm crap at designing houses, and Melissa was awesome enough to make the one I am using now. So I want to stay in that house for the whole legacy. <3

[calisims]

I'm currently tweaking that house for use in my legacy. :D I get jealous whenever I read your legacy. And the modern style fits perfectly into the area of Brooklyn Heights that I want to move to.
And yeah, once I move into it, I'm not going to want to move out again.
I'm fine with keeping the rule in, and allowing people who prefer to keep one legacy house to just ignore that rule.

[Buckley]

Awesome. Then I will just ignore it from now on. :)

I'm just curious. How big are your legacy houses? I mean, how many bedroom, studios, etc.? I tend to be drawn toward cute little cottage type houses, but now I'm thinking it may be too small. And I'm just wondering what your houses are like.

[calisims]

I like to have house with double master suites (one for the current heir & spouse, and one for the previous heir & spouse) plus enough bedrooms to accommodate a max of 5 children, with one dedicated nursery large enough for 3 cribs, I like to have at least one large multipurpose room for whatever hobbies that generation takes up. If possible I like to have a large playroom for the kids as well.

I've been mucking around the rules blog trying to fix areas where the font sizes get weird. While I was there, I changed Hobby/Obsession a bit, no longer requiring that the hobby be trait dependent. Not a huge issue, as I imagine most hobbies would be chosen based on a trait anyway. But I put in that it could be chosen based on the character of the Sim as you see it. I figure there might be some hobbies, like bug collecting (without selling them) that don't fall under a trait, but that would be acceptable for the goal and add to the Sim's character.

[NutsAndDolts]

I prefer to have space in case of large families, since grandparents may be hanging around for a while, especially with slightly increased/tweaked lifespans due to Generations. The house Cali made for me has 3 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms and a nursery. I added a studio on top of the carport myself, but there's plenty of space outside for misc. studio objects, as well as open space I could have used near the kitchen/living room area.

I don't miss my Riverview houses at all. They were awful. xD

For the scenes at Scott's place I used one of the houses that came with Generations. I forget what it's called, but it's one of the most adorable things ever. I placed it and some other Generations homes around Barnacle Bay, because there were a lot of empty residential lots no one could live in. In my Riverview legacy I constantly had pop-ups about how sims wanted to move, but the "housing market" sucked. I took steps to prevent the misery of my townspeople this time around.

[Redhead Creations]

I'm glad we've decided to keep the rule as I'm one of the players who like to stay in the same house for a whole legacy, so if I *did* roll that, it would definitely be a challenge for me.

As far as my house, Buckley, it's currently four bedrooms and a nursery. I have two master suites, like Melissa, that will be used to alternate between the heir and the grandparent, so for instance Morand's room will go to Flora, and Faith's room will go to Flora's heir at the appropriate time. Then I have two smaller bedrooms for spares. =) I also have the ability to add gigantic basement space if I wanted to put in a "teen suite" or something if needed.

[CinderEmma]

The Marlin house is under renovations that may kill some constancy in my legacy XD I'll make it work!
With the new house, it'll be like 8-9 rooms...I haven't decided the purpose of all of them XP

[ReyaD]

My current legacy house only has three rooms, but I purposely left lots of extra space for add ons. Don't do what i did. I make all the kids sleep in one room.

[NutsAndDolts]

I have the pics for an update now, but I don't think I'll have it up by the time I leave this evening.

My boyfriend is in the hospital (he had his large intestine removed yesterday), and he'll be there about a week. I'll be staying in the hospital room with him for a few nights possibly. Sometimes the nurses take a while to respond, so we'd both feel better if he's not alone at night. Last night his mother stayed with him.

Not that you guys needed an explanation for a stalled update, or... I don't know. Yeah. It'll be up when I can manage it.

I also like big rooms in my houses, so I can take good pictures. But not too big, because then it looks weird. See, I can never judge this when I design my own houses. That is why Melissa should work for EA and help them add a bunch of premade houses to the next expansion pack. <3

[Buckley]

I'm sorry about your boyfriend, Becky. I hope he feels better soon! Take as much as time you need with the updates. No rush. :)

I also have the hardest time figuring out room sizes/layouts on my own. That's why I use other player's creations, cause they are like a gazillion times better than mine. I like the idea of having 2 master suites and alternating between them. I think I will try to do that. But yeah, my current house (the one I love so much) is definitely too small. So, I guess the change of scenery roll isn't so terrible after all. At least, not on generation 2.

[calisims]

*hugs* I'm so sorry your boyfriend is in the hospital. I hope he recovers swiftly and can come home soon!

EA's houses make really poor use of space. They have this tendency to make these one bedroom mansions that are totally useless. I have a feeling that the people who make houses for them don't actually play.
I build houses for playing in, so I'm always conscious Sim pathing issues, how much space Sims need to get around, and making them able to accommodate multi-generational living. EA builds houses as dumping grounds for all the new stuff in an EP, without much thought to the Sims that might actually live there.

[Miss Puff]

Wow, hope your boyfriend recovers soon, Nuts.

My legacy house is just one bed and one bath currently, but I'm planning on expanding as I need the extra room. Right now I'm thinking of adding a hallway and extra bedroom downstairs, and then eventually an upstairs I haven't really considered much yet. With single parent and one kid as the first roll, my legacy's going to be pretty small for awhile, so I'm not in much of a hurry to make it bigger.

[NutsAndDolts]

*hugs* I hope so too, Melissa.

And thanks Buckley and Miss Puff.

Yeah... I always hate to see a mansion next door, only to find that only two or three sims can live there.

[LadyAwesome]

YAY I am so glad we don't have to demolish the houses if we do not have to. Because I build all my own houses. and it would suck...... ANYWAY.

Nuts - home his recovery is speedy. I crashed my car in april and burst my bowel. I was out in 3 days though (was ment to be 7) I don't think you can recover in a hospital specially when you can't sleep.

[GigaRevival]

@Becky: That's terrible! My cousin went in for a similar surgery to help with his Crohn's Disease last year, so I know it can be pretty brutal. I really hope his recovery goes well.

And my Dennis house was pretty large... I actually scaled it down because I'm not a big fan of massive houses, but ended up having to cram everyone in. I don't think Corri and Ada were too happy having to share a room with their grandparents when I decided to delete a whole section of the house on a whim. :| Not to mention Ada kept stealing the big bed for herself on numerous occasions. Chaos ensued and curse words were exchanged (mentally) between me and my sims for a while.

[ReyaD]

*big hug for Becky* Best wishes to you and your boyfriend. He's lucky to have someone who loves him enough to stay in the hospital with him. Hope he heals well.

[ReyaD]

Sorry! Double post! (Sorta...)

Ch. 120: Wager http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ch-120-wager.html

Dante being ignored, Dastan being distracted, and the Merricks being overall adorable. Also I loooove my house location. Makes outdoor photos so beautiful.

[LadyAwesome]

QUESTION - are we aloud to use the same energy gain for every bed mod? And Reya I started at the start of your legacy.... what chapter does this gen start on, I will read from there?

Oh stuff it. I am going to use it anyway lol

[Edit] 1.2 Speachless (http://malkierlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/12-speachless.html)

[BlindingEchoes]

New chapter from me, it's not much but life's been insane as of late. My mother's in the hospital, my own health is still failing and to be honest, playing my legacy has been too much like work lately. Hopefully things will even out soon enough and I won't have to give you guys another lame post like this one → Chapter Sixty-Two (http://talliwaylegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-sixty-two-insert-song-lyric.html)

[ReyaD]

QUESTION - are we aloud to use the same energy gain for every bed mod? And Reya I started at the start of your legacy.... what chapter does this gen start on, I will read from there?

I don't actually know about the bed mod. I don't think its ever been discussed before.

I'm currently on gen eight, which may be easier to understand one chapter before the gen officially begins. here. (http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ch-110-thing-called-joy.html)

[AJH]

I don't actually know about the bed mod. I don't think its ever been discussed before.[/URL]
I use it, mainly because I really like the look of some of the low energy beds and get annoyed by the fact that if I want my sims to get a decent night's sleep I'm so limited in which beds I can give them.

I've finally managed to get Joshua back up to a child so I've only got a couple of sim days before I'm back to the right point to resume my legacy :D

[calisims]

Yeah, the bed mod is fine.
I'm glad you are catching up to your legacy, Ali. Playing through it again must be a pain.

[AJH]

Yeah, the bed mod is fine.
I'm glad you are catching up to your legacy, Ali. Playing through it again must be a pain.
It's a bit boring, I've had in running while I do other things with static motives & them doing virtually nothing

I've seen a lot more idles than I usually do though!

[LadyAwesome]

I think I read that whole month worth of chapters ReyaD. I really like it. Now what one to read next.
And cool Cali. This is kinda fun, except this last chapter was boring lol. Now for fun stuff, so I have fun things to write about lol

[kirajmp]

Moonstone Manor update.

I know it's been a while, my little dog was sick, we had to have him put to sleep :( I just didn't feel like doing anything for a while.

Haven't even been reading, so I have a lot to catch up on with all your stories!

Anyway, don't want to spoil anything, so I'll just post the link. Well, except to mention that I usually put my gravestones in the cemetery because I don't like lots of ghosts in the house, but one gravestone somehow turned invisible, so I can't get rid of this one ghost, but I wrote her into the story :D

Generation 8 Chapter 3 (http://kirajmpmoonstone.blogspot.com/2011/09/gen-8-ch-3.html)

[Buckley]

Aww man! How sad kirajmp. That's so hard, losing a pet. :(

Ali, I can't imagine playing like that! How awful. Although, seeing all those idles would be interesting.

So, I've played sims since TS1, and for the first time ever I'm seriously attempting to build a house. And failing. Miserably. Lol, it's so hard! I have a new found admiration for all you creators. Space planning is really not my forte, and it takes so much time and patience to figure it all out. And the roofing tool baffles me.

I think I may just download and remodel. I never realized how long it takes to build something yourself.

[LadyAwesome]

Lol Buckley, I would probably be stuck if I didnt have Armiel and tvr designs nit picking everything I made lol. I need to make a big legacy house and upload it I think :D

[CinderEmma]

I have trouble with the roofs :P
I will update soon :) Like in a day or so, hurrah!
It's just a bit of a hard chapter to write, not emotionally or anything, it's just tricky 0_o

I lost my rabbit a few months ago, it was an agonizing death too. It made me feel like the most horrible pet owner ever, even though at the time I wasn't his owner. Complicated story, but the sum of it was that my mom gave our rabbit to a rather high-functioning client of hers (she works at various group homes), and a month or so after the rabbit had to be put down. At least he was put on laughing gas before his death, so his last moments were less painful. And I felt so bad for the client, she had just lost her guinea pig, and bonded so much with my bunny :(

[ReyaD]

When I was three my pet bunny got eaten by a wild dog just off the property. I don't remember it. But the only pet we've had since was a goldfish that lived for eight years. When it died my middle sister made herself sick from crying so hard. You guys all deserve big hugs for having to go through the death of a pet.

Also: I have three chapters written out and it is SO difficult not to just post them all at once... *Eye twitch* So I'm just going to post Sunday's now...

Ch. 121 : Hello, Goodbye http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ch-121-hello-goodbye.html

River's pregnant, Dastan swears, and Damian... IS F***ING HOT! <3 Oh maaaaan I just LOVE how he turned out.

He and Dastan are both up on the legacy sims exchange. Not much of a spoiler for YA! Dastan really. Just know that Joy has some attractive sons.

[mimi250]

Hello :beer:

I'm back after such a long time, it's nice to see that the challenge is more alive than ever.. There are so much stories and blogs. ;) :gjob:

I just came back from Boston. I visited a few others places in New England. too. I fell in love with this part of USA. What a chance for those who live there

I'll start over a new legacy, but no blog (no time for that anymore, unfortunately) but I'll have pleasure to read the challenger's ones.

I'm looking forward Pets EP to be released. I think we should start to think about new careers (it seems that we can raise, buy and sell horses for example) and how pets will be introduced in the legacy rules , for example creating a new section about the number of pets a family is allowed to have, like the section B... Of course, we will have to wait a bit before we know how much sims and pets will be allowed in a same household. But it seems that this new EP will refund a lot of things in the random legacy... See you soon

[LadyAwesome]

Welcome Back Mimi, well I am new. This legacy thing is fun, although I don't normally make it past the first one. I am assuming I have more pressure this way lol.

Also, choose to have pets and heirs hehehehe.

[teal_moonshine]

I know I'm getting repetitive with all my planning updates, but I have a tad more people in it... 41 Greek mythology and 44 Norse (41 unless I can make 3 of them immortal or close to it). I'm going to have Arthur Pendragon (King Arthur), Guinevere and Uther (named after Arthurs father), Lancelot, his son Galahad and Galahad's mother, Elaine. Ah... Lilith and Dirk Pleasant-Dreamer, Angela and Dustin Broke-Dreamer, the obligatory: Alexander Goth, Cassandra Goth and her daughter Frankie as well as Michael Alto-Landgraab. Beau Merrick's sons from the 3 women, Blaine, Blaise and Blake. I've also got at least 1 sim from each of the legacies which have been put up (I was hoping to find Foster Emnity, but haven't, s'all good though, I'll make another heart-throb). In total, 42 households, 117 sims... And my computer isn't too far off.

[AJH]

I know I'm getting repetitive with all my planning updates, but I have a tad more people in it... 41 Greek mythology and 44 Norse (41 unless I can make 3 of them immortal or close to it).
If you use NRASS SP I think you can set ageing off for specific individuals, think it's somewhere on the SP options when you click on the individual

I have now got my legacy back up to the right point and am playing it properly again! :D

[teal_moonshine]

If you use NRASS SP I think you can set ageing off for specific individuals, think it's somewhere on the SP options when you click on the individual

See I thought so, but I haven't been able to really check that properly yet... But danke.

And a big woo! for your legacy

[calisims]

Hi, mimi, welcome back! I love New England, it's where I'm from originally, though I live in California now.

We talked a little about rolling for the number of pets awhile ago. I prefer to leave that up to the player, and some others feel that way. An optional pet roll was suggested.
Whatever gets decided, there is a limit on how many humans and pets can fit in a family (There will still be the 8 human Sim limit, wit two slots added for pets, making 10 total slots. I think total cap on pets is 6). If you roll couple, 5 kids, you wouldn't be able to have more than 3 pets no matter what you rolled. At least not until the older kids started moving out. And then you'd run into generational overlap. If gen 1 rolls couple, 5 kids, and 5 pets, the last two pets couldn't move in until two of the kids reach YA and move out. So they'd be coming in the family very close to the start of gen 2 (or during it if the first child was heir.) Then gen 2 would have a separate pet roll...
So whatever rules we come up with, we have to keep the limits in mind.

Sadly there are no new jobs in Pets, but there are ways to make money with them. The horse breeding could be a new career (though I'm wondering how much room you need for stables to do that for income. That career could become a huge burden in terms of moving to a lot that can accommodate it properly).
Pets don't have jobs (yay) but I've heard they can collect stuff to be sold. We could roll for whether the generation is allowed to make money from pet activities.

Teal, I can put Foster Enmity up for you, no problem.

[teal_moonshine]

I agree with allowing pets to be up to the player... All the hooha could get confusing, especially for new people, hell, I'd probably get confused...

And I'm in no rush for Foster, he won't be needed for a few weeks, but otherwise that would be great, thanks :)

[calisims]

Chapter 13 is up:
http://romanrandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-13-while-we-have-time.html

[SimmingStarfish]

Im back(:

[mimi250]

Thanks LadyAwesome and Calisims, ;)

I had thought about a kind of second family tree only for pets.. for example, if the generation 1 choose to have a horse, this horse (and his children and grandchildren...) would have to breed until the 10th generation as well (but I think pets lives are a bit shorter than humans lives, so it would be 15th or 16th generation at the end of the challenge)..

But it's ok for me too if we only have to choose if we want pets or not. There are so much rules in this challenge, that it's not really disturbing.

Even if there are not new real careers, I have read that our sims will be able to buy their horses at the equestrian center (I don't know for dogs or cats).. so a new career in C2 would be nice: horses raising or something like that.. Horses competitions will be in the game, so it could be included in the career too

Here is an interesting link: http://www.edenstyle.it/expansion-packs-pets/the-sims-3-pets-reportage-chapter-3-horses.html

[Buckley]

Mimi! I'm happy you're back. :) I wasn't around when you were here, but I read through the first 50 or so pages of this forum one day, so it is nice to have you back with us.

Is anyone else ridiculously excited for this expansion pack?! Maybe it's just me, but OMG horses! Just talking about it makes me want to jump up and down and squeal. And of course, the dogs and cats will be pretty stellar as well. I just hope it's not as glitchy as some of the other expansion packs...

I never thought about having a second family tree for pets. That could be fun. But I agree, pets should be optional.

And teal, your town sounds fantastic. I can't wait! I admire your ambition... 117 people is a lot! :)

[ReyaD]

Am I the only person NOT ridiculously excited for this expansion pack? I don't hate animals, honest. I just prefer not having animals in the house. I'm the only kid I know that never wanted a pony for her fifth birthday.

Also: Buckley you're no longer allowed to make a post unless its for an update. I got all excited and then realized you weren't posting an update link. *Pouts*

[calisims]

I'm excited about this EP, but not for horses. I've never really cared much for horses.
But I'm a cat lover. I loved my cats in Sims 2 and I'm really excited to make Sim versions of Yin and Yang. (my RL cats)
Also, ice cream trucks. And the new small animals like lizards and turtles. And there's a new red flowering tree I've seen in screenshots that looks like it might be a bottlebrush plant. I'm really excited for that, as I've wanted one of those since Sims 1. Yeah, I get excited over new landscaping objects more than anything, lol.

[Miss Puff]

I'm middlingly(?) excited about it. I am looking forward to my sims being able to adopt pets as any new things to round out their lives is good. I feel like I should be more excited about the horses, though, since that sounds like will be adding the most new stuff to do, but I'm not really a horse person I guess. The expansion I wish they'd bring back the most is Seasons, that added so much to the overall feel of the game.

For the challenge, maybe we could add something for it in the misc fun category? Something like a "Dog/Cat/Horse Lover" roll where the heir needs to have at least one of their chosen favorite animal and max out all it's skills or complete all of the wishes they roll related to their pet or something like that depending on what's available. That way we can include pets in the challenge, but it will just be a one generation thing instead of something you have to keep up with the whole way through.

And for the horse raising thing, what about making it a part of the current farming profession? It could become farmer/rancher and you can choose whether or not you want to grow a farm or raise horses. That way you could choose not to do the horses if it would require you to move or build a huge addition to your house.

[mimi250]

Contrary to in real life, I'm not really excited by Pets in the game.. it's always painful having to control and check our sims, so with pets, playing could become really stressing.. However, I'm really excited by horses. I think they will add a lot of things in our game, and they are so realistic.. I'm not really excited by dogs or cats (Cats are not really great on screenshots) but like Calisims, I'm waiting for all the new things that will be added in the EP (icecream trucks, objects, new neighborood and so on.....)..

[mimi250]

For the challenge, maybe we could add something for it in the misc fun category? Something like a "Dog/Cat/Horse Lover" roll where the heir needs to have at least one of their chosen favorite animal and max out all it's skills or complete all of the wishes they roll related to their pet or something like that depending on what's available. That way we can include pets in the challenge, but it will just be a one generation thing instead of something you have to keep up with the whole way through.

And for the horse raising thing, what about making it a part of the current farming profession? It could become farmer/rancher and you can choose whether or not you want to grow a farm or raise horses. That way you could choose not to do the horses if it would require you to move or build a huge addition to your house.

I like your idea of a Dog/ Cat/ Horse lover, MissPuff.. But I think that farmer should be distinct of rancher.. farmer is already linked to nectar maker.. So horses will be too much I think for an unique career..

[Buckley]

Also: Buckley you're no longer allowed to make a post unless its for an update. I got all excited and then realized you weren't posting an update link. *Pouts*

Haha Cece. I wish I could update, but I'm currently working on my awesome goal and it's taking FOREVER. :(

I decided to build a series of parks, one for each life stage, and then have my heir purchase them for the family. There will be a playground for the toddlers and kids, a "romantic hideaway" (like a lover's lane type thing) for the teens, a wedding gazebo for the young adults, and (totally depressing but whatever) a graveyard for the elders. Not really sure what to do for the adults, but oh well.

I'm really excited about it, but I am only on my first lot (wedding gazebo). I may just use the prebuilt playground and cemetery and customize them a bit. I hope that still counts as "awesome", lol.

[ReyaD]

*Que upset noise here*

I couldn't help myself! I have been DYING to post this chapter ever since Marie showed up.

Ch. 122 : You Love Me http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ch-122-you-love-me.html

Hope you guys enjoy reading it as much I have been dying to post it.

Buckley: I think that counts as awesome! I rolled awesome for my gen ten and I'm just hoping that the story line counts for it. xD

[CinderEmma]

Maybe some outdoor country club like thing for the adults Buckley? Cool idea!

[NutsAndDolts]

Hey, welcome back Mimi.

I'm back from the hospital (as if it wasn't obvious). Unfortunately my boyfriend is still there. =( I would still be there if I could be.

For the Pets stuff... I think we just need to wait and see...

Remember for Generations, we already had chemist lumped in as a career and as part of the expansion gift, only to discover you can't sell potions? Lulz.

[GigaRevival]

So I got started a bit early with the Harris blog (I'm not going to post the chapters yet)... and I can't wait to be moving on. My last Dennis Chapters just feel like fillers... oh well.

And I'm glad you're back Nuts... and I hope everything is going okay with the boyfriend. It's always sucky to have someone you love in the hospital.

Another welcome back to mimi! I wasn't taking part in the challenge early on when you were here... so hello!

And I agree with Nuts... it's best just to wait until Pets comes out since so much seems to be rumor at this point. Although, that can't stop us from being excited and adding to the rumor mill. :rofl:

I'm excited for objects; particularly the ice cream truck (although vending machines seemed to be dropped from the EP.... BOO!), but I'm still hesitant about adding pets. I played with pets in Sims 2 and they were annoying at best... although this time we get to control them. Also, I'm *really* hoping that the rumor regarding animal spawners in cities isn't true. I'm not too keen on having wild horses romping through the city streets. Also, if the spawners are as crazy as people are supposing; I sense another computer implosion on the way. :blink:

Edit: There's a lot of "also's," "another's," and "although's" in this post. Geeze! :jest:

[LadyAwesome]

OoOO country club sound fun :D - which reminds me, I need to finish my park

[ReyaD]

*Twirls in a circle* I almost wanna make a "prologue" chapter for Neverglade. Just because it is a continuation of the Starr Legacy, but after a really long jump. It wouldn't be long, but I'm not sure if its really allowed.

[Buckley]

*Twirls in a circle* I almost wanna make a "prologue" chapter for Neverglade. Just because it is a continuation of the Starr Legacy, but after a really long jump. It wouldn't be long, but I'm not sure if its really allowed.

Ooh! Make a prologue! Please?! I don't see why it wouldn't be allowed. It's your story. :D

...Besides, I really want to read it!

EDIT: So, I am playing my legacy, and I just stumbled across this woman who is stuck giving birth. When I click on her, the only option is "take to the hospital", but when you do, it just glitches and she stays in labor. She and her husband were married as young adults, and as he is now an elder close to death and she's still a Y/A, I think she's been that way for a while. Whoops!

[AJH]

*Twirls in a circle* I almost wanna make a "prologue" chapter for Neverglade. Just because it is a continuation of the Starr Legacy, but after a really long jump. It wouldn't be long, but I'm not sure if its really allowed.
I did a prologue for my current legacy

[ReyaD]

AJH: Yeah but yours was really just the events of a single day. Mine would go uh... a bit farther back then that. Its not like I'd use it to skill or anything though. I have Neverglade set up almost exactly to the point where I want it. I'd be using a copy city for the prologue.

Buckley:
EDIT: So, I am playing my legacy, and I just stumbled across this woman who is stuck giving birth. When I click on her, the only option is "take to the hospital", but when you do, it just glitches and she stays in labor. She and her husband were married as young adults, and as he is now an elder close to death and she's still a Y/A, I think she's been that way for a while. Whoops!

I suggest resetsim. It might fix the problem. Or delete and pretend it never happened. >_>

[LadyAwesome]

lol I like delete and pretend it never happened. seems to be how I roll.
This is so exciting. I have neglected the house, poses and story I was writing. OoOoops oh well. Chapter just about done weeeeeee.

[edit] and the Chapter is complete :D 1.3 Things that make you go MmMmm (http://malkierlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/13-things-that-make-you-go-mmmmmm.html)

[calisims]

Yeah, I definitely think we shouldn't post any rules until Pets is out and we've had a chance to play it.

Chapter 14 is up:
http://romanrandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-14-birthday.html

[Redhead Creations]

Hey guys!

My computer has been acting up lately and I haven't been able to play much!! *SOB* I have the pics for another update, which will bring me current with my game, but I haven't been able to get in for the last week! I don't know what to do! =( I've been debating on splurging and getting a new Alienware laptop... *sigh*

To weigh in on the pets thing, I'm not really dying for this EP either. I'm a huge animal lover, though, but I'm already a micromanager when it comes to playing, so this will just add MORE things to micromanage... Hopefully they'll have good enough AI to look after themselves. =)

[AJH]

AJH: Yeah but yours was really just the events of a single day. Mine would go uh... a bit farther back then that. Its not like I'd use it to skill or anything though. I have Neverglade set up almost exactly to the point where I want it. I'd be using a copy city for the prologue.
True, but as long as you don't gain skills etc from it I don't see there's any real issue however long it goes back

[ReyaD]

True, but as long as you don't gain skills etc from it I don't see there's any real issue however long it goes back

I see your point and decide its all I need.

Looks like I'll be doing a prolouge!

[GigaRevival]

Chapter 22.

http://dennislegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-twenty-two-oslo-in-summertime.html

A birthday (no surprise there); Adamaris/Harper bonding moment; Sybil's freak-out; Olive/Feng naughty time redux; Robert one-ups Mya; Adamaris gives in to the rumors.

[CinderEmma]

Friend drama does not make me happy. Ugh...

I'm "working" on my update, I've gotten like 2 sentences done. *shakes head at myself*

[ReyaD]

I'm working on ch. 125 now. xD Its like... twice the size of ch. 124. I feel so bad because my chapter sizes are all over the place. I wish I could be consistent.

[CinderEmma]

At least you've updated :) I updated last on the 8th, which makes me sad despite knowing I went on a hiatus :(

[AJH]

Talking of updates, here's chapter 14:- http://clemetislegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-fourteen.html

If there are any inconsistencies with the furnishings or Joshua between this chapter and the previous ones it's because this is the first set of photos since the re-start, think I've got it mostly accurate but...

[Anarathiel]

Hey guys. Just popping in to tell you some stuff.

Basically school's a right bitch, so is my laptop. I had a virus about 3 weeks ago that wiped my files, i didn't have sims backed up so gave up on playing.
But now, I'm back. This time, I WILL FINISH THE CHALLENGE!

My roll:
Marital Structure: Mixed Couple
Number of Children: 2
Primary Income: Culinary
Secondary Income: Athletic
Generation Goal: Perfect Children
Misc Fun: Runs In The Family (Ambitious trait)

[LadyAwesome]

Im really peeved my pictures are not working, anyone else having photo buckets issues?

Welcome Back Anarathiel. Interesting roll you have lol.

Its hard keeping up with all these legacies, I cant remember which ones I have read now lol.

[CinderEmma]

I don't use photobucket (or edit them much at all XD) on my pictures, blogger is awesome in that you can take the pictures straight from your computer :D
Wow, that roll looks cool Anarathiel, especially with the Ambitious trait running through the family :D

[LadyAwesome]

Last time I uploaded my pics, they come out fizzy... and I dont edit my pics (you can prob tell from the shit quality) I just like all the pictures to be the same width :P

[Buckley]

Its hard keeping up with all these legacies, I cant remember which ones I have read now lol.

I'm such a dork. :) When I first started the challenge, I made a list of everybody's legacies. I divided it into 2 columns, ones that I'd read and ones that I needed to read. It helped me keep track in the beginning. But now, I use blogger's follow feature to keep up with people's legacies. It helps. ;)

[CinderEmma]

I would try it again, I'm not sure why it would be fizzy, but it shouldn't be. None of my pictures are fizzy, right? *panics*
Anyway, you can make them all the same using a Blogger feature. You click on the picture once it's on your page, and it has a little toolbar underneath that says small, medium, large, extra large, and original size...and other stuff too, but it's not important for this. I use extra large, but it was a b**** to format the page to fit them without cutting off other stuff. So go with large or medium.

[GigaRevival]

I got a new search tag for the Dennis blog: "shepard rape face" :rofl:

And my pictures are complete crap too, but the blogger feature is actually pretty darn good. It's nice not having to upload them somewhere else and then attach them to the blog... plus, I'm far too lazy and inept to go through that many steps. :lol:

[CinderEmma]

I just found a new one too, not as hilarious as yours Giga but still funny.
"scary black gothic people on street"
Seriously, Ty is a gentle gothic hottie who lives in a 60k house :)

[calisims]

Okay, here is Foster Enmity (the founder of my previous legacy) as requested.
Also, I'm uploading Tania Summerdream (yes, it is short for Titania, lol) and Zhenzhen.
Zhen is in her green haired, really bright eyes form.
All Sims have been stripped of CC/Store items. Summerdream's top is from TLS, but the rest of the stuff will be from base game or EPs, no SPs.

Summerdream's original hair is from the Store, from a Surf collection. I put her in the base game hair with the flower for the DL. Also, I'm using the cheat to unlock all outfits, so I had barefeet available for shoes for her casual and formal outfits. I don't know what happens if you aren't using the cheat, she might show up in horrible shoes or something.
Foster wears CC facial hair in my game, I put him in a base game chin strap for the DL.

[ReyaD]

On the topic of funny search words I got "chess boy man". I assume they found the chapter where Chale and Sheridan were talking during his chess tournament.

Cali: EEEEE! YES! I wanted all three!

... I wonder what would happen if Foster + Zhen Zhen + Commitment Issues + 5 kids/family... >_>

(Yes I get bored sometimes. DON'T JUDGE ME)

[CinderEmma]

Lol, makes me want to experiment Cece :P
On worse news, my chapter is at a standstill *smashes stupid unmoving mind*

I had a few other funny ones too, but I just cracked up with the scary homeless goths search XP (Is paraphrasing for the heck of it)

[Miss Puff]

I'm such a dork. :) When I first started the challenge, I made a list of everybody's legacies. I divided it into 2 columns, ones that I'd read and ones that I needed to read. It helped me keep track in the beginning. But now, I use blogger's follow feature to keep up with people's legacies. It helps. ;)
I actually recently made a spread sheet with legacies and people's blogger names and MTS names because I kept getting confused about which blog belonged to who. And yes, there is also a column for whether or not I'm up to date with reading them. :rofl:

Here's my new update: Chapter Four (http://keattslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/patron-of-arts.html)

I meant to get that up over the weekend, but got distracted with other things. I'm excited for the next update, but I haven't finished playing it yet so it might take a day or two.

[Buckley]

Yay! Foster! I'm going to download him when I get back on my desktop.

I need to update SO BADLY! But there isn't much going on in Anne Arbor right now. It would just be random pictures of birthdays and babies. Btw, Ryder (my generation 2 heir) is, umm, interesting looking as a teenager. His eyes scare me, lol. When I post my update, I need to add a close up picture of him so y'all can tell me that he isn't so bad after all. I think I'll need the encouragement when I finally see him as an adult. :)

EDIT: Haha! Thanks Miss Puff. I don't feel so nerdy now. :D

[ReyaD]

I actually recently made a spread sheet with legacies and people's blogger names and MTS names because I kept getting confused about which blog belonged to who. And yes, there is also a column for whether or not I'm up to date with reading them. :rofl:

Lol! I have the same thing! As well as how many chapters (when below 10. Otherwise just a checkmark) and all that other stuff. Including a pre-formatted website link.

His eyes scare me, lol. When I post my update, I need to add a close up picture of him so y'all can tell me that he isn't so bad after all. I think I'll need the encouragement when I finally see him as an adult

SEE SHE SHOULD HAVE MARRIED ETHAN AND MADE VAMPIRE BABIES. LOOK HOW HOT SKYLAR CAME OUT!

... Thats not really helping, is it? *Hugs* Don't worry. My gen two heir was fugly as heck... I had to do soooo much playing around in stylist so that Matthew didn't make everyone throw up. Also very selective in my photos of him that generation.

Word to whomever uses Sunset Valley in a future legacy. KILL STILES OFF AND NEVER LET HIM RE-POPULATE! The liiiips. They lasted until Chale's generation!

[teal_moonshine]

Thanks SO much for Foster, he's been put in a safe place until he's needed.

[ReyaD]

Thanks SO much for Foster, he's been put in a safe place until he's needed.

I don't know why... but this made me laugh SO FREAKING HARD! I actually started crying.

... My mind is a filthy filthy place. I apologize.

[CyyKosis]

So my latest update is ALMOST done. Just waiting on a super important event :) But I wanted to share some tidbits of information.

I uploaded a bunch of everyone's legacy sims just as genetic fodder (aka not being in the story themselves, but possibly their children someday) AND I messed up my story progression so that it didn't show any stories, when I like to have it show romances and pregnancies of every sim. I was checking out everyone's relationship status and there were some good ones. Bea is married to Ethan <3 and Foster is married to Kamala. Eek! Ella Starr is also pregnant but with a random sim I created and Serenity has a child with... Michael Talliway! Fun stuff :) Update within the next 15 min.

[teal_moonshine]

... My mind is a filthy filthy place. I apologize.

It's ok, it's an amusing burden I bear as well...

[NutsAndDolts]

I don't get it. o.o

[CinderEmma]

Me either 0_o
Maybe my mind doesn't twist that way?

I'm thinking I'm not going to upload my sims, I just don't have base skin in my game, and I don't want people experiencing glitches with their sims because of that.

[Buckley]

Aww that is so cute Maddie. I smiled so big when I read about Ethan and Bea. :)

....Except now I feel guilty cause my Ethan has yet to even flirt with another woman after I broke him and Beatrix up. And I really wanted him to breed with some of the townies too. Whereas Brian (Bea's fiancee) is constantly cheating on her with other locals around town. (Although I ignore that detail in my story.) I think I'm regretting my decision...

It's okay Nuts. I don't get it either.

[ReyaD]

Maaaaybe before the marriage one of Brian's other girls tells Bea and she dumps him and goes back to Ethan? >_>

Man I opened Neverglade to get some clones for my prologue and the family that I planned to be perfect and happy is already on the verge of divorce. I moved them in less then a sim day ago! WOW.

Also: You guys suck. Its a sex joke. I ain't explaining it.

[CinderEmma]

I guessed it was a sex joke, I just didn't get what kind of sex joke it was. I suppose since I'm a virgin (and proud of it!) that's excusable?
Lol, a day to ruin a marriage, that's a record...even Britney Spears waited 72 hours to divorce one guy!

[GigaRevival]

Aaaand... I'm almost done with Chapter 23. I'm trying my hardest to get done with these last Chapters so I can move on to Harper... but cheese-and-effing-rice I took WAY too many pictures for me to sift through. *shakes fist* You win again, past self!

And Reya, I got it. We can stew in our own filthy minds... gross. Forget I said that. :|

[ReyaD]

Update within the next 15 min.

Its been 40. BUT WHO'S COUNTING, RIGHT?

>_>

Also is it just me or does Renny seriously never wait to jump into bed with guys? Thats two different legacies she's been uploaded into, both in which she's having kids right away. And with Michael too! (... And now I sort of want to load up that one save game I still have from her generation and see if I can make that work out...)

[CinderEmma]

Lol, you make me laugh Cece :)
I got quite a bit done tonight, I'm surprised. Once I'm done with this one part, I should be flying :)

[CyyKosis]

Oh shush Cece, it's right here--> http://sperierandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-20-sometimes-we-miss-cadance.html

Sorry about the delay. I had to rethink my whole story line with an unexpected twist.

[Buckley]

Also is it just me or does Renny seriously never wait to jump into bed with guys? Thats two different legacies she's been uploaded into, both in which she's having kids right away. And with Michael too! (... And now I sort of want to load up that one save game I still have from her generation and see if I can make that work out...)

In my legacy, she waited about, umm, 30 sim minutes before she was pregnant with the one vampire in my entire town. Not joking.

But they are happily married and have 4 kids. All girls, all vampires. Lol. I love her so much. :)

[ReyaD]

In my legacy, she waited about, umm, 30 sim minutes before she was pregnant with the one vampire in my entire town. Not joking.

But they are happily married and have 4 kids. All girls, all vampires. Lol. I love her so much. :)

PICTURES OR IT DIDN"T HAPPEN.

(... Please?)

Actually on the topic of crazy hormonal families. Michael and Peanut had 5 boys in their lifetime. The "avg number of kids" per family at the time was 2.

I honestly can't wait to start Neverglade : D. Only two days of "pre-playing" and these characters are already being friggin adorable! Morand is already flirting with one of the few female single sims. And Bea and Ethan are ALREADY expecting baby #2.

... Not goanna lie. The pop up came up almost right after I switched to the next family in my list for photos.

[ReyaD]

Sorry for the double post but I swear I thought someone would have posted by now...

Ch. 123 : Love's Enough http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ch-123-loves-enough.html

Official beginning of Generation Nine. I'm freaking out just a little because I'm so close to the end of my first legacy.

Anyway, Dastan has awesome facial expressions (and looks like he's on drugs), Dante is adorable, and Keri is back. And hot.

[LadyAwesome]

Ugh, the uploader for blogger wont let me upload it the original size. FML.


Never mind, I just didnt download the new interface, everything is much easier now YAY.

[edit] i think its fixed now :D http://malkierlegacy.blogspot.com/

[ReyaD]

*Sighs* So I'm a bit ahead in game but not as much as I usually am. Dastan's wife had triplets. I was so excited, picked the perfect traits.

... Then my game crashed.

No idea when my last save was. At worst, five days. At best, right before the event.

Sort of in need of a hug right now. I hate replaying big scenes.

[NutsAndDolts]

*hugs* =(

[CyyKosis]

Oh no! I'm sorry Cece :( *hugs* That sucks! I hope you find your last save was right before :/

[Miss Puff]

*hugs for Cece*

I didn't read the spoiler, but maybe you can use mods like Twallan's Master Controller to set relationships/deaths/pregnancies/whatever needs to happen to what they should be quickly? That way you can get quickly back to the point you were at when you crashed since you already played through it once.

[AJH]

*Sighs* So I'm a bit ahead in game but not as much as I usually am. Dastan's wife had triplets. I was so excited, picked the perfect traits.

... Then my game crashed.

No idea when my last save was. At worst, five days. At best, right before the event.

Sort of in need of a hug right now. I hate replaying big scenes.
Oh no, <sends big hugs>

[Buckley]

Aww, man. That sucks Cece. *hugs*

I have an update. Chapter 7: A Rising Star

http://themckinleylegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-7-rising-star.html

Hopefully, it will cheer you up Cece. At the end I included a bunch of pictures of the Starr family. BTW, I love love LOVE Serenity's oldest daughter. I may include her in my story down the road, if I can think of a plausible plot line for her. She's fabulous.

[ReyaD]

Thank you Buckely. <3 You have no idea how much it cheered me up. I've read it already and I will comment on it soon. Just in the middle of a meeting right now >_> (Shh. I'm a ninja)

[LadyAwesome]

Oh Cece, I fully am too. Just don't tell anyone.

[calisims]

Chapter 15 is up:
http://romanrandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-15-one-that-wasnt-there.html

Also, I added a few pics to out takes. Pics of the house, and a close up of Thierry's face tat.
Someday I will update my family tree, lo. I tend to forget about that.

[ReyaD]

So its official. I loathe sim babies and toddlers. *Eye twitch*

Oh right. Family tree. I should probably go update that.

[LadyAwesome]

Ermmmm so tonight I am upset, I didnt get to play my legacy.
My child wouldnt listen to me, why the eff do they have to do homework anyway.
I went on a HUGE downloading spree lol OoOOooOO pretty shineys.
and I spent most of the evening putting in extentions for free. I have no idea why I done it for free, but anywho. I wanna get a new chapter up soon, and finish reading the dennis legacy. I rather like it :D.

I want to know what happens with Jordan and Vance :D

[Buckley]

So its official. I loathe sim babies and toddlers. *Eye twitch*

Lol, I loathe real babies and toddlers. Hah no, I'm just kidding. I am writing this while babysitting a cranky 2-year-old, so I'm a bit biased right now. :)

Those are my least favorite stages, the baby and toddler ages. Also, elder because it makes me sad to see them all wrinkled and gray.

Melissa, I just looked at your outtakes page, and oh my goodness I love your house! I mean, I already knew that it was amazing from seeing it in Becky's blog, but it was nice to get to see the layout in full. I thought I'd finally settled on a place to move to for my change of scenery, but it looks like a box compared to your house. I never realized how much I like the contemporary style. Good job!

[calisims]

Thanks, Colleen. I'd be happy to build you a custom house if you want.
I'm also not fond of the baby/toddler stages.
The thing I hate most about the elder stage is the lack of clothes, lol. Okay, I also hate that they are wrinkled and gray, but not being able to dress them properly just adds crap icing to the crap cake that is the elder stage.

[GigaRevival]

I think the baby stage is my least favorite... since, you know, they are basically just props that you clean and feed occasionally.

Toddlers are okay, except I hate having to actually teach them things. Sheesh... can't they teach themselves?! :jest:

@LadyAwesome: I'm glad you like it. :)

@cali: LOVE the house. Srsly... your building skills are so much better than mine. I'm jealous. :gjob:

Also, I'm in the middle of mid-term week so the likelihood of me getting an update in is slim. Although, I tend to get distracted easily when doing homework so take my warning with a grain of salt. :faceslap: Procrastination... the key to getting my blog updated.

[ReyaD]

On the topic of babies and toddlers :
Try raising three at once! I had to have everyone in the household sleeping in shifts, and even made Joven quit firefighting because I was convinced it would crash my game again. These triplets will be the end of me. I swear.

But yeah, heir was born in game with a mutation hair. It made me laugh so hard since its the exact same shade as Luke from Becky's legacy. At least I think it is. Poor kid. Everyone in his family has awesome beautiful hair tones. And he got light brown.

And yeah yeah. Cali is amazing at architecture and decorating. We know. (Seriously though. Totally not fair. I feel so proud of what I build until I read one of Cali's updates and see what her house looks like. Then I feel sad.)

[Buckley]

That's such a nice offer Melissa! I'm seriously tempted to take you up on it, but I'd hate to steal you away from your legacy. However, if you're ever bored one day and get an itch to build, I'd really love to have one of your houses. <3

[calisims]

That's such a nice offer Melissa! I'm seriously tempted to take you up on it, but I'd hate to steal you away from your legacy. However, if you're ever bored one day and get an itch to build, I'd really love to have one of your houses. <3

If it makes you feel better, building would steal more from my Dragon Age run through than from my legacy.
What size lot do you need?

[LadyAwesome]

lol I want to play dragon age, and mortal combat . . . . . . too adicted to sims atm though. I need to finish this mediterranian house I am working on. On my sims 3 blog I found all these masks that would be awesome in it weeee

[CyyKosis]

Speaking about building houses is getting me excited for my next gen! I explain in the notes (which I have written... just starting the actual chapter though lol) that I re-rolled for Deadbeat Parents and got Change of Scenery. I have an idea for what I want it to look like but that's it right now. I'm going to try to build something as architectually beautiful as you Melissa... but first I have to remember what I learned from that major before I switched to CompSci. Auto-Cad here I come! (I build all of my houses in that before attempting to in the sims... yeah, I'm a nerd :cool: )

[ReyaD]

Nerds are adorable, CyyKosis. (I think we're all in consensus about that after Buckley's update) Can't wait to see what you come up with.

I think my houses suck because I just wing 'em. I mean, I always have the basic outline in my mind but it never actually works out that way. I think the only reason I like my current legacy house is because the windows I picked offer amazing views no matter what. <3 This lot.

I'm thinking of adding a basement for expansion since I like the house as is for now and can't really see where or how else I could add in more room.

[calisims]

Yeah, I look forward to seeing your new house, too.
FWIW, I updated my family tree.
I was thinking about uploading Hawke here, if anyone wants him.

[Buckley]

If it makes you feel better, building would steal more from my Dragon Age run through than from my legacy.
What size lot do you need?

Haha. Well, in that case... :D

Hmm. There is a beautiful 40x40 lot in Anne Arbor. The only thing is that the street in front of it dead ends into it. So, building any sort of driveway is tricky. Actually, now that I think about it, there is another 40x40 lot I could use that has a road all the way in front. So 40x40, with whatever sort of driveway you want.

...But seriously, if you'd rather not mess with it, I completely understand. :)

[LadyAwesome]

So what world does everyone play their legacys in. I love queenstown and I love charlton. my all time favs

[edit] ugh I cant buy into business's, it kinda is anoying me. I don't want to have to move towns :(

[CinderEmma]

I'm playing in Brooklyn Heights right now, I'm having some problems with my legacy right now though *smashes dumb glitches*

[ReyaD]

I'm playing in Sunset Valley right now because I'm boring xD.

But I'm moving onto the unpopulated Neverglade soon. Probably just a few more weeks.

[LadyAwesome]

*googles neverglade*
[edit] is rather pretty for something on the exchange
Brooklyn heights - is rather square, like they didn't take time to shape the world properly. Not that I can do any better lol

[calisims]

I'm playing Brooklyn Heights currently. My previous legacy was in Riverblossom Hills.

[LadyAwesome]

Riverblossoms was too big for my computer to handel. It was so pretty though. I still cant figure out why I cannot be a partner. Maybe the option doesn't come up unless you have enough money.

[calisims]

I think that's right, you have to have the money for the option to come up.

ETA: that's true about BH. There are really sharp, blocky cliffs everywhere. But I haven't tried figuring out CAW, so I can't be too nitpicky, lol.

[LadyAwesome]

Phew, thanks, you just saved my panic attack :D

[ReyaD]

One day I WILL stick to the schedule I gave myself... that day is not today. Thursday update on Wednesday.

Ch. 124 : Witch http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ch-124-witch.html

And yes, LadyAwesome, you need to have the available money before the option to buy a piece of property shows up. I think the bookstore and grocery store are the cheapest at a couple thousand each (less than 10k I believe).

[Buckley]

My family's in Anne Arbor. My previous legacy was in Riverblossom Hills, but it messed up so I moved them to Anne Arbor.

[Redhead Creations]

I've been very happy with Harmony, Lady Awesome. If you like more of a smallish/mediumish world it works very well and has very distinct areas (Beach, City, Desert, etc). It also has several large "Legacy" lots. It's been quite handy for my Legacy!

Speaking of which, I finally bit the bullet and posted an update...
http://cagleylegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-2-part-15.html

This brings me current with my game, so I REALLY REALLY hope to be able to get in some play time soon as I am now completely out of buffer!!! Not to mention I have so much catching up to do on everyone else's stories!!

[LadyAwesome]

Cagley is officially on my to read next list. after I do motherly chores like mowing lawn and not forgetting to pick the child up

[CinderEmma]

You guys and your updates are awesome. Me and my newly "loved" stomach bug are not so much. I hate you tummy!

[ReyaD]

*hugs Emma... carefully*

Stomach bugs are pure evil. Take care of yourself, okay?

[CyyKosis]

Eek! I hope you feel better SOON!

I'm done with my floor plan finally... just starting to decorate and add wallpaper and match everything and and and other fun stuff like that :) Just gotta figure out a reason to move there still.

[teal_moonshine]

I played Riverblossom Hills, first time it lagged a lot, but for some reason the second time was all good. The guy who made Neverglade is making a new one called Setra, which looks amazing, so chances are I'll be that far behind in getting my computer that I can use that one.

By the way Reya, if it's any consolation, it's Thursday arvo here...

[LadyAwesome]

Secondary Income: Musician - Busk with your guitar (or snakecharming basket) on community lots to earn money. You can also form a band!

Does this mean Vance can get a job in the music career? or no, I take it as no.

[ReyaD]

Nope. He can't. Only street corners for him. Also I totally didn't realize your character was named Vance. XD I just named my spare that.

[LadyAwesome]

Lol yeah he is Vance Mcpherson :D Who cares if you named one that anyway. Unless your dead set on purely original names, lol

[ReyaD]

Actually most of my names are just shamelessly ripped from random family members. This is the first generation I've had were I DIDN'T name at least one child after someone I know. Ah well. I love the names anyway.

[LadyAwesome]

I normally pick names of things from books I am currently reading. except Jordan, she just needed to be that. and Vance I got from a guy in the chat room :D

Also teal, where you from. Its the same here. I am from NZ.

[Miss Puff]

I usually get my sims' names from baby name sites, hehe. Although Rachel was different, I used a random name generator I found online for hers. Although I rolled like 50 names or something before I finally chose one, and I chose the first and lasts names from separate rolls, so it kind of defeated the point of being random.

I've played through what I've needed for my next update, but I ran into soo many problems getting sims to do what I was telling them to do and with random sims getting in the way, I swear they were totally working against me. I seriously started yelling at my bf about how frustrating it was at one point. >< But, yeah, I haven't played or worked on my blog since then so it'll be another day or so before my next update. ^^;

[calisims]

I get names from all over the place. I've named some from books (Shadow and Spider McDermott were named from characters in two different Gaiman novels) and I sometimes use baby name sites. Especially if I'm looking for a specific nationality, like I got Li Feng's name from a Chinese name site. Sometimes I know what I'm going to name a Sim before they're born, and sometimes I'm scrambling around at the last minute looking for a name.

[GigaRevival]

^^Is it either Anansi Boys or American Gods?... Goodness I LOVE those novels. Plus, I'm a die-hard Gaiman fan. I'm in the middle of the Sandman Series as we speak. : ) I *was* tempted to take some names from Stardust. Lol.

As far as naming goes, I usually just look for "unique" ones at baby sites... mostly because my creativity when it comes to naming is nil. Adamaris I got from an Irish site, even though it is apparently a French name? Wut.

[calisims]

Spider was from Anansi Boys and Shadow was from American Gods.
The Sandman series was awesome. Thessaly Enmity was named from a Sandman character. I'm pretty die hard on the Gaiman love, myself.

[ReyaD]

If it helps, Giga. I have a cousin with the nickname "Adimar" who is Irish. I don't actually know her full name since I only met her at a wedding a couple years back. Either way, Mar-mar's name is adorable and I love it.

What was hilarious is one of my cousins (Ximena) was googling her name and found my blog! I couldn't stop laughing when she told me about it over skype. At least she's sworn not to share it around with any other family members. I'm supposed to be focusing on school work and ONLY school work between the months of September - April.

[CyyKosis]

I usually use baby sites for my names and look up ones with meaning that would relate to that generation... on this legacy I've just chosen completely random names so far with the exception of my founders S, after my cousin and Tim who is my boyfriend's self-sim of the same name.

Edit: using names from books is a good idea... gives me an idea for my gen 3 heir's name. Terry Goodkind here I come!

[AJH]

So what world does everyone play their legacys in. I love queenstown and I love charlton. my all time favs
I'm currently playing in Riverblossom Hills which is gorgeous, planning on moving to Hidden Springs at an appropriate point since my sister kindly gifted it to me

[LadyAwesome]

I refuse to use the shit default world. I been hanging around kick ass builders and world makers for far to long my thinks.

Ok topic of today is.... I had it right there.... now I forget haha

Do you know how glad I am that blogger saves itself every 5 seconds, last night the power went out. I have no idea why, someone probably ran into a power pole.
But the point is

HAIL AUTO SAVE!!!

[edit] 1.4 Smile (http://malkierlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/14-smile.html)

[NutsAndDolts]

I think my next legacy will be in Hidden Springs. I really fell in love with some of the community lots.

I spent the night in the hospital with my boyfriend last night (tonight his mom wanted to stay again, so I am back at the house). He had a pretty rough night. =( He improved later on in the day though, and the doctors seem to think he's on the right track now and will send him home tomorrow unless something happens. So.. uh... fingers crossed, or whatever superstition.

Still working on my next update. While in the hospital I became shamefully addicted to Phoenix Wright (for the DS), and am on the second game. So. I'm still here, just distracted.

[ReyaD]

Phoenix Wright is the crack of the DS world. I am not even joking. My sister had to hide it back in gr 12 so I would actually study.

Best of luck to your boyfriend, Becky. Glad he's improving and I hope he gets home safe and sound soon. <3

[LadyAwesome]

I dont even know what pheonix wright is lol.

And same. it takes forever to recover from these things.

[Buckley]

I really hope your boyfriend can come home tomorrow, Becky. It must be so hard for both of you. I'll keep my fingers crossed. And my toes too for extra luck. :)

Now I feel weird bitching about some minor inconvenience I was experiencing in my Sims world. It just seems so stupid compared to everything else. Instead I'll just ask a challenge related question that I've been wondering about. :) My celebrity Sims keep getting sent gifts, and I haven't done anything with them cause I'm not sure what the rules are in that regard. Are we allowed to sell them? I didn't see anything in the rules, but I didn't look that closely either.

[ReyaD]

I think you're supposed to handle them like Opportunities and just do whatever you want with them. I've been using whatever I need furniture wise, and selling any doubles or extras.

[CinderEmma]

For names, I usually have an idea, and search baby names and baby name origins/definitions before making the finally decision.

[calisims]

I hope your boyfriend can come home tomorrow, Becky. *hugs*

Colleen, you can sell or use your celebrity gifts.

[NutsAndDolts]

Thanks for the support everyone.

Though it feels cheaty, to be given expensive items for basically nothing, it is not technically against the rules to do whatever you please with these items... since "being a celebrity" is not on the job rolls, and it's permissible to make money in any way that isn't covered by job rolls.

I think "being a celebrity and making money via gifts" was once either a roll or maybe it was up for consideration to be one, but I don't remember.

Personally I just don't allow celebrities in my game, period, because the way EA handled it makes me unhappy.

But I did take advantage of Generations' new wedding gifts thing, heh. The money-challenged founders of my current legacy received several gifts from the family ghosts, which Ace decided were sent by "practical jokers" and promptly sold.

Edit: also in an un-modded game, being a celebrity will give you so many scandals and annoyances that I feel you more than earned those items. *shudder*

[ReyaD]

All my heirs have been at least three star celebrities just because of their parents (... And because I think it suits with their surname). I haven't really played it into the story until recently, or with only one or two times a generation. Dastan's is the first generation (besides Matthew's) were its a central part of the story for the generation.

[Buckley]

Personally I just don't allow celebrities in my game, period, because the way EA handled it makes me unhappy.

I also *really* dislike the celebrity system. I was planning on avoiding the whole celebrity thing, but then I rolled film actor for my second generation primary income. And I haven't really played that career so I wanted to try it out.

But I got really annoyed when my 1 star celebrity married someone with absolutely no stars, and then he leapt to 3 stars and his wife got 2 stars. I mean, wtf? And now they are both getting weird "gifts".

It does feel like cheating to me too. Maybe not cheating exactly, but taking advantage of EA's stupidity. It definitely takes some of the challenge away. I'm not really hurting for money at this point, so maybe I'll just ignore the stuff. I'm actually going to master controller away the celebrity disease as soon as my second generation dies. The scandals drive me crazy!

[calisims]

I hate the celebrity system as well. Unless my Sims are in a fame type career, I use master controller to get rid of their stars. And maybe it's just me, but my Sims who are celebrities don't get a lot of gifts. Hawke, for instance, is a five star celebrity now, and had three stars early on, and has to date gotten one gift, a telescope.
My Sims make more on wedding gifts, lol.

[ReyaD]

O_o Really, Cali? Maybe its a mod you're using...?

Last time I played Dastan, Keri, Joven AND Joy all got the same 5k couch one after another. I still have them in the family bin because I really have no need for more money, and they SO did not go with the decour of the house.

[LadyAwesome]

I never played the celebrity thing. Hell this is the first time I have actually PLAYED since sims 2 lol

[CinderEmma]

You're very good with poses and stuff though LadyAwesome, I remember you from the Make Me a Model contest (that sent me into an anxious mess, lovely how little can set me off still). Enjoy the game, and there's a mod somewhere here that can make it tougher to get celebrity stars if you don't want to deal with your average sims suddenly becoming super celebrities in a blink of an eye.

[NutsAndDolts]

I just wiped out the stars of everyone in town when I started gameplay, and changed SP settings to not allow celebrities into my town.

In my last legacy Randi Archer died with 2 stars to her name. Every time her ghost appeared, she immediately infected any living family member she spoke to... and there is no MC setting to delete stars on ghosts. Just a heads up.

So poor Randy and Randi were two of the only ghosts I left behind when moving to Barnacle Bay. x.x

[calisims]

O_o Really, Cali? Maybe its a mod you're using...?



No, I think it's just random. In my last legacy, Aislin and Trent got a lot more gifts, but most of the time my celebrity Sims get maybe one or two gifts in their generation. Jasmin used to get toilets and grills. I rarely get anything of value as a celebrity gift, but for weddings I frequently get really expensive fountains and sculptures.
My Sims make more on opportunities than celebrity gifts, so I've never considered it cheating to just sell the stuff. And usually by the time I start getting celebrity gifts, my family is already too rich to even notice the extra money.
But obviously you can just leave the stuff sit in the family bin,or use MC to make the stuff wort nothing and delete it if you feel cheaty about it.

There did used to be a Celebrity career in the challenge, but it got scrubbed as being redundant with the 5 star celebrity goal.

[ReyaD]

Yeah yeah. I only have one buffer chapter now and a ton of homework, but screw it. I'm 18 views away from 900 with 8 hours to get there. And I LIKE the little hill my views bar makes. Its cute.

Ch.125: My Happily Never After http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/ch-125-my-happily-never-after.html

Marie's back! And Keri has some news.

[CinderEmma]

Working on my update, I really want to get it done tonight so I have 3 updates for September :P

[GigaRevival]

Argh... I hate school. If school were a person, I would most certainly punch them. Or realistically, give them the stink eye 'til things got awwwwkkkkkwaaaarrrdd.

Anyways, I'll have an update up probably tonight after my midterm... maybe. I'm running on four hours of sleep in the last 72 hours so it will be full of mistakes and misspellings that will embarrass me later... *shrug*

I'll just go read everyone else's in the meantime... and pretend like I'm being productive. (which I'm not, in case that wasn't obvious). This has got to be the most pointless post I've ever submitted here. :|

Oh, in order to make my post somewhat relevant, I hate celebrities and stupid paparazzi so I tend to nuke any star ratings in town. And thanks Nuts for the heads up about the ghosts and celebrity points; I would have been really bummed if I had overlooked that later.

[CinderEmma]

We can wait a day or two Giga, sleep is much more important then updating! Get some sleep!

[GigaRevival]

We can wait a day or two Giga, sleep is much more important then updating! Get some sleep!

Ha... I totally would except I drank about three cups of coffee in order to finish up my study guide and now I'm super hyper. I'm just waiting for the crash; which I'm crossing my fingers doesn't happen *during* my midterm. My professor already thinks I'm mildly stupid... I don't want to add narcoleptic to the list. :faceslap:

Also, has anyone figured out a work-around for sims that get stuck in elevators? Harper's been stuck in one for about, oh eight sim hours now, and I've tried everything just short of reverting to a previous save (which is about a week or so from where I'm at now).

[CinderEmma]

Yay, update :) I don't think it's my best writing, but at least it's DONE!
http://marlinlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-forty-elder-gone-wild.html

I usually just teleport for any place with a elevator, I just have too many elevator/club glitches :(

[Buckley]

Also, has anyone figured out a work-around for sims that get stuck in elevators? Harper's been stuck in one for about, oh eight sim hours now, and I've tried everything just short of reverting to a previous save (which is about a week or so from where I'm at now).

This is totally unhelpful, but I had that problem once and I did *something* to fix it. Can't for the life of me remember what though. I'm guessing you tried the "resetSim" cheat? And do you have Twallan's overwatch mod? I believe that has a mechanic that resets elevators during the nightly clean up. If you don't have it, I'd highly recommend it for multiple reasons. It's automatically clears out extra cars and recovers "missing" sims and stuff. Very useful. :)

Also, Twallan's debugenabler mod allows you to manually reset the elevator. Maybe try installing that?

Other than that, I'm clueless. Hope you can figure it out! Good luck!

[GigaRevival]

I never had any issues until my recent re-install of everything. *shrug* Oh well... I'll let Harper pee herself a few more times FOR SCIENCE... and see if the issue fixes itself. If not, back in time I go. : (

Edit: Ooh... thanks Buckley. I already have almost every other mod Twallan has released... might as well add debug. It's like Pokemon... GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL!

Oh gosh... I apologize. Seriously; my posts are absolutely ridiculous right now. I can feel it.

[LadyAwesome]

Yay for updates. I was just wondering if you guys could let me know if my comments are not working. a couple of my friends said that they dont work.

[ReyaD]

Aaaaargh. Managed to get Gen ten aged to children and then the stupid game crashed. Luckily I didn't lose too much progress thanks to paranoid saving constantly, but its been happening more and more frequently lately. Thank goodness I'm so close to the end.

Buckley: I have no idea for the elevator but reset sim/reset lot/manual elevator reset/missing sim. I think all those were already mentioned though.

[AJH]

I don't like the way the game seems to want to make everyone celebrities, I can cope with the system when I have a sim whom I want to be one or who is in a career where it seems suitable for them to be one, but it annoys me that I constantly get phone calls asking Jo to make a meal for a celebrity so she can get celebrity points - I don't want her to be a celebrity but she keeps getting the opportunity no matter how many times I reject it!

[Buckley]

Yay for updates. I was just wondering if you guys could let me know if my comments are not working. a couple of my friends said that they dont work.

I just posted a comment, and it seemed to work fine for me. Great update, btw. I love your pictures!

[CinderEmma]

I'm so happy that chapter is done. It was really starting to stress me out! Now I just got to get my legacy back up and at 'em!

[CinderEmma]

Oh yeah, guess who's birthday is tomorrow? *happy birthday eve to me!*

[ReyaD]

Happy Birthday, CinderEmma! (Well... early birthday)

Damn, if I'd known earlier I woulda made something pretty for you or something! Dangnabbit.

[CinderEmma]

You can make me something belated, most of my celebration is next weekend because Mom works this weekend. :)

[ReyaD]

I'm thinking of just double updating tomorrow but that might be sort of... big headed of me I think. >_>

*Plots*

[LadyAwesome]

Well its sat here, So HAPPY BDAY.. Assuming your bday is sat and not sun lol.

[CinderEmma]

Saturday :) THE FIRST OF OCTOBER! *grins like a madwoman*
I love double updates Cece :) Updates are awesome!

[LadyAwesome]

Well its 3pm on sat here weeeeeeee, I am going out tonight so I shall have some drinkies for you :D

[Buckley]

I'm thinking of just double updating tomorrow but that might be sort of... big headed of me I think. >_>

*Plots*

Do it! Please? :D

You put the rest of us to shame Cece. Okay, well maybe just me. Two updates in one day? I'm lucky to get two updates done in one week!

EDIT: And happy birthday Emma!!!

My birthday is in one month and 3 days (I'm pretending it's already October 1st :)). And I'm dreading it like the plague. I'm turning the (unexciting) age of 22. It sucks because all the fun of becoming 21 is over, and now you are just left dreading the big 30. Ah, well. That's life!

[CinderEmma]

Finally legal drinking age here in Ontario for me! But...I live super close to Quebec, and the legal age there is 18 XD

Hey, 22 isn't THAT old XP

And yes, I'm feeling the same as Buckley, you're just an updating machine!

[ReyaD]

: O Buckley your birthday is so close to mine! Mine is Nov 2nd. I hate being post Halloween cause this is the first year I can actually go to University parties, despite currently being in my third year. (Curse you genius brain.)

Kay fine. I'll double post tomorrow. You guys really aren't helping my narcissism problem.

[GigaRevival]

Happy Birthday (preemptively) Emma. I don't know how old you are turning, but hopefully you're at an age where you can actually enjoy it.

I'm turning 23 in January and I, for one, am not looking forward to being any closer to the big 3-0. Argh.

Also, I'm done with my midterm... and actually managed to stay awake through the whole ordeal! *dances* Although I did get a few stares from my professor because I kept laughing at the sounds my chair was making every time I moved. My tired brain apparently finds EVERYTHING hilarious.

Edit: I took a look at my stats, and I'm getting quite the Malaysian following. :wtf: When did that happen?

[CinderEmma]

19 :)
I don't think 30 is as bad as 40. But that's just me :P

You're hilarious Giga, I could never laugh during a midterm, especially for something as silly as that :P

[ReyaD]

I goofed off during my entire midterm and started doodling with the extra time. Finished in 5 minutes when we were given 30. Got bored after about 6. I'm amazed I was in the top 3 scores.

[Miss Puff]

Happy almost-birthday, Emma! It's still Friday here, but here's an early birthday present for you: Chapter Five (http://keattslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/09/chapter-five-weekend-away.html). ;)

It's a long update, too. Most of my chapters have around 25 pictures, but this one has 50! o.o

And none of you are allowed to complain about your age, I'm 29 over here! Luckily my birthday isn't until next year, so I can still justify hanging around you twenty-somethings for a little while longer. :lol:

[teal_moonshine]

Happy Birthday. You'd be long into the celebrations over here. Us Aussies tend to start birthday drinks at like 10am.

And cos we're all sharing, I'm 21. Most of us still have big celebrations (any excuse for a blow out) but we can legally drink in public at 18, so we've generally had a good 3 years practice.

[Buckley]

: O Buckley your birthday is so close to mine! Mine is Nov 2nd. I hate being post Halloween cause this is the first year I can actually go to University parties, despite currently being in my third year. (Curse you genius brain.)

Kay fine. I'll double post tomorrow. You guys really aren't helping my narcissism problem.

Mine is November 3rd! Hah! Love it! Scorpios are the best. :P

That's awesome about your midterm Cece. I never finish exams early. Might have something to do with being a science major.... Or perhaps it's just cause I'm slooooowwwww. :)

Giga, I have quite a Chilean following. I get hits from there a lot. Which is awesome and makes me feel loved. I also have some hits from Malaysia and Russia and some other random places that I can't think of. Those are my favorites. I actually googled Malaysia to see where it was, cause I'm just that cool. (Or stupid. You pick. :))

Hey, 22 isn't THAT old XP

And thanks Emma. Now I feel ancient! Gonna go cry my wrinkly old self to sleep. Hah, jk. ;)

[GigaRevival]

Buckley: I have the Russian & South African readers, but the Malaysian numbers just exploded within the last three days (I'm talking about 15 views just today). WHAAA? They helped the blog officially reach 1400 views though (which I suspect about 100 of those are just me going through and making sure everything looks okay).. so that's pretty darn cool.

And Congratulations Cece on your midterm. At least one of us passed ours. Although I honestly can't remember most of the questions that were asked on mine (I'm blaming sleep deprivation on that one), which is never a good sign. Man, now I'm worried if my answers were even legible since I was pretty much spaced out for the last 15 minutes of the exam. Maybe that's the real reason why my professor kept giving me the stink eye. Blast.

[ReyaD]

The Chilean hits might be from my cousin but don't quote me on that. I haven't talked to her since the name thing.

New Zealand, Indonesia and Latvia have been my weird spikes as of late. I mean, I always get New Zealand views. It's the sudden number of them that caught me off guard.

[Buckley]

Congrats on 1400 page views, Giga! That's awesome!

I love the readers from exotic locals. It's fun to see that people all over the world looked at my little blog. And Cece, the New Zealand is probably Lady Awesome. I think I read a while back that she's from there.

...I need to go to bed. It's 2:00 in the morning here in Texas, and I have to be at work in less than 6 hours. Damn.

[ReyaD]

According to my clock it is finally past midnight so update number one is now up.

Ch. 126: Friggin Kids, Man http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/ch-126-friggin-kids-man.html

I have enough material for about two more chapters which will get me through the weekend. And then I'm MIA until I can get caught up with my homework. Plus that 2000 word feature article on Riot Mentality... fudge. I should probably start that. I'm actually getting paid for that one.

Second update will be up when I can see straight enough to edit.

[AJH]

Oh yeah, guess who's birthday is tomorrow? *happy birthday eve to me!*
Happy Birthday!

All this talk of how old the rest of you are is making me feel old!

[calisims]

Happy Birthday, Emma! My birthday was on Tuesday, and my husband and I have been celebrating this weekend. So, I haven't had time to keep up with all your updates, or do much for my own legacy.
Hopefully I can get caught up on Monday.

[NutsAndDolts]

Happy birthday.

I'm 24... though I had to think really hard about it to come up with that number. I had 23 typed before I realized my boyfriend is 25, and it's October, thus I am 24.

He's back home now. ^.^ He has a long recovery to go, but at home he's 9000% more comfortable.

Here's my latest chapter.

http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/chapter-31-someplace-far-away.html

Pretty short one. It doesn't stand alone very well, so if you're not caught up on my legacy, I would recommend waiting and reading things in order.

[ReyaD]

Second Updaaaaaate. Happy Birthday Emma.

Ch. 126 : The Terrible Three http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/ch-127-terrible-three.html

I may hate these kids. But even I have to admit that they're friggin adorable. Its really hard to pick a favourite. But Katrina does have the best facial expressions.

The next few chapters (including this one) are mostly just filler to get through gen 10's youth. But once they're teenagers things will probably start slowing down again. Hopefully enough for me to get some buffer back. I don't actually have the next chapter written, and only enough pictures for half of it. And I played for four hours last night!

[CyyKosis]

Happy Birthday Emma!

Since were discussing age, I turn 21 in January... sad it's after New Years :(

[GigaRevival]

Ooh... another January! Seriously, our month is pretty unpopular. I know of maybe one other person who has a January birthday... now two. I don't feel so alone anymore.

Also, Harper is STILL stuck in the elevator. I'm just playing the waiting game to see what happens. She is at a full 24 sim-hours and still going strong; and has pee'd herself at least four or five times.

http://www.sowal.com/bb/images/smilies/michael-jackson-eating-popcorn.gif
Let the games commence.

[ReyaD]

XD oh gosh that picture kills me, Giga. However you do make me feel better about my own evil tendencies.

... I should probably go work on my legacy and stop killing sims with fire in my killer legacy, eh?

[CyyKosis]

Yay for January birthdays! I'm excited cause then I'll finally be old enough to apply to find my birthfamily.

[ReyaD]

Turning 18, Cyyk? Congrats on the milestone!

EDIT: Oooooh January? Nevermind. Read that wroooong. >_> Happy extremely premature birthday.

[CyyKosis]

No lol, I'll be turning 21. I was born in a state with stupid laws.

[ReyaD]

Oooooooh. Okay that makes sense. Yeah the law here is 18. At least I think it is. One of my highschool friends was adopted but we drifted apart after graduation.

[CinderEmma]

Happy birthday to me :D
I've had a nice day, no party and stuff until next weekend but it's alright :)

[GigaRevival]

Aaaaaannnndddd.... Harper died. The end.

It took 3 days for her to finally expire though... so she was a trooper. Hopefully she didn't resort the Bear Grylls (http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/097/550/JUST-DRANK-MY-OWN-PISS-BETTER-DRINK-MY-OWN-PISS.jpg?1297101905) method of surviving. 0_0

Now I have to go back to a previous save and hope it doesn't happen again... OR ELSE. *shakes fist*

Will have a chapter up tomorrow sometime.

[ReyaD]

Giga you worry me.

[CinderEmma]

I don't know Cece, we're all pretty strange here :P Who else would spend a Saturday night staring at a computer screen, even if it's as awesome as Mod the Sims? :P

[ReyaD]

Okay well I suppose in everyone else's defence... I am the one who has a save game with a town full of males and only one single girl... >_> (I fully accept that I have issues and am totally okay with that.)

EDIT: ... Of course Joven aged up the same day I found this: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=450968 . That is just not fair. My heart is broken now.

[LadyAwesome]

lol Reya.

So I just turned 25 in august, and I am a mother to a 7 year old. I am starting to feel like I have done nothing with my life lol. Also, I am the NZer, or one of them anyway

[ReyaD]

Raising a kid and not going crazy is an accomplishment in itself. Trust me on that. After my siblings were born I decided to never ever have children. There's no way I could handle them on my own.

[Buckley]

Speak for yourself Emma! :) I'm not strange.

...Okay maybe I am. I have an update. But in my defense... Actually I can't think of anything, so I'll just post my chapter.

http://themckinleylegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/chapter-8-eye-of-beholder.html

I just checked out that link Cece, and now I'm mad! Bea (my firefighter) just became an elder. I hope I roll firefighter again, cause that's just hot.

EDIT: And I'm sorry if my chapter is not edited 100% (not like it ever is, but still). I'm tired and I wasn't expecting to post it tonight. But I figured what the hell.

[ReyaD]

I just checked out that link Cece, and now I'm mad! Bea (my firefighter) just became an elder. I hope I roll firefighter again, cause that's just hot.

I think we need to take photos of all the firefighter characters we've had/will have and start a Random Legacy Calendar.

[CinderEmma]

Or we should make one of those naked old lady calendars, like in that movie XD

[LadyAwesome]

HAHAHAHAHA Emz, you funny girl

[ReyaD]

O_O Nooooo... No. Nuh uh uh... pleeeasse dear god no. Ugh...

I will never recover from that mental image.

[CinderEmma]

I could just see Nathalie doing something like that, if she had some crazy old lady buddies :P Too bad I didn't think of this earlier, maybe when Irish gets older...

[GigaRevival]

Giga you worry me.

It shouldn't. I mostly let Harper rot in the elevator out of laziness/hopefulness that the problem would fix itself. In case it wasn't obvious... it didn't. :rofl:

Blogger is being a bi%^& btw... it takes FOREVER for me to load pictures. Pewp.

In the meantime, I'm off to read everyone else's updates. ;)

[AJH]

lol Reya.

So I just turned 25 in august, and I am a mother to a 7 year old. I am starting to feel like I have done nothing with my life lol. Also, I am the NZer, or one of them anyway
Bringing up a child is one of the biggest & most important things anyone can do.

[NutsAndDolts]

Chapter 32 is up.

http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/chapter-32-so-youre-blue.html

This is one of the longest storylines I've ever done, so I apologize if it's hard to follow, what with it being so long and the updates sometimes far apart.

[calisims]

Chapter 16 is up:
http://romanrandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/chapter-16-from-breath-of-dragon.html

[ReyaD]

Ch. 128 : Prankmaster http://starrsimslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/ch-128-prankmaster.html

Sort of a filler chapter, but there are one or two plot points... maybe more. >_>

[Miss Puff]

Yay, updates!

Cece, I'm about a third of the way through your legacy so far, so it might be a few days before I get to read yours. :lol:

[ReyaD]

XD not a problem, Puffs. I get that a lot. I'm hoping in my next legacy to make the chapters a bit longer and with less filler.

[Beezer]

So I had a question. Would using the wish reward Inheritance that is available in Generations be cheating or would it be allowed since it is not a game cheat?

Also out of curiosity what determines sim's "nudity." My family female sims and several random sims are wearing skinny jeans in the shower. Not that it is a big deal it just seemed really weird to me and I always wondered about that anyways since sometimes I will notice the most random hair styles as well.

[NutsAndDolts]

There is currently no official rule against using that reward. You could impose the rule upon yourself if you want to, though.

Nudity is treated like an outfit. The jeans must have been mistakenly enabled for the "naked" wear. If you have MasterController, you can wait for your sim to be "nude" and then go into stylist with MasterController. It'll let you change and save their hair... but, not sure about clothes since I never had that problem. D=

[CyyKosis]

It should work that way for clothes as well Beezer.

[calisims]

Beezer, if the jeans are CC, it's possible that the creator enabled them for nude as well. Like Nuts said, you can change the nude outfit using master controller. First you'd need to use master controller to change CAS settings to disable the clothing filter, so that nude bottoms are available in CAS. Then wait for the Sim to get nude and click on them to enter Stylist and change the pants back to nude.

[Buckley]

I am so proud of myself. I have another update, the second one in two days! :)

Chapter 9: Diamond Rings

http://themckinleylegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/chapter-9-diamond-rings.html

[ReyaD]

I did something mean to my sims and now I feel bad. This is new. Usually I feel a bit of guilt but my evil enjoyment tends to overpower it quickly. It's not working this time. ) :

[LadyAwesome]

Oh Reya, what did you do :|


Errr got my first error, back I go. but atleast not too much damage, and it was my first kids bday, I think I am going to fail on the first Gen lol

[teal_moonshine]

I did something mean to my sims and now I feel bad. This is new. Usually I feel a bit of guilt but my evil enjoyment tends to overpower it quickly. It's not working this time. ) :

The only logical thing to do is share your guilt. Get it out in the open and all that... *cough* selfish hint for new chapter *cough*

[LadyAwesome]

http://malkierlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/15-one-day.html

I have so many pictures, just because I wanted to see what the kids turn out like lolololol.

[calisims]

Hey, Colleen. I tried downloading Anne Arbor this weekend so I could build a house on the lot with the dead end street. But for some reason I can't load the neighborhood. It says it was saved with EP stuff I don't have, but I have all EPs and SPs, all patched. (I tried both the .sims3pack and the save game versions).
So, anyway, not a big deal, I can build on any flat 40x40. But I was kind of busy this weekend, so I didn't get to it. I know you need it for this generation's goal, I don't want to hold you up. Will next weekend be okay?

[NutsAndDolts]

Chapter 33 is up.

http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/10/chapter-33-wrong-scientist.html

Some questions are answered, and some questions are asked.

[Tamlyn]

I had planned on actually starting my legacy game when Pets came out (nice new town to explore and all that), but I've gotten so busy I barely have time to read this thread, let alone read other people's updates or play the game. Which is rather important for a legacy :)

I'll start one day... one day. It looks like it won't be for at least a few months though.


(One day...)

[ReyaD]

The only logical thing to do is share your guilt. Get it out in the open and all that... *cough* selfish hint for new chapter *cough*

Lets just say it involves Angel, Marie, a hot tub, and a ton of awkward guilt from everyone involved.

[Buckley]

Hey, Colleen. I tried downloading Anne Arbor this weekend so I could build a house on the lot with the dead end street. But for some reason I can't load the neighborhood. It says it was saved with EP stuff I don't have, but I have all EPs and SPs, all patched. (I tried both the .sims3pack and the save game versions).
So, anyway, not a big deal, I can build on any flat 40x40. But I was kind of busy this weekend, so I didn't get to it. I know you need it for this generation's goal, I don't want to hold you up. Will next weekend be okay?

No rush at all. Take as much time as you need/want. Next weekend will be more than fine, or the weekend after, or whenever you get to it. :) It won't hold me up at all, and even if it does I am more than happy to wait. Getting one of your houses is totally worth it.

...So excited, btw. :D

EDIT: Oh, and that was a mean spoiler Cece. I need to learn not to read those. :blink:

[ReyaD]

Yeeeaah. But it makes me feel AWESOME when I find out people read my spoilers xD. Just a future warning, my spoilers are spoilers for a reason. I may as well just summarize a future chapter next time.

[CyyKosis]

I am playing with Anne Arbor too Melissa, and I'm almost positive from looking around a bit (from picking a lot to design my own house on) that the creator made the empty lots flat, if that's what you were downloading it to do. I'm sad it didn't work for you because it really is a lovely neighborhood.