The Random Legacy Challenge - A Late Night Spin Off.

[Tamlyn]

Just my sister and I this year - normally would spend at least some of xmas with family. We'll do some of our traditions like french toast for breakfast and we have lunch and xmas movies and jigsaws planned. My mother panicked when my sister was visiting a few months ago that we wouldn't have anything to put under our tree and went out and bought a bunch of little presents for us. We might get together with some other 'orphans' (folk who don't have any family here either) for dinner.

Then on Boxing Day we're going to the cricket. Pity we're playing so terribly but should be good anyway.

[CinderEmma]

For Boxing day, I'm going shopping, since I need to buy a birthday present for somebody on the 9th, and the less money I spend on it, the better.
Question, does Canada have any sims card/EA cards anywhere. I'll look all over if they are, but I'm not searching the world if they aren't. I hear some places they are, some they're not. So I'm confused and annoyed.

[Buckley]

Oh, that sounds awesome guys! I'm glad everyone has such fun things planned!

...Stupid question (I'm sure). Boxing day? What's that?

[CinderEmma]

It's the day after Christmas, it's celebrated in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And some other places I think. I don't know what it was for originally, but it's pretty much a day to shop until you drop XD Now there's boxing week, because a day just isn't enough *shakes head*

[ReyaD]

I always forget Americans don't know about boxing day...

Boxing day is the greatest day of the year. Every store in the country (Of Canada) with maybe... 2 or 3 exceptions has amazing sales (Even better then Black Friday) to the point of their being officers at some of the malls by my place. And the best part? It's post-Christmas so everything you buy is for YOU.

My friends and I are getting up at 6 to hit the mall line up early. I hear coach is having a 60% off sale and I need a new purse for the new year.

[calisims]

I think originally it was a day to box up all your old stuff and give it to the poor. A friend of mine from England told me that, and that's where the holiday originates from.

[ReyaD]

I think originally it was a day to box up all your old stuff and give it to the poor. A friend of mine from England told me that, and that's where the holiday originates from.

Yep! Now its all about re-starting the economy.

[GigaRevival]

This is *sort of* related, but me and my cousin have been swapping inappropriate holiday ecards just because - well I got an email from another relative about an hour ago and I apparently mixed up my outgoing mail, so I ended up sending this to my great aunt.

http://i.imgur.com/ytX9p.jpg

:| So uh - yeah. Whoops.

[ReyaD]

AHAHA! Oh man, Giga. I needed that xD.

Yeah we didn't send my grandpa anything. >_> Oops.

4.8: Side Job : http://sabolegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/48-side-job.html

[teal_moonshine]

My grandparents got nothing. Our family has this thing of "don't expect much once you're over 18". Except from dad, we rarely get presents. Could also be because we've been unofficially disowned...

[Zokugai]

My immediate family is jewish and the rest of the family make a daily appearance at my grandfather's church. That he runs. As pastor. I got a telephone call from him earlier saying we were slacking off by not having a Christmas tree up yet, and when that part of the family babysat my sister and I as kids they used to smuggle us into sunday school and baptisms.

Yeah, any holiday is pretty awkward in my family.

This year we'll be observing the traditional jewish holiday of going to the movies and eating chinese food on December 25. As for New Year's, my significant other is military (and the not-here-right-now kind of military) so I'll be alternating between obsessive Skyping and the Sims all night.

[NutsAndDolts]

Next time he tells you you're slacking off by not having a tree, tell him that the "Christmas" trees and wreathes are pagan in origin.

In fact everything that isn't obviously a religious reference is from an earlier source, including the time of year the holiday is celebrated.

I'll spend the 25th putting up with a crowd of not-yet in-laws. Crowds make me really nervous, heh.

[CinderEmma]

I played again. I didn't update again. The youngest child is a child now. This is not good XD

[ReyaD]

Lol in game, the fourth child is already a toddler (2 days away from being a child) and Gen 5 will be starting in 8 in-game days.

... I really breezed through gen 4.

[Miss Puff]

Well, I was supposed to be visiting three different houses of relatives on Christmas, but my bf got in a car accident yesterday (he's fine and it wasn't his fault!) and the car got towed and we probably won't be getting it back in time. I'm hoping that means we'll get to stay home with the drinking and gaming crowd, but someone might come pick us up instead. At the very least, we'll be seeing fewer people than originally planned, which I'm pretty relieved about.

[Klevkin]

well over here we don't do present at christmas. We do however are probably going to spend first christmas day going out, walking in the forest or something like that, doing something with the kids, and then diner at my parents (just sugarbread, not anything fancy) and then second day of christmas we are at my parents in law, she organized a brunch.....though for me it will probably be two days filled with food i'm not allowed to eat (so i am already grumpy at forehand (that is, if i said that correctly :P))

glad your bf is okay miss puff! must have scared the crap out of you.

[Klevkin]

oh btw cece, Danya is gorgeous, i'm in love with her!! She looks so cool and is perfect for Boy, again thanks a 1000 times for creating her and letting me have her :D They are so damn cute!

[LadyAwesome]

My christmas is spent playing santa, rush finishing my home made gifts getting bloody tired spending it with all my aunties, cousins and grandparents. then usually getting drunk after. But I am skipping the drinking this year

[Klevkin]

the last bit wouldn't be a bad desicion i take it?? Sounds like fun though very tiring!

question............i got a great pic, but a bit explicit..........i have some explicit skins for my sims.........(non barbie.....) so what do you guys say, blur the bits in my blog??

[teal_moonshine]

A little nipple never hurt anyone... Perhaps a little more discreet about other areas...

[Zokugai]

YES. I have maybe two lots to finish in my 'hood, plus a few extras I'll add in as I feel like it, and the families' houses, which I might just go premade on. And I have two and a half households to make. So I should be done with that tomorrow, plus maybe a day or two of play sessions, equals an update for Altin in time for Christmas. And it'll be a doozy. :D

In your face, Patch 1.29!

[Klevkin]

thanks teal!

[Zokugai]

Recommend you slap a warning at the top of the entry and use your judgement on the blur. If people are bothered by it, they'll have the warning and don't have to scroll down if they don't want to.

[Buckley]

Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing as teal and Zoku. I've had "explicit" shots in my blog once or twice, and I just warned everyone beforehand.

Honestly though, we're all adults here (...I think.) 13+ should be able to handle a little nudity, imo.

Zoku: Can't wait for more Altin! :)

[Klevkin]

Thanks you lot :D very helpful!!

here's the update! (http://cristlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/24-busted.html)

now i'm off to pick up my little girl from preschool and then i'm gonna read buckleys update (i'm not sure if i did already or not.....)

[LadyAwesome]

I really wanted to get my xmas special by xmas day, but you all might have to get it after xmas....

Also look what I've been making lolz.
http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/32888_111222051726Snapshot_20111222.jpg

[Klevkin]

ROFL!! :D cute stone you've got there! :D whats his name??

[LadyAwesome]

Surfer rock, because I made him a surf board lol.

Also I just discovered twallans portrait, how bloody awesome. I can control everyone I add to it. and twitches households so easily :D
Best story telling tool ever

[Klevkin]

what exactly does it do?? (well not Surfer Rock, cause he surfs....obviously!) I have been looking at it as well, twallans portrait, but didn't download it.

[LadyAwesome]

Well It adds portraits to you dashboard, and you can flick between house hold and so on.

/edit. Fricking game crashed again.

[Klevkin]

ouch, the game crash doesn't sound encouraging haha.

the flicking between housholds, can you do that without breaking the interactions etc.....

[CinderEmma]

I personally just like a warning, because random nudity really freaks me out. And yes, I'm 19, but I'm a prude at heart XD

[Klevkin]

i made a warning and i blurred :D so all should be okay i hope :D

EDITed after Giga replied to my blog: Apparently i didn't blurr enough though :P cause it does bring up some immaturitys here and there :lol:

[calisims]

Next time he tells you you're slacking off by not having a tree, tell him that the "Christmas" trees and wreathes are pagan in origin.

In fact everything that isn't obviously a religious reference is from an earlier source, including the time of year the holiday is celebrated.

I'll spend the 25th putting up with a crowd of not-yet in-laws. Crowds make me really nervous, heh.

I'm not even remotely Christian anymore, but I still love my tree. One year I had an evangelical neighbor knocking on my door when she saw my tree in the window.
She wanted me to join her prayer group or whatever. I told her I wasn't Christian and she was very affronted by this. "You have a tree!" she exclaimed.
I almost told her it was a pagan tree, but I decided not to freak her out any further. She was stalking me enough as it was.

I know how you feel about crowds. I'm so happy I live too far from my family to have to deal with their gatherings. But that was kind of the point of moving so far away, not having to deal with them.

[NutsAndDolts]

I'm afraid I'll get myself and my house set on fire one of these days, because I take on religious people in arguments they start as much as I shrug and ignore them.

Anyway I like the original thought of the tree. "Ah, this lovely tree thrives even when everything else appears to die; let us bring parts of it into our homes for good luck through this disagreeably cold season."

When we're out on our own, my boyfriend and I will probably have an "entirely commercial" tree, full of ornaments such as That One with Johnny Quest Slaying a Dragon, That One with Wolverine Impaling Presents on his Claws, and That Space Ghost One. He has quite a collection of these, because his relatives buy them for him every year for some reason.

I also adore trees that have only colored ball ornaments. I don't know why. One year we're going to have to do that.

[Klevkin]

My ears are ringing with all this talk about trees:D are trees related to christianity?? Over here everybody has a tree, religious or not. And we all decorate with balls mostly......let me add a picture of our tree :) i would not know what to put in it other then stuff like this tbh! Normally we do have a bit more in there, but my baby boy is 10 months old and we were a bit afraid he would wreck the tree....

[calisims]

My tree has a lot of dragons and fairies on it. Also, three Hindu gods, two Chinese astrological ornaments (monkey and tiger) and a Hopi Kachina. I also like having a variety of insects, reptiles, and mammals represented. There are at least 5 cats, probably a lot more. And a mermaid made of spun glass, by the same artist that made my new dragon ornament I posted awhile back. Now I've named her Ico, to go with Aymeri the blue dragon, lol. I've also got a wooden Santa sitting on a flying pig. That's the only ornament I have that's actually christmasy, though the flying pig is questionable. It was so absurd, I had to have it.

I've stopped arguing with religious types, I just don't have the energy, and I just don't care enough. I remember one guy on the bus once announcing that Jesus was black as we passed a Catholic church. So I just came back with "Krishna was blue." That really confused him.

[GigaRevival]

Your tree is pretty Klev.

We don't decorate at my place. We're far too lazy. We did steal a few lines of lights from a neighbor last year (he wasn't using them, okay?) and decorated one random bush in our front yard. We ended up leaving them in that bush way past my birthday in late January, when they apparently set a portion of the bush on fire. :lol: That was the end of our decorating stint.

On a related note: I don't fight with the religious anymore; mostly because I'm in a predominantly LDS area and they tend to take things to the next level (sending missionaries to my house, for instance). No thanks.

[calisims]

Klev, your tree is lovely!

The trees predate Christianity and were part of Germanic pagan winter traditions, and were later incorporated into Christmas traditions in Germanic countries. Queen Victoria's husband Albert brought the Christmas tree tradition to England, and it became a fad, spreading to Anglophile America and other English ruled countries.

[NutsAndDolts]

If that were a short story, it would be entitled "Indignant Troll Meets Hippie."

Now I have to wonder what exactly was going on with that guy. Something traumatic and Christmas-related must have happened to him.

Nice tree, klevkin. =D

[Klevkin]

rofl :D fun part is, santa is not actually religious either :P so religiously spoken not christmas either :lol:

I love that you placed Ico next to Aymeri :D i loved the ornaments you showed! :D

i don't mind people being religious (i am myself, though not strict or severe, we don't go to church or anything), i hate it though when people try to get you to "join" and think everything they do is right, and everyone else is wrong. Some people are just annoying like that and really do think that other people don't deserve a good life unless they do as they say....

christmas should be fun for everyone, no matter what you believe or not :D

ugh! but before we get a religion discussion going on here :S perhaps we should focus on the trees and santas and ornaments :lol:

EDIT: And the pressies!

[charmander]

I dont like celebrating christmas, but i feel obligated to because my family does. i dont even have my tree up yet.

[NutsAndDolts]

Err... hopefully my use of the word "hippie" is not offensive here.

It's a dirty word for my 92 year old grandmother, but not for me. =P

And of course it doesn't take someone hippie-like to know about Hindu gods.

[GigaRevival]

Definitely wasn't meaning to make it a religious discussion/debate. And I agree with you Klev. ; )

I just realized how many holiday fires I've experienced. I think me and anything that is electrical decoration-wise don't mix. Or I'm a closet pyro.

[teal_moonshine]

My family doesn't put effort into Christmas. Presents, yes. Wrapped, rarely. (we have 'santa' sacks my mum painted). Christmas tree, too much effort. Besides, it's hot, nobody wants to do anything...

[Klevkin]

Definitely wasn't meaning to make it a religious discussion/debate. And I agree with you Klev. ; )


lol i didn't meant you both were doing that :D it was more that my additions might have sounded like I wanted to start one :D but I didn't mean to. And seriously, stay away from the electricts!! Do not touch!! maybe you should use real candles instead :P to prevent fires (i know normal people do it the other way around :lol: )

Thanks becky for your compliment :D didn't read it before i posted ;)

Teal, i had christmas on curacao once, it was weird, because it was hot, so i can understand why you don't want to put effort into it.


And giga, i just have to say (totally off-topic.......) I love your new avatar :D it's great!!! Reminds me, i have something in my signature on a diff site, i should put it on here as well :D *runs off to do so*

[Buckley]

I don't know if I've told this story before (probably), but I'm telling it again anyway. :) I went to a Catholic, all-girls, college prep high school. My freshmen year, my faith teacher, a highly respected, much beloved elderly man who also happened to be a Jesuit priest, started lecturing the class about purgatory. Now, out of a class of 20 girls, I was the only one who was not baptized. Every single other student in that class, and I'm not exaggerating, was Catholic. Well, I started to argue with the teacher about this idea of purgatory. I found it unacceptable that I would be doomed because no one bothered to sprinkle water on my head as a baby. Anyway, to make a long story short, my classmates, some of whom I regarded as friends, decided that our teacher, the priest, needed to baptize me right then and there. When I refused, they became mean about it, saying that if I didn't I'd go to hell. For a shy 14-year-old, it was really kind of traumatizing. I don't argue with people about religion anymore, because I'd rather just not encounter their wrath.

[calisims]

Err... hopefully my use of the word "hippie" is not offensive here.

It's a dirty word for my 92 year old grandmother, but not for me. =P

And of course it doesn't take someone hippie-like to know about Hindu gods.

I'm totally a hippie. I'm so not offended. Sometimes I even call myself 'dirty hippie'.

[Klevkin]

I don't know if I've told this story before (probably), but I'm telling it again anyway. :) I went to a Catholic, all-girls, college prep high school. My freshmen year, my faith teacher, a highly respected, much beloved elderly man who also happened to be a Jesuit priest, started lecturing the class about purgatory. Now, out of a class of 20 girls, I was the only one who was not baptized. Every single other student in that class, and I'm not exaggerating, was Catholic. Well, I started to argue with the teacher about this idea of purgatory. I found it unacceptable that I would be doomed because no one bothered to sprinkle water on my head as a baby. Anyway, to make a long story short, my classmates, some of whom I regarded as friends, decided that our teacher, the priest, needed to baptize me right then and there. When I refused, they became mean about it, saying that if I didn't I'd go to hell. For a shy 14-year-old, it was really kind of traumatizing. I don't argue with people about religion anymore, because I'd rather just not encounter their wrath.

And i disagreed your post because i seriously can't wrap my head around the idea of people thinking like that .......... trying to force a 14 year old girl :S the idea alone pisses me off......

[ReyaD]

Update!

4.9 - How Could You http://sabolegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/49-how-could-you.html

Somewhat unedited but I REALLY want to get to the good stuff.

EDIT: Yesterday I went to the doctor and she was shocked to find out I'm not going to church on Christmas. Pah, whatever.

[Anarathiel]

Hey Guys, I know i've not been on, but I've been waiting for a new laptop.
I figured I wanted to start the new legacy when i get it so i don't have the hassle of moving the game across.
The good news: I will have a new laptop on Christmas day! I will be starting my new legacy ON CHRISTMAS
The bad news: Pets is still £35! I won't be able to buy it for a while still

[GigaRevival]

Hey. Ana - I don't if you've noticed this, but you're totally a space pony.

Also, welcome back. I look forward to reading your new legacy.

[calisims]

Ana! I was just thinking about you. Yay for your new laptop!
I'm glad you'll be starting up a new legacy.

[sirxn]

Hi, everyone! Just joining this thread. I recently moved on to the Sims 3 from the Sims 2 and it's been fun. So, I decided to try a legacy family for the first time.

Here's the link to the blog I'm posting everything at:Amberden Legacy (http://amberdenlegacy.blogspot.com/). Any tips or comments would be appreciated, especially since this the first time I've done this. :)

[GigaRevival]

Welcome to the challenge sirxn. Glad to have ya'. ; )

[calisims]

Yeah, welcome aboard sirxn. And welcome to the world of Sims 3 :D

[calisims]

Hey, I just read your first chapter sirxn, and I love your sense of humor. You are off to a great start. But I had problems adding a comment: it wouldn't let me.

[CinderEmma]

And i disagreed your post because i seriously can't wrap my head around the idea of people thinking like that .......... trying to force a 14 year old girl :S the idea alone pisses me off......Double disagree with those moron! *hugs*

[Solventpost]

I'm not religious, but my boyfriend is Wiccan. We both really love christmas trees. This is also our first christmas together, so his mom sent two boxes of stuff for the tree; I swear there are at least 100 ornaments. There are some awesome ones from the 80's that have the pope on them!

http://i44.tinypic.com/25s51tt.jpg
Flash on
http://i43.tinypic.com/1zoxm6r.jpg
Flash off (I really need a tripod for low light)

[CinderEmma]

I should definitely take a picture of my tree :) It's all golden and beautiful! I helped decorate this year :)

I'm sooooo avoiding wrapping. I have 8 bags full of stuff to give to people 0_o

[Solventpost]

I actually really love wrapping, and unwrapping gifts. I'm stoked for my friends 2yr old to open her gifts.

ETA: Update! (http://castillolegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/gen-15.html)

[CinderEmma]

I like GIVING gifts, just not wrapping them. Bah, I suck at wrapping XD My presents always go towards the back of the tree

[AJH]

I shall be going home to my parents' for Christmas.

Got the office party tomorrow and then travelling home stupidly early on Saturday morning and then staying up for a candlelit midnight mass.

Someone mentioned about Boxing Day? My understanding is that traditionally rich households would box up the leftovers etc and send them out to the poor, also the servants were allowed to take a box home to their families.

[CinderEmma]

Cool :) I like the modern version of "shop until you kill people" version better though :P
I don't know what to wear to the dinner with my old family friend! My clothes suck right now, they're all 2-3 years old. Especially my poor pants, most of my jeans have holes or are on their way to having holes at the thigh/crotch areas *shakes head*

[Buckley]

Haha Emma. I feel your pain about having raggedy old clothes.

....But this is where I get to gloat about having no plans and staying home in my sweatpants for two days straight. ;)

EDIT: I forgot to say welcome back to Ana! I'm happy to hear you got (will be getting) a new laptop. That's always so fun!

And sirxn: I tried to comment on your blog, but I couldn't find the button. Lol, I'm sorry! Anyway, I'll just post my comment here. I really enjoyed meeting Lailah! Her name is beautiful and very unique. Great start, and I look forward to reading more. Welcome to the challenge! :)

[Klevkin]

BLOODY HELL! (ron weasly says it all the time, so so can I!) i just rolled for gen 3....................guess what i just rolled for generation goal......

Ana, don't know you yet, but welcome back and congrats on the new laptop :D

Sirxn: Welcome to you as well and same problem here :) think you have comments turned off??

As for christmas clothing.............thats another swear word worthy, i don't have clothes!! I just lost 30kg and there is no way in live theres some decent clothing in my closet that fit me properly......thanks for reminding me :( now i need to go shopping, which i think is an absolute waste of money, because i need to lose another 12 kg before i'm at my goal...

[CinderEmma]

Sorry to remind you :( I've gained weight, not lost it, bah. But it's less to do with gaining a clothing size (even though I think it's probably 20 pounds), my stuff just doesn't fit well. Bah, bah, and double bah!

[Buckley]

KLEV! You can't leave us hanging like that! What did you roll for generation 3?! It wasn't deadbeat parents again... Was it?

[Klevkin]

well better to remind me, then me realizing it on the first day of Christmas whahahaha.

oh don't know who can edit the rules, but in the miscellaneous fun department, rules 8 through 13 are messed up :) (well the lay-out is, not the rules!)

[Klevkin]

KLEV! You can't leave us hanging like that! What did you roll for generation 3?! It wasn't deadbeat parents again... Was it?

it was............... :faceslap:

[Klevkin]

lol btw, i said "guess what".....usually means you have to guess :P

[calisims]

oh don't know who can edit the rules, but in the miscellaneous fun department, rules 8 through 13 are messed up :) (well the lay-out is, not the rules!)

Thanks, Klev, I fixed it.

[AJH]

it was............... :faceslap:
Oh no! I don't think I could go through deadbeat parents again personally...

Anyway, I have chapter thirty eight up:- http://clemetislegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/chapter-thirty-eight.html

[calisims]

Klev, you do not have to Deadbeat parents again if you'd prefer not to.

[Aqua_Violet]

Just wanted to share a Twallan's SP moment with you guys:

So Dieter and Liesel are from an old "single with help" legacy game. In it, Dieter had a child with Blair Wainwright: Axel. I got tired of that game, deleted it but saved some of the sims to start over with some day.

SP had Dieter marry Blair Wainwright in the new game. There were other choices out there, so I'm a bit creeped out that it did in this game what I did in the old game.

[sirxn]

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. :) Glad you liked the first entry.

Sorry about the comments on my blog. The layout I used only allows me to use the popup window for the form's placement (I had no idea lol). Every thing is fixed now and you should be able to comment on the next updates.

[CinderEmma]

Klev, you do not have to Deadbeat parents again if you'd prefer not to.Yeah, I rolled Deadbeat again and said "SCREW YOU" (the rules favour this one though, since I just had it this generation :P)
And yes, this is during my melodrama with wanting Irish and Kipp to be the best parents EVER!

[calisims]

If it were up to me, deadbeat parents would have never made it into the rules.

[CinderEmma]

I don't hate it in general...just don't like it when I have to use it with my sims :(

[calisims]

LOL, well, if you don't like using it with your Sims...

[Anarathiel]

Ima go ahead and roll now, then I'll start making the family ready for the 25th. I'm so excited.

Marital Structure: Single Parent with 'help'
Number of children: 2
Primary Income: Law Enforcement (Super Spy)
Secondary Income: Part Time Job
Generation Goal: Expansionist
More Fun: Random

Hmmm, this could be fun :D

[Zokugai]

Haha, I never know what to do with Expansionist in the first generation. Doesn't building the house already count?

[ReyaD]

Well I guess if you start with a pre-made house expantionist would refer to adding something onto that... at least, thats the way I look at it. I'm always too lazy to start from scratch when doing a legacy.

[Zokugai]

Yeah, but I tend to play Sims 2 legacy style. It's more fun for me to build a house custom to my family.

I've been spending too much time in the Sims lately, I think. I woke up this morning and went "You know what? Legacy challenges are reeeeally unrealistic." Something about the real life equivalent being living in the same house for seven hundred years etc etc. I may have been overanalyzing it slightly.

[CyyKosis]

I thought that you were allowed to reroll if you got expansionist on generation one... but I'm not sure to be honest!

[ReyaD]

I really didn't want to tell anyone about this, but since its affecting my legacy now I figure you guys should know. For my past, well, entire life, I've had a lot of health problems with fainting, dizzyness and weird blood pressures. At first they thought it was diabetes, but then they found out that it was due to interior birth deformities that they never caught. I went in for surgery in August of this summer and they thought they fixed the problem... now it turns out that may not be the case. Before my surgery, I couldn't do much without feeling weird. Post surgery, I can't do much without being in pain. I just found out from my doctor that they want to do a second surgery sooner rather than later and frankly I'm terrified. The doctors say there's nothing wrong with me now and that the pain is all in my head but I know its not. And frankly, if thats the case going crazy scares me more than being in real pain.

At least for a while I probably won't be on as much because I'll be using other sites as distractions and talking to friends who I know have gone through similar things (Multiple surgeries, mental issues, etc.). Updates for my legacy will probably continue as normal (With a break for Christmas Eve/Day) but I just won't be on as much as before. I should still respond to PMs within a day because my phone beeps until I read them.

I just... ugh. I need hugs.

EDIT: Last update until Monday morning. Honestly the end will piss everybody off because its my first "real" cliffie so that makes my inner sadist smile. And cheers me up a bit.

4.10 - Retribution http://sabolegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/410-retribution.html

[GigaRevival]

Hugs for you Cece. I hope everything works out.

[Klevkin]

http://alllayedout.com/Comments/Comment_Pics/graphics/a_big_hug_4_u.jpg

hope that they can get it sorted cece!!

I don't hate the deadbeat parent bit perse, but i feel like i have just done it and it was hard enough to make that work, I was going to use my free reroll on that tbh

[ReyaD]

I don't hate the deadbeat parent bit perse, but i feel like i have just done it and it was hard enough to make that work, I was going to use my free reroll on that tbh

Yeah if I were you I'd use my joker. (But thats for purely selfish reasons. I don't want one of Boy and Danya's kids to grow up with issues!)

Thanks for the hugs Klevkin and Giga.

[Klevkin]

well that is whats bugging me! it just doesn't fit the story, cause Boy would certainly put a stop to that and take the kids in, and i think danya would as well! so it just won't fit....(and i am really not in the mood of doing that again..........)

EDIT 2: Wedding update!! (http://cristlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/25-no-wedding-bells.html)

[Tamlyn]

*hugs Cece*

Boxing Day shopping - I plan on avoiding the shops on Boxing Day (and probably for a couple of days after...). Everyone's trees look lovely - we just have a baby one this year (I'm not the slightest bit religious).

I've not managed to get a second chapter for my legacy partly because I've fallen prey to 'too many ideas' already :S I should just play the game and see where it takes me >>

[Zokugai]

*hugs* Cece, you have more important things needing your attention than whether a bunch of simmers are cranky because they'll have to wait longer than expected for forum activity. No need to be concerned about being slow to respond to PMs or whatever, we'll entertain ourselves plotting Raindrop's demise.

On another subject, does anyone have any favorite houses up on a download somewhere? They don't have to be starter, but they do have to be small lotsize (15x20 would be ideal) for the most part, although I can do larger if it's more urban/industrial. I'm desperately trying to avoid having to build more buildings and I'm just not feeling anything I've been able to find myself.

[Klevkin]

Have you tried mySimrealty.com? The hoses there are decided in price categories

[Klevkin]

another few questions, when you're a farmer, are you allowed to register as a gardener?? or is that the purpose of being a farmer?? cause it does talk about two careers...so the actual question here is, is farmer becoming a gardener?? Or am I missing something?

other question, when you adopt, what counts for the nr# of child, the age, or the order in which you adopt?? Say you have 3 children, and after that, you adopt a 4th, but its age put it right in between child nr 2 and 3. Will it be nr. 3 or will it be nr 4.........(its for when you roll for heir....)

[calisims]

When you roll farmer, you can register as a gardner or as a nectar maker (the two careers are packed into one roll so no one is forced to travel to get fruits and nectar makers if they prefer not. So when you roll farmer, you get a choice of two kinds of farming.)

As for the number of children, however you want to do it is fine. That's an optional rule to begin with.

Cece, I hope you get sorted out. *big hugs*

[Klevkin]

thanks :D hmm okay :D And tiny grew up (my first in-game clone ever.......) and i guess she won't count towards my 2nd gen pets goal perfection?? as it turns out she already has that maxed (being the clone of tiger.......never realized skills would be cloned as well......)

EDIT: oh, and are you allowed to eat life fruit to prolong the adults lifes??

[NutsAndDolts]

LOL skills are cloned? That's weird. I never knew that.

[Klevkin]

lol well apparently :D cause i clicked her to start training hunting for the pets goal, and all i got was giving her the order to hunt, so i checked her skills and they are all maxed out!

[calisims]

That's interesting about the skills cloning, I had no idea. I would say that that wouldn't count toward the goal, though, because it was maxed from cloning. But if you want you can use MC to reduce her skill level back to 0 and then max it up again normally.

Yes, you can eat life fruit. You can also change your age stages to lengthen or shorten any individual stage.

[Klevkin]

thanks :D thats a good idea actually, putting her skill level back to zero, or i might just go and get a cat :P

good, the life fruit is cool, i already changed them, i hate babystage :P so i shortened that and lengthened some other stage (don't remember which) but when I moved Danya in, I discovered that she is 10 days older, but she should have been younger, because I moved her in after Boy already was an YA........so something went wrong.......so I want to make her younger by letting her eat life fruit

[Buckley]

Klev, when you move a Sim into your neighborhood from the bin, the game staggers their ages. So, while you made her a young adult in CAS, she will start somewhere in the young adult phase, not always at the beginning. I usually reset the ages of the Sims that I move into my neighborhood using Master Controller. I'm not sure if the rules frown upon this, but since you said that she should have been younger than Boy you can probably do the same.

Cece, I hope you feel better soon. *big hugs*

[calisims]

Yeah, you can reset the ages of Sims you move into the neighborhood, including your legacy founders. It's not fair to have the game randomly shave a bunch of days off your founding Sim's life.

[Klevkin]

oh! that is good to know!! I take it i do that with master controler?? can someone tell me where to find that option??

[calisims]

Sure it's on MC, under Intermediate: Age.

[Zokugai]

Thanks, Klevkin, that's more the style I had been looking for.

I don't think the skills are from cloning. If I recall correctly, all pets tend to inherit (some/all of) the skills of their parents.

[Zokugai]

Well, they're optional, aren't they? I was going to use them, but I rolled perfectionist for Spot, and maxing a skill is just something you'd do anyway, rule or no. Maybe they need to be rewritten, I get the impression they're from when Pets was brand new and no one understood how it worked.

I do like the ten generation pets rule, that's straight out of playing a Sims 2 legacy with pets installed.

EDIT: Looking at them again...there's nothing wrong with applying Fulfilled to pets. The fact that Fighter can't be done with horses is a bit of a pain in the ass to me, because I'd have that in the bag two days into my gen one...and the ten generation rule is great.

But yeah, once you get past pets gen 1, perfectionist is meaningless. And I don't really see the point in Explorer either. They just have to go to another lot by themselves? They do that autonomously.

[calisims]

The Perfectionist originally required not just maxing of a skill, but also completing all the skill challenges for that skill. But there was some concern that completing all those challenges would be impossible/too difficult, so I changed it. So whatever, do what you want.

[sirxn]

Feel better soon, Cece. :)

Here's an update (http://amberdenlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/chapter-1-officer-burglar.html). It's not much, but I'm getting somewhere when it comes to finding her a spouse. :up:

[Zokugai]

Sirxn: Remind me to arrange to be robbed while in my delicates. I need a hot blonde policeman to show up, too.

[CinderEmma]

It's CHRISTMAS EVE EVE!
Okay, so I'm a bit hyper!



Sorry Cece, I knew you had some health problems, but nothing that bad *hugs* Stinking doctors telling you it's all in your head! *shakes fist at them*

[Buckley]

Sorry, Melissa. I didn't mean to accuse you of anything. :( I apologize if that's how it came across. I was just trying to see if y'all thought the pet rules were still necessary, even in the optional section. Please forget I ever mentioned it.

[Klevkin]

I like having goals for my pets :p. So Yay for them, but perhaps we can do something to make them fit better, for the perfectionist perhaps that if the skill is maxed at birth you should go for those challenges? (thoughI'm not sure what those challenges are tbh). I'll ponder about it for a while :p since I'm apparently the only one using them Haha

[CinderEmma]

I like the goals, I will use it in my next legacy. I just thought the 10 generations rule I choose for my pets was enough for this legacy :D

[Miss Puff]

**hugs** for Cece. I hope everything goes smoothly and you feel better soon.

Guess what? I've got an update: Chapter Ten (http://keattslegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/chapter-10-older.html)!

I've decided to try and make a resolution to update my blog at least once a week next year, but thought I might as well start early. Hopefully this way I'll actually be able to finish my legacy some day. :)

[calisims]

It's all right, Colleen.
There did seem to be more enthusiasm about the pet rules when they were first added. But then there was more enthusiasm for pets in general then, too. I know I'm kind of jaded on them now. They were cute at first, but attending to their needs is a pain in the ass, so not only am I not using pet rules, when the pets I have die off, I'm probably not going to have any more pets. At least not for awhile.
Anyway, I'm open to any ideas for new pet rules or changes to the ones that are there.
Klev, the challenges for the hunting skill for cats and dogs are to find/hunt 50 of each kind of thing. So, for dogs, one challenge to find 50 gems, one to find 50 metals, etc, for cats it's 50 insects, 50 reptiles. etc.
I did test the rule with my first cat Frenzy on normal lifespan. She was able to complete all the challenges except the fishing. Which I she probably could have achieved, I just didn't send her out fishing often enough. They do go slowly at first, and it gets easier when the pet is higher level in the skill, and when they get the Alpha Pet reward. So I could see why Mimii was worried that they couldn't be done.
So, if you are up for testing the rule with Tiny, try to see how many of the challenges you can complete with her and let us know how it goes.
They are optional rules, and there's no penalty for failure.

[Zokugai]

When my next foal is born I'll run through and see how doable the horse skill challenges are on normal lifetime, but I can tell right now at least one of them will be impossible if you haven't rolled the horseman career. There's a "win X races/jumping competitions" one.

[calisims]

When my next foal is born I'll run through and see how doable the horse skill challenges are on normal lifetime, but I can tell right now at least one of them will be impossible if you haven't rolled the horseman career. There's a "win X races/jumping competitions" one.

Yeah, I made a note of that when I wrote the original rule that required doing the challenges. There also several exceptions like that in the Perfectionist rules for Sims, for skill challenges that require making money when your Sim isn't in the appropriate career.
In those cases you just do the skill challenges you are allowed to do.
Edit: And thanks for testing the horse challenges for us.

[Klevkin]

So, if you are up for testing the rule with Tiny, try to see how many of the challenges you can complete with her and let us know how it goes.
They are optional rules, and there's no penalty for failure.

Sure I'll do that! No problem!

[LadyAwesome]

yay its xmas in ...... 9 and a half hours :D

[ReyaD]

Christmas for me is on the 24th... so 6 1/2 hrs for me.

*Winner*

[CyyKosis]

Lol. It's not even Christmas Eve here yet!

[CinderEmma]

Same with me Maddie :) We're celebrating a lot of Christmas tomorrow though, gifts on Christmas Eve (at around noon this year 0_o) and stocking stuffers with just mom and I at Christmas

[whitewater]

After reading through all these posts I just remembered that I need to pull my dog's stocking in from my car. Spoiled Mutt.

For all those people who have finished at least one legacy, how did you feel at the end of it?

[CinderEmma]

I got Granger some treats, but I ran out so I gave them to him early. Lucky cat :P Now to keep him AWAY from the tape XD

[Zokugai]

After reading through all these posts I just remembered that I need to pull my dog's stocking in from my car. Spoiled Mutt.

For all those people who have finished at least one legacy, how did you feel at the end of it?

I haven't, but I've noticed quite a few people seem to have used a descendant of that family as the founder of their next legacy.

[CyyKosis]

I've noticed that too. Becky and Melissa both did for their current legacies. So did Cece now that I think about it, though originally I don't think she was planning to.

My cats, although they've tried, haven't gotten any of their gifts early this year. Unfortunately I won't be home until Christmas day... I work until 7pm and have a 5 hour drive home afterwards >.<

[CyyKosis]

Has anyone had problems with metals/gems not spawning in vacation worlds? I'm doing an Adventure quest and the metal I need to collect isn't spawning. UGH.

[Buckley]

Which metal do you need Maddie? Some of the rarer ones only spawn ever couple of days or so.

[Zokugai]

It takes FOREVER to spawn things in vacation worlds, but they do spawn. The thing that gets me every time is the red assassin beetle in China. Takes ages, and you need them to finish the storyline.

I recommend you try finding them in the market shops, or, if you run out of time, check the consignment store back home.

[ReyaD]

Maddie: I've heard that some metals/rocks won't spawn for a couple of days after you've arrived. I always thought that was weird, but it happens.

My pets are getting some gifts too. I got Linda some new shirts from her favourite store and Pina got an Itunes giftcard for her ipod.

(Yes. I refer to my sisters as my pets. It confuses people who don't know me that much. ^^)

For all those people who have finished at least one legacy, how did you feel at the end of it?

I was really excited for the end of my Starr Legacy because of the story I'd planned for it, but when I realized it meant leaving Sunset Valley and all the characters in it... my heart broke a little. For me, it was a really sad experience, which is why I pulled some characters from my old legacy into this one and refuse to let Marie and Angel die off. >_> They are special to me. The Starrs were my first family that I played with for more than three generations, so it was hard for me to let go. I think the end of the Sabo legacy will be even worse for me since I already have a plan for the gen 11 heir and the end of the legacy (and it doesn't involve a continuation).

[Zokugai]

So. I finally finished the neighborhood, moved all the sims in, and started to testplay it, and discovered there's a massive unfixable (for me at least) routing error on the main bridge into town. So I can't use the neighborhood for a legacy.

Seriously, just shoot me at this point.

[Buckley]

Oh, no Zoku! I'm so sorry. That sucks. I mean, literally. That description should be in the dictionary under the word "sucks".

Do you know what you're going to do? Can you take some of your renovated lots with you to another world?

[Zokugai]

I'm going to take a couple that were custom-made to fit the plotline with me, and I think I'll try Aspen Islands (http://anva.modthesims.info/d/457147). Because...well...it makes me gasp to see it ingame. Tad bit worried about the commute time but I won't do something stupid like placing the family's lot on the other end of town from the crime rabbithole.

So I'll probably spend the rest of the evening updating the hood to have the minor pet spawners etc and I'll still be ready to go tomorrow.

The problem I was finding with the hood I was going to use, Finnington, is that the main residential area and the main workplace area are separated by a big bridge. And there's something wonky about how the bridge connects to land; I had five sims all trying to cross that one spot from either direction and none of them could make it.

[Buckley]

Zoku, Aspen Islands looks beautiful! I can't wait to see some screenshots of it in your blog. :)

Does anyone know when your game save file is considered "bloated"? Like, when the size of the file has become too large? If you don't mind my asking, I'm curious what the size of y'alls files are. (That sounds dirty. Haha.) My Appaloosa Plains game save is almost at 200MB, and my Anne Arbor one was nearly quadruple that size. I worry a lot about lag and error 12s (although I haven't heard much about that problem recently), so I'm considering using Twallan's porter and moving some of my town into a new AP and pretending it didn't happen in story. What do y'all think? Am I overreacting?

[Zokugai]

Well, I found this in another thread.

I figured out a reason why your save game might have been expanding so fast, too. Mine did that when I installed Ambitions and played in Twinbrook. My save file increased from 20 to 35 MB in a few sim weeks, which is an insane rate of growth.

For some reason, my game had decided to generate ridiculously large numbers of homeless sims to fill in roles around town. Things like Stylist, Consignment Register, Tattooist... I was getting hundreds of homeless sims every day. Once I realised, I used Twallan's Register mod to assign the roles properly, and then used Overwatch to clear out the homeless sims. (There's an option that'll automatically clear them every night - make sure it's set to True). Then my game size shrunk back to what it should have been, and the weird lagging I was getting cleared up.

And in terms of size:

You don't need to be afraid for the safety of your save game until it gets over 100 MB - and that's 100 MB for the main Neighbourhood. For example, right now my biggest save game is 98.2 MB - but I have all the Vacation Destination 'hoods on that save too. The SunsetValley.nhd file is only 32.1 MB. Having said this, please make sure that you're on the most recent patch for all your Sims 3 games. The error 12 business should mostly have been solved by now. Also, Twallan's mods are for the most recent patch, and if you try to run them with older code, Bad Things will happen.

[CyyKosis]

My AP file is 52Mb... So yours sounds huge! ;)

[Klevkin]

I had some error 12s not to long ago, but luckily it was not in this legacy. I never even heard of that error until then and that's why I started using the saver. so I save every 15 minutes and I have 4 diff saves for that. So far so good though in my legacy game!

I'm currently at work (just woke up, have a sleepshift) so I can't tell you if mineis bigger :p


You could always just wait and see if the error appears, that way you don't have to leave your town until its absolutely necessary

[CyyKosis]

Thanks for sharing that tidbit Zoku, I'm going to have to look through that stuff even though my save file is still small, just so I know for the future!

[CinderEmma]

Mine is 37.5 right now, but since they did just "re-move" after their trip (why does travelling hate me?), I'm not surprised it's small :) But thanks for another way to monitor my save games :)

Merry Christmas EVE! (Or Christmas, depending on where you are) I'm going over to my sister's soon, tell you guys all about my presents and stuff tonight/late tomorrow (depends).

And I had a dream about Melissa tonight, she was 15 years old for some reason and she had really blond long hair XP And I was a boy, and we were having a sleepover, and your father was over protective. Wow my dreamworld really screwed up on the facts XD

[calisims]

Wow, Emma, that's nuts. When I was 15, I was dying my hair black. I was kind of gothy. Kind of punk, too, with the safety pins and such. And my father? I used to steal drugs from him. True facts.
So, I hope I behaved in your dream, at least.

Have a great holiday!

[NutsAndDolts]

When I was at the end of my first legacy, I was excited to begin a new one. Kind of like being excited to begin the next generation, but even better, because I had a chance to start over in a new town and not make all the early mistakes I made in my first legacy (such as allowing vampires in my town).

It was a tough grind to get Yasu to level 10 in her career before she was an elder, though. I really really had to push things to wrap up before her daughter was a young adult.

(I hadn't rolled perfect careers, but I wanted the career reward sculpture SO BAD...)

[Klevkin]

Oh I just realise that I forgot to post my premade chapter for today!

http://cristlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/26-life-moves-on.html

[GigaRevival]

Klev: I know a while back you said you were going to change your signature. I just noticed it and it's brilliant. :D

[Klevkin]

I love that bit! Hehe its brilliant though I had to cut out a tiny little but cause my signature was too long :(

[AJH]

Just checked and my save file (for the main neighbourhood) is 88MB and I have been having trouble with Error 12's recently so I think I'll have to see if I can do anything to reduce that.

Also, *big hugs for Cece* and Happy Christmas to everyone!

[CinderEmma]

I woke up before you could misbehave XD

Christmas eve was great, got all my presents :) Stockings in the morning though, so I'm still excited for Christmas. I got Outdoor Living Stuff, the clothes and hair in that stuff pack is cuuute :)

[ReyaD]

Merry Christmas : )

[CinderEmma]

Merry Christmas to you too :)

[Zokugai]

Wow, Aspen Islands has a working non-rabbithole restaurant. Color me impressed.

[LadyAwesome]

>.< I got a frying pan and an easel. So Meryy Christmas my loves, hopefully I have my chapter up for tomorrow.

[Zokugai]

Same here (well, not on the frying pan, although since it's technically not tomorrow yet here I suppose that's a possibility too...). And I was clever this time and tested my hood before I started customizing it. And then backed it up. Four times.

But yeah, should have a chapter tomorrow night.

[LadyAwesome]

Hmmmm I might start building my own town ready for my next legacy - like In Armiels empty town

[ReyaD]

Shortest chapter ever but... meh. It's plot. I know I said no update till Monday but... its Monday somewhere... I think.

4.11 - Corruption http://sabolegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/411-corruption.html

Brunettes are hot.

EDIT: Also if anyone's interested, my Meadow Glenn census is complete. Click here. (http://sabomgfamilies.blogspot.com/) Only the Sabo family has photos, but others will probably be added later as well. Every couple of days I plan on updating the pages with new additions/deaths/bios/etc. Hope at least ONE person finds entertainment in all that work.

[Klevkin]

My christmas update! (http://cristlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/27-merry-christmas-to-all.html)

I'm sorry but i'm off now, doing family christmas thingys etc........

[LadyAwesome]

Its monday in 10 mins cece lol but YAY update.

[Klevkin]

Lol I feel like the Sunday has barely begun, we are now starting lunch Haha

[Anarathiel]

This is me on my new laptop :D
It's a hp pavilion G6, Quad core and AMD Radeon Graphics. 6GB ram and 750GB hard drive XD
It cost me £429.99

Now to install Sims and get on with my game


edit: Oh yeah, I forgot...MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

[teal_moonshine]

It's been Christmas for 22 hours here, but I figure I get it early, but still. Hope you all got/are getting very merry

[Buckley]

Congrats on the new laptop Ana! That sounds awesome! :)

Happy holidays to everyone! I'm currently laid up in bed with a severe cold. Ugh. Anyway, no updates from me any time soon, but I can't wait to read y'alls!

[Anarathiel]

wow, it's only been Christmas for 12 hours and 40 minutes here. You guys are too far ahead

edit: can somebody post the link for the imaginary friend mod that makes it less likely. I dont want my legacy filled with IFs

edit2: Wow, i was finally able to update the game, i haven't been able to do that in months!

edit3: don't worry about the link, I found it :3

[Anarathiel]

Ima go ahead and roll now, then I'll start making the family ready for the 25th. I'm so excited.

Marital Structure: Single Parent with 'help'
Number of children: 2
Primary Income: Law Enforcement (Super Spy)
Secondary Income: Part Time Job
Generation Goal: Expansionist
More Fun: Random

Hmmm, this could be fun :D
I'm re-rolling the generation goal for this one seeing as it's the first generation and i add to the house simply to accomodate the kids anyway. I've rolled: Expansionist FML... next: Perfect Careers. That's better :D

[Klevkin]

rofl :D gratz on your new laptop Ana, I was already looking for the link for you when I continued reading lol. You have a nice roll there :D i'm curious to your first chapter!! :D

Colleen, i hope you feel better soon! it's no fun to be in bed with Christmas

[Anarathiel]

Where are people playing their games at the moment? I need to download a few worlds before i play. I prefer ones where it doesn't take your sim hours to get to town but it still has all the stuff out of late night.

[Klevkin]

you could look around at www.mysimrealty.com......

it has different worlds on there :)

[Anarathiel]

I think I'm gonna use Autumn falls for now. But thanks anyway

edit: or not, it doesn't have late night stuff

[Zokugai]

Where are people playing their games at the moment? I need to download a few worlds before i play. I prefer ones where it doesn't take your sim hours to get to town but it still has all the stuff out of late night.

Aspen Islands has every bar type. And from what I've been able to play with it, transportation is surprisingly fast, because it has subways hidden in it.

[AJH]

Where are people playing their games at the moment? I need to download a few worlds before i play. I prefer ones where it doesn't take your sim hours to get to town but it still has all the stuff out of late night.
I'm playing Hidden Springs, but it doesn't have the LN stuff (although it has a number of easily converted community lots) and you do have to pay for it since it's a store world

[Buckley]

I'm in Appaloosa Plains, but if I recall correctly you don't have Pets yet. I played in Anne Arbor for a while (from My Sim Realty), but it turned out to be quite glitchy and lagged a lot after I installed Pets. Also, I don't know about everyone else, but I have found that the big buildings from Late Night have a lot of glitches (like Sims spawning in those out-of-bounds areas). Just a word of caution if you decide to use a town with the skyscrapers. :)

EDIT: Ali, how do you like Hidden Springs? Have you found that the layout is pretty playable/user-friendly? I haven't done much exploring there yet, but I want to. Also, what about the terrain paint? Do you think the colors are realistic and what not? From the pictures, it looks really pretty, but I worry that the green is just too... green. I'd love to hear your opinion.

[AJH]

EDIT: Ali, how do you like Hidden Springs? Have you found that the layout is pretty playable/user-friendly? I haven't done much exploring there yet, but I want to. Also, what about the terrain paint? Do you think the colors are realistic and what not? From the pictures, it looks really pretty, but I worry that the green is just too... green. I'd love to hear your opinion.
I really like it, haven't noticed any issues playability-wise and I quite like how green it is, I find some of the views are quite spectacular. The only issue is trying to find suitable places for the rabbitholes which done't come with it and it does take a while to convert the various community lots into LN clubs if you want to do that

Edit: the unicorn does have a tendency to spawn in the big rocks at the waterfall lot so you do need to have use edit world to remove those if you want to interact with the unicorn

[Anarathiel]

I've chosen Elmira City. It's quite nice by the looks of it. :D
Time to play, get screenshots and start a blog.
But first i'm going to make use of the foot spa my mum got me for christmas

[ReyaD]

I'm playing in Meadow Glenn and I just adore the way the city looks and is laid out. Although I did have some trouble finding places for certain rabbit holes. But its all good now. I'm going to be adding them only as needed.

Neverglade was my favourite town strictly for aesthetics, and I am STILL in love with it... but it began glitching terribly on me after I downloaded Pets. I'm still trying to fix it though because... well... I'm in love with the town, and I'd love to be able to play in it again.

[morphius1]

Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays), everybody!

[Zokugai]

Edit: the unicorn does have a tendency to spawn in the big rocks at the waterfall lot so you do need to have use edit world to remove those if you want to interact with the unicorn

Ahh, that wasn't just with me, then. Yeah, he gets stuck in the corner. And removing the rocks won't fix it, you then have to go into build mode and flatten that area of the lot. There isn't enough space for him to walk around the corner of the pond out to where your sim is.

[LadyAwesome]

How many hours do I have to get in my xmas chapter guys lol?

[Buckley]

For me, Christmas is over in 8 hours. So, 8 hours?

Lol, either way, I can't wait! :)

[Buckley]

I'm doubling posting because I wanted to tell you guys, in case you hadn't noticed...

The Bayside Kitchen Set is free at the EA store today. :) Here is the link:

http://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?categoryId=11488&scategoryId=11507&index=0&productId=OFB-SIM3:16995&pcategoryId=12856&ppcategoryId=11505

[Zokugai]

I've got seven hours left here. Should have my chapter published in under an hour...and it's, uh, longish. I had a bit of a "MUST POST AS MANY PICTURES AS POSSIBLE BEFORE COMPUTER SABOTAGES ITSELF AGAIN" moment.

Altin was a pain to work with during it. I needed him to do the "whisper in ear" interaction with someone and he would, but he'd get a nice long series of entirely inappropriate speechbubbles. I mean, come on, Altin, you met them five minutes ago, keep your pants on and stop rolling woohoo thought bubbles...

EDIT:
I come bearing gifts!

Chapter 4: Arrivals (http://snickersonlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/gen-1-chapter-4-arrivals.html)

Spot is genetically identical to Spot pre-reinstall. Bolt is a vague approximation :( , and Altin is almost identical except I just realized I used the wrong eyebrows. Oh well. Maybe he forgot to tweeze.

[CinderEmma]

Merry Christmas guys :) I'm not planning on updating for a few days, it's going to be BUSY around here!

[Anarathiel]

Ok, so here is my first chapter! It's Christmas and I asked Santa to make this legacy last!

http://mitchellrandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/one-introductions.html
Enjoy!

[Anarathiel]

I'm doubling posting because I wanted to tell you guys, in case you hadn't noticed...

The Bayside Kitchen Set is free at the EA store today. :) Here is the link:

http://store.thesims3.com/setsProductDetails.html?categoryId=11488&scategoryId=11507&index=0&productId=OFB-SIM3:16995&pcategoryId=12856&ppcategoryId=11505

Eugh, i missed it!

[LadyAwesome]

It tells me the site is down... pricks

[Anarathiel]

Lady: Thats what i got too. I went to do it but i wasn't logged in, by the time i was logged in it wasnt working

[CyyKosis]

Same here gals, it's only "down" when I'm logged in. :(

[LadyAwesome]

SAME!!! we prob live int he wrong countries

[CyyKosis]

Just kidding. I kept refreshing until I finally got it to work!

[Anarathiel]

Even refreshing isn't getting mine to work. I'm back on my old laptop again atm. I'm keeping it XD My new one had to be left downstairs tonight. :(

edit: it did work! Yay! Ima have to transfer it over to my new laptop though

[LadyAwesome]

Im going to try get in in game

[ReyaD]

I downloaded mine last night at 12:04 midnight. And it worked fine. Haven't looked at it in game though. I just looked at the original price and decided "Ah screw it. I'll like SOMETHING in it".

[CinderEmma]

It seems like the site is just super busy, keep trying guys :) I won't give up, it's super cute :)
EDIT: I got it :) Anybody who's struggling should just keep refreshing :D

[LadyAwesome]

I got it in game and it worked yay, what a shame you cant get the bathroom now, I kind of want it lol

[CinderEmma]

Bah, I need to go to sleep soon, as I'm going Boxing Day shopping tomorrow. But I don't wanna XP
I love Chirstmas :)

[LadyAwesome]

Well, its boxing day here now..... town was packed, I wish I had more money though lol I would so go shopping. Buy a desktop even, and ps3....

[LadyAwesome]

Merry Xmas presents (http://malkierlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/chapter-32-christmas-cheer.html)

[CinderEmma]

Waiting for my hair to dry from my shower. I'm not tired anyway, bah. Too much suger XD
It's boxing day here now too :)

The cat is hyper too, lol, he's batting one of my presents. Scratch that, he's ran up the stairs :P

[LadyAwesome]

I feel real yuk. but its because I dont drink enough water and Im hot.
and I have sat here all afternoon

[CinderEmma]

I looooove water :)
The only other things I can stand to drink are Five Alive, OJ (sometimes, and oddly enough, alcohol :P Especially if it's fruity, though I enjoyed Teliqua when I tried it on Christmas Eve Eve. I've tried Baileys too and liked it :)

[Klevkin]

Baileys is just making my mouth water!! Though i have 2 bottles of it sitting in my fridge for over a year..............cause i am not allowed to drink it atm, and haven't been drinking for over a year...... I never really drink, so i am also a bit scared of what it will do to me gnagna

Boxing day over here!! Frigging 8.13 in the morning, cause my son woke up at 7 AM!! He just had to be so early when even my daughter seems to be sleeping in!

[ReyaD]

My parents bought me a bottle of champagne for Christmas but I refuse to drink so my parents drunk it and are currently passed out in bed. xD I almost died from laughter. Its by choice that I don't drink, and the few times I had alcohol before I just... eew. No. How do people drink that stuff? It's disgusting.

Its still Christmas for another 30 minutes for me... once that countdown is up I'll post another chapter. Since I'll be leaving for the malls early tomorrow. Too early to remember to post a chapter before I leave.

EDIT: Oh and I got pose player... STRICTLY for the fanservice photo options it gives me. <3
A photo from my personal stash: http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j386/Rey4rey4/Screenshot-3778.jpg

... I'm thinking of making a calendar...

[Klevkin]

oh dear!!! D: raindrop is cute!! :D

you should make a callender!! :D if we all vote so, you have to???

I don't drink alcohol either, i am a bit of a controlfreak, so i hate it when i don't have the control over myself hehe. I Don't miss it now that i am not allowed (cause of my diet) But on occasions i don't mind a glass of baileys hehe.

ugh, i'm thinking of having my sims move again, i LOVE this current house, but i'm a big fan of huge open spaces and well, lets just say, this isn't.........might go and buy a big lot in this neighbourhood (called legacy dream lot, so how appropriate) and start building there.............

so are we able to add subway stations?? or is that only done in the create a world tool??

[Buckley]

Cece, I gotta say that I find that photo... disturbing. Lol, maybe it's just me, but he looks like he's smelling his pits. Perhaps it's the angle or something. :)

I applaud you for your decision to avoid alcohol. That's not always an easy choice to stick with, but more often than not it's a smart move to make.

EDIT: Does my first comment sound bitchy? Cause I didn't mean for it to. I apologize if it came across wrong. I have trouble communicating sometimes in the early morning hours. Hah.

[ReyaD]

Klevkin, you should be able to add subways to community lots in either edit town or edit lot mode... I think. Honestly I've never tried it, but I know Cali made a subway community park in her legacy so maybe ask her.

Update!

4.12 - Family Matters http://sabolegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/412-family-matters.html

Clark ages up. AND HOLY CRAP HE'S BEAUTIFUL. O_O I. Am. Shocked.

[LadyAwesome]

Don't lie Cece, you know all your sims are smoking hot lol

[ReyaD]

Don't lie Cece, you know all your sims are smoking hot lol

Ergo: The need for a calendar.

[LadyAwesome]

Nom nom lol

[NutsAndDolts]

Happy Holidays, everyone. =)

[calisims]

Becky! *hugs* I took your advice and we watched the Xmen First Class movie on pay per view last night. You were right, it's a great movie. I always loved the Magneto origin story.

Klev, you can add subways to your neighborhood. You find them in the Community objects section in build mode. You can plop them onto any community lot where you can fit one, or you can use the edit world tool to add in small lots just for your subway.

[Anarathiel]

Ergo: The need for a calendar.
I concur!
Calendar! Nao!

[NutsAndDolts]

I love how it never changes, unlike Wolverine's. =P

Not that I minded the changes they did make. The dynamic between Xavier and Mystique was great.

The only thing that was weird about it was at times it felt like it was trying to be a prequel to the other three, but then they'd do something like show you a child version of Scott, who couldn't possibly be a child at that time, and then be 20's-30's whatever in modern times. I wouldn't mind if the movie was its own thing and not at all a prequel to the others, but you can't have it both ways, you know?

[Anarathiel]

Next chapter is up.

http://mitchellrandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/two-getting-started.html

hope you enjoy it!

[Zokugai]

I agree with Klevkin. You know the new rule, if we all vote, you have to! ;D

I love how it never changes, unlike Wolverine's. =P

Not that I minded the changes they did make. The dynamic between Xavier and Mystique was great.

The only thing that was weird about it was at times it felt like it was trying to be a prequel to the other three, but then they'd do something like show you a child version of Scott, who couldn't possibly be a child at that time, and then be 20's-30's whatever in modern times. I wouldn't mind if the movie was its own thing and not at all a prequel to the others, but you can't have it both ways, you know?

Sounds like your basic continuity error. They didn't do the math properly in that level of detail. A lot of big franchises (Star Wars, Star Trek, most of the comics, etc) even have someone on staff whose job it is to know the series in enough detail to be able to go "Hey that doesn't make sense, this guy wasn't born yet!" I guess the Xmen films don't have one.

[calisims]

Comics are full of continuity errors. They almost have to be, considering they'll have the same characters around for decades, never aging, while adding new characters to the mix.
I was most surprised by Angel's gender change. But it makes sense, most superhero teams are sausage fests with a token chick, early Xmen included, so I can see why they wanted to have a little more diversity here. Also, Emma Frost and the diamond thing. As you might guess from her name, she originally was an ice type. So when she first transformed, I thought, 'wow, that's an interesting way to do an ice effect. It looks like diamonds.' It took me awhile to catch on.

Anyway, I have an update:
http://romanrandomlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/chapter-49-stupid-and-slow.html

And a few new shots in out takes. This generation is taking forever.

[LadyAwesome]

Im still trying to get through this Cali..... I am still on Theirry and Amelia, and I had already read all these chapters, but I am reading them again. I have a Zero attention span lol.

[Zokugai]

I went looking around for worlds that had been updated with the Pets spawners and rabbithole, and I found a really awesome one. Don't know if you've heard of it, but it's supposed to be this industrial-era town with old mansions and such. The backstory and details all of the lots have is brilliant. It works better for my storyline than Aspen Islands so I think I'm going to use it instead. http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/249858.page

Especially since I get to be lazy and not place all those godforsaken spawners. There are twenty-four pets spawners, did you know that? Twenty-four. And that's not counting dog digspots. I'm never playing a pre-pets hood ever again.

[Tamlyn]

I hope everyone had a lovely xmas if you celebrate, and some lovely quiet time if not.

I managed to get a cold, so the quiet stay at home xmas we had planned turned out to be doubly good - it was exhausting enough! And the cricket was a lot of fun too, and attended the Boxing Day match was very Australian xD

Now I am going to watch the Doctor Who xmas special and eat leftoever turkey for lunch. Then I have to decide what game to play - I got two for xmas (Sims Medieval and Bastion), still have barely scraped the surface of Skyrim, and have normal Sims.

[ReyaD]

So I was working on my plot for gen 5 and 6 and realized I rolled two careers in a row.

Gen 5, Secondary career: Law Enforcement (Super Spy)
Gen 6, Primary Career: Law Enforcement (Super Spy)

I know the rule states:

"Repetitive careers: You are allowed to reroll a career or a profession if you have rolled it for consecutive generations. For example you are allowed to reroll if you have a chef in generations 1 and 2, but not with generations 1 and 3. You are also allowed to re-roll for either primary or secondary income, if both primary and secondary income turn up as the exact same career in the same generation."

So would a re-roll be acceptable, or does it need to be primary = primary, secondary = secondary?

(... My brain is not working today)

[Zokugai]

Now I am going to watch the Doctor Who xmas special...still have barely scraped the surface of Skyrim
You have excellent taste.

Also, bit of advice, it is VERY VERY VERY important that you do the patch(es?) on Medieval. Straight out of the box, it has a game-ending glitch when you hit level 7 security that completely mucks up your graphics card, forces a computer crash (and we're talking Blue Screen of Death level here), and corrupts the savegame to the point that it can't be opened. And they finally fixed it (as far as I've seen)....so really, make sure to patch the game. O_O

[NutsAndDolts]

Yes you can re-roll if you want. It doesn't matter if it's primary or secondary; you'd still be saddled with the same career twice in a row.

Or you can use it for lulz in your story.

[ReyaD]

I'm already using it for the lulz because Raindrop's final career is going to be law Enforcement. And Law Enforcement is my most HATED career. So three times in a row is REALLY pushing it for me...

Okay after TWO re-rolls (... Both which got me Law Enforcement again. wtf) I rolled artist. I'm cool with that. I can breathe again. Thanks Becky.

[Buckley]

I want to install my copy of medieval now. I never did play it very much. Thanks for the heads up about the patch, Zoku!

[CinderEmma]

Went to Chapters today, but I bought no books :P I did get a yoga mat, a yoga DVD, a pilates DVD, and two calendars :) One is called "Bad Cats", and it's my daily calender :)
Tried out the yoga, and while I felt like a pretzel, it was really good because I didn't feel dizzy at all! Usually I feel a little dizzy, though my blood pressure has mostly normalized (still a LITTLE under), it used to be really low, and I can get really dizzy from excerise/hot showers. So it was nice to feel like I worked out without dizziness/fainting :D

[ReyaD]

So my game is freezing up again. 25 in game minutes after I pop open my most recent save it just freezes and nothing moves. 3 times in a row now. My closest alternate save was 2 in-game weeks ago... before Catherine was born. I'm freaking out just a little.

Why does this legacy insist on turning my hair white?

[Zokugai]

Oh, that sucks. Got enough time to save them to the bin before it crashes out?

Hey, I totally love installing a neighborhood (not the one I linked above) and finding out that 1) it's populated and 2) that population is PACKED with crappily made CC that's completely miscategorized by age, and as nude clothing, and attached to the wrong mesh, and UGLY AS SIN, and so on and so forth, and then having to spend my evening uninstalling every piece of CC individually because it won't take when I do it in bulk. Thanks, official forums, way to stay classy! I was really hoping for my male fisherman to shower in skintight denim daisy dukes and for my toddlers to be wearing Elder lingerie and for the roof colors of my lots in entirely unrelated 'hoods to turn pink and purple!

[Klevkin]

Now I am going to watch the Doctor Who xmas special

It was fun wasn't it??? All "humany wumany" :D

@cece, that is very crappy! i advise using saver!

@Zoku, thats why i stopped downloading stuff from the exchange, it's almost always stuffed with bad CC!

[ReyaD]

All is good. I managed to find an alternate family save that was only about a week behind my normal game, and then speed played it to get to where I was and onwards. Only took me a few hours.

Just started Gen 5. Hoooooly crap Jacob's hot. <3 I apologize in advance for the "Team Jacob" reference that is bound to come up sooner or later.

Kayla's right. All my sims are hot.

[Zokugai]

I don't normally. It was listed elsewhere with decent reviews and the download link was the exchange.

[ReyaD]

I found Neverglade on the exchange, as well as some of my favourite towns. I guess I'm just lucky.

[Zokugai]

Yeah, that's the problem. Worlds are one of the only things where I regularly find nice, working examples hosted on Exchange. And I found Grey Meadow on the Exchange maybe twenty minutes earlier and it's absolutely genius...so it's pretty much dumb luck.

[Klevkin]

well :) I don't risk it anymore :) I;ve had enough of my toddlers wearing adults clothing, sims showering in clothing and not to mention, creepy pants!!

[ReyaD]

Update!

4.13 - Is the Truth Worth it? http://sabolegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/413-is-truth-worth-it.html

Dialogue, dialogue, and Sky being bad. What more do you need?

[Zokugai]

Heehee, I like Sky so much more now. I don't want to smack her upside the head lately.

The roof thing confuses the hell out of me. I've seen the other errors before, but not that one. I think they must have cloned their custom roofs from existing one and accidentally somehow made them default replacements.

[Klevkin]

rofl, you mean i accidentally spelled intriguing right??

okay :D seriously, Derrick and his uncle Lee are up to no good at all!! Anyone knows what they are up to?? It puzzled my brain!

(I love the way Derrick looks at his uncle!)

[Klevkin]

Short update (http://cristlegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/28-running-home.html)

[AJH]

Update from me too:- http://clemetislegacy.blogspot.com/2011/12/chapter-thirty-nine.html

[bde1225]

This is the best challenge, in my opinion, for legacy gamplay. I tend to get bored easily with my legacies and quit them. I think because of this challenge i will complete one! So I have my generation 1 stats.

A. Couple
B. 2 kids
C. Freelance Scientist
D. Job hopper
d1.Stylist d2.daycare d3.artist d4. private investigator d5.none d6. collecting d7. artist d8. busker d9. law enforcement d10. freelance photographer
E. Generation goal-Awesome
F. Misc fun- No strangers

I have ideas brewing now and I am super excited to start! :deal:

[calisims]

Welcome to the challenge, bde! Your first roll looks like fun. I hope you keep us posted about how things go with your legacy. And of course if you decide to keep a blog of your legacy, post a link for us!

[Anarathiel]

Welcome bde!
you have a good roll there. I always seem to get single parent for my first generation (i've had unfortunate premature endings due to glitches and broken laptops)
Good luck!

[ReyaD]

I think my track record on legacies has been pretty good so far. Out of 3, only one was abandoned due to the "Grim never freakin' shows up" glitch.

Klevkin: LOVED this pictures! xD Derrick's face just killed me. ".. I'm going to tell mom, y'know."

Welcome, bde. Good luck on your first roll!

[Buckley]

I love the title of your post bde! "Best Challenge Ever" ...lol. Welcome to the challenge! :)

I was gonna have an update today, but my coworker had to go to the ER at 3 o'clock in the morning because her boyfriend broke his ankle. So, instead I'm working all day today. 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. *sigh*

[Klevkin]

Welcome bde :D and agreed, if you do decide to blog on it (you are not obliged btw, you can also update on your progress on here when you want to :) or don't update at all....) share the link on here :D

@cece, lol he does look a bit like that doesn't he??? gosh they are all so adorable!! I have never felt attached to my simmies like this before lol :D Derrick is an adorable child as well!

[CyyKosis]

Welcome bde! Do you have another name you'd rather go by or is bde fine? I hope you choose to blog about it :)

[ReyaD]

Spoiler for Jessica as a YA... but holy crap. BEST age up mishap ever.

"... What the eff am I wearing?"
http://i1083.photobucket.com/albums/j386/Rey4rey4/Screenshot-3903.jpg

[Klevkin]

ROFL!! that ones great!! :D hilarious!!

okay.......i have another question (yes, loads of questions from me......) my husband decided to but in and noticed the family name I gave my family........and he pronounced it completely diff then the way I intended it......so I was wondering, how do you people pronounce "Crist"

[Buckley]

I pronounce it with a short "i". Like "wrist" but with a "c" in front.

EDIT: Is it supposed to be pronounced like "christ"? Like Jesus Christ?

[Klevkin]

lol no its not! but my husband did, and i surely did not wanted that!! I intended it indeed with the short "i" :D and I never realised it could be pronounced like christ until my husband did it!

[ReyaD]

I pronounce it Crihst. With a short i. I can see how he saw the other pronounciation though. I don't think anybody would mistake the two though. It's not like you've been doing anything religious in you story anyway.

[Zokugai]

I was gonna have an update today, but my coworker had to go to the ER at 3 o'clock in the morning because her boyfriend broke his ankle. So, instead I'm working all day today. 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. *sigh*

Man, I misread that as your coworker had to go to the ER because her boyfriend broke your coworker's ankle. I wanted to know what the heck they had been doing.

[LadyAwesome]

So, I am getting back into making poses again, I dont know whyyyyy - its making me want to rip my hair out- and Im trying to quit smoking again grrrrr. I need to finish my picture for the calendar contest

[CinderEmma]

Love it Cece!
Question - I suddenly got this naked outfit in my game, where I put the "shirt" or "pants" on and there's no clothing. I don't remembering installing this, do you have any ideas on where I got it (so I can remove it)

I would pronounce it Cur-ist, not Christ :)

[LadyAwesome]

I have those, I think it is borked clothing maybe?

[CinderEmma]

Yeah, it's just weird because I don't have much CC clothing. Hairs, patterns, and makeup mostly :)