Post by Elissa Pickering on Nov 29, 2015 12:05:53 GMT -5
Nothing bad happened to my game or anything, I just decided it was running too slow to suit me. 20MB save file (4 sim-weeks played) should not take longer than a bathroom break to load, even on a laptop. Probably inventory issues. Meh.
I still have it. I still have pretty much everything I've ever had or done with Sims4... somewhere on this hard drive. I'm not too organized, but I could give any Packrat a run for their money over that title.
Onward & upward, here... Next!
I just kinda wanted to write about setting up and so on, I've got a little time before work, but not enough to do anything terribly involved.
For a LONG time, I never used *any* cc... but mods were a different story. Had some of those since day one. I picked up MC Command Center in March (after the Great Tuning File Crash of 3/26 settled), and it's been helping me play this game ever since. (I have more mods than just that.)
I wanted a fresh run at what MC does, and what the game does, etc. AND to show off some of the new cc I've found here (and at MTS). (Pictures another time, possibly in the photos thread... depends on what comes up worth posting.) I am WAY over that "no cc" hump.
(Side note, in another thread I saw someone post "I hate this goddamned game!" and I had to laugh, because my poor husband hears that pretty often from yours truly, too! Haha!!)
I always forget just how MUCH setup there is with a re-roll. I re-rolled my av (mostly) but she has gray eyes now. And her (new) twin sister has red hair and violet eyes. I get bored with just one sim.
Plopped Perfect Balance down on that empty "retail" lot. Newcrest is still empty.
I caught on to a new trick to relate Johnny Zest back to the Landgraabs, so he's moved back in with with them, for the moment. I have moved ONE hour of game time, reintroducing Landgraabs to their prodigal, and my bin grew by about 15.
So I went to look. Of note, a household of 4 randoms made up of 3 YAs and an elder, that's a first here. Another 4-person random YA group with same last name, but I'll just give 3 of them (in each household) new last names at some point. Or delete any total trainwrecks.
2 YA men in one household and a 3d from the other household all came in with the same exact hairstyle/color (black, of course). That's not gonna work for me, guys, sorry. Fix in progress. (Eyes glazed over, I had to quit for this morning.)
One elder couple.
The *most* interesting thing in there is the married lesbian couple with a teenage daughter, who is missing a trait.
I don't have any of MC's same-sex settings enabled, although I could change that, now. I'm just really intrigued. I have *never* seen a same-sex couple randomly appear in my bin. I do see the missing-trait thing pretty often. Once, I saw that fix itself. So I'm waiting to see if she tells me what she wants to do with that box. No rush.
I like to put wedding rings on my marrieds, and body hair on my males. That usually leads to a wardrobe run as I page thru the rings... OMG some of the outfits are just epically BAD.
I'd already done the core 30ish (mapped sims plus 3), game gave me punk rock dude to roll the hood with, so I kept him, I like him. Then I rolled my twins and moved them into WC (along with the guy, they're neighbors).
I used MC's Age Up thing to make Geoffrey and Nancy elders, then Adults again, to clear out the green from their age bars. Playing on Long (I don't usually play on long, I prefer aging off, but, it's an experiment. Settings/flags FTW!)
Tried it with Malcolm, but it doesn't work as well for active teens (or kids)... Something to do with the different number of traits, I'd guess. Throws a wrench. It's actually *meant* to be used on inactives, anyway.
I paged through all their aspirations (which makes a save file get bigger, BTW), and bought Malcolm a Fountain of Youth potion to set his bar back to empty. Johnny's already was. They're the only family I"ve done it for yet, besides my 3 created sims. WIP.
I said earlier in a PM that my Indian name would probably be Talks Much, Says Little.
I just am not really up for posting my usual story/meta mashups to something like Tumblr, but, I wanted to tell *somebody* about this new game. Part story, part tech/meta, that's how I usually roll. It wouldn't be good Tumblr fodder.
More incoming later on, if anybody's interested in reading about Sims 4, MC & other mods, and Me.
Work prep time is looming, probably a good thing. For you guys. LOL! (I can stop writing anytime I want to...)
I still have it. I still have pretty much everything I've ever had or done with Sims4... somewhere on this hard drive. I'm not too organized, but I could give any Packrat a run for their money over that title.
Onward & upward, here... Next!
I just kinda wanted to write about setting up and so on, I've got a little time before work, but not enough to do anything terribly involved.
For a LONG time, I never used *any* cc... but mods were a different story. Had some of those since day one. I picked up MC Command Center in March (after the Great Tuning File Crash of 3/26 settled), and it's been helping me play this game ever since. (I have more mods than just that.)
I wanted a fresh run at what MC does, and what the game does, etc. AND to show off some of the new cc I've found here (and at MTS). (Pictures another time, possibly in the photos thread... depends on what comes up worth posting.) I am WAY over that "no cc" hump.
(Side note, in another thread I saw someone post "I hate this goddamned game!" and I had to laugh, because my poor husband hears that pretty often from yours truly, too! Haha!!)
I always forget just how MUCH setup there is with a re-roll. I re-rolled my av (mostly) but she has gray eyes now. And her (new) twin sister has red hair and violet eyes. I get bored with just one sim.
Plopped Perfect Balance down on that empty "retail" lot. Newcrest is still empty.
I caught on to a new trick to relate Johnny Zest back to the Landgraabs, so he's moved back in with with them, for the moment. I have moved ONE hour of game time, reintroducing Landgraabs to their prodigal, and my bin grew by about 15.
So I went to look. Of note, a household of 4 randoms made up of 3 YAs and an elder, that's a first here. Another 4-person random YA group with same last name, but I'll just give 3 of them (in each household) new last names at some point. Or delete any total trainwrecks.
2 YA men in one household and a 3d from the other household all came in with the same exact hairstyle/color (black, of course). That's not gonna work for me, guys, sorry. Fix in progress. (Eyes glazed over, I had to quit for this morning.)
One elder couple.
The *most* interesting thing in there is the married lesbian couple with a teenage daughter, who is missing a trait.
I don't have any of MC's same-sex settings enabled, although I could change that, now. I'm just really intrigued. I have *never* seen a same-sex couple randomly appear in my bin. I do see the missing-trait thing pretty often. Once, I saw that fix itself. So I'm waiting to see if she tells me what she wants to do with that box. No rush.
I like to put wedding rings on my marrieds, and body hair on my males. That usually leads to a wardrobe run as I page thru the rings... OMG some of the outfits are just epically BAD.
I'd already done the core 30ish (mapped sims plus 3), game gave me punk rock dude to roll the hood with, so I kept him, I like him. Then I rolled my twins and moved them into WC (along with the guy, they're neighbors).
I used MC's Age Up thing to make Geoffrey and Nancy elders, then Adults again, to clear out the green from their age bars. Playing on Long (I don't usually play on long, I prefer aging off, but, it's an experiment. Settings/flags FTW!)
Tried it with Malcolm, but it doesn't work as well for active teens (or kids)... Something to do with the different number of traits, I'd guess. Throws a wrench. It's actually *meant* to be used on inactives, anyway.
I paged through all their aspirations (which makes a save file get bigger, BTW), and bought Malcolm a Fountain of Youth potion to set his bar back to empty. Johnny's already was. They're the only family I"ve done it for yet, besides my 3 created sims. WIP.
I said earlier in a PM that my Indian name would probably be Talks Much, Says Little.
I just am not really up for posting my usual story/meta mashups to something like Tumblr, but, I wanted to tell *somebody* about this new game. Part story, part tech/meta, that's how I usually roll. It wouldn't be good Tumblr fodder.
More incoming later on, if anybody's interested in reading about Sims 4, MC & other mods, and Me.
Work prep time is looming, probably a good thing. For you guys. LOL! (I can stop writing anytime I want to...)
