uncreativity: SIMS

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Uncreativity (

uncreativity) wrote,
@ 2009-06-17 20:07:00

Entry tags:

sims, slayers

SIMS
I've been playing a lot of Sims 3. There are some seriously cool additions to it. I made a Lina and Gourry house - actually, I originally made them two separate houses, but then one day Gourry went over to Lina's and she HAD ADOPTED A BABY. I knew that time passes in the entire neighborhood in this version, but THEY CAN OBTAIN BABBY ON THEIR OWN? So I had Gourry pick up the baby and insult its face to Lina. "Inappropriate" is maybe the best personality trait ever - it also allows him such actions as "make inappropriate forum post" and "imply Lina's mother is a llama." But calling the baby ugly was really the only enjoyable part of the "WHY THE FUCK DOES LINA HAVE BABBY!?!?!?!?" saga, and there aren't any cheats out yet that would allow me to delete the damn thing, so I deleted her household, made a new one, and moved her in with Gourry, so I could control them both at the same time.

There are a lot of neat gameplay improvements over Sims 2, and the updated character creation system is FANTASTIC, but I'm essentially going to have to make a new neighborhood for every house I want to play, which is very nearly enough to make me want to go back to Sims 2 on its own.

...well, I'm sure someone will come up with a "NO BABBY WITHOUT PERMISSION" patch sooner or later, and I bet turning off aging would at least help a little. It'd also stone-kill that second bird of how much more difficult it is to prolong aging in this game. But until then, it's one household per neighborhood. Annoyyiinnngggg.

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random lurker passing through
(Anonymous)
2009-06-19 04:21 am UTC (link)

Haha, this is probably kind of creepy, but after spending the better part of yesterday beating TS3 into submission, I feel obligated to help others fight the good fight. :|b Or at least prevent others from suffering the same pain. ;;

ANYWAYS. Turning off Story Progression will stop the neighborhood from moving on without you, although everyone will still age. You just won't have people moving in and out, having kids, etc. But if you do want SP off, you'll need to use a workaround or Awesomemod (http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=343659) because EA broke it.

I reccomend going the Awesomemod route if you can, because it also has several nice fixes in case you do want to turn SP back on.

There is also a way to change households without changing your neighborhood! It's just needlessly complicated. (http://videoonlinegames.suite101.com/article.cfm/sims_3_active_household_and_edit_town) Also, without Awesomemod your sims will lose all their wishes and inventory when you swap households.

I thought it was way easier to extend their lifespans in TS3, especially since the lifespan slider works retroactively, unlike the mod I had for TS2. And you can just use the b-day cake if you want to skip a stage early.

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	Re: random lurker passing through uncreativity 2009-06-19 04:51 am UTC (link)
	Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was really freaked out about the Story Progression thing, haha. 8D;; AWESOMEMOD LOOKS AWESOME and I want you to know, you saved me so much pain, anon. (Reply to this)(Parent)