Adventures in Simdom

[ladynorbert]

I am not addicted. Stop looking at me like that.

Anyway, yesterday, as planned, I constructed a custom mansion for nentikobe, kobrin, and their six kids. I made them the proud parents of sethoz, shining_phoenix, and blcksunaphelion, plus gave them three random sons named James, John, and Adam. James is a redhead, John is blond, and Adam has black hair. Screencaps to come when I get home. The reason I did that, instead of adding vampyric_lycan to the club, is because the girls already outnumber the boys in this neighborhood. Don't worry though, Dru, I'll get you in there yet. (If anyone else wants to live in my little dream world, just let me know.)

The mansion I made for them is pretty splendid. It's rectangular, with an open-air courtyard in the center. The top floor is a dance club and bowling alley. Unfortunately, I neglected to leave enough room on the lot for a driveway, so they can't have a car. But I finished the mansion and moved the family in. At about that time, wash load #3 was done in the washing machine, so I paused the game (I thought) and went to put away clean laundry and move wet laundry into the dryer.

I came back twenty minutes later and found that I had NOT successfully paused the game. Kerri, who was my active character at the moment, was weeping and shouting. I couldn't figure out what the problem was. In the courtyard, though, were some objects I'd never seen before, so I investigated them more closely.

They were graves.

In the time that I was gone, the entire family starved to death. Whoops.

Of course I got them back, I just had to exit without saving. Unfortunately, that meant I lost roughly half my house edits and had to remake the mansion's interior. But I thought I would share that little story for those of you who are old-time Sims players, you can have a good laugh at my dopey error. :)

Comments

[shining-phoenix.livejournal.com]

Now you have me wanting to go find The Sims. XD I want to give it a try and see what I can do. But I want the Pets expansion pack, too. You can become a werewolf in it... *isn't nuts. Really!* I just want to see how it works! >.> XD (Never mind that you're supposed to be able to turn others into werewolves. Who cares if you can get stuck as a wolf if you keep it up for too long? XD)

And all I could do was laugh when you admitted what you did. XD I would certainly hope that I would be weeping and shouting over you letting everyone starve to death. ;)

[ladynorbert.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you about the Pets expansion! If I ever get it, I'm going to make a bunch of the Brutality characters, turn them into werewolves, and set them up in the Hyperion. :D

Must...not...sink money...into...new...obsession...

(Incidentally, the one I bought is The Sims 2 Deluxe, which comes with the Nightlife expansion for free. It was only about $20 at Walmart, so if you give in to the urge, I suggest trying that.)

[shining-phoenix.livejournal.com]

XD That'd be cool! Have a bunch of Brutality characters running around on your computer sounds like fun. Heh. (I almost put 'fur' insteady of 'fun'... That'd work, though! Heh.)

Oh, nifty! Next time I manage to get over there, I'm going to have a look around and see if I can find that. ^_^

[blaze-rocket.livejournal.com]

Make sure you check the game specs to see if it'll run on your computer, or run over your computer. This game is massive.

[blaze-rocket.livejournal.com]

I waaaaarned you....


I haaaate when I have to back out of my game without saving because of "issues" . Tis the worst! Because no matter how awful whatever it is that happened, something awesome also happened, and you know you'll never get it quiiiiite back again.


Did they not have enough food, or a phone for take out, or do you have their free will turned off? They should feed themselves! How long were you gone for?

[ladynorbert.livejournal.com]

I was gone for about twenty minutes, and I think the free will setting is turned off.

It sucked that I had to redo so much of the mansion, but at the same time it was kind of darkly hilarious what happened.

[blaze-rocket.livejournal.com]

Well... finding all the new and creative ways your Sims can die is a way some people play this game. I've yet to experience Death by Flies or Satelite. Maybe some day though. ^_^;;

[alphaloria.livejournal.com]

i just want you to know, that i smirked when i saw that you had written this:

I don't anticipate getting hooked on it the way Pie warned me a lot of people do

when i used to play it, i focused WAY more on house-building and decorating than actual playing. if you look around on the innernetz you will find that there are objects and wallpapers and skins and all sort of fun stuff that are created by users, that you can download and install into the game. at one point i had over 2GB of stuff and the game took 15 minutes to load (this was the original Sims + several expansion packs). it was Fun Times, let me tell you.

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

Have fun, but please don't be lost to Sims.

I'm serious, I lost a friend this year to Second Life--it was like having a cult take someone you love, and it may sound funny, but it was and is extremely painful to me. xoxoxoxoox

[ladynorbert.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've actually seen firsthand some of the effects of video game addiction (no one I love dearly, thank goodness), so I'm careful. I promise I won't get lost. For one thing, I don't think Kevin will let me. ;) But I have been sleeping and I haven't given up any normal interactions for it -- I attended church yesterday and took my sister out to lunch -- so I'm staying focused on the real world.

I'm always like this when I get a new toy to play with. I fixate and babble for a few weeks, annoy everyone to pieces, and then find something else that's new and shiny.

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

I knew it was silly to worry; I've known my other friend--Pam--since she was 16 and I was 17. She was my closest friend. Now we haven't spoken in 2 years, nearly, and I know it's because she's completely lost to gaming.

It broke my heart, so I'm ultra-sensitive, but obviously you are not her. I'm sorry honey; it was so hard for me, that's all. xoxoxoxox

[sophy.livejournal.com]

Leaving without saving is my favorite technique whenever a sim dies or a sim child is sent to military school. Of course, if you've been good and saved often, it can be hard to correct things before they go bad again. :(

[mrskummer.livejournal.com]

You need to see this (http://bri-chan.deviantart.com/art/red-blooded-woman-69613883)

[ladynorbert.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA that's amazing! Thanks for sending.