Gameplay: How do YOU keep track of sim lifes?
Faizah:
Quote from: Quill on 2008 September 05, 06:09:57
I also have a list of names I liked from one of those name your baby websites so that I don't have two or three of the same name. I can sort them by gender and by whether or not I've used them before. Whenever I have a new simbaby, I find a name I like on the list and mark it as used. Does anyone else have a list of names?
I have various baby names books, something I've sort of been collecting for various reasons... (Still regret not buying one I saw in a second hand store that had the enigmatic message written inside the cover: "I'm leaving you." Man, we talked about what the circumstances surrounding that could have been for ages.) Mainly reasons to do with naming things.
I've already mentioned my tendency to name a CAS sim beginning with A, and his/her spawn get B names, etc, etc. There was a time when every other male CAS sim was Andrew or Anthony, until I hit on the idea of consulting my name books. Then, again, I would have been in trouble without them for the C-generation of my FT family, 16 sims so far, and only one of the B generation is an elder yet. (Admittedly, elder Boronia had 12 of those kids herself. Her brothers are probably done having kids already, at 2 each.)
On one occasion I even used wikipedia to find names. I had one C-named alien kid with a name I later decided was blah, so I browsed various sciency pages, and renamed him Corona. His younger sibling got Chrysopoeia the same way. (Though now I'm questioning the wisdom of that, as I can't quite remember whether Chrysopoeia is male or female...)
BrokenRobot:
I've been using a random name generator for a while now. I get a lot of weird ones, but it gives me a nice variety with minimal effort on my part.
sleep:
Quote from: ingeli on 2008 September 05, 08:01:11
I really started to like the quality of the pics done in "mirror mode", and of course it was a bit tedious to get all the pics needed when I first started the database with appr. 500 sims.
Yes, thank goodness I'm starting early! I've taken pics of one family now, edited them and put them in just fine.
However, I must be being dumb about "mirror mode". When I tell them to 'change appearance' using a mirror, there's a static portrait that can't be turned (as you mentioned doing) and the in-game camera doesn't work. I could do print screen, but I suspect that's not what you meant. I think I must have misunderstood what you were doing.
So, I built a segment of wall, covered it with neutral paint, and used moveobjects to put each sim in front of my 'backdrop'. It works; I'm just wondering what I didn't get with your method.
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In the past, I haven't tracked my sims, but played each family until I got bored. I mostly like building, and haven't been much involved with the storytelling aspect. However, I recently started a backwoods hood, with four cabins and no townies. (I'll add some soon, when the services get connected, so they can start businesses and have computers.) They've had a few babies, and there are fifteen sims now. I'm currently playing each household for about a week, and after a session of play, I make a few notes about major events or character developments that occurred. I also take pics of special events, and now of sims for the family tree. I have the synctimer installed, but I'm not finding it particularly useful as you have to enter a lot to look at the timer and find out which lot you are up to. It's easier to have a note on paper beside the computer.
Of course, I might be misunderstanding how the synctimer is supposed to be used!
ingeli:
I use the function "Fix flashing blue.." on the FFS debugger, I think it works like a mirror, with some improvement: you can use it on anyone on the lot, not just the playables, and it also works for babies. For me the picture is turnable.. I will have to check if that isn't the case with a common mirror.
To take pics, I use the old program SimCamera. It was made for Sims1, but is still downloadable here:
http://www.june3rd.com/Downloads/
Its very simple and you can set up a hot key, I for example use F1. And the pics are saved to a folder you choose. I am sure there are plenty of other similar software out there, but this one suits me, and I always run the program in the background while playing. The quality is so much better than the ingame camera.
sleep:
Oh, that's quite different then, from what I was trying to do. Thanks, I'll see if that camera will suit me - it would be good to keep the portraits separate from the other in-game pics, so I don't clean them out by accident sometime. Saves moving them manually too.
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