Playing AL without apartments: witches enough?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: kemowery on 2008 October 01, 04:07:53
My witch sims pretty much summon magical servants to clean house, get rid of puddles and leaves, and, when children age up into teenagers, the resident witches give them a birthday present of a buff physique. I made the teenage member of the Newson family (the all-underage bin family) a witch and she would produce food magically for free. Then I got bored with having witches since the throne means witches don't have to do anything once they have one.
You don't have to issue them a throne. In fact, you normally can't even get one unless you have over 900 alignment, which is not easy because all the best spells are the neutral ones, and if you cast them, your alignment moves back towards the center.
Quote from: kemowery on 2008 October 01, 04:07:53
Casual witching isn't that hard. After I got my first witch made (which is kind of an ordeal, though not as hard as getting a werewolf), then you just send them to the magic lot of whichever choice, buy up a ton of reagents, study magic, and use the available throne to recharge all motives when necessary until you've maxed out magic skill. It takes a while where you're not doing anything but monitoring needs, but you can mostly do it on fast-forward and watch TV or read a book, just looking up every once in a while to check those motives.
Actually, you're not even really monitoring needs, as Macrotastics can do this for you. :P
coralleane:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 30, 20:24:00
Quote from: coralleane on 2008 September 30, 18:03:56
Salary thing? I've had a few Sims get the "Wow, I'm in the same career as you, I think you should get better wages!" benefit. I agree that it doesn't seem to actually require social group townies at all - a couple of the benefits have come from standard townies IIRC, and the reputation increase is with anyone on a community lot.. so my business owner had max reputation incredibly quickly, as does anyone who goes out on a date or two to a comm lot.
I know what you are talking about, but this isn't the same thing. None of my sims in Onoway have regular careers...they are all currently OFB business owners. No employees. The business owners are the ones who are getting the dialog. It looks like the one you get to set prices on items, but the lowest you can go is $5. Then, your sim receives $5/hour (or whatever you've chosen). You cannot cancel out of it. There isn't any additional dialog, so I can't tell who is giving the "benefit".
Alright, I'm *almost* with you now - the only times I've ever had what I think you're talking about pop up is immediately before (or after, maybe?) my Sim was notified he'd received a Good Review/Best of the Best. I haven't really played businesses much in the past and, now this Sim has acheived his LTW to get 5 top levels, I probably shan't again in the future, so I just assumed it was some weird coding bug I'd not noticed in the past and just clicked to get rid of it. I didn't *notice* him receiving additional money but I wasn't keeping a particularly tight eye on it anyway - with the sales, restocking and item creation going on almost constantly it was fluctuating widely and I doubt I'd have really realised since I wasn't expecting it.
kemowery:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 01, 04:34:33
You don't have to issue them a throne. In fact, you normally can't even get one unless you have over 900 alignment, which is not easy because all the best spells are the neutral ones, and if you cast them, your alignment moves back towards the center.
True. However, the first thing I did with my witches was max them out and make everything they could possibly make. The thrones seemed like a good idea . . . at first. Then they made things really boring. However, they're a good source of revenue for the stay-at-home witch. When I finally use AL for apartments (by making a retirement home), I'll have the witches make thrones and then sell them to pay the rent.
Or I'll just keep moving more and more old sims in and just forgetting about them, like a real retirement home.
Emma:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 October 01, 01:40:07
w00t. MOAR FIGHT!
I haven't ever seen so much fighting in my game :D I love it! I have one sim, Nick Calme, who got a bad rep for cheating on the diva and now everyone hates him. He lives in the trailer park where I have 3 other families living and when I am playing with one of the other families all you can see is a cloud of dust where he is attacking/being attacked by passers-by. It is so much fun!
I still haven't had a witch, but my Infallibly Good witch NPC is an elder! That surprised me. Here she is flying off on her broom:
One thing I have noticed though is, community weddings make the bride change into an actual wedding dress, rather than just using the formal wear. I'm not sure if it is to do with the Celebrations SP though as all I use is the celebrations wedding arch and they change into a celebrations wedding dress.
This sim's normal formal is the orangey maxi dress from the H&M pack but she wore this dress to get married. Can anyone confirm this? Has anyone used the normal BG wedding arch? What about home weddings? I might test it out, but if anyone else has noticed it it will save me a lot of testing :D
maxon:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 September 29, 21:31:52
Short list of non-apartment likes (since I only have one apartment in play anyway):
Ceilings without having to place tiles manually - Yay! Spiral staircases ...better traffic control than Marvine's Some of the interactions are cute. My sim kids love jumping rope as part of their fitness learning times. Peek-a-boo is win. So many new floors, walls, and fences. I like almost all of them, and I'm pretty anti-EAxis.
Boo:
Ceilings don't work well with lots you've done some level-lowering with using the constrainfloorelevationcheat. It's pretty bad. Not only does it screw the ceilings on the lower area, but it screws what you see of the roof from the inside. Hood deco screw-ups (pond miscategorized, alleys not layerable over lots, building replacement total fail) The normal list of bugs. See the borkination thread in Oops. Some stupid perk (either reputation or benefit of a great review) giving my sims unavoidable money. It needs to die.
Social groups are pointless. I haven't done the witch stuff much. My only witch is Princess Plum the Infallibly Good Witch. She's more eye-candy right now as her time hasn't come yet.
I really do like the ceilings and have been a inveterate ceiling inserter up until now (I am currently going round removing all the ceiling plants). I had not noticed that issue about the level-lowering and will have to check that out. I'm also a bit of a ceiling bender when I build. One (slightly) annoying thing about the ceilings - and it's not that big a deal - is that you need a floor in on the level above for the ceiling to show. As well as removing ceiling plants, I have also been putting in attics all over the place and there are times, of course, when a floor on the level above is not possible.
Social groups I have not had a problem with as I used the empty templates and the no spawn mods before I went back to Little Carping. As a consequence, there are no social groups in LC and it's going to stay that way.
I've not really tried the witches. I would have liked to see some more ... direct and powerful spells. Curse would be good for the evil witch for instance.
Quote from: Emma on 2008 October 01, 08:49:00
One thing I have noticed though is, community weddings make the bride change into an actual wedding dress, rather than just using the formal wear. I'm not sure if it is to do with the Celebrations SP though as all I use is the celebrations wedding arch and they change into a celebrations wedding dress.
This sim's normal formal is the orangey maxi dress from the H&M pack but she wore this dress to get married. Can anyone confirm this? Has anyone used the normal BG wedding arch? What about home weddings? I might test it out, but if anyone else has noticed it it will save me a lot of testing :D
I can tell you with that for me with both arches (original and Celebrations) that they use their formal wear - which is a relief to me because with FT they were changing into the Maxis outfits. I was sure it wasn't supposed to be like that but that's what they did and it was annoying when I'd been out to buy them a nice wedding dress.
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