What's the best stories you've read?
Renatus:
Rohina, I found playing the regular Legacy challenge to be dull as ditchwater after a couple of generations. There was some amount of excitement at first, hoping my poor founding sim could actually get along with anyone long enough to marry them, and get enough money for more than furniture on the lawn, but about the time the first kid came along neither was a problem anymore. It doesn't help that my sims all manage to lead charmed lives unless I force disaster upon them, even with free will on. Having three generations of sims in a house (grandparents, parents, and kids) was tedious, not difficult. I ditched mine at gen 4, only stopping long enough to extract the long-dead founding sim, who was quite lovely, and her great-grandchildren, my first twins born in-game.
Now I just manipulate my sims like the little pixel dollies they are. ;D
Oddysey, it isn't just the no editors that's the problem, it's that most of the people who write stuff online don't have skill, either. To paraphrase someone or another, there isn't any idea sufficiently brilliant that it can't be ruined by a ham-handed writer...
rohina:
See, this is what I thought; there is a lot of stress about money at the beginning, but you would have to be a really poor player for it to continue into the third generation. I like the challenges involving more than one house much more because the interaction between families can make for fun stories. The best one-house challenge I have seen is the batchelor/batchelorette one. I played it a few times because it was just so damn funny, and it only takes 7 sim days.
Renatus:
Hm... do you have a link to this bachelor challenge? I'm intrigued!
[Edit: As long as it doesn't involve 5x5 lots... another thing that irritated me with the Legacy challenge.]
Ancient Sim:
Well, I have decided to jump on the bandwagon and create a couple of rather silly stories. The first features my one and only uploaded Sim, the second is about the death of Cassandra Goth. Technically they're probably terrible, but at least I tried. The Cassandra one actually has 4 stars, so I suppose it can't be that bad. The other only has 2 (sob). Oh, and if anyone knows how I can edit them, please let me know. I found a typo in one and it's annoying me beyond belief, not to mention the fact that I only found out when I made the second that I could choose my own title.
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=51174&asset_type=story&user_id=1324928
http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=51261&asset_type=story&user_id=1324928
rohina:
Here's the link for the batchelor/batchelorette challenge.
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=&threadID=031a419c4f27c583acce60268b0a3626&directoryID=22&startRow=1#5280cd68b75d4c5c7eb74c4675171fa9
I've played it a few times, and it is always totally hilarious. I did modify the rules somewhat; basically, during the "dates" I try to give my sims some time to initiate their own interactions, and I fiddled a bit with the required interactions. I should post my modifications, I guess.
I just started writing a story based on the challenge; the first episode is nearly done.
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