The man of her dreams...
Regina:
;D You all crack me up! I've enjoyed reading your stories and observations--and chuckling at the amusement all these new aspects are providing.
I've ran into a few of my own, as well. I decided to start from scratch on a Legacy family--took me three tries before I finally felt like I was off to a decent start (going with the Xtreme challenge is a hoot!).
I decided my founder wasn't going to have to settle with half-way love--it was all or nothing. After a couple of false starts on relationships with a bartender and a waitress he finally found the love of his life, a maid he hired for a day just so he could meet her.
Right away they had two lightning bolts, which I felt was reasonable for a start. I set my founder's turn-ons to blonde hair and red hair, thinking that I could change them if needs be.
He was nearly halfway through his adulthood when he finally married, and after tweaking both their turn-ons (her turn-ons were fat and formalwear so I set them to brown hair and facial hair), then set his, leaving the blonde hair and replacing red hair with make-up.
Low and behold, they were up to a 4-bolt attraction!
I've had to be a little careful because some of the other girls he knew were always flirting with him, so if they visit caution must be taken. Since his wife is a popularity sim I decided to hand off the friendships to her so we won't have too much trouble. Hubby's a money sim so he's happy gaining skills and earning money--no problem.
So far these two haven't provided a lot in the line of hilarity, but I've had them pretty busy doing the kind of things Legacy families have to do in order to succeed. No doubt by the time they max their careers they'll be a lot more entertaining. ;)
Witches:
I realize that plastic surgery doesn't get passed on to the kids, but I'm not planning on having Brittany breed. She's not the maternal type. Instead, I made her this cool party pad that will only get cooler once I get NL. Actually, I've got NL but my computer can't run it. Got the parts but my friend who knows how to install them is busy right now. I'm hoping to have it all together by next week ...
I like Castor, too. He was my favorite sim's college boyfriend and now her teenaged daughter has a crush on him. I'm considering having them get married after teen daughter graduates from college. She's popularity, her mom is romance. I can see her getting married, she's a nice girl. Not mom, though. She's nice, but definitely a flirt ... Ashley's not marriage material, in my book, though he's cute, so if I have a sim who wants to be a single mom I know who to call LOL. I agree that Heather is a bit of a bitch. I changed her look: she looks much cuter in jeans with the "wingy" haircut (not sure how to describe it, it's the one that sticks out at the sides. Looks dumb on most sims but cute on her ...). Tiffany's a nice girl but kind of boring.
My rule is, if I accidentally graduate one of the NPCs from college because they happen to share a house with my sims, then I find them a house, job, etc., and they become townies, for all intents and purposes, unless one of my sims falls in love with them. Or if I'm bored and decide to play them for a while.
Hey, does anyone know how to get sims to pledge? I had 20 friends and all the NPCs said, you don't have enough friends for me to be interested in pledging ... how many friends DO you need? 20 seemed like a lot to me! There were 5 guys living in the house, the 4 from the game and my sim ... and a lot of their friends overlapped. Now that my sim and Ashley have both graduated, those guys don't stand a chance of attracting fresh "meat." ::)
I have figured out a way to cheat on this. Invite NPCs to move into a regular rented house, then have the entire household join the greek house. With any luck, the NPC will be a lower classman than the player sim, so when the next gen gets to college the greek house won't be empty ... Or does it regenerate itself?
Darkstormyeve:
Witch, I don't think the greek house will regenerate members. I find too many families hard to handle so there are often always people left behind in my greek houses. I tend to make someone pledge in the last semester of my playable sims.
I am not sure how the 'friends' meter works for the greek houses, as I can have a set number of friends and I will get the pop up message saying my greek house rocks and I'm on level 6. Within 5mins I can get a message saying that I have dropped a level but all my friendships have remained the same. ???
When I had Kevin and Brittany breed she wasn't a very attentive mother. Being popularity, I made her a stay at home mum with Kevin in a business career. They had a modest house in Veronaville with old style verandahs and lots of timber. Brittany would have morning teas and mothers meetings during the day. Dress smart casual with lovely earrings. Scones and cream kinda scene with kids in private school. Sorta like Bree from Desperate Housewives. Often entertaining Kevin's work collegues that he brought home. Made for one happy family I have to admit.
Ashley was a hard man to keep happy being tied to one woman - Tiffany, so yep, I did the single mother thing first time round. I controlled Tiffany in this little one bedroom house and made her pregnant with Ashley who was a 'townie'. I was amazed that he visited everyday after the baby was born and doted on her big time. Because he's outgoing, he would never knock, just come straight in and I loved that automonous behaviour. Eventually I moved him in, only after a long time though. It was after the birth of their second child. Again, I have to agree that romance sims make great parents.
I might run that scenario again with Tiffany succumbing to Ashley's charm after being heart broken by Castor, her true love. Next thing she can be knocked up....(they make good looking kids). That then leaves an 'opening' for Castor again. The sympathy opening. Ummm...my mind is ticking away now!
C.S.:
Quote from: Witches on 2005 September 27, 15:26:53
I realize that plastic surgery doesn't get passed on to the kids...
If you have SimPE 0.48c, you can change the genetics to reflect the new look gotten from the home plastic surgery career reward, and have the new and improved looks passed down to the offspring(s). It's pretty easy to do. If you are interested, SimPE is available for download at http://sims.ambertation.de/, and this is the link to the tutorial.
Darkstormyeve:
Quote from: CuriousSpurious on 2005 September 28, 00:50:35
Quote from: Witches on 2005 September 27, 15:26:53
I realize that plastic surgery doesn't get passed on to the kids...
If you have SimPE 0.48c, you can change the genetics to reflect the new look gotten from the home plastic surgery career reward, and have the new and improved looks passed down to the offspring(s). It's pretty easy to do. If you are interested, SimPE is available for download at http://sims.ambertation.de/, and this is the link to the tutorial.
I don't like using SimPE at the best of times but don't you need to enter certain 'codes' into SimPE that reflect a certain nose, cheek, brow shape etc? How does one find what these codes are and what they look like?
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