I'm kinda glad I started from scratch - much more entertaining!
KellyQ:
Quote from: AllenABQ on 2005 October 14, 19:08:48
Heck, I'll even use hacked objects to tailor some family's skills, jobs, etc., to be such that it looks like they've already been played for a bit of time and I'm really just picking up at a certain point. After all, isn't that what the pre-made families really are?
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I do the same thing for some sims as far as skills go. For instance if I use CAS to make an elder, I think it's ridiculous that an older person wouldn't have at least one skill at cooking, cleaning, etc., By the time a person is older they surely would have accomplished some skills in life (at least I would hope so!), so I give them what I think is a reasonable amount of skills and then have them work on the rest.
Motoki:
I played that Capp family with the 4 kids, it was kinda rough. LOL Oh and be prepared to throw Hal in the plastic surgery machine when he grows up. He's a very cute kid and teen but suddenly morphs into being butt ugly when he grows up to be an adult. :o
You actually can find some good starter houses for families. They're rare and you reall have to dig but there's a few out there. I was just browsing over MTS2 and found this one that looks like it would work out very well for that Capp family. All it needs is a crib for the toddler.
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=68111
ZephyrZodiac:
Another thing you can do is what I remember reading that Gali (I think it was) does. She builds one house, then packages it, and then you can install it as often as you like. A bit like RL, too, with a new housing estate of identical houses, but once people start living in them, they all add their own bits until eventually the houses are very different!
AllenABQ:
Quote from: KellyQ on 2005 October 14, 19:23:05
Quote from: AllenABQ on 2005 October 14, 19:08:48
Heck, I'll even use hacked objects to tailor some family's skills, jobs, etc., to be such that it looks like they've already been played for a bit of time and I'm really just picking up at a certain point. After all, isn't that what the pre-made families really are?
I do the same thing for some sims as far as skills go. For instance if I use CAS to make an elder, I think it's ridiculous that an older person wouldn't have at least one skill at cooking, cleaning, etc., By the time a person is older they surely would have accomplished some skills in life (at least I would hope so!), so I give them what I think is a reasonable amount of skills and then have them work on the rest.
Yup. Hard to imagine an elder with no skills, etc., and $20,000 in funds. What did all such sim elder do with their lives? Live off a trust fund? :D
simmiecal:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 October 14, 19:32:17
Another thing you can do is what I remember reading that Gali (I think it was) does. She builds one house, then packages it, and then you can install it as often as you like. A bit like RL, too, with a new housing estate of identical houses, but once people start living in them, they all add their own bits until eventually the houses are very different!
I'm getting ready to start over as well. I went from "no way I'm downloading anything" to "how many gigs is that download folder?". :o ::) There's a lot of amazing stuff out there, but I'm not going to be using as much as I thought I would.
This is what I was thinking of doing. Please let me know if you see a problem with this.
1. Build all my homes, furnish them and package them to a file (as if I was going to upload them). Packaging them will save any custom content that was used in their creation. (Or will the system just replace items -like the Simlogical doors- with Maxis defaults if they are not in the download folder when the home is unpackaged?)
2.After I've created all the houses I will want to use and packaged them, delete custom content from the download folder (or just move it out of the download folder) and delete the Sims folder in my documents.
3. Start the game and have it regenerate the base neighborhoods.
4.Use Clean Installer to put my homes back into the game and at the same time, it would re-install the custom content that I am actually using (versus the endless junk I downloaded for whatever reason).
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