tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77916114418612637642024-02-02T04:22:44.420-06:00YABATS - Yet Another Blog About The SimsI'm a simmer and I like to share...Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-44468361304758511272015-10-18T19:49:00.000-05:002015-10-18T19:49:53.228-05:00Just half a serving, please...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tiffanie has a strange way of portioning her cheeseburger. There weren't any seats at the kitchen table, so she chose the activity table instead, placing her plate on edge slicing through the table.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-33126273662198714912015-02-20T13:36:00.000-06:002015-02-20T13:36:01.930-06:00Reading between the tinesUh oh, now <a href="http://www.thesims.com/gallery/53E249BD45B111E4802491E809BA9DCD?category=households&searchtype=ea_origin_id&sortby=newest&time=weekly&searchquery=slambo42&max=25" target="_blank">Mariam</a> has a fork stuck to her hand. It's even more interesting when she tries to do other activities with that hand...<br />
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Hmm, maybe I can mass market a fork as a bookmark... Oh, wait, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/DejaVu-Designs-90104-Antique-Bookmark/dp/B00OP62KGM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423683197&sr=8-1&keywords=fork+bookmark" target="_blank">it's already been done</a>.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-86937926539233056832015-02-19T13:16:00.000-06:002015-02-19T13:16:00.589-06:00Sleeping in the bathtubLoren has been working pretty hard the last few sim days. Having three children and a fourth on the way can make a sim go to work less than clean and arrive home completely filthy. But if there's one thing that modern sims do, it is multitask, so Loren takes a nap in the tub, satisfying both energy and hygiene needs at once.<br />
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I guess the tub has built-in features to prevent sleeping sims from slipping underwater and drowning, but I don't see how the tub's bubble jets can really get her clean if she doesn't move around much.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-4361755634641735892015-02-18T13:25:00.000-06:002015-02-18T13:25:00.688-06:00The strange case of the sliding wall doorOne of the big upgrades in build mode with The Sims 4 is the ability to move around and plop down fully made rooms. I tried using this feature to build a house only from premade rooms, but something still isn't quite right...<br />
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The door from the dining room to the kitchen didn't update the wall well enough. This house was built only with premade rooms that are preinstalled with the base game, so this isn't a custom content issue. On seeing this, I tried moving the door and furniture around, but it wouldn't display the open archway correctly no matter what I did. The sims living here didn't seem to mind since they walked through the phantom wall section without any problems.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-80264514641103114402015-02-17T12:39:00.000-06:002015-02-17T12:39:00.530-06:00Come inside and see my painting...Christie is still very involved in getting her painting done. Now she's trying to convince a townie to come inside to see her painting, still with the brush stuck to her hand.<br />
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The brush might not stick so thoroughly if she was actually using paint instead of paste.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-75017334073425415082015-02-16T12:22:00.000-06:002015-02-16T12:22:00.055-06:00Painting her lunch<a href="http://www.thesims.com/gallery/78C5B07CB21A11E487C5476BF7D5CE0F?category=households&searchtype=ea_origin_id&sortby=newest&time=weekly&searchquery=slambo42&max=25" target="_blank">Christie</a> is a collector. She wants to collect everything, but knows that she has to create the paintings before she collects them. But she's mixing the cooking skill with the painting skill when she eats...<br />
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The paint brush got stuck to her hand when she went to make lunch. Maybe she wants to slather some barbecue sauce on her meat...Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-47863013118409596562015-02-15T12:44:00.000-06:002015-02-15T12:44:00.684-06:00A two-fisted drinker?It looks like <a href="http://www.thesims.com/gallery/53E249BD45B111E4802491E809BA9DCD?category=households&searchtype=ea_origin_id&sortby=newest&time=weekly&searchquery=slambo42&max=25" target="_blank">Mariam</a>'s loner trait isn't that much of a problem, but there might be something else brewing that could be. While entertaining guests she poured two for herself.<br />
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There seems to be something a little sinister with the mixology skill...Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-67135181773747127822015-02-14T12:33:00.000-06:002015-02-14T12:33:00.517-06:00Strange shadows in the bedroomI tried watching for a fun screenshot opportunity that would be appropriate for the holiday today, but didn't see very much that I would consider bonk-worthy. The best that I got in the last couple months of simming is this curiosity (which I would classify as a lighting bug) showing some unusually shaped shadows near the romance light.<br />
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The lighting system in The Sims 4 has always seemed a bit dark, but I don't see anything in the room that would cast these triangular shadows under the window, especially when the baseboard on that wall is compared to the baseboards on the two adjacent walls. This scene was captured in the default the large corner bedroom of the Parkshore house in Willow Creek. I only added the romantic reward light from TS3 Late Night to the room.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-76272024959669869482015-02-13T11:57:00.000-06:002015-02-13T11:57:00.370-06:00Glued salmonIt seems that sims will often carry things completely wrong. Here, one of the sims I created, <a href="http://www.thesims.com/gallery/BE7B9D73B21711E48310476BF7D5CE0F?category=all&searchtype=ea_origin_id&sortby=downloads&time=weekly&searchquery=slambo42&max=25" target="_blank">Piper Wilkins</a>, has a plate of grilled salmon she's just prepared.<br />
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She's supposed to have it in her left hand, but it got stuck to her right hand instead. Good thing she used the extra-sticky oil to grill her meal today.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-5957709477313826162015-02-12T11:52:00.000-06:002015-02-12T11:52:00.399-06:00Light a fire under itWhen The Sims 4 was released, like many other simmers, I spent a lot of time playing different families and learning the ins and outs of the new version. As a bit of a foodie IRL, I made a foodie sim and leveled her up through the basic and advanced cooking skills. One of her dishes turned out to be hot enough that the stove burner followed it around the kitchen.<br />
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It's a little hard to see, but that bright blue circle under the counter is the stove burner animation. I was half expecting the kitchen to erupt in flames from this.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-59280871715223557032015-02-11T06:05:00.000-06:002015-02-11T06:05:11.422-06:00The magic floating rocks of Oasis SpringsThe sims I am playing right now live in Oasis Springs. I built a house for them on the vacant lot there, and when they're not busy with skill building or off at work, I have one of them run around the neighborhood on a collecting spree. Off at one corner of their neighborhood is this unusual rock formation...<br />
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Those three rocks are floating above the ground. I don't think this is a hint at future expansion packs; EA probably isn't going to resurrect the <strike>Harry Potter</strike> Makin' Magic pack, but you never really know...Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-56766409738944663992015-02-09T19:17:00.000-06:002015-02-09T19:17:56.056-06:00Ariana is not impressedWow, it's been a while since I last posted. It's also been a while since I've had some free time for simming. My sims did not disappoint as we see here. <br />
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Ariana Wilkins, a family friend of my current sim household, stopped by to hang out. Manuel is not making a very good impression on her today...<br />
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She's just missing the crossed arm pose, but she <a href="http://mckaylaisnotimpressed.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">got the smirk right</a>.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-56868716796062294412014-10-03T10:04:00.000-05:002014-10-03T10:04:04.272-05:00A month later, how is The Sims 4?So now that it's October, and most of us have had about a month to play The Sims 4, how does it hold up? Many others have said that this version feels more like an update to The Sims 2 than it does as an update to The Sims 3 (I wonder if that was part of the reasoning for making The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection a free download last month). For me, it's mostly good. There are a few things I miss from earlier versions, a few new features that I like, and there are a few things that I absolutely detest.<br />
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My top picks on features that I miss from earlier games, are these:<br />
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<li>Open world - The Sims 3 had the open world done right. Once a world was loaded, my sim could travel to any location and go into most buildings. There was a lot to explore, and I didn't have to wait for the game to reset everything when my sim visited a neighbor or went to the beach.</li>
<li>Vehicles - This goes right along with the open world. Sims needed ways to get to the other end of the world, and they were able to use the most appropriate vehicles to get there. The Sims 2 handled cars a little better in that sims actually opened the car door, got in, backed out onto the street and drove away, and The Sims 3 let us follow the cars (or bicycles or even witches' brooms) all the way to their destinations. But in The Sims 4, all of the vehicles are just background scenery.</li>
<li>Playable careers - The Ambitions expansion pack for The Sims 3 added some careers that included some extra gameplay during a sim's work day. The ghost hunter career was my favorite and the traits that enhanced this career path are the ones that I would more often choose for my sims. While The Sims 4 does include some "homework" in the gameplay in order to get promotions, and they are more appropriate than just building up your friend list like it was all the way back in The Sims 1, a sim at work in The Sims 4 is simply non-playable.</li>
<li>Basements - I grew up in Los Angeles where basements were exceptionally rare, but I moved to the Midwest about 20 years ago, and around here, it's rare for a house to lack a basement. The basement is often used as an extra living space, but can be converted into almost anything that the homeowner wants. In The Sims 3, the basement tool was an invaluable tool that I used to expand the living space on every sim house I made or had my sims purchase. I made wine cellars, theaters, gyms, art studios, servants' quarters, trophy rooms and garages, among many other room types. The basement was an easy place for me to stash the extra skill-building items that didn't fit into the usual house decor.</li>
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<li>It works! - More than anything else, I love that I can play The Sims 4 on my current computer. I'm using a refurbished laptop that is a couple years old now. The game installed and worked wonderfully out of the box for me, and got a little better when I turned on the "laptop mode" option (with this option turned off, I actually had my computer automatically shut down due to overheating, but have not had that happen yet with this option on).</li>
<li>Visual style - I wasn't too keen on the more cartoonish features when the early screenshots were released in Spring and early Summer, but I've gotten used to them. Touching on the fact that the game runs on my computer, the reduced detail on game items that is most noticeable in the characters' hair, reduces the computing complexity. Every object in the game seems to fit its environment, and there are lots of little details to find (like the fact that the curtains will subtly wave back and forth as if blown by the house's air conditioning).</li>
<li>Conversations continue - I love that I don't have to queue up 80 different interactions when my sims are in conversations. They will usually keep going with smalltalk between the interactions that I ask them to do.</li>
<li>Reusing birthday cakes - In earlier versions, getting multiple sims to age up at once was nearly impossible. It was a little easier in The Sims 3, but I was still stuck with waiting for each birthday interaction to completely finish before aging up the next sim, then I had to buy a completely different cake for the next sim and go through the whole process again. In The Sims 4, I can have a sim make one cake, add candles to it, and then add candles again and age up the next sim, and the birthday interactions are much faster than they were in previous versions (and there is finally a birthday song in the game too!)</li>
<li>Multitasking - I am continually surprised with the tasks that sims choose to combine. My sim will change clothes on the way to getting breakfast out of the fridge, chat with other sims while repairing or upgrading objects, move to the ambient music while sitting and performing other actions (like writing a book on the computer or eating a meal and chatting with other sims in the room), and I finally saw one of my sims make a phone call from the toilet.</li>
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I mentioned that there a few things that I absolutely hate in The Sims 4, and I would be remiss if I didn't list at least a couple of them here.<br />
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<li>Unreadable text - My vision isn't quite what it used to be, and as a professional photographer, my computer screen is correctly color balanced to help me ensure that I am getting the exact colors I need on my photos and that they will print with my correctly color balanced printer profiles that let me print out exactly the same color (or as absolutely close as possible) that I see on my screen. That means that my monitor's brightness and contrast are adjusted away from the defaults (which are way too bright). The Sims 4 user interface is usually a very light blue or light green text, sometimes even yellow-green, against a white background. This is almost impossible to read. The notification wall does it right by using high-contrast colors, but the aspirations and job homework text, where I need to read the text more closely to decide on my sims' next actions, does not.</li>
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For my style of play, where I try to follow one sim from birth through adulthood and then continue the line by following one of the sim's children, The Sims 4 lets me play. I remember the big uproar from The Sims 2 to The Sims 3 when players found they couldn't play multiple families concurrently any more, but this was less of a change for me because I've always played in a one-sim-at-a-time manner. I was never the player who built death trap houses, and although toddlers in earlier versions provided an almost consequence-free time span for skill building, for the most part, The Sims 4 is fun enough that I'll keep playing.<br />
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This week's update that added ghosts is a welcome addition, and I look forward to the pools that are coming in next month's update and the new careers in December's update. It is likely that this game evolution will lead me to stop playing The Sims 3 just like that step led me to stop playing The Sims 2 before it, but I am confident that the game will continue to improve and that I'll find a way to either tolerate or mitigate the shortcomings.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-73679871547345472012014-09-02T23:11:00.001-05:002014-09-02T23:11:24.051-05:00May the fork be with youOkay, it's September 2, 2014. A large portion of the simming community is playing the new release of Sims 4 today and probably staying up pretty late to continue playing. My copy arrived around 4:00pm today (I prefer getting a disk over just a download, and I needed to get some work done before I could play today), so I've only had a few hours of Sim 4 time.<br />
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But, it didn't take long to get my first bonk from the game. The seated sim in this screenshot is Amy Moore, a sim I created in the Create A Sim demo (and shared to the gallery). Here she has just told her husband Harvey about the results of their recent woohoo. It seems he was so excited that he held onto his fork from his most recent meal - it's the white-ish looking thing stuck to his right hand...<br />
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I don't know what he intended to do with that fork, but after a few more interactions and another meal or two, he's not holding the fork any more.<br />
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That's enough play time for tonight. I've got work to prepare for, and I'll put together a more complete post later with more detailed thoughts and analysis of the new version soon.Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-5150917837200592812014-08-15T10:10:00.000-05:002014-08-15T10:10:09.194-05:00What is your Sims 4 personality?Earlier this week, EA made the Sims 4 Create a Sim demo available to everyone with an Origin account. If you haven't downloaded it yet, open your Origin client and grab it. I was pleasantly surprised at the performance of the demo; it was responsive and there were no lags that I could see on my laptop (which is a couple years old now and a refurbished model at that).<br />
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Today there is a new video among all the other teasers that links to a quick quiz...<br />
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It's a typical "socially shareable results" quiz that has an oh-so-convenient link to instantly share your results on Facetube. Rather than posting my result there, I'll put it here where readers are more likely to appreciate it.<br />
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Considering that my professional life is now that of a photographer, this isn't too far off for me. Now how do I create that personality in my simself (which I am fiddling with and will share [my username there is Slmbo42] as soon as I am satisfied)?Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-52161568347373048482014-07-26T11:14:00.001-05:002014-07-26T11:14:34.132-05:00A sim's personal spaceSo now that The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection is <a href="http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-get-the-sims-2-ultimate-collection/" target="_blank">a free download this week</a> (assuming you have an Origin account and can find the place to enter the I-LOVE-THE-SIMS redemption code), I decided to reload it and play it again. It's been a fun stroll through the memories of playing an older game, but as usual, it was not without its own problems.<br />
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The game downloaded and installed perfectly fine on the first try, and I was able to start and play the game as well, albeit with a very long wait as it built the folder structure and neighborhoods for a new game. The computer I am using now is much better than what I had used the last time I played The Sims 2 so I expected a better experience this time. In general I was right to expect this. Everything looked better except for one thing...<br />
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Everyone who entered my sim's home had this black rectangle appear under them. The rectangle moved with the sims through the home and spun around to orient itself with the sim it was following. I guess they had <a href="http://www.online-literature.com/barrie/peterpan/3/" target="_blank">Wendy sew their shadows to their feet</a> before they visited...Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-10334328944837980392014-07-12T13:38:00.000-05:002014-07-12T13:38:00.175-05:00Misc tip – The fastest way to learn to drive<p>The Generations expansion pack adds some new interactions at various life stages. When it’s time to teach teen sims to drive, there is one tip that I like to follow every time. I can usually get my adult sims to fulfill their lifetime wishes before their children become teens, so I will almost always have one of them use their lifetime reward points to purchase the Motive Mobile van and then make it that sim’s default vehicle. I direct my teen sims to ask that parent for help learning to drive and just let them go at it.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjxrf31zmhjXTg6i3EtYx1sD6c_L4hL8jxsfflKZ1V0XNjaUnEcTSpNKhZV_89Y1MDvnUdDS0MsHOG5GOABi4od10zDLkpO1EXKnSaPUrrLr0LijeSr2jObK3d6p0EfXAlKRKlDGhfOo/s1600-h/learning-in-motive-mobile%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="learning-in-motive-mobile" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="learning-in-motive-mobile" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2wjrBHzqPUYBp5bJMj8Lo6K-kUPbF0NO-u-NxTd6wf9cWOazu0VS71NOx3WXBYfQY1KICZPClpDGZX74Dt-UXFp41zoKEQlcIuKWldYte6Tv34W-3m_m6PaZS_tdMrsiGTw-bXrA1El8/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>Normally when a teen sim is learning to drive, the fun bar tanks for both the teen and the adult instructor during the lesson. Using the Motive Mobile, all the needs for both sims are constantly fulfilled so they can stay out longer. I usually find that they will continue until the teen has reached level 2 before they stop the lesson, but then I direct them to start the lesson again and they complete level 3 and the teen learns to drive very soon, almost always within 12 sim hours of starting the first lesson.</p> <p>Even better with this vehicle is that I can send them out after dinner and have them working on this skill overnight while the rest of the family sleeps, and they are also both ready for work and school in the morning with no extra effort. And since the teen sim is out with parental supervision, she doesn’t get caught for curfew violations.</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-22051737046591988402014-07-11T13:26:00.000-05:002014-07-11T13:26:00.389-05:00Not the footwear that I was expecting<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixsHuUePXDD7D0g2iV4rwQOM-hBhd_zs_0uLi6lpkg-Zj7Gq17BnSV-WtFkVX95cL4b9FfLcFOCTtKgNgYwXfiQeZi3dpmN5kmULpZsyUOm3hyphenhyphen5ZahdBzC3_LWhUR-OtVuw6_6E7gaUMs/s1600-h/no-heeled-shoes%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="no-heeled-shoes" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="no-heeled-shoes" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLsFLVi0O37quJCXgxpDRzEc3-xQD1kQfIXXXQwQIazu1eDJ0vu5mZoJiKXx6JH87rE0pSNAUA_mw_VtuE05H6RXGDqPqxTHm3o6XLGHVWysYN6oM8c24QEswF5wLUPkFtW5NRlbOddc/?imgmax=800" width="305" align="left" height="484"></a></p> <p>When my sims age up, I usually let them pick what clothes they want to wear and what hairstyles they want to show with them. It’s pretty rare for me to take time out of playing my sims’ lives to adjust their decisions, but sometimes I have to step in. In this case, Michelle chose a pair of shoes that have invisible heels. I like seeing my female sims in casual heels, but I couldn’t let Michelle go on tiptoes all the time with no support.</p> <p>I forget where I got these shoes or even if they were an official EA release or not (I’m sure one of you will be able to tell me in the comments…). They kind of look like shoes from Into the Future, but even with heels, they didn’t quite match the Generations top and Island Paradise skirt (at least I think that’s where the skirt comes from).</p> <p>I did change the rest of her outfit too, but it was the shoes that got me to take her through CAS on her birthday.</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-61151401563916492942014-07-10T13:13:00.000-05:002014-07-10T13:13:00.274-05:00A little more “eternal rest” for this sim<p>What do ghost sims do when they get tired? They stop and take a nap, just like any other sim.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4OqX67B9XDAcIqlWKQ2cKu4r_5oT7IKmFpJIEBZ1hnvH7D27dhhBgGo8zCXx_6zrg8ONj9d0WtsS2525OYVZtWVGAUGSYDCmUOvNA-QZlnpWuV9tP6grl8KdI4pxIix9-lluRoDO2LNc/s1600-h/napping-ghost%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="napping-ghost" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="napping-ghost" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM6vGkvy9x0JiBAznGCZpxPrb6BvVdg0d5qOO8rmSYWfIA9Awf9tYdsMXR6lWQPc0eUgkhURCNcB0ZE6L0IXjYlN8zys5Qugg8SiX4B9MGsDxSx2a67KpyRKkAZpcbOtUh7Kc4cInmOCw/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>Bit I’m still wondering how ghost sims get tired in the first place.</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-70338055002862441482014-07-09T13:02:00.000-05:002014-07-09T13:02:00.484-05:00When zombies get bored<p>If your sim is in the middle of an action when the zombies appear, the zombies will usually wait around for your sim to finish the action before they launch their zombie attack. My sim kept fishing long enough for the zombies to get bored, so one pulled out her umbrella to wait a little longer and another chose to fly around with his jetpack for a while.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-E6FENVFtb_MBb75J7khBxMSgTckLogDL6A6sPmB33OF8k-DDq8JMsUNaFEEJIS_qnSk9kydxrgtk3LZP04JqDNwjUwZn7LNwNparbm5lxrHyBKXQYiGrpYOzaxDi4mtI1VTztIAu69Y/s1600-h/jetpacking-zombie%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="jetpacking-zombie" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="jetpacking-zombie" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6nYMXMBlJP-3zu7EQGDzbFPDiVUTk2uugexgICwuuXWYNtpWoonM1JMWRXIUUl5lRGQLO2jP-PwZizZnGefSMP42DTjpNxOSabxAvF1mc6SFliI35dP5R9o6A2xCHNlzZhLBlfz2-nMA/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>I’ve also seen zombies <a href="http://yabatsims.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-little-black-light-reading.html">reading</a>, <a href="http://yabatsims.blogspot.com/2014/03/braaaiiiinnnns.html">eating</a> and <a href="http://yabatsims.blogspot.com/2013/11/zombies-they-need-to-go-too.html">going potty</a> (<a href="http://yabatsims.blogspot.com/2013/10/mummies-and-their-needs.html">unlike mummies</a>). What have you seen zombies do?</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-82566482078498789152014-07-08T12:46:00.000-05:002014-07-08T12:46:00.236-05:00Fishing prevents zombie attacks<p>My sim likes to fish and is working on his lifetime wish to have the perfect home aquarium with 13 perfect specimens of different species. On one trip to the future, he landed just before a full moon, and you know that means that the <a href="http://yabatsims.blogspot.com/2013/11/zombies-are-stupid.html">stupid zombies</a> will soon appear near my sim. The thing is, if my sim is busy doing something, the zombie attack action can’t be performed because the zombie patiently waits for my sim to finish his action first.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJb8y3WiuRqNqSoETATogThSmuqpDAqE2OZldzgLkLWWos7YDb_MECIWolh8g-I5r0T0U0Vj0bjzALMOUDAVlNybgunivVETIak8R7lH5RtKOsoNPjzDZ6CcQQdDmWoTxlk5i4annrcM/s1600-h/fishing-prevents-zombie-attacks%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="fishing-prevents-zombie-attacks" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="fishing-prevents-zombie-attacks" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ulq59jym8cFW87BPnU6RYttLcC9i2xgvxcGQFqUaiOAh2sytAwoHFiN5bKc-AZtiTynQTusZpVrsAP0vX-itV3WhbVCTligv5AhxeOvz_Vgn7-kYHTR6_2EvcYXQ6E_diQ903JJ9xmg/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>Eventually the zombies will get bored and leave on their own or 6:00 am rolls around and they recover back to regular NPC sims and go home.</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-45968213085154834992014-07-07T12:36:00.000-05:002014-07-07T12:36:00.439-05:00Driving the invisible monorail<p>Traveling to the future introduces your sims to a new form of public transport, the invisible-track monorail. I was curious to see what it looked like inside the monorail car, so I zoomed in to try to see. <a href="http://yabatsims.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-best-night-of-their-lives-so-far.html">It works for other vehicles</a> in the game, so why wouldn’t it work here too?</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0hiPSe5Bv3j5No8PxrkwChdYu6KbjcKX0CQqNQgqzzQN53lE6py0u8c_pPwzZmIGcL1Bse1gxEV0FxJOUM3lmz2lG0RFTqGFu2GB4umrDVyWa8DpWeU4xJIrevF4TBdrROpG8RBifBu8/s1600-h/driving-invisible-monorail%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="driving-invisible-monorail" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="driving-invisible-monorail" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXRDSkfg-Ibx-c-Qn2dFiQyFElMjCFpoXRP-xNHB1xo7nlYk6DQYdn6z65NKfLBdWogli5gJ-XQflKNWGRJ9LpBjf_9rng3hezlIfgxRoZPoyDi6at_ZoSMmj7s5COLE5plIN3klE_TrM/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>I guess the expansion pack developers didn’t think we would want to see the inside of the monorail car because it looks like they didn’t build it. But I wonder what my sim thinks he’s driving here. At least he’s sitting down.</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-40163764150766586392014-07-06T12:31:00.000-05:002014-07-06T12:31:00.242-05:00A ghost to watch over me<p>Rather than moving the dead butler’s remains to the cemetery, they buried her in the backyard (okay, I wanted to get some ghost interactions in my legacy family, so I put it there). So far my sims aren’t afraid of her, even when they know that she’s using the rocking chair right next to them.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNV53hOxKN8Dg5EQtiD2WstTXoAB2QctRQdI6GUSRvFzQOV8_Ug3m9fIr_nsYL2k8bTEfATP-nVdejMkbeztbSdN6oq4Qob5Obk1N04Ur916k7BdtXZdj6rFMs04Bow8ZPDvfd8hWv68/s1600-h/a-ghost-to-watch-over-me%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="a-ghost-to-watch-over-me" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="a-ghost-to-watch-over-me" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkCW8SdPsiWbhaCzG5TBfv3fvEivuIRknqoVlLkJoxiaRa5tU8joy6yzMxVoLuH-9r4zrdztyLrIMSz3nkzc_p6WdXgQn9fAHooYUBd-frfesUo7exyRzUCikdO0LoacVoGiuqnCSIdQ/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>Maybe in a future generation I’ll have one of the family members take the remains to the science lab to resurrect her… or not…</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-53684994371986066182014-07-05T12:25:00.000-05:002014-07-05T12:25:00.248-05:00Paparazzi shift change<p>When a sim starts out on the path toward becoming a five-star celebrity, the paparazzi start following the sim around. Usually there’s just one NPC sim who watches, and takes notes and photographs, but there are times when that first paparazzi gets tired and hands off the watching duties to another NPC. I often see their work periods overlap with two of them following my one-star celebrity like this time when my sim went fishing in Shang Simla..</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz0mNZm_hadbA69dpYD5MnP8tVcZhAUdc5PeGjCc-aTcbM4Tg-jFkoJ65l0qjkNLCN3Sxr5FZp92dPfIvx4AI9PEaq-Ayl5P4GJ7XIhz_G2fUNV_pGBIUMd2_XLpfLvfwgZJ5ZsDuMqCM/s1600-h/papparazzi-shift-change%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="papparazzi-shift-change" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="papparazzi-shift-change" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQtjW-NAaY2KDH5gkARdW4jGqR1YQpxI8K8dgQuCizz-10cBOEaM9gpnTnHyT_y_Icmx8GhjlDOAEMHUKWCVK_gp5yjI1cpzCHplZETV3VQq83QvhEosYoUnLbZNmzBH2XNRyKTyoOMw/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>No matter what worlds and traveling expansion packs you have installed, the paparazzi will find your celebrity sim whenever and wherever he travels. The advantage here is that a celebrity sim is more likely to get the “In the limelight” positive moodlet during a shift change like this.</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791611441861263764.post-63186164166580153972014-07-04T12:17:00.001-05:002014-07-04T12:17:53.037-05:00A pillow fight to the death<p>My <a href="http://yabatsims.blogspot.com/p/all-wishes-challenge.html">all lifetime wishes legacy family</a> hired a butler to keep the house clean. Unfortunately, the butler tried to fix the dishwasher without mopping up the water first and got herself electrocuted. My starter sim, Raven, couldn’t reason with the grim reaper to keep the butler so she started a pillow fight</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOaA8Jl63BnTcQE9XnLlv2jn_iI2MLqnvTFz0ViOFa4NU7rYXbQcqt4wIZRRJuj6KfFWCOX7LHTyebA82JXsSwPbpz4_LSypSFgu9708zWjJ4GWoraYZPgd8IGrOaNO4N35YJsiXXNpw/s1600-h/pillow-fight-with-death%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="pillow-fight-with-death" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="pillow-fight-with-death" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZxLVXvdrN-4v5ca8eZ0NKUft1y_6m4fwCTjw_vkMxHRTMsn_6_TrYOo-Gw09YymS80KEzUOKLSsmSMThhROZfnlkEpYNjlu3Q_unKn9WyrltA6N3kkB_pZbS6AQ67le2dy6ifsKzD2Pc/?imgmax=800" width="644" height="362"></a></p> <p>Now she has a growing relationship with Grim. I wonder how far it will go…...</p> Seanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217279822573442296noreply@blogger.com0