Yet another reason I adore ACR...

[strangetomato]

As much as I love working out intricate plotty reasons for pairing up certain Maxis characters, and finding those hidden connections myself, sometimes I just can't be arsed. You know what I mean? There are all those bin sims and Bluewater Village characters that I don't really play with much (yet), but I want to have them living lives out there in the background, and ACR helps me to set them up in story-like situations quite easily.






I like Tara. I want to keep her single with tonnes of cats. That's just her destinty, I think. She's also a baby-hungry family sim, who hasn't completely redirected her motherly instincts to her cats, so I figured it was single mom time.

Enter ACR. Tara has some bolts with various sims she has met (including Cyd Roseland, who'd make an okay match), so I started calling them up, and enabled her to try for baby for outside of a relationship. May the best man win!




The best man is local stud and bakery owner, Gilbert Jacquet. It's just too perfect when a swinging romance sim has an oopsy baby out there, and can you imagine a more odd scenario? He has a kid with the weirdo cat lady.

The facial genetics are very Face Two and not too thrilling (Gee, I wonder what the baby will look like. Answer: BOTH of the parents. They're twins), but Gilbert actually has blond hair, so at least the recessive genes will be interesting.

So, do you have any good ACR success stories to share? I could go on and on about how much better this hack makes the game. It's awesome.




 

Also, I think I'm still on track for the next chapter, if you consider that I missed some time with the long weekend. I'll try to catch up a little this weekend, but I probably won't update until next week at the earliest. I also started a new job last week and caught the knitting bug really badly (I'm making a scarf out of bamboo yarn - really nice stuff), so there are distractions everywhere.

Comments

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

<3 Tara Kat.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that she is NOT face two. I mean, she's nothing too unusual, but she's not a standard face template. I used her as an extra during the BC I wrote last summer. My girl I used for that (Miranda in my icon) is very much face two (her father and grandfather were both face two) and she and Tara don't look alike. Tara's face is a little rounder with less of a chin. The nose also doesn't have that faint hook that face two has.

For comparison... here's Tara and here's Miranda.

Anyway, this tl;dr is basically just saying that you'll probably end up with something other than basic face two unless Gilbert's genes kick Tara's to the curb and take over the baby. ;)

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Tara has almost a Pleasant-twins kind of nose.

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree with you on that one. Tara's nose is kind of big, but the Pleasant twins nose is another level of giant- and it has a slope at the end. It's almost like the Ben Long nose on acid.

/hijacking

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know, the Pleasant-twins' noses are bigger. But Tara's also got that long thin shape, just shorter. And the overall red hair-green eyes look makes her remind me a lot of them. She looks much more like their mother than Mary-Sue. :p

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

True. But hey, you never know- Mary-Sue WAS adopted. You never know what recessives she might have hidden in there. ;)