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strangetomato) wrote2008-02-25 07:09 pm
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Prosperity Challenge: James Fisher is awesome.
I've been playing with the prosperity neighbourhood a little bit, and I just had to share one of my new favourite sims with you.
James Fisher is a nerd, and he's awesomely awesome!


Don't you just love him to bits? I certainly do! I like that he randomly transitioned into that sharp blue plaid shirt too. It really goes with his whole look. He's a family sim.
Any thoughts on Maxis lineage? Hint: he is the product of three different Maxis sims (his mother is the product of two, and the family is a direct clone), but he looks mostly like just one of them.
I still have to reply to everyone's comments on the last couple of Strangetown chapters, so my apologies about the delay. It's been pretty busy and I also just haven't been up to it. I've been picking away at them, and I will do more after work.
James Fisher is a nerd, and he's awesomely awesome!


Don't you just love him to bits? I certainly do! I like that he randomly transitioned into that sharp blue plaid shirt too. It really goes with his whole look. He's a family sim.
Any thoughts on Maxis lineage? Hint: he is the product of three different Maxis sims (his mother is the product of two, and the family is a direct clone), but he looks mostly like just one of them.
I still have to reply to everyone's comments on the last couple of Strangetown chapters, so my apologies about the delay. It's been pretty busy and I also just haven't been up to it. I've been picking away at them, and I will do more after work.
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Wait. Erin Singles/Beaker? That would help maintain the blonde hair. . .eh, what the hell do I know except. . .
He's cute as hell and I can see the Mortimer in him. Mortimer is a fine specimen. I've always wondered what kind of alien child he'd make.
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I agree. Mortimer is the man. I love his look. Maybe I will work on getting his alter ego abducted in this challenge. I'd like to see a number of them get abducted, but I have to do it the hard way. I assume that those hacked telescopes are out of the question for something like this challenge.
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As for the hacked telescope, I really can't see it as cheating. It would be no different than adoption, really. Yes, you might get some aspiration points from it, but there are no "impossible wants" associated with abduction ("impossible wants" being stuff like "30 best friends"--those wants that go over and above even a lifetime want).
The only way I could see the hacked telescope as a cheat is if you deliberately use it to get an elder abducted right before they die, so you can get the platinum grave point. But just to get an alien baby, I don't see any unfair advantage there.
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Honestly, I'd rather have fun with it that get too caught up in the rules. I'm going to play by them, and for points, but it's mostly for fun.
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Before this challenge, I never cared about things like BMOC. Now I'm thinking about it while the sim is a teen! (that's what helped Sylvester Gattus get his BMOC before he even passed his freshman year--major accomplishment for me).
College is going to be a great point haul for me. I've already netted five points from only six students. I have the potential for six more easy points (grades and BMOC) with the four students not yet graduated.
And I'm closing in on two more points for the two popularity sims with "20 friends" LTW's (they both have BMOC so that really helps). All other students have pretty much all the skills they need for their job based LTWs, too.
And I still found time for drama (lord knows college gives you all the freaking time you need).
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I'm also enjoying the "make it up as you go" approach to the story for this 'hood. It's fun when things just happen.
I have to do a search for a list of all of those impossible wants.
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I did do one money cheat, so I could adopt a baby into one house. The same house where I'm using dates as a money making tool. Dream date with a townie = nice gift (sold for cold hard simoleons, baby)
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I love the desperate measures and how they bring out weird character and plot ideas.
I've trying to pull the same date scam with Dick Cole, but he has been striking out a bit too much (well, those alien toddlers do suck up your time and energy), and the sims that he does well with are just cheap. Poor old Dick. But his teenaged alien daughter is working on her painting skills in an effort to save the family.
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(I can't wait to see your hood)
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I'm exited to show it off too. I finally came up with a name for "the cove" too. In the tradition of ridiculous place names in Newfoundland, and with a wink and nod to Maxis, I dub it Llama Spit Cove.
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I should have given my Prosperity a real name but it's too late now. I should have called it Fox Piss Hollow (though I call the seasons hood that, so it might be confusing).
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You could always have one of your characters name the town. Maybe the school is doing a contest for the kids to pick a new name for the town. They did that for my school when I was a kid.
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Or it could be named after a prominent (read breederific) family.
Zmuda has a nice ring to it.
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I usually just use the hacked telescope or boolprop the abduction. Especially for Strangetown, I create abductions at will. I have only ever seen one natural abduction while playing with my sims, and it was a female, so it was disappointing in the lack of an alien baby.
What is raising the telescope all about? Does that increase the chances of abduction (I'm never heard about that), or is it just something that you're doing for fun?
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If you make any interesting discoveries, let me know! :)
Are you posting your prosperity challenge anywhere?
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I've never posted anything about the sims in my journal before, but since I have this ancient livejournal account that I havent used in about four years, and I am in love with the results that the prosperity challenge randomizer that you used gave me, I will try and post it in there. I've already have some interesting ideas for a story about them.
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Oh, you should post about it! I'm all about that. Put it out there.
That randomizer is so great. I just kept rolling it and saw so many great potential families.
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Besides the prosperity challenge, I've decided that the sims would be a great way to illustrate a story I've had in my head for ages, so I might have that in my journal some time in the future also.