Prosperity Challenge: James Fisher is awesome.

[strangetomato]

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.

Comments

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I was right. Hee hee, even a blind pig gets a truffle every now and then.

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.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Okay, well that's good. I have so few knowledge sims in that 'hood anyway, I can't see that as being a problem.

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.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm finding so fun about it, actually playing the game as a game.

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).

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It is fun to just play the game as a game. I started with downloaded starter homes, and it left very little money at the start, so some of the households were very challenging to play.

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.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

I'm still having money problems in a few of my households. I like that Ginny Gattus has to make flower arrangements and counterfeit simoleons to make ends meet.

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)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Flower arranging and counterfeiting simoleons. There's a beautiful poetry in it.

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.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

*snort* "poor old Dick"

(I can't wait to see your hood)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of fun playing with my dear old Dick. *snicker* (This name will amuse me forever. I'm so childish.)

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.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Nice.

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).

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Fox Piss Hollow is a sweet name. I remember seeing you post that and I nearly snorted myself to death.

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.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting idea.

Or it could be named after a prominent (read breederific) family.

Zmuda has a nice ring to it.