Prosperity Challenge: Life is just better in Llama Spit Cove.

[strangetomato]

Just in case you're curious to see all of the residents of my prosperity challenge neighbourhood, here is a little sneak preview. These are the original loading screen images, from when I moved them all in.

Davenport




Wolfe




Cole




Lamb




Fisher




Snow

The parents in the Wolfe and Cole families were immediately aged to elder when they hit the ground, since I wanted to do it that way instead of having a placeholder. Sure, it's an interesting backstory to have a dead parent, but I liked the idea of aging parents better, so that's how I handled that. That gives us four single elders in town, two single adults, and two married couples. Not to mention all of those children. I was going to post names and stats, but I will do some profiles later. For now, feel free to speculate as much as you like.

The name of the community is in the proud tradition of oddly named places in Newfoundland, which is where I live. Places like Conception Bay, Random Island, Herring Neck, Muddy Hole, Tickle Cove, Jerry's Nose, and Dildo (I kid you not). Check them all out here, if you don't believe me. You can't even make this stuff up.

I'm really looking forward to doing this challenge!

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Some of the randomized families were like that, and I probably made a few small adjustments to make it make sense in some cases, but not many. And obviously, I ignored it for the alien children.

I can't take credit for that aging idea. I saw Madame Ugly do it. It's a great idea. I agree with you about how unfair it is that they don't allow elder parents. It's not like it's not possible. It might have to do with the fact that they don't allow the elders to have decent jobs (though I suppose the fact that they don't HAVE to retire makes up for it).

Thanks. I'll do a story-type post about it at some point. It'll be a different style than Strangetown, and I'll probably play around with it a bit more.

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Of course for the alien children! Though at first I was hoping that I didnt get any of the "alien" result in the randomizer because I don't have that skin tone unlocked, lol.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It would be cool if the randomizer did include alien skin very rarely, but it would come up too much. You could always use one of the extracted Maxis aliens for the skintone too, if you wanted it. (In fact, that is exactly what I did here.)

I love that unlock all skin tones hack, though.

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

I love using (some of) the hacks, though I share the game with my brother who is really against using all hacks in fear of it messing up the game. Same goes with downloads, so I just do simple clothing recolors in bodyshop if I really want to.

By the way, the introduction to my take on the Sims is up!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm heading over there to check it out.

So you have no cc at all? That's interesting. You can do a lot with just the in-game stuff anyway, especially if you have many SP/EPs.