Bork, bork, bork!

[strangetomato]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, too. Not a good sign. Not good at all.

I'm going to be out of town for the week, but I think I'll be starting on the great rebuild project when I get back. Maybe I'll take this as an opportunity to start things over from scratch and choose only to extract the lots and things I can't do without. Everything else can just go back to square one. On a positive note, this could be an opportunity to play through the lots in a more precise Prosperity Challenge style, and I can be more exact about aging everyone at (more or less) the same rate. To play through it all again will take a looong time, but it might be fun. I could do makeovers. I could post on it.

What do you think? Play through or artificially age everyone? I'm going to have to add in the children artificially, either way. Those poor (or maybe lucky?) sims will have no recollection of giving birth! :P

Comments

[lithium-lily.livejournal.com]

Ah, yeah...last time I saw that, my 'hood was becoming full of randomly resetting sims, and nobody could use the Bon Voyage food stands. :(

As for playing through or not...damn, that's a tough one! You're probably a long way ahead already, and it would be almost painful to start over...depends how attached you are to the in-game borns, I guess :P I know the feeling though, not long ago I restarted my Pleasantview after dutifully playing it through for a generation, but I had added too many families and it was getting to unwieldy. To avoid doing a repeat, I decided to put a bit of a twist on certain things and try new things with the "preset" storyline.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I've been having issues with sims getting stuck in hot tubs lately, which is a new issue for me. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the rest of my game issues, but the sum of the parts is getting pretty well borked right now.

I'll be adding the in-game borns back in (at least the ones that feature in the story - I may leave the ones that don't and try again), so that won't be a factor. It'll be fun to replay some of it, so I probably will, but then skip ahead with others. I'm going to make sure I don't add any extra characters to this hood, and keep from generating townies, so that should help with the number of characters.

I've been getting the urge to replay Pleasantview in a way that's very opposite the way I usually do. Like having Mary Sue start an affair with Don Lothario to get back at Daniel (which wouldn't be great for her friendship with Cass, but that's part of the wackiness of it), have Nina marry Darren and settle down, and things like that.

[lithium-lily.livejournal.com]

That's what I did with my Pleasantview! :D Not a complete reverse of what I usually do, but just different things. For example, I turned Don into an honest man who married Cassie and is (trying to stay) faithful to her, Kaylynn moved on to greener pastures and married Mortimer Goth and so on. It's been great fun.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Kaylynn and Mortimer? That's great! Sort of a nod to Sims 3, isn't it? Kaylynn could also meet a nice guy like Darren. She deserves it after chasing after unattainable men. :P

The poor thing always ends up dead in my Pleasantviews. She seems to be a magnet for a property fire (usually someone else's property).

[lithium-lily.livejournal.com]

Not really a nod to Sims 3, I never played the in-game families (I was miffed that it's not a proper prequel, so many sims are missing and Kaylynn is too young to even be there! I have my own, recreated Pleasantview (http://lithium-lily.livejournal.com/34849.html) but I'm still finding TS2 more fun to play so I haven't gotten very far.) Usually, I play Kaylynn as a naive girl who gets romanced by wily men (based on her extreme shyness and Family aspiration) but this time she went on to bigger and better things when Daniel got kicked out by Mary-Sue then fired her, and Morty employed her. :P And heh, a fire magnet? Occupational hazard, I guess! In my game, as Mrs. Goth she no longer does any cooking, the butler does ;)