Fixed Jessica Picaso was a breeding success!

[strangetomato]

I followed meetme2theriver 's directions for replacing the facial structure of the broken Maxis sims to give Jessica her fixed face, and then proceeded to breed up a family for the Picasos. Seems to have worked like a charm. Thanks, Meetme!

I've included a photo of my results, but be warned that it's a minor spoiler for the story. ;)

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm playing them for 7 days at a time, more or less. I've gone ahead a little here and there when it doesn't really matter as much. (Alex O'Mackey comes to mind — I just couldn't stop playing! I fulfilled that 30 best friends want and even the be best friends with 5 service sims! Haha.)

I intend to keep the generations of sims roughly in line, as I've been doing so far in the story. No micro-managing, since sim ages are pretty fluid (a teen can catch up to older teens simply by going to college earlier, for example). I'm also using a hack to shorten the teen stage to 7 days, because the length of the default teen stage bores me to tears. I also use a hack that halfs the time spent in uni. (I was using one that shortened it to 1/4, but it was hard to manage grades.)

[smjoshsims.livejournal.com]

omg which hack are you using bb? i need to find one tat works for me, because uni is too long and i feel bad when I cheat.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm using the Faster University Education mod by Dave Luv at MTS2. There are three options. One semester can be either three, two, or one days long.

I was using the "one day" option for a while, when I wanted to speed all the uni premades through, but the sims have to eat, sleep, breath their course work to get through it (it's entirely possible, though). Two days is nice and comfortable, with extra time for socializing, skilling, etc. I also set all my unis to perma-fall, to help with studying, so that helps.

[morkmork.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but can you tell me the name of the hack that shortens the teen stage? I've never been able to find one.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I use Cyjon's 8 Day Teens. It doesn't affect sims that are already teens, but all new transitions will be a teen for only 8 days.

Really useful hack, in my opinion. ^_^