Strangetown extras: Off to college we go!

[strangetomato]

You'll get to see Jill and Buck in university in the next chapter, but I just got them set up there tonight, and I wanted to share a couple of pics right away. I thought I had enough willpower to keep it to myself until the update, but that sort of evaporated when the cutest thing happened autonomously, so you get a sneak preview.

That's right. The fish came too. *grin*

Buck got himself a flattering new haircut (or did he cut it himself?), and he's wearing one of my other favourite things about Kitchen and Bath: the argyle sweater! I have so much love for that outfit, and it's perfect for Buck. Just perfect.

The apartment that I picked just happened to be the perfect shade of purple to match Buck's stuff too. He loves it.




And here's Jill. I think she grew up cute. She's completed her funky new look with a striped jumper-type dress (with more green, of course) and some cool boots.




Hey, I can see Johnny, Ripp and Ophelia's apartment through the window! I can even kind of see that llama crossing road sign on the wall. That's a pretty high level of detail.




And this is what I just had to share with you: autonomous serenading! *heart melts* Buck is just too sweet. He gives me cavities.

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[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

When I suspected that my neighborhood was going to implode, I opened SimPe and took notes of all my sims stats so I could re-create them as close as the original. And of course, I peeked at their DNA data to keep the family genes consistent.

I don't know if this is something that randomly generated in every game (like turn ons and turn offs), but Buck's dominant features are first his nose and then his cheeks. If that's true in all sims games, be sure that nose will still be around when you "breed" him :P.

(And yup, he was also missing some recesive DNA skintone data.)

Yeah, I don't think anyone can take that serenade interaction seriously. Now that I think about it, Buck also does that a LOT with his wife, while her younger brother makes that "dude is crazy" gesture. It's very funny :P.

But the guy leaping into a girl's arms interaction gotta win them all! I've never seen it, though. And I can't imagine Ripp being embarrassed by that (or Johnny goosing Ophelia, though). Is it because he's very nice? I don't remember if he's shy or not, though.

You're gonna enjoy those EP's, I'm sure of that :). By the way, I've got a link to a tutorial that tells you how to disable the "launcher" (which I hate) when you start the game if you ever need it. And also the files you'd need to avoid "Securom" if you are worried about that.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking that the dominant genes are not random, but set as the same by the game every time, like their recessive colours. I haven't tinkered around with the genes yet (I plan to give the Smith kids recessive red hair, for example), but I'll take note of it when I do, and see if it is the same.

How does recessive skin tone data play into genetics? I've read that any sim baby will just get a skin tone between the two extremes of his/her parents, and that's it (with alien being a little different). Is there more to it than that?

Do they do that crazy gesture for the serenade? :D That's awesome.

Yeah, Johnny leaps into Ophelia's arms every now and then. It's just too silly. I'm sort of glad they took equality of the sexes to the extreme, but that's a bit much in most cases.

Ripp's goosing hangups are related to niceness, as far as I can tell. He's not shy at all (he has 8 outgoing points), and he's really playful and nice (7 and 8 points, respectively... I guess you know where he doesn't have many points *snicker*). Or maybe he just makes a fuss because he feels left out. :P Ripp's personality spread makes him do a lot of those extreme personality animations, so he's always interesting to watch. I especially like the sponge bathing. He's such a slob. Though, surprisingly, Ripp never farts after he gets up from the table in my game. Never. I wonder if that is also related to niceness?

I'd love to see that tutorial, since the launcher seems like a pain. I will also gladly accept any advice about bypassing SecurRom, since I'd rather be safe than sorry.