ZeletDude
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The Sims 2 | "Mencken" Legacy Challenge: Surrounded by Idiots (Participation Welcome)
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Mencken Legacy 3.0: Off to Uni
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Time for a torchholder transition -- Barbara is our new heir!
My final order to Sophie is to Meditate. I'm hoping that will keep her out of trouble during her elder years.
I only have a day or so with Barbara as a teen, but she has to do some gardening in addition to getting her aspiration up and rounding off a couple of skills for scholarships.
Soon enough, though, she and Wolfbane arrive at mom's old dorm, where Aunt Katherine is still living as a junior.
Oh, I'm afraid it's not going to get any better, kiddo.
Barbara is not a career- or knowledge-driven sim. With her aspiration being Pleasure, she has no driving goals at all, other than to have a good time. She would like to be a Celebrity Chef, though, and so while she's here I'll skill her in cooking. Other than that I'm trying to be more relaxed. Still, making friends is a priority.
Someone defriend you on facebook, Wolfie?
My game froze while Barbara was trying to meet new people, so I restarted...to see that once again, they'd arrived in color-matched clothes.
This time they found Katherine in a bit of a state.
Wolf discovered the allure of the exercise bike, losing his pudge in short order.
Another freeze, another restart, and --
...how do they DO that?
(I found the problem: whenever I tried to get Barbara to teleport in a particular Sim, the game would stop responding. I don't know WHY that is, but so long as I avoided clicking that sim everything was smooth.)
Katherine may be...socially maladjusted.
Just sayin'. I tried to keep track of how many times I saw her jump this poor woman, but not a day went by without several attacks.
Babs rolls wants for both Psychology and Drama. Since Sophie studied Psychology, I decided to let Barbara go with the other. Drama professors fall in love with all of their students, so it should be easy to befriend them.
Sure enough, as soon as the professor comes over she tries to make out with Barbara. (Never let a drama student hang around with their professor if the student is in a relationship with another student...unless you WANT tears, fireworks, and a broken relationship. 
)
Ouch! Unless she can get another Creativity point on her own, she won't make it out of uni. I decide to plonk down a piano upstairs and a guitar downstairs to give her that opportunity.
...it's almost sweet, the way these two dote on one another. Too bad their idea of attention includes assault and battery, not friendly chats and compliments.
Let her finish up in there first!
Minutes later.
Attagirl, Katherine.
More to come!
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Time for a torchholder transition -- Barbara is our new heir!
My final order to Sophie is to Meditate. I'm hoping that will keep her out of trouble during her elder years.
I only have a day or so with Barbara as a teen, but she has to do some gardening in addition to getting her aspiration up and rounding off a couple of skills for scholarships.
Soon enough, though, she and Wolfbane arrive at mom's old dorm, where Aunt Katherine is still living as a junior.
Oh, I'm afraid it's not going to get any better, kiddo.
Barbara is not a career- or knowledge-driven sim. With her aspiration being Pleasure, she has no driving goals at all, other than to have a good time. She would like to be a Celebrity Chef, though, and so while she's here I'll skill her in cooking. Other than that I'm trying to be more relaxed. Still, making friends is a priority.
Someone defriend you on facebook, Wolfie?
My game froze while Barbara was trying to meet new people, so I restarted...to see that once again, they'd arrived in color-matched clothes.
This time they found Katherine in a bit of a state.
Wolf discovered the allure of the exercise bike, losing his pudge in short order.
Another freeze, another restart, and --
...how do they DO that?
(I found the problem: whenever I tried to get Barbara to teleport in a particular Sim, the game would stop responding. I don't know WHY that is, but so long as I avoided clicking that sim everything was smooth.)
Katherine may be...socially maladjusted.
Just sayin'. I tried to keep track of how many times I saw her jump this poor woman, but not a day went by without several attacks.
Babs rolls wants for both Psychology and Drama. Since Sophie studied Psychology, I decided to let Barbara go with the other. Drama professors fall in love with all of their students, so it should be easy to befriend them.
Sure enough, as soon as the professor comes over she tries to make out with Barbara.
(Never let a drama student hang around with their professor if the student is in a relationship with another student...unless you WANT tears, fireworks, and a broken relationship. )
Ouch! Unless she can get another Creativity point on her own, she won't make it out of uni. I decide to plonk down a piano upstairs and a guitar downstairs to give her that opportunity.
...it's almost sweet, the way these two dote on one another. Too bad their idea of attention includes assault and battery, not friendly chats and compliments.
Let her finish up in there first!
Minutes later.
Attagirl, Katherine.More to come!
Mencken Legacy 3.0, Continued: at Uni
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I almost never choose the Pleasure aspiration on purpose, as it consists of nothing but tiny little wants that never add up to anything. Still, they do tend to want to go on dates, and dates are a surefire way of staying in platinum.
Looks like Katherine has made a new...friend.
You're a regular trio, like Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
(Maybe more like Germany, Russia, and Poland...)
Even between sending her neighbors to the nurse's station several times a day, Katherine found time to go to class and such. She survived probation!
She managed to get that creativity point. If Wolfbane here goes on probation, he'll have no excuse beyond being a lazy boob.
In addition to making friends, Barbara is also looking for some genes for the Mencken line. This fellow is alright, hairdo aside, but he's only a maid.
Amoya is the chick Katherine keeps attacking. She and Barbara get along fairly well. As for the old guy -- wait, old guy?
Hmm...that has possibility. He can make a couple of babies and then die without hanging around for too long...
Wha? How did HE pass? He never went to class!
Barbara invites the old fellow over. I er...I don't think I want this face in the Mencken house.
Some college-age girls invite guys into their bedrooms for FRIENDLY reasons. Katherine prefers beating the crap out of them.
And if they don't accept her invitation, by god she goes into THEIR room and gives them a proper beating there.
Not going to the final, eh Wolfie?
(Wolfbane does...nothing. Ever.)
Unless Katherine starts autonomously cooking (unlikely given the fact that the cafeteria lady is almost always present), she may not make it through...
:-/ Nothing I can do.
Barbara rolled this want. She's a good legacy-torchholder.
Not going to class?
Yeah, why bother when there's someone new to pick on?
And I was so hoping she'd prove that a Sim CAN survive uni on their own. She made it close, though! Only a semester shy...
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I almost never choose the Pleasure aspiration on purpose, as it consists of nothing but tiny little wants that never add up to anything. Still, they do tend to want to go on dates, and dates are a surefire way of staying in platinum.
Looks like Katherine has made a new...friend.
You're a regular trio, like Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
(Maybe more like Germany, Russia, and Poland...)
Even between sending her neighbors to the nurse's station several times a day, Katherine found time to go to class and such. She survived probation!
She managed to get that creativity point. If Wolfbane here goes on probation, he'll have no excuse beyond being a lazy boob.
In addition to making friends, Barbara is also looking for some genes for the Mencken line. This fellow is alright, hairdo aside, but he's only a maid.
Amoya is the chick Katherine keeps attacking. She and Barbara get along fairly well.
As for the old guy -- wait, old guy?Hmm...that has possibility. He can make a couple of babies and then die without hanging around for too long...
Wha? How did HE pass? He never went to class!
Barbara invites the old fellow over. I er...I don't think I want this face in the Mencken house.
Some college-age girls invite guys into their bedrooms for FRIENDLY reasons. Katherine prefers beating the crap out of them.
And if they don't accept her invitation, by god she goes into THEIR room and gives them a proper beating there.
Not going to the final, eh Wolfie?
(Wolfbane does...nothing. Ever.)
Unless Katherine starts autonomously cooking (unlikely given the fact that the cafeteria lady is almost always present), she may not make it through...
:-/ Nothing I can do.
Barbara rolled this want. She's a good legacy-torchholder.
Not going to class?
Yeah, why bother when there's someone new to pick on?
And I was so hoping she'd prove that a Sim CAN survive uni on their own. She made it close, though! Only a semester shy...
Mencken Legacy 3.0, Continued: Uni Life
Oh, boo hoo, Wolfbane. You deserve it.
Yeah, why bother?
What are you, narcoleptic?!
...
...yeah, that was a quick semester.
Since university is going to be boring without Katherine around, and since Barbara has plenty of friends, I'm going to go ahead and push her through her final year. She creates Cum Laude, because she wasn't particularly motivated her first semester here.
After being thrown out, Wolfbane decides to..go into theatre or become a pirate, I'm not sure which.
She has the skills to be a Restraunteur! Why the lowly position?
As soon as she arrives home, she tops off her Creativity...
...and nearly kills herself playing with the trash compactor. Alas, this roused Sophie out of her meditative trance.
Douglas has been mostly useless, but he earns some points when he joined Barbara for a game of basketball.
Annnnnd so it starts.
Gumbo! Gumbo always works.
...except when it doesn't. She was demoted and sent home. I told her to take another job as a Prep Cook, where she was immediately promoted. So there, game.
Amanda kept her up the ENTIRE NIGHT doing this. It's not nearly as funny the fifth time around.
On her fifth day of adulthood, Barbara is promoted once again, and there I'll leave off. Next time...I suppose I should choose the least-mediocre of her options to marry. Perhaps I'll look for an Elder who isn't quite so hideous.
Oh, boo hoo, Wolfbane. You deserve it.
Yeah, why bother?
What are you, narcoleptic?!
...
...yeah, that was a quick semester.
Since university is going to be boring without Katherine around, and since Barbara has plenty of friends, I'm going to go ahead and push her through her final year. She creates Cum Laude, because she wasn't particularly motivated her first semester here.
After being thrown out, Wolfbane decides to..go into theatre or become a pirate, I'm not sure which.
She has the skills to be a Restraunteur! Why the lowly position?
As soon as she arrives home, she tops off her Creativity...
...and nearly kills herself playing with the trash compactor. Alas, this roused Sophie out of her meditative trance.
Douglas has been mostly useless, but he earns some points when he joined Barbara for a game of basketball.
Annnnnd so it starts.
Gumbo! Gumbo always works.
...except when it doesn't. She was demoted and sent home. I told her to take another job as a Prep Cook, where she was immediately promoted. So there, game.
Amanda kept her up the ENTIRE NIGHT doing this. It's not nearly as funny the fifth time around.
On her fifth day of adulthood, Barbara is promoted once again, and there I'll leave off. Next time...I suppose I should choose the least-mediocre of her options to marry. Perhaps I'll look for an Elder who isn't quite so hideous.
MjM
Deity
Great update smellincoffee!
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
Question... why not Sims 3?
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
I get the decision to play Civ 3 over 4 and so on as they are similar games but with different systems of play. But when it comes to Sims, where graphics play a higher part and the ability to play with a whole neighbourhood just outstrips Sims 2 in every way.
Well, I've not played Sims 3, but the graphics difference between 2 and 3 isn't nearly as large as that between 1 and 2, and I was hesitant about the idea of having the whole neighbourhood playing while I focus on one family. Typically, myself and a few of my siblings would each run independent families in the neighbourhood, but wouldn't the Sims 3's system make that unworkable, or at least cause your family to spend unwanted time as NPCs while someone else is playing?
Catharsis
catch u on the flip scythe
In Sims 3 each save file is an entire neighbourhood, and you can only play one family in that neighbourhood (while you can switch families, that results in the loss of your original family's aspiration points I believe, so in Iggy's situation it would not be workable, unless each sibling ran his or her own neighbourhood).
While I prefer Sims 3, I understand why you'd want to use Sims 2 for something like this, because there are more expansion packs out and so there's more stuff to do. (Also there are probably better player-made mods for Sims 2 as well because it's been around for longer.)
While I prefer Sims 3, I understand why you'd want to use Sims 2 for something like this, because there are more expansion packs out and so there's more stuff to do. (Also there are probably better player-made mods for Sims 2 as well because it's been around for longer.)
The Sims 3 is devilshly hard to patch. Version numbers are lengthy and region-specific, and even following careful advice I haven't yet managed to download one that will cooperate with my game. I only have the vanilla game, and it has a bug that I find makes the game almost unplayable...the clock doesn't work properly. That is, I can't speed up actions, so whenever they go to sleep I'm stuck staring at the screen for five or ten minutes. Also, I didn't adjust well to the "just play one household" style that Catharsis mentioned. I kept trying to switch and would get irritated when things happened in the other household. Eventually I'll get an expansion pack which will patch my vanilla game, and perhaps then I'll play more Sims3, because I do enjoy aspects of it...but really, Sims2 with its expansions and eight years of user-made content is as great a game as I could hope for.
I actually prefer the character graphics of the Sims 2.
I have an update ready, and it ends with a call for names. I'll post it in a couple of hours, but there are any readers who want to go ahead and start submitting baby names, feel free.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
I've been playing a lot of Sims 3. There aren't as many expansion packs, but I'm willing to bet there's at least as much to do. Switching families loses inactive families' current wishes, not achieved points, but unless you switch off story progression, they plod along as NPCs and can do things you don't want (like move out or quit their jobs). You can have multiple neighborhoods available as save files to avoid those issues. I think there are at least five EA neighborhoods available so far.
But why not Sims 3? I think the AI is significantly better. I've been neglecting a few family members and they haven't done much stupider than have dinner in the basement or go to school smelly. Much less funny, and the reason I haven't tried starting the ISBI concept.
I re-suggest my previous name suggestions. Wanda and Rocko.
landlubber
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I'm guessing MS Paint...?
PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
I think he's referring to the fights being censored. 
The fights being censored is a part of the game.
The fights being censored is a part of the game.
MjM
Deity
I think he means the sim's body parts being censored by smellincoffee. It's probably a nude sims mod for extra realism I'm guessing
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