This household, being the first, was subject to a lot of my awe at the novelty of having a friendly neighborhood. As time goes by, however, I try to go through each house as quickly and efficiently as possible. I do not allow for autonomy very much, anymore, and micromanage absolutely everything. T'was not so in the beginning... as you can see poor Volpps suffer from. But is it really better now that I am a slave driver?
Some rules that are obviously changed: probably because of my downloads that I do not care to hunt for, storing crops and fish does not allow for sparkly food or for filling up the normal food supply. It fills up the 'fresh food' meter, but not the other. So I boolProp to refill the fridges, and sell everything they catch and grow. Which is a lot. I hate restricted diets. Seriously, all they can eat is fish? I think not! So they are allowed to have every possibly-anachronistic food item available. I follow the five-bed spaces rule. But since the rules say NOTHING of toddler/baby items (or animal items, for that matter), at first I took it to mean that the children are miserable/restless... but that's silly! Even the clueless mother will lie her baby on something soft! So I have allowed unlimited cribs, Inge's endless baby bottle (just for my own selfish ease, I realize), unlimited toddler toys... I was a bit standoffish about pets with nonsense like 'they have to prove themselves' missing out on possibly great pets; though I am happy with the pets the families have right now. I am thinking about possibly allowing more autonomy for the fifth round. In round 5, I also intend to introduce a wave of orphan girls for adoption, and to give every family a telescope so that I may get some abductions (which could give me supernaturals). But before round 5, I must post the slideshow of each of the family's progressions through rounds 1-4. I am playing this challenge using the rules in the link above and the following: Double Deluxe (Nightlife and Celebration), University, Open for Business, Pets, and Seasons.
I also use about 25 megabytes worth of mods for my own convenience. I use a modified Trips and Quads hack with the percentages at 1% Quadruplets, 3% Triplets, 10% Twins, and 86% Single. I do NOT use ACR - I find it makes sims much too obsessed with sex, much more infidel, and in general unpleasantly shameless. No Social Worker, no Plantsims from spraying plants, Alien Experimentation, and countless others are also included. Gunmod's camera and Radiance Lighting system may make pictures a little difficult to see at times, and I apologize in advance, but I simply love how beautiful it makes gameplay and am not giving it up. At least, not now. Maybe when I restart my game I'll switch to maxis day and night plus custom dawn and dusk, but for now I'm sticking to lovely lights! The six starting families (I know the rules say 5, but I HAD to tweak this so that I could get all possible combinations of hair colors that I wanted) are all anachronistically dressed. The houses are also anachronistically styled. This is because if I ever wanted to get this challenge started, I promised to make do with maxis clothing and objects. There was a time a while back when I was collecting tons of custom content for this challenge... and eventually, I lost interest in the challenge because it was too much work. Not this time! This time... Fantasy Name Generator Oh, yes, that thing. All of the first names for my sims are chosen from that site. I just click, and the first name that pops up I assign to the child. Given that they are made-up names, they seem unisex enough to me. You may forget which person is which, especially as the families grow. Speaking of rule tweaking, although I am using a patriarchy (although not a strict one as on Earth), I don't care about the skin color as I know that colored people had powerful empires also. Simland's Roman age is not like Earth's Roman age, after all: I am certainly not recreating history! The future Roman emperor will be from the richest family. |
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