Pleasantview Journal

2006-10-21T00:01:00.000-07:00

Kitty getting toilet trained.
Dogs dig in the yard. Sims earn skills when the put the dirt back in the hole.
A dog with unlocked Green Fur.
A little kitty in a pet house. It looks so small in that big house.
Kitty on the counter, face deep into the jello.

He stayed until every drop of jello was consumed.

ROFL very cat like.

A dog in a car on his way to work.

Every so often dog houses and dog sleeping area needs to be cleaned. This dog house is smoking green with flies buzzing around.

Leader of the Pack

2006-10-20T23:55:00.000-07:00

Leader of the Pack is a wolf with glowing eyes. He will randomly visit at night. Other wolfs will visit at different times of the day.

Skunk is BACK!!!!

2006-10-20T23:42:00.000-07:00

When the skunk visits, he usually just walks around the lot. So far he has not bothered any of the sims or the pets. I just leave him be. I guess he got hungry and took advantage of a tipped over trash can.

Goofy Dog Color (unlocked)

2006-10-20T22:32:00.000-07:00

Conception

Birth

Puppy Stage

Adult Stage

Here are two large dogs, both with the goofy hair color. One has a long fluffy tail, long skinny nose, and some blue color on the back (left). The other is all goofy color, with a short tail, and muscular body. Slight variations in features.

Pets need a private place to make babies. A sim can click on a pet to get the option to have the pet "try for puppies with.." Click that and pick the pet of interest. The sim needs to have a relationship with the dog that is being asked to "try for puppies..." in order for the dog to take the request. Both dogs need to be in a good mood. If all is in order, they will head off to the dog house. One goes in and the other follows. The door SLAMS shut and fireworks spark out the top and dust forms at the bottom. If any sims are outside, they will gather around the dog house cheering on the happy couple.

After they are finished, the door opens and they exit. The male wonder off and the female went back into the doghouse and laid down.

The only human sim in the house is teaching one of the dogs to "play dead". Its fun to watch the pets learn the new tricks. It doesn't seem to take a huge amount of time to learn the tricks.

Several days have passed and it is time for the birth. The mom curls up on the floor and sparkles.
Sparkles brighter.
Then sparkles lighter. The dad to be isn't worried, he grabs a snack as he waits. The next shot showed the puppy appear near the back of the mom dog. I must have missed that shot.

Here the mom is first sniffing her pup. You can see the dad still eating his snack in the background.

Time for the pups first bath. The first attempt produced one puppy. SO... I sent the mom and dad back to the dog house to try again

This time she had THREE pup's. She was laying in the square she is standing in. The pups poofed up in the three around her. It happens pretty quick.

Here are the pups all grown up. The mom and dad are the two standing up and walking toward the kitchen. The pups got a mix of the parents. One has a short tail, one had a fluffy tail, and the other two have long tails. One or two (both chewing the dog bone) are all goofy color. The other two are a mix of goofy and blue.

With so many adult dogs heading off to work, it doesn't take long to open up other hidden items. So far, I have unlocked 35 fur colors and/or pet collars.

Servo funnies

2006-07-23T20:42:00.000-07:00

Servo runs amok. This was a visiting servo at the Goths, original, house. I had a shop there and was getting rid of out of stock signs. I guess the servo had one of the items in his bag. As soon as I started the game up, the servo was running around shocking anyone who was close to him. Locking the doors didn't do anything, he went right through them. I guess door locks don't keep out crazy robots. :D
Servo decided to take a dip in the hot tub. I think she is asking for trouble.
She stayed in the hot tub for about a second and decided it wasn't for her.

Servo decided she wanted a bath (auto). As soon as I saw her run the water for the tub, I cancelled the action. She still got in and then got out. Silly servo. I ended up locking the bathroom to this servo and took away the hot tub.

If you look close, you may see the black smoke coming out of the servo. Their needs take a huge hit when they get into water. Even so, they can't seem to resist some pools and water wiggley's around the neighborhood.

Painting Workshop

2006-07-23T20:27:00.000-07:00

Here is an example of a painting workshop with the power of snap dragons.

Cow Plant in ACTION

2006-07-22T14:13:00.000-07:00

Lemonade Stand

2006-07-22T12:12:00.000-07:00

Elders can sell lemonade just as well as kids.

Herb Oldie

2006-07-22T10:24:00.000-07:00

This is Herb Oldie. He is one of the elders in the sim bin at the start of Pleasantview. He's a romance sim. (or was since he passed away)

It looks like he is crying at another sims grave. When I took the picture, I imagined it was his wife. The stone is a fortune plat stone and his wife was family. I suppose, it could have been one of his many loves.

I don't think sim ghosts cry for other dead sims. I think this happened to be the location that Herb received his visit from grim. Ghosts will return to their original death spot and cry, then jump into the ground. I didn't notice if he did that.

I thought it made an interesting storyline photo op. Sometimes you can stage storyline pictures by moving a sim around (moveobjects on). I'm unaware of anyway to move a ghost sim around to stage a storyline shot.

Ghost Chat

2006-07-20T05:10:00.000-07:00

Have you ever seen a sim hang out with a ghost?

2006-07-20T05:02:00.000-07:00

2006-07-20T04:47:00.000-07:00

Here is a sim using her power to manipulate and takes a -15k hit to influence. In the next pictures, she earns a 30K Impossible want.

The -15k to influence is probably a glitch related to getting a certain perk and has nothing to do with the manipulate option. The picture makes it look like it could be, but it isn't the reason.

2006-07-20T04:01:00.000-07:00

A newly adopted kid is teasing the biological toddler with a toy rocket.

She puts the rocket behind her back and laughs at the toddler trying to grab it

The toddlers older sister noticed. She stormed her like the rain would never stop. I should rename her thunderstorm the way she ran to defend the helpless toddler. I never saw the random teasing before and then the other kid sticking up for the toddler was too funny. I'm really glad I accidentally saw this. Has anyone else noticed an older kid teasing a toddler?

2006-07-20T02:57:00.000-07:00

The last house I have to showcase. Again, one of my favorites to play. With the massive amount of money that can be made with OFB, there is lots of room to get creative with the sims living area. This house ended up being Alexander Goths and his descendents home.

This is a view of the house and pool area. I've made several pools with the hot tub in the middle. There is a walkway for sims to get to the hot tub without going into the pool.

3rd Floor. Storage area also used as a bar, love nest, and play room for the kids.

2nd floor. 2 Large bedrooms that exit to private balcony areas. A bathroom and living area with bar. I had a lot of fun creating the carpet design. Each room has its own color theme, but the entire floor is connected in the design.

1st floor. 1 large bedroom, nursery, study, entry, and kitchen.

A view of the backyard and pool area.

This one shows the bridge to the hot tub.

Orphanage Awaits

2006-07-20T02:32:00.000-07:00

B I tried something new the other day. I decided to kill off a sim who had a child to see what would happen. After grimmy came and left, the social worker came and picked up the child. This was the pop up I got.

44K Red House

2006-07-17T22:54:00.000-07:00

This house SCREAMS red. Lots and lots of red. It is a 44k lot. Comes with 2 red cars and more. (as is sleeps ten sims at a time)

3rd floor. Extra area for all those things that collect over the life of a family. Currently has a cowplant and candy machine.

2nd floor has 2 bedrooms and a bath. Large open are for individual creativity. Currenty houses some career rewards.

1st floor: Large study to the left (sleeps 4). To the right: living room with fireplace, bathroom and kitchen.

Another view of the first floor. Didn't notice the pink puff of smoke when I snapped the picture.

This is one of my favotire lots. The color is so bold and the floor plan is very different from any of my other creations.

White Cake Lot 42K

2006-07-17T22:28:00.000-07:00

This is a remake of my pink cake house. I improved the floorplan and took out some extra walls. Got rid of the elevator. It took the lot that was 54k down to 42k. Still not low enough for a starting out sim, but a great house when the start up lot gets bugged. The lot comes with lots of snaps and a white car in the driveway. (as is sleeps 6 sims)

Top balcony. Ready for stargazing and (crossing fingers) alien abductions.

3rd floor: A nursery that could easily be changed into a bedroom for a double bed.

2nd floor: Kids room, sleeps four. Bathroom and extra area. The extra area could be used as a single desk study. Currently has a few career rewards.
1st floor. Double bed bedroom, with study next door. The study could be changed into a nursery. Living room, kitchen, bathroom. No table. With all the snaps the sims never eat anyway.

2006-07-17T15:37:00.000-07:00

Retirement Center: Here are a few pictures of the graveyard at the retirement center.

View: Back yark toward street.
View: Street side toward back yard.
A view of several graves.
This is Daniel Pleasants grave and the second sim to vacation with grimy. I had 2 GCS sims in my challenge. A father and son team. I orbed the son when he was a teen, so he grew up eating GCS with his father. It made for cute pictures. All the clicking can drive a person batty. I was glad to get their IW done and had no interest to repeat it again. I found GCS to be a point maker in Legacy(aspiration points for elixir), but the opposite was true in the prosperity challenge. Since the son was a cheese head from teen on, I didn't spend time on his skills. He managed one top of career in his elder years. I could have elixir'd him, but was tired of the endless wants to eat gcs, make gcs, serve gcs.

2006-07-17T15:30:00.000-07:00

The yellow tower.
This is what the house looked like before the changes. Can you tell it is the same house? The main floorplan remained the same. I added floors up and the tower. If I recall correctly, the house costs 17k to move in. Its fully furnished, with lots of room to expand. One of my favorite starter houses.

2006-07-17T15:25:00.000-07:00

Picture of Pleasantview Neighborhood when I finished prosperity challenge.

2006-07-15T22:51:00.000-07:00

I managed my first accidental death by kite. I figured if I waited long enough it would happen. I have a nice collection of "evil kites" laying around. Sims will pick them up and use them when your not watching. I didn't see the sim playing with the kite. I saw the big flash of light and started looking for the sim.

This is the first shot I got of the sim. The lightning caused the sim to stand in a square of fire. The sim just stands there stomping in a real agony sort of way. Notice the green plumb bob in the pic.
Here is the sim after a while of agony. Her dd came to watch but didn't offer any help.
The sim died and grim came. All the excitement has caused the sims daughter to want to go to sleep.
A servo came and pled for the sims life. He had to guess the hand that had the correct glowing blue ball. Servo won and the sim is still in play.

2006-07-15T15:13:00.000-07:00

Here is one of my newest remodeled houses. The house started out as a white castle theme. Some of you may recognize the other style. I used yellow to give it its very own look from the neighborhood area.

A night time view.

The male sim had a relationship ready for a first kiss. This relationship inspired the tower. I thought it would be a fairy tale place for a sim to have their first kiss. If you look close at the first picture, you can see them standing on the tower balcony.
Then he asked her to marry him. She said yes. The female is a romance sim. This should prove to be an interesting marriage.
The layout of the lot is very basic. This is the view of the balcony level. You can see the sims frozen in the corner.
One down from the highest floor. There is a bathroom with magic steps to the other floors.
One down from that. Another bathroom and empty room used for storage. Can you find the orb? I just may use that on the romance sim.
This is the bottom floor. It has one bedroom large enough for a double bed. A study that can easily be changed to a nursery when needed. As is, it sleeps 6 sims. Two in the bedroom and 4 in the livingroom. I love recliners. They are one of the best budge items for sims with little cash. Place them in the living room near the kitchen. The sim will eat, sleep, and study in the chairs. Another plus, your sims don't have to make the bed when the finish napping.

2006-07-15T14:10:00.000-07:00

Here are three shots of move in money my sims got from a legal move. Each sim can move once per age and can only move in by "ask to move in". Merge from family bin isn't allowed except after uni. A good rule early in the challenge when a sim would get 20K from the family bin and less with "ask to move in". Later in the game, a sim could get a much larger amount than 20k resulting in a BIG POINT advantage.

The above moves were a result of moving an elder sims to the retirement house. The move is based on the way I play out my elders. It wasn't to take advantage of something that may not have been considered or thought of when the rule was made.

This realization inspired the vote on a change regarding how sims should be allowed to move around in the neighborhood.

2006-07-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

Here is a couple pictures of the clown in the box. A cute toy made off of the new Toy Bench added with OFB.

The toddler is so delighted by the friendly clown that he hugs him. It happens pretty fast so get close and watch.
You can see the toddler is delighted by the surprise of the clown jumping out of the box.

2006-07-08T11:04:00.000-07:00

Some of the work bench items will produce an item with a negative surprise. Here is a negative for the clown-in the box. To get the negative result on a work bench, have your sim making items while their aspiration is low (or in the red).

This little toy could be the source of adults and childrens fear of clowns. It is also possible, that tragic clown from the sims1 is also responsible for the fear.

Looking at the pictures, what sort of negative hit on their needs would one expect from playing with the clown in the box? Looking at the lady place her hand on her heart and gasp for air, I would expect "death by clown box" could be a possibility. The sim takes a big hit on their bladder and that is about it. (scares the pee out of them... lol) If their bladder is full it will drain 1/4 down up to 1/2. So the worse thing that will happen is they will pee on the floor.

2006-06-28T20:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a shot of a sim getting a promotion from being friends with another sim in the same field. This is the only time I've seen this happen. Has anyone else seen this happen?

If memory is correct, this happened before OFB was released. (EP... Uni and NL)

2006-06-28T19:59:00.000-07:00

Here is a shot of the first time Mortimer died. He died in plat, but didn't get a plat urn. He died with 25 friends. I used the way prosperity works to take advantage of building friendships and it paid off. (Thanks to The Grim Reaper phone, Mortimer is still in my game.)

STRATEGY: One objective while playing each lot was to make sure every sim on the lot was friends or best friends with any elder in the neighborhood. I also made note of who the popularity (sometimes romance) sims were and built relationships with them too. When I played their lots, I was able to get the end of life bonus or IW in less time than if I only worked on those while on their lots.

2006-06-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

Notice the big hit to the girl. -15,536 OUCH. This is a glitch that the patch probably fixes. I don't have the patch and will probably not get it.

The subtraction is to the sims influence meter. I know, not that impressive when you realize it is influence meter. What causes this is having the last row of perks. The one that is suppose to give the sim a boost to influence and aspiration. For some reason, they take a hit to the influence instead of a plus. Although, I wonder what the point of giving a sim 15k influence when they don't bank influence points.

I've not seen anyone post about this, so the patch must fixed it.

2006-06-28T09:20:00.000-07:00

Here is a shot of what a death looks like if a sim still owns shops. It is fun to watch who they will go to by the games standards. I look forward to playing with this option more.

So far, I've had about 4 or 5 sims die that still owned lots. They have all died of old age, so get the double pop up. One for the shop transfer and one for inheritance. When shops are passed to a new sim, all shops go to one person. So if you want to split ownership between others, you may want to do that before the sim dies. If there is a sim living within the household and is a teen or older, the shops will go to them before someone outside the house.

With the above death, I made sure the sim had a better relationship with a sim off the lot than anyone on the lot. I really didn't think the shops would transfer off unless no possible sim to transfer the shops to. From my very limited (only 4-5 deaths) experience, it seems to work this way.

2006-06-27T16:09:00.000-07:00

This snap shot is about the fly. Can you see the fly between the two sims heads? These two were on a date in the dirty kitchen. While I zoomed in to work on the dream date, I noticed the fly's. I never zoomed so close to them, but found it interesting so snapped a shot.

2006-06-27T15:21:00.000-07:00

I like the new option for kids to blow bubbles. I wish the option was available for all sims and not just kids. If you watch the kids as they blow bubbles, they tend to like sipping the suds. Thanks Maxis for the laugh.

2006-06-26T23:31:00.000-07:00

This was a fun day and fun test. I love this picture with all the bags on the ground. It SCREAMS bad business or over worked employee.

I did this as a test to see if I could manage a faster restocking and cashier badge for my sims. The sim at the register was responsible for restocking and being the cashier. The bags on the floor collected while she was working at the flower bench. She worked at the bench until her needs dropped, then went to the energizer and back to shop work. I wanted the bags to pile up so she would have something to do between ringing up customers. It didn't take her long to clean up the shop and keep the current customers happy. She was able to juggle sales, cashier and restocking.

If your working for ALL 7 badges on a sim, you may want to give this a try. Have the sim work in a shop by them self. It can be a little crazy juggling it all at first, but after a while you will get the hang of it. I enjoy the challenge of it. Of course, it works best with a perm plat sim so you can easily refresh them when needed.

Special note: A customer will wait at the register for a while before they get mad and walk away. Sometimes you can even wait until there are two at the register before you go over to ring them up. It helps to get the badges faster if you keep your shops small. Avoid "extra" things for the sims to do on your lot. You don't want them hanging around and not buying things. If you have other items (pinball), you may want to add a venue so you can at least earn a little cash and some stars for the sims who are just taking up space. Another option is to have your sim say goodbye to the sim who is no longer shopping or offer to show them an item.

2006-06-26T22:54:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of my (so far) most successful house. I was trying to figure out what the top amount a house can have in Net Worth. I thought it would be 9,999,999. Maybe the top will be 99,999,999. If so, it may take me a while to determine if that is the top amount.

2006-06-24T09:02:00.000-07:00

Another view of the trees the sims planted.

2006-06-23T22:46:00.000-07:00

This is what Pleasantview looks like the last time I played.

After adding a bunch of shops to my neigbhorhood, loading between lots was at a crawl and then it froze during load the next time I played. So, I restarted at my last saved spot (lost 10 played lots). I'm not exactly sure why the game locked up during load. The last thing I did prior to the issue was adding some created shops to downtown neighborhood lot. In hopes to avoid the problem in the furture, I cleaned up my neighborhood. Deleted all the maxis created lots in Pleasantview and extra decorations (tree's, boats, water tower). Moved sims off some lots that seemed to be acting oddNow the game runs better than it had in a while. I wonder if some of the lots were bugged and I didn't know it or if the decorations cause the slow issue.

I added a new neighborhood just to add shops to earn the 15 shop/house business passed down 3 Generation bonus. So far, I have about 5 lots that have 15 purchased lots and the game is running as fast as it always did. I don't plan to add a bulk amount of lots to avoid the lock up problem again just in case that was the issue. Must remeber to back up the neighborhood before adding a bunch of lots. Live and Learn.

2006-06-16T04:47:00.000-07:00

Bloopers

I'm not sure if this is normal or a blooper. I just happened to freeze the camera and his leg was turned in an odd way. Looks funny.

One sim is standing on top of the elevator. This happens a lot. It is a fast blink and the sim is through the top of the elevator and exits to their floor.

2006-06-16T04:29:00.000-07:00

Bad Make Overs

Ivy C.

Dina Caliente (Goth)

2006-06-16T04:20:00.000-07:00

A couple funny meditating faces.

Once the sim does this, then you can teleport them to other parts of your lot.

2006-06-16T04:15:00.000-07:00

This sim sat down to meditate in the street. I figured the carpool would just get stuck behind the sim. Like is does when two sim are standing and talking in the street.
It didn't, it went through the sim.

2006-06-15T12:13:00.000-07:00

Here is another fun little sim treat. I call them evil kites, because they look mad and have a tad bit of evil in them.

Here is a Diva (sim) flying a kite.
This is what happens in a very short time of putting the kite into the air. It looks like a new way for a sim to die by electric.

The evil kites are made on the toy work bench when a sim is in RED aspiration. I experiemented a long time trying to figure out why they were made at one time and not another. I thought it had to do with needs. Someone posted to one of the groups I'm on that it had to do with aspiration level. I tested it and found it to be the magic needed. When in red, they will randomly create the bad kite.

2006-06-15T11:49:00.000-07:00

One of the neat things about having a clothing shop is the ability to pick outfits for currently non-playable sims. An easy way to re-dress sims you play on other lots, instead of sending them to shop on their own. Another fun twist is that you can also dress SERVO's in different clothes. Here are a few pictures of servos with different skins. I think of this as one of those fun, hidden treats that accidentally get discovered. Of course, it could be in the Prima Guide. But for me it was a hidden treat. Enjoy the sill servo pic's.

This is one of the servos on her home lot. The first time I load each lot, they are in the new skins. The will visit random lots in them too. After a while, they return to their normal robot look. Even so, they keep the look in the family picture when you load the house.

2006-06-12T09:36:00.000-07:00

This is Burger Pops. A chain of burger shops that I've added to my game. It's on a 2x2 lot, with just a small restaurant set up. Very basic. The Pops in the name is a reference to a name for soda. Inspired by a discussion shared about different names for a soft drink. I was going to go with Pops Burgers, but that sounded to much like Pop was a dad. Someone else said it sounded like a burger on a stick. A silly name. The resturant is just one level. The upper level is just for decoration, so it doesn't look like a Burger Box. (snicker) That would have been a fun name too.

Just a house with a motorcycle in the driveway.

The higher part on the side is an elevator shaft. Its up there for when I need more room in the house.

Most of my houses tend to be at least 2 stories. The bottom floor is living area, kitchen, dinning, livingroom, nursery, bathroom (skill items). The 2nd floor is bedrooms and baths. Sims don't sneak off to that floor unless it is for sleep. No need to watch a sleeping sim, so during game play I can remain on the bottom floor unless it is to direct as sim to go to bed.

2006-06-12T07:58:00.000-07:00

This neighborhood shot is from around week 4 or 5. It looks closer to the arrangement that I currently have. I moved all the community lots up on the hill next to the bridge (out of site). That allowed me to keep the playable lots in one easy to see chunk. The lots are in play order going up the street, then down, then up.... The empty lots are place holder lots for later sims in the individual family's. To help me play out a few family sims, I juggled the lots to have families together in sections. It helped me keep track of how many grandkids I had and how many I had to go to complete the 20 grand kid want.

2006-06-11T22:02:00.000-07:00

This is a snapshot of my retirement center. I figured the elders needed bright colors to help keep them full of spunk in final weeks. It may backfire and cause them to be over stimulated and grumpy. The color of each roof matches the color theme for that appartment. Each appartment has one double bedroom, bath, study that can be changed to a single bedroom, kitchen and living room. If I need to, I can lock a sim in their house until grim comes knocking on (or floating through) the door. I've not done that yet, but have not had a romance sim join the retirement house.

This is one of my favorite lots to play. Most of the sims that live here have completed all the points that they can. They are just waiting out the clock before they vacation with grimy and the girls. It is a nice break from dealing with babys, skills, and carpool. In the middle of the lot is a recreation area for the elders. A couple hot tubs for them to relax and tell each other the same old story's over and over again.

2006-06-11T21:52:00.000-07:00

This is a small tidbit of my town at the start of week 7. I took a picture of an area of homes that I find a little more interesting than the normal box house's. The pink house in the middle is designed to look like a pink birthday cake. It is one of the homes I really enjoy playing. I got tired of all the houses looking basicaly the same so went wild with splashes of color and odd shapes. With a limitless amount of money with OFB, I feel free to give my sims some unusually flashy houses. It certainly adds a lot of spice to the game.

2006-06-11T20:35:00.000-07:00

Get paid to potty, what a life. This is one of those weird things that happens with OFB. When you have a Home Business Lot, everyone on the lot gets credit for the money earned. (pointed out by Carl just a few days or weeks after OFB was released.)

Did you know there really isn't any mail in the mail box? It just sort of appears when they take their hand out. One day I was playing and wondered what the mail in the box looked like. SO I looked. I know that is an odd thing to wonder, but well I am my own kind of person.

This is an early picture of the Broke/Futa family. Brandi Broke is a family sim so I worked on her aspiration as quick as possible. She married Todd Futa an Uni Elder. So they were living only on her paycheck. Things were pretty tight for a while. There isn't enough chairs for the kids to set while they study. The Broke house ended up being the first house I played OFB. I opened up a home business lot and had them sell stuff. One of the kids had a gold cashier badge before she went to uni. That was before I realized that was suppose to be a hard badge to get.

2006-06-11T20:12:00.000-07:00

Don reading a magazine. I didn't plan this but thought it made an interesting picture. The green (aspiration point) glasses while looking at the alien magazine.

2006-06-11T19:35:00.000-07:00

This sim must be a knowledge sim who just can't get away from his music. He had the guitar stuck to him until I sent him to play a different guitar. Then it poofed back to its normal spot.

" I'm a guitar hero, I got stars in my eyes"

2006-06-11T18:51:00.000-07:00

This is Nina Caliente setting down to eat a plate of food. It looks like the ghost is sniffing her food. He was leaving the chair that he was haunting, just at the right time.

This blooper makes me giggle everytime I see it. It was the result of a stuck sim at a guitar. One leaving and one tipping. It looks sort of like a cross dressing sim to me.

This was taken at a large birthday party. I happen to notice that one sims arm was in the middle of the others chest. It is a little creapy in a fun sim way. It makes me think of Aliens.

Darren drank elixir and had a blue glow for the rest of my time on the lot. It was gone the next time I went on the lot. (Darren asking Cassandra to marry him).

This is the only time I noticed a sim return from school with an arm out of place. Must have been a really interesting day at school or maybe she is just double jointed. I don't think it took her to long to get her arm back in place. I think I almost missed the shot it was that fast.

2006-06-11T18:41:00.000-07:00

This is the most interesting kitchen fire I've had in the Sims2. You can see a pile of ash in the middle of the fire. I don't recall who died, but think it was the fireman. The burning spots on the floor were pee spots. I wonder what Sims eat that allows their bladder malfunction to burn. (rofl)

2006-06-11T18:21:00.000-07:00

Here are a few bad make overs in my SIMS2 game. I let the sims walk around like this until they happen to get a good make over or I get bored of the funny face. When they get the bad makeover they seem to be aware it is bad. Other sims who see them don't seem to notice. I wonder why they don't point and laugh.

2006-06-11T17:48:00.000-07:00

This is the view around week 3 or 4. I added OFB midway in week 4. There isn't any shops, so it has to be before that time.

2006-06-11T17:41:00.000-07:00

This is a view of Pleasantview at the end of week 2. I graduated about 18 sims from Uni and blended them back into the neighborhood. The playable lots circle around Pleasantview's community lots.

2006-06-11T17:31:00.000-07:00

Before I started, I changed the location of the homes in Pleasantview. I put them in a line in the order I planned to play them. The order I picked was highest networth to lowest. Later, I found out that the prima guide had a suggestion for order of play. If I had known, I would have gone with that order.