Well I'd love to see some, hon.

Edit: Holy crap, Kobby! Dayum I forgot about Pets. I gotta get this DLC next!

Edit 2: Ashe Hulll came home early and caught Connie Lingus cheating with the maid! I'll put a screenie up later, sorry I keep putting these up, but it's so easy on PC. Anyways, Ashe gave Connie hell, and so now they broke up. :cry: I looked in their friends list and they've gone from "Romantic Interests" to "Acquaintances".

I admit I manipulate some situations, but in this case it's all Free Will, so whether or not Connie and Ashe become friends again? I'm not sure what's gonna happen. Right now Connie is on the laptop, creating an online profile so she can start dating.

Connie is hot as hell! Is she by any chance designed after you, Renee?

lOL not even close! Good lord, if I looked that hot, I wouldn't be here playing video games so often. I was better-looking when I was younger, but I didn't look like Connie.

Tonight there are some interesting developments.

1). Not sure if I mentioned it or not, but Ashe and Connie had a thing going, and Ashe caught Connie with the maid. So I RP'd that Ashe demanded Connie get a job or move out. Connie is supposed to be looking for a job on the computer, but instead she opened up a profile on an online dating service.

2). She got 4 responses from the service. Since all 4 Sims left interesting messages (I'd like to get closer to you, etc.) she responded to all 4 of these Sims. So Connie could possibly have 4 dates, while trying to look for a job.

3). Connie's not the only one who's having fun. Out of the blue, a Sim named Monika Morris called Ashe Hull. Asked her on a date. I am not entirely sure what's going on now, but Ashe had a spontaneous moment: left home to take a limousine to a nearby art gallery. I've never seen this spontaneity from her before (or Connie for that matter). Edit: Apparently the trip to the art gallery WAS her date. Once she got there, a message showed up from Monika that she got 'caught up in something'.

Poor Ashe. She got stood up by another Sim.

4). Ashe already made her Lifetime Wish. She's become CEO of a Corporation. This happened a little too fast on PC; On consoles the career-climbing seemed to be slower.

Here are some of my latest Sims 3 moments.

1). Apparently we can get some meds in the game to cure sickness. Now that Fall has begun in-game, the hospital is finally offering flu shots. Ashe went ahead and got a shot, and Princess will also do so on the weekend, but Connie is too much of a space cadet. She hasn't even found a job yet.

2). Now that Fall has begun, leaves start piling up on the ground, and some of the Sims rake these up. It's not 100% realistic (the animations for all this) but eventually there will be a large pile of leaves somewhere, and the Sims can play in this. I haven't seen any leaves change color on trees yet, that would be really neat if this happens.

3). Just before summer ended there were a couple hail storms. This time, the animation is pretty realistic, as chunks of hail fall on the ground and bounce everywhere!

4). Connie's girlfriend is still the maid. She's had her second date with this maid (whose name is Kate). During the date, which was in a park, Connie started flirting with yet another Sim! Although I usually let her do her own thing, I had to interrupt that moment!

>>> I like to think that my Sims game is rather like a reality show, and I happen to be the director/producer of this show. :lmao: So when I 'interrupt' something, I'm RPing that (as the producer) I am giving my Sims some advice, to keep the shows ratings from falling.

5). I haven't figured out how to sell items yet, so whenever something gets replaced in their home, I tend to just drag it out into the yard. I moved their old shower out there, right in the middle of some grass. Connie and Ashe seem to love it out there; they actually prefer taking showers outdoors. :ermm:

6). Ashe bought a second plot of land. The first one she bought was a plot she found online--she went on her laptop and found an option to buy land. Anyways, at first I had no idea where the land she just bought was, and I accidently bought another plot of land after exploring the town a bit. So now she's got two plots of land, which means she can eventually build two houses if she wants to. I put flooring down for one of these future houses.

Also, for those who don't know it yet, my first PC mods are for Sims 3. I'm slowly turning into a modding queen, folks. So far, the mods I've DL'd include a No Intro mod (disables the game's intro movie), a No Pixelation (nude) mod, a height-slider mod (this makes new Sims taller or shorter, I haven't used it yet, though), a mod which I can use to play my own music in the game (this assumes a stereo is nearby--my music will play out of this stereo), Longer Seasons (the default for Seasons is 28 days max. With this mod Seasons can last up to 84 days), Sims Life Aging Mod (SLAM, this is what I used to make them live longer), and a mod which gives new babies Zodiac signs that match the actual month they are born in. Since Connie and Ashe haven't had any babies, this mod lies dormant for now.

Interesting updates, Renee But did you really have to download that nude mod?

Btw, I´m expecting some pixes!

Lol, can't do that, sir! My suggestion is to try buying the game.

"Immersion"

Yep. I knew you were going to say that.

Speaking for myself, the pixellation was disturbing. That horrible effect took me right out of the game every time. So the one and only mod Sims 3 I've ever installed was a nude mod.

You do realize that for someone from the outside it does appear a bit suspicious that´s the only mod you downloaded?

And Renee, I wasn´t talking about the nude mod when I asked you to take pixies. I meant taking pixies from what you wrote about their lives!

I'll probaly post content here too.

I don't use any mods although that No Intro mod is very bloody tempting.

Exactly. I'm an adult, I can handle some polygonal nudity. Why the heck not, right? It's actually a milestone for me in a videogame series.



That was my very first mod. Ever. I had some troubles figuring out how it's supposed to work, but once I actually got it going, I had to reload my game twice, just to make sure (Holy Crap!) there really was no more intro movie.

http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=...Setup_and_Files

The no intro mod is somewhere on the page above; it's basically used as a test to see if you're doing things right. Most of the Mods I've found are clothing, makeup, and other such mods. Houses. Cars. Behavior modifications. That sort of thing. So far I'm not really interested in any of these; there's so much to explore in the vanilla game. I don't want to clutter it up with a bunch of fluff to confuse me. Not yet, anyways.

Okay, here is an example of the no pixilation mod.

And here is another example.

Sorry. We can't show full nudity on this show, so there's a couple NC-17 shots for ya. Thank you Ashe Hull for allowing us to amend your original contract. I know when you showed up for screening several weeks ago, nudity was not actually penned-in. har-har-har You'll be paid double union scale for these.

Ratings for Ashe & Connie are probably going to go through the roof, now.

Please do


Can´t you just press a button and skip the intro like in Simcity?


@Renee - Ehm.. nice pixies...? Not sure if I should go any further with this

No,well kinda.

It works like half the time,I just end up mashing my keyboard until the intro stops.

You can, but this means you have to wait until the intro actually shows up. You have to wait for several little animations (like the Maxis logo) come and go before the intro movie starts. This takes 20 or 30 seconds.

So in other words, if the intro movie is disabled, that's 20 or 30 seconds saved. I don't have to wait through those seconds to press a button on my keyboard, which means I can do something else. I can nuke a meal or change clothes or whatever.


I was trying to be subtle. Believe me, the last thing I'd want to see is me (the producer of Ashe and Connie) getting fined right when the show's taking off. That's my roleplay with Sims 3, by the way--I am the producer and director of their reality show.

It's such a great roleplay, too. I pretend my Sims have small earpieces (disguised as ear rings) equipped. Although they can do things on their own, I can also give them suggestions here and there. So (let's say) if there's somebody cute I want Connie to check out, I'll click on that Sim and off she goes.

I like the idea that you treat it as being the producer of a reality show. That gives you an excellent excuse for watching their every move without being labelled something shadowy

Exactly! I'm not an obsessive reality show watcher, but I've sat down and watched portions of them before. Ya know: Keeping up with the Kardashians, Real Housewives, Jersey Shore, that sort of thing. They're not entirely "reality" anymore, there's a lot of production going on at all times. Somebody's telling them what to do, but there is also often some leeway, in the sense that the stars of these shows can go their own directions if they want to (to some extent).

COPS is the original reality show. It's the only one that's completely unscripted.

I don´t know. Sometimes I reckon they made another take on an arrest because the criminal didn´t shout enough when being tazed

Here are some new pictures.



That's Connie in her new faux white leopard blouse and matching suede jeans.



And here's a spy shot of Connie distracting Kate the Maid from finishing her job, once again.



Connie bought a car. It's the cheapest in the entire game. Only cost 950 Simoleans. I'm wondering if Sims 3 simulates cars breaking down? This looks like the sort that would break down all the time.



That's an example of the Seasons DLC doing its thing. It never rains in the vanilla game; I'm not even sure if it gets overcast. Anyways, here we can see some rain. Also: notice the trees. It's Autumn, and those trees are definitely changing color.



That's Princess surfing the web, and finally...



That's Princess playing in some leaves. Although the animation is not entirely realistic, the leaves actually do come off the ground, so it takes awhile for a leaf pile like this to form.

Awesome! I love those pixies!!

Ashe went up to her plot of land today. She actually owns two plots at the moment, and is building a house on one of them. Last time she was here, she had the pretend builders put down a black stone floor, and off-white walls. This is just the shell of the house, and I forget how much all of this cost.

I think she had about 5,000 S or maybe 6,000 (S meaning Simoleans, which is their form of money). Well, she wound up spending almost ALL her Simoleans today. She's a 'classy' woman, so what's happening is she tends to go for the best stuff she can buy. She has expensive taste, and we're slowly building a good-looking house.

Today the builders wound up building a few walls to make a bathroom. Put a counter in there, and a sink. One mirror. A couple towel racks and windows. Two doors. A shower, toilet, roll dispenser, trash can, and some lights. She put several other windows in, like 7 or 8 windows. A couple doors, front and rear. A loveseat, and a refrigerator.

So basically, she finished ONE room (the bathroom), put some windows in, some doors, a loveseat and a 'fridge. After this ALMOST ALL HER MONEY WAS GONE! She could have bought cheaper stuff, and filled up other rooms, but her tastes are too expensive, apparently.

She also bought her own car. It's black and looks kinda like a Lexus or a Mercedes. I took screenies of all this! Probably put 'em up later this week.

I'm currently trynna save money. It seems I'm struggling with finances in sims just as much as I am in real life

I'm saving up to build some sort of bridge to a secret island lol

Love this! Will you build a fort on it too?

Ooh, cool!

Interesting. I find that Ashe Hull (as CEO of her megacorporation) earns money a little too quickly. But now that she's building her house she also burns through her money very fast.

Here is her new house, by the way.



It's currently a single-story home; eventually she's going to add a second floor. I'm not too crazy about the roof color; I'll have to see about changing it if possible.

Here is a cut-away shot.



The only room fully furnished at the moment is the bathroom, which is on the lower left. There's not much else in there, yet her house has (so far) costed THOUSANDS of Simoleans!



And that's Ashe Hull's Lexus or whatever that car's supposed to resemble. She would die to be seen driving Connie Lingus's cheapie-mobile!



Occasionally when Ashe has to go somewhere, a limo shows up. Imagine that. I'm actually jealous of a videogame character, folks.



And above's a shot of Connie Lingus, passed out on the floor. She was going going going, while her Energy Bar was deep red. And this is what happens when Sims don't get some rest.



And here's a shot of Connie in her new "Ab-Fab" outfit. There used to be a British show called Absolutely Fabulous; the main characters would often wear garish outfits such as these.



That's a nice shot of the town with some fog. Again, the Seasons DLC adds cool weather effects. In the base game it's always sunny.



Ashe Hull again. Here she is relaxing in her new home. I love the fall-colored trees (as well as the fog) seen through the windows.



And there's little Princess Hull. On her way to school. Cute clothes, eh? My daughter wants that outfit.

Great pixies, Renee!

No limo ever shows up for me and I definitely don´t get money too fast! That house, is that Ashe´s second? Wasn´t her first house much more narrow in design?

The first house is a pre-designed house the devs drew up. Yeah, it's kinda cramped in there.

This just in! I found a Grow mod that makes toddlers, children, and teens grow a little bit each day!

In the vanilla game, what happens is when a toddler becomes a child, they grow all a sudden. It's as if they're 3 one day and 7 the next. Same thing happens from Child to Teen. Well, what this mod does is makes them grow progressively, so that they're a little taller each day. Yeah, this is gonna be AMAZING.

So little Princess is actually growing? I didn´t think that was possible in these games!

I'll post content soon!

I've been having issues with Ariadne bot having enough time to do stuff. Apparently you can't fix that on the xbox.

What do you mean?

It will take her two hours to take a bath and get clean enough to be in the green. it'll take several hours, about six, to get her meter nearly full. Same with eating. I know buying better stuff helps fix it, but she barely has time to sleep, plus bathe, eat, and get ready in time for work in the AM. And skipping one makes her really grouchy. I usually sacrifice her cleanliness so she doesn't faint from lack of food and sleep.

I am actually getting Sims 3 on my gaming computer. I've been wanting to S3 for weeks now, but kept putting it off. I think it has something to do with this time of year. I go through phases. For awhile I'll be REALLY into a Sims game, then all the sudden I'll turn it off for half a year or so.

Anyways, expect some more pictures, I guess. I have this idea of making a police woman named Linda Hand (get it?) who lives with some other people.

NecroGade to the rescue!

You better make her ho... se... nice-looking