Middleground Beginnings

May 25, 2010 16:42



Time for something new! I'm out of school so I finally have some time on my hands to get this up. Since my computer specs are spiffy now and my sims no longer look like fuzzy flipper people, I figured it was sort of waste to keep all my pictures to myself.

When I started this, I'd just finished the tenth generation (quickly heading into the eleventh ;_;) of a pixel_trade ISBI and was getting pretty tired of it. So, I decided to set up a new neighborhood and do pennysims Build A City Challenge. It's technically an edit of the real rules here, and I edited it further so I don't know if it should even be called that :/

pennysims version mandated that she build absolutely everything which is cool, but I was totally, absolutely burned on building anything considering I usually build everything, so I reversed that. Build nothing! :D So, I stole plasticbox's Middleground. I didn't keep to the owning community lots thing either, and I tweaked the costs a bit: - get a university at $50,000 from a 10% from each family, once a season, and - to get into private school just requires the family to have $50,000 in assets (middle class kids go to private school too, they just feel really guilty that their parents can't afford a mercedes benz XD)

I also decided to do it as a pixel_trade thinger as well, but I regularly break the rules and marry in townies. I can't help it, I end up falling in love with plain townies and it makes me sad to see them consigned to an eternity of spinsterhood/rakehood, perhaps occasionally doted upon and dumped by a romance sim. So all the founders are other people's sims, and a good amount of the townies are too.

Also, it's not really blow-by-blow. That gets a bit boring for me, so it's sort of random.

Whew. tl;dr, let's get to the pictures, eh?
24 pictures under the cut, beware of dorkiness and British cusses.




Let's fast forward through all the boring beginning founder stuff. I used stakeit_uk's Annemarie Stirk as my first sim <3



She rolled as a lesbian, and there were next to none in the neighborhood, and those few who were she had negative chemistry with. Luckily she found Eugenia here.



They had two sets of twins together, and here's one set, Fidelia and Quincy. I seem to get a lot of twins in game since I installed the triplets and quad hack. Hm. It could be the FreeTime multiplier, too (even though I never use it, considering how many frickin' twins I get anyway)



Here's all four of them, although Bora is hiding behind Fidelia. Bora and Brion are the second set.



As the first family, Annemarie was pretty broke in the beginning. But she managed to set up a nice little business selling fruits/veggies, paintings, and whatever possessions they no longer needed.



Angeles Horsley <3 I've got a lot of stakeit's sims in game.





There's a good look at Bora. They all ended up pretty cute.



The next sim I plunked into town was pennysims Ivan. I left him to his own devices and this was the result. Sigh.



Brady: Dude, wtf is with the stinky garbage all up in your business? What sort of establishment is this!
Um, you did that about ten seconds ago.



I've had some trouble with Pooklet's face templates, they kept corrupting and giving me things like this. I really liked her legacy set, but because of this I ended up switching to a katu/selzi mix.



January Kane! <3 (stakeit again)





The third founder was pennysims Sara. She's so gawjus, srsly.





Miss purple over there is one of thealicecat's element sims, Carbon. She's purple because I discovered I can't stand non-chromatic skins (white, grey, black). I also can't seem to stand blue or yellow skin in game. I never knew I was so finicky.







You know, straight (or bi in Ivan's case) male Romance/Pleasure sims are difficult because there's no chance of progeny. Your female and gay male sims will inevitably get pregnant one way or another, but Don could screw all the ladies in Pleasantview until he dies and never have one kid. So, I generally seize on wants like these for that reason. I mean, this game is all about breedin', one way or another.



Annemarie and this townie's animations were completely in synch for these duo convos. It was kinda creepy.





What an interesting name >:3



This guy's name was Scotty Andrews! I can't help imagining him with a terrible ersatz Scottish accent now.



You know, in real life, a bunch of bloody fireflies can't stand up to a bloody wall. And it's not like you can grab and move them either. Game >:(

So, that's that. Hope it wasn't too boring. I've been up for a terribly long time, so if there's any typos please excuse them, I'll go back and manaically correct them later (English major, lol).

middleground, pixel_trade

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