I can't write a story if you paid me. Well, if you paid me then maybe I would make the effort. But since I'm doing this for free, it is going to be commentary or nothing.
This is so wonderful! I am looking forward to how this goes (I may have to get that mod you mentioned to set the aging to Sims 2 style eventually).
So if I am reading this correctly, Skip Broke has already been born in the game and Brandi's parents are only teens at the start so if time moved normally in the game for everyone, Skip might be dead by the time Brandi (once born) would be old enough to date. [rant]Uck!! EA, I mean really, would it have been so hard just to put in his parents with a hint that they should have a boy? [/rant]
Now to go off and read the Cassandra Goth one because I plan on doing that in my own game once I get a better handle on playing than I currently have (and I stop getting twins every pregnancy; I don't know what I am doing wrong).
When you first go into Riverview, Skip Broke is 4 days away from aging to teen. The teen stage lasts about 14 days. With Betty and Bob having 13 days to go until they age to YA, even if Betty was to get pregnant right away on the first day of being a YA, Skip would age to YA by the time Brandi was born (4 days of pregnancy). Add 4 days of being an infant, 7 days of being a child and 14 days of being a teen and Skip would have had several days of being an adult by the time Brandi ages to YA. Given how story progression works, it is quite likely that by that stage Skip would have married someone else. Or moved out of town. I know that I could turn off story progression to stop Skip from getting married to someone else, but the 20+ day age difference between them would be pretty huge.
I know that in TS2 Skip is already dead due to a "pool ladder accident" so having Skip die well before Brandi would kind of fit that storyline. But I didn't want to do things that way.
If you look around Sunset Valley there are other inconsistencies in TS3 with what we saw in TS2. For one, when you first load the hood, Kaylynn Langerak is already a child. And Daniel Pleasant is not born yet. How is she supposed to have an affair with him if she's likely to be an elder or dead by the time he is born?
I had noticed that as well (see is also older than Mortimer when the game first loads yet she manages in The Sims 2 to be the ever youthful Maid and Mortimer is an Elder.
Since I haven't played the pre-mades yet in the game I had not worried about it too much. If I get the mod you mentioned at the beginning of your post I may have to play to get some of the ages set correctly.
Awesomemod is actually a HUGE mod with lots and lots of options in it. If you only want specific functions, you are best served by using the online configuration tool to enable and disable stuff to suit your purposes
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"Keep in mind that if you put it in your game, it requires updating every 14 days. I'm used to it now but I'm finding posts all over the place where people are surprised that the mod shut down their game when the fortnight had elapsed. Pescado kind of fails to mention this little "feature" in the download post."
Interesting, I think for now I will play without it since I am just playing a family my husband made. By the time I get to playing the pre-mades, maybe the 14 day shut down will be resolved.
So if I am reading this correctly, Skip Broke has already been born in the game and Brandi's parents are only teens at the start so if time moved normally in the game for everyone, Skip might be dead by the time Brandi (once born) would be old enough to date. [rant]Uck!! EA, I mean really, would it have been so hard just to put in his parents with a hint that they should have a boy? [/rant]
Now to go off and read the Cassandra Goth one because I plan on doing that in my own game once I get a better handle on playing than I currently have (and I stop getting twins every pregnancy; I don't know what I am doing wrong).
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When you first go into Riverview, Skip Broke is 4 days away from aging to teen. The teen stage lasts about 14 days. With Betty and Bob having 13 days to go until they age to YA, even if Betty was to get pregnant right away on the first day of being a YA, Skip would age to YA by the time Brandi was born (4 days of pregnancy). Add 4 days of being an infant, 7 days of being a child and 14 days of being a teen and Skip would have had several days of being an adult by the time Brandi ages to YA. Given how story progression works, it is quite likely that by that stage Skip would have married someone else. Or moved out of town. I know that I could turn off story progression to stop Skip from getting married to someone else, but the 20+ day age difference between them would be pretty huge.
I know that in TS2 Skip is already dead due to a "pool ladder accident" so having Skip die well before Brandi would kind of fit that storyline. But I didn't want to do things that way.
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Since I haven't played the pre-mades yet in the game I had not worried about it too much. If I get the mod you mentioned at the beginning of your post I may have to play to get some of the ages set correctly.
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Interesting, I think for now I will play without it since I am just playing a family my husband made. By the time I get to playing the pre-mades, maybe the 14 day shut down will be resolved.
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