esme's Rebuilding Diary: Rebuild 5, Entry 4
So the progress has continued apace. I got the spirit this weekend, and muscled through all 400+ relationships, plus restoring all genetics for everyone likely to reproduce. (I didn't bother with Elder females, Elder males married to Elder females, and gay males.) I aged up everyone that needed to be aged up, although they mostly still need new wardrobes. I upgraded all sims who had been to Uni prior to the rebuild, made Abhijeet (Leila's husband) a proper brujo instead of a pretend one, made Chant a plantsim, and changed a few names as needed (Sally kept her maiden name wneh she got married, but I had to create her as Sally Langerak to make the family tree work right). I had to play musical houses a bit, but everyone is now in the right household except for 1. Skye's beau, who I still need to add to her house, and 2. Tamara and her roommate. Their "apartment" building isn't quite ready to be moved back into yet, although I'm getting close. Everyone who had badges now has those badges back, but I forgot to put in the buyable craftables, so Rose and Dmitri don't have their flower stock yet, and Catherynne doesn't have her toys.
I even managed to fix up a few relative ages that had gotten messed up. Rose was too young in relation to Lisa due to a miscalculation with elixir at least last rebuild if not the one before. I have alltogether too many of these...
I had a bit of a scare when going in to give Bryan and Bella their badges back when I saw that they didn't have any skills. Bryan, at least, was born in game and should have some. Then I checked my notes, and indeed neither of them should have any full skill points, although Bella is close to a cleaning point from filling in holes dug by strays. Bryan did have skills before the last rebuild, but I took them away when starting a Creation To Future challenge on the grounds that they provided an unfair advantage. So it was all good, really.
I recreated three houses from pictures (windowed mode it very helpful for that) and redecorated one of the houses that came with IKEA Stuff for Jo and Phoenix. There are now six houses occupied in Sandersville! Can you see how nicely it's coming along?
I still have to recreate, redecorate, or completely rebuild a bunch of houses, and fix up the real downtown to look like the rebuilding 'hodd downtown, and fix up the Uni buildings in my Uni rebuilding 'hood, and add a Uni to the real Sandersville, and make the Sandersville Uni look like the rebuilding Uni, and and and -- You know what? I'm going to bask in the knowledge that I have made good progress and that what I've completed is nicely done.