Alphabet Fish Soup: Generation Z
Right. So I decided to start something else. Sims ADD, I guess. First, I removed all hoods from the neighborhood folder. There were about 7, some designated for use in cataloging townies, some set aside for future apocs, some actually in use, but whatever, I wanted it empty to see if things would run faster (they did!).
Next, I removed the useless character files (3 social workers? Really?) from the program files. Hope I didn't set off a timer that will cause my game to explode later on, but oh well. I considered removing elder townies, but decided if they end up wanting to join in the baby-making fun, they can be aged down. Er...Maybe.
The hood is blank. No community lots, no houses, nada. I added a downtown, all three vacation destinations (to spawn some foreigners), Academie LeTourneau (it won the coin toss), and a slightly cleaned Bluewater Village. Oh and I removed character files of the sim binners I didn't want, which leaves only Julien Cooke, Chester Gieke, the Travellers, the Larsons, & the Gavigans. They're all currently homeless. (The uni sim binners - the Davis Bros., Marla, Tom & Emily - were tossed into a dorm).
The founder:
Zanita Wardsback. Aries. Fortune sim. Likes redheads who are gifted in the culinary arts and don't stink. Really was worried about making her fortune because while I generally stand by my sims' LTWs, if it ended up being Own 5 Top Businesses, she'd probably die miserable. Ha! Thank the maker, it turned out to be Oceanography. WHEW!
Now I love Maxis-matchy style, but the only thing 'Maxis' about Zanita is her eyebrows, methinks! I'm curious to see how long the skin & eyes can last (skin is from Parsimonious; eyes are a pink recolor I did of Lyran's eyes).
Her face is a blend of a CAS premade sim (the black-haired braided female with yellow top & pink pants) and one other little detail we'll see later. She's my favorite face and unfortunately doesn't show up anywhere else.
Anyway, Zanita is here to found an Alphabetacy, or my version of it. I looked over the rules at boolprop and went 'Meh.' I had actually started one before with the intent of throwing in an Apoc about halfway through, but only got to about 'D' before becoming BoReD. Hopefully that won't happen this time...yet it seems it always does...
The ('My') Rules:
-Founder must have at least two kids
-Those two kids must have at least two kids
-Those two kids each must have at least two kids
-And so on. No, I'm kidding! That was the original plan until I did the math and ... 2 factored by 26 ... well. I don't think my game can handle over ten thousand playable sims, so that idea was rethought. New plan! When we get to every third or fourth generation, only one sim (Heir) will be chosen from among his/her cousins and allowed to continue. And the Heir will have two kids, who will each have two kids, blah blah blah. Makes many more sims that way.
-Aspirations will be assigned by Moi on a first-come, first-serve basis. So Zanita is fortune, which leaves 5 more aspirations available for the next five sims. Let's say she has two kids and I assign one Popularity & the other Pleasure (egads). That leaves three aspirations to choose from for the next three sims. Once all six are assigned, then I can start over. I usually don't give a crap about secondaries and don't see that changing. If any sims end up with cuisine as a predestined hobby, they just might find themselves obsessing about grilled cheese for the rest of their lives. Singular!
-Rotations (apart from uni) will be seasonal. I might skip winter though, just because I can't stand it.
-All sims going to uni will have to pay a 10k fee. Because Academie LeTourneau is expensive.
Mods, anyone?
-I considered using the Quads & Triplets mod, but am 99% sure I won't.
-I am using the elders & toddlers sleep through the night mods because they drive me crazy otherwise.
-Also using TwoJeff's Crystal Ball just to see who my sims should be looking for, but I don't use it to summon anyone. They still have to meet the old-fashioned way, or by paying off the Old Gypsy Hag.
-Don't recall what else I use that will massively effect game play; I don't use ACR or same-gender pregnancy hacks. If I think of something, I'll mention it.
-There will be absolutely no maxmotives, boolprop, money cheats (to increase funds) or things like that. I feel guilty just using the Freetime aspiration rewards, so I won't be going anywhere near those other things.
So after taking my time in CAS to perfect Zanita's peculiarities, I dropped her in a dorm and promptly discovered she had Oceanography as a LTW (hurrah!) and M&D as a predestined hobby (hmm...).
Once she had enough cash (after a couple semesters), she found a different sort of hobby: remaking her fellow students' looks.
The makeovers were, on the whole, met with universal acclaim. Zanita took to running out front and begging passersby to enter and test out her makeover chair, with the result that she ended up redoing most of the campus. Except the Professors. How obnoxious is it that you can't change those morons, grr...
She spent little time on community lots. Even though the load times weren't that bad, I'm still not a fan.
The only interesting fellow she found on the uni community lots:
It's Lee! Lee Rusewicz everyone! Lee is a special sim; he's the 10th member of the Jocks and is usually broken. I tried my best in SimPE to fix him so he'd actually show up in game and apparently it worked because he walked right into the Crypt O'Night joint like he owned the place. I assume he does own it because none of the staff gave him crap about ignoring the 'No Shirts, No Shoes, No Service' rules. Heh.
Whereas this Old Bag gave Zanita plenty of guff about walking around in her bathing suit:
Zanita promptly changed.
(I like to think the loopy ear roll was intended for the Old Bag and not the loser dancers that fell all over themselves on the dance floor.)
I don't think I'd ever been to this sculpture park before, but daaaaamn, that looks slightly dangerous! Oh, the lengths sims will go to in order to blow bubbles.
Aaaaand those are the highlights of her trips around town. She didn't find a single three-bolt match and very few two bolters. I guess none of these townies are into lavender-skin. So Zanita tries the Old Hag.
I find 3800+ is enough to entice a good match. Anything less and you're risking low chemistry. Anyway...the Old Hag serves up this scrumptious piece of masculinity:
Red hair, check. Interesting fashion sense, check. High cooking skill, noooo. Any skills? Nope. Two bolts, check. While I dig the recessive genes and what looks like two tickets to paradise in his pocket, he does not dig Zanita and her attempts to chat fall flat (I never even looked at her interests, now that I think about it). She doesn't roll anything other than the usual 'Entertain WhatsHisface', 'Talk to WhatsHisFace', and eventually 'Play with WhatsHisFace.' I oblige.
Yes, mysterydateman, you were flown all the way out here from Austrasimasia or wherever to play kicky bag in a dorm with a coed. I'm sure there are few things he'd rather be doing.
(On another note, kicky bag in heels? Really Zanita? Meh, he's wearing sandals...)
Days semesters pass. She earns enough money to buy this:
Ahem. She bought the bass, not the blonde.
Her fellow students throw cash at her feet. Literally!
And soon she has enough money for a second date set up by the Old Hag.
Oh bite me, Mr. I-love-sports-and-hate-reading guy. Though Zanita gets all hearty-farty when she checks him out, there are no bolts. No bolts! I don't even try to make friends with him. He's quickly dismissed. Thanks a lot, Old Hag! You just wasted another 3831 simoleons! ARGH!
Ah. She likes big ears, I guess.
More time passes. She makes over some more students until nearly all can all claim to have been marked by the lavender hands of the campus wonder-stylist.
This guy's my favorite. Not only does he love the new look Zanita chose for him, he takes every opportunity to show his thanks by telling her Dirty Joke after Dirty Joke. But he grew on her eventually. Their chemistry was one-bolt for a while, dropping down to Negative whenever he wore the cloud of green stink, then it popped up to two bolts when she earned high creativity points. And they became best friends. Hmm...
She showed no inclination to flirt with anyone, let alone be friends with anyone...but I did set the seasons to Fall-Summer-Fall-Summer, so her non-interest in flirting is maybe due to a lack of spring.
Graduation nears. Time for one last blind date. Please...? Something good?
Oh, shut up, Peter. I'm pretty sure you're not even a real redhead.
Le sigh. I consider kicking the Garden Club Snob to the curb, but after the usual joking and tickling and appreciating, he doesn't mind her conversation and they become friends. But he's a late addition to her roster of future baby-daddies - not to mention totally broke and skill-less - and her time at uni is at an end.
Zanita Wardsback. Class of '11, 3.8 GPA Philosophy (yeah that translates well to Marine Biology, heh heh).
She earned a few skill points (mostly creativity) and a bronze stylist badge.
The grad party guest list consists of only two sims: the secret society dude she met on a community lot (I have NO idea what his name is, ha!) and another guy friend.
Now usually when I have a sim throw a party, they'll get the want to have their first woohoo (if they haven't already had it), but not Zanita. Never rolled a want to flirt/kiss/woohoo anyone or anything, even when on her dates. I have determined she's nothing but a cold fish. It's that Oceanography thing coming back to haunt me.
So if she won't do it on her own, I'll choose for her.
This is Zack Rodiek. He enjoys beating the crap out of cows, running almost everywhere he goes, and screaming the school anthem every chance he gets.
I had already decided the llama would be a good thing for Zanita and was hoping for a 'Never see him til the wedding day' scenario (would he change out of his llama suit for the wedding?) but I FORGOT he'd come dressed like this to the party. Oh well. He'll do. Zanita, as usual, could care less. Her wants the last few semesters consisted of 'buy sculpture', 'buy sculpture that costs over $500', 'buy sculpture that costs over $1000', with the occasional 'Win dance contest' thrown in to mix things up. Hopefully she'll roll something for the llama at some point otherwise he might have to 'Vo Gerbitz' with someone else. I don't even know what his aspiration is!
The party ends, Zanita packs up her belongings (1 thinking cap, 1 cell phone, 3 maps she found in the dirt) and puts on her traveling clothes in preparation of moving back to the big (empty!) city.
That's it for Part One. CIAO!
Next, I removed the useless character files (3 social workers? Really?) from the program files. Hope I didn't set off a timer that will cause my game to explode later on, but oh well. I considered removing elder townies, but decided if they end up wanting to join in the baby-making fun, they can be aged down. Er...Maybe.
The hood is blank. No community lots, no houses, nada. I added a downtown, all three vacation destinations (to spawn some foreigners), Academie LeTourneau (it won the coin toss), and a slightly cleaned Bluewater Village. Oh and I removed character files of the sim binners I didn't want, which leaves only Julien Cooke, Chester Gieke, the Travellers, the Larsons, & the Gavigans. They're all currently homeless. (The uni sim binners - the Davis Bros., Marla, Tom & Emily - were tossed into a dorm).
The founder:
Zanita Wardsback. Aries. Fortune sim. Likes redheads who are gifted in the culinary arts and don't stink. Really was worried about making her fortune because while I generally stand by my sims' LTWs, if it ended up being Own 5 Top Businesses, she'd probably die miserable. Ha! Thank the maker, it turned out to be Oceanography. WHEW!
Now I love Maxis-matchy style, but the only thing 'Maxis' about Zanita is her eyebrows, methinks! I'm curious to see how long the skin & eyes can last (skin is from Parsimonious; eyes are a pink recolor I did of Lyran's eyes).
Her face is a blend of a CAS premade sim (the black-haired braided female with yellow top & pink pants) and one other little detail we'll see later. She's my favorite face and unfortunately doesn't show up anywhere else.
Anyway, Zanita is here to found an Alphabetacy, or my version of it. I looked over the rules at boolprop and went 'Meh.' I had actually started one before with the intent of throwing in an Apoc about halfway through, but only got to about 'D' before becoming BoReD. Hopefully that won't happen this time...yet it seems it always does...
The ('My') Rules:
-Founder must have at least two kids
-Those two kids must have at least two kids
-Those two kids each must have at least two kids
-And so on. No, I'm kidding! That was the original plan until I did the math and ... 2 factored by 26 ... well. I don't think my game can handle over ten thousand playable sims, so that idea was rethought. New plan! When we get to every third or fourth generation, only one sim (Heir) will be chosen from among his/her cousins and allowed to continue. And the Heir will have two kids, who will each have two kids, blah blah blah. Makes many more sims that way.
-Aspirations will be assigned by Moi on a first-come, first-serve basis. So Zanita is fortune, which leaves 5 more aspirations available for the next five sims. Let's say she has two kids and I assign one Popularity & the other Pleasure (egads). That leaves three aspirations to choose from for the next three sims. Once all six are assigned, then I can start over. I usually don't give a crap about secondaries and don't see that changing. If any sims end up with cuisine as a predestined hobby, they just might find themselves obsessing about grilled cheese for the rest of their lives. Singular!
-Rotations (apart from uni) will be seasonal. I might skip winter though, just because I can't stand it.
-All sims going to uni will have to pay a 10k fee. Because Academie LeTourneau is expensive.
Mods, anyone?
-I considered using the Quads & Triplets mod, but am 99% sure I won't.
-I am using the elders & toddlers sleep through the night mods because they drive me crazy otherwise.
-Also using TwoJeff's Crystal Ball just to see who my sims should be looking for, but I don't use it to summon anyone. They still have to meet the old-fashioned way, or by paying off the Old Gypsy Hag.
-Don't recall what else I use that will massively effect game play; I don't use ACR or same-gender pregnancy hacks. If I think of something, I'll mention it.
-There will be absolutely no maxmotives, boolprop, money cheats (to increase funds) or things like that. I feel guilty just using the Freetime aspiration rewards, so I won't be going anywhere near those other things.
So after taking my time in CAS to perfect Zanita's peculiarities, I dropped her in a dorm and promptly discovered she had Oceanography as a LTW (hurrah!) and M&D as a predestined hobby (hmm...).
Once she had enough cash (after a couple semesters), she found a different sort of hobby: remaking her fellow students' looks.
The makeovers were, on the whole, met with universal acclaim. Zanita took to running out front and begging passersby to enter and test out her makeover chair, with the result that she ended up redoing most of the campus. Except the Professors. How obnoxious is it that you can't change those morons, grr...
She spent little time on community lots. Even though the load times weren't that bad, I'm still not a fan.
The only interesting fellow she found on the uni community lots:
It's Lee! Lee Rusewicz everyone! Lee is a special sim; he's the 10th member of the Jocks and is usually broken. I tried my best in SimPE to fix him so he'd actually show up in game and apparently it worked because he walked right into the Crypt O'Night joint like he owned the place. I assume he does own it because none of the staff gave him crap about ignoring the 'No Shirts, No Shoes, No Service' rules. Heh.
Whereas this Old Bag gave Zanita plenty of guff about walking around in her bathing suit:
Zanita promptly changed.
(I like to think the loopy ear roll was intended for the Old Bag and not the loser dancers that fell all over themselves on the dance floor.)
I don't think I'd ever been to this sculpture park before, but daaaaamn, that looks slightly dangerous! Oh, the lengths sims will go to in order to blow bubbles.
Aaaaand those are the highlights of her trips around town. She didn't find a single three-bolt match and very few two bolters. I guess none of these townies are into lavender-skin. So Zanita tries the Old Hag.
I find 3800+ is enough to entice a good match. Anything less and you're risking low chemistry. Anyway...the Old Hag serves up this scrumptious piece of masculinity:
Red hair, check. Interesting fashion sense, check. High cooking skill, noooo. Any skills? Nope. Two bolts, check. While I dig the recessive genes and what looks like two tickets to paradise in his pocket, he does not dig Zanita and her attempts to chat fall flat (I never even looked at her interests, now that I think about it). She doesn't roll anything other than the usual 'Entertain WhatsHisface', 'Talk to WhatsHisFace', and eventually 'Play with WhatsHisFace.' I oblige.
Yes, mysterydateman, you were flown all the way out here from Austrasimasia or wherever to play kicky bag in a dorm with a coed. I'm sure there are few things he'd rather be doing.
(On another note, kicky bag in heels? Really Zanita? Meh, he's wearing sandals...)
Days semesters pass. She earns enough money to buy this:
Ahem. She bought the bass, not the blonde.
Her fellow students throw cash at her feet. Literally!
And soon she has enough money for a second date set up by the Old Hag.
Oh bite me, Mr. I-love-sports-and-hate-reading guy. Though Zanita gets all hearty-farty when she checks him out, there are no bolts. No bolts! I don't even try to make friends with him. He's quickly dismissed. Thanks a lot, Old Hag! You just wasted another 3831 simoleons! ARGH!
Ah. She likes big ears, I guess.
More time passes. She makes over some more students until nearly all can all claim to have been marked by the lavender hands of the campus wonder-stylist.
This guy's my favorite. Not only does he love the new look Zanita chose for him, he takes every opportunity to show his thanks by telling her Dirty Joke after Dirty Joke. But he grew on her eventually. Their chemistry was one-bolt for a while, dropping down to Negative whenever he wore the cloud of green stink, then it popped up to two bolts when she earned high creativity points. And they became best friends. Hmm...
She showed no inclination to flirt with anyone, let alone be friends with anyone...but I did set the seasons to Fall-Summer-Fall-Summer, so her non-interest in flirting is maybe due to a lack of spring.
Graduation nears. Time for one last blind date. Please...? Something good?
Oh, shut up, Peter. I'm pretty sure you're not even a real redhead.
Le sigh. I consider kicking the Garden Club Snob to the curb, but after the usual joking and tickling and appreciating, he doesn't mind her conversation and they become friends. But he's a late addition to her roster of future baby-daddies - not to mention totally broke and skill-less - and her time at uni is at an end.
Zanita Wardsback. Class of '11, 3.8 GPA Philosophy (yeah that translates well to Marine Biology, heh heh).
She earned a few skill points (mostly creativity) and a bronze stylist badge.
The grad party guest list consists of only two sims: the secret society dude she met on a community lot (I have NO idea what his name is, ha!) and another guy friend.
Now usually when I have a sim throw a party, they'll get the want to have their first woohoo (if they haven't already had it), but not Zanita. Never rolled a want to flirt/kiss/woohoo anyone or anything, even when on her dates. I have determined she's nothing but a cold fish. It's that Oceanography thing coming back to haunt me.
So if she won't do it on her own, I'll choose for her.
This is Zack Rodiek. He enjoys beating the crap out of cows, running almost everywhere he goes, and screaming the school anthem every chance he gets.
I had already decided the llama would be a good thing for Zanita and was hoping for a 'Never see him til the wedding day' scenario (would he change out of his llama suit for the wedding?) but I FORGOT he'd come dressed like this to the party. Oh well. He'll do. Zanita, as usual, could care less. Her wants the last few semesters consisted of 'buy sculpture', 'buy sculpture that costs over $500', 'buy sculpture that costs over $1000', with the occasional 'Win dance contest' thrown in to mix things up. Hopefully she'll roll something for the llama at some point otherwise he might have to 'Vo Gerbitz' with someone else. I don't even know what his aspiration is!
The party ends, Zanita packs up her belongings (1 thinking cap, 1 cell phone, 3 maps she found in the dirt) and puts on her traveling clothes in preparation of moving back to the big (empty!) city.
That's it for Part One. CIAO!