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Despite claiming I wasn't a total control freak in the last update, I've decided that's exactly what I am. From now on I will be sole narrator of the updates, to try and keep them brief and to the point. Stories are for Prosperities, whereas this challenge is about population rather than community growth. If I let every sim have their say ( and I ( Read more... )

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I was tempted to make sims who represented real life people, but decided against it. Mainly because I think I have more talent at making the imaginary seem real, than the real seem imaginary. I did however base my founder on my husband Martin, who is indeed an Aries, with a thirst for knowledge and the blond haired, blue eyed good looks of a Norse ( Read more... )

Well, here is the formal announcement of the death of Deathly Hallows. It wasn't what I wanted, and although I've started another, I miss all my old sims terribly. It happened like this :-

1) I had glitches in the graphics of one of my houses - windows missing, speech with no speech bubbles etc etc.
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Having got further in this challenge than any I've ever attempted previously, I wanted to ensure the experience remained fresh and frankly, challenging. With this in mind, I decided to incorporate a mini challenge, which each household will participate in, determined by the roll of a die. I have also decided to reintroduce all teens and older sims ( Read more... )

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