Livesimming

[strange_tomato]

I'm interested in giving this livesimming thing a try, but I have questions about it. When's the best time of day and of the week to do it? What do I need to get set up? How much notice do I need to give? What do you think I should I do on my livestream? Have you done one? If so, where can I find it

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[voleste]

I'm afraid I don't have much tips to give, other than to hold the livestream session in the weekends. I'm really excited for a possible livestream from you!

[strange_tomato]

Yeah, it seemed like everyone has been doing them on weekends and that would really be the only possible time for me, unless I did it later in the evening, and that doesn't seem to work for the greatest number of people.

I think it'd be a lot of fun, though I don't know how well I'd do live and in spoken word. :P Eh, you have to try everything once, right?

[keoni_chan]

LivLucas did quite an awesome tutorial on livesimming a while back here. it covers all the basics. I learned all i know about streaming from her.

Be sure to get an "old" livestream account though. If you create one on new.livestream.com, people will need to sign in with either a livestream account or facebook to just watch it. It's really annoying.
Try signing up here that should work.

I'm really excited to see you stream though! You could stream your desktop background and I would watch XD But maybe you could do a set tour or something like that?

[strange_tomato]

Thank you! I'm going to check that out. s655 also mentioned that on my tumblr post.

Ah, that's also good to know! :) Thanks.

Haha! I can't imagine that being very entertaining, though I do have a very unique accent. XD We're known for "talking funny" here, but I think the upper Canada accent is way funnier, eh? ;) The Newfoundland accent is ~cool~.

Some sort of set tour (or at least what passes for a set in my game) or visiting households in my game might be fun. I could do a bit of a behind the scenes thing with a couple of loose ends that didn't get tied in my story. I found a couple of them when I restored my old Strangetown. Plot ideas that I didn't end up using, but still exist in the hood, and that sort of thing.

[aledstrange]

Well, pretty much what Keoni said. Make sure to open a original livestream account, choosing Broadcast on the link she gave you, and follow Liv/Jessa's tutorial for more technical details.

As for hours, it'll depend on you timezone (and time, of course), but ideally try to look for an hour that isn't too late or too early for people in Europe (preferably on weekends for obvious reasons).

I'll be awesome to see you stream. :)

[strange_tomato]

Thanks for the tips. I will definitely check out Jessa's tutorial and the advice I've been given for picking a time. It seems like early evening here works out to be the best time, with us being slightly ahead of the rest of North America. (LOL! I get such a kick out of saying that.)

I think it'll be a lot of fun. Have you done any?

[aledstrange]

It'll be really awesome if you get to livestream, even if just to show around a bit of your hood or anything you do ;)

I did livesim a couple of times (there's a link to the channel on my tumblr), but nothing too planned. I just fired up procaster with the game when I had sometime for myself and let people know thru tumblr. It was never big, but even with 5 or 6 people in the chat it's really fun (We are bit random here, especially on weekends, so planning days ahead doesn't work for me lol)

[strange_tomato]

I think I'd definitely go low key with it and just play or show off the inner workings of my story hood. From what I've seen in just visiting other livestreams, I have enough of a difficult time following chat and everything else when I'm just visiting the chat room. I can't imagine doing the stream and trying to do it! XD It'll need to be simple.

That sounds like the best approach to me. I'll go check out your videos when I get a chance. :) I'm much like you with a generally unplanned approach to life, but I would have to set out the time pretty deliberately with Baby Tomato involved. I'm sure Mr. Tomato will help me out so I can devote an hour or so to it.

[skellington7d]

A tour of your hood would be awesome! It's a good way to share your thought processes, what's going on behind the scenes, or just random simlish thoughts. You could also go into how you set up scenes or makeover sims etc. If you play with free will off your sims might get in hijinks as well.

[strange_tomato]

These are all great ideas. I think something very low key would appeal to me the most, so maybe I will just tour the hood a little and see what the sims are up to, and maybe reveal a few funny behind the scenes things like abandoned plot ideas, etc. I have a few of those that would be fun to show off.

You've done some livestreaming, right? Do you have a link to your channel?

[skellington7d]

Yep, here's a link to it!: http://www.livestream.com/skellssimslivestream/

I've just done a hood tour and some makeovers (since some people thought I did plastic surgery on my sims when it was actually hair and makeup.)

[strange_tomato]

Thank you. ^_^ I'll check that out!

Those sound like fun, and that's funny about people thinking it was plastic surgery. It's amazing what a set of defaults and the right cc will do.

I think with your makeovers, they're probably reacting mostly to that white lower eye makeup you use. I tried it out once and it does seem to change the eye shape considerably for some sims. I wasn't a fan of it for my own game, because it changed the look of the characters too much for me, but I like it in your story for the very same reason. I like that it makes them that little bit different, in the same way you're reinterpreting the way Dina and Nina are commonly viewed. It softens them up. :)

[kalisasims]

Please choose a time that is reasonable in Europe :D

I haven't livesimmed before and I'm so stupid when it comes to computers that I don't think I ever will, either :D LOL.

[strange_tomato]

I will do my best. :) Jessa seems to have some very good specific advice on times posted below, so I will try to follow that.

Seriously, if I can figure it out, you can. :P You should give it a try!