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Post by Calislahn on Oct 17, 2004 14:13:10 GMT -5
Ah but they give it character, like my scary cat painting ;D
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Post by motoki on Oct 17, 2004 14:21:30 GMT -5
Oh and I think with the bathrooms putting the toilet and the tub in the same room probably only came along with the advent of modern plumbing. The first time I went to Japan I stayed in the countryside and they had a cess pool and I found out why you don't want those old style non flushing toilets in the room with the bath lol.
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Post by motoki on Oct 17, 2004 14:22:07 GMT -5
I want another scary cat painting darn it! I guess I just have to keep trying heh.
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Post by Calislahn on Oct 17, 2004 14:27:22 GMT -5
Ben did start doing a portrait of his dad but i fluffed the camera bit,didn't realise what it was and he ended up doing the whole study , sort of like the overhead shot i did of it but with him and his dad in the room I might get him to do another one properly, it would be nice to have loads of family portraits I guess these options only come up when your a certain creativity level. I maxed out my body one btw
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Post by Calislahn on Oct 18, 2004 13:30:42 GMT -5
Some pics of the little park i've been making Ariel view I got my sim to invite her friend Jenny along. She went off to grill some hot dogs, while Jenny watched her son Johnny on the swing. They sat eating hotdogs totally unaware of bully boy Tank beating up Johnny behind them ;D Tank won and got to use the swing while Johnny kept complaing that he couldn't, definitely need more swings ;D View from the bridge A small sunken garden Which leads into the hot tub area The girls had a soak in the hot tub and a chat, she's scowling again I did something silly while they were in the hot tub and got her to give Jenny a massage, now they have a crush on eachother, not sure what their husbands will think to that ;D Does it wear off i was just trying to improve their friendship really, it had got very low and as you can see they were not getting it any better with the chat, there was a lot of scowling on both sides, i should have just stuck to the cuddle
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Post by motoki on Oct 18, 2004 17:14:31 GMT -5
haha lol it should wear off yes if their levels go below the minimum for relationships. Just be careful you don't show any affection for your husband in front of her or she'll probably smack you both silly! I like the park, it's quite nice More swings as you said are always good. What's the building for, bathrooms?
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Post by Calislahn on Oct 18, 2004 17:19:26 GMT -5
Toilets, i thought it a good idea to have some, don't want the sims peeing in the bushes ;D I haven't finished it, got stuck trying to get a neckline right on a top honestly i am just so anal at times, i've been doing that all evening and i'm still not 100% happy Anyway it's bedtime so i've turned it off before i drive myself silly ;D
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Post by motoki on Oct 18, 2004 17:27:44 GMT -5
Well I know that feeling from modding. I haven't gotten too terribly deep into Sims modding yet, but I am sure I will it's only a matter of time. Once tools are released to make meshes and floor tiles for rugs and such I am sure it will be all over for me heh. Toilets are good. I have one community lot I downloaded that has showers and a baby changed table too (I didn't know you could even take toddlers out, hmm will have to try that). I think the hot tub does give some hygene, but not nearly as fast as the shower. Too bad you can't place beds, I think the best you can do is nap on a bench which doesn't give much energy. There was a vacation expansion pack for the first Sims where the family could go away on holiday. They were basically like community lots, but there were lodges and hotels and resorts and such where you could sleep and stay longer. We could make similar lots if the beds were enabled. Maybe someone will hack the game and figure out how to do that.
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Post by Calislahn on Oct 18, 2004 17:31:29 GMT -5
Funny i never came across a baby change table, i'll have to look out for that, i also never tried to take the kids, actually i didn't get the choice i don't think, but then i asked another sim so perhaps that was why I couldn't have coped with those two in the park anyway, they're bad enough in the house ;D
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Post by Calislahn on Oct 21, 2004 4:24:17 GMT -5
I decided not to move and instead i've spent some of my 50,000 on refurbishing my house, it now has an upper floor and deck, the upstairs is one huge room at the moment, not sure if i'll put any walls or leave it like that, it's quite nice having the space I've also moved most of the stuff i had on the lawn onto the upper deck enabling me to have a pool at last First person in it was Sophie the nanny The original house had a pale deck at the front and a dark one at the back, i decided to put the pale one all round as i used it on the roof as well, eventually i will replace the fence with the pale one as well so it all matches Ther kids are now grown up, Kim still had that awful hair but she now has two buns on top and a fairy outfit ;D I know i bought more than just that but it's the one she automatically had on. She's gone to school wearing it ;D One more game day and Ben will be a teenager, and they want another baby I can't see them getting the ten babies they both wanted, there just isn't enough time unless she has more twins and they are such a handful to look after, the parents aspiration meter is often pretty low as they have no time for their own things only work and the kids, it's okay if there wants involve the kids but if it's each other i can never seem to get a second to let them be together. And now the kids are more self sufficient do i really want another baby Sometimes this game is too much like real life ;D
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Post by motoki on Oct 21, 2004 6:11:40 GMT -5
I know, isn't it though? And lol at the nanny those darned nannies are everywhere. One good thing about the teens is they can use that energizer machine aspiration reward whereas the kids can't. My Mike and Chris sim now have 4 child age children, a teen and live in nanny Sharlene. It got so hard getting those brats to do their homework that I just started having the teen do all their homeworks and put him in the energizer when he got low on energy. Homework depletes their fun really fast but I found the fastest way to get up fun is to kick a flamingo or gnome several times, though when you knock them over you have to stand them up again. I really like what you did with that house. Sometimes it's better to just spend money remodeling instead of moving, that's what I did with my first house, that one I packaged up and put on the ftp, but thanks to Blanche and Patrizio I had a lot of money to work with. I agree the lighter fence would work well but otherwise it looks good. Having more space is always good. What's that little building out back, is it a toilet and/or shower? I've found it's good sometimes to have one in the yard for when you have parties and such. In Sims1 I used to put the stalls in my yard and they would use them because they are private, but they are kind of ugly heh.
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Post by Calislahn on Oct 21, 2004 7:34:36 GMT -5
It is a bathroom yes , the original was so small i added that, although i have now put another bathroom upstairs, so i now have three toilets ( i made the original bathroom just a toilet ) a bath/shower, a bath and two seperate showers, with all that there should be no need for complaining but you know what they are like, all those toilets and they all want to use the same one
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Post by motoki on Oct 21, 2004 8:02:49 GMT -5
Yes, I know. Someone on that Sims board said one rule of the game is that you can never have too many bathrooms. So true! Well I've been playing that 'romance' sim Sandra who had a breakdown after she had a baby basically as a hooker with lots of makeup and the trampiest outfits I could find (including one that looks remarkably similar to the PDS black shoelace outfit) and she seems much happier now. It's funny that when I tried to have her settle down with a happy family she went insane, but now that I'm making her a whore she's platinum all the time. She met up with the pimp who lives in this really small and trashy trailer with an outhouse and a cheap sofa on the lawn plus that cheap cinder block and board bookcase lol. I'll have to post some pictures when I get home.
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Post by Calislahn on Oct 21, 2004 11:06:47 GMT -5
Yes please ;D I have a different problem now, instead of toilets it's beds i put another double bed in upstairs, that means there is enough to sleep five sims, all well and good but everyone but kim was asleep and she refused to get in a bed with her brother so i had to buy another single bed just so she could sleep I should have just bought two singles in the first place.
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Post by motoki on Oct 21, 2004 12:24:07 GMT -5
They get like that sometimes. I'm not really sure why. At first I thought it was based on their relationship with someone, but sometimes they'll sleep with someone and other times their refuse even though their relationship hasn't changed much. Then I thought they might be less likely to sleep in the same bed with a family member with their underwear vs their pajamas. But who knows, maybe they just get in their moods.
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