Sims2, oil paints, and garden or crafts

As far as I know the mailbox cheat for twins is broken so doesn't work. Just like summoning the alien from it doesn't work...

I don't think I set any cheats on this house beyond move objects anyway. It's supposed to just give me a hood with different ages played so I won't have a mass birthday bang when the brand new sims all age up at once...

I think from now on I'm just going to prosperity generate the families, and random number of days to age up on the sim blender - it's been updated to allow 1, 3, AND 5 days at a time now...

I do have to say this has allowed me to play with acr controlls though. Still haven't found my happy medium with it.

I can tell you that turning all autonomous try for baby OFF eliminates the random roll that the dialogue gives you. The only notice that pops up is got preg from risky.

Played the family until they went broke, reconfigured my tax system, reconfigured my rules for raising livestock other than rabbits and foul...

Then looked at my taxes and went wait a minute...

😂 Oops. So...still not sure how the winter and no leftovers works. So far it takes the entire crop field restock the fridge (forget taxing 10% of that!) Each SEASON. Forbid me to cause a crop blight...

I've seen a suggested serving size mod, but not sure I want to add that. I already don't care for the cheaty feel of the sunMoon crops, so only use the in game stuff. So a 3x3 crop field is just big enough to keep 2-4 sims alive through one season without needing to restock. Still not sure how to handle crops and fishing (cooking a fish meal and stopping them just before they max the hunger bar is almost enough to feed 2 sims...especially if one is child...

I guess that is part of the challenge though. Maybe I just need a bigger crop field? And catching enough fish is hard when you eat one or two a day because the previous plate went bad. (And the fall and spring were cold so the water froze earlier for longer). Did not help that I rolled for the family to make their income on selling fish...Townies gave negative stars for average priced boots, and would barely buy one fish. I never caught enough to be able to pack 12. (I haven't used sunMoon fish either because they can't be grilled/ cooked like the in game stuff).

Any way, I just wanted to share that this time I decided to toss a few dice. The Rolls determined that Cassandra would marry Don, and I just played him until 9pm of the first day- I had removed the age adjustment for the first day of rotation so I could play the "guide" version... (I love changing up the approach...I think my most memorable run was playing by the time-- Don starts on a Tuesday, but the wedding is on Monday. The only other house that is out of time is the Pleasants- they start on a Thursday. )

So I played each household for approximately one day rotation. Even the Brokes, so she still hasn't had the baby yet. I've just installed the longer life mods...and have nearly played through the second round (one day). So I've only changed the adults days remaining, left all other ages as they were. So Beau has 31 days to teen left now...

The Pleasants are still on Thursday at 1400 hours. And the Oldies adopted Chloe...and doesn't really get along with her. She must be a troubled child...

Looking at the event scores...they have a wide variation in strength. Every other random roll is pretty close, so I think this is my culprit.

I wonder what the thought process behind these scores was? We already are subtracting positive scores for poor health, poor presentation, and for myself, lower fetal scores on multiples and length of labor.

In practice? Not so much. How do you utilize the grand staircase that has the flair at the bottom? No matter what I try it doesn't look good. And I really should probably look at some blue prints... I keep trying to stick the indoor privy directly accross from the grand entrance... and the only other room that would make sense is a dining room or servants quarters...but I have that separated and down in a corner by the fishing pond...

New experiment I guess...

Now, which was which? 1 male? Or was 1 female? 3 is both...

Genderfying it makes it unavailable in cas to the other gender and that's all it does. The kids could still generate either skin tone. Oh dear. The kids also could break genetics by gaining the other gender's color face...with a default skin body. I guess you could make a custom skin and color the females separately than the males...with a neutral child tone... so much for that...

Was going to edit some additional thoughts, but realized they were incorrect (both gender children use the same face and body, don't know why some generated the default body instead of the face) - maybe I morphed the models faces I used for the parents, so they passed their face genetics linked to the skintone? - I used some extracted sims I was really happy with and want to use in my new hood when I get it up...and I made them long enough ago that I don't recall specifics of their generation (possibly creating the originals via pacifier, so their faces are each unique)

So I'm confused about the warwick start...if I have randomly generated needing 2 fiefs for 2 neighborhoods, and each neighborhood is run by a duke, who answers to the monarch...I've just created more royals and nobles than serfs and peasants. Plus, each fief is it's own settlement? Shouldn't each fief have several settlements? (Can see adding some Travel rules)

Further rule thoughts and rambles under the cut

Guess I just found an experiment to try!

Has anyone else experimented with this? We all know about the templates, and linking the broken face... was use of sliders how the face templates broke to begin with? Guess I'd better use a unique two faces to judge the experiment on - no face 2

So apparently Marticore has tested this, and only blending the face templates produces inheritable templates. Why does copying surgery in simpe produce inheritable template forms? It's just sliders again...

So cas sliders are cas plastic surgery? Why is that when everything else in cas is homozygus? And how does blending the face in cas affect the baby face? Is that what makes it inheritable? How does that work when all the originals were linked to face 2?

🙄 I don't understand...

He just turned 1. (Seriously, roll for number of days into the agespan (12 for toddler) and I got a 1.

😑 Hmm. Debating with myself here. Do I roll the rest of the families, declare a second daughter the Monarch’s nanny, and move her in? Or just go a head and create the nanny?

I'm no where near ready to play - lot building is not my best interest...

Add in the fact that I'm mish mashing a whole bunch of disparate ideas together...

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I read Earl Bat, king rat, squire mouse.🤣🤣🤣

...now to rewrite my ros to add the fires back in...