Upcoming

I have just finished a starter cottage - rather neo-Victorian 1 bdrm on a small lot. I also have just completed a Coffeehouse and a Town Park for my new custom town that I plan to upload.

Working on New Lots

This weeks project is going to be a couple of new lots.  A 2 Bedroom Country Cottage and an Apartment Building. I probably won't have a new chapter on the Goths up for a week or so as I am going on a building spree.

Goth Family Damage

Bella and Cass are mad at Don- Cass nearly broke it off with him before I stopped her- Alex apparently cheated with Dina as did Mortimer-- (Bella doesn't know) I have not been in the Terrano household to see if Stella knows her man cheated. I really should resurrect Bella's Brother and see if I can engineer an unfortunate death by sattelite or fire for the Caliente sisters. Maybe I will marry Dina off to Malcolm Landgraab. Mortimer and Bella became elders- Cherie grew up as did all the other kids in the central family and now I have 8 controllable sims on vacation. Fun.

Of all the Bad Luck

I have been playing all the pre-made Pleasantview families in an effort to keep their aging up to the Goths. So the first thing that happens is that I go into the Caliente sisters house - Dina hm-hms Mortimer who is waiting outside than they get called to go on an outing and the outing is with Alexander, Don Lothario-Goth- Cassandra, and Bella. So Don reverts to his old ways which sends Cassie, Bella, Dina and Nina Ballistic at him and each other. Fight galore so now I am going in to see the damage to the Goths.

Plans for the Goth Family

I think I am going to stop playing the Goths when Mortimer and Bella die. It is after all their story that Cassandra is telling so it would be wrong to continue it beyond their deaths. I will go back to my legacy family after that.

Misc

Well made up the choice on the defaults. I am usign Rensims Hi-Res Peau Defaults. They are gorgeous not as shiny as Enaylas skins but not as Maxisy as Selzi's.

I have submitted Chapter 4 of Reunion- Babies and more babies.

Chapter 5 is on the way and it will be long and essentially nothing but birthdays- Gunther becomes a toddler than a child, Neptune Goth Terrano is born, Cherie has her toddler birthday than her child birthday, the twins and Katelyn become teens, Morts and Bella reach elder and retire- Chapter 6 I am sending everyone on vacation. I need to remember to use a large hotel because between the Goths and Goth Terranos there will be about 12 people on vacation.

Skintones

I have been unable to makup my mind on default skintones lately. I was using Enaylas Pixie Defaults by Sausage but found them to shiny and my sims look plastic. I am in the middle of trying the 2nd Anniversery Skintones by Selzi (I liked her face template replacements and decided to try her skintones) but they are both to Maxisy and Yellowy. So I am either going to move onto HP's Idolatry of the Flesh defaults or Rensims Peau Defaults I am going to try both in game and see how they work out. Normally I love Enayla's skintones but, I have been getting bored with them lately. So anyone who reads my stories will be noticing some skintone changes on my sims over the next few days. I will actually be changing right in the middle of Chapter 4 of my Goth family story just a forwarning.

I Love FRAPS

I have begun using FRAPS for my screenshots. No more blurry nasty EA cameras. The pictures are clear and well defined and well lit. Yay- I might even get around to writing up my Goth family story soon. Just comparing the pictures I took before my last upload of Alex Goth in College - so yucky

Up and Coming

What do you do when your wife returns after a 15 year absence, your daughter gets married and gives birth to twins and you son turns into a teen. Well if you are Sim City's own Simoleonaire Mortimer Goth you give your wife and family a 7 bedroom, 3 bathroom castle with a built in basement recreation room, a greenhouse, a pond, a family cemetary and landscaped grounds. I had brought Bella back and ignored the family for awhile (see  my screenies) but with the impending birth of Cass's twins Mortimer had to do something to get the family more room. So the Goths will be moving. However; before they do Mortimer has agreed to let me post this little architectural gem for other Simoleonaires looking for a bigger house for the kids and grandkids.

I do so enjoy this family- Romance sims be damned - Bella is so cute with Mortimer and even on Free Will takes really good care of the old guy and Don absolutely adores Cass to the point that neither Bella nor Don have rolled any cheating wants since Bella returned to and remarried Morty and Don married Cass- Alex is not the most handsome guy though- He looks rather like I always imagined Snape to look.

New Challenge for myself

I am challenging myself to use only Maxis add-on sets, missing and lost object sets, and maxis age conversions for the next 3 months other than my defaults. The game was getting very non challenging and my downloads file was taking up 8GB of memory. If I want Sims 3 in June than I have to have room left on the computer for it.