Let's see what the nuts are up to!

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When we last saw the Sweet twins, Ramona and Arlo, they were rounding out their teen days at home, working hard at the bakery and spending time with their brand new baby sister. With two days left in spring, they've just moved into SelenaQ Hall and are ready to start their young adult lives as SMCC's newest students.

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I was *thisclose* to getting the twins' college update posted today (or at least, a bunch of pictures with some attempt at minimal commentary), but then augh! Between newPhotobucket headaches and LJ annoyances, all my posting energy has been drained. Wah. But the pictures are all edited and uploaded and everything, so hopefully I'll get them up soonish? I haven't had time to open my game or spend much time keeping up with sims things since Februaryish, but I am all the way up to the McKim household in my play rotation. So once I get my posting mojo back, there will be stuff to share! Promise.

Miss you guys! But for the moment, bleh!

>:|

Last time we saw Eustacia, she had just moved out of her family home in the Snowe household when her dad Thierry was unexpectedly killed in a freak accident with a falling satellite. Following his death, she's decided to officially take his last name and go by Eustacia Morceau from now on. She's also moved into SMCC's brand new dorm, which the town named Morceau Hall in Thierry's honor. Let's see how she gets on!

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Reading about the teen center and orphanage in maranatah's BACC, Clayfield, has had me seriously jonesing to add some of my own to Ste-Margo. After all, my younger residents could use a wider circle of friends (remember how lonely poor Piet was? But then, he was one of the first settlers, so it couldn't be helped!); and after the death of a homeless teenager living on the beach (miss you, Una!) shocked the town to its core, residents have really been pushing for some kind of child services program. So it seems like a good time to introduce some new young faces to the neighborhood!

I'm planning to let the game generate my orphans... which got me thinking about my default face templates again. I'd been growing a little dissatisfied with my current selections and was vaguely on the hunt for new ones. maranatah to the rescue again—her resource list led me to these two fabulous sets by trappingit and joedy_76. Their templates are all SO GORGEOUS, I can hardly stand it, and it was nearly impossible to decide which ones I wanted. Now I'm more excited than ever to see what little ones we'll soon have for our adoption pool! :D

I was just watching Jessa's latest Let's Play video last night (which, by the way, you should check out if you're interested in seeing her bring her totally awesome Acanthop neighborhood to life, one lot at a time!), and wouldn't you know it, she brought up the Simlogical apartment security system I was wondering about for my troublesome restaurant building the other day. ( Read more... )

I still am unable to figure out how to embed livestream videos here (because of changes LJ made, or...?), so here are the links to part 1 and part 2 of my Collection Files livesim. Hope it's useful for someone!

Bonus: Some pictures of recently organized collections in my game.

I’m going to try giving a little tutorial on how I use collection files in my game—how to create new collections (with custom icons), how to move CC into existing collections, and how to remove flags so that things only show up in their collections and not in the regular catalog. Hopefully, I’ll be able to follow the chat and field questions, too, if people have them, and then everyone will have amazing collections and everything will be awesome and organized and amazing and yay!

Does anyone have any tips on designing restaurants that work well? I'm working on one right now for The Sims Community Project, and all the stupid customers keep walking through the kitchen and behind the counters, either before being seated at the counter or just to hang around someplace inconvenient. Is there a mod to make doors lockable on community lots? Or (since this lot will need to be submitted CC-free) is there some way of arranging things so that staff can still get in and out of these areas but customers will not go into them??

I also tried having a test sim buy the restaurant so they could lock all the "staff doors," but then that ended up being its own headache (chef wouldn't cook any orders??). So bleh, I've given up for the night. WHAT A PAIN sims are sometimes!

Edit: Perhaps Inge to the rescue again? Maybe I can put an apartment token into the kitchen and ban everyone but the employees? I'd just have to list it as a "recommended download" when I submit the lot, for people to get if they want to keep customers out of the staff areas..................... But if there are better solutions, I'd still love to hear them! 

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Previously: Gemma had a surprise ACR baby; Beatrice became a teen; twin Ramona and Arlo canoodled (not with each other! ew, no!); and family sim Charlie kept his wife busy (or should I say biz-AYYYY).


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I ended up holding a very unexpected livesimming session today, after ixals had some technical difficulties and was unable to get their Livestream to work. So I stepped in to (finally!) give a little updated look around Ste-MargoLand. LJ is not cooperating with me as far as embedding the videos at the moment, so here are the links to part 1 (mostly Twikkii-Tikki) and part 2 (mostly Ste-M). It's not a terribly polished tour, but it does come with a very groovy soundtrack! Enjoy!

I think I've got my simming mojo back! I've been in the game for the past couple of days (the upside of being home with the flu?), and Round 7 is progressing. I'll mostly be posting at my simblr there's a link in my sidebar) until I have the next update ready—just little snippets of things that would seem more clutter-y here, though I can/probably will try to keep posting links to any relevant tumblr posts over here for anyone who wants to stick to LJ exclusively. I may even be able to do a livestream on Sunday?? Maybe? Anyway, good to be back in it!

Just a few pics from the Sweet family's (long-ago-completed) spring, posted here, while their Round 7 update awaits!

Hello, friends! I've been busier/non-simmier than expected lately, and with Christmas travels coming up... well, I'm behind on my posts (2+ play rounds, I think!). I've barely been around to comment or check my friends list the past few weeks (miss you guys! Fortunately, I did manage to catch this year's Holiday Love Meme post. If you haven't posted your username yet, please do so I can write things for you!

(Also: A quick tour of a dorm I built and posted on tumblr last month, for anyone who's interested in a Ste-M fix!)

Hey, everyone! Just a few updates on stuff and things. I've been moving along with Round 7 over the past few weeks, so my play time is currently ahead of my posting—which means posts are coming! For those who don't mind slight spoilers, you can check out this lot tour of Penelope and Jayne's next home that I posted awhile back on my tumblr. And yesterday, I made two new YA townies for the next SMCC class and put them up for download here.

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So I was just play-testing an apartment lot today, which is something I've still never really done since buying AL, and I found it to be really, really, really laggy. Is this a thing that happens with apartment lots? It's a 1x3 lot, 3 floors, and 3 apartments, so it's not even that big. But it's like slower-than-my-old-broken-computer slow. Like it takes several seconds for a sim minute to pass on speed 3. (Except I just noticed from 5:30-6AM on this sim day, it went normal speed; then slowed down again after 6AM??????) Whaaaaaaaaaaat is happening??? Is it because the game has to process the other two apartments at the same time? Or could something funky have happened in the lot conversion (started as community>residential>apt)? Or something? But my computer should totally be able to handle this aaa I don't understand why is this happening to me!

Ugh, I am up way past my bedtime and am totally fed up with this game tonight! 
(Wait, could it be this: You know that pop-up window that shows up when the camera wants to show you, like, the mailman arriving or something to zoom you to some other part of the lot? Well, it was showing up constantly, reappearing every time I closed it, so I disabled it in the game's camera options. But maybe the game is still trying to do whatever it was trying to do with the non-stop pop-up cameras??? AAAUUUGGGGHHHH. I NEED TO GO TO BED. WHY GAME WHY.)