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I'm back! I have returned from both my TS4 playing and my storytelling stump! The setup to start playing my game definitely took more time than I expected but it was worth it.

Expect more posts from me in the upcoming days!

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I take it back!!! Base game infant rules are the worst because I hate the high chairs. Pausing this until I get the Growing Together pack.

I’m going through a Sims 4 slump and decided to restart from scratch without most of my mods. Thinking of starting the #100BabyChallenge along with almost everyone. Hope this gets me through my slump!

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I’m going through a Sims 4 slump and decided to restart from scratch without most of my mods. Thinking of starting the #100BabyChallenge along with almost everyone. Hope this gets me through my slump!

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I posted 22 times in 2022

That's 22 more posts than 2021!

11 posts created (50%)

11 posts reblogged (50%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@potatosimslife-reblogs

@nekochan-simmer

@servegrilledcheese

@ozlembroke

@helloavocadooo

I tagged 19 of my posts in 2022

Only 14% of my posts had no tags

#sims 4 townie makeover - 7 posts

#sims-4-townie-makeover - 6 posts

#sims 4 weddings - 4 posts

#the sims 2 - 3 posts

#essential mods - 3 posts

#sims2lepacy - 3 posts

#potatosimsplays - 3 posts

#sims 4 wedding cc - 2 posts

#sims 4 wedding mods - 2 posts

#sims2lepacy gen1 - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 32 characters

#recreating our lives in the sims

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Townie Makeovers: Don Lothario

I really didn't get how the EA version of this man ever got to be the ladies' man. So I gave him a lot of genetic tweaking to make him look attractive somehow. I'm not really sure if I'm happy with him yet as I'm really having a hard time with male sims. Help.

As previously mentioned, I moved out Don Lothario from the Calientes and got him his own little bachelor pad. Interestingly, he has no friends in the game and knows absolutely no one else aside from the Calientes. I'm thinking he should at least be acquainted with the Roomies and Johnny Zest at the very least?

I still have one household left to makeover in Oasis Springs and some stragglers and I'm done with base game makeovers.

5 notes - Posted March 5, 2022

#4

Sul sul! This is not a new simblr, just a new account. I have moved from @potatosimslife-reblogs

my Random Legacy Challenge gameplay (on hiatus)

my sims

my townie makeover

my resources (defaults, mods)

other accounts

@potatosimslife - news and reblogs

@potatosimslifeccfinds - mostly maxis match finds cc finds

6 notes - Posted February 26, 2022

#3

How to Have Better Weddings without the New Game Pack - Part 1

By now, we all know the wedding game pack is broken. So if you're like me who's holding off on purchasing the game pack until it's fixed or until modders find a way to fix the game bugs, here is a list of custom content/mods for better weddings so we can still have our dream weddings in game.

Essential

The base game patch to add a new wedding venue is not available for wedding events, apparently.

Wedding Venue Bugfix by @lotharihoe - also makes the wedding arch required for weddings (because you can't get married without one!)

weddingsatweddingvenuesfix by bienchen

Gameplay

sitatweddings by bienchen - The most annoying thing about sims is that they don't sit and watch the ceremony. This might be obsolete for those with the new GP and I'm not sure if this will be maintained in the future as well.

Various Seating Fixes/Additions - also another seating fix from Mod The Sims. The updated version is in the comments and should still work for the latest patch.

Longer Parties & More Guests - This mod allows your parties to last up to 24 hours and gives you the ability to invite up to 200 guests. Please note that you can still end parties as early as you like by clicking on the event timer.

Better Community by Kawaii Stacie - This mod is good for making lots more full/diverse and for storytelling. You will be able to spawn more sims on your lots and pick which sims that spawn.

Cute Romance by @thepancake1s-mods - Adds the following interactions: Slow dancing and Dip kiss (used in the photo above)

Have First Dance at Wedding by SHEnanigans - adds a first dance requirement to the base game wedding event.

Resorts & Hotels Mod by Kawaii Stacie - adds resorts and hotels you can use for honeymoons (requires Vintage Glamour for some interactions)

Rambunctious Religions by lumpinou - adds religions to the game, also comes with pre-made lots if you want to get married in a church

Storytelling Socials by @lazarusinashesmods - an expansive mod that adds over 60+ interactions with an emphasis on storytelling.

Storytelling Toolkit by @chippedsims - includes Quick Access for the headlineeffects cheat (a must have for screenshots!)

Some mods that I haven't personally tried yet:

My Wedding by @caradriel - a really big mod for planning a wedding including new social interactions, legal documents, getting a marriage certificate, and planning a honeymoon.

Arranged Marriages by @mizoreyukii - let's you have arranged marriages, perfect for historical gameplay. I think this mod needs a few updates if you have the new GP, I'll check

Events

Memorable Events Mod by Kawaii Stacie - Adds lots of cute events to the game that are not just wedding focused like:

Bachelor(ette) Party - This event lets your sims have their last night of freedom. Let them party with their friends and don't forget to tip the strippers!

Romantic Date - This event was created so that you can plan out your dates on the calendar!

Honeymoon - This event allows you to go on a honeymoon with your lover! You can invite friends and family! You can hire someone to watch your children if you bring them along, cook your food, and clean up after you.

Housewarming Party - This event lets you have the welcome wagon again except its people you actually know and instead of fruitcake or that island juice they will give you some household items on their way out!

Meet my Partner* - This event lets you meet your bf/gf or spouse...to your friends and family! Everyone will have different reactions to the news!

Moving Out* - This event allows you to break the news about your departure! Not everyone is going to be happy so expect things to get emotional!

Pregnancy Announcement* - This event allows you to announce your pregnancy to friends, family, and even your spouse... if you didn't tell him already.

Romantic Proposal - This event allows you to plan out your proposal! Hopefully, with all this effort you don't get rejected. Oh! You can invite friends and family to witness it if you like.

See the full post

99 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

#2

How to Have Better Weddings without the New Game Pack - Part 3

Here we are at part 3, you can check out the previous posts here:

Part 1 - Gameplay mods, events, and bug fixes

Part 2 - Build/Buy items and food

Wedding Dresses and Suits

See the full post

581 notes - Posted February 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

How to Have Better Weddings without the New Game Pack - Part 2

Part two of my essential custom content for weddings is here! I have a whole folder for weddings in my game that I add back every time I have weddings so it finally came in handy to share my favorites!

In this post, I'll be sharing the big wedding collections and build/buy items that I use for weddings.

See the full post

610 notes - Posted February 26, 2022

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⋒   Patch day tomorrow…July 26th   ⋒

My to-do list today:

Back up my saves.

Remove all mods - UI mods, script mods-everything that affects core game behavior. In other words, if it makes the game function differently, take it out. (I keep them in numbered folders so I can grab them all and move them outside of the mods folder.)

Delete the file localthumbcache.package from your Sims 4 My Documents folder.

The save I plan to play in after the patch: open it without mods installed and create a new save point using “save as”.

•  If you don’t want to deal with things breaking right away, turn off automatic game updates. Go to Origin > Application settings and look for the heading Client Update and make sure it is grayed out to turn off auto updates.

Then, go into offline mode through Origin before you start your game. It won’t prompt you for an update.

•  Last but not least, please please be patient with the wonderful creators of custom content and mods. Quite a few things will probably get changed behind the scenes with this patch and EP. They are people, too. They may want to just play the game like you. Give it time, give them grace.

And hopefully, we won’t have too many tears tomorrow ..lol!

The Cats and Dogs EP corrupted all my saves and I have a routine now that has worked for me.

And if you have something to add, please do. I really do believe in “sharing is caring.“ It is how I have learned so much over the years.

Happy Simming! 😊

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PotatoSimsLife Light Gshade Preset

I made something! I've been playing around Gshade and after hours of tweaking and a few days of testing, I have finally made my own preset! This preset is good for gameplay, builds, portraits and CAS. My goal for this preset is to have a more light and vibrant game, not too warm, and easy on the eyes for extended hours of play. I also wanted this to be multi-purpose because I don't want to bother changing presets every time I go to CAS or live mode.

Here are some comparisons in the world (note: edge smoothing is turned off for the photos without the preset)

Indoors, world map, and CAS

I have added a lot of hotkeys to make it as lightweight as possible for gameplay but customizable for my portrait and CAS needs. I also made sure that the options are still readable even with MXAO enabled.

Hotkeys/shortcuts:

4 - ADOF - great for blurring backgrounds

5 - Cinematic DOF - great for blurring backgrounds in portraits

6 - MXAO and quint_mxao - add darker shadows, great for builds and portraits (make sure that

7 - Adaptive Sharpness - I use this to add more textures to my sims in CAS

8 - Adaptive Color Grading - adds more warmth (if you prefer something more warm)

Do note, however, that for these screenshots I have a few lighting mods and visual overrides installed:

Simp's GraphicsRules Override

Milk Thistle 

No Blu 

No Glo  

Ghibli Clouds

Brighter Foundations 

Pastel World - was using the old one when I took the screenshots

K-505 MOD Terrain Replacement

Neutral Light

Download link under the cut!

DOWNLOAD LIGHT PRESET

DOWNLOAD GSHADE

Also: Gshade is available for Mac now!

If you use my preset, please tag me @potatosimslife here or use the tag #potatosimslife-light-gshade so I can see your posts! Please don't hesitate to give me feedback as well since this is my first preset.

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July 2022 Proof of life

I've been MIA for a while and put my random legacy challenge gameplay on hiatus to focus on personal things and work. However, recently I have been able to squeeze in some time to update my game and mods. And wow, I've been away for more than 2 months, I think, and a lot has changed in the game!

Three kits came out

A new GP was released: Werewolves

A new EP was announced: High School Years

Reshade is out and Gshade is here!

About Gshade: it's so much easier to use than Reshade! Installation was a breeze and it auto-converted all my old presets on installation. Things I like about it so far:

There is a setting to not use Gshade on load

You can move around the game while editing settings or changing between presets

The name of the preset you're using is on the filename of the screenshot! I am using @comfyblob's Storyteller preset and I'm loving it!

Things I don't like so far:

The conversion of my custom preset lost my customizations

MXAO seems off or not as dark as it used to be

Maybe this is all just me being a noob at reshade or Gshade hahaha

And now that I have posted again, will I be resuming my posts and start generation 3 of my Random Legacy Challenge?

The answer is I am still unsure. At my current workload and mental health condition, I can only squeeze in it at least an hour or two of gameplay around 2 to 3 days a week. That's really great for taking screenshots and all, but the whole process of going through the photos, editing photos, writing the actual posts, queueing the posts and so on takes a lot more time. I know it's not supposed to take a lot of time but I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it.

So now, I'm just playing when I can (not necessarily my RLC save), and hopefully when I'm feeling better and up to it, I'll resume posting my RLC challenge again. My goal is accumulate enough posts to queue one month's worth of posts before I turn it on again. I have 7 now, in random degrees of completion, so I just have 23 left.

P.S. writing in Tumblr using Microsoft Edge just seems buggy now???

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CC content for The Sims Medieval

When I started playing the Sims Medieval game, I was having trouble finding cc content. I’ll post a list of what I use, maybe it can help someone.

Everything that I have listed here can be used simultaneously.

❕❕❕❕❕ Sometimes I will update the list.

Important  visual mods for a more beautiful and realistic world:

Lighting mod by Nilxis  +  Lighting tweaks by Gelina - My favorite lighting mod, which gives the brightest and most beautiful colors and dynamic shadows that add realism. I use them together, Gelina has instructions on how to do this.

Milky Way by Nilxis - You can use any default of stars, this is the most unusual and bright.

Realistic Clouds by Nilxis - Very beautiful and realistic clouds.

Moon-Moon by Potato-Ballad-sims  - At the moment I use this default, it is bright and well combined with lighting mod.

Camera by Shimrod  - A much more mobile and convenient camera, much better than the one originally available in the game.

Tower/Clinic Shell No Holes in the Wall by Shimrod101 +  Tower/Clinic Shell Replacement Walls/Roofs by Shimrod101 - Down with this ruin! Normal walls of the clinic and the magician’s tower without chips and smudges. I use the color ��Ice”.

Shells No Moss on Roofs by Shimrod101,  Shells No Grime by Shimrod101 - The absence of ugly stains on buildings and moss on roofs. The city will no longer look abandoned.

8k shadows - More beautiful and clear shadows.

Seasons of The Kingdom  - A collection of defaults for simulating the change of seasons from different authors.

Necrotized Pit Beast by Simmodder99 - A less bright and cheerful monster from the pit, this is exactly how it should look.

What will your world look like during sunset before and after:

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Mods that diversify the gameplay:

Grim`s Medieval Core by Grimreefer - The most useful and global mod that allows children to grow up, retire, adopt children, repaint any object that usually cannot be repainted, rename characters, enable debugging mode at any time, configure pregnancy of same-sex couples, lock doors. This mod smooths out all the angles of the game. I am using the latest version, no problems ever.

AutoCollect by douglasveiga -  A mod that allows you to send a character to collect any discovered plants with a single click. It is very useful if you do not remember where the bush that you need for the potion grows. If you like to play as magicians, spies and healers - you can’t live without it.

Forsaken+Shimrod SocialsBothFullVersions  - A mod that adds a lot of actions for the relationship of two Sims. Especially often I use “Seduce” and “Knight”. I have a version with autowoohoo.

Auto Save by Grimreefer -  If you constantly forget to save - it is for you.

Books and Medieval Recipes + Forsaken Recipes  - Adds a variety of new recipes, books and even simulate gardening.

Scrab and Sweep floor by Simmoder99 - Allows any character to sweep and wash the floors. Very cozy action.

Dictate laws  by  Simmodder99 - The opportunity for the king to dictate laws to the adviser.

Collecting stones in the cave and herbs in the forest  - Your cave and forest will no longer be idle - you can collect ingredients for crafting there. In the forest, you can get a different color, which can fall out of the bushes less often with a mod for new ingredients.

“Have fun” in the village tavern  - Now you can not only sleep in this tavern.

Improved bath  - 3 new bath actions that will add variety to the game. Arrange a spa day.

Play With Puppets by Shimrod101 -  The characters play with rag dolls, increasing their leisure time. The action is autonomous, which is why everyone around can start getting them. For myself, I turned off the autonomy in this action, if anyone needs it, you can get it here.

Refresh the bath water  -  The action available before only servants is open to all characters.

Read Proclamation  -  A new action for the monarch, which increases leisure time.

Ring the Bell  -  A new action for all the characters, which increases leisure time.

Play With Teddy Bears by Shimrod101  -  A game with teddy bears, available for adults.

❕❕❕Laundry - The action of washing clothes, slightly improving hygiene.

❕❕❕ Tell Fortunes - In the tents, you can tell fortunes by hand.

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Mods that add more logic to the game:

Well 50 buckets  - More buckets of water in the well, because 15 for an entire kingdom is very small.

Call birds less often  by Forsaken  - All the townspeople around are such poultry farmers. The mod removes the autonomous call of birds at every step.

Marriage Gifts by Forsaken- More useful wedding gifts.

Red wine  -  Replaces rose wine with a more familiar color.

Exp for restringing and for the sharpen of the sword  +  Exp for playing the fiddle   +  Whittle Get Exp by Forsaken  -  Accrual of experience for actions for which it would be logical to accrue experience.

Populous II: Plus by Simmoder99 - Your king will have many more servants. do you want to demand food, and the servant has left? Ask someone else. And it also looks very good visually. There are guards and servants everywhere in the castle.

40 cells for spells  -  A mod so that the magician can memorize and use all the skills at the same time.

Same energy for all beds  -  It is logical, because you can get a great night’s sleep even on the ground.

Bear hunting is available for everyone  -  I have an option in which all combat characters can hunt a bear.

Joint walks and hunting  -  This is from the category of “It’s not clear why they didn’t do it initially”. Characters can hunt in groups and invite other characters to join the hunt and walk.

More interactions 20 by Simrecruit  -  When playing for several characters at once or during the collection, this helps a lot.

Drunk as a Skunk by Shimrod101 - After 3 glasses, a drunken buff appears.

❕❕❕Training with a mannequin lowers hygiene - Corrects the illogic of the fact that training does not affect hygiene in any way.

❕❕❕Important events - the mod prolongs the bad and good effects of important events like a wedding or death.

Mods that change the balance  for the better:

Improwed barrels  - Free cooking, 30 servings, more than the cost of a drink in the tavern.

All spells cost 5 units of energy -  Initially, all spells cost an unfair amount of energy, which is enough for 1-2 spells. This mod changes that.

Large Recipes 12 serves by Simmoder99  - This is much more convenient than 4 servings, which are immediately disassembled.

Sleep when you want to  -  It is very convenient if you want to sleep in advance or occupy one of the characters with something.

More votes  - The standard voting system is simply ugly, no one ever votes for your decrees. With this mod, your decrees are more often accepted.

Easier interrogation chair  -  Another disgusting system in which you don’t know what to click to make it work. Using the chair becomes much easier.

The rich Monarch  - A king should be richer than a knight and a merchant. It is most expensive to equip the castle. Pay for petitions, for purchases in public places. I am using a version that includes 6 children.

Free time mod  -  The mod is very useful for just playing and enjoying, and not constantly rushing to finish the quest.

A new system of fishing  -  More realistic fishing, in which the fish does not disappear from its point. You can queue up actions in one place.

Pregnancy is longer/shorter  +  Sweet babies  -  I use a pregnancy size of 3 days and babies growing for 7 days.

15 % chance of pregnancy by Shimrod101 - Much less chance of getting pregnant + the characters almost always make the bed for themselves.

Low Fat Sims by Shimrod101 - Sims don’t get fat after every overeating.

Better patrol 50 by Arglaar -  This is how patrolling should actually work.

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Sliders:

Sliders for the body and More sliders for the body by Jonha

Height slider by Tashiketh

Arm and Belly sliders by pcfreack 147

Hat sliders  by aWT

Sliders for posture  by leefish

Eyelash slider  by S-Club

Slider x4 from Shimrod101

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Nude:

Male Skintone and less hairy Male skintone - default on the body. Choose only one.

Female skintone - more realistic body.

Anatomical details for men and For the woman 

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Mods for the fast game:

Intro Disabler - For a faster game launch.

Route fail animation replaced - Sims instead of having to swing your arms faster to switch to something else.

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Various small visual mods:

Default books  -  Down with these bright and too modern book covers.

Baby default  -  Default replacement of babies with a more cute option.

Chinchillas don`t sleep  - Default replacement of tree trunks, arrange an invasion of chinchillas in your kingdom.

Platter ,  White oven plate , Gold deep dish - Dishes in one color scheme

No zZ by Forsaken

No Shiny shrubs

No Fight effects

No musical notes

❕❕❕Default eyes - Eyes that are as well suited as possible for this part.

❕❕❕Some windows available for purchase - I can’t imagine building without placing windows. I always use it as a mod, because it’s hard to find all kinds of windows in debugging.

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Where to get CC materials:

@tatyananame  - Accessories, clothing, shoes, hairstyles and characters

MTS  - Fashion for every taste, defaults, skins, hairstyles, accessories, clothing

Sauris  - Clothing, hairstyles, accessories, paintings, carpets, defaults

Shimrod`s mods  - Mods, defaults

@simetriasims  - Hairstyles, clothes and poses!

@jacksonsdrumstick  - Characters with an interesting story

The Sims Creative Club  -  Russian website with different CC materials. Hairstyles, lighting, clothing. Registration is required.

Dragon Age in The Sims Medieval  -  Characters, clothes

RIKI’S SIMBLR - Hairstyles

❕❕❕ Folio of Fantasies - Characters from different universes.

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Helper programs:

RTSS -  Limits the fps for smoothness of the game and not to overload the video card. But there is one THING. Initially, I did not play the latest version of the game. And it didn’t work for me. So I can say that it only works on the latest version of the game.

Razer Cortex -  closes unnecessary background processes during the game and speeds up the game.

Dashboard tool - A very necessary thing for identifying duplicates

Compressorizer Redux - Allows you to compress custom content

S3PackageViewer - Allows you to view files in the format .package, shows file previews, making it easier to find what you need

S3PE - For editing, combining format files .package and create mods. 

WindowedBorderlessGaming - Allows you to make a window mode without frames. But it also works only in the latest version of the game.

Reshade - Allows you to make the game more beautiful. (But it loads the video card very much)

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Where to install mods and CC content:

Guide

Some guides:

My CC Guide

Full list of sliders for TSM

TS3 to TSM conversion tutorial  by @deedee-sims

Medieval S3PE Wrappers + Modding tutorial

My CC list

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I gasped when I heard the burglar alert sound! He proceeded to steal my TV and telescope. And I'm such a noob not to add the alarm.

Also, didn't realize that the burglars floated when they walk.

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Me: Spent an hour updating mods and downloading new CC for TS4

Also me: Decides to play TS2 after

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TS2 UI MOCK-UPS

inspired by @lysiablr‘s ts4 ui mock-ups and @curiousxsubject‘s nasp 2.0 gameplay photos. i was looking for these when i started my bacc but only found ts4 ones. anyways, i finally sat down and made some for the sims 2!

💌 | download link + details after the cut

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A small preview of what I'm doing on the side -- painstakingly trying to recreate my wedding looks in the game. We had two weddings in real life: a small intimate civil wedding and a big church wedding, three years apart.

If you're wondering how close I got, here's a photo of my real wedding gown vs a CC gown. I'm trying to find a bouquet that matches my real bouquet but I'll probably try to recolor this one.

Excuse me, I am now off to find a suit that matches my husband's IRL suit. And then I'm off to build our wedding venues (this might take forever, though).

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Reminder that u run a sim blog and it's never that serious

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Met a guy we liked, he wanted to set us up with a friend. Had a nice, romantic date at home, and he rejects my proposal. I obviously did not learn. Also, my millennial self forgot that you need a telephone in this game to do everything! Also, the more I play this game, the more I remember!!! I did play this when I was in college around 2008 to 2009.

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Still on hiatus from playing The Sims 4 so I decided to play The Sims 2. It's kinda weird for me. Somehow the UI is very familiar but I have no recollection of owning this game before. Maybe I played the base game? However, I know for a fact that I played The Sims 2 on GBA and boy was that an adventure. I've played all of the GBA games including Sims Bustin' Out and Urbz: Sims in the City (my fave!). I also remember playing the spin-off stories: Life Stories, Castaway Stories, and Pets Stories before jumping off to The Sims 3.

I remember playing The Sims 3 Showtime on my first MacBook Pro back in 2012 and that game barely ran, so I turned to playing The Sims Medieval. And boy, I played The Sims Medieval for yeaaars. What's your favorite game from The Sims franchise? Mine are all the GBA versions followed by The Sims Medieval and maybe TS4. Apparently I like story based games.

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Before we officially move on to generation 3, I gave Ji Hun and Phoenix new sets of clothes now that they're elders. I hope we still get to spend more time with them.

Kiana's makeover and her story will be posted at my new account: @potatosimslife

P.S. I will be taking a short break so I can focus on playing and cleaning up my mods folder.

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Townie Makeovers: Don Lothario

I really didn't get how the EA version of this man ever got to be the ladies' man. So I gave him a lot of genetic tweaking to make him look attractive somehow. I'm not really sure if I'm happy with him yet as I'm really having a hard time with male sims. Help.

As previously mentioned, I moved out Don Lothario from the Calientes and got him his own little bachelor pad. Interestingly, he has no friends in the game and knows absolutely no one else aside from the Calientes. I'm thinking he should at least be acquainted with the Roomies and Johnny Zest at the very least?

I still have one household left to makeover in Oasis Springs and some stragglers and I'm done with base game makeovers.