#Katatty version is TOO COOL

[dystopianam]

You guys play Desiderata Valley??

[eulaliasims]

Get to Know My Playstyle

@katatty and @deedee-sims both tagged me, thanks guys. <3

We’ve seen the Get to Know Me post going around and it’s really cute so here’s one for us Simmers that’s more our style.  

Family size at the start:

Catch me out here literally never adding new families to my game! Middleground started with mostly single adult households; if I recall correctly, there were two bigger households, Original Maria Suarez and her bf Ronald, and a pair of sisters. Oh, and Marta and Erin, who joined the hood later than all the other founders and came packaged together b/c they were married in my Sims 3 game. I guess I like to see the kids be born in game instead of CAS.

The lifespan of my sims:

I use Phaenoh's age mod and have probably since it came out. It's a comfy spot for me length-wise, not too long but with enough space to just enjoy playing my sims in each life stage. Now that I'm playing vampires again, I've also added a different mod that lets them age once a week, so they'll be long-lived but not actually immortal.

Favorite family I have played: The Blanches!! Clara and her family are definitely my top faves, but that family tree hasn't produced a single boring sim yet.

Am I a Malevolent or Benevolent God: ...Yes.

Mostly benevolent probably, but I love to watch drama play out and I definitely don’t mind making my sims lives harder if it’s entertaining for me.

What I like best about the current version of Sims I play:

GENETICS! It might be obvious from some of my comments, but I love seeing how genetics combine and pass on through generations in TS2. The facial feature that I think will be dominant never is, haha.

What I am most anticipating for the current version of the Sims:

Gosh, there’s so much incredible stuff creators are coming out with now. Traits, cool mods, I’m still amazed by the custom sliders... I’m always excited to see new hood deco and how people use it, tho.

[midgethetree]

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There’s like a week’s worth of replies here, so have a readmore.

elfpuddle replied to your post “drewinthesky replied to your video “ 1t2 Burglar Music Yes I was too...”

It was raccoon in the trash.

Ah good to know! I was too late to the sims game to get into TS1 (I started playing... sometime in 2006/2007 I think?) which is a shame, it seems like it had an interesting charm to it.

katatty-main replied to your post “Hello! Would it be possible to disable the comfort drop from conjuring...”

anon is a grilled cheese sim

Same though.

lady-silverwolf replied to your post “Hi there! Just another anon that wants to express how much we love the...”

Just have to say this: THANKYOU for being talented enough to understand the BHAVs and driven enough to continue creating these lovely mods/hacks that you have been doing, and then sharing them. I know others have said it, but it really is appreciated! Ty! Ty! Ty! (X10 more times)

❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤

gryning replied to your post “Hi there! Just another anon that wants to express how much we love the...”

Thank you SO much for sharing these! I love the zombie apoc mod, and I'm actually playing a 'hood overrun by zombies right now, but the unedited version definitely had some annoyances. Going to try this out right away.

Yeah, I tried and gave up on using the original mod multiple times before I got the hang of modding and was reminded it existed. This version is definitely better suited for me and the way I play and I hope you enjoy it too!

sushigal007 replied to your post “Oh gosh, you do so much for this community already and I want you to...”

Use SimSurgery to make Bonehilda into a butler then they'll dismiss everyone else anyway!

True! The original TS1 scenario was funny so I’m still going to give a go at putting it in TS2, but butler!Bonehilda is definitely another option for people to consider.

sentate replied to your post “Hello. I saw on your photos spectral assistant and thought, is it also...”

I’m so glad my bonehilda lives on!!!!

Your Bonehilda is amazing, thank you so much for sharing her and making stuff like the custom Bonehilda NPC possible ❤ And I’m glad you were able to come across it even though my sleepy brain forgot to @ you lol.

deedee-sims reblogged your post and added:

Oh yay, now I added something to this too, such a cool idea! :D

I don’t know why I didn’t include your Bonehilda outfits as options to begin with, they’re such a nice addition to Bonehilda’s waredrobe ❤

deedee-sims reblogged your post and added:

THANK YOU!!!! <3 Just tested it, works like a charm!...

I’m glad I was able to help! Have fun with your new yoga studio :D

[dramallamadingdang]

Some random replies to replies that I didn’t reply to in the reply thread. :)

Confused yet? I am. :) Anyhoo, these are for @skyburned,  @penig, @dunne-ias, @techheaddanie, @glabeglarn, @jennamaxon, @katatty, and @serabiet...

skyburned replied to your photo “I’m contemplating taking an excursion down to Roswell (It’d be a...”

I lost my simcity 4 disk so frequently I bought a downloadable version from Amazon. Now I can download whenever I change computers or whatever and NEVER WORRY ABOUT THE DISK. I love that game.

I hate messing with disks. I especially hate when you have to put in the disk in order to play the game. I mean, I get why you have to, but I just hate it and rebel against it and always get no-CD cracks. To me, when I buy a game or any piece of software, I own it forever (Don’t even get me started on Adobe’s current “rental” scheme. I’ll see red); it’s not dependent on whether or not I have a useable, non-damaged disk. 

So yeah, I would’ve gone your route, definitely, but I bought SimCity4 at a used book shop and I haven’t used/played it enough to have tracked down a crack for it. I mean, I’ve had this current machine for over a year now, and I hadn’t even installed SC4. But if I try my hand at making a completely new terrain or five -- and I might, for the custom Uni(s) that I want to build -- I’ll track down a crack. Must be out there somewhere...

penig replied to your photo “SUCCESS! :D …Well, except that the size is off by a neighborhood tile...”

I have a default replacement in my BACC which only replaces roads automatically in new hoods. In old ones you have to lay down custom road tiles. Maybe you could do something like that?

That would be good, but what I’d really like (but that isn’t possible) is a road default that has “zones.” Like, high-traffic roads are bigger and paved while residential side roads can be smaller and possibly not paved. Like, for retroStrangetown, I’d want the “Road to Nowhere” to be a large, paved highway, like the old Route 66, and the roads in the “military” section I made to be paved but smaller, and the roads in the little non-military residential section I made to be packed dirt. That’s kinda how it works where I live even now, much less back in the 50s. The one interstate highway and the county-maintained roads that get more traffic and the roads in town are all paved and of different sizes for different levels of traffic, but the smaller county roads and the residential roads outside of town are all packed dirt.

I wish we could have the different road types that are in SC4 in TS2, but...nope.

dunne-ias replied to your photo “SUCCESS! :D …Well, except that the size is off by a neighborhood tile...”

I've been planning a new ST map too. And hoodreplace is very easy and straightforward to use, because Mootilda truly was a treasure we did not deserve

She really was! I am still mourning her loss. :(

But yeah, Hood Replace is pretty awesome. I’m now thinking of seeing about maybe uploading my retroStrangetown -- at least its map + hood deco; not sure about the houses because of the amount of CC -- when it’s done NOT as something to be played as-is because I didn’t make it empty or anything, but more as something one could use with Hood Replace to replace one’s own Strangetown in terms of roads and deco and all that.

techheaddanie replied to your photo “SUCCESS! :D …Well, except that the size is off by a neighborhood tile...”

Looks great. It's never too late to learn to do cool stuff. :)

Indeed it is not! I might give making a new custom terrain a go, figure out how it all works. It’s easy enough to edit an existing terrain, but doing all the terraforming and planning the road layout from scratch and all that might be fun. I need to figure out how that all works. I have a tutorial saved, so...one day, when I don’t feel like doing any of the other Sim-related things I have going. :)

glabeglarn replied to your photo “An “expanded” Strangetown. What will be an all-deco military base is...”

I love reading about your plans, and I really like what you’re going to do with Strangetown :) another option for SC4 is to buy a steam key from G2A, they’re only 4 euros. But maybe you won’t want to buy the game again :)

Yeah, I have a thing about not re-buying games...although I did buy most of TS2 several times over, over the years. But generally, I only buy games once. If I subsequently lose the disk or the disk becomes damaged or whatever, I have no qualms whatsoever about pirating a copy of the game, since I already own it.

But yeah, Steam is certainly an option, too, and if I hadn’t bought SC4, that’d be a thing I’d do. ...Although technically I don’t fully legitimately own SC4 since I bought a used copy at a used bookstore, but... Well, in any case, I did find my disk, so we’re all good. :)

As for my plans for retroStrangetown...I’m still not entirely sure what I’m going to do with it. I mean, I’m going to finish building it, and I’m going to play it, for sure, but I don’t know exactly how I’m going to share the playing, as it were. I might try the whole story thing but historically when I’ve tried writing a story via Sims, I’ve not been good at keeping it up. It’d be a shame if I’d put in all this work only to abandon it because I don’t feel like keeping up with a story, so...I don’t know. I’ve got time to figure it out, though, because I’ll be building for a while. *laugh*

jennamaxon replied to your photo “An “expanded” Strangetown. What will be an all-deco military base is...”

I've been dropping hood deco (meshes) a short space in Milkshape - it seems to work. I think there was a post by Criquette about it

Yeah, unfortunately my skills with meshes are non-existent. The only thing I’ve ever done in Milkshape is to add preg morphs to clothing meshes, and that was eons ago. So, my confidence level for messing with hood deco meshes is not high. :) But there is lots of hood deco that I’d like to lower so they don’t float as much, so...maybe one day. :)

katatty-main replied to your photo “An “expanded” Strangetown. What will be an all-deco military base is...”

i think rural charm will work, based on memory! looks really cool so far. i need to experiment with "off road" lots more

I’m kinda in love with “off road” lots. I mean, I’ve got a whole neighborhood that’s completely off-road. It just adds a whole different feel to certain lots. It’s great for really rural neighborhoods because you can have lots far apart with no visible roads around, and you’re not limited to building just where the roads are, but it’s also good for urban areas when you want to fill in big squares on the map but you don’t want to put down a huge lot or fill in the area with hood deco. You can fill it up with lots instead. Of course, if you do that too much you’ll choke the game...but you can do that with lots of high-poly/high-res hood deco, too. Anyway, yeah, I definitely recommend playing around with it. 

serabiet replied to your photo “An “expanded” Strangetown. What will be an all-deco military base is...”

I'm so excited to see how this develops (and draw inspiration from the houses) 8D

I’ll be happy to fully figure out how it’s going to develop! *laugh* 

And I like the houses. I’ve collected a bunch of antique plans to get ideas from and/or to build per plan, for unoccupied houses, if I’m not feeling creative. They’re no longer all “midcentury modern” style -- because really, at the time period, there were plenty of older houses around, with just a few “modern” ones here and there -- but they’ll be in a range of styles authentic to the geographical area and time period, from tiny Depression-era houses with no indoor plumbing -- Geez, at the time they fit an entire two-bedroom house into 500 sq.ft./46 sq. meters -- to Spanish Colonial style, to small “tract” bungalow kinds of houses that were built for returning GIs immediately post-WWII, to the (somewhat) larger modern-ranchy “rambler” kinds of places that became popular in the western US in the mid-50s.  (The Beakers are getting one of my RL BFF’s house, if I can make it work; it’ll need lots of CFE. They live in Santa Fe, about a 3-hour drive from the Roswell area...which is a short drive as things go out here. :) The house is Spanish Colonial, built in 1927. It’s got this tower with window slits over the entry vestibule and several outdoor courtyards/terraces, so it looks sort of castle-y, but it’s in a style that has actually been built often in the US Southwest. I’m really hoping I can make it work in-game.)

[didilysims]

Regarding more Stardew Valley recreation, Marla Biggs, heartfarting, nannies, and foundations and featuring the comments of @katatty @penig @fuzzyspork @dramallamadingdang @holleyberry @tamtam-go92 @taylors-simblr @deedee-sims and @eulaliasims. 

katatty-main replied to your photoset “Cordelia: Aw Zephyr, did that mean old nanny give you any attention?...”

haha, id probably feel the same way as deeds.keep out of my stuff!

This is why although I’d love to hire a maid to clean my house for me, I know I’ll never do it. It’s my stuff! (And *my* mess.) 

penig replied to your post “Did you know that pool squares can be built underneath foundations?...”

You don't actually need a solid foundation, you know. Outline the space in a grid pattern, to prevent that stupid glitch with the floor in the center hovering in the air, and you won't have to demolish or rebuild anything, just go down to foundation level and place your pool square.

Do you mean keeping the outline of the foundation but just floor tiles in the middle? That would certainly work too. I forget that’s an option sometimes, unless I’m building a basement, but I think it does make the overall lot value cheaper, which is always good too. (Especially when pools are fairly expensive.) 

fuzzyspork replied to your post “Did you know that pool squares can be built underneath foundations?...”

I've discovered that a half tile pool seems to work too. And those are a little easier to hide! Make the square then use the angled pool tool to delete half of it. :)

Oh yeah, I noticed that on one of your recent little lots. (One of the few that I could actually find the pool tile, ha ha.) This is good to know! 

dramallamadingdang replied to your photoset “Cordelia: Aw Zephyr, did that mean old nanny give you any attention?...”

Forest looks like he wants to go with the nanny. :)

She played with him most of the day! It looks like there’s plenty of room in that van, plus she probably doesn’t live with a noisy attention-hog baby. Forest fails to see the problem with a little sleepover at his new friend’s.

holleyberry replied to your photoset “Paid leave is over for Papa Ferdy, and with him and Cordelia both...”

Hopefully she's a good one.

I was quite impressed with her when the Frosts hired her. She did a good job here too, though babies are much easier than toddlers. 

dramallamadingdang replied to your post “Part 2 goes out to @penig @katatty @aondaneedles @holleyberry...”

It does suck that there's such a limited time window for scolding a misbehaving pet. All the puppies in my game seem to pick the middle of the night to do their peeing in the house. And I rarely want to wake someone up to do the scolding. :/

It also stinks that puppies and kittens can’t climb stairs, so if they’re on a foundation they can’t go pee outside on their own. In fact, I think pet babies are more work than Sim babies! 

tamtam-go92 replied to your photoset

Cords! I'm so proud!

See? She got to it eventually. :)

deedee-sims replied to your photoset “Hmm…there’s an awful lot of heartfarting going on between these two....”

Hmmmm

holleyberry replied to your photoset “Hmm…there’s an awful lot of heartfarting going on between these two....”

O_o

I’m watching with suspicion. I know Cordelia has 3 bolts with Leif, but I don’t remember if it’s mutual. She also has Plantsim as a turn-on, so...I should probably change that. 

holleyberry replied to your photoset “Unexpected bowling romance. These things escalate quickly! ”

Go Marla!

taylors-simblr replied to your photoset “Unexpected bowling romance. These things escalate quickly! ”

Aw they’re cute together

I dig it! They also have the bonus of alliterative names, which is too cute to resist. They have my blessing. :)

tamtam-go92 replied to your photoset “Unexpected bowling romance. These things escalate quickly! ”

Marla is one of my favourite University sims, she has such a nice facial shape imo.

She is one of the more recognizable Sims, I agree. I’ve always liked her, but never played her much. Poor Marla. :(

eulaliasims replied to your post “Some SDV-TS2 chat with @littleblondesim and @eulaliasims beneath a cut...”

Haha, I've definitely got sucked into the decorating thing. Somehow decorating my cabin takes longer than watering all the plants? I fancied up my original farm over winter, and placing all that furniture/paths/etc took up quite a bit of the season. :P

I don’t doubt it! I’ve done a bit of furniture placing inside the house (it seems most of the museum rewards are furniture) and I keep changing my mind with placement...suddenly it’s time for bed again, whoops! 

eulaliasims replied to your post “Some SDV-TS2 chat with @littleblondesim and @eulaliasims beneath a cut...”

You're really making me want to go back to building SDV! My plan for the clinic/general store was to make them as two rowhouse-style lots. It'd be really neat to do the general store as a community lot and Pierre's house as a stacked lot above it (using threadandsandpaper's method), but I've never successfully made stacked lots, haha. And okay! Gus is on my sims to-do list now. :D

I thought of rowhouses and stacked lots (never tried it myself either) but I imagine that would be frustrating to play. I get annoyed enough with rowhouses (having the neighbouring house right there gets in my view and I’ve never liked it) so I think a stacked lot would drive me crazy. It is a cool idea, but I don’t know. Maybe I’ll try it out and see how I feel when playing it. (If I ever get it to work, ha ha.) 

And thanks! I’m excited to see your version of my favourite bartender. :D 

eulaliasims replied to your post “Some SDV-TS2 chat with @littleblondesim and @eulaliasims beneath a cut...”

I've got one pic here--I'll take some more and queue them up in a bit, since there's more to the lot. I never did the inside, though. https://eulaliasims.tumblr.com/post/156100819325

Already commented on your new post of this, but I can say again that this looks so good! I need to start using that meshed grass for myself--it adds so much!