I finally made some Sims and other assorted things

I was up far too late making Sims last night. I haven't moved them in yet so there aren't any real pictures (the camera works in CAS, but seemingly only for full length shots) but the pics on the Exchange are actually pretty clear. So here's Eloise and here's Connor. I don't think I'll be making things all the time but I wanted to see how the Exchange worked and also to see if they are as deletion-happy as the TS2 exchange is.

Eventually, I'm going to play these two as housemates, with a view to getting them married. I have checked out the possible offspring in CAS and they make some real cuties, so I'm looking forward to it!

I haven't decided what I want to do in regards to story progression and life span. If I continue to jump around the hood, I will probably turn aging and story progression on and bump the lifespan up to the longest possible. If I play them legacy style, I might turn SP and aging on and leave the settings as is. I may or may not blog them. Right now, I'm leaning towards occasional, very short updates and keeping TS2 as the major focus.

The aforementioned assorted things:



I've found that Sims can swim in the pools of unoccupied houses. And the beach looks pretty awesome in the background there.

Helping with homework is more realistic now.

For some reason, Sims are prone to sitting on the edge of the bath to read the paper. I don't really understand this. If they were going to program to sit anywhere non-seating like, it should have been the coffee table. Perhaps everyone else in the world is sitting on the edges of their bathtub while I'm perched on the coffee table.

This is fairly dark, even full-size, but Parker Langerak (Kaylynn's older brother) stayed out past curfew and got brought home by the police.

Dustin, his dad, was not happy. His relationship with both parents took a severe hit.

I went through the pregnancies of two of the pre-mades in my first incarnation of Riverview, but I thought I'd try it out with Beau and Victoria Andrews. Don't mind Beau - he's always in his underpants. I finally just stopped changing him.

Victoria got cravings something fierce! She has really low cooking skill though, so all I could do for her was Mac and Cheese.

Sims freak out way more when it's time for the baby. I wonder if Sims with the Brave trait also panic. The description says something about how they never panic, even in an emergency. I've found out that the Dislikes Children trait is kind of a crock - they still get a positive moodlet from bringing the baby home, which is DUMB - so it will be interesting to see if EA thought of this. They should hire me. I have no programming ability but I could sit around and tell them what's ugly and what they should have thought of but didn't.

This is what Beau did when his wife took the taxi to the hospital. He did eventually get up and "Be with Mother" but it was after a good half an hour of video games. Asshole. He's a Couch Potato but I don't know if that what caused it or if there was some kind of path failure. The Dislikes Children guy went to the hospital with his wife straight away (another dumb thing - they should stay at home and sulk).

By the way, it was a girl and her name is Rachel. Beau had the wish for a girl and Victoria wanted a boy, so I promised both and let them duke it out.

I don't know if you can see it in the small picture but the ants are attacking this picnic. VJ Alvi didn't seem to mind.

Sims with no sense of humour can bore other Sims to death. It took me a while to figure out what the hell Buster was doing. They fall on the floor rather dramatically. He's not really dead but he was actually sleeping.

I fear EA would think I have no sense of humour because one of the other special interactions they have is "share trivia". EA, you can have a sense of humour and still like trivia!