The
repairman came while my sims slept, so on Day 4, they woke up to
four fully functioning bathrooms, which made our morning routine go a
lot more smoothly. We human beings love to talk about how smart we are
and all we've achieved as a species, but it's funny how often things
come down to the basic animal requirements of eating, sleeping, and
peeing. :-)
Everybody goes off to work in a good mood; Anna and Henry have their first days in their brand-new Medical career. Almost all of them get promoted, and now we have enough cash to finish off the house! I add the living room, a sidewalk in front of the door, and a row of daffodils on either side of the sidewalk. I'm still using gaps in the wall instead of archways for a lot of things, since Maxis has bizarrely made an archway -- which is just a door frame -- cost 50% more than a door, which is a door frame AND a door. Once we're even richer, we'll take care of those minor details and add a lot more windows, but for now, having enough space to put skilling equipment is lovely.
I move the chess table, the easel, the sofas, the TV, and the bookcase into the new living room. In addition to the new room, we get some new things to put IN that room. I add a love seat to the two sofas we had, so all eight sims can watch TV or read books at once. I buy a weight bench, which the Fashion folks need for Body skill, and which the Medicine people will need shortly.
Now that the house is in reasonable shape, I can get more sims out of that Politics career, which I hate to play more than a few levels of because it requires so MANY friends. I temporarily buy a computer, and Carmen takes today's first offering, the Xtreme career. Fred skips that one to see what the next career is, and I have him take Law Enforcement. Evelyn skips the first two -- will we be lucky THREE times today? -- and the third career is Science! Yay! No more Politics career, and now there's a lot more variety in my game, with sims in more different careers. Tomorrow, I'll have one of the Fashion folks check to see if Hacker is on offer.
Now that both of the Medical folks have been promoted to Paramedic, and Fred is a Security Guard, we have three sims on the night shift. I send Anna and Henry to bed as soon as they get home and send Fred there as soon as he gets the Law Enforcement job. Gosh, it almost seems quiet in here, with only five sims awake. :-)
My sims haven't needed dinner the past few nights, since need decay is so slight in the entry-level jobs, but now that they've been promoted a few times, they're hungry. I have two sims cook two dinners, and Anna and Henry get up from their rest in time to eat dinner with the family. Fred gets up a bit later and has to eat alone, but I have him socialize with Evelyn -- whose interest pattern overlaps the most with his -- to get his social up.
Anna and Henry go off to work at 10 p.m., Fred at 11, and everybody else goes to bed. Tomorrow we'll start working on buying them all better beds, but things are in pretty good shape for now. It's only day four, and things are really up and running. I still miss my mods, but the vanilla game turns out to be quite doable when you understand how the game works.
I had thought I'd be doing this for a week, but things are in good enough shape now that I think this will be my last post about the Eight-Sim Challenge.
Back to the list of Sims 1 mods
Everybody goes off to work in a good mood; Anna and Henry have their first days in their brand-new Medical career. Almost all of them get promoted, and now we have enough cash to finish off the house! I add the living room, a sidewalk in front of the door, and a row of daffodils on either side of the sidewalk. I'm still using gaps in the wall instead of archways for a lot of things, since Maxis has bizarrely made an archway -- which is just a door frame -- cost 50% more than a door, which is a door frame AND a door. Once we're even richer, we'll take care of those minor details and add a lot more windows, but for now, having enough space to put skilling equipment is lovely.
I move the chess table, the easel, the sofas, the TV, and the bookcase into the new living room. In addition to the new room, we get some new things to put IN that room. I add a love seat to the two sofas we had, so all eight sims can watch TV or read books at once. I buy a weight bench, which the Fashion folks need for Body skill, and which the Medicine people will need shortly.
Now that the house is in reasonable shape, I can get more sims out of that Politics career, which I hate to play more than a few levels of because it requires so MANY friends. I temporarily buy a computer, and Carmen takes today's first offering, the Xtreme career. Fred skips that one to see what the next career is, and I have him take Law Enforcement. Evelyn skips the first two -- will we be lucky THREE times today? -- and the third career is Science! Yay! No more Politics career, and now there's a lot more variety in my game, with sims in more different careers. Tomorrow, I'll have one of the Fashion folks check to see if Hacker is on offer.
Now that both of the Medical folks have been promoted to Paramedic, and Fred is a Security Guard, we have three sims on the night shift. I send Anna and Henry to bed as soon as they get home and send Fred there as soon as he gets the Law Enforcement job. Gosh, it almost seems quiet in here, with only five sims awake. :-)
My sims haven't needed dinner the past few nights, since need decay is so slight in the entry-level jobs, but now that they've been promoted a few times, they're hungry. I have two sims cook two dinners, and Anna and Henry get up from their rest in time to eat dinner with the family. Fred gets up a bit later and has to eat alone, but I have him socialize with Evelyn -- whose interest pattern overlaps the most with his -- to get his social up.
Anna and Henry go off to work at 10 p.m., Fred at 11, and everybody else goes to bed. Tomorrow we'll start working on buying them all better beds, but things are in pretty good shape for now. It's only day four, and things are really up and running. I still miss my mods, but the vanilla game turns out to be quite doable when you understand how the game works.
I had thought I'd be doing this for a week, but things are in good enough shape now that I think this will be my last post about the Eight-Sim Challenge.
Back to the list of Sims 1 mods