CiCi's Pizza is... basically a pizza buffet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cici%27s_Pizza

Back in Texas there was one in every town. And usually the pizza is really good. Plus they have salads and brownies and cinnamon rolls. And tea.

The closest one here in Pennsylvania is.. not close to me.

*cries*

I've never had a good experience at a CiCi's... The only place to get pizza in Pennsylvania is at Police Station Pizza in Ambridge, if I do say myself

Dude, that wiki page features a picture of macaroni and cheese pizza. I am scarred for life now.
*hugs Palermo's pizza for comfort*

Now I'm hungry for pizza lol.

May I present to you, the Summit Legacy! Chapter 1.0 -- Dreaming Big

Round 2 entry has been posted on the blog, now that the round is closed:

http://thorpelegacy.blogspot.ca/201...ing-future.html

The new Nraas mod seems fun... But I'm not sure if I want it... Yet...

EDIT: I got bored, so I made Siofra (pretty sure that's pronounced Shee-fra) Begley... She's based off Maya Murphy basically... She'll hopefully make it into the the Hemlock family, when I think the tie dye suits a career

Hehe! ^.^ I remember when the mac'n'cheese pizza showed up. CiCi's always has one strange experimental pizza, and if people end up liking it enough it becomes part of the normal buffet. Another topping that became popular is their barbeque pizza. <3 I know it SOUNDS yuck, but... <3

I have no shame in enjoying many different types of pizza. Where I live now, there's an Italian mafia place every three blocks, so there is a LOT of different pizza.

I think my favorite is this one super old place that made their pizza and handed it out as snacks at the bar before anyone even knew what pizza was. So it's not at all New York style. It's hard to describe. I also really really like the simplistic Margherita pizza, which is gaining in popularity here, since I've seen some imitators since this one Italian place opened and has been serving it. That one place uses a coal fire for everything; I remember the first day I was there, some dude was arguing with the waitress about wanting "one slice". And she's like "we don't serve single slices because we can't re-heat our pizza... the oven would turn it to ash."

I can even tolerate Dominoes' Pizza, so the only pizza I truly dislike is Papa John's.... also when people put American cheese on pizza instead of mozzarella. *gag*

Anyway. You mean the new disease mod? I only skimmed.

Hm...I think DH and I may have to stop at CiCi's for dinner tonight. Can't grocery shop on an empty stomach, right?

I really like their bbq pizza, and the apple-cinnamon dessert pizza, too. Also, I remember them having a chicken/broccoli alfredo pizza once, and it was pretty good.

*skips off to read updates*

So, heaven's suggestions about a sims family tree web app sounded very intriguing and I spent a day just thinking and plotting. I THINK it might be possible to make one. I'm just not sure how difficult it might be. It's definitely not simple, especially if you want to upload pictures, and possible merge two trees together, there also should be a way to login and and keep track of people's accounts etc, but it doesn't seem impossible. I think? My summer job ends next week and then I'll have about 3 weeks with no other responsibilities, so I may try something then. but, yea, everything is a big maybe, so no promises :/ (repeat, no promises)

As for my legacy.... I've been stalling with updates. Everyone here writes soooooooo well. I would write my next chapter, look at it, hate it, and scrap it. Irrationally, I felt pressured to write something better, and wouldn't be satisfied with my writing at all, to the point where thinking about the legacy was stressful. but then, I realized how dumb I was being It's my first legacy, and I'm only on Gen 1 anyway, and ultimately this is meant to be fun. I play sims cause it's fun, and I started writing about it cause it's fun. So, now I'm off to rewrite my next chapter! It won't be as amazing as I wish it'd be, but I'll have fun writing it

toodles~

It does look interesting, I haven't decided whether I want it yet or not but I think if I roll for a medical career at any point then I probably will get it then

Didn't see this.

It's an apartment and apparently it fixed itself when I reset the lot again. I'm not sure what happened, but at least it's working correctly now. Thanks for answering, Becky!

/off to read updates and stare blankly at my own legacy.

I have a lot of judging to do tonight for both heaven's and Q's contests, so I probably won't have an update for a couple more days, but I'm excited to read the new chapters that I've missed.

As soon as I roll a doctor sim (or even military, maybe) I'll download Twallan's disease mod. But until then, I just see ways it can get in the way of story telling. Plus it would be sort of awkward to throw in how ___ suddenly came down with the sim flu when no one else has been sick, ever.

My next chapter will take another day or so, just realized I actually have to make sims for a scene. Damn story telling.

I haven't downloaded that new mod either, mainly because it seems like more of a hassle than it's worth. Maybe I will for my next generation though because...


I am losing track of all the random legacies... Is there a master list anywhere of current, ongoing legacies? The one on the uploads page is sorely outdated I'm afraid.

Speaking of, how do you all upload your Sims? Do you strip them of their CC or do you leave it all on and make a list of where to find everything? I went to upload Danielle today, but I didn't know how you all would like her (CC-less or not).

@Giga- That was me who had a similar issue. I tried everything (resetting the town, the lot, playing around with the room markers, etc), but I never could get it to work properly. I just gave up and started family funding money back into Dani's account, as her bills were ginormous otherwise.

@chorok- I feel the same exact way about my writing, especially when I read the other people's random legacies. The trick is not to get discouraged. I still cringe when I read my first attempt at legacy writing, but I think (or hope) that I've improved over time.

I don't think I will bother with the mod. Sounds annoying.

I dunno who made the legacies list, or who can edit it. =( I guess we could add something to the blog page. Like a side page.

It's on the page where most of us upload our sims.

Click here

All the info to go in and change things are at the blurb on the front page.

I considered putting Morgan Hemlock and other random sims I made on the RLUploads thingy... But because I don't have a blog, no one outside of here would know what they look like/make believe back stories lol

Buckley, I upload my sims as I would for an actual upload: so I make sure they are in a default replacement skin and game hair instead of cc hair and then choose clothing that is also in game. I don't worry SO much about clothes though because the game will replace anything that's not in your game and I imagine most people will put the sim in whatever clothes they want anyway. As for hair, I -think- it was fixed with a patch but I can't be too sure. There was some issue of sims being packed with CC hair if the downloader didn't have it. Same with non-default skins and I know that hasn't been fixed. If you don't have the skin, it causes the sim to be weirdly black (as in non-rendered/rendered strangely) and it's fixable but annoying to fix. As for make-up and accessories, the game replaces it just like clothes so it's not a big deal.

None of my CC, aside from actual store content or patterns that can't be converted, are sims3pack files. I use the multi-installer to change everything to packages so I don't have to worry about anything attaching itself to the sim. And I just include the actual .sim file rather than the uploaded pack.

Regardless of whether I "left it on" or not, I always make a list so that people can make my sims look like they do in my blog. Well, aside from clothes. I never list those unless someone specifically asks where something came from. Then it becomes up to the downloader whether they want my sim to look like mine or want to change them around a bit. Since I am not so terribly attached that I care if they look identical, it doesn't bother me to see them different. Like Vesper. She looked much softer and nicer in your blog than she looked in mine. I liked it.


Also, at some point I suppose I shall have to add my name to the RL blog list.

I can go through and update the legacy list later on tonight - if that is okay with everyone. I *still* have judging to do, so it might be a few hours until I get to it.

Buckley/Colleen: It somehow fixed itself when I reset the lot - although I'm not sure if it's a perma-fix; so I moved them. Lol. Not.Dealing.With.That. It can be another NPC's problem - until I decide to move towns again (because we all know this will happen eventually).

As far as uploaded sims go, I always package them without any CC - just to prevent any potential issues. Err(ing) on the side of caution, this one is.

The only CC I use is a default skin and hair/clothing, so I don't remove it.

Also, making the sims I needed took half the time I expected it to since nothing crashed!

4.3 - Cruel Times http://sarisimsrandomlegacy.blogspo...ruel-times.html

Things go from bad to worse.

Cece, I just read your update, but I refuse to comment. Punishment! (I am so. sad. right. now.)

Giga- If you do get around to fixing the list, that would be awesome. I would do it myself, but I'm A) Lazy. B) Trying to get an update done. And C) Lazy.

I'll package Danielle without CC. Thanks the replies, heaven and Gigs. (If you can call me "the Buckster", I can call you Gigs. )

Now, I must go find a tissue to mop up my tears. THANKS CECE!

Colleen:

I left you a "Sorry-I'm-evil" gift in your inbox. ><

Okay, so I went through and updated the legacy page.

--I added heaven's, Cece's, and Buckley's legacies to the active list.

--I added a discontinued/inactive section, just in case anyone wishes for their aborted legacies to still be read and/or those that have inactive legacies can come back and just copy/paste their link back into the active section. Just to be clear, anyone that hasn't updated within the last month was moved to this section...

If anything is incorrect, feel free to either fix it yourself or shoot me a message and I'll fix it for ya'.

I wasn't sure if any new legacies that have joined recently met the criteria (as I've popping in and out of here intermittently), so if they do - feel free to add it.

Ba-Bam! >>http://rluploads.blogspot.com/p/random-legacies.html<< Take a gander.

Now - back to my regularly scheduled judging.

I've left them as they are so far (I think), but I don't think I've had any CC on any of them (unless you count store content)

Edit: actually, just remembered that Miralys' hair is CC but I think I left her in it

Thanks, Giga!

'Twas my pleasure, Becky. Thanks for thanking me! It makes me feel all fuzzy inside and such.

I'll have an update pretty soon. I *just* finished the story judging/scores/comments/what-have-you and have some government paperwork to finish this morning (because I've been holding that crap off until the last very minute... of-effing-course) - but then I'll get right on reading everyone's lovely updates and publishing my own. Promise.

Becky: I am sooooo behind in your legacy, it's not even funny. *ashamed face* Although I am excited to sit down and power read what I've missed with those pesky, lovable Archers.

Okay, so I finally got caught up on your current legacy...and..well...*wrings hands* You'll be updating again soon? Right? Pretty please? *sniffle*

D'aaaaw that just made me melt! But I'm afraid it'll be at least a day or so before my next update. Have to write another contest entry first xD.

And yaaaay! Thank you so much for cleaning that up, Giga. It looks great!

I'm aliiiiiiive!

I had a massive sudden lack of internet access. For months. And it took about...a day and a half to reach the "oh god someone please shoot me to put me out of my misery" level.

Silver lining: I probably have fifty billion Sari chapters to read in one sitting. Good times.

Welcome back *hugs*

OMG YOU'RE ALIVE! *Hugs*

I was without my laptop for just over a month... they first week was the hardest. I think computer/internet usage should actually be considered something you're addicted to.

And naaah. Not fifty BILLION... just about fifty.

OMG I AM!

And assuming my internet holds up (knock on wood), I'm sure I will eventually...one day...ten thousand years in the future get to Snickerson gen 2. xD

Okay so I started my random legacy but I have one question. Are teens in your household allowed to make money via part time jobs? I didn't see any reference to it in the rules but I may have missed something

Yes, they are. I guess we should clarify that.

The reason they're allowed is that it was once a requirement for Perfect Children.

Thanks for the clarification. And looks like you've already updated the official rules! Speedy :D

No problem! I'm glad it's been RL'er approved!

And welcome back Zoku! I was wondering where you went.

(lots of exclamations in this post)

Hey Zoku! I'm so happy that you're back. I, literally, just "unfollowed" your blog last night cause I didn't think you were coming back. I'll go fix that now.

Well, I'm disappointed. I went to Origin to see how much it would cost me to pre-order Supernatural, and I learned that if you click on 'packaged' form, you don''t have the 'Plants vs. Zombies content pack'. That only appears when you click on the digital copy.
I didn't want to get the digital copy, but it looks like I have to, to get the extra stuff I want.

Amazon has the limited edition with the extra content so I'd suggest shopping around various games retailers and see where you can order it from other than Origin

I was going with Origin because of the Origin exclusive decor pack thingie.
And as my boyfriend pointed out to me, I can always just buy the disk at a later date to have it. I only want the disks as a collection things, not the most useful for me, since my cd-rom is very picky.

So I guess really, I shouldn't be complaining at all, but hey.

They have an exclusive decor pack? Completely missed that, but I've not actually looked at Origin tbh

It's funny, everything I do online was interrupted. Everything. Facebook, gaming, email, any other website I was a member of, and yet the part that was bothering me the most was "But, but, I NEED TO GET NEW LEGACY CHAPTERS UP YOU DON'T UNDERSTAAAAAND!"

I don't suppose anyone knows of a mod which allows sims to plant things on (owned) community lots? I've bought a small plot of land for my family to make into a museum & I really want to plant stuff there but the game won't allow it

I think there's a mod somewhere for that, Ali. But usually i just go into buydebug and plant through there.

I bought a disk version of Supernatural and I got the bonus stuff. O_o Are you sure you didn't make a mistake somewhere, Charmed?

It's possible I did. I was really tired when looking that up, and it was really early in the morning for me. And I get confused with things easily. I'll check again later when my internet stops being so buggy.

Origin has 3 extra extra decor stuff. A lamp that looks like the one that moves fog away, a wallnut sculpture and something else...

I have an update!

Chapter 14: Dead Man Walking
http://themckinleychronicles.blogsp...an-walking.html

Also, the scariest, most random thing happened to me while I was getting pictures for this chapter.
PLEASE don't click the button until you've read my latest chapter. Major spoilers ahead!

Buckley:

Just so you know: I clicked on that spoiler before reading your chapter. Because, YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! /rebel (although I do feel a little bad because you said please)

I clicked the spoiler before reading too. : ) That hasn't happened to me ever in over a year and a half of sims 3 simming.

Ugh I feel so bad. I haven't even opened up my legacy save game in two days. T_T I feel so bad.

Buckley:

I won't de-spoiler what you said, just in case - but we're in the same boat. Hermits, hermits everywhere! :P

In response:

I didn't even think about it that way. I probably should have just waited and posted about it later, but I was so traumatized by the whole experience! I just had to share.

Also: Lol.


But... WHY? I need to know what happens!!

@Becky and Heaven- Yeah, they are pretty rare. I've only had it happen two or three times before in my entire Simming life, which is why I was SO surprised that it happened within the first Sim hour of a brand new save! It's quite frightening actually. The whole screen shakes and there's a loud explosion. I don't really like them...

Was busy working on round three of Heaven's contest, the boyfriend is on vacation this week, sleep, wanting to try a bajillion recipes, and building.

I promise to open the file tomorrow.

I know that in the Awesome Mod configuration options, you can allow planting on community lots. I don't know of a specific, individual mod for it though.

Hey look, I opened the file! And I even got a chapter out of it.

4.4 - What You Need http://sarisimsrandomlegacy.blogspo...t-you-need.html

Pearl never gets pretty things. But Nicolas is pretty damn adorable.

*is inordinately pleased with herself*

Chapter 14: More trouble than it's worth

Yay! *does happy dance*

Got a new chapter up:- http://clemetislegacy.blogspot.co.u...chapter-64.html

Not entirely happy with it as I was working various unconnected events into the storyline and it doesn't flow very well

Chapter 121 is up. http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2012...1-your-mom.html

Featuring the long-awaited appearance of

Chapter 15: This Changes Everything

Being without internet has been good for me. That and I read Cece's chapters in one sitting and absolutely had to play more afterwards.

Discovery of the day: One of my significant referring search terms from Google is the phrase "what my dad thinks I do." Thanks, Kirk.

EDIT: So, I'm off amusing myself with the Unicorn's ignite action, setting the neighbor's property on fire. Then I see a sim in black sprint across the street and start putting out fires faster than I can start them, rescuing the poor little pregnant mother who lives there.

Turns out, Altin's better at Simming than I am.

Chapter 122 is up. http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2012...on-catwalk.html

Buckley, I responded to your question in the comments on my last chapter. It wasn't much trouble to track those patterns down. =)

Hello,
This is my first challenge and caught my eye straight away! I have been lurking around for a while I just haven't made an account, Im going to read some legacy's to get a feel for it and then head on mine - Im stuck for Legacy Names ;

Xanthe Cosmic
Xanthe Cosmo
Xanthe Stevens
Xanthe Arc

Thanks to anyone who replies

EDIT: Im going to read Nuts first
Ill be here forever

I get to be first instead of Reya for once? Lol. =P

Is Xanthe the last name for your legacy family?

Hey I'm not ALWAYS first. : P I just update the most, so I tend to be the closest link available whenever newbies arrive.

And for the record, you were my first <3.

Oh no sorry, its my founders name (should of said that )

Rolls;
Single
Two Children
Medical
Fulfilled
No Strangers

Dammit Cece, now I'm thinking about dragons. >.>

Anyway I like the word Cosmic. But I also like the word cuttlefish, so take that with a grain of salt, haha.

Ooh... single parent on first generation can be tough! But ultimately rewarding, I'd think.

I was edginging towards Cosmic or Cosmo to hmm... DECISIONS DECISIONS!

After reading the first 2 chapters of yours Nuts, im itching to start mine

*Uses Random.org*

It gave me Cosmo
of to start on my blog!


Also Medical career is a lucky pick in my idea!

Welcome to the challenge Unique! Medical is a great founding career, but single parent combined with no strangers? Yikes, I don't envy you! Hope your Sim doesn't get fired, lol.

Calisims' blog was my first. And then I read part of Nuts' R&R legacy. I don't remember who came after that.

Thanks, and well... atleast ill get hooked and not bored

Edit: just fully read what no strangers was!!
Oh is this even possible
Only lord can help my sim now!

Hey, cuttlefish is a frekkin AWESOME word! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise :D.

On a much less cheerful note...the reason I haven't blogged anymore is because I *finally* got around to updating all my cc so I could patch, and now I'm having lots of problems. Tons and tons of lag, freezes, and general naughtiness, coupled with ErrorTrap finding as many as 637 "out of world objects: Forwarder" and "simdescriptionremoved: simdescriptionremoved" errors at one time. I was sure I'd updated everything, but clearly I missed something. I just haven't been motivated enough to isolate the problem yet. *sigh*

It's possible. Did it in Gen 5 of my Starr Legacy. And she had FOUR kids. I suggest getting a bit of money saved up, and then remaining off work until the first child is child age, then work a bit for more money, and have the next child while the first is near teen so s/he can help with babysitting.

Thanks for the tips/advice


My first chapter is up, Let me know what you think (or if theres mistakes)

New update!

4.5 - Threats http://sarisimsrandomlegacy.blogspo...45-threats.html

Pearl gets to use her training.

Someone remind me. When you get the option to
(minor and probably expected spoiler)

Zoku:

Also, unrelated, but something occurred to me today while I was trying to get Magnolia to stop being an obnoxious little twit. The pets perfectionist optional rule? As is, you have to max one skill. That's actually pretty easy, especially since horses can train themselves while the sim is doing something else. On the other hand most of the challenges are impossible for anyone without an Equestrian roll.

The compromise I'm making in my game is to max the skill *and* train them to gain the relevant trait: agile for jumping or fast for racing. That's slow to get unless your sim is working directly with the horse, reinforcing and training them.

EDIT: Also, considering horses inherit skills from their parents, that rule is pretty worthless after gen 1 anyway, so this also forces me to work on my gen 2+ horses' abilities even if they're born with maxed skills.

Zoku:

I have no experience with the optional goals or pets skills. If during play-testing (IE, what you are doing) a rule proves itself totally dumb, though, our set precedence is to scrap it.

I'll let someone else comment on that, though, since I haven't played with animals much.

Chapter 123 is up: http://archlegacy.blogspot.com/2012...issing-now.html

What do you all do when you realize that you're tired of your story and current generation and want to move on to the next one BUT you're too far into whatever ridiculous, half thought out plot you came up with that you can't in good conscience just "fast forward" things a bit or pretend you never went there?

Lol. Loaded question, eh? I'm feeling bored with my heir. Probably because she has, like, zero personality, and I am anxious to get through her crap so I can get to her children. But, all my previous attempts to consolidate her story and move things along only seem to make it more complicated! I'm really frustrated right now, in case you couldn't tell. If anyone feels like listening to a rant, PM me. (Which reminds me, I haven't gotten back to anyone lately. Sorry guys. *shame face*)

As for the pet rules, I don't really have much to add. I haven't played pets very extensively yet at all, so I don't know much about it.

Rants are always good fun. You could always just have 'snippets of memory' that explain what happened in a very condensed form and like a lot of people, avoids the topic of uncomfortable life events and just jump to her kids... "Mum/Mom (whatever) doesn't talk about it much, but what I can gather *insert horrible event/sudden kung-fu abilities kicked bad guys arses* blah blah blah"

Can you tell I don't write??

Anyhoo... I'm SLOWLY building a house for the Hemlocks, and so far I have 1 bedroom partly finished... 3 days from starting it...

Oh, poor Buckley! I know how you feel. I've been tired of Yelena since Brielyn turned into a child. I just kept pushing through. My suggestion (which admittedly is from an ignorant viewpoint) would be to simplify your plot as much as possible without making it a time skip and just push through. It certainly makes it hard to want to open the game though.

As for Pets, my only experience was with Rump and I haven't wanted a pet since.

Hmmm. I suggest against a time-speed or "snippets of memory", personally. That's just weird for the audience, who may feel like they have a lot invested in the character.

I've gotten angry and bored with a lot of my plot threads. Basically every single complicated one, I wanted to quit. Generation 3, 7, 8 and 9 were particularly bad for me. (That was )

Like heaven suggested, just simplify. Strip down your plot to its basic happenings. This can actually feel very natural, if the plot is a certain degree of traumatic for the characters. When people talk about horrible things that happened to them, one of the ways some people go about it is to strip the events down to bare bones, so they can push through the telling of it without breaking down.

I will send you a PM, Buck.

*sigh* I know exactly how you feel. Harlan is boring the hell outta me and I want to get to the next heir already (and this is coming from someone that has already done a time-skip; due to game borkage, but still).

We'll get through this together? Sending you a PM later on today (when I'm not sneaking peeks at MTS while at work... I feel like a secret agent right now - switching between tabs whenever the boss walks by).

Wow, everybody sure has been busy with updates! I didn't have much Internet access while I was gone, but I'll have plenty of reading material now! Hopefully I can pull together an update by the weekend so I don't feel like a slacker, ha.

Quick question: does everybody have a preferred cropping program? I've just been using the Windows crop tool because it is easy, but does anybody else have a preferred tool?

I use something called Formati. My boyfriend sent it to me years ago.

I don't crop my pictures. I just use the tab tool for pictures and then use the keyboard keys for fine camera control. Otherwise I use Gimp for all my photo-editing needs.

SEASONS! SEASONS! OH MY GOD, SEASONS.

Okay. I'll attempt to calm down. Is it wrong that I either A) want to wait until November to start plating again or B) finish the Avendales before then and start a new one when it comes out?

OH MY GOD. Yessssss! I'm going to have to get started on building a super computer before that comes out......... Can you imagine the lag the weather is going to cause across even a small neighborhood?

Back to the family tree application... I started an internship this week that actually is teaching me how to do in-browser applications. SO. The app might be possible for me to do. Might. I'll start looking into it as soon as things calm down. I haven't even played my game since starting the new job Driving 3 hours a day for work means I barely have enough time to sleep and eat.

I just use the TAB key mode too for pictures. No cropping, unless I want to show some notification. Then I crop with Paint because I'm no good with editing pictures lol.

Seasons!!! I was on the fence about Supernatural, but I think I will have to pre-order Seasons. It just looks so awesome! And aliens! :D

I use iPiccy its a website, i use it for effects and adding text and stuuff its really good and easy! :D

Yeah my suggestion was a tad lacklustre, I wasn't really putting into words what was in my head. 12:30 am and being distracted by Olympics seems to do that for me...

I meant no offense, luv.

If she wants to do snippets, I can guarantee I'll still read her blog and love it. xD

I really wasn't offended, it's hard to do with me . I'm not a writer and things going from head to keyboard were a little muddled.

Arisuka actually explained, in some detail, over in the Seasons Discussion Thread why weather shouldn't be too much more of a hit on a computer than any other expansion pack. However, I'm sure it all depends on what configuration you're running on. Also, has everyone seen the trailer? I'm in love.

As for the family tree, that's awesome news. Not awesome is the 3 hour drive part. I did 2-ish hours a day for a little while. The money was much better than the job I am at now but I burnt out really fast and didn't enjoy the job/coworkers as much. I guess it all comes down to the job itself.

I think EA is trying to make my computer kill itself. I am excited for Seasons. But I won't be able to play it until I get a new computer, probably in about 6-9 months.
Even putting Supernatural on it is going to be pushing the limits.

Now, off it watch the trailer if my speakers feel like behaving.

I only just got a new laptop, but I'm already considering buying a desktop for the sole purpose of Simming

Oh. My. Goodness. I just saw the trailer heaven, and I too am in love. Like head over heels. SO EXCITED!

My mood has just improved enormously. Eek! I'm so pumped for it, and it comes out right around my birthday. I know what I'll be giving myself this year. Now if you will excuse me, I need to go scream into a pillow. (Yes, I am that excited!!)

Considering I've been on the same generation for about 16 chapters...I curse my own ambition and throw things at the computer.

Hjaxon, I keep a uniform width on my photos for the sake of the blog layout, so resizing is more important to me than cropping. My general process is to stage the photo with tab ingame to get it as ideally positioned as possible, then open the file up in good old MS Paint. If it needs to be cropped I do it, and then when that's all done I resize it so that it's 554 pixels wide if it's wider than it is tall, or 484 pixels tall if it's taller than it is wide (but I don't use the latter very often).

That's the biggest I can make it without having it overflow my layout.

I'm hitting that with Pearl, since the one scene I was looking forward to is sooo far in the future. So I'm cutting out almost everything that isn't necessary from my plot and speeding through with a focus on the next generation so that hopefully I don't get bored early again.

New CC seems to help with keeping interested. Especially with the Fashion Diva rule.

I've decided I'm going to come back and do a second random legacy. I've tried a few other challenges, but I bored quickly. I've tried playing with a random house, but without a goal, what's the point?


I'm excited for seasons. It was always my favorite expansion!


I have one of those! I love it. With that being said, it already lags

1.6 - Mistake

I honestly hate this chapter. I think it's cause I'm so annoyed with writing Phoebe's story to help with something happening really soon.
I don't think I'll try to do something like this again anytime soon. Simple story from now on.

Im finding it really hard to wright a 2nd chapter because i just want to get on with the kids because i have such a good idea! :D