I have been developing Cottonwood Hills, an empty world which is a reworked version of Sunset Valley. https://www.tumblr.com/martinessimb...ey-makeover-the This is a long running project of mine, since I intend to build as many of my own lots as I can.

The centre piece to the whole project will, I hope, be the Grand Hotel...



That's the exterior pretty well done, but there's a lot of work to be done inside. On the ground floor there is to be a bar, a gymnasium and a restaurant. The upper floors each have six rooms which have resort tower rugs in them. I'd prefer to use rabbit hole doors, but the only ones I've found are double exterior doors, and I want them to look like proper hotel room doors. Anyway, I've tested that part of it and, after a bit of a wait, a sim turned up to man the desk and the first guest was able check in...



She is a sim I'd just created as a character for a story post. Her name is Dorothy Summers, and we'll be seeing more of her. But, before taking up an important post at Brelor Castle she's helping me test things out in Cottonwood Hills.The lucky girl is getting to stay at luxury hotel, so she can't complain about that.

It's true the hotel isn't finished yet (which is very often the case on these cheap package tours) but around the back is a nice pool she can swim in...



And it has got a bar attached, with a Mixologist already on station. So that should keep her happy for a while.

It was a lovely day in my game. I saw a sim running by a window and decided to go see who it was.



Here's Graciela Castle looking like something nightmares are made out of.

I guess a plan for the next time I open my game has been created for me. Instead of playing, I'll be blocking more ugly shit so I don't have to see more scenes like this. Maxis...

I'm in love with simbouquet's Better Greet mod. Had my werewolf and his dog bunk up with Jamie in a modded version of Sunset Valley, once I managed to complete her lifetime wish I decided it was time for my boy and the dog to pack up and move on. Him and Jamie became fast friends during their time together so I felt it appropriate to share some tender loving hugs before leaving.

EDIT: Some more pics of my beloved wolf boy. His name is Faolan and he's one of my earlier creations, though I have since touched up his looks a bit now that I've gotten a lot better at creating pretty sims. Sometimes I feel jealous at Sims 4 and how good the werewolves look there compared to Sims 3, but just a few bits of CC can make some real miracles happen. I don't really do stories with my playthroughs, I just play around for a while and then move on.

Well, my current 100 Baby Challenge is going nicely... three of the four oldest came back to the Trailer (which I am hoping to move them out of before Rosalyn's Heiress (who does not yet exist, I hope) takes the reins) as Zombies... Fairies ARE NOT supposed to be Zombies, game...

Meanwhile, in Strangetown, AZ, Gino Digger is still living alone with his cats in the Vista del Polvo apartments, but at least he is becoming a great fiddle player.
But wait, there is still a faint flicker of hope, as his landlady, ,Michelle Tso, catches him on the front porch of his townhouse, trying to spark Leia Cross.
It's only a faint glimmer, as Leia is a notorious Romance Sim. This is probably a trap.

I thought I might and least try to play Isla Paradiso again. I'd given up on it when using my old laptop, it was lagging so badly, and randomly crashing. But now, what with much better hardware, the Smoothness Patch, Ellacharmed's fixed world, and this mod: https://modthesims.info/d/665907/re...houseboats.html, things have improved somewhat. Tho' it still lags more than any other world, I think I can live with it.

The lot fell, once again, upon Ali Catt as my tester. This is her, making her first dive on Rocky Reef...



Yes, I know what you're thinking. Cats and water? They don't exactly mix do they. And it's true that when I first created Ali, and my other Cat girls (Sp: Homo Felis) I did give them the Hydrophobic trait, because it seemed appropriate. But Ali has moved on, faced her fears head on, so to speak. Well, actually I just gave her the Sailor trait instead. Now she's determined to embrace water as her natural element, become a true 'aquacat'...



And also skipper of the good ship 'Sea Star'.

To my mind, houseboats really ought to look like boats. I built Sea Star ages ago, but since I couldn't find many worlds where I could build ports that would work, and even when I did there was really nowhere for her to go, she's been sitting unused in my Library ever since.

But now she has a mission to explore the waters around Isla Paradiso. Ali will be Catkind's answer to Jaques Cousteau. There will be islands to discover, dive lots to explore, treasures to be recovered and wild life to study.

And, of course, fish to be caught. Because Ali happens to be rather fond of fish.

So I FINALLY moved the Bliss family to my preferred lot, lol. For those wondering, it's the same Huntington house I requested nearly ten years ago for my second attempt at the 100 Baby Challenge (the first was lost when my previous laptop died on me) and then I lost their save files sometime between then and two months ago (I lost the flash drive they were on, heh). You can still find the download in the Residential Lots section on this site. I am almost certain it still is the biggest Sims 3 house on MTS. I am still in the process of fully furnishing it as the way I make money with this family is different than the family I originally used it for.



Once the traffic jam that was moving the family in stopped, I happened to find three of Rosalyn's children all eating at the dining room table. Here we have the teenage Shanita (who is almost identical to her mother) eating Grilled Salmon with her younger Genie half-siblings, Malissa and Brandon, eating Spaghetti that Rosalyn made. They are a set of quadruplets with their Human siblings, Isaac and Cynthia (pictured next to the fridge). Cynthia is currently the Heiress, but that MIGHT change soon as their mother is currently pregnant for what may be the last time. They did not have room to do so at the Trailer (or a large table for that matter).



Not five minutes later, I found Rosalyn autonomously painting. She has the Artistic trait along with at least five of her children. We can thank the Genie and her "No Bills Ever" Lifetime Reward that I got her as soon as I could for the fact that I was able to move them. I am almost certain that this painting is the first one she has been able to make since her VERY FIRST pregnancy, haha. Her children always hogged the singular Easel they had. She has progeny with higher Painting Skill than she does.

Nery Turner and Tina Roennigke wouldn't stop woohooing after they graduated from college and moved back to Strangetown together. They wouldn't stay out of each other's beds at college, either. This is probably because they are both Romance Sims and have 3 sparks for each other. It wasn't long before Tina became pregnant, so Nery proposed.

From here, we can see the the wedding and most of the guests. Nery and Tina are obviously the two under the arch. Jill Smith the Infallibly Good Witch is standing behind Vidcund Curious and casting a spell on him. Prof. Lauren Yang is also here, but she is sitting behind Jill. You might be able to make out the top of Lauren's head. The others, from left to right, are Genesis Lam (the maid,) Renee Andrews, David Gibson, Travis Fuchs and Erin Singles. They live next door to the Grunts, so you can see the bottom of the guard tower.


After their vows, there was plenty of fun at the wedding reception. The wedding party rating was maxed out.


As you can see, the maid insisted on cleaning up after everybody while the party was still going.

Almost everybody here has made WooHoo with Tina in the past, with the sole exception of Vicdund. Leaving the pink hot tub out all day may have been the cause of some of that. I saw her lure Jill into that hot tub while Nery was at work. But more than half these guests are her old lovers from college. Tina did all the inviting and also why Tina couldn't wear white. Not even Vidcund would believe she was a virgin.

I did hear somebody making WooHoo in the house, but I had my camera focused on Nery and Tina at the time, so I didn't see who it was, but I'm sure it wasn't them. Good job, whoever it was who WooHooed behind the couple's backs during their reception!

To avoid problems, I used a mod to disable all jealousy on the lot, as well as for Nery and Tina. They can both act like Romance Sims without putting their marriage at risk. They also have a modded waterbed that's set to be a "swinger bed" that anyone can use without jealousy - probably what I heard somebody using, since the hot tub was put away to make room for the wedding furniture.

@LordXenophon Lovely update but your Sims 2 seems to be in a Sims 3 thread!

@simsample I've been doing that for years and you're the first to say anything.

Have you? I've seen you post Sims 3 sims in Sims 2 thread I think!

So I FINALLY let Rosalyn retire, lol. She managed to have 25 children, so she deserves it. That happens to be the most I have had in a single generation. Smooth Patch did not exist when I last seriously tried the challenge, haha. Upon aging up to Elder, I immediately dyed her hair back to her usual CC-pattern red. Now I am trying to get both her Gardening and Painting skills to max before Grim comes for her. Most of her teen children are a school day or two away from getting Honor Roll. I do not intend to have a "Game Over" situation on my hands.



Her Heiress, Robyn (if I can manage it, I plan on having my Heiresses have names that start with the letter "R"), is currently a child. She is pictured here talking to her older half-brother, Chadrick. All I wanted was a Heiress who was not a Redhead like SO MANY of Rosalyn's children, lol. I managed to get a POC one as well. Her father is Keoni Laniakea, who was a Mermaid when I downloaded him, but my game turned him back to a Human before I could have Rosalyn track him down. (You can find him on MTS.) She rolled both the Vegetarian and Disclipined traits, so she will be trained in Martial Arts ASAP. I am trying to go for a Tomboy look for her as much as possible.

EDIT:

For those curious, the make-up of multiple births is currently:

10 sets of Twins (Robyn has a twin named Justin, lol.)
One set of Quadruplets (A glitch since I have those turned off in Woohooer...something about asking the Genie for triplets results in quads for me, for some reason.)
One singleton (Also a glitch, I think.)

I am apparently just as much a Derp at the Sims 3 as I am at Minecraft, lol. Isaac had a Wish to repair the Dishwasher... I am back down to 24 children. I let Grim claim him on Prom Night (not that I would have let him go) without thinking about it. At least Malissa can break Space Rock Blocks now...

HAHAHAHA! I feel your pain. I posted on another thread that when I first started playing Sims 3, my 1st ever Sim got electrocuted fixing a stereo and died.

@LadySmoks
My error was in having him try it again after failing the first time, lol. I realized after I turned the game off for the night that I could have had a Genie (not his father) resurrect him. Rosalyn should have a high enough Handiness skill to avoid getting electrocuted when I have her try it.

She was electrocuted because she was in a puddle and playing with electricity. I learned that the hard way also.

First off, not long after my last post, my Epilepsy decided to make its presence known thanks to an incompetent doctor (who I have replaced) and, as such, I could not touch ANY games for 2+ weeks for my own safety. I am surprised I could touch YouTube, in all honesty. As long as I avoid Late Night's strobe lights (which I can delete with Master Controller), I should be fine from now on.

Anyway, Robyn had a wish to paint, so I directed her to do so. She DOES NOT have the Artistic trait, lol. Not long after, Rosalyn autonomously started painting herself.



A few days later, both Malissa and Brandon got on Honor Roll, but their Human sister, Cynthia, did not. I currently have them in a Dumpster versus Space Rock Block race for Tiberium, lol. Malissa's Perfectionist trait is making that difficult. Anyway, I had all seven teens do their homework on their MultiTabs and found six of them sitting at the dining room table. Cynthia was downstairs doing her homework elsewhere.

I am a horse lover, and no land or finances to own one, so I do on the sims! I have found really cool ways to have a functional horse ranch. I own 12 horses, and on the weekends they throw a house party, (or I use the invite over cheat), and I give permission for each guest to ride a horse. I then maneuver each horse to locations. they all walk pretty much in a line as a trail ride.
Another thing is we barrel race. I do the same invite, and run each horse around the barrels using the racing poles.
During the week, the owner, Shenae Baker and her husband Charlie show horses at the venue, and she runs a daycare.