The Sims II - Legacy Challenge

[mondays suck]

I had already written about 90% of this post, accidentally hit Alt+H somehow, returned to this page and everything was gone. Painful.

So, what I was going to say is that there are bad news. My uncontrollable scrolling problem became worse and worse recently, to the point where the screen was constantly moving. I literally screwed around a bit, it didn't help, the issue kept returning. So today, I decided to declare my mouse dead.
I do not intend to plague myself with the horrors of playing the game with my laptop's touchpad. Especially with the three toddlers the household was not very far from being home to anymore that's a no-no.
Getting a new mouse - I am certain I will not find an old but still functioning one in the attic, I'm pretty they all were PS2 mice; and my laptop lacks the ability to connect with a PS2 mouse - might take a while, the closest place where I can get one is roughly equally far away from my home as the dreaded Iron Curtain - You know, that scary border with the former soviet sphere of influence we all (myself included) only know about from history classes and documentaries. That border behind which the governments are even eviller than home. That border everyone west of hates Karl Marx and everyone east of is a disgrace to Karl Marx. Poor guy.
Anyway, if I am lucky I can get a new mouse this weekend, if I am not, I might have to do some thread necromancy later on - I'm pretty sure the rules I read before making this thread actually allow necromancy under certain circumstances in this subforum, but let's hope I won't have to resort to it.
I might try and do another LP in the meantime, I already have an idea, I am just not sure how well I will be able to execute it yet.

Notta and an Alien baby! Yay. :D

I see zombie-nanny Allyn in the future. o_o

Speaking of necromancy! Yes, Allyn is a tempting choice for a future zombie. I just hope she won't lose her permanent platinum status so she won't refuse to do anything when, say, there are puddles (not necessarily water puddles) in the room.

I've honestly never played, nor even seen any sims games.

lol

Thank whoever you believe to for not being exposed to this source of addiction yet.

Wow, I've never played the sims like this, I like to move around a lot.
Your LP's real cool man, keep it up!

EDIT: Okay I've finally finished reading everything, the last part was hilarious as !@#$! And grown up Ioducus looks badass man!*

Spoiler:

I've never seen aliens before... And I've been playing this game for years. (I did know they existed, just never had an abduction)
*before episode XV that is.

Yes, the architecture part is certainly one of the most fun bits of the game, and because tearing down a house takes a while, the game favors moving around, especially since the inventory was introduced which allows preventing to lose huge chunks of money when moving. I only stopped doing that when my "Peasantview" neighborhood became too crowded.

And Ioducus is my favorite character as well, so fun to play. The day he dies is going to suck. Oh well, at least it will allow me to finally play my planned boring eventless years of nothing.

Alien mpreg baby . . . nice.

Just read all the way through this in one sitting, and it was most amusing, if a little slow-paced to begin with. Still a good laugh, especially with the constant shenanigans that at least one of the family is up to at any given time.

And is it just me, or does Ioducus look like a real smarmosaur? Especially with that facial hair.

The problem is that increasing the pacing would mean decreasing the shenanigans. But eventually I will have to... :(
What's a smarmosaur by the way?

 

[Arma]

I wouldn't play with the touch pad either. I hope you get a mouse soon, can't wait to continue reading.
Btw, I used Peasantview too (though they call it "Droomzicht" = Dreamview in dutch) , but I moved almost all of the custom sims there to a custom neighborhood.

Say which expansion do you need in order to work as a spy and for the Lifetime aspiration benefits?
I hope you don't mind me asking, but from which country are you exactly?

 

[mondays suck]

Still no update, but:
While I still don't have a new mouse, thanks to having too much free time on my hands I've been practicing with the touchpad and started to memorize keyboard shortcuts (ridiculous, I know, but...) and the result is that by now I'm getting along just fine, at least as long as my hands aren't sweaty. So, I might try and play the Loner family some more, the first few days are going to be rather painful but once all these potential heirs grow up to children I should be just fine. Really, the only thing I can't really do well at all is the architectural aspect of the game, and apart from a future second attempt at running a business (I'll be running some off-screen tests in other families before that though), I'm past that in this case.

By the way, my proudest result of the past month:

Spoiler:

Somehow I managed to create this abomination. Some random guy who was sitting in the University's 'family' bin at the beginning of the game first turned from some average Joe into a serial killer warlock (this one is a while ago though, happened before I started this), then became a plantsim and now got bitten by a wolf. My first ever of each, by the way. Well, the latter is not entirely true, but the game crashed shortly after one of this guy's daughters turned into a werewolf yesterday evening.

Anyway, more on life state shenanigans later...

Btw, I used Peasantview too (though they call it "Droomzicht" = Dreamview in dutch) , but I moved almost all of the custom sims there to a custom neighborhood.

I did it exactly the other way around, I moved all premade sims (only from the original 3 neighborhoods though) into P(l)easantview and later restored the other two when I found out the game actually has backups of their original states hidden somewhere in its subfolders. Makes the data somewhat messy because most of the premade families are already at least in some way related, and for each household that had a memory or family tree entry of a person, that person got duplicated.

Say which expansion do you need in order to work as a spy and for the Lifetime aspiration benefits?

To be honest; I have no idea because for most of the time I only had the basic game and when decided to acquire the expansions I got all at the same time.
Some research says both the 'Intelligence' career track and the Lifetime Aspiration stuff were included in FreeTime though.

I hope you don't mind me asking, but from which country are you exactly?

Your mean eastern neighbor ;)
Here it's called "Schönsichtigen" btw, not right now though since I currently am using the English version.

 

[donavannj]

Oh, wow, that's some crazy luck for that sim. I wouldn't wanna be his neighbor.

 

[Arma]

Dayumn, he reminds me of Scarecrow from the Batman series... Creepy fella.XD
Also thanks for answering my questions, the only expansions I don't have are apartment life and free time.
Hope you get the next update up soon!

 

[mondays suck]

TS2 Legacy Challenge - Part XVI - Touchpad plus mass toddlers equaaals....?

Spoiler:

Alright, so the first thing I notice after loading up the family for the first time in quite a while is...

..that my graves storehouse is not in best shape, this is why I have to stop drowning people. Not only do water ghosts have a chance to leave a puddle on each floor tile they levitate over, they also seem to spawn at a higher rate than than other ghost types. In another family I went a little murder-happy at some point and ended up having around 30 graves, which meant 2-3 ghosts per night. Mostly fire ghosts, some random others that managed to escape the infernos but died in other ways and 3 water ghosts. In an estimated 75% of all nights, there was at least one water ghost. Grrr.
It's not just an aesthetic issue, the puddles also prevent the player from putting anything on top of them. Including urns and graves.

Anyway... what was I just going to do again?

Right, have some fun with all of these babies. If I remember correctly - and actually a look into the memories confirms it - I have been playing one more day after the twins' birth, so by now they should be close to their toddler stages.

It's only shortly past midnight in-game though, so I should still have ~17 hours to prepare since for some reason 18:00 is the time of the day sims age.

Ioducus is thinking about being enemies with one of the babies, Dalibor. Yes, beat the baby, beat it. Or is he just already afraid of his puberty? Then again, that's a non-issue in this game, so probably not.

Francisca finally decided to get herself a real job, oddly enough she makes less money than she did with the imaginary one. Oh well. Meanwhile....

Ioducus becomes Dominique Strauss-Kahn's new lawyer. Or something. And is still not on top of his career, he's just been to busy with ... negligibilities

Oh, and thank god I'm not doing a video LP, because HOW IN THE NAME OF HELL DO YOU PRONOUNCE THAT WITHOUT SWALLOWING YOUR TONGUE?

Speaking of money, there also is this. Completely ridiculous. The Loners are really pulling money out of their behinds here. These reward-induced random invent can also decrease your money count, but I'm pretty sure it's far less likely.

Oooh boy, here we go...
Yes, I am aware I could put this off for another day, but why should I do that...

WHEN IT CAN BE PARTYTIME INSTEAD? Since toddlers can't digest anything other than milk and Ioducus' wife was asleep when this happened it's theoretically one entire cake for each of the three. Theoretically. Because these cakes actually kind of suck, while they have a good hunger replenishment rate the pieces are just eaten soo fast, sims will spend more time running around to get new ones than anything. And then someone will have to wash a lot of dishes.

A bald bavarian green-skinned humanoid thing with soulless, completely black eyes? Every single thing about Zuriel is creepy. Except maybe for the green skin, if only because I don't want to offend any potential green-skinned readers. And worst of all, he's a toddler.
He also has an interesting character by the way: 7/10 Neat, Max Active and Nice, zero points in Extroverted and Playful. Since I'm pretty sure high Extro and Play make Social and Fun drop faster respectively and these two are by far the most annoying needs in the game, I'm fine with that. Not sure if I like the max Active though, I think it makes Hygiene and Energy drop faster, raises the Body skill gaining rate but decreases the Logic one. And decreases the rate at which fat is gained, something I could hardly care less about. So, being active kind of sucks.
The other two have more balanced characters, Notta is noticeable for a relatively high point total, unfortunately a lot of these are invested in Playful.

Anyway, let's get started on the usual Toddler skill farming! I keep buying new ones of these red toilet things here instead of emptying them by the way, just because it saves time and I can afford it. And because my sight on the original of these thingies is blocked by the third crib I was forced to buy and kind of misplaced. Constantly having to rotate is annoying.
https://i887.photobucket.com/albums/ac79/mondayssukc/0257.png?t=1306521579[img]
And eventually Ioducus did manage to reach the top of his career. He's the laaaaaw maker.

Little anecdote: A man, a vampire and a witch walk into a community lot. What happens?
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Exactly. Completely randomly the vampire bites the witch. Curse you game, I was going to do some lifestate shenanigans. How could that even happen, I'm pretty sure the two didn't have the usually required relation of over 50, and I didn't use the 'influence' interaction either, gonna save that for later. In fact, the two came almost simultaneously and the first thing the vampire did was biting the witch. This is really weird.

Francisca was just blazing through her new career and unlocked this. Why is this awesome? Because you can learn all skills from this bookshelf, and, more importantly, at a significantly higher rate than with almost anything else.

So, what else was I doing? Right, toddlers. Piece of cake. Francisca was being a beast here and taught 8 of the 12 toddler skills.
Well, actually the toilet training part was incredibly annoying, maybe I should just let future generations use the diapers they wear at that age. These skills are purely symbolic anyway. They are a good way for early aspiration points though, and getting some lifetime aspiration benefits (by which I mean the slower need drop ones to the left of course, the work ones are utter trash at this point and the aspiration-specific ones are only available to teens+) early on is worth the hassle.
So, all I'm going to have to do now is throwing away the in the above pic not really visible ~7 stinky milk bottles that are scattered in the babies+toddlers room and I'll be fine. Well, as fine as you can be when playing a family of seven.

Next update might take a while, middle June maybe. Various things of greater or lesser importance are going to drag me away from the computer. Or, to put it more precisely: my friends finally stopped constantly having no time, so I might as well do stuff with them instead of becoming a loner myself. Or more of a loner than I already am.
Doesn't mean I'll not be playing at all, just less so racking up enough material for an update will take quite a while. Especially since I plan to increase the pace and skip things. Maybe no screenshots or only really crucial ones until the children are adults. Or something. Am I going to succeed at that? Probably not.

TS2 Legacy Challenge - Part XVII - Waaay too many people, what am I doing?

Spoiler:

Seriously now, stop it. This is the third time a vampire walks into a community lot and first of all bites a random person. Apart from the earlier witch, both of them were cashiers and both of them were never seen again... They did take no damage from the sun though, cashiers must be immune to need drops.

Not sure if I mentioned it, but at some point Ioducus' wife switched from the scientist career she already started on top of to the business career. The reason is of course once again a lifetime want, and while she hasn't gone all the way up yet, she did earn this by now. Completely useless to me, both the money spamming thingy from the law career and the pimped out bookshelf from the education career are vastly superior. Still nice to have, it's not like I didn't have any empty space in the house left.

Soo... A couple sims aged and the rarely ever mentioned Jadran is off to college.

Yet again some idiot managed to set this damn toy railroad (why did I even buy it?) on fire. Unlike the previous one, he died. And I forgot to sell the urn and kept being harassed by his ghost almost every night. What a jerk.

Trees and things that count as trees will constantly be struck by lightning. Annoying, because it often will set them on fire and everyone who notices it will have their action queue deleted, stand near the (when caused by lightning actually harmless) fire and scream. And lose hygiene even if the burning tree/whatever is far away.

So, an eternity later Jadran has graduated and instead of waiting another 72 in-game hours, I just use the telephone to get him back home. Didn't even know you could do that until recently.

Wait, did I say just Jadran? Well, not exactly, because only not the young man to the right who has inherited his mother's love for hats and his uncle's love for unnecessary formal clothing rejoined the family, there also is his wife, Brittany. Or Britanny or Brittanny or whatever the correct spelling is. Maybe I should Alt+Tab back to the game and simply look it up.
Anyway, since - probably - the university expansion non-player teenage Sims can be integrated into families by sending them to said university, and that's what happened here. The advantage here is that the time can be used to build some skill points, and while B. does not have as many skill points as Ioducus' children will have at that point (they are growing up with the uber bookshelf after all), she is decent. So, unlike Allyn who only started to shine at a much higher age, B. will probably be climbing career ladders quickly. Especially since the house is at the maximum of 8 inhabitants again, so children will have to wait until someone dies.

Sooo... while there's not a whole lot of plot progress in this update, this seems like a better cutoff point than the still quite far away death that is most likely going to be Francisca's (she had perfect mood during the adult->elder transition, that means a long life) or the point where Ioducus' children enter University (or not, they will return). So, until next time.

TS2 Legacy Challenge - Part XVIII - Rearranging some family structures

Spoiler:

I decided I'm sick of those desert sands, so I spend some time trying to improve the looks of the family's "garden"...

...and I'm not sure if I like this better, it looks abnormally green now. Oh well.

So, I sent Notta to a community lot for a reason I don't remember and I must have Alt+Tab-ed away for a bit more than just the loading time, because suddenly she was a vampire (along with all the three cashiers, interestingly) and had almost rock bottom needs.
That thing to the left appears when your social is red, by the way. You can't build relations with it, but a lot of interactions are possible. Including starting a fight, that's always fun to do. But not in cases like this, certainly not.

So, I instantly sent Notta back home, and it was night, so I was pretty sure she was gonna make it.

But no, she instantly dissolved into dust upon arriving, meaning she... died of too much light? BS! Maybe if you die on a community lot you won't die instantly but will die when returning instead, that's what might have happened here. Well, that sucks.

Ioducus is an elder! He grew up happily, but is everything going his way right now in life?

As this picture of his wife looking not very amused and thinking about a divorce shows, not quite. This marriage is not the only one that goes down the drain though...

That of Jadran and Brittany turns out to have been quite short-lived.

AAAH! The Zombie Apocalypse is BS, it's the Vampire Apocalypse that's happening right here.
So, apparently the cashiers (these frickin' Grand Vampires' favorite prey appears to be cashiers, don't ask me why) become "normal" teenage townies when bitten, that explains why I never saw any of them again until now and new cashiers kept spawning.

Anyway, not Ioducus but these two are those who's fault the...um... restructuring of the family is. Ioducus' wife is now Jadran's wife. So, unlike Kay and Seth these two actually got away with their little affair... not unscathed, but alive.

So Brittany was getting closer and closer to the top of the career she really wants to reach, some random event came around and I was like "I'm pretty sure she has the lifetime aspiration bonus that makes you win these 95% (or something) of all time. Might as well..."
I was wrong.

I'm pretty sure she already was at career level 9/10, too

Why is Ioducus wearing a diving suit in the whirlpool? And why are he and that unknown and probably irrelevant woman levitating?

And what are you two guys doing there? Wait, forget it, I don't want to know.
Anupama appears to be up to something, too. Too bad she's locked in by my moat - my moat that works better than it did at first now, don't ask me why but I only had 1 ghost outside the mausoleum in the last 15 or so nights. Said ghost (Notta, I think, hasn't been that long since it happened) almost killed Dalibor by shock, but fortunately only almost. I think ghosts were nerfed in one of the expansions, I remember having like three or four graves around already meaning sims having an incredibly hard time surviving, but now surviving them is pretty doable, unless they gang up on one sim. That's rather unlikely, though.

Zuriel's stupid max Activity character trait annoys me a great deal, he has to eat like 4 times a day. Despite not doing anything particularly exhausting at all.
And he uses a wooden spoon for cooking. It's totally not like the family is absurdly rich or something. Or does he just like wood?

Almost forgot to mention it, but we have a new family member!

It's a girl and her name is going to be...

This, apparently. Weird, I have been playing Sacred for the first time after probably over a year just earlier today. And my character was the Seraphim, which I picked for .... aesthetic reasons.

Ioducus wants to marry again just for the fun of it and to spread the good name Loner, but... the game disallows it. Wtf, who said she has to move in? Well, then not I guess. Stupid Crap. Now poor Ioducus will have to spend his remaining years alone... Oh wait, he would have anyway.

...maybe not.

oh my... I'm really glad this is not a lifetime want on a Sim without perma-platinum. Apparently this wish came up as soon as Brittany upped Ioducus' best friends count to 20. Well, with some talking and stuff to former best friends with which relations have been neglected for quite a while but not quite dropped to zero yet, Ioducus could get close, but... nah, not worth the effort.

Took her a lot longer than Ioducus, but Francisca is happy for the rest of her days as well. Even without the stupid lifetime want (well, I mean in her case the lifetime want was stupid), this is possible, you just have to achieve a lot.

YES! Brittany's substitute job is actually being useful! For now the plant is in the depot though, together with, among other things, these magic lamps from a while ago.

It's night, Ioducus has a low social and I don't feel like going to a community lot, so I decide to just phone one of these many vampires

... what? She is Aurora, so... WHAT?

Hahaha.
But really, why do I keep attempting to profit from these random events? More often than not, I get screwed over.

No.

Well, it's not like getting that re-promotion is a big deal for Francisca with her with max skills, 40 family friends and perma-platinum aspiration. I think I actually made a profit out of this, the bonus money from getting promoted should outweigh the money lost. Except if she wasn't payed at all that day she was demoted. Oh whatever...

SOOO MUCH UNNECESSARY MONEY

What kind of dog has its tail on its back, exposing what should have remained covered?

Sometimes the game has moments like this: A Sim is feeling good, but instantly stops learning the skill he is told to learn. I have no idea why.
Even reloading didn't help. Neither did sending him to bed for a few minutes, it only shuffled his wants.

So what can I say? His last day as a teen is not quite Dalibor's day. Unlike Zuriel however, his life has been mostly successful so far, so he is the heir. Unless something happens to him.
That fire just happened with 10 Cooking skill points btw. And later he broke both a toilet and a shower, too. He really got out of the bed with his wrong foot.

Even more trash I probably am never going to use!

Just two Logic points short from maxing out all skills. If it hadn't been for that one bad day, he would have managed it. He still got all possible kinds of scholarships though. Money he's probably not going to need at all since oddly enough, you don't have to pay for university in this game. The devil knows why.
In fact, all you have to do in university is wait a lot without dying and occassionally do do university-related stuff for two or three hours. Maybe I'll even turn on Free Will this time and let the game run minimized and only intervene every 5 minutes or so. Actually, yeah, let's do that.

By the way, is there a way I can change the thread title from [LP]TS2-LC to a more correct [AAR]TS2-LC or will I have to bother Yuoaman? I tried, but didn't find any yet.

 

[donavannj]

I'll be back to read those, but to answer your question, yes, you will have to bother Yuoaman for a title change.

 

[mondays suck]

TS2 Legacy Challenge - Part XIX - Never trust a computer...

Spoiler:

Let's play Sims 2? How about let's play 3D-Pinball instead and use the Print Screen key for a change? Damn, I was tired when I played the following...

Aaah, now that's a way to do things. Automating everything while listening to my favorite band and playing some Pinball... Dali isn't looking too good here, but even the stupid AI should be able to take care of that.

Damn, my Pinball skills used to be waaay better. Back in the day when there weren't that many alternatives and, more importantly, it was the only playable thing on school computers...
Also, interesting how last fm seems to work despite me not being connected to the internet because for some reason my laptop's WLAN never worked so in order to sit in a comfier chair I had to sacrifice my internet temporarily.

Hah, look at that, 2 millions! Not completely hopeless at least. The fact that whirlpools increase Hygiene is new to me btw.

WAITWAITWAITWAITWAIT WHAT? FIRE? I can only hope it won't eat Dalibor alive ...and my Pinball game was going soo nicely...

THAT DAMN RAILROAD! Why did I forget to sell it AGAIN? You can even see the urn of the random guy who burned to death here last time.

Zuriel calls the fire guard, but it's too late.
What do we learn from this? Exactly: If you want something done right, do it yourself. The risk of Sims dying while Automated is higher than that of Sims dying to Alt+Tab. AND OF COURSE IT HAD TO BE THE PROMISING HEIR.

Zuriel is all like "screw this" and moves back home instantly, with the ashes of his brother in his inventory.
So, he is the last of Ioducus' children, so he is the lawful heir. He also is a loser who hasn't gotten anything done right in his life so far. Couldn't even call the fire guard in time. At least he is an alien, so that's something at least.

Ioducus, however, does not quite approve of Zuriel's failures. He has a cunning plan...

Ioducus knows a lot of people, including this witch we've seen before once or twice... She used to be a High Witch before she was bitten by some vampire, so she has max magic skills...
So, Ioducus offers her to move in, and she accepts. He also made two family members (I don't remember which, but it does hardly matter) leave the house.

Part 2 of the plan: He needs to get rid of his fiancee. This failed though, she escaped. Oh well, no remarriage then.
Anyway, that was the least important part... more importantly:

Our witch has managed to assemble everything she needs. LET THE RITUAL BEGIN!

HAHAHAHA!
Stupid Jadran, get out of the picture.

She is back! The witch is terrified at the abomination she has created... or is she?

This is why I picked the vampire witch that conveniently existed: Easy to dispatch. Her memory shall be honored for her great services though.

But, since she's not a Loner, her grave doesn't belong here. I later realized I could have taken her to a public graveyard, but then it was too late. The grave was already sold.

Turned out there was no room for the two members who had moved out for a short while to return... So the least important family member had to die. Especially since her earlier little romance with Ioducus could have foiled the plan.

And it worked, Ioducus got what he wanted: She stayed, and gave birth to the baby she had been carrying for so long.

Since he has been fathered an estimated 45-50 years ago, Yevgeniy is the lawful heir, not Zuriel. Why the fetus was still salvageable and even looks normal after his birth after so many years is difficult to say, but probably the witch is responsible for it. She also is responsible for Kay showing only slight traces of decay and not being the skeleton she should be, after all.

So... Will Ioducus' hopes come true and Yevgeniy be a more potent ruler for the family? What is Zuriel's reaction going to be? Why is Jadran not claiming the throne despite being the oldest member of the third generation? How is the presence of a Zombie-Vampire going to affect the rest of the family? Is Yevgeniy is normal as he appears to be? What if Ioducus dies too early? We shall see...



And damn, that name is annoying to spell. Thanks again, random name generator.

 

[donavannj]

Have you learned your lesson yet about not paying attention while playing? :P

Ioducus is a sly guy.

 

[mondays suck]

Have you learned your lesson yet about not paying attention while playing? :P/QUOTE]
I'm an r-strategist in that regard

There more children I have, the less an unwanted death hurts. Easier than constantly paying attention. And if too many survive and the house becomes too crowded, there are always the pool, the cowplant and a lot of more fun but less convenient other means of depopulation. And killing people is a big part of the game anyway.

TS2 Legacy Challenge - Part XX - This weeks craze: Brainwashing

Spoiler:

When she finally got around to look into a mirror, Kay noticed what a hideous abomination she had become and decided to wear this thing as a consequence. I'm not sure if it's a ninja suit or a burka, and I don't think it makes her look less suspicious as well, but it's her decision, isn't it?

Because his newest almost-wife was temporarily dead (

), Ioducus has an opportunity to remarry Kay and uses it. Her little affair with Seth that cost her her first life is long forgotten, and Ioducus is getting too old for his usual shenanigans, too. He suspects that what went wrong with Zuriel could have been not growing up under normal conditions, he only had one parent who, admittedly, didn't have a lot of time for him. This aren't not going to be normal conditions either, but it's as close as it could be.

These stupid puddles that one water ghost keeps creating are starting to tick me off, so I sell them.

Zuriel seems to accept his fate... Or this just going to be like this as long as Ioducus is still alive?

Yevgeniy (from here on abbreviated as Y. because the name is just too annoying to type repeatedly) grows up to a toddler, and ugh, I don't like that character. As I said before (or at least I think so), I value the Neat and Nice traits highly, am indifferent about Outgoing and Playful and really, really dislike Active.
Francisca's line seems to be getting way better characters, Jadran has a wonderful spread and Serafima, while a little worse, has no character to complain about either.

Characters can be changed, though. Here, the woman only known as the wife is instructing her youngest and only remaining child Serafima (who inherited both her dyed hair thing and Francisca's and Jadran's thing for hats; damn, keeping thése quirks up is going to be complicated in the long run) to be lazier. This is pretty much the only thing other than retiring and dying elders can do better than adults, the greater the age distance is, the more efficient it becomes. Unfortunately I only remembered the option now when Sera already is a teenager.
Anyway, my plan is to have my lazier, nicer and neater household members spam these interactions on Y. once he becomes a child. I bet I'll forget about it though.

Look at the result: It was tedious (because for some reason it cannot be queued, that would make things much easier), but spamming the interaction again and again did lead to Sera losing three of her originally four Activity points.

Not sure if I can take away even more though since that would actually exceed her mother's laziness.

YOU, of all people, are trying to teach Y. to walk? Hahaha, you can't even walk properly by yourself!

Hmm, turns out completely eradicating activity from Sera's personality did work! Hahaha, no more faster Hunger and Energy drops, no more slower Logic (more useful than Body which Active boosts) skill learning! And all that at the cost of just one evening and the ability to run. And that Body skill gain thing, I guess, but it's still easy to max out with that wonderful bookshelf.

"I have decided to announce my retirement."
She has an awesome personality point distribution, I'm going to make use of that. Certainly a better idea better than making even more useless money.

I'm not quite sure if I'd want to eat from that hand...
This is actually one of the advantages of sloppy sims (since I've already been talking about personalities so much this time, might as well add this...) though, it's WAY faster than regular means of eating.

Every now and then, even with Free Will disabled, Kay will autonomously decide to bite someone's neck when she isn't occupied with something. So far nothing happened yet...
Because I know Toddlers can't be bitten, I didn't cancel the action this time, and what happened? Relations rose. Nothing else. Not even a move. Just ++ relations. Weird.

But later, when I randomly looked at his memories, I saw this. I am now officially confused. Verily.

Umm... What kind of school are you exactly visiting there, Sera?

Francisca got 100§ from a random event about a costume I foolishly didn't ignore (then again, at her age losing the job won't matter a lot anymore), and it counts as a big bonus

Probably a built-in gag though.

Jadran has become a megalomaniac architect, he is the next Albert Speer. I always thought better of him

Craaap. Kay, without her ninja burka this time, managed to sneak in a bite. I wasn't even that absent-minded this time.

This is the result.

This time I'm not just buying one of these potions.
Fun fact: Kay did actually have a wish to devampirize Ioducus. It must be the decay the brain has suffered, it must be the decay.

I think Sera's brainwashing is finished. It's a whole lot different from her original character, so brainwashing Y. is going to take a longer while... Anyway, she'll have an easier life from now on and, as an elder (if she survives university) will be an awesome brainwasher herself.
And yeah, as I said, I don't care about Playful a whole lot. Outgoing... I renewed my knowledge of what it does, turns out it's actually useful. Social decays faster but easier friends. Right now, almost all of the family's friends are Ioducus' friends, so there will be a need for more soon enough.

Because of the continous water ghost harassment that causes me to have to delete the puddles again and again because they prevent me from putting anything else into the mausoleum, I have decided to get an external graveyard instead.

Unfortunately, I cannot put the portraits of the deceased on the walls without owning the Graveyard. So I have to buy it. It counts as a family-owned business.

Kinda stupid.

This is what it looks like when I considered it finished for now. Weird? What did you expect?

After getting rid of the old mausoleum and its moat, the corner it used to be in now looks like this. Drying out the moat is one thing, but drying it out that much...?

50k? The profits from this speculation crap that ruins everything IRL are getting sillier and sillier.

I heavily invested in adjusting Y's personality, because...

...I knew the reaper, predictable as he is, was going to invite some people - exclusively women, apparently he is intending to play the player - to his party... his party in hell. Oddly enough, he only invited Barbara (at least that's what he called her, no idea if that's actually the wife's name

) though. Unexpected, but nice for me.

Hmmm, apparently there was another party at the reaper's the next day, and this time Francisca was invited. She, too, never returned.

Of all people, Sera now owns the "family business" that is the graveyard next door. She only inherited the second largest amount of money though.

That one extra day with Francisca alive turned out to be extremely useful, Y.'s personality now looks like this. Quite a change, isn't it? Took quite a while, too. I just hope his original personality is not in his genes

 

[donavannj]

Oi! Don't diss architects!

I will be most tempted to point and laugh if his original personality is in his genetics.

 

[mondays suck]

What did I say against architects?

The only thing I remember was directed at the fact that the guy apparently builds entire cities. That's a bit much.

But yeah, if the personality is inherited at all in some way, it'll probably be the original one. But we shall see...

TS2 Legacy Challenge - Part XXI - The end of an era

Spoiler:

Let's do something interesting for a change and play with this kite!

...but apparently the kite doesn't want to play with Kay. Must be the zombie stench. Wouldn't be a problem if it didn't have superpowers. But who could have expected that?

She's dead. Again. On the plus side, she's only charred and not just a pile of ashes. Makes me wonder, how exactly did that resurrection work? How can you make a decaying zombie out of a pile of ashes

Why are you looking so pissy, Zuriel? Is it because you're the loser in that succession thing? Even if it is, don't unleash your anger by slapping that poor innocent random dog.

Speaking of dogs, this wish is really common and really annoying. Often, three of a child's four wishes are "get puppy", "get kitten" and "get puppy or kitten". Even if the house is full or you already have puppies or kittens. Stupid crap, what am I supposed to do with that many pets?

Well, that's what you get for slapping dogs, Zuriel the mermaid: Magic powers!

And what does he use them for? To finally grow some hair. Must have been frustrating being bald his entire life. And now finish that soup or whatever there is in that bowl.

Now that he finally got some hair, he refuses to make it look less messy. Weirdo.

Bringing always the same friends from home for generations is boring, let's do something about it!
Especially that child has to go, she just looks super-generic. The haircut is the most common female childs receive after growing up, and so are her here not visible everyday clothes.

Wrong.
1. I didn't invite you, you invited yourself
2. I don't think you're leaving

Actually it didn't work though, 3 days later they were still alive and I decided to be merciful and let the poor pool have some alone time already

I'll deal with these losers later

Double Birthday! Jadran grew up well, Y. not so very much. Ioducus doesn't seem too pleased...

And then Ioducus' time had come..

The end of an era...

And now we have this, so apparently there were no more changes in his testament...:

It should be "our old monarch" and I didn't see the green line under "soon" until it was too late and I decided not to bother, but...

So, are these two guys going to do their job, or are they up to something? And when was the last time someone cleaned the kitchen, I think it actually was Francisca when she was still alive...