Phew

[katrisims]

So I've been a little quiet for a bit. Real life got the better of me. There's been a lot of work, plus as the language person of the family, I got to proofread my sister's MSc thesis, which basically burned my evenings for the past couple of weeks. So I haven't been commenting or anything, nor posting the picspam I was intending to. In the last week or so I haven't even been playing, the schedule with the thesis was kinda tight towards the end.

But, now that's done with. The thesis has been submitted, and I think I'm just about on track with work work too. Which is good; I get to sim and stuff again.

I might not have been writing anything, nor simming much for the past week, but I have been thinking. Well actually, I've been thinking this for a while, but when I last played the Bookacies this sort of became more obvious. You see, I'm now, what, maybe two thirds into the winter rotation. And I started to play the rotation sometime in January. And it started to feel frustrating.

As usual, my problem with the Bookacies is the combination of Alphabetacy plus playing the whole hood. And still, I haven't figured out a solution I'd like. I love playing the whole hood, I love my sims and seeing all the different events, the genetics. But it's slow. As I've started to play the whole hood, I can't suddenly stop playing the extended family now - even though they're mostly just extras in the story, it'd look ridiculous if the development of the overall hood suddenly stopped at generation C, after rolling together with the main family for generations. I've considered cheating with the ages to go faster outside the main house, but so far it hasn't felt right. I might be silly, but it feels cruel to cheat away my sims' days. (And if I feel that way about shortening sims' lives, you might guess that a solution that involves a villain and a killing spree is also out.) Plus I still do like playing them.

Okay, so Katri, if you can't find a solution that'd let you cut the amount of playing the spares, then you'll just have to accept that this is an eternity project in the true sense of the word. Maybe you'll have time to finish it when you're retired.

Well, nothing wrong with that in principle, except that I'm a little impatient at times. Here's hoping that me and my readers don't die of old age before I finish. But, there was one thing that bugged me. You see, there's other stuff I'd like to do simming-wise. I've been itching to try a ten gen legacy with the new rules and some fun handicaps. And I'd want to do an apocalypse, and a BaCC. Maybe an OWBC too. But seeing that I have one eternity project going on, if I'm going to wait until I finish that one, well, I might literally die of old age before I even get to start those other things. Not fun. So, you might see where this is going. I think I need an official side project.

I've played other families before. My most recent try were the Terranos, of whom I shared a few pictures here and there. I'll have to admit that that legacy is pretty much dead. They just didn't hold my interest in the long run. I've got a few thoughts on why, too: 1) I tried to do the pets category, which just tends to annoy me. I just suck with pets, simple as that. And 2) I didn't document. So whenever I went to play the family again, I wouldn't necessarily even remember who everyone was, so not much attachment going on.

So... Yeah. I think I need a for real, official side project. And I *ahem* might have started working on it already. If it holds my interest as I'm hoping it will, I think I'll post it in some form or another: if I already document anyway, I might as well. We'll see how that goes.

So such is going on with me and my simming. Still alive and kicking. :) Now I think I'll try and catch up with my f-list a bit, and hopefully one of these days I'll get back to my project thingies again too.

Comments

[esmeiolanthe.livejournal.com]

Aw, real life can really cut into your simming, can't it? :P Seriously, though, real life is more important, and your sister is lucky to have someone willing to proofread her master's thesis.

I have two solutions to the "too many Sims!" problem that work pretty well for me, so feel free to snag them. Or not, as you see fit. :D 1) Inbreeding -- my Sims marry their second/third/second-one-time-removed/other not-too-close cousins all the time. 2) Making my side projects part of my official 'hood. That way, playing just one rotation gives me material for updates in multiple stories. At one point, I could get three chapters out of one rotation, now I'm down to two, and soon I'll be able to get four. (Shhhhhh! Don't tell!)

Have fun with whatever you end up deciding to do! *hug*

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

Yeah, damn real life. :P Well, sometimes that happens, and it's good to do some real life too on occasion.

Inbreeding is totally in the plans starting this generation, as I'm getting third cousins now. Although, there might be a slight problem since so far something like 90% of gen. D are boys... I do assume some of them will roll gay/bi on ACR, but not that many. Well, we'll see, I expect some babies to be coming yet this generation, we'll see if the gender ration balances out at all. Hopefully. Hmm, the second thing might be worth considering, actually. If I want to do an OWBC or something, it would be pretty handy to do it with one of the extended family folks, since I'll be playing them in the rotation anyway... I'd just need to reset their skills and whatnot at adulthood or so. Right now I'm planning on/starting a totally separate project, but that is handy for the future. Thanks. :)

Thanks! *hugs back*