Lakewood BaCC: Week 2 Part 4 & Weekly simming 34/2015

[katrisims]

Again, I'll combine the two posts of the day into one, as they'd otherwise come in pretty close succession.

This week, despite the approaching Christmas, I managed to get some time to sim, mostly in the weekend. Yesterday I finished playing the Fortunato household, and today I finished typing the update. I like how the type as I play thing works for this challenge! Oh, and again I wrote a little bit for the Bookacies too. Chapter 42 is now on 33 slides. I'm now excited for two things: next, I get to play Brandi's challenge, and after that, I think I'll play the Bookacies! It's been ages.

I again think I may have the hack thing cornered, as I didn't manage to reproduce it a single time while playing the Fortunatos, and with two sims able to dazzle. We'll see, but even if it turns out that it's not in my current quarantine folder, it might be that I'll then just live with it. It's been way too long since I played Alphabetia.

But, in any case, there was an update to be had!



As always, comments are welcome anywhere if you feel inclined to leave them. :) I hope you enjoy the update!

Comments

[lorinsv60.livejournal.com]

My goodness, what an exhausting week for the Daniels, and while pregnant too!

There's never a dull moment with the 50 First Date LTW, and I found it fits rather well with business operations. Congrats as well on getting Variety Buffet to the top level - it's just a ticket business, right? Were you not ever able to charge a price for admission that would earn it good money?

The extra baby objects (and animations?) are actually by Maxis that never made it into the game, right? This is the first time I'm feeling kinda tempted to download them.

Can't wait to see what challenge you have in store for Brandi!

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

Never a dull day with the Daniels! Although it was mostly Daniel F. that was super busy and Daniel P. took care of the being pregnant part. ;)

And definitely Daniel F.'s LTW contributed to the busy busy week. It does go pretty well together with running a business, that's a good way to meet and socialize with new sims. Doing it without a matchmaker could otherwise be pretty painful I think.

Thanks! The buffet does get money for each portion that the sims eat, but not terribly much, and the food can't be actively sold - the customers will just grab a plate when they're hungry. And the price can't be adjusted either, it is what it is (I think 15 simoleans for salad and gelatin and 30 for turkey). So that's why I started selling tickets. In the end, tickets were "expensive", meaning 10 simoleans per hour, so it never really became profitable. I could have of course inflated the price and the sims would have paid it, but somehow I didn't want to. My original plan was to make money on the food, and the tickets were just a backup plan, and it would have felt a little cheaty in this particular challenge. Oh well, I hope the next one will be more profitable.

Hmm yeah, the baby items are originally by Maxis, I think bonus/store items of some kind. I've got modified versions, but have a hard time remembering what they were... I think I have the ones by Honeywell, on MTS. I think they're pretty cute. :)

I got to start on playing Brandi a little bit yesterday, and so far she and her challenge are a lot of fun!

Thanks for reading and commenting, Lorin! ^^

[esmeiolanthe.livejournal.com]

Two redheaded, bearded Romance sims named Daniel? Time to give one a prominent tattoo or something! I'd probably call them P and F myself, or Binky and Snowden, or something else way different. It looks like the family is doing quite well, though, being successful in everything. Are you allowed to sell date gifts for additional funds in this particular challenge?

The morning sickness was pretty impressive! Poor Daniel F, though. My sister had similar, and she was miserable right up until birth. :(

This was a fun update -- keep it up! :D

[katrisims.livejournal.com]

Well, Daniel F. is actually Pleasure, but still, the similarity is striking. I might indeed have to resort to inventing new names for them or something. :D

They've been pretty successful yes, although the buffet didn't make as much money as I was hoping. Well, we'll see with the next one then. And yes, date gifts are fair game and we're absolutely selling them for extra money, and the flowers too (don't want the porch to be cluttered with them, after all). With first dates, it's not terribly lucrative, since a lot of first dates aren't that great, but every little bit helps. Maybe I'll try out doing outings if I'm not completely out of my mind when Daniel F. gets his LTW.

That was definitely intense, I don't think I have ever seen such a morning sickness in the game. Fortunately in this case it only took a few hours.

Thank you for reading and commenting! ^^