I'm so sorry - I totally spammed your thread, Sugah. That's what I get for trying to have a conversation in RL while setting up my post. Didn't take the time to start my OWN thread. Dork.

That's perfectly cool, Ari. I thought nothing of it, but was just glad you were playing and enjoying Azura and her family.

I'd love it if you'd start your own thread, now that you're getting back to playing again. That'd be awesome.
I miss the days when we were all sharing our Sim families (OUaT, eg) and doing Sim projects together.

We had so much fun!

I miss it, too, but I honestly have a hard time getting into the game these days. But I did play for awhile yesterday, and I shall post some pics soon.

I go in spurts with it, myself, so I can relate.
I really want to get back into playing, though. I've been thinking about searching around for some fun challenges and maybe doing one that tickles my fancy.
NO POVERTY CHALLENGES, mind you!

I don't know if anyone has seen my most recent Sim antics post. I believe it got buried a page or so ago.

Anyhoo, Hunter, I suck at thinking up challenges. Some are definitely more desirable to me than others.
I am all about having a good old time with it, rather than wanting to tear my hair out over a challenge.
Some have so many restrictions and rules, they make my head spin. I almost feel smothered just THINKING about doing a few of them.
(Your Sim can never play chess on a Tuesday. They can't eat jello in front of another Sim. Your Sim must almost starve and pee all over himself daily, til you feel like you can't stand another second torturing the poor thing. They can, by no means, kiss their spouse unless he is being chased by bees gone amuck.)
Well, you get the picture...some of the restrictions are enough to make me want to strangle the creator of the challenge.
I think there's a bit of the sadist in some of them! When a challenge becomes more torturous than fun, I'm OUT!!!

That being said, Thyme 2 Sim has almost two dozen challenges listed at their forum. We could look through a few and see if we can get any ideas for our own, here.
There are game play challenges, photo challenges, construction challenges, and many other kinds.
You can find them in the Challenge Corner over at T2S, if anyone would like to read 'em over.

Just a thought...

Oops, sorry I forgot to comment on your last antics update. Paige and Fox are an adorable couple. They are too cute!

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Your Sim can never play chess on a Tuesday. They can't eat jello in front of another Sim. Your Sim must almost starve and pee all over himself daily, til you feel like you can't stand another second torturing the poor thing. They can, by no means, kiss their spouse unless he is being chased by bees gone amuck.)

And you think you suck at coming up with challenges? Oh, that made me laugh!

Oh, I so want to do that challenge, Ari. I actually loaded up my game last night after I read that and started spawning orphans. But I messed up and somehow spawned an extra toddler. Now I'm not sure what to do. I don't need to make it harder from the get go. And I'm not sure how I'll find time to play, since they should like they're going to be a high maintenance household. I'm kind of afraid that many sims living on one lot is going to bring my laptop to a screeching halt. lol I really want to try it though. lol

It is extremely difficult - for the first week. After all the babies and toddlers grow up, which they'll all do in the first 6 or 7 sim days, then it's not nearly as hard. Then you just have a bunch of kids. It's still chaotic, but they can do a lot more for themselves. I found that I was easily able to add another toddler each Monday - because by then it's the only one little one. And my game crawled through it, lol, but I liked it quite a bit. Might even try that insanity again, too!

LOL!! I had a feeling you'd say something like that.

I started something new last night. I'll go post it in my thread.

I only have a moment, as it's late, but I wanted to post this tonight.

I FINALLY was able to load up my game and actually PLAY today. It's been a very long time, as it seems like everytime my game is loaded up, I'm snapping screenshots of SP creations rather than ever playing.
Seems to me that's why I bought the dang game to begin with ... to actually PLAY it.

Anyhoo, I'd like you to meet Megan Barthelomew.



Megan is a Virgo ... very neat, active and shy ... & a Knowledge Sim.
She is very studious & in the Intelligence career. Megan has lived alone most all her life.

I am playing with very few downloads, as I've emptied out the folder for fast & easy loading.
I'm sorta adding items as needed (Shop at Home Rack, genetics, etc., etc).

One of the lovely ladies who's lived in the hood forever is Maggie Valentine.

Maggie is a Cancer ... neat, active and nice ... & a Family Sim.
She is also in the Intelligence career.

Maggie and Megan have triple chem, much in common, and absolutely adore one another.
Previously, Maggie was engaged to a local named Robi Ryan. (He met a very surprising demise by flies. Whoda thunk?)
Maggie was never quite content in her relationship with Robi ... she always felt like something was missing ... and then she met Miss Megan.
They hit it off immediately, fell deeply and passionately in love and have moved into Megan's humble little house together.



My mission: To not use any cheats, including the money, aspiration level, max motive or motive decay cheats.
So far, I've done quite well.
The ladies don't have much and it's slow going, but my ultimate goal is to have them build up their bank account, arrive at the top of the Intelligence career, get engaged & joined to one another, build a bigger, better abode, then adopt a child or two.
Inevitably, I'd like them to become grandparents, but the clock is ticking on their lives, so my MAIN goal now is to have them continue to earn enough money to accomplish the things I have in mind for them.

As I said, it's slow going, but I'm enjoying doing this whole thing cheat free. And I like Megan and Maggie a lot, too!