TR II: Back to NRaas Story Progression

Pescado is aware of the EA 500 bug now, but it's still not fixed, so I'm back to NRaas Story Progression for now. Also I narrowed further down to the Expanded component of the SP to be the one preventing autonomous collecting scraps, so I left it out and hope the functions I normally use are not affected. Ani updated the shop mod, and online banking mod is also a new version. Yeah!

So let's resume.

Trixie became the first stylist. I don't know, all he does all day is evil laugh and rubbing two hands together. What kind of evil plans does he have in mind?

TR II: Playing without NRaas Story Progression

Most mods have been updated for Generations, but somehow I still have the "dig through" not collecting scraps problem, and it's clear to me it's Twallan's Story Progression after many tests. But Twallan says it's working in his game, so I really don't know what to do now. Collecting scraps is a major source of income for most of my Twinbrook Redux denizens, but I rely on NRaas SP for recurring money transfer to pay employee wages and collect taxes, and to keep my "tax man" out of story progression. I haven't played without NRaas SP for a long time, but I decide to try and see how it goes with just Awesome SP. If somebody can make a recurring money transfer mod, it will be great.

Upgrading to Generations

I had been resisting getting Generations, but finally I gave in. Lo and behold, it fixed the no collecting scraps problem. Yay! I'm a very happy camper.

Giving flowers is cute. My sim was in the central park, and her boyfriend who lives in another household came over to give her flowers. Very nice. But I see it could go overboard. A couple next to them were doing it over and over (well, just twice for the short time my sim was there).

Putting the flowers on the kitchen table. I think the date flowers from TS2 looked so much better than this. :(

TR I: Year 4 (Part I)

Party time!

She barely knew them, but they were all the (positive) contacts she had, and both gladly accepted the party invite. Who would refuse the free autumn salad and a chance to be invited to the first shack in the neighborhood?

TR I: Year 3

Melisa Bawl becomes a toddler.

TR I: Year 2

Year 2 is really week 2, because one week is one year in my game, and the life expectancy is 70 years, or 490 days. No Generations/patch 1.22 yet.

So, by the end of Year 2, with Twallan's SP and Careers, and no career rabbit holes, we have one repair woman, Inge; one photographer, Bast Dawn; and two Buskers, Eevilcat and jfade's wife (formerly social worker) Beatrice. Inge has been fixing toilets, so she gets by nicely. But Bast Dawn, Eevilcat, and the Fade household don't have enough money to buy camera or guitar. Even worse, Eevilcat apparently was arrested twice, and I don't know when, where and how. (Each arrest costs them $100 court fees, through Twallan's SP.)

And we have 9 collectors, who usually do very well, since the SP can push them collect while they are deep in the red.

Welcom to Twinbrook Redux (TR I)

I've always been drawn to "unconventional" play styles (a perfect example is Ingeli's Windlebridge for The Sims 2). Legacy just doesn't do it for me. With The Sims 3, a lot of us are torn. On the one hand, the rabbit holes and the lack of OFB elements are kind of a deal breaker for anyone who attempts the so-called "integrated economy" gameplay; on the other, the open neighborhood and the graphics (create-a-style, and water effects and such) are really hard to give up. But coming back to TS3 after a long break, I've found this is already changing with the help of many mods, so I can play the game the way I wanted, more or less.

So, welcome to Twinbrook Redux...

...where everybody starts with nothing, but a tent.