No Carpet, No Floodwater, but Internet!
Dec. 6th, 2013 06:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beanstalk_simsWe've moved in! We have internet! We don't have carpet yet, that happens next week, so we're still living out of boxes and things at the minute. But progress is still progress!
Last night, half of my town was covered in seawater, thanks to a tidal surge. Me and my family are all okay, we were on the very edge of the flood risk area. If the storm drains had gone, then we'd have suffered. Luckily, we were alright. There's two bridges in my town, and both were flooded and useless, so were the shopping areas, the cinema, several pubs, several small businesses, a fair few homes, and the car dealership and supermarket down the road from me.
It made travel today impossible, and it took me well over an hour to get to class - only to discover my teacher couldn't get in because her route was flooded by a burst dam. So yeah, it was a bit chaotic.
High tide tonight will probably flood the really high risk areas tonight, but mostly we should be okay.
So while we were internet-less and bored and not underwater, I watched the entire second season of Once Upon a Time (I love it!) and I played a lot of sims. Not Sims 2, because I kept getting bored and frustrated with it. I played a lot of TS3 instead. So I thought I'd show you some of my sims:
I was playing a rather promiscuous matriarch, Belle, when I stumbled across a mermaid. And this was in Sunset Valley, so I was really surprised - there's no diving lots there! (Although since then, I have discovered how to put the diving lots in)
If there's a better reason for giving up promiscuity and matriarchy challenges than mermaid men, then I don't want to know about it.
They make a rather 'interesting' couple.
Anyway, the night before the wedding, Xander - her mermaid man - turned back into a human, as a result of not going in the ocean enough. Dammit, I wanted mer-babies!
So after (unsuccessfully) trying to put ocean lots into Sunset Valley, in a desperate attempt to get Xander changed back, I just picked up the whole family and moved them to neighbourhood with diving lots - Isla Paridiso or something.
I wasn't planning on staying there long, just long enough to get Xander turned into a mermaid again.
Well, it suddenly turned into the Salty Seaworth show. Xander befriended and moved in a mermaid he met, and I took a liking to him, and now Salty is my favourite.
There's just one issue...
"Shouldn't mermaids have tails or something?"
Seriously! The mermaids swim like they have tails, but still have legs! It made me doubt whether or not Salty was actually a mermaid. It turned out he was, but still. Frustration!
So it was off to the internet to find out solutions.
It seems I'm not the only person with the issue.
Some people have mentioned it's only the NPC mermaids, the maxis generated ones - like Salty Seaworth - that work occasionally but not all the time. Salty doesn't even have scales on his legs when he's on land.
Well, I read about four different solutions.
"Remove all your custom content! There could be a conflict!"
I play the game vanilla, so not that.
"Reset the sim!"
I couldn't work out how this was done.
"Use the master controller to cure the mermaid, then make them a mermaid again!"
I don't know anything about the master controller, so I haven't been able to try this.
"It fixes itself with age transitions!"
I didn't want to age Salty up prematurely.
So I decided I would deal with it. But then I loaded the game today...
"I have a tail now for no apparent reason!"
Salty fixed himself! He still doesn't have scales when he's on land, but he looks like a mermaid when he's underwater, and I guess that's what matters, really.
It didn't work out like that for the other maxis mermaids, they still have people-legs and no scales, but I'm learning to live with it.
Hopefully if Salty does pass his mermaid-ness down to his children, they will have tails and scales like normal, because they won't be the maxis premade mermaids.
But we'll see.
Anyway, that's what I've been up to!
I'm also toying with an idea for a challenge I want to share in TS2, but we shall see.
Hope you're all well!
Last night, half of my town was covered in seawater, thanks to a tidal surge. Me and my family are all okay, we were on the very edge of the flood risk area. If the storm drains had gone, then we'd have suffered. Luckily, we were alright. There's two bridges in my town, and both were flooded and useless, so were the shopping areas, the cinema, several pubs, several small businesses, a fair few homes, and the car dealership and supermarket down the road from me.
It made travel today impossible, and it took me well over an hour to get to class - only to discover my teacher couldn't get in because her route was flooded by a burst dam. So yeah, it was a bit chaotic.
High tide tonight will probably flood the really high risk areas tonight, but mostly we should be okay.
So while we were internet-less and bored and not underwater, I watched the entire second season of Once Upon a Time (I love it!) and I played a lot of sims. Not Sims 2, because I kept getting bored and frustrated with it. I played a lot of TS3 instead. So I thought I'd show you some of my sims:
I was playing a rather promiscuous matriarch, Belle, when I stumbled across a mermaid. And this was in Sunset Valley, so I was really surprised - there's no diving lots there! (Although since then, I have discovered how to put the diving lots in)
If there's a better reason for giving up promiscuity and matriarchy challenges than mermaid men, then I don't want to know about it.
They make a rather 'interesting' couple.
Anyway, the night before the wedding, Xander - her mermaid man - turned back into a human, as a result of not going in the ocean enough. Dammit, I wanted mer-babies!
So after (unsuccessfully) trying to put ocean lots into Sunset Valley, in a desperate attempt to get Xander changed back, I just picked up the whole family and moved them to neighbourhood with diving lots - Isla Paridiso or something.
I wasn't planning on staying there long, just long enough to get Xander turned into a mermaid again.
Well, it suddenly turned into the Salty Seaworth show. Xander befriended and moved in a mermaid he met, and I took a liking to him, and now Salty is my favourite.
There's just one issue...
"Shouldn't mermaids have tails or something?"
Seriously! The mermaids swim like they have tails, but still have legs! It made me doubt whether or not Salty was actually a mermaid. It turned out he was, but still. Frustration!
So it was off to the internet to find out solutions.
It seems I'm not the only person with the issue.
Some people have mentioned it's only the NPC mermaids, the maxis generated ones - like Salty Seaworth - that work occasionally but not all the time. Salty doesn't even have scales on his legs when he's on land.
Well, I read about four different solutions.
"Remove all your custom content! There could be a conflict!"
I play the game vanilla, so not that.
"Reset the sim!"
I couldn't work out how this was done.
"Use the master controller to cure the mermaid, then make them a mermaid again!"
I don't know anything about the master controller, so I haven't been able to try this.
"It fixes itself with age transitions!"
I didn't want to age Salty up prematurely.
So I decided I would deal with it. But then I loaded the game today...
"I have a tail now for no apparent reason!"
Salty fixed himself! He still doesn't have scales when he's on land, but he looks like a mermaid when he's underwater, and I guess that's what matters, really.
It didn't work out like that for the other maxis mermaids, they still have people-legs and no scales, but I'm learning to live with it.
Hopefully if Salty does pass his mermaid-ness down to his children, they will have tails and scales like normal, because they won't be the maxis premade mermaids.
But we'll see.
Anyway, that's what I've been up to!
I'm also toying with an idea for a challenge I want to share in TS2, but we shall see.
Hope you're all well!
