The Story of Oscar and Louise
The Story of Oscar and Louise - Episode 1 is now up on YouTube https://youtu.be/TBJL4UTuIMA This one's a bit different. I got creative. Expect a bit of drama and added sound effects etc... ...
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I'm having a bit of a rant at myself here - I didn't actually make a big mess of things but I did make myself a lot of extra work that I'm going to have to fix up before I can continue with Oscar's story.
It's all about my spreadsheet that I use to keep track of all of the sims. I need it to make sure I can return the boarding school residents to their homes when they are ready to go home.
Well, I haven't touched this game or the spreadsheet for a couple of years. And since I did episode 1 of 'Oscar's Teen Years' - or 'the adventures of Oscar, Eric and Susanne' I added a heap of new worlds to the game. I had to do this because the game was getting totally unplayable due to overpopulation of several worlds. For example, Sunlit Tides didn't have any spare lots or houses. I was shoving more than one family into a lot. They needed separate homes. The computer/game was struggling with all of the sims. So I moved a heap of sims out of a heap of worlds.
In episode 3, which I have started work on, I sent Oscar and Eric to Moonlight Falls boarding school with Erica Wolff and her children Wilhemina and Gator. And I sent Gregg Craig (Watson) with them as my spreadsheet says that's where his family is. Well, I had no problem returning the Wolff family to their home. I needed to extend it a bit to get them all to fit but all is good for them now. Erica has a teenaged son there who didn't get to boarding school yet but I decided not to bother with him for now. He may get there at some point or he may just age up to YA without learning much more than he already knows.
I found the Craig house with Gregg's parents' names on it and all but it was empty. There was no sign of them in the world. So, it dawned on me that I'd probably moved them out to another world - but which one?
I looked at my save file and found several worlds that are not mentioned in my spreadsheet.
The worlds in the save now are:
Barnacle Bay
Bellatrix - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Cake Island - (this is why I can't put the 30 Grandchildren families into the big game and have them live in Cake Island. I'll have to add a new world for them)
China - World Adventures
Chocolate Cake Island
Cotes d'Ambonnay - (too hard to video sims at home in this world as all houses are very tiny so I'll be moving any sims living there out to other worlds)
Dark Harbor (this is where the McFluff Story main characters are currently living)
Dragon Valley
Egypt - World Adventures
Erewhon - where Oscar used to live with his original family before the meteors destroyed everything
France - World Adventures
Glenvale County - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Grey Meadow Islands - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Hidden Springs - This is where Old Gertie McFluff started out and still lives. Oscar and Louise belong here too. It's not in the Oscar videos yet but will play a big part in his story once he becomes a YA.
Isle of Sims III - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Legacy Island III - not exactly new but I emptied it of everyone a long time ago and now I think I might have moved a few sims back there.
Lucky Palms
Moonfall Island
Moonlight Falls
Norbrewych - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Sunlight Tides
So, between now and when I do the next episode I'm probably going to have to fully update my spreadsheet to include all sims in all worlds. That might take a year or two so I'll have to manage the best I can.
I already have almost enough recorded for Episode 3. But I can't return Gregg to his family so he'll go back to Moonfall Island until I can work that out. But I started my census in Moonlight Falls and found a few young sims in desperate need of an education so I'll quickly work on them and stay in Moonlight Falls for a bit longer.
I think I'll take Isabel as the travelling sim while I go searching for Gregg's parents and everyone else I need to find. I don't want Oscar and Eric and Susanne to become elders while I do this with them. They will only age while they are in an active world. I do have base camps in most of the worlds. And I added lots of new sims that were not already in the game as I did this.
Gregg has his father and their Plumbot ebony in his relationship panel. I tried getting him to ring his father but wasn't allowed to because he didn't know this celebrity well enough. He was able to chat with the Plumbot but this didn't help discover which world the household now lives in.
When I start Isabel on her travels I will only take her to the new worlds I've added to the game but not the spreadsheet. I'll gradually update other worlds as Oscar visits them.
Another thing I discovered. There were missing sims from Moonlight Falls. I consulted my spreadsheet and discovered that I had left sims behind in the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island. I do remember it was overcrowded and the game was having big problems so I probably left a few students behind until I moved a few out of the Moonfall Island boarding school. I have 19 in Moonfall Island boarding school before moving the Wolff family out. I'll have to send Isabel or Elouise to Chocolate Cake Island to try to collect the resto of the young sims from there and move them to Moonfall Island so they can complete their education and go home to their families.
It's all about my spreadsheet that I use to keep track of all of the sims. I need it to make sure I can return the boarding school residents to their homes when they are ready to go home.
Well, I haven't touched this game or the spreadsheet for a couple of years. And since I did episode 1 of 'Oscar's Teen Years' - or 'the adventures of Oscar, Eric and Susanne' I added a heap of new worlds to the game. I had to do this because the game was getting totally unplayable due to overpopulation of several worlds. For example, Sunlit Tides didn't have any spare lots or houses. I was shoving more than one family into a lot. They needed separate homes. The computer/game was struggling with all of the sims. So I moved a heap of sims out of a heap of worlds.
In episode 3, which I have started work on, I sent Oscar and Eric to Moonlight Falls boarding school with Erica Wolff and her children Wilhemina and Gator. And I sent Gregg Craig (Watson) with them as my spreadsheet says that's where his family is. Well, I had no problem returning the Wolff family to their home. I needed to extend it a bit to get them all to fit but all is good for them now. Erica has a teenaged son there who didn't get to boarding school yet but I decided not to bother with him for now. He may get there at some point or he may just age up to YA without learning much more than he already knows.
I found the Craig house with Gregg's parents' names on it and all but it was empty. There was no sign of them in the world. So, it dawned on me that I'd probably moved them out to another world - but which one?
I looked at my save file and found several worlds that are not mentioned in my spreadsheet.
The worlds in the save now are:
Barnacle Bay
Bellatrix - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Cake Island - (this is why I can't put the 30 Grandchildren families into the big game and have them live in Cake Island. I'll have to add a new world for them)
China - World Adventures
Chocolate Cake Island
Cotes d'Ambonnay - (too hard to video sims at home in this world as all houses are very tiny so I'll be moving any sims living there out to other worlds)
Dark Harbor (this is where the McFluff Story main characters are currently living)
Dragon Valley
Egypt - World Adventures
Erewhon - where Oscar used to live with his original family before the meteors destroyed everything
France - World Adventures
Glenvale County - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Grey Meadow Islands - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Hidden Springs - This is where Old Gertie McFluff started out and still lives. Oscar and Louise belong here too. It's not in the Oscar videos yet but will play a big part in his story once he becomes a YA.
Isle of Sims III - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Legacy Island III - not exactly new but I emptied it of everyone a long time ago and now I think I might have moved a few sims back there.
Lucky Palms
Moonfall Island
Moonlight Falls
Norbrewych - NEW (not in spreadsheet but I remember moving sims to it)
Sunlight Tides
So, between now and when I do the next episode I'm probably going to have to fully update my spreadsheet to include all sims in all worlds. That might take a year or two so I'll have to manage the best I can.
I already have almost enough recorded for Episode 3. But I can't return Gregg to his family so he'll go back to Moonfall Island until I can work that out. But I started my census in Moonlight Falls and found a few young sims in desperate need of an education so I'll quickly work on them and stay in Moonlight Falls for a bit longer.
I think I'll take Isabel as the travelling sim while I go searching for Gregg's parents and everyone else I need to find. I don't want Oscar and Eric and Susanne to become elders while I do this with them. They will only age while they are in an active world. I do have base camps in most of the worlds. And I added lots of new sims that were not already in the game as I did this.
Gregg has his father and their Plumbot ebony in his relationship panel. I tried getting him to ring his father but wasn't allowed to because he didn't know this celebrity well enough. He was able to chat with the Plumbot but this didn't help discover which world the household now lives in.
When I start Isabel on her travels I will only take her to the new worlds I've added to the game but not the spreadsheet. I'll gradually update other worlds as Oscar visits them.
Another thing I discovered. There were missing sims from Moonlight Falls. I consulted my spreadsheet and discovered that I had left sims behind in the boarding school in Chocolate Cake Island. I do remember it was overcrowded and the game was having big problems so I probably left a few students behind until I moved a few out of the Moonfall Island boarding school. I have 19 in Moonfall Island boarding school before moving the Wolff family out. I'll have to send Isabel or Elouise to Chocolate Cake Island to try to collect the resto of the young sims from there and move them to Moonfall Island so they can complete their education and go home to their families.
