Isla Paradiso Bunch
I have now published Episode 30 of my Isla Paradiso Bunch videos. https://youtu.be/axkEtEhm3AQ The sound has improved - I hope. My laptop is now working better than before and I have headphones...
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Hi all. I'd like some feedback please.
Part 1 of The Isla Paradiso Bunch was set up for me to learn how to use YouTube and for us to get to know the sims in the household. The game evolved and I decided to send them off exploring the tombs from World Adventures. That became Part 2 with walkthroughs of all tombs.
Now, I know some of you would like to see more of this group of sims and so would I. But I don't feel I can manage another series of videos as I have so many stories going and I need to finalise most of them asap.
Then thing I am thinking about doing is to start doing some Live Streaming. I've never done that and am just beginning to work out how to do it. The reason I've decided to do this is YouTube is trying to get people to live stream. My channel is way too small for me to monetise it and I thought you needed to have more subscribers than I have to be able to live stream. So either something at YouTube has changed, or I just wasn't aware of it. I know YouTube puts ads on some of my videos but I get nothing from that.
If I do go ahead with live streaming I propose to begin with about an hour of game play from The Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Here's a bit of a back story to show what's been going on with them.
At the end of Part 2, I was struggling to complete the final tombs. The household had grown quite large. I was having a problem with the final tomb in France. I think I worked out what the problem was. It was a random thing that I hadn't expected.
By the time they got into the final tomb in France they had been living in their own home in France for a long time. The point was, they no longer stayed at the Base Camp. When working on the final tombs there are a series of mini adventures, one of which requires the sim to visit Egypt to get something from a Sim living there. Every time my sims visited Egypt the adventure dropped out. Even if I used a mod to restart the adventure it immediately dropped out so the adventure could not continue.
I started a fresh game several times and kept trying to work out what was wrong. Every single time, while they were living in a house in France, the adventure dropped out in Egypt. The only time it worked was when I got exasperated with it and didn't bother buying them a home in France. They stayed at the base camp in France and finally, the big tomb in France went through without any problems at all. So I was able to complete the videos showing walk throughs of all tombs, including the final tombs in France.
My objective for that series was to collect the major tomb objects from each world. They got them all. They have different names in different worlds but in one world they are Sigils. I hope you know what I'm talking about there.
Egyptian tomb collection
https://i.postimg.cc/D0VsdDqF/Egyptian-Tomb-Collection001.jpg
French tomb collection
https://i.postimg.cc/KvdZddQ6/France.jpg
China tomb collection
https://i.postimg.cc/wvTHXHTm/Screenshot-149.jpg
During their adventures, both of the male sims from the household had alien pregnancies. I kept all of the alien babies and managed to capture the alien mothers and added them to the household. I decided the babies need to know both parents.
The original sim in the household was Judy.
https://i.postimg.cc/RFqBm0B8/Judy002.jpg
Judy is a witch I had grabbed from another game in which she had a daughter she had cloned from a sample of her own DNA. That daughter, Anne, was never in the Isla Paradiso Bunch videos.
https://i.postimg.cc/rsS9bDN5/Anne001.jpg
Judy also had a plant sim son, Charlie, who also never appeared in the Isla Paradiso Videos.
https://i.postimg.cc/rpKNTn9V/Charlie-Lake001.jpg
I allowed the wrong sim to pick Charlie so he doesn't resemble Judy. But she made his forbidden fruit seed and planted his seed and cared for him so I tend to think of him as her son even though another sim who is not part of this story picked him.
So I took Judy from her game and she left her two children behind to start a new game in Isla Paradiso.
At this stage I had no thoughts about making videos. It is just that this was the game I was playing when I decided to make a channel and start loading videos to YouTube.
That channel currently has 200 subscribers. It has taken a really long time for that many people to subscribe.
As I played with Judy, a lone sim trying to make 300 elixirs I found it all a bit boring. I like big households with full autonomy.
I thought if I added two or three extra sims the game might be a bit more interesting.
I have hundreds of sims saved to my hard drives. These are sims I've made and played at various times since June 2009. I decided to add a genie to Judy's household. I found some old genies I'd made back when we could first make genies in CAS. I had no mods at that time. The genies I selected were the original blue colour. I chose Haley, then decided I needed one more and couldn't decide between Josephine and Jeanie. Josephine had only ever been in one previous game and she'd given my so much trouble I'd decided never to play her again. She's hot headed and a coward and she kept on picking fights with other household members. At first this amused me but eventually I was really over having her roll around the floor in a ball of dust as she attacked another household member. I hadn't deleted her but she might as well have been deleted as I never used her again. As I pondered do I erase her totally from my computer or do I give her another go? So I grabbed her and added her to Judy's household along with Haley and Jeannie. I gave them all makeovers, including new skins, but I didn't change their traits.
Haley
https://i.postimg.cc/wvWhDXMZ/Haley001.jpg
Jeannie
https://i.postimg.cc/LXysxvzk/Jeanie001.jpg
and
Josephine
https://i.postimg.cc/wv0KKjTL/Josephene001.jpg
Next I added Craig as I thought the household needed a man.
Craig
https://i.postimg.cc/XJsBh9MW/Craig002.jpg
I might change his eye colour as every time I look at him I want to do that.
Then I thought Craig might need some support from a fellow bloke and I made Sam and added him to the household.
Sam
https://i.postimg.cc/RFgRQ1L3/Sam_MauledBySharkMoodlet001.jpg
and Muriel
https://i.postimg.cc/ydvth36Q/SelfSim003.jpg
and Diana
https://i.postimg.cc/Twkqmpck/Dianna008.jpg
and Meryl
https://i.postimg.cc/d1Wn7wFR/Meryl007.jpg
The number of sims in the household was getting out of hand by this time.
Haley met Salty Seaworth while out diving and when Salty realised she was wealthy he pursued her romantically until they became engaged and they had twin daughters who were toddlers for most of the series.
Wendy
https://i.postimg.cc/hjpgp3tR/Wendy003.jpg
Wendy and Gerri
https://i.postimg.cc/nz3W381G/WendyAndGerri001.jpg
Wendy and Gerri with their imaginary friends turned real
https://i.postimg.cc/BvY7cPm6/Gerri-Pat-Betty-Wendy001.jpg
Judy with her family of clones and plant sims
https://i.postimg.cc/sDFRkbsc/Judy-And-Family.jpg
Over time Judy acquired two plant sim sons, Bertie and Benjie, and a clone, Terry King, she made using the DNA from Triton King. Then she made a clone she made of Lea Dutiel from France.
Terry and Benjie
https://i.postimg.cc/NMbZQ6Fq/TerryAndBenjie001.jpg
Mia Azul died during Halye's bachelorette party.
https://i.postimg.cc/1tWBxzSd/MiaAzul10.jpg
They keep her inside in an urn and she regularly haunts them. Josephine faints from seeing the ghost.
The household when they started Part 2 of the series consisted of Judy, Haley, Jeannie, Josephine, Craig, Muriel, Meryl, Sam, Diana, Wendy, Geri, Bertie, Benjie and Terry.
https://i.postimg.cc/VLG0C6yG/The-Isla-Paradiso-Bunch001.jpg
During their adventures in Part 2 of the series Craig and Sam both had alien pregnancies and three alien babies joined the household. Judy cloned Lea Dutiel and she ended up with Donna Dutiel joined the household.
I captured the two alien mothers of Craig and Sam's babies.
The household was on the verge of explosion. The house was stuffed full of relics collected during their adventures. The game was unstable.
I used NRAAS Porter mod to gather up the household plus related sims. The related sims included Salty Seaworth, Triton King and Maya Ocean plus the two alien mothers.
I started a fresh game and built them a huge new house in Dragon Valley. The alien mothers were placed together in a nearby house and the mermaids were put into a home of their own too.
Then I added Judy's two children from her previous game, Anne and Charlie. And I moved another sim I'd made into a house near the Dragon Valley home of this huge household.
Penny lives alone in Dragon Valley near the house containing the sims from Part 2 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch. I thought she might be a potential wife for Sam or Craig.
https://i.postimg.cc/cJnZjR1n/Penny003.jpg
Next I played them for a while and aged up the twins to teens. They were children for a while before they became teens.
Naturally I made all of their imaginary friends real. The household was too overstuffed. I wanted to break it up but keep the unplayed sims in stasis so I moved a group of them to Sunlit Tides. This is Judy's family. She has a big house in Sunlit Tides and she lives there with her children and their imaginary friends made real.
This is the household I would like to try streaming to start with. If the streaming works I expect to include all of the sims I moved to Dragon Valley from time to time.
Some of the children in Judy's household have aged up to teen.
This is Anne Butler, Judy's clone.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKz8ZtqV/Anne-Ruth-Benjie-Butler001.jpg
Anne's Imaginary Friend made real, Ruth Butler
https://i.postimg.cc/gJRPjTxq/Ruth-Butler005.jpg
And Anne's plant sim brother, Charlie The Plant Sim.
https://i.postimg.cc/25ykkGd2/CharlieLake002.jpg
And Charlie's Imaginary Friend made real, Peter Lake
https://i.postimg.cc/dV4QcpCh/PeterLake002.jpg
The toddlers are now children
This is Benjie Butler
https://i.postimg.cc/zfS0Xm51/Benjie002.jpg
And Benjie's Imaginary Friend made real, Pippa
https://i.postimg.cc/9FKxLt1s/Pippa002.jpg
I tried to make Bertie and Benjie look a bit different from each other as they were identical. Here's Bertie
https://i.postimg.cc/Nf2rTTkj/Bertie-Butler001.jpg
And Bertie's imaginary friend made real, Carl Butler
https://i.postimg.cc/Nj81R1n6/Carl-Butler002.jpg
And Terry King
https://i.postimg.cc/XXSCCJc1/Terry-King003.jpg
Of course, Terry is a little Mermaid.
And Terry's imaginary Friend made real, Harry King
https://i.postimg.cc/mDKwmTyC/Harry-King001.jpg
Finally, Donna Dutiel
https://i.postimg.cc/ZqMFqJg2/Donna-Dutiel001.jpg
I think her imaginary friend has not yet been made real but it is live and they run around together.
https://i.postimg.cc/BQFXt3J8/Donna-And-Riles-Dutiel002.jpg
Their house is on a large lot and there is an inner courtyard.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZY8m6nc8/Isla-Paradiso-Bunch-In-Sunlit-Tides001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/2jJFYjvZ/Bertie-Donna-Pippa001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/DZv5SCy4/Benjie001.jpg
They have a small basement garden
https://i.postimg.cc/vB1Zzhcc/JoePeter001.jpg
That's Joe and Peter in the garden. I think I made Joe as a possible love interest for Judy. Nothing much is happening between them so far. I've never given her a romantic interest before.
They've also got a small outdoor garden for their trees
https://i.postimg.cc/L4qQLb3j/Ruth-Terry-Anne001.jpg
I'm thinking maybe streaming for about 1 hour initially to see how it goes.
What do you think?
Part 1 of The Isla Paradiso Bunch was set up for me to learn how to use YouTube and for us to get to know the sims in the household. The game evolved and I decided to send them off exploring the tombs from World Adventures. That became Part 2 with walkthroughs of all tombs.
Now, I know some of you would like to see more of this group of sims and so would I. But I don't feel I can manage another series of videos as I have so many stories going and I need to finalise most of them asap.
Then thing I am thinking about doing is to start doing some Live Streaming. I've never done that and am just beginning to work out how to do it. The reason I've decided to do this is YouTube is trying to get people to live stream. My channel is way too small for me to monetise it and I thought you needed to have more subscribers than I have to be able to live stream. So either something at YouTube has changed, or I just wasn't aware of it. I know YouTube puts ads on some of my videos but I get nothing from that.
If I do go ahead with live streaming I propose to begin with about an hour of game play from The Isla Paradiso Bunch.
Here's a bit of a back story to show what's been going on with them.
At the end of Part 2, I was struggling to complete the final tombs. The household had grown quite large. I was having a problem with the final tomb in France. I think I worked out what the problem was. It was a random thing that I hadn't expected.
By the time they got into the final tomb in France they had been living in their own home in France for a long time. The point was, they no longer stayed at the Base Camp. When working on the final tombs there are a series of mini adventures, one of which requires the sim to visit Egypt to get something from a Sim living there. Every time my sims visited Egypt the adventure dropped out. Even if I used a mod to restart the adventure it immediately dropped out so the adventure could not continue.
I started a fresh game several times and kept trying to work out what was wrong. Every single time, while they were living in a house in France, the adventure dropped out in Egypt. The only time it worked was when I got exasperated with it and didn't bother buying them a home in France. They stayed at the base camp in France and finally, the big tomb in France went through without any problems at all. So I was able to complete the videos showing walk throughs of all tombs, including the final tombs in France.
My objective for that series was to collect the major tomb objects from each world. They got them all. They have different names in different worlds but in one world they are Sigils. I hope you know what I'm talking about there.
Egyptian tomb collection
https://i.postimg.cc/D0VsdDqF/Egyptian-Tomb-Collection001.jpg
French tomb collection
https://i.postimg.cc/KvdZddQ6/France.jpg
China tomb collection
https://i.postimg.cc/wvTHXHTm/Screenshot-149.jpg
During their adventures, both of the male sims from the household had alien pregnancies. I kept all of the alien babies and managed to capture the alien mothers and added them to the household. I decided the babies need to know both parents.
The original sim in the household was Judy.
https://i.postimg.cc/RFqBm0B8/Judy002.jpg
Judy is a witch I had grabbed from another game in which she had a daughter she had cloned from a sample of her own DNA. That daughter, Anne, was never in the Isla Paradiso Bunch videos.
https://i.postimg.cc/rsS9bDN5/Anne001.jpg
Judy also had a plant sim son, Charlie, who also never appeared in the Isla Paradiso Videos.
https://i.postimg.cc/rpKNTn9V/Charlie-Lake001.jpg
I allowed the wrong sim to pick Charlie so he doesn't resemble Judy. But she made his forbidden fruit seed and planted his seed and cared for him so I tend to think of him as her son even though another sim who is not part of this story picked him.
So I took Judy from her game and she left her two children behind to start a new game in Isla Paradiso.
At this stage I had no thoughts about making videos. It is just that this was the game I was playing when I decided to make a channel and start loading videos to YouTube.
That channel currently has 200 subscribers. It has taken a really long time for that many people to subscribe.
As I played with Judy, a lone sim trying to make 300 elixirs I found it all a bit boring. I like big households with full autonomy.
I thought if I added two or three extra sims the game might be a bit more interesting.
I have hundreds of sims saved to my hard drives. These are sims I've made and played at various times since June 2009. I decided to add a genie to Judy's household. I found some old genies I'd made back when we could first make genies in CAS. I had no mods at that time. The genies I selected were the original blue colour. I chose Haley, then decided I needed one more and couldn't decide between Josephine and Jeanie. Josephine had only ever been in one previous game and she'd given my so much trouble I'd decided never to play her again. She's hot headed and a coward and she kept on picking fights with other household members. At first this amused me but eventually I was really over having her roll around the floor in a ball of dust as she attacked another household member. I hadn't deleted her but she might as well have been deleted as I never used her again. As I pondered do I erase her totally from my computer or do I give her another go? So I grabbed her and added her to Judy's household along with Haley and Jeannie. I gave them all makeovers, including new skins, but I didn't change their traits.
Haley
https://i.postimg.cc/wvWhDXMZ/Haley001.jpg
Jeannie
https://i.postimg.cc/LXysxvzk/Jeanie001.jpg
and
Josephine
https://i.postimg.cc/wv0KKjTL/Josephene001.jpg
Next I added Craig as I thought the household needed a man.
Craig
https://i.postimg.cc/XJsBh9MW/Craig002.jpg
I might change his eye colour as every time I look at him I want to do that.
Then I thought Craig might need some support from a fellow bloke and I made Sam and added him to the household.
Sam
https://i.postimg.cc/RFgRQ1L3/Sam_MauledBySharkMoodlet001.jpg
and Muriel
https://i.postimg.cc/ydvth36Q/SelfSim003.jpg
and Diana
https://i.postimg.cc/Twkqmpck/Dianna008.jpg
and Meryl
https://i.postimg.cc/d1Wn7wFR/Meryl007.jpg
The number of sims in the household was getting out of hand by this time.
Haley met Salty Seaworth while out diving and when Salty realised she was wealthy he pursued her romantically until they became engaged and they had twin daughters who were toddlers for most of the series.
Wendy
https://i.postimg.cc/hjpgp3tR/Wendy003.jpg
Wendy and Gerri
https://i.postimg.cc/nz3W381G/WendyAndGerri001.jpg
Wendy and Gerri with their imaginary friends turned real
https://i.postimg.cc/BvY7cPm6/Gerri-Pat-Betty-Wendy001.jpg
Judy with her family of clones and plant sims
https://i.postimg.cc/sDFRkbsc/Judy-And-Family.jpg
Over time Judy acquired two plant sim sons, Bertie and Benjie, and a clone, Terry King, she made using the DNA from Triton King. Then she made a clone she made of Lea Dutiel from France.
Terry and Benjie
https://i.postimg.cc/NMbZQ6Fq/TerryAndBenjie001.jpg
Mia Azul died during Halye's bachelorette party.
https://i.postimg.cc/1tWBxzSd/MiaAzul10.jpg
They keep her inside in an urn and she regularly haunts them. Josephine faints from seeing the ghost.
The household when they started Part 2 of the series consisted of Judy, Haley, Jeannie, Josephine, Craig, Muriel, Meryl, Sam, Diana, Wendy, Geri, Bertie, Benjie and Terry.
https://i.postimg.cc/VLG0C6yG/The-Isla-Paradiso-Bunch001.jpg
During their adventures in Part 2 of the series Craig and Sam both had alien pregnancies and three alien babies joined the household. Judy cloned Lea Dutiel and she ended up with Donna Dutiel joined the household.
I captured the two alien mothers of Craig and Sam's babies.
The household was on the verge of explosion. The house was stuffed full of relics collected during their adventures. The game was unstable.
I used NRAAS Porter mod to gather up the household plus related sims. The related sims included Salty Seaworth, Triton King and Maya Ocean plus the two alien mothers.
I started a fresh game and built them a huge new house in Dragon Valley. The alien mothers were placed together in a nearby house and the mermaids were put into a home of their own too.
Then I added Judy's two children from her previous game, Anne and Charlie. And I moved another sim I'd made into a house near the Dragon Valley home of this huge household.
Penny lives alone in Dragon Valley near the house containing the sims from Part 2 of the Isla Paradiso Bunch. I thought she might be a potential wife for Sam or Craig.
https://i.postimg.cc/cJnZjR1n/Penny003.jpg
Next I played them for a while and aged up the twins to teens. They were children for a while before they became teens.
Naturally I made all of their imaginary friends real. The household was too overstuffed. I wanted to break it up but keep the unplayed sims in stasis so I moved a group of them to Sunlit Tides. This is Judy's family. She has a big house in Sunlit Tides and she lives there with her children and their imaginary friends made real.
This is the household I would like to try streaming to start with. If the streaming works I expect to include all of the sims I moved to Dragon Valley from time to time.
Some of the children in Judy's household have aged up to teen.
This is Anne Butler, Judy's clone.
https://i.postimg.cc/MKz8ZtqV/Anne-Ruth-Benjie-Butler001.jpg
Anne's Imaginary Friend made real, Ruth Butler
https://i.postimg.cc/gJRPjTxq/Ruth-Butler005.jpg
And Anne's plant sim brother, Charlie The Plant Sim.
https://i.postimg.cc/25ykkGd2/CharlieLake002.jpg
And Charlie's Imaginary Friend made real, Peter Lake
https://i.postimg.cc/dV4QcpCh/PeterLake002.jpg
The toddlers are now children
This is Benjie Butler
https://i.postimg.cc/zfS0Xm51/Benjie002.jpg
And Benjie's Imaginary Friend made real, Pippa
https://i.postimg.cc/9FKxLt1s/Pippa002.jpg
I tried to make Bertie and Benjie look a bit different from each other as they were identical. Here's Bertie
https://i.postimg.cc/Nf2rTTkj/Bertie-Butler001.jpg
And Bertie's imaginary friend made real, Carl Butler
https://i.postimg.cc/Nj81R1n6/Carl-Butler002.jpg
And Terry King
https://i.postimg.cc/XXSCCJc1/Terry-King003.jpg
Of course, Terry is a little Mermaid.
And Terry's imaginary Friend made real, Harry King
https://i.postimg.cc/mDKwmTyC/Harry-King001.jpg
Finally, Donna Dutiel
https://i.postimg.cc/ZqMFqJg2/Donna-Dutiel001.jpg
I think her imaginary friend has not yet been made real but it is live and they run around together.
https://i.postimg.cc/BQFXt3J8/Donna-And-Riles-Dutiel002.jpg
Their house is on a large lot and there is an inner courtyard.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZY8m6nc8/Isla-Paradiso-Bunch-In-Sunlit-Tides001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/2jJFYjvZ/Bertie-Donna-Pippa001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/DZv5SCy4/Benjie001.jpg
They have a small basement garden
https://i.postimg.cc/vB1Zzhcc/JoePeter001.jpg
That's Joe and Peter in the garden. I think I made Joe as a possible love interest for Judy. Nothing much is happening between them so far. I've never given her a romantic interest before.
They've also got a small outdoor garden for their trees
https://i.postimg.cc/L4qQLb3j/Ruth-Terry-Anne001.jpg
I'm thinking maybe streaming for about 1 hour initially to see how it goes.
What do you think?
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