Mysterious Mr Gnome

BlkBarbiegal wrote:
Karritz, I love your Beatrice gnome. I want one! :P The current household I'm playing have only these gnomes. But three magician gnomes. I thought the second from the left came from the inventing table but your Beatrice is the inventing gnome. Since I named mine, now I can't look to see where he's from. And, I can't believe I don't have a vampire gnome with all the vamps living there. lol

I will play with sp on but aging off to see what happens. :shock:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2828/8850716062_9cffcb0577_c.jpg

You have three of the gnomes in this picture that I've not yet seen in any of my games.

From left to right you have:

Zenyatta - he is the horse gnome and apparently he appears when you have a horse that licks salt something like 60 times. I have had a horse in a game a couple of times but haven't played the game long enough to get one of these gnomes.

Magical Gnome of Sculpting - I think I've had this one a few times. I have the sculpting bench in my current game in Riverview. Hopefully he'll turn up soon to be company for the Magical Gnome of Inventing that I already have.

Troglodyte Gnome - I have no idea how he appears. But I would love to have one in my game.

Cranstan Boonitz the Magician Gnome - I have had different versions of him but not this one.

Vampire gnomes are easy to get. Just plant Plasma Fruit in your garden. I think you need 6 plants that are of a particular quality. I forget which but they seem to get there quickly. Once you get one Vampire gnome buy lots of teddy bears and put them down and she'll quickly start converting them to more Vampire gnomes. Apparently some players use this process to make Simoleans for their game. The bears cost about 50 and the gnomes sell for about 1000. I started doing it to sell them. I sold the first one and decided to keep the rest.

It will be interesting to see if you notice a difference in your game with SP on and ageing off. I turn ageing off because it gives me more control. Sometimes I turn ageing on again for a day or two to keep my families with the children/teens in the right chronological order. But I don't always bother to do that.

Now that it looks like my mods may have fixed my family tree issues I might play families more often. I stopped having families in my games when children started forgetting who their parents were in a household. It all got a bit much to cope with.

For over a year now I've played with households of 8 unrelated young adults. I vary their traits and life states and if I have at least one evil one in the group - it is fun to sit back and just watch what they get up to. I got the Big Meanie Badge this way - and I didn't even see half the fights that got it for me.

I just found out that those Gnome Memorials give 5 environment points. And I have 42 of them all sitting in a room that no one can go into. Maybe I should think of moving them around the house placed strategically on shelves. It could be an easy way to get the Beautifully Decorated moodlet.

I just had another thought. I wonder if I put them all down on the floor of the greenhouse if they'd get the Unfinished Room moodlet which they are getting now because of the grass floor, or if the 42 x 5 would overcome this and give them the beautifully decorated moodlet instead? I'd like to keep them around the garden as they love to be under the plants. That is the best place to find them in your game - even if you have all plants in planter pots. The gnomes will be lying under the bits of the plants that are hanging over the edge of the planter pots.