NikkeiSimmer's Asylum (Sims Stuff)

Since everyone seems to be starting a thread where they keep all their Sims 3 ramblings (in one place), I think I'm going to start one

The way Kimber is looking absolutely disoriented while "waking up" is the exact way I feel navigating this particular forum now.

Haven't been playing much in Sims 3 in the past day and a half. I've actually opened up Cities Skylines and am attempting to learn it and you may actually start seeing Cities Skylines screenshots in my Sims 3 games to flesh out the idea of a bigger town. If I can get my CAW to cooperate with EA App, I'll try to make a neighbourhood of Cities Skylines Twin Rivers in Sims 3 so that when I start putting up shots of the more expanded view of Twin Rivers, you're not all going "Hey wait a sec...what???" Yeah, this means that I not only have to learn how to control my Cities Skylines game; I also have to learn how to utilize all of CAW's features to make the section of town that I create match. I'm not sure just how I'm going to do that, but well, maybe I can get some people who are more familiar with CAW to help me set up backdrops along the edges of the Sims 3 world to make it appear as though it's much larger and well, we just won't be able to get there in the Sims game. but I can simulate it through Cities Skylines and a little photo-manipulation.

Here's a shot of Twin Rivers as it stands... that dotted square? Yeah, that's where the town is going to end up being.

The view from the river. Where I'm placing River and Haruo's neighbourhood will be right "near the river" - ha ha ha...yeah... I noticed the pun.

And this is the entrance to the town right off the freeway. Yeah, don't mind the tree in the "out-bound-outta-town lane" It's going bye-bye when I stick a dirt road down.

While I was playing with this town earlier. I set up a series of 2 square by 8 square blocks putting single sections down to get the game to generate small "shacks" for a slumtown feel for the lower end of the financial spectrum cims).

I think I might be able to make a section of town like that in a Sims 3 CAW generated world, however. not to the exact same size.

This however is one lot I should be able to make quite easily in Sims 3. It's the only style graveyard Cities Skylines has, unless I go about downloading a whole bunch of DLC or user created creations for Cities Skylines which I don't know how to do yet.

So, that might be something to do, in order to flesh out my Sims 3 Legacy a bit more. In between tossing in shots of FSX to simulate taking flights..and I have to get the Airports DLC for Cities Skylines so that I can get screenshots of the airport they use.

...I'm going to be driving myself insane.

But hopefully...all in all, it makes the "story" itself come alive.

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NikkeiSimmer
Legend
10 months ago
Restarting the Legacy...since I seem to have written myself into a corner with that - that and the fact that I ended up downloading a bad piece of cc.
Excerpt: The Chikamori Legacy.
“Why can’t you live with me, sis and Mom?” her voice was plaintive. “I can’t stand seeing you go through this;” she waved her arm to figuratively take in the whole park. “the hunting out of dumpsters, scrounging for food and sleeping on the cold, hard ground. How are you going to get through winter?”
“I’m not going to let this kill me.” Haruo smirked at her. River felt like belting him across the back of the head.
“I’m serious, dammit.” River growled at him.
Haruo looked at her for a long moment as if to weigh his answer. “How many people have you got living in that house? Your mom, you, your sister, Molly, Sandi and weren’t you saying that your aunt sleeps on the couch because there’s no room in your house for her? So, where exactly am I supposed to sleep?”
River smirked at him, “Well...maybe I could upgrade to a double bed and…” her voice trailed off as she saw her friend’s eyes narrow and his expression change to a frown.
“Uh...no…” He stopped for a moment assessing his view of the situation, “You know how fast city hall will come down on your Mom if she has someone completely unrelated to you guys living in their house in the manner of which you’re speaking of? It’s not worth the risk.”

Hang him, he was thinking about everyone other than himself. River thought. And what am I supposed to do if something happens to him? “What do you mean? Nobody other than the church is going to worry about whether we’re sleeping together.”

“No, I meant the living conditions. If there aren’t enough beds in the house for everybody, anybody who isn’t related to the homeowner is considered a tenant, the house is deemed an illegal tenancy and then I end up back out here anyways while your mother gets fined. Do you seriously think that’s a good option?”
River glowered at Haruo, Did he have to make it sound so dire as well as implicitly making her sound like an idiot for even suggesting that she try to protect him? She knew he was right **bleep** him. But she buried her face in his chest. “Well, you’d better stay safe and get yourself some sort of roof over your head. Because in one hundred and twelve days, I’m joining you, whether you like it or not. And I mean it...the day after my graduation, I’m on the street protecting your back.”
“Are you nuts?” he asked, “Do you really want this sort of life?”

“If it means I have you, yes. I’ll go through anything.” River’s voice was muffled because her head was nestled against his sleeveless grey hoodie. They spent a long moment cuddled together with Haruo’s arms around her. “ I mean that. I love you.” she murmured, her voice barely audible, but Haruo could feel the vibration of her voice against him. He really didn’t want to have her end up homeless alongside him, even if she was going to be a young adult in one hundred and twelve days, but she was damned and determined to be with him, even through his most trying times. “That’s the only concession you’re getting out of me.”

Haruo shook his head, he couldn’t understand why River was so adamant that she wanted to be with this abject failure of a life that he’d ended up in. And it seemed that she was going to up-end her life once she graduated high-school just to be with him. “You know what, let’s get out of here...and head to Central Park.” he said. "That way there’s no complaints about us loitering around rich man’s park.” his bitter sarcasm towards the Altos and the Landgraabs was palpable. “They don’t like us poor folk hanging around the neighbourhood.”

end excerpt