@Nikkei_Simmer Oh I get you 100%. That used to be me too, with a mods folder full of cool poses, and community lots built to double as set pieces. I can appreciate using this old game as a tool to tell stories with.
Though I've seen "you're the last person on earth" out there as a writing prompt on the internet more than once.
I'm a little too casual for that now, but living a normal suburban dream wasn't holding me either. So? Challenge.
Speaking of..
PLAYTEST STATUS: WEEK 5
I fed my elderly dog a Young Again potion, and then got him the pony he always wanted (no really there was one wild horse he was smitten with). Cramming my sim with 8 levels of Riding books and then chasing horses around wasted a good week of my time, but you know what? Worth it.
https://i.imgur.com/SYiarNZ.jpg
Other residents: ...1 (pitiful), but with more incoming!
One alien finally stopped by to say hello, instead of just abducting Eva and dumping her back in her front yard a couple hours later after a thorough probing. What a gentleman! He was an elder, and very close to the end of his life at that, which I… wasn’t thrilled about, but the last sim on earth takes what she gets!
https://i.imgur.com/1z0sw5M.jpg
I talked him into joining me on this desolate wasteland, which he was surprisingly willing to do, and then immediately set him to work at the chemistry table.
And that was all he did until he came up with that wondrous pink juice that will give a sim their youth back.
https://i.imgur.com/TlhfFRs.jpg
There, muuuuch better.
He’s a charmer. Bookish, artistic, irresistible… but there won’t be any half-alien babies. Yet. Story Progression has declared, "nah, they both gay."
https://i.imgur.com/gyK3uLY.jpg
As for the rest...
Mummies 8 canopic jars and 4 Sarcophagus of Kings fragments in inventory. I'd have my sarcophagus built already, but I’m a nitwit and forgot that fragments only come from fragment spawners and had to add a few to my town, several weeks in.
Ghosts: 3 at Friend+, whose graves are on my lot, waiting for the Oh My Ghost! Opportunity to pop.
Soft-hearted hippie boy who loves dogs:
https://i.imgur.com/IxBf6mE.jpg
Sweet shy sporty girl.
https://i.imgur.com/48x90ds.jpg
Brilliant doctor who has a husband and three kids still in the graveyard (hey could you move? I'm cooking here!)
https://i.imgur.com/2SnUxm8.jpg
SimBots: Inventing mastered, pink diamond and palladium in inventory, and a pocket full of life fruit seeds that will be planted at the upgraded house I’m currently building. Just waiting for the opportunity to pop.
It was rough going! There was one cold winter day I sent her off to the scrapyard to gather more materials, and she finally returned scorched, stinking, hungry, and promptly collapsed from hypothermia. Poor girl almost got herself killed in the name of resurrecting civilization!
https://i.imgur.com/TxSrqsK.jpg
… the lack of popping opportunities worries me. I've played 4 full sim weeks, and gotten *zero* opportunity calls. None. I know this can be a bug for people with ITTF, and I've tried to add a mod that fixes it, but it didn't work. I tried fiddling with Retuner, but if that would fix the problem, I can’t find the right bit to flip.
I'm going to see what happens when I get my Mummies/aliens running around and, if having a few residents doesn't change things, I'm afraid I'll be forced to cheat and manually trigger the opportunity calls. :/
At least I'm still doing all the work!
Definitely glad I'm doing this on Long.
