Rebuilding Worlds Vol. 2
Welcome one and all to volume 2 of the Rebuilding Worlds Challenge! This challenge has gone through a few different renditions and has been going on in one way or another since 2010! With V...
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@OJenn Aww sorry to hear your little one is sick, sending well wishes to you & yours :heart: Wow you knocked out Aiyden's aspiration quick! I wanted to wait til he maxed the green tech career to switch to freelancer, so that held me up for a long time. The kiddos were sooo cute opening their presents :blush: I love when Winterfest falls while the kids are still kids -- one of the reasons I love long lifespan (but that toddler stage just kills me lol). Iris and Aiyden age like fine wine, I tell ya. Still lookin' amazing as ever! Okay I might have to start using your randomizer -- I love that it picks a career and skill too! Adds a bit of challenge to the challenge. I think I'll do that starting with gen 3 in my game :smile: Teen Jade is so pretty!! I LOVE her eyes! But her eye color & hair color don't look like they come from either parent, must be a recessive grandparent gene :wink: I also love her traits and aspiration, so my vote goes to her.
@Heckstress17 Fawn just the cutest lil thing. Omg I love how protective Zach is! Also I might be a lil bias cause my bf's name is Zach :lol: Ashlynn is gorgeous! I'm so jealous of your gorgeous townies. I need to get that mod installed in my game ASAP. I might even re-download MCCC...I quit using it because it was producing sooo many townies that always ended up atrocious-looking thanks to townie genetics :tongue: The NPC mod really is life-changing. That basketball court is literally perfect! I put my WC builds in this save too, but I keep forgetting about them :sweat_smile: Fawn will be a fine fabricator! Don't doubt her heir skills! :wink: LOL of course Aiyden is still angry even in death. Oh no...poor Silas is just not a ladies man :sweat_smile: :lol: Aww Iris...I'm glad she finally drank the essence, I'm not ready for her to pass yet! I gave Aiyden and Iris both potions of youth before they aged up into elders. I just can't handle it yet. Silas really does have a "bored" expression like 99% of the time, poor kid :joy:
I chose floorplan A. I was going to do B if I chose Eden cause she has a 'small cozy house' kinda vibe, but Haven needs a workspace so I wanted the basement in A, and I think the big house fits him and Suri well seeing as she has the ambitious trait and he's getting a college degree, so they're both gonna be rich sooner rather than later lol. You can see the shell on the gallery if you want spoilers lol. I'm debating posting another update tonight just to show off the house, but I kinda like keeping my pics altogether in the bigger updates :tongue: Lol I thought I was too far ahead too! I'm glad I'm not the only one speeding ahead :lol: Eden really throws me off. She looks soooo much like Iris, yet all of her features aside from her lips are Aiyden's, and she even has closer to Aiyden's coloring - darker skintone, brown eyes, black hair. Yet all I see is Iris. She is truly a mystery lol.
@Mionax Okay you're definitely crazy with THREE sets of twins!! But they are all so cute :love: Sandy is my favorite so far! I looove the recycle disciple trait -- so fitting for Evergreen Harbor! Savanna is a close 2nd favorite though. The Geek trait is one of my favs too. And I just know they're both going to be gorgeous like @Heckstress17 's Fawn!
@Kiwicantdie I totally want a cc-free Pablita for my game! I don't think I have any vampires in the world since I used @OJenn 's empty save and it just hasn't generated any vamps yet. I was really torn about sending Haven to live on campus too. I wish I could enjoy 'dorm life' in the sims, but the roommates drive me crazy. I'd probably hate it less if I had the NPC control mod @Heckstress17 shared. Maybe I'll give it a second chance next generation :tongue:
The house is looking great! I totally relate to a half-furnished house. I didn't finish furnishing the gen 1 house until right before Haven moved out :sweat_smile: Look at your Greenes making friends!! You're doing way better than me in that department :lol: Tina Tinker and Knox are my two fav townies in this world! They're both so nice & helpful lol. I thought it looked like Knox had a bit of a crush on Iris in @Heckstress17 's game too at first -- now it's confirmed, Knox is secretly in love with her lol. Oh surprise, surprise -- Aiyden's mad again *insert eye roll emoji* :joy: That just sums up their relationship perfectly: fighting half of the time, woohooing the other half. You got Iris to jog??? It's a miracle! I had to settle for yoga to keep her active, because she HATED jogging in my game. Her napping in a chair is much more relatable lol. Okay I know you didn't want kids yet, but YES YES YES I'm so excited!! I didn't even have risky woohoo installed and I ended up with an "oops" pregnancy (I chose the wrong interaction on accident -- I was looking for a '...in shower' option and not paying attention to the 'try for baby/woohoo' part :grimace: ), and honestly, I'm not even mad about it. Haven was an angel child, so maybe you'll luck out too! Also YES I adore Eden being a knitting sim. It just fits her so perfectly! Iris & Tina being pregnant at the same time is just too cute. I already know their kids are gonna be best friends. Bump buddies! :heart: Those pics of Iris & Aiyden up by the plants on that bridge/walkway thing are so gorgeous :love: And all of the pics in Willow Creek :love: :heart: I love when pregnant sims 'cloudgaze' and hold their stomach like that, so precious. THE SMOG IS BACK??? OK, so that makes a lot of sense actually -- the bug report thread was talking about that, how when you leave the world and come back the game will register what the footprint SHOULD be, but once you've been back in the world for so long it reverts back to default neutral. At least you got to enjoy the smog for a little while? OMG TWINS, NOOOOO! I'm glad you have my same feelings on twins. Everyone else seems to love them and I'm over here still traumatized by the years of MCCC giving me waaaaaay too many multiples. It's an issue with the way the pregnancy settings work -- because you can change the max number of births, it changes the algorithm to account for that and gives each number an equal percentage chance. Instead of "single birth 90%, twins 9%, triplets 1%" (or whatever the default numbers are), it's "25% single, 25% twins, 25% triplets, 25% quads." With that algorithm, you end up having a 75% change of multiples and only a 25% chance of single births, so you get way more multiples. I think the modder tried to fix it at one point, but the numbers are still off, as we all know with how often sims get pregnancy when risky woohoo is only set to 5-10% :tongue: That's the sole reason I quit using MCCC way back in the day. Anyway...good luck with your twins! :grimace:
@EMSimmer30 Hey! I'm glad you found us :smile:
@Francisca464 You used my house! :blush: Yeah, sorry 'bout how expensive the shell was...I had to start legacy style too :lol: Your Iris & Aiyden are so cute!! I just love seeing them in different styles & haircuts lol. Awww lol you bought them a little tv! The living room was the last thing I furnished, my sims had to suffer :tongue:
@Rhythrin Omg I'm so sorry to hear you were in an accident! I've never been in one myself, and I'm absolutely terrified of it. I think your current mental state is totally justified. I didn't play the U'Halu's long enough to know if they make cute babies, so I'm excited for you to play so I can find out :wink: Haven really won me over when he aged up into a YA too! And Suri grew up to be GORGEOUS omg she's like my fav sim ever! She was a kid in a gallery family I downloaded, and her mom and all of her sisters are super pretty too. Most of Eden and Haven's friends are from gallery families and grew up very nicely :blush: Unfortunately Eden never really 'clicked' romantically with anyone, whereas Haven's always had a crush on Suri, so that helped make my heir choice lol. I probably would've downloaded Knox and forced Eden to love him if I chose her :lol:
@Wentcrazy The laundry was manageable at first, but it go SOOO out of hand once winter rolled around and everyone was constantly changing into and out of their winter clothes :angry: I wasn't really expecting Haven to propose yet, they've only been on like one official date :sweat_smile: But honestly the mood was just right and the house was so pretty all decorated, so I went for it. Also congrats on getting member status!! I'm already so excited for your first update cause your Iris looks so awesome! We haven't seen her in that kind of style yet and I'm LIVING for it!! For pics -- the forum resizes pics automatically, mine are like 1920 x 1080 px (whatever my screen size is). There's no limit on how many pics you can post, I've posted updates with just 1 or 2 quick pics, all the way up to 75+ pics in my biggest updates. I just try not to be too redundant when I post tons of pics -- like I'll choose 1 or 2 "family dinner" pics, instead of posting the 20 actual screenshots I took lol. I take a million screenshots in game, then sort through them and pic my favs, and edit those a bit to raise the brightness/contrast. Don't feel obligated to do any editing or anything, it's just what I do cause my game looks really dark and kinda washed out to me.
@OJenn Aww sorry to hear your little one is sick, sending well wishes to you & yours :heart: Wow you knocked out Aiyden's aspiration quick! I wanted to wait til he maxed the green tech career to switch to freelancer, so that held me up for a long time. The kiddos were sooo cute opening their presents :blush: I love when Winterfest falls while the kids are still kids -- one of the reasons I love long lifespan (but that toddler stage just kills me lol). Iris and Aiyden age like fine wine, I tell ya. Still lookin' amazing as ever! Okay I might have to start using your randomizer -- I love that it picks a career and skill too! Adds a bit of challenge to the challenge. I think I'll do that starting with gen 3 in my game :smile: Teen Jade is so pretty!! I LOVE her eyes! But her eye color & hair color don't look like they come from either parent, must be a recessive grandparent gene :wink: I also love her traits and aspiration, so my vote goes to her.
@Heckstress17 Fawn just the cutest lil thing. Omg I love how protective Zach is! Also I might be a lil bias cause my bf's name is Zach :lol: Ashlynn is gorgeous! I'm so jealous of your gorgeous townies. I need to get that mod installed in my game ASAP. I might even re-download MCCC...I quit using it because it was producing sooo many townies that always ended up atrocious-looking thanks to townie genetics :tongue: The NPC mod really is life-changing. That basketball court is literally perfect! I put my WC builds in this save too, but I keep forgetting about them :sweat_smile: Fawn will be a fine fabricator! Don't doubt her heir skills! :wink: LOL of course Aiyden is still angry even in death. Oh no...poor Silas is just not a ladies man :sweat_smile: :lol: Aww Iris...I'm glad she finally drank the essence, I'm not ready for her to pass yet! I gave Aiyden and Iris both potions of youth before they aged up into elders. I just can't handle it yet. Silas really does have a "bored" expression like 99% of the time, poor kid :joy:
I chose floorplan A. I was going to do B if I chose Eden cause she has a 'small cozy house' kinda vibe, but Haven needs a workspace so I wanted the basement in A, and I think the big house fits him and Suri well seeing as she has the ambitious trait and he's getting a college degree, so they're both gonna be rich sooner rather than later lol. You can see the shell on the gallery if you want spoilers lol. I'm debating posting another update tonight just to show off the house, but I kinda like keeping my pics altogether in the bigger updates :tongue: Lol I thought I was too far ahead too! I'm glad I'm not the only one speeding ahead :lol: Eden really throws me off. She looks soooo much like Iris, yet all of her features aside from her lips are Aiyden's, and she even has closer to Aiyden's coloring - darker skintone, brown eyes, black hair. Yet all I see is Iris. She is truly a mystery lol.
@Mionax Okay you're definitely crazy with THREE sets of twins!! But they are all so cute :love: Sandy is my favorite so far! I looove the recycle disciple trait -- so fitting for Evergreen Harbor! Savanna is a close 2nd favorite though. The Geek trait is one of my favs too. And I just know they're both going to be gorgeous like @Heckstress17 's Fawn!
@Kiwicantdie I totally want a cc-free Pablita for my game! I don't think I have any vampires in the world since I used @OJenn 's empty save and it just hasn't generated any vamps yet. I was really torn about sending Haven to live on campus too. I wish I could enjoy 'dorm life' in the sims, but the roommates drive me crazy. I'd probably hate it less if I had the NPC control mod @Heckstress17 shared. Maybe I'll give it a second chance next generation :tongue:
The house is looking great! I totally relate to a half-furnished house. I didn't finish furnishing the gen 1 house until right before Haven moved out :sweat_smile: Look at your Greenes making friends!! You're doing way better than me in that department :lol: Tina Tinker and Knox are my two fav townies in this world! They're both so nice & helpful lol. I thought it looked like Knox had a bit of a crush on Iris in @Heckstress17 's game too at first -- now it's confirmed, Knox is secretly in love with her lol. Oh surprise, surprise -- Aiyden's mad again *insert eye roll emoji* :joy: That just sums up their relationship perfectly: fighting half of the time, woohooing the other half. You got Iris to jog??? It's a miracle! I had to settle for yoga to keep her active, because she HATED jogging in my game. Her napping in a chair is much more relatable lol. Okay I know you didn't want kids yet, but YES YES YES I'm so excited!! I didn't even have risky woohoo installed and I ended up with an "oops" pregnancy (I chose the wrong interaction on accident -- I was looking for a '...in shower' option and not paying attention to the 'try for baby/woohoo' part :grimace: ), and honestly, I'm not even mad about it. Haven was an angel child, so maybe you'll luck out too! Also YES I adore Eden being a knitting sim. It just fits her so perfectly! Iris & Tina being pregnant at the same time is just too cute. I already know their kids are gonna be best friends. Bump buddies! :heart: Those pics of Iris & Aiyden up by the plants on that bridge/walkway thing are so gorgeous :love: And all of the pics in Willow Creek :love: :heart: I love when pregnant sims 'cloudgaze' and hold their stomach like that, so precious. THE SMOG IS BACK??? OK, so that makes a lot of sense actually -- the bug report thread was talking about that, how when you leave the world and come back the game will register what the footprint SHOULD be, but once you've been back in the world for so long it reverts back to default neutral. At least you got to enjoy the smog for a little while? OMG TWINS, NOOOOO! I'm glad you have my same feelings on twins. Everyone else seems to love them and I'm over here still traumatized by the years of MCCC giving me waaaaaay too many multiples. It's an issue with the way the pregnancy settings work -- because you can change the max number of births, it changes the algorithm to account for that and gives each number an equal percentage chance. Instead of "single birth 90%, twins 9%, triplets 1%" (or whatever the default numbers are), it's "25% single, 25% twins, 25% triplets, 25% quads." With that algorithm, you end up having a 75% change of multiples and only a 25% chance of single births, so you get way more multiples. I think the modder tried to fix it at one point, but the numbers are still off, as we all know with how often sims get pregnancy when risky woohoo is only set to 5-10% :tongue: That's the sole reason I quit using MCCC way back in the day. Anyway...good luck with your twins! :grimace:
@EMSimmer30 Hey! I'm glad you found us :smile:
@Francisca464 You used my house! :blush: Yeah, sorry 'bout how expensive the shell was...I had to start legacy style too :lol: Your Iris & Aiyden are so cute!! I just love seeing them in different styles & haircuts lol. Awww lol you bought them a little tv! The living room was the last thing I furnished, my sims had to suffer :tongue:
@Rhythrin Omg I'm so sorry to hear you were in an accident! I've never been in one myself, and I'm absolutely terrified of it. I think your current mental state is totally justified. I didn't play the U'Halu's long enough to know if they make cute babies, so I'm excited for you to play so I can find out :wink: Haven really won me over when he aged up into a YA too! And Suri grew up to be GORGEOUS omg she's like my fav sim ever! She was a kid in a gallery family I downloaded, and her mom and all of her sisters are super pretty too. Most of Eden and Haven's friends are from gallery families and grew up very nicely :blush: Unfortunately Eden never really 'clicked' romantically with anyone, whereas Haven's always had a crush on Suri, so that helped make my heir choice lol. I probably would've downloaded Knox and forced Eden to love him if I chose her :lol:
@Wentcrazy The laundry was manageable at first, but it go SOOO out of hand once winter rolled around and everyone was constantly changing into and out of their winter clothes :angry: I wasn't really expecting Haven to propose yet, they've only been on like one official date :sweat_smile: But honestly the mood was just right and the house was so pretty all decorated, so I went for it. Also congrats on getting member status!! I'm already so excited for your first update cause your Iris looks so awesome! We haven't seen her in that kind of style yet and I'm LIVING for it!! For pics -- the forum resizes pics automatically, mine are like 1920 x 1080 px (whatever my screen size is). There's no limit on how many pics you can post, I've posted updates with just 1 or 2 quick pics, all the way up to 75+ pics in my biggest updates. I just try not to be too redundant when I post tons of pics -- like I'll choose 1 or 2 "family dinner" pics, instead of posting the 20 actual screenshots I took lol. I take a million screenshots in game, then sort through them and pic my favs, and edit those a bit to raise the brightness/contrast. Don't feel obligated to do any editing or anything, it's just what I do cause my game looks really dark and kinda washed out to me.
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