Journey To Batuu Positive Thoughts Thread
This thread is for those of you who are looking forward to the new GP. Or at least willing to entertain that it might be a fun pack. Although I've seen and enjoyed all the movies I'm not...
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This is less “positive thoughts about JtB” and more “positive thoughts about combining dlc”:
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https://64.media.tumblr.com/0e591f4a5b1344ab44468bc757330f4a/3bde196fc7ed4291-8b/s2048x3072/8b42604a7bb0361c8fd4c3dc0a3cfc282b71c613.pnj
I finished the questline and aspirations for each of the three factions. Looking at the time the sims needed, the Resistance player won, so I gave the rebels rulership over Batuu and then made my favorite First Order sims (three premades and three random townies) playable. Together with four of my own sims, who had supported the FO, they got taken to Mua Pel’am detention center. I’ll check for rehabilitation every round with my politician sim (via “discuss politics”).
During their exile, Lt. Agnon decided that the officers should pair up and raise the next generation with the First Order values. Corra at first agreed, but the relationship didn’t made it to the end of the round. Nevertheless I now have three stable couples of (hopefully redeemable) Team Evil trying to play the long game.
(Note: In order not to break anything, my Rey, Kylo and Agnon are copies of the npcs, the originals are still untouched.)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9fc8d124cd7d5c2eacd482cac1401b4a/3bde196fc7ed4291-19/s2048x3072/a3b149c8b7d0fae331c3e58c40c370d46fd79737.pnj
The only FO sim to avoid Mua Pel’am was Kylo Ren. He and two companions raced against two of my rebel sims through the Selvadorada jungle/temple in search of a wayfinder. Kylo had my sims limping on their last legs, since I cheated him up to spellcaster master, but then he got hit by a selvadoradan curse that made him unnaturally cheerful (including a temporary costume change to a bright orange tacky vest).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/228822f7ae3df6107a327d1602daa773/3bde196fc7ed4291-fc/s2048x3072/05e4fc850b9107d4fc9cba3116d790e8a6ec8d25.pnj
At this point I brought in more canon characters from the gallery – and discovered that putting karaoke machines into the cantina makes for great screenshots, but a terrible cacophony. (The machines are invisible in the screenshot because of the fade out feature while zooming, no mods involved here.)
Left to right Rose Tico, Finn FN-2187, Poe Dameron, Rey Palpatine and Armitage Hux (temporary ally).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/aefb8106536358fab21e14a0a325f010/3bde196fc7ed4291-39/s2048x3072/f14a428764ea53dd1f7536e33d2cf8e8e9cbe8a5.pnj
If you ever wondered why so many kyber crystals turn up in Black Spire, look no further than the Forgotten Grotto!
Finn, Rey and Savi are force-sensitive (=spellcasters) in my game. Savi helped Finn create his first lightsaber and urged Rey to quest for her personal crystal. While at it, he also created what I call sportsmanship lightsabers for the others.
Everyone and their droid owning lightsabers might deflate the symbolism behind those weapons, but that’s just how things are in Black Spire at the moment. (And in fact my sims perceive it exactly opposite: the more lightsabers in use in town, the more hopeful the locals grow).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/5d44cd8d0bce5de1fb27096b9f37e1e0/3bde196fc7ed4291-a0/s2048x3072/bd3a8bb7f4b49bdcd2765c15d17979f7ae50c32e.pnj
The group then traveled to the ice planet Komorebi to retrieve the second wayfinder (the first Kylo had acquired in the jungle).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d85b175218a60f68267dfbea366c6d0/3bde196fc7ed4291-d5/s2048x3072/1e2226da6b7c7ff302793f4630ff25995991e559.pnj
Savi made my sims exomech suits, that I had hoped would allow them to move at normal speed regardless of weather conditions. In practice the suits are very unreliable on a snowy surface. “Go here” disables floating, but clicking another sim or initiating an activity has a high chance of activating the floating function.
Also, BB-8 is with the group. (The orange recolor was originally from MTS, but I modified the mod so that orange now overwrites red/purple instead of blue).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/8dda7c4ba4a4817f1cd442866e63c4c7/3bde196fc7ed4291-5f/s2048x3072/0ee88d44d72e6b1916034c18f2bb3461ffaf7353.pnj
After an encounter with the Knights of Ren (aka the premade sages), that my sims won, the Falcon hid at a tiny rebel base where their enemies hopefully wouldn’t find them. Here they need to upgrade their ship to be able to reach Exegol, following the instructions given by the wayfinder (ingame: build a rocketship and install the wormhole to Sixam).
It sounded simple, especially with Poe being only three skill points away from maximum. Little did I know…
https://64.media.tumblr.com/cdfee3d6bee505da3b5ba4a2972eab44/3bde196fc7ed4291-da/s2048x3072/122e38d1e785e9895a4a6c7fc236e269daf4788e.pnj
…that Poe would suffer from burnout at this point.
Being an adventurous sim, he constantly gets bored now when he so much as touches the rocketship. Since the tooltip mentioned Poe had performed that activity too often, I gave the team a day off. They rode the logging camp's horses (under the assumption that learning a new skill might placate Poe) to a pond in the forest, where they enjoyed some carefree moments at the campfire.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/3d4dcd8ff2a0bcf167bcd05b707649af/3bde196fc7ed4291-1b/s2048x3072/4a6f3668c6b6be0f7b098913a905160ffbc2437b.pnj
On the way back I got a touching screenshot of Finn taking the weakened Poe on his own horse (due to clipping – Poe’s black horse is still visible in some spots). If you look closely, you'll see that he caught a rash in the pond (a GTW disease).
I thought Poe was cured, that enough time had passed for him to work on the rocketship again the next day, but he seems to have enough of rocket science period. Maybe the high skill level is the problem?
It’s really sad. The movies present Poe as one of the “celebrity” heroes of the Resistance, and now he of all people fell into that dark hole. Given that this is a race against time (Team Kylo is working on their own wormhole), I can’t spare Poe from this task, as my best rocket scientist he has to trudge on.
To overcome the effect of the bored moodlet he gets regular pep talk from Rey (via the Wellness skill interactions, that make him focused) and slightly hallucinogenic mushrooms or focus berries. Basically medication and talk-therapy. It’s almost too realistic.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/0e591f4a5b1344ab44468bc757330f4a/3bde196fc7ed4291-8b/s2048x3072/8b42604a7bb0361c8fd4c3dc0a3cfc282b71c613.pnj
I finished the questline and aspirations for each of the three factions. Looking at the time the sims needed, the Resistance player won, so I gave the rebels rulership over Batuu and then made my favorite First Order sims (three premades and three random townies) playable. Together with four of my own sims, who had supported the FO, they got taken to Mua Pel’am detention center. I’ll check for rehabilitation every round with my politician sim (via “discuss politics”).
During their exile, Lt. Agnon decided that the officers should pair up and raise the next generation with the First Order values. Corra at first agreed, but the relationship didn’t made it to the end of the round. Nevertheless I now have three stable couples of (hopefully redeemable) Team Evil trying to play the long game.
(Note: In order not to break anything, my Rey, Kylo and Agnon are copies of the npcs, the originals are still untouched.)
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9fc8d124cd7d5c2eacd482cac1401b4a/3bde196fc7ed4291-19/s2048x3072/a3b149c8b7d0fae331c3e58c40c370d46fd79737.pnj
The only FO sim to avoid Mua Pel’am was Kylo Ren. He and two companions raced against two of my rebel sims through the Selvadorada jungle/temple in search of a wayfinder. Kylo had my sims limping on their last legs, since I cheated him up to spellcaster master, but then he got hit by a selvadoradan curse that made him unnaturally cheerful (including a temporary costume change to a bright orange tacky vest).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/228822f7ae3df6107a327d1602daa773/3bde196fc7ed4291-fc/s2048x3072/05e4fc850b9107d4fc9cba3116d790e8a6ec8d25.pnj
At this point I brought in more canon characters from the gallery – and discovered that putting karaoke machines into the cantina makes for great screenshots, but a terrible cacophony. (The machines are invisible in the screenshot because of the fade out feature while zooming, no mods involved here.)
Left to right Rose Tico, Finn FN-2187, Poe Dameron, Rey Palpatine and Armitage Hux (temporary ally).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/aefb8106536358fab21e14a0a325f010/3bde196fc7ed4291-39/s2048x3072/f14a428764ea53dd1f7536e33d2cf8e8e9cbe8a5.pnj
If you ever wondered why so many kyber crystals turn up in Black Spire, look no further than the Forgotten Grotto!
Finn, Rey and Savi are force-sensitive (=spellcasters) in my game. Savi helped Finn create his first lightsaber and urged Rey to quest for her personal crystal. While at it, he also created what I call sportsmanship lightsabers for the others.
Everyone and their droid owning lightsabers might deflate the symbolism behind those weapons, but that’s just how things are in Black Spire at the moment. (And in fact my sims perceive it exactly opposite: the more lightsabers in use in town, the more hopeful the locals grow).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/5d44cd8d0bce5de1fb27096b9f37e1e0/3bde196fc7ed4291-a0/s2048x3072/bd3a8bb7f4b49bdcd2765c15d17979f7ae50c32e.pnj
The group then traveled to the ice planet Komorebi to retrieve the second wayfinder (the first Kylo had acquired in the jungle).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/6d85b175218a60f68267dfbea366c6d0/3bde196fc7ed4291-d5/s2048x3072/1e2226da6b7c7ff302793f4630ff25995991e559.pnj
Savi made my sims exomech suits, that I had hoped would allow them to move at normal speed regardless of weather conditions. In practice the suits are very unreliable on a snowy surface. “Go here” disables floating, but clicking another sim or initiating an activity has a high chance of activating the floating function.
Also, BB-8 is with the group. (The orange recolor was originally from MTS, but I modified the mod so that orange now overwrites red/purple instead of blue).
https://64.media.tumblr.com/8dda7c4ba4a4817f1cd442866e63c4c7/3bde196fc7ed4291-5f/s2048x3072/0ee88d44d72e6b1916034c18f2bb3461ffaf7353.pnj
After an encounter with the Knights of Ren (aka the premade sages), that my sims won, the Falcon hid at a tiny rebel base where their enemies hopefully wouldn’t find them. Here they need to upgrade their ship to be able to reach Exegol, following the instructions given by the wayfinder (ingame: build a rocketship and install the wormhole to Sixam).
It sounded simple, especially with Poe being only three skill points away from maximum. Little did I know…
https://64.media.tumblr.com/cdfee3d6bee505da3b5ba4a2972eab44/3bde196fc7ed4291-da/s2048x3072/122e38d1e785e9895a4a6c7fc236e269daf4788e.pnj
…that Poe would suffer from burnout at this point.
Being an adventurous sim, he constantly gets bored now when he so much as touches the rocketship. Since the tooltip mentioned Poe had performed that activity too often, I gave the team a day off. They rode the logging camp's horses (under the assumption that learning a new skill might placate Poe) to a pond in the forest, where they enjoyed some carefree moments at the campfire.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/3d4dcd8ff2a0bcf167bcd05b707649af/3bde196fc7ed4291-1b/s2048x3072/4a6f3668c6b6be0f7b098913a905160ffbc2437b.pnj
On the way back I got a touching screenshot of Finn taking the weakened Poe on his own horse (due to clipping – Poe’s black horse is still visible in some spots). If you look closely, you'll see that he caught a rash in the pond (a GTW disease).
I thought Poe was cured, that enough time had passed for him to work on the rocketship again the next day, but he seems to have enough of rocket science period. Maybe the high skill level is the problem?
It’s really sad. The movies present Poe as one of the “celebrity” heroes of the Resistance, and now he of all people fell into that dark hole. Given that this is a race against time (Team Kylo is working on their own wormhole), I can’t spare Poe from this task, as my best rocket scientist he has to trudge on.
To overcome the effect of the bored moodlet he gets regular pep talk from Rey (via the Wellness skill interactions, that make him focused) and slightly hallucinogenic mushrooms or focus berries. Basically medication and talk-therapy. It’s almost too realistic.
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