N.E.P.S.: A simmer mind state [This Thread Again? pg.8]

THIS IS IT!
No... not yet.
I will wait for a proper announcement before I deep dive into my main sim's save and start progression. :)

How time flies in the sims.
It's been almost a year since my last serious NEPS post.
I was wrong by saying my NEPS had one foot in the grave when we got Toddlers, Parenthood, and Seasons.
It would have been more accurate to say that NEPS was on the ropes taking a beating. >:)

But then I stopped playing my main sims.
after that, we got:
-Get Famous
-Strangerville
-Island Living
-Moschino Stuff
-Realm of Magic.

Get Famous had me seriously planning to play my main sims again.
I had two families that I wouldn't mind having a celebrity parent.
Instead, I created a new save and took several of my sims that are currently children and aged them up to teens to pursue fame and fortune.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/EP6%20Get%20Famous/01%20Test%20Run/Getting%20Famous.png

It seemed like a great idea at the time, but being on their own as teens, they had to work and go to school.
There wasn't much time for cosplaying, friendships, and all the social media content.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/EP6%20Get%20Famous/01%20Test%20Run/11-17-18_8-43-43nbspPM.png

I quickly aged them up to young adults, moved them out of San Myshuno and into Del Sol Valley.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/EP6%20Get%20Famous/01%20Test%20Run/11-18-18_12-01-13nbspPM.png

They still got in some cosplay as a jumping in point for their climb to celebrity.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/EP6%20Get%20Famous/11-23-18_9-18-48nbspAM.png

I did enjoy playing them with Get Famous, but after I had gotten pretty far with their careers and moving them into a posh modern mansion on the hill. The only place left to go was finding life partners and having children.
NOPE! Not without Univeristy.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/EP6%20Get%20Famous/Get%20Famous%20Moments/01%20JUdith%20Ward/11-25-18_12-59-27nbspPM.png

Strangerville.
Not useful to my main sims at all.
But I was intrigued by the theme. So I started a new save to try it out.

Mulder, Scully, aliens in disguise and a mystery to be solved. Let me at it.
https://oi46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/Game%20Packs/07%20Strangerville/09%20What%20did%20you%20do/03-13-19_9-24-49nbspAM.png

I had a great setting, great sims, but I never finished it because I got bored with the linear game play.
I may finish it someday.
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/Game%20Packs/07%20Strangerville/10%20Alien%20Copound/03-14-19_9-19-55nbspAM.png

Island Living
I liked Island Living, but... it's not what I wanted for a tropical themed pack.
I am from the midwest and I tend to see a tropical destination as a place to be when I am sick of snow.
So that's how I play my sims. Tropical themes are get away vacation destinations. And that's how I played Island Living.
And again, not useful for my main sims right now.

So again, I took one of my sims who is currently a toddler and age him up in a new save.
Vaughn Noble is a young adult living in San Myshuno and had bought vacation property in Sulani.
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/06-24-19_2-11-55nbspAM.png

Traveling back and forth between San Myshuno and Sulani, he slowly built up the place as a freelance writer.
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/06-25-19_12-36-24nbspPM.png

I had to buy the lot as a business to use it as a vacation home as a work around for the game play I wanted.
I loved playing this way and it may be a path I take for Vaughn in my main save.
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/06-25-19_12-51-39nbspPM.png

If I do, I hope he falls in love with the same mermaid sim he met in the game and went adventuring within Selva Dorada.
That's as far as I took it because, of course, NO UNIVERSITY.
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/EP7%20Island%20Living/02%20Middle/07-01-19_4-15-40nbspPM.png


Moschino Stuff.
I was not interested in this at all, until I found out about the new photography related game play.
It sent me back to my Get Famous starlets to flesh out some lots created for them.
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/Stuff%20Packs/07%20Moschino/01%20Cybercafe/08-14-19_7-34-09nbspAM.png

I originally wanted Monique to be a photographer, but photography wasn't fleshed out enough.

https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/Stuff%20Packs/07%20Moschino/01%20Cybercafe/08-14-19_7-41-08nbspAM.png

https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/Stuff%20Packs/07%20Moschino/01%20Cybercafe/08-15-19_1-15-57nbspAM.png

I was all prepared to start my starlets over again.
https://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f116/cireking213/The%20Sims%204/Stuff%20Packs/07%20Moschino/01%20Cybercafe/08-15-19_7-38-43nbspAM.png

N.E.P.S. symptom #6:
Repeating game play you have enjoyed in the past.

However, this bomb dropped.


Now we're talking.
I can use this. The main household of my main save has been Miss Peregrine and her orphanage of peculiar children.
The fantastic and magical content of Realm of Magic would certainly be useful. And I did get it started, making Miss Peregrine a spell caster and one of her first bird familiars.






But then I started building


I love the buy/build mode objects so much, I haven't touched any of my sims.


Instead, I enlisted the help of two witchy-noob sims to play test this home.




They have been a great help.
I also had them adopt some daughters to make this place better for kids.


They have now moved on to an even larger variant of this home that adds an extra bedroom, library, gym, and I guess a hobbies room.
I will be making a range of homes based on this style theme from starters up to the mansion. They will play test them as I explore Realm of Magic.


I will return to Miss Peregrine and my other sims once the University pack is offical and we get the first significant look at it.
And then NEPS will die. >:)