Show me your current Sim Families!
Hi everyone! I love seeing the Sim families others play with and read their stories. So I thought I'd open up a little thread in which we can share just that. :) I won't start sharing mine right aw...
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"Colorist40;c-17650765" wrote:"GlacierSnow;c-17650695" wrote:
I don't really play for multiple generations, and I play with aging turned off, so any kids I have never grow up, but I love coming up with stories, and I have have a lot of different households I play with. These ones are my favorites (and the sims most closely resembling "families" in my games since I also have a lot of single sims I play with).Spoiler
This one is my oldest and probably one of my longest played families, although I haven't played with them much recently. Ari (the guy in the white shirt) moved to Windenberg from San Myshuno with his son Robin to try and start over after his former girlfriend (Robin's mother) abandoned both of them and ran off with another guy. Shelby (the guy in the sweater and glasses) had been raising his daughter Katie alone for some time after his wife died in a tragic mac and cheese fire in Windenberg. Ari met him by chance at a playground. The two guys became good friends and eventually decided to share housing so they could help each other raise their kids. Shelby is an artist and Ari is a writer. They're both dealing with the emotional fallout of what happened to them, which makes life in general just hard sometimes.
https://i.postimg.cc/9QZX8JRD/Ari-Shelby-Robin-and-Katie.jpg
This story is one where I am playing with the fame system, though these three roommates are all still pretty unknown in the celebrity world at this point. Xorian (in the blue shirt) is an aspiring actor. He's also an alien. His roommates know, but he doesn't reveal himself to outsiders yet. He wants to star in romance and drama films, and he's afraid if he doesn't stay in his human disguise he won't be able to get those kinds of roles. Erik (purple sweater) is in the style influencer career. Camryn (the girl in the tan hoodie) is a competitive gamer and a freelance programmer.
https://i.postimg.cc/FKhvPmX6/Camryn-Erik-and-Xorian.jpg
David, Damico and their ghost dog Chesnut, in one of their finer moments :lol: (Brent Hecking is not part of the family, he's a friend of David's who was visiting when the fire broke out). Damico (the guy in the vest, with the fire extinguisher) is a vampire, and apparently also the only one capable of maintaining a cool head in a crisis. David and Damico recently got engaged, but David is trying to finish his physics degree at Foxbury Institute before they get married.
https://i.postimg.cc/G2WdxDLF/David-Damico-and-Chesnut.jpg
This is a family I started with the intention of actually aging sims up (manually) and maybe playing as generations. But... I have said that before, and I never actually seemed to get around to aging them :lol: So, we'll see. Greg and Jason are happily married and have adopted these two adorable toddlers. Ember (yellow shirt) is a spellcaster, and Siren (overalls) is a mermaid, but Greg and Jason don't know that yet. They're in for a bit of a surprise when the girls reach their teens. Assuming I ever let these cuties age up, that is.
https://i.postimg.cc/tgfj96VK/Greg-Jason-Ember-and-Siren.jpg
This pair of mismatched roommates are the focus of a SimLit story I have been working on privately for some time. Ion (the blue alien in pink shirt) is studying human culture, and he's very enthusiastic about it. Reuben (grumpy guy in white shirt) is... not so sure he made the right decision in getting a roommate.
https://i.postimg.cc/HkkD5z0G/Ion-and-Reuben.jpg
So... I take a long time doing things because I play with so many families, and I like to put in so much story detail as I play. I still have not finished solving the Strangerville storyline for the first time. But these are the two sims that are doing it (while also getting constantly distracted by other random things like being abducted by aliens and exploring the jungles of Selvadorada). Josh and Iris are brother and sister. They started the game living in a tent in Oasis Springs, but now they have a small trailer home in Strangerville. I call them my "hard luck twins" and I try to make life both weird and difficult for them. They like to have adventures.
https://i.postimg.cc/bJbK8BPn/Iris-and-Josh.jpg
This is one of my current favorites that I play a lot. I did not intend for this to be a family, but stuff happens :lol: Lunar (the green alien) is a hybrid alien-spellcaster (I used a cheat to give him the spellcaster abilities) who specializes in alchemy and also works as a scientist at the lab from Get To Work. He gets abducted by aliens a lot (probably because of the scientist career) and he recently came back pregnant. He is now trying to figure out how to take care of his little baby (named Tranquility after the Sea of Tranquility where the Apollo 11 lunar mission landed) while still advancing his career. I do eventually age babies up because I get bored with them, so Tranquility will at least make it to toddler before I age-freeze him for all eternity. :lol: And anyone who names his kid "Tranquility" is just asking for trouble, so of course Tranquility will get the "fussy" trait. :naughty:
https://i.postimg.cc/yY7w4jbJ/Lunar-and-Tranquility.jpg
I don't usually play with premade sims, but I really like Vlad. I figured he needed a loyal friend, so I made him Igor. They are both currently going to school at U Brite. Vlad is studying villainy because he wants to be better at it, and Igor is studying biology to become a doctor. Not sure, yet, just what kind of "doctor" Igor is going to be though... :wink:
https://i.postimg.cc/hj5fWhSv/Vlad-and-Igor.jpg
Only in sims can someone die in a tragic mac and cheese accident lol. Although I know it is tragic for the husband. Sorry for the loss. That was a nice idea to have the grieving guys move in together.
Love the name Xorian. Where did you come up with that name?
I have never had a ghost pet. Is it fun?
Aww love the names Ember and Siren, and they are perfect names for their life states. They are adorable. I hope you can find a way to age them up. I have the same problem. I don't like my sims getting old either.
Lol the alien and the grumpy guy sounds like a good tv series kind of like the Odd Couple with Felix and Oscar ha ha.
The poor brother and sister have their work cut out for them with all the bad stuff happening to them. I feel bad for them. I have never solved the mystery either so they are in good company.
What is the cheat to make your alien a hybrid spell caster?
Love the name Tranquility. How mean of you to make him not live up to his name lol. That is a great idea give him a trait to go against his name lol.
I can imagine what kind of doctor Igor is going to be if it is like in the movies lol. Vlad got in my story as a nanny, and then he autonomously woo hooed my matriarch and her daughter lol. So it is kind of fun. I don't generally like premades.
All your games look fun.
Hi @Colorist40 Thanks for your comments! Sorry, I didn't see your questions earlier.
I don't know where the name Xorian came from. I usually name my aliens with some kind of astronomy or physics term like Lunar and Ion got. But Xorian... I just looked at him when I made him in CAS and said "His name is Xorian". :lol:
I love David's ghost dog! David specifically went camping on Deadgrass Island to get a ghost pet, and this one kept following him around. It's fun to have a pet that can go through walls. Makes for some entertaining moments. One time it was stormy out and Chesnut needed to pee. He literally put his back end through the outer wall, and did his business while keeping his front half still inside the house where it was warm and dry. I laughed so hard! :joy:
For making the hybrid alien-spell caster, start with an alien and then use: traits.equip_trait trait_Occult_WitchOccult
To remove the spellcaster trait (and turn the sim back into just an alien) use: traits.remove_trait trait_Occult_WitchOccult
As with all cheats, use at your own risk. But I haven't had much trouble with this one.
You will need to remove the spellcaster trait first every time you go into CAS, otherwise the alien's disguise form can get randomized, because while in CAS the hybrid alien-spellcaster only shows one form (like the normal spell casters have) and when you go back into live mode the game apparently thinks there is no disguise form for the alien, so it adds a random one. This is the only glitchy problem I've had with this type of hybrid. Everything else seems to work perfectly, for me at least so far. And since I don't really use Lunar's disguise form at all, it's not too much of a problem if I forget with him.
Luckily, when you remove the spellcaster trait and then replace it, all the magic progress is still there. They don't lose anything. I love playing with Lunar as a spellcaster. I gave him the wand and broom that look like crystals and the cauldron with the crystal "fire" under it. They go well with all his alien tech stuff.
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