What happened in your game today?
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The game is on! Slaughtering season is here! I just got Life & Dead pack and am having so much fun adjusting the lots and creating backstories and family trees going generations back to tell how this wonderful world developed over the years. Of course I don't play all those generations, and this time I only create sims for a couple generations to see some portraits in their tree and have a few family photos on the wall. It includes tons of sims being killed by the evil rabbit, but hey - isn't this a perfect thing to do in Ravenwood? At least Grim doesn't need to travel far.
This time elderly Lasaruz Pelham had to go. He was the only son of Priest Felix Pelham, first priest to ever serve Church of Similius here in Ravenwood. Next up is his wife...
Sounds awesome! I’m replaying generations at the moment. However, I’m curious about something. Do you play only one generation or do you play a certain number of generations.
For me, I was thinking of stopping at the generation that makes my twins grandparents. My merfolk are immortal and never die from old age, so going through too many generations might be too much, but I still like having the other generations to play as well.
I add just 3-4 years to my sims' age every RL year, so it's going rather slowly. I still have a few of the YA sims I created back in 2014, now they are pushing their final days, though. So, I guess it's safe to say I ply only one generation. When I add a new world I will create new families and backstories, and some will connect with my existing a few generations back. I normally don't play the past generations though, but i spend some time on developing their characters and implementing them with my rigid system with details affecting them and what they pass on. I guess that's half the fun for me - when creating a new family, by starting a couple generations back they get created by whatever DNA is passed on. I rarely adjust their looks, not even the eyebrows. While doing the trees, I also secure a few family photos for the home(s) of my current time. I know I could just create some photos of random sims and pretend they were relatives, but it would not feel as genuine to me. Nobody else will see this, LOL, maybe I'm focusing a bit too hard on those details :)
Btw: I play with aging off, but every New Years Eve I turn aging back on to let everyone age 1 year. It's slow, but most Winters a handful elders die, and 10-20 babies are born every year, so I get a certain feel of a community rolling along.
Now, that's a way to keep a family going! I admire your tenacity. And never fault yourself for the details. Details are everything.
It is a sad photo of Lazaruz who has just passed away 🙁 The skies in the background are pretty though and are a nice setting on his sim life.
Wow, remind me never to move to Ravenwood. LOL
