Vampires of the West #2

 This week I was playing my Vampires of the West game.  It's getting laggy and once in awhile it shuts down completely.  I think this is because it's such a large world and Story Progression keeps populating it.  I've tried a few things that I hope will help, like running the homeless out of town and resetting everything in the town. As of yesterday, the population was 34 cats, 2 deer, 26 dogs, 28 horses, 290 humans, and one raccoon.  The breakdown of humans: 64 households, 146 residents, 114 service people, and 31 homeless. I'd like to explore a little more as I've found some pockets of interesting things, but my household is all vampires with exception for the dog, so I'm going to switch to another household for a little bit.

One major problem with the large population is the overcrowded school.  Poor Max tries to go to school but can't get into the building until school is half over; then he is apparently considered "skipping" and gets in trouble with his parents.  He even stayed after school for extra help one day but got a time out for bad grades from his father. The poor kid got a C, which is "average," and is really trying, so I'm kind of mad at Grover and Christy for scolding him and putting him in time out.  Maybe when he becomes a teen he can "run away" or at least move in with his half brother who lives nearby. 

I built a new school on the other side of town, hoping that would take some of the students, but none went, at least not the first day it was build.  I guess it's a matter of wait and see.  Max just aged up to teenager.  Maybe I can force him to go to the new school and call it a high school. His new trait is "disciplined." 

As for the rest of the family, Max has a little sister named Dixie Mae who is such a crybaby! Very high maintenance. She's a toddler now and will be a child in a few days, so there's light at the end of the tunnel. Grover wants to have five children and he now has four (two from a previous relationship). I think once Dixie doesn't have one or the other tied to the house, Grover and Christy can go to the museum (which is really awesome - the best I've seen in any world, though the cultural one in Saaqartoq, where my Trump character lives, if pretty awesome too.) At the museum is a time machine, so they can try for a baby there and get a child, teen, adult, or elder child and not have to go through this baby nonsense again. 

Grover isn't very good at being a vampire. I was focused on other household members and he was fool enough to stay out in the sun too long. It dang near killed him, but didn't.  I kept him in indoors for several days - kept him busy painting, and he was nearly recovered, but while I was focused on other members of the household, he went to bed hungry and didn't wake up on his own to drink some plasma and died! Luckily, he had a death flower in his possession, so he's was allowed to return from the dead.

As for Christy, she has turned 4 Sims to vampires so far - she needs 5 to complete her lifetime wish, and she has several more Sims that she needs to drink from - she's about halfway there. She escaped the crying baby for an evening a whooped it up at the vampire lounge she and Grover own.

When I return to this world, I will try switching to one of Grover's older sons who isn't a vampire and explore some of these places I saw on the map.  It's time to switch games for now - to something that isn't so laggy.