LEPacy Challenge: Hello Riverview
LEPacy Challenge: Hello Riverview
I'm assuming it's because I play Sims 3 on a regular old laptop and have the Story Progression mod, but it seems the game starts to freeze frequently once I am in a town long enough for the old generation to pass away and the current generation to start producing children. The warning sign seems to be when the "town council" starts squawking about the lack of adequate housing for the population. I think too much starts happening in the town at that point. At any rate, usually moving to a new town fixes the problem, so goodbye Appaloosa Plains, Hello Riverview.
Stanley's family now consists of him, his wife Shasha, toddler Garrett, and infants Aretha and Gunnar. Add to this a roommate (not controlled by me) two adult dogs, and two puppies, and finding a house big enough is a challenge, even if the household has over 100,000 simoleons after selling the house and most of the furniture.
Usually when a households moves, I get a warning that I have to dismiss roommates, and I assumed that would happen this time, but Keebler was up for coming along with us, picked up Garrett while Stanley and Shasha each took one of the twins, and off they went! Keebler was then showing up in my portrait panel, but I still couldn't control him. I could use Master Controller to merge him with the family, but I kind of liked letting him have free reign. However, after a few Sim days, he suddenly became a full-fledged member of the household, and I could control him. I'm not sure why it happened that way, but I'll roll with it.
The family settled into a yellow house on the outskirts of town, called Sunny Acres. It has three bedrooms and a garage that looks like a barn.
I remodeled the garage into a studio apartment for Keebler as Stanley needs to get two more children and will need all the rooms in the house for the immediate family. The house came with plumbing problems, which Stanley, who has fixed enough plumbing issues that when he fixes things they don't break again, took on the challenge. I haven't done much with the house yet, except drop some sparse furnishings and three dog houses and food bowls.
Stanley has adopted a new boy. He did this shortly after autonomously playing catch with little Travis McDermott outside the fitness club. Garrett was still a toddler, and Stanley was thinking how nice it would be to have a boy old enough to play catch with. Stanley is "good," so adopting made sense. Also, I am quite done with babies and toddler after trying to take care of three at one time! I don't know how those who do the 100 baby challenge can find it fun. Poor Shasha was stuck at home a drudge for the better part of her young adult life. She will be aging up very soon to the adult stage.
The boy that was adopted is named Greg. He is an over-emotional cat person who is a whiz at computers.
This is him in the cowboy outfit going home with his classmate, Tatianna, after school. If Greg becomes the heir, he will marry, have two kids, be a freelance scientist (which goes quite well with the computer whiz thing) take a lot of photos of himself and his family and display them, and live his trait (taking every opportunity that goes with a particular trait that comes along.) His wife will be an artist.
Garrett and the pups have also aged up. Even though the pups were born at the same time, they aged up a day apart. Stinkle aged up first, then Winkle aged up on Garrett's birthday. Garrett's birthday was action-packed. First the cake caught the house on fire (which was the first time this happened for me.)
Shasha promptly took the hungry Garrett to the other room where he aged up with no audience. Meanwhile Shasha's phone began ringing, and the fire department began to arrive. (For some reason, Stanley would not put out the fire when I told him to.) Then a few minutes later Winkle aged up. I was worried the computer would freeze up and crash with so much going on at once, but moving to Riverview seems to have done the trick as far as fixing this problem.
Pink arrow: house on fire; blue arrow: Shasha's phone ringing; green arrow: Garrett aging up. (He got the evil trait); orange arrow: Winkle fixin' to age up.
As mentioned earlier, Shasha had twins just before the move. The boy is named Gunnar. If he becomes heir, he will marry and have two kids. He will become a firefighter (which will require Ambitions to be the next pack) His wife will be an Inventor. They will move to a new town (which they would probably have to do anyway), and either Gunnar or his wife will need to be a "fighter" picking a fight or starting a brawl once a week. Gunnar's traits so far are genius and artistic.
The girl's name is Aretha. If she becomes heir, she will marry and have two kids. She will be a video game designer (topping out Nerd social group) and build on to her home (which all tend to do anyway). One of her traits will be passed down to both her children. So far she is easily impressed and a slob.
As far as Stanley's goals go, he needs to take 4 more classes, adopt one more child, learn to cook cheese tofu steak (Keebler's favorite food), cookies (Greg's favorite food), fruit parfait (Aretha's favorite food), and dim sum (Garrett's favorite food) I don't know how that will happen without World Adventures being the next pack. So far Gunnar is the only kid that would need a different pack to make his life goals work. I may have to choose one of the others as the heir.
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