Confessions of a Sims 3 Addict

 Since the last time I posted, Anastasia has continued her career as a fire fighter and adopted another cat: Mittens. Mittens is a yellow tabby and better behaved than Weskers seems to be - at least he doesn't jump up on the table and put his furry little head in Anastasia's pancakes. This is a huge world, and the fire station is way on the other end, so I added another closer to where Anastasia lives. It's on the edge of the big city, and shares the lot with a pub. Despite this station being closer and showing as her workplace in the map tags, when she gets picked up for work, she is always driven to the far one - probably because she went out there to apply for the job? I was having routing issues with the far one - the sims would go around back to enter the building, and would not use the stairs. They would go to the base of the stairs and just stand there. This building comes with elevators, but I discovered they won't use them to go to the upper floors unless they ...

 AL Island was created by Dylan Joyce, and he has invited us to jump in and playtest it for him. So here goes. Meet Anastasia Driscoll, a young adult just starting out on her own. She left her home town and moved to AL Island as her father's sister Lakeshia was living there with her family, and helped Anastasia secure a modest home near her own place.  Anastasia is flirty, a technophobe, a supernatural sceptic, a gatherer, and a cat person. She wants to be a firefighter, so after settling in, she will secure that job. The house she settled into is in a trailer park area, and the lot is called "Aunt Cindy." Note to Dylan: When I first started this world, I wasn't sure it was going to let me move in as there weren't any tags showing in the world. I wondered if I didn't have enough simoleons to purchase, so I used the freerealestate cheat and suddenly the tags were there. It turns out Anastasia had plenty of money for this beauty. Anastasia spent the first day fu...