A World of Ideas

So many random thoughts floating around in my mind that I want to share regarding my sims.  Hopefully to avoid large walls of text, I will split them up into several different posts.   First before I start on any tangents  I want to say that Summerset Bay plays beautifully. I've done moderate tweaking, which I will show off another day, perhaps tomorrow.  Today though, I'd like to talk about other worlds.  As I have been playing Summerset Bay I've been thinking, (I know, don't hurt myself) but, I have been thinking on other worlds. I really don't have any intention of starting new world projects soon.  Though, I've come to realize that for most simmers a large part of our fun is the creating of new anythings.  Which leads me to Hidden Springs.

New Summerset Bay

Baring any unforeseen major glitches or forgotten items, I want to say the New Summerset Bay is complete. In some ways this I feel this project progressed quickly and in some ways I feel as though I've been working on this world much longer. There were times I had a ton of fun sculpting and there were times I just felt as though I was beating my head against a brick wall.

Bug Testing... Literally

The last few days I've been playtesting and bug fixing my new world.  Bug fixing literally.  As I have played Maggie, my play test sim, I noticed a problem in her rounds to collect gems to fund her equestrian dreams. I have seen absolutely no butterflies. None, not even one. That is strange, that's more than strange.  I did notice I had an inordinate amount of small animals.

Character Inspiration

Several posts ago I went on a rant concerning the differences between personality in the Sims 2 vs Sims 3. Creating unique and interesting to play sims has always posed a challenge for me. I always tend to either create the same character over and over again. Such as a family oriented, green thumb sim who's a natural cook with a husband that's athletic and handy. Or I make someone so completely boring to play it becomes a chore to load that family. So, I've worked on developing a system that works for me in regards to creating fun and interesting sims.

Try, Try Again

Not long after I completed Summerset Bay I realized it wasn't exactly what I envisioned my world looking like.  Most of this was because I was learning CAW as I went.  There was so much I had to learn.  One of the biggest problems I had was sculpting the world.  I'm not very good with carving out hills, valleys, and painting terrain.  Those things as I've come to discover require practice, lots of practice.  As a result I had a very very flat world with not much in the way of interesting geological formations.

Characters, more than skin deep

So, I'm sure it seems as though I had forgotten all about this blog.  Truth of the matter is that life was busy and I haven't had the motivation to actually post.  I know I said before that life had quieted down, but I was wrong.  I'm beginning to realize that life never quiets down.

Summerset Isle

October was a good month and a bad month for me.  With all the other things going on I didn't have much time for simming.  When I did get to Sim,  I didn't take pics and I definitely didn't have the focus to put together a post.  All of that being said, life has quieted down to a dull roar.  So many new things have happened in my Sim world that I'm not sure where to start.  Start at the beginning you say, well that's a fine idea.