Sims 2: we get by with a little help from ACR

[sheelal]

Around here I decided to stop using the built-in capture feature of the Sims 2 and start using the built-in capture feature of Mac OS 10.6. It’s a little more involved than just hitting C during the game (F10 to make the menus vanish, Command+Shift+4, spacebar, click on the window, F10 to bring the menus back), but if everything’s ready and the game is paused, there’s really no excuse when the result is guaranteed to be higher res, if nothing else.

There’s probably a better way to do it than that. Hence the test legacy: I can try out anything I want to, whenever I want to.

Speaking of the test legacy…

We return to our intrepid heroine test legacy founder, who is doing not too badly by herself. She found a Ming Vase buried in her backyard. That’s enough to buy some walls and a cheap roof!

…and a bookcase, which is what she cared the most about. Sigh. Knowledge Sims.

Anyway. Remember Grant? The walkby guy that totally DOES NOT LIKE THE MOON?

Once you get past the moon thing, he’s an okay guy. Even though Babette meant to invite Charlie over, and Charlie just kind of… brought him along.

He also turned out to be more receptive to flirting than Charlie was.

Much more receptive.

Seriously, look at them! Were you expecting this from I HAET TEH MOON guy? Yet they were getting absolutely nowhere, relationship-wise. Just being really, really cute at each other.

Then I realized I’d forgotten to spawn an ACR adjuster on the lot. Whoops. The moment I corrected that, this happened:

Wow, ACR. You don’t waste any time, do you?

I decided to have Grant move in, since he’s a generated townie and almost sure to have an income, which would definitely help. Besides, legacy requires babies and babies with one adult Sim on the lot is crazymaking.

I didn’t realize that Grant had a fucking great job until he moved in. Level 6 Medical!

Agh, a chance card. I always seem to get these wrong. I could just hit “ignore” and stay safe, but… well, if he gets fired, it’ll become a poverty challenge again, kind of. Check them all in, Grant!

….holy shit, that was the right answer. Well! I guess he still has a job after all!

Tune in next time, when… hopefully babby is formed.

Mirrored at Sheelal in the Sims 2.