Sims 4 rambling

[beesknees]

I don't play video games any more so much as try to get my mods to behave together. I've started quite a few entries this way, haven't I?

Anyway, I picked up the Strangerville expansion pack on the Steam sale and re-installed the Sims 4, which meant killing an hour remembering the mods I had in place before the last patch and then re-tweaking all the settings. Earlier this year after playing with Wonderful Whims for a while (solid mod, recommended for giving romance and reproduction any level of individuality), I'd switched back to Wicked Whims and dug into the settings for the auto-censor blur, and less-creepy more-cute animations packs for when the kids aren't looking over my shoulder.

That's as close as I can get to the old ACR and NRAAS setups in 2 and 3...it's a bit dull when your Sims aren't autonomously chasing ugly NPCs that make you go <I>aaaaargh</I> for the family gene pool and then they turn out to be fun gameplay additions, you know?

Anyway, for some reason on this installation, all the characters were stuck on perma-birth control (I mean, good for them! responsible NPCs!), which was a bit of a pain given the one I was playing (Lola Curious) had just settled down with an absolutely hideous mailman and wanted to get pregnant. While I was fiddling with the mod settings to see if I could remove the perma-birth control, Daniel Pleasant knocked on the door and pretty much insta-seduced Lola's sister Chloe; a pop-up appeared warning that Chloe could be pregnant...and of course she was.

There was a two-minute window in which they could make a series of terrible decisions, and they jumped in with both feet! So on-brand for those idiots!

I wouldn't actually lose much gameplay if I revert to a previous save, but this was clearly a disaster meant to happen. Poor MarySue. Maybe I can find her a pizza delivery person with a great personality.

Comments

[porkwithbones]

Oh, this sounds outstanding. First thing I’ve read that makes me want to try Sims 4.

[beesknees]

Hah! Oh boy, if you do I'll happily point you to all the mods I use, or share my Sims 2 save with all the old families in place. They are so right when they say that, as is, Sims 4 is an ocean wide and a thimble deep, barely functional and (worse) boring!

[laridian]

Man, that makes me want to dig out Sims 2 and do that all over again, except like you say *all the mods*.

[beesknees]

ooooo my god the mods. This consistently keeps me from playing any game I haven't fired up in a while, because I definitely did not keep good enough notes and links as to how I got a game shambling along to start with.

I also miss Sims 2, though. It was really the peak of the franchise. Hence why I've rebuilt it in Sims 4, I guess!

[kuroiyousei]

This made me laugh. I wish we could get the whole world (at least temporarily) stuck on permanent birth control! Make it take effort to not use it instead of to use it!

[beesknees]

Lol...so true! It was like, you're all so responsible and sex-positive, great! ...could you maybe be a bit more chaos-goblin to shake this up?