SimCityGallery wrote:

She's quite pretty as an adult. A red head with nice features.

Hah, just like Sally! Hence, I suppose, the attraction of the egregious bonus pictures. *8)

SimCityGallery wrote:

I've been on a kick of aging down elder NPC's to see what they looked like as adults. No elder nannies left, only adult aged babysitters now.

Is that using the new NL thing-aging function? Something I look forward to playing with in the far-distant future when I install NL and start using more cheats...

(So, post a few pictures of them adult babysitters!)

DC

Yes, I've been playing with the NL age cheat. I've also downloaded the Mind Control Mirror and have been using that to spruce up my townies and NPC's by making them use the mirror to fix their hair and makeup. It's a better looking crowd I have now.

I'll try to get around to posting some pictures. I've been working on a big update that I have done now but need to take pictures of that and get it up on the website. Taking pictures is my least favorite part of having a website. I love to make new stuff....hate to take pictures of the stuff.

-SCG

The Townie Project Part 7
Home at Last: Arrival at Casa Townie

Shortly after everyone was at the bus stop, the notional bus arrived, and after a short trip south (have to post a neighborhood map someday, although it's a pretty boring and randomly-scattered map compared to some I've seen) the eight Project members were outside their New Home.


Rather overwhelmed by the size of the place
A nice facade, if I do say so myself. Melissa is discussing sex with Christy, Joe and Remington (who somehow got a baby foisted off onto him during the bus trip) are admiring Melissa, and Arcadia is saying cootchy cootchy to the baby that Mitch is holding.

The Townie Project Part 8
Mitch and Christy choose rooms

The Project members got to choose rooms in their order of seniority in some vague ill-defined sense having to do with when I recall each one first interacting with a controllable. Christy Stratton, Sally's first love, went first.


The ground-floor bedroom with the front balcony
She seems pleased.

And then Mitch.


The other ground-floor bedroom, next to the temporary nursery
No furniture or fixtures to speak of yet. But a promising place to start a challenging life.

The Townie Project Part 9
Melissa and Arcadia

Melissa chose the big upstairs bedroom overlooking the street.


"Hey, nice; would have been my first choice!"
Good view, semi-private bath.

And Arcadia chose the one overlooking the back yard.


Quiet and private.
This puts the two female Romance sims in adjacent bedrooms. Hm...

The Townie Project Part 10
Joe and Remington

Joe Carr and Remington London weren't too overjoyed at being stuck with the smaller second-floor bedrooms.


Well, nice paneling anyway.


"The smallest bedroom in the house, with a bump in the wall for the stairs, and no bathrooms nearby. Pheh! And why am I holding this baby?"
We're thinking of converting Remington's room into a bathroom, and making him an attic or basement bedroom. Maybe.

The Townie Project, Part 11
Upstairs, downstairs

After claiming her bedroom, Christy explored the farther reaches of the house.


"Whoa, enormous attic!"
I've never played a house with an attic before. Do I build walls and stuff up here, or what?


Big basement, too.
I figure we'll keep like career rewards down here. And maybe Remington (heh heh). The door on the left leads to some steps to the backyard; no one's been out there yet.

The Townie Project, Part 12
Daily Life

The Project members (Projecties?) quickly bought some basic furniture and fixtures although much of the place is still pretty bare, and got down to the business of daily life.


Culture: Joe painting in the upstairs gallery.
Wouldn't mind having a space like that in my house!


Work: Mitch and Arcadia off to the carpool.


Play: Melissa being silly.
Avast!


Social life: Eleanor Raptor, over for a visit, plays chess on the deck.
Good thing Neighborhood One has no indecent-exposure laws, or the detective and the police chief there might have had to take action.

The Townie Project, Part 13
House plans

And to make the above perhaps more comprehensible, here are some views of the house itself, shortly after the moving in.


The Attic
Nothing to see here yet.


Upstairs
Gallery in the center, overlooking the ground-floor main hall. Top left, the future TV and rec-room, with fireplace and stereo. Bottom left, Joe Carr's room, and Remington London's just to the right of it (oh, is that where that thinking cap went!). Top right, Arcadia Bradshaw's room; bottom right, Melissa Fancey's (with Melissa, or possibly Eleanor Raptor, asleep in the bed). Between them the shared bath (I think that's Arcadia, or perhaps Melissa, getting into the tub) and a little common room with a bass. A common hallway connects all that to the gallery. (Joe Carr is visible on the front deck, one level down, skilling at the chessboard.)


Downstairs (taken a few days after the others)
Top left, obviously, the kitchen, with a bathroom just below it and a little reading nook (where the Townies love to hide from me) just below that. Just to the right of those, the dining room, with fireplace, piano and sliding doors out to the balcony (and Mitch having a late dinner). In the center the Main Hall, with various niceties (and at the moment lots of toddler items, including Dawn Raptor herself), and the stairs leading up. Top right, Mitch Lawson's room; bottom right, Christie Stratton's. In between them the bathroom, and the temporary nursery (with a sleeping Rose). I'm not sure where the twins will sleep when they get bigger; maybe they'd like a basement or attic room. Again a hallway connects the various rooms on this side, and from this hallway stairs lead to the basement.


The Basement
Nothing down here but a punching bag and a hydroponic garden, both so far unused. Plenty of room for expansion, though! Steps (for some reason not visible in this shot) lead from the door at top-center out to the so far entirely empty back yard.

And that's it!

Later, probably: the Romance Sims fall in love with various and sundry, and Rose and Dawn become toddlers.

SimCityGallery wrote:

I'll try to get around to posting some pictures.

Urge, urge! *8)

SimCityGallery wrote:

I've been working on a big update that I have done now but need to take pictures of that and get it up on the website. Taking pictures is my least favorite part of having a website. I love to make new stuff....hate to take pictures of the stuff.

Doing a backup today I noticed that there are like 6600 files in the Neighborhood One Storytelling directory. With the thumbnails that's two per picture, of course, and there are some random non-picture files, but say 3000 pictures in the roughly six months that I've been playing the game comes out to an average of, what, like seventeen pictures a day? For six months! Sheesh. *8)

Of those three thousand I've uploaded a mere 700 or so to the Web; I'm so restrained!

(Of course taking pictures of specific objects to put on one's real live Sims 2 website is different from just taking snapshots of what the Sims are doing as I play...)

DC

Last night, I put half of the update up on the site then went in game to take pictures of the other half to put up tonight. I snapped you a picture of an adult Kendal Lawson which I should also have up some time tonight so I can link it here.

I've been having problems with my back again which makes sitting or staying in any position for very long....extremely painful. I have Vicodan left over from my back surgery in January but if I take that....I'm asleep in about 15 mins. That's with taking 1/2 a pill that I split in half. I'm such a light weight when it comes to medication. So getting anything done has become challenging. Hopefully, my Marine will be able to be here for the holidays. He does a great job with my back and might be able to get it fixed good enough that I can move around better. I look outside at all that wonderful skiing snow and just drool. Finally, the perfect snow to get my skiis out of the closet and I can't do it.

-SCG

Ouch! I hope your back calms down, and your Marine arrives. Your site has so much marvelous stuff that I'm just being greedy asking for lots of pictures too. In the meantime tell me what you like about my pictures, and I'll try to do more of that! *8)

DC

Here is one of my now adult Nannies. This a now more youthful Kendal Lawson with one of her young charges. I believe that toddler is Paris Conner, daughter of the once dead Rainelle (found the tombstone in the Downtown area). Barbie Wallpaper in the background is available from The Sim City Gallery for Sims 2.



By DC's request from SCG

SimCityGallery wrote:

Here is one of my now adult Nannies. This a now more youthful Kendal Lawson with one of her young charges.

Cool! And she still performs all the usual Nannyish functions and all?

If you change a nanny to Young Adult in University, she still works as a nanny but she doesn't leave the house. Another elderly nanny will arrive on the next cycle.

That's how Nanny Penelope ended up graduating from college and marrying Alexander.