The Email Challenge...Because Those Other Challenges Are Boring And For Wusses!

[kewian]

Thanks to the email challenge..Im in the middle of my very first burglary.  Ive had this game over a year and no burgulars and place one domestic situation with no walls or toilet and this is what you get!.. hee hee  ... I was just bitching about it earlier and now this..... This is too funny. The music freaked me out..never heard it before. 

[BlueSoup]

You've never had a burglary?  Wow, that is amazing.  I get them all the time!

Although, email is different because I took a page out of Pescado's book and I have someone awake at all times now. 

[kewian]

never had one... I guess it was just too much for my game and it sensed stupidity and sent me one..and this one was a real dork.. Dumb look on her face as she took the stuff.... crap..he had just saved some money too...grrr...

[BlueSoup]

Well, you lost the challenge.  Are you going to start again?

[kewian]

omg...youre right!!! damn it.. this was probably the quickest one yet...shit!!!  It was going so well ...damn it he just had a dream date and got engaged...lyes I suppose I will have to.....FAD......the one time I dont want a burgular and it shows up..but you cant put up an alarm......augh!!!..Well he ought to love this scenario....*kicks computer.... now it gives me a burgular.

[reggikko]

Reggikko uses stealthy means to avoid this issue.  Poor Kewian!

[Katze]

Kewian you not alone I lost one like that too, next time put a car on the lot with a burglar alarm on and that should stop the thief. 

[kewian]

hee hee  he couldnt afford a car.... and the money he got didnt even cover what he lost...augh..oh well back to t he sim bin for him.....Niina would have made a bad wife anyway..

[vecki]

"How exactly does a sim REFUSE to talk to the headmaster? You clicked on the headmaster and chose "Talk", right?"


Yep.  Repeatedly.  It dropped out of his queue every time.

That happened to me once.  It was like playing Sim Chasie with him.  Nobody could interact with the HM after the tour.  Not to talk, Schmooze, Call for Dinner, or anything.

[BlueSoup]

Why is it when you least want twins, you get them? 

I started another E-Mail lot, in addition to my first one, and I waited until the appropriate time for my founding lady, Morticia, to conceive a child.   She did, and then 3 days and 3 hours later, she gave birth to TWINS!  Arggghhh....

Meet Morticia, holding Wednesday:



And Pugsley:



(If you're wondering about the lighting, it's the Radiance lighting mod, from Gunmod).

[rohina]

I finally got another chapter of my email story up.
http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/mysimpage.php?user_id=797212

[Emma]

I think I'm going to try this challenge...looks pretty hard though! Mind you I suppose that's why it is called a 'challenge' 

[Rascal]

I loved your story Rohina.    You've done so well to keep it interesting for so long - I'm afraid I've gotten bored with my constantly meditating elders and haven't played them for a while.

[reggikko]

I loved your story Rohina.    You've done so well to keep it interesting for so long - I'm afraid I've gotten bored with my constantly meditating elders and haven't played them for a while.

That's my problem, too, Rascal. I am close to the end, but it is soooooo boring. Work, meditate, rinse, repeat.

[BlueSoup]

Just gotta push through, Reg.  So close now...

[rohina]

I have boring elders in who just float, go to work and f***, but I have all those other crazy sims running around, so it isn't boring. Only 95 more essays and 80-something exams, and then I can do the next chapter.

[Rascal]

Only 95 more essays and 80-something exams, and then I can do the next chapter.

  LOL!  Now I'm glad I don't have Uni!

[rohina]

Yes, but in Uni, you don't get to play the Professor, anyway.

[Torkle]

Objective: Finish a complete sim lifecycle from birth to death of the first generation

Automatically lose if no sims are in play at the end of the challenge

I need a clarification here - If your founder was a single mother and is long since dead and buried and finally the legacy heir dies of old age without ever marrying or having kids, did you complete the challenge successfully or lose automatically?

[Zeljka]

You need a live Sim on the lot (third generation)

Heir needs to produce at least one offspring, or that was my interpretation anyway...

[Kyna]

Have you considered marrying your sim on the last day of his or her life? 

Then there'd be a sim in play when the first generation dies off.

[Muisie]

BlueSoup, did you survive the twins?  Post your story!

[BlueSoup]

BlueSoup, did you survive the twins?  Post your story!

Actually, after I had the twins, I haven't been back to the lot.  I'm playing the families in rotation, and with all the new MATY Sims being added to the neighbourhood, it's hard to get back to them.  At some point, though, I'm going to just have to say enough, and stop adding more Self-Sims.

[dmchess]

I finally got another chapter of my email story up.
http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/mysimpage.php?user_id=797212

That's a great story!  The lots (and for that matter the characters) all look so (what?) so surreal.  And the Inner Cow bit was great.  *8)  And the final snapshot. 

And mostly there's so much more going on in your story than I had imagined just from reading the email rules.  I figured it'd just be like a nearly empty lot with no more than about three people alive on it at once just waiting for each other to die.  You've made it very crowded and complex and wierd.  And of course that's good. *8)

[rohina]

I think it is because I have never been able to play just one lot in a neighbourhood. I like the interactions between households so much, I just can't stick to one email family on one lot.