04 May 2011 @ 02:07 pm
BaCC Week 3: The Picklethorpe/Lovelace Family  
Seeing as this household got merged halfway through the week, it's a double update for today :) Took me bloody ages to get done as well, Photobucket is getting increasingly less cooperative lately...

Arthur does just swimmingly in the community. He's found acceptance, friendship, a job, and he thinks Violet sort of considers herself his girlfriend nowadays. He's happy enough about that, but not entirely sure what he's expected to do about it.






Serenading her seems to have positive results, at any rate.

Arthur: "~~ When the mooon hits your eeeye like a big ball of cheeeeese, that's amoooreeee! ~~"
Violet: *swoon*



At least she's happy enough to listen to him talk about Grilled Cheese. To Arthur, that's a sure sign that he's finally found his soulmate.



Arthur: "Come here, my little piece of Gorgonzola..."



Smooth :D



I'm not sure if you can see it well in this picture, but during their date, Violet rolled the want to marry Arthur. (She skipped wanting to get engaged - maybe she's in the mood to elope?) That settles it, Violet and Arthur are now officially a couple :)



Back at the Lovelace residence, Violet has decided she'll try and make some money writing restaurant guides. They sell very badly, probably because she's making them all up. There are no restaurants in town, after all. Still, some morons will buy anything and she does get some meagre royalties off them.



Violet also took Grilled Cheese as her secondary aspiration, in order to understand Arthur better. They spend many a happy hour together sampling different sorts of grilled cheese sandwiches. It's a good thing they've both got a great metabolism.



Arthur: "It seems a bit silly to keep visiting eachother like this. We could, uhm, you know."
Violet: "Could what?"
Arthur: "Uhmm... well, if you wanted to, you could maybe, you know. M-move in with me?"



Arthur's little house needed a few extensions to make it fit for two people to live in.



The little shack at the back of the house serves as a place to store the games Violet brought along. What with remodelling the house, the couple's joint funds have been depleted, and Arthur's salary alone isn't going to fund the clothing store that Violet wants to open. So Violet has been set up with all the requirements she'll need to get a job in the Gamer career.



Violet practising her leet skills. :B



Her sewing machine was set up in the new bedroom. Here, she's at work crafting a new outfit that Rose requested. You'll see it in one of the next updates :)



Arthur: "I know Nate, this is the third time this week Davin's stolen your newspaper. I'm really sorry but... What? No, of course I don't have any prejudices just because you're undea... ALLRIGHT, just because you're 'differently alive', you just have to understand that there's very little that I can... I'm sure you didn't mean that Nate, I'm going to hang up now and let you cool off, allright? I'll have a word with Felix and I'm sure that... NATE! Language!"

Arthur's got a tough job.



Violet and Arthur make a good team. While Arthur does his best to clean up the garden, raking up all the leaves in neat little piles...



...Violet takes it on herself to play around in them the next morning :)



Violet: "Wheeeeee!"



Arthur: "Uhm. Violet... You make me so happy. You... you are the delicious, molten cheese to my grilled toast."



Arthur: "And there's something I've been m-meaning to ask you..."



Arthur: "Violet Lovelace..."



Arthur: "Would you marry me?"



Of course she would ^^





Getting fired on your second day of work? I guess the Gamer career just wasn't her thing.



At least Violet finds comfort in Arthur's arms. Or well, by having him in her arms. It's pretty clear who wears the pants in this relationship. Not that Arthur minds in the slightest :D

Ahw, Cheesy Love...


Next up: The Greengrass Family! Hope you enjoyed the update :)
 
 
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[identity profile] krolowa-francji.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 01:31 pm (UTC)
I know I sound like a broken record, but Arthur is so adorable.

I love the voices you give your sims :D the telephone conversation cracked me up.
It's funny how sims decide for themselves what they want to be, simmer be damned, right? With four nice points, Davin decided to be the resident asshole. This game is full of wonders.
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 01:34 pm (UTC)
Oh absolutely, I expected Arthur to want to talk about Grilled Cheese all the time and become quite unpopular, but the opposite happened. I fully expected all my Sims to get turned off by Nate and shun him, but he potters along quite happily in the community.
I suppose they develop their own personality in time, and it's beyond the player's control how exactly they're going to turn out :) I really like it that way.
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[identity profile] pinkthistles.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 01:54 pm (UTC)
"..You... you are the delicious, molten cheese to my grilled toast."
hehe I love Arthur's cheesy self and his phone conversation was hilarious!
Its always interesting to me seeing how other people play. Arthur rakes the leaves and Violet plays in them! Its cute.

Oh did I ever enjoy the update :D
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 02:12 pm (UTC)
Glad you enjoyed it! :) Arthur's a very cheesy romantic ^^
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[identity profile] greygoldgriffin.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 01:57 pm (UTC)
Aw, I'm so pleased Arthur and Violet got together; they make a lovely couple! Looking forward to seeing the wedding footage.

Also wanted to say I'm having great fun with my BaCC which I've just started. I think your rules are a big improvement on the originals too. I've reworked a couple of them just to fit my play style but it makes total sense for the founder to work in Politics and unlock things according to level and other criteria, so thank you for posting them :)
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 02:13 pm (UTC)
Glad to hear you're having fun! Could I ask which rules were modified? Mine haven't been playtested after all so I'd love any feedback on them :)
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[identity profile] greygoldgriffin.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 04:08 pm (UTC)
Sure, they aren't big changes and most of them have come about because of my laziness rather than any failings or difficulties with your rules :)

Instead of using empty hood templates, I've just used TwoJeffs visitor controller to ban townies from my five original residential lots. I haven't got there yet but I will allow townies on any home lot that starts a home business as I have no playable shoppers, and I want the home businesses to have some customers. Hopefully this will limit the townies to three potentially at business rank one. And their only purpose will be to buy stuff, so no making friends will be allowed outside the scope of making them spend their money. I'm rationalising this by imagining the passing trade is explorers, travellers etc.

I reduced the dice roll for a creature sim to 1 in 6 rather that 50/50 odds, but unfortunately that meant I didn't roll any supernaturals in my hood - d'oh! I'm tempted to try and include them as part of unlocking more of the restrictions like the Paranormal career but I think I need to have a longer think about that.

I've also banned pet careers, only because it is one aspect of the game that I always ignore. I figure that missing out on pet career money will just make it a bit more difficult.

No really a rule change but more of an interpretation is that my primary money sources at this early stage (week 1) are digging for treasure, and selling harvestables, paintings, craftables and fish. I was unsure whether to allow the selling via buy mode or 'sell' option as technically I wasn't sure who they'd be selling to but I decided that I was being too picky and all goods/craftables etc. could be seen as barterable goods and so it makes no difference whether the taxes are paid by actual simoleons or by goods to the value of.

Oh and I decided to limit the purchase of buy mode items to reflect that they are living in the middle of nowhere and don't really have access to stores, so any purchases are effectively mail order and should be done sparingly.
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 04:17 pm (UTC)
Oh, I hadn't considered using the visitor controller to block the townies - that's actually a good idea. However when I used it I found some NPC's get banned from a lot by default, so you have to pull it out on every single lot to set the allow/not allow. I might give it another whirl, though.

I don't play with creatures enough, so I made the 50/50 chance to get some variety ^^ Really a matter of taste.

I don't really use pet careers either, but in case anyone wants em, they're there.

I like the early stage money sources, more added realism :) If you want to go for really really pernickity realism I guess you could prohibit selling into nowhere altogether, but with so few customers at the start that'd be really quite difficult. Just different flavours of playing.

Limiting the purchase of buy mode items is another great idea, but I'm not entirely sure how I could put that in ruleformat :) I really like it though.

Nice to hear about your take on it, so thanks! :)
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[identity profile] greygoldgriffin.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 04:37 pm (UTC)
Yes, I had to set up the visitor controller on each lot but as there were only five, and I set up the lot sync timer and made sure I had my bat box and sim blender on each lot too, it didn't take too long. It probably would have taken me longer to fiddle about with the clean templates, so I think of it as my lazy girl option :)

Yes, the limiting of buy mode would be difficult to include as a rule. Maybe allowing one day a week for purchases and limiting items to those in the wants panel on the given day? I don't know, I think you're right, it should be more of a player decision based on gameplay style.

Thanks for taking the time to post the rules and updates on your BaCC. I bet you've inspired quite a lot of people to have a go :)
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[identity profile] selenaq13.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 02:06 pm (UTC)
I love Cheesy love, and these two are perfect together. If only all sim couples could be so lucky.
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 02:41 pm (UTC)
I hear you on that one... *foreshadowing of doom*
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[identity profile] katee412.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 02:39 pm (UTC)
Arthur and Violet are just gorgeous together :D
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 02:53 pm (UTC)
I do love them as a couple as well :) So cute ^^
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[identity profile] simcerly.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 04:14 pm (UTC)
So sweet! So is Rose living all alone now or did I miss her moving in with someone?
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 04:20 pm (UTC)
She is for now... :)
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[identity profile] niloublue.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 04:37 pm (UTC)
Yay for some Cheesy Love! I really like these two together and the last picture made me squee! :D
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[identity profile] nepheris.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 05:45 pm (UTC)
They are damn cute ^^

That sim in your icon is gorgeous, btw :)
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[identity profile] pnkpnthr334.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 05:45 pm (UTC)
Very cute!!! :D
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[identity profile] imawsume.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2011 07:03 pm (UTC)
D'aaaaaaaaaaaaaw! How cute! And exciting! Cheesy love is cheesy and adorable! :D
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[identity profile] autumnsaccord.livejournal.com on May 7th, 2011 06:11 am (UTC)
"You... you are the delicious, molten cheese to my grilled toast." <----I refuse to marry any man who doesn't proposed to me as such. :D Such a sweet update! <3
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