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Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Jul 12, 2011 | 2 comments

Grunt...Haven't been here for a while..been stupidly busy trying to sort out my game since Generations came out..Grunt.

I'm really quite disappointed. I was quite looking forward to Generations when it came out and I genuinely thought it would extend my playing into an area where I normally don't go..children and growing up. I duly read all the forum posts I could lay my hands on, and was fully aware of most problems when I installed, but since Generations has been installed my problems began to escalate. I installed into an existing game so I could carry on playing a character that I had been working on and setting up for family life and initially only had the photo bug. Thought I had got off lightly, in the bug department, as usual. Since then..I couldn't upload any lots because the game wouldn't generate thumbnails of the properties, going to China is a nightmare as it sticks and starts to an almost stop and I can play for a full 'real life' day to get three sims days (half and hour to sleep!!), when on vacation nearly every tomb has at least one archway that I can no longer walk through(had to delete a LOT of walls), routing is non existent in some place, it broke CAW so I had to reinstall, things disppear from inventory on the way home from trips, and the most noticable of all for me is the lack of clouds in my game now. You may think that isn't such a great problem, but since taking screenshots is one of my greatest pleasures, and I can't really take the same pics as before of the sky, it kinda sucks big time for me. I got so miserable about it i had to install sims 2! I don't know how or why it has affected my grahics..it's the same card that was there before Generations..no patch to fix any of these issues or other peoples issues seem to be in sight..and the same problems that were broke before Generations are STILL broke..so between Generations and the patch they brought out, WHAT EXACTLY WERE THEY SUPPOSED TO HAVE FIXED!!!? 

Grunt.

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Apr 30, 2011 | 1 comments

Here are a few more pics of my recently submitted lot...had loads of fun decorating this one, I don't usually go for bright colours..but I started with the fireplace (store bought), and the style of it just looks so great with patterns underneath..a lot of the patterns used to decorate this one are made by Annie_Leduc.

The rest of the pics are on with the submitted lot..not sure if it will be aprroved today or tomorrow (or at all!!) Hope you like it :-)

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Apr 23, 2011 | 2 comments

A bluebell for Jeanie. :-)

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Apr 22, 2011 | 0 comments

So, I managed to make a ghostly friend from the cemetary and take his picture..(one more for the photo collection) and I forget about him..then one day as my sim is drilling for gems etc, I get the 'lost a friend moodlet'(nobody seems to like the drilling noise)..so I have a look through the friend list..can't really see who it is..but I'm assuming it might be one of the ghosts as the cemetary is the nearest place to my house. Now, really I was assuming, (I know, silly of me) that drilling at 3am wouldn't bother the ghosts as they're already up and gone..but..No..my sim gets a visit from said ghost who decides that if he can't sleep in his 'grave' he'll sleep in my sims bed!!! How cheeky is that! I never knew that a ghost could invite itself into your home, without you (or your sim) knowing (she continued to drill until 7am) and then go and have a kip!!!

But it won't stop my sim drilling, the ghosts can complain about the noise all they want! :-)

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Apr 13, 2011 | 4 comments

I wanted to see where they go...instead of hanging around in the graveyard, they all seem to jump in their (not so ghostly) cars and speed off somewhere leaving my sim wondering how they are supposed to take pictures of more than one ghost at a time..so today I followed one..Basil somebody or other..in his car he got and sped off towards the town centre of SV..drove on past and parked up at an empty Sims house..obviously nobody lived there so I wasn't suprised when he didn't ring the door bell, but he did go round the back of the house and disappeared inside...does this mean that is where he used to live until EA bumped him off?

If I moved a sim into that house would they meet him or would he no longer go to the house? Hmm, questions, questions....

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Apr 10, 2011 | 5 comments

So, we're just about to get a new Expansion Pack...which is good, as I think we're overdue (aren't I greedy!), and it looks like it could be good one...but...Why are there still things in the game that Still don't work!? We all have a different style of play, but most of the little issues affect most people at some point....

Number One: Why is it still telling me that my game launcher isn't working? It is working..the game loads..I'm playing it..It's there in front of my face..yet it tells me nearly every time I play that it isn't! Which isn't too much of a bad thing, I know, but on my PC it logs every problem every time it happens..I have a log stuffed full of Launcher problems!!

Number Two: I want to play several families, this is supposed to be what the game is about (isn't it? the fact that the storyline continues?!) and if I do their houses disappear so it looks like I have an empty hood, which means: A: it looks Poo..and B: I can't take screenshots!! It's not my PC, it can handle all the graphics wazzed up, so why the disappearing lots..I've stopped playing multiple families bacause of this. (Boooo!)

Number Three: Barnacle Bay. I love it. I love the layout. But why all the celebs?! The celeb thing is ok if I want to play Bridgeport...I expect them..But Barnacle Bay? Is that why they've brought out a new version?? (Booo!)

Number Four: WA..the Adventure Boards (I've seen a lot of comments about this)..to be fair I only have a real problem with France at the moment..But I can't complete all the tombs..I tried moving my entire Sim Family and house to a new game..But now there are NO adventures!! PLease fix that EA, it's driving me nuts...

I'm sure that I could go on allllll day (but I'll sound like a whingey Cow!) but to be honest, the reason I keep coming back, time and time again..is that I love the Sims. I've been playing since Sims1 came out, and I've seen the changes and updates and it has got better and better with each version..but it would be nice if all those little niggly things, that seem to have been around for a while, were fixed..I'd love to play a perfect game :-)

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Apr 9, 2011 | 0 comments

Added a new Poll today...think the last one was a tad out of date!! Just not had time to do much of anything at all recently, but this is the first day of a weeks holiday where I shan't be doing much of anything apart from simming hopefully :-).

Ok, the results from the last Poll are below:-

Pancakes     31.82% (7)
Doughnuts     18.18% (4)
Cenci     4.55% (1)
King Cake     13.64% (3)
Krapfen     9.09% (2)
Festy Cock     4.55% (1)
Pea and Ham Soup     0% (0)
Semla     0% (0)
Other...     13.64% (3)
Nothing Special..same old, same old..     36.36% (8)

What I would really like to know is....Who was the one person who had Festy Cock?? Hmmm..I've checked the participants and I can't see anyone from Scotland, where the recipe originates from..so who are you? :-D We had no takers for Pea and Ham soup, and to be honest i wouldn't eat it either..bleh..peas..bleh....bleh, bleh..I was hoping to find a picture of Festy Cock on Google, but I found it almost impossible ;-) but I believe it's a pancake looking creation but it doesn't sound as tasty..I would also be interested what the 'Other' choices were..you can leave me a note in my GB if you like :-D I'm just being nosey to what people in the rest of the world do, eat, think etc..

So, the new Poll is a bit of a dull one, but I'm curious as to what might be peoples favourite colour..

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Feb 20, 2011 | 2 comments

Alrighty then..I've popped a new poll onto my minisite page..got bored looking at the last one..the results of 'Which is your favourite Expansion Pack?' are:-

World Adventures : 45.83%

Ambitions: 25%

Late Night: 54.17%

Base Game Simmers: 16.67%

So I guess most people are happy with Late Night. Is it the vampires? Or perhaps the clubbing to all hours of the morning? :-D

The new poll is about Pancake Day, or whatever it might be called in your part of the world, I know there are plenty of variations out there. It's going to be 8th March this year!!! What!! Why so late?!! I can't wait that long to eat pancakes!!(Although as my boyfriend keeps telling me, I can eat them whenever I like)(That is NOT the point!!) Anyway, can't wait..they are going to be covered in sugar, lemon juice and golden syrup...utterly dripping and oozing..Oh my, I'm salivating! Hang on while I just wipe the drool off my chin...

I've also uploaded another lot which will be out tomorrow and I've uploaded a new set of paintings which hopefully will be approved..

A set from Bridgeport. I'm hoping to get back into the swing of making them, and will make a set from each of the EA worlds. Hopefully they will be better than my previous efforts since the water graphics are better since Late Night and you can get some pretty good colours and effects.

Hope you like them.

Have a great week to come :-)

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Nov 10, 2010 | 0 comments

So I changed the Poll again..it was only meant to be a quickie and as Bonfire Night is now over until next year, I decided to put it away for another Poll. I was going to admit a chocolate related one..but, hey..I don't want it to sound like I'm a chocoholic or anything!! ;-) So here are the results of lst Poll....

Poll Result:
Question: Is your Sim having a Bonfire Night?

 The next one is 'which is your favourite expansion pack so far'..have to admit I like World Adventures best..I still haven't got bored of tomb raiding, and I STILL haven't found all the relics to make up the sets, I'm still looking for one last Dropa Stone..Now what I would like to see in a future game would be some use of the Gems..maybe some way of making them into Jewelery..each stone into earings or a necklace and maybe as a skill to be a jewelery maker..so you could sell them or just have your Sim wear them..I think that would be a very nifty idea :-) one can but hope...

Author: Peachybitz1 | Posted Nov 5, 2010 | 3 comments