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Something Always Goes Wrong

Oh my gosh!

If it's not one thing it's the other. I went to continue writing my stories the other day, so I tried to load sims 2 up. And that day of all days it decided it didn't want to work. I'll click on the icon and then the cursor will change to the spinning disc and then nothing. I watched the process of the game and just before it gets to 45,000K it just disappears.

Needless to say I was annoyed. I tried everything I knew to get it to try and work again, but nothing prevailed. My only option was to unistall the sims and then install it again and hope that that fixes everything. So I starting backing up my neighbourhoods which took 4 hours! Literally no over-exageration - my computer's slow - and I also moved all my custom content, which is easily in the thousands. And that took a while too. But I think I've found that it wasn't entirely the sims's fault, because my computer's been having problems and is extremely slow. So it's going to be wiped. All of it! Well except for some files that I'll put on an external hard-drive of some sort. But with all the frustration of this computer, (and the fact that it's shared) I'm going to buy my own computer. That will be all mine! I can't wait! My sims are going to look soo clear! Not to mention Call of Duty 5! I can't wait to play that game. Anyhoo with all the waffling stuff I mean to say that my stories are going to be delayed AGAIN! Until I get my new computer and install the sims 2 on it.

Anyhoo I hope you all are well,

Cya xox

Next set: castle-building!

I'm STILL making that dratted toilet!  Well, I've finished it, sort of - in a way.  It's finished, but not ready.  It needs other stuff, and it needs looking at to see if it really IS worth uploading.

I still seem to be in a ratio of 1 success to 60 failures with Sims 3.  Everything takes so long to perfect, but when you finally DO think you've made something good, it looks hideous in the game and you know you must do better - somehow (except it never happens).  It's been like that for weeks now.  My upload queue has remained empty whilst I toss mesh after mesh into the scrap folder.  I have been meshing night after night after night.  Nothing to show for it.

But I have finally made something that will soon be ready for release - and it's STILL not a toilet.  It's a mega-set of 23 castle-building pieces including large and small crenelation walls (that's the up-and-down-thingy-whatnot wall to you), some stackable turrets (cloned columns that conceal the necessary floor tile to make them stack), gothic leaded windows, castle defence windows, cloister doors and arches, portcullis door and arch, and a few decorative banners and flags to finish it all off...

I had made some crumbly stone steps too, but they didn't want to work properly at all.  Possibly a Workshop bug, but with recolourable stairs in the game, they're hardly essential now.

A big and special thanks to Arenaria who found me the very site I needed to make my arches more gothic and less Lego!  The doors and arches would not be anywhere near as great had it not been for the links she gave me, and it might have been another set joining my 'meh' pile. 

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I also have coming your way a whole heap of updates.  Hopefully, the site's automatic update alert system will kick in as the Colonial windows are updated so they display properly in neighbourhood view, the gravestones have improved sunshadows thanks to the wonder of the Workshop and its automatic shadows, and one lot that used the Colonials will also be uploaded with the revised windows.  You WILL need to patch your game if you haven't done so already, otherwise any new or updated items will not show in your game.

And that toilet IS finished.  It's in my game and working.  It's just lonely without other items.  Maybe I'll pop up a screenie so you can admire - or something.

Playing!

So happy to be getting the new expansion! Can't wait until finals are over and I can be more deticated to sims!

Shut Down

Thanks to a lovely virus on my main computer I temporarily cannot play The Sims 2, therefore I cannot create and summit any of my creations. As of now I have no idea when everything will be cleared up. Sorry if you were looking forward to new creations, hopefully things will be back and running ASAP.

Back & with a new story!

Hello everyone! Im back temporairly with a new sims3 story -"A troubled Marriage-Thornton & Morgana." I dont know why it hasnt posted up on the site link under 'stories'..? Maybe its something wrong with the site? But, Anyways just thought i'd share it here so anyone stopping by and interested will take a peak =) Im still fairly busy as the end of my college semester approches so i will update asap, promise! xoxo -Jari

Future projects

Now that i've finished the projects I initially wanted to do, I need to come up with a few new ideas.  Suggestions are of course welcome.  Although all I really have done is wall art and a t-shirt.

Not happy.......

Oh Noes, EA broke my game, after running the same istall of TS2 for years, yes years, with lots of cc and hacks and no problems, my TS3 game is a mess, some CC shows, some does not, mainly I miss Riverdale. I have done all I can, now I just wait for a patch to this last distastous patch and hopefully fix it. 

News

My waiting list

Which One is your Favorite?

xoxo

Its Great

Well, after all my moaning and whinging, i finally got WA on the 20th, so i've been playing for just over a week...and all i can say is 'Wow'...its great. There's a few niggly things about it (of course ;-))..the personal inventory changes every time my sims go or come back from an adventure, so I can't sort it into any kind of order at all because it keeps moving everything (and i like to have order!)..but on the plus side there are now chests that you can buy and bring home that can be used to store anything, so i've removed most of my jewels, paintings and rocks and put them in there(and they don't change the order either)...the whole issue with cooking a meal and it going off in the fridge too quick is a little annoying too...they've definately made the sky's graphics softer too, which is nice but you don't get any intense colours anymore(or at least I'm still looking for them)...but all in all, the best game ever...i'm a bit of a tomb raider kind of girl anyway, love it all on playstation(lara, drake, indiana), so i love the concept of delving in tombs and i love the collecting element too. I'm glad I don't mod my game at all because everyone has seemed to have had a lot of problems when the game updates through the launcher :-( ....

And just in case you're interested its raining again,( i think its rained every time i've blogged), and i think it may continue til next year ;-) ....(no surprise there then)..roll on christmas (and summer)...hope everyone's having a great weekend :-D

Plan of action is...

...in a bid to try and get more of my CC working, I'm going to uninstall and reinstall both Sims 3 and World Adventures then put my mods in little by little (I'm going to save the family I am currently playing with as well, of course) and see whether that works. I'm absolutely desperate to get my slider hacks working again because I feel really lost with making Sims without them. It's just not right. LOL!

Really excited because tonight is the night that I am going to be seeing Alice Cooper in concert. I'm dressed and ready really early and now, I'm kind of twiddling my thumbs and waiting for the next 45 minutes or so to disappear because then the taxi will be picking me and my Mum up to go and see him! Will have to keep pinching myself to make sure it's real - I'm trying so hard not to have a complete girly freakout about it! LOL!

Btw, I haven't made any CC and been a little sluggish in updating at the moment because I've been having some personal problems which have really taken the strength and the creativity out of me and I just havent had the energy nor the desire to even attempt at making a Sim or any clothes lately. I'm hoping that this concert tonight will help me feel a lot better and hopefully, I can start making CC again within the next day or two. Please still keep checking back on the page to see what's happening-something will appear eventually! LOL!