So sad, you really show all the sadness she could felt in horrible situation like this.
Now about house, love the floor you made in gaming room, it took a lot of patience to rotate and create so many circles but it looks great! But why do you have so big garden? And can you tell me what parts of dynasty rules you kept? I'm curious where the stories going so I'm looking for clues, he he, you keep me hooked up. Excellent job Joria!
Hi Anushka, Thank you for the kind words. I always appreciate knowing the story is read.
So big a garden just because I personally love gardening, (and am too handicapped to ever be able to garden again in RL), and it's something for her to do other than wander around. It is providing all the life fruit, death flowers, (and it was really hard to keep increasing those plants! Had to be vigilant and always revive the ones that get harvested so she had some to plant again, now has enough laid by in her personal inventory for all the immortals to be so those plants will now be allowed to go), and death fish. Yes, you CAN farm death fish! Before the coming of Late Night that ruined the ability to order omni plant seeds, I ordered them as often as I could so had a nice stash of them, (and still have a few unplanted). Of course, once they are gone they are gone, and I will only be able to acquire more by having a spouse achieve the highest in gardening, which Aurora did for a couple more seeds! You get several death fish back each time you feed an omni plant with the fish, so between actually fishing for them, and farming them, we have around one hundred of them in the refrigerator. I only fed the omni plant with perfect death fish so the refrigerator is full of perfect death fish and perfect life fruit. Of course, eventually they will die off and we will have to start fishing for them if the need arises. My plan was for the need to not arise but I can see where that might not be possible thanks to the LN bug against ordering more omni seed.
One of my dynasty will be a nectar maker so I am farming a lot more life fruit to make that so valuable nectar formula. We have also switched over many rows to the different grape varieties they got while in France. Cameron and Winter went there on one trip for the sole purpose of buying nectar makers and getting the rare grapes, which they did. Those few beginning grapes have now produced rows of grapes but they are still not at the perfect level yet. Only as high as Excellent. It takes a long time to bring a plant to the stage where the fruit is perfect. So I"m constantly removing and replanting plants to get them to the highest level. I still have to go to China to acquire cherries to plant for cherry trees. It is the one fruit I still don't have and that trip is going to happen soon.
Once I have over one hundred of each variety of perfect fruit and vegetable, steak, hamburger, eggs and cheese in my refrigerator those plants are allowed to die and not get replanted. My dynasty will always have perfect food to eat or make for challenges whether it is a spouse or Winter doing the cooking. (She rarely cooks now) The lesser quality is used for fertilizer and gets sold off.
As I acquire perfect fruit and vegetables, I pull out the less than perfect plants and replant with the perfect fruit or veggie, so eventually all I have is perfect things growing. Winter's super max was gardening, even though her lifetime wish, which she accomplished was to be a 5 Star Chef. Aurora also had that wish and has accomplished it as well as almost super maxing gardening. Remember, a spouse can do anything and it doesn't count against the immortal max and supermax.
The way I have been playing this dynasty in my head is to be so prepared from the early stages, there is almost nothing to do with the later immortals except have fun and build beautiful vacation houses in each country. They will be completely prepared with food, both made and ready to make and at the highest quality. Winter is the family cook and will be the only one preparing Ambrosia, and she is well stocked for the job. She also gardens because she seems to like it a lot, and occasionally goes fishing when she needs to get out of the house. Justin is the family portrait artist and sculptor. So the immortals are all set for their immortality needs with only these two generations. I need someone who can be handy, (since Cameron has passed away), to upgrade everything in the house. This will probably be a spouse at first.
I am very organized in some ways, to the point of taking more time to do a simple thing than most would. For instance I go through my fruit and veggies one by one so that I know what quality each is, and only the top gets replanted or put in the refrigerator. Of course, I had to start very low, but as things improved the lowest was sold off or used for fertilizer and the highest became more plants or part of a stash in the refrigerator. It is why it is taking me so long to accomplish what others have done in less than half the time. My own real life is a disaster of mess with my husband and child being so disorganized, (they can never find anything once it has left their hands!), so my Sims life is carefully controlled and organized, at least as much as they allow it with their free will! To give an example, my child is scheduled to go sing for the state officials at the capitol today. She will be doing a solo of Mozart's Alleluia from the Exultate Jubilate Mass, and sing other songs as well. This is a school thing. She left for school with my husband this morning, (he is to be a chaperone for the kids there), only to return in a dither because she could not find her music!!!, and Mozart is not one that can be easily spontaneously transposed to be in her range. They both hunted around the house for several minutes while the bus waited for them, (she is the only soloist), and finally found it in her dresser drawer! Now WHY would music be in a drawer full of clothing? Mine certainly would not be there ever, and if by chance it was, there would have been a very good reason for it and I would remember where it was and be prepared beforehand. (She sings a high soprano and we have her on You Tube at FanMom4Olivia if you want to hear her sing.
http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?feature=mhum Some songs are good but we left the early ones on so people can see her progress.)
As to what part of the dynasty rules I kept, I think I have kept them all but would have to go back and re-read them to make sure! Metro does a good job of updating them so maybe I should do that once again.
