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[Abandag]

I just experienced the most frustrating wedding I've ever had in the Sims.  I haven't had that many, but before today, they've all gone off without a hitch.  I'll give you a little back story:

Jackson Dagger was an adventurous sim, spending much more time in foreign countries than in his hometown of Twinbrook.  The loner somehow managed to befriend high schooler Jade Greenwood, and the two started a romantic relationship as soon as Jade graduated.  Jackson and Jade Dagger (I love that name!) moved into a fancy new home with plenty of room to spare, so as soon as Jade's little sister became a young adult, the couple asked Emerald Greenwood to move in with them.

Eventually Jackson and Jade had a son, Trent.  Emerald was working her way through the Law Enforcement ranks.  Everything was going great.  One day, on a whim, Jackson decided to summon a mummy from a sarcophagus in the basement.  Adam (the mummy's name was much longer and more complex, but I just called him Adam because that's what the first four letters of his name spelled) and Emerald hit it off right away.  Emerald was reluctant to start a romantic relationship with someone she couldn't have children with, so Adam spent a couple of nights sleeping in a Blessed sacrophagus, and he became a normal sim.  Unfortunately, Adam was an elder sim, and he was afraid Emerald wouldn't love him.  So while she was at work the day of Adam's transformation, Jackson gave Adam a potion that would "de-age" him.  Emerald couldn't have been more delighted with the new Adam.  It was about this time when Jackson and Jade had their second child, a little girl named Diamond.

Things were getting hot and heavy between the lovebirds, and soon Adam was popping the question.  Jade planned the perfect wedding for her little sister and her fiance, right in their own backyard.  But things didn't turn out as planned.

The decided on an evening wedding, so Jackson could make a nice vegetarian lobster thermador for the occasion.  Most of the day was spent in relaxation, with Adam watching TV with Jackson, and Jade helping Emerald try on wedding dresses.  The only two guests were Jade's and Emerald's parents, Oliver and Holly Greenwood, who showed up at about 5:30.

Things started going wrong as soon as Jackson called everyone to dinner, which was soon after the Greenwoods arrived.  Trent needed to use his potty chair, which was upstairs in his room (he had been brought downstairs earlier in the day).  So Jade tended to Trent while Jackson tried to keep everyone entertained until the actual wedding ceremony.  At some point Adam decided to go down to the basement to fix some drinks.  Unfortunately the floor hygienator at the bottom of the basement stairs misfired and made Adam sick.  Jackson had a moodlet manager, so Adam went back upstairs to get cured.  Just before the wedding was about to start, Mrs. Greenwood decided to change into her bathing suit and play in the sprinklers.  Jackson had to go tell her to stop, so the could get the wedding started.  Jade decided to take this opportunity to go feed Diamond, who was getting hungry.

I thought things were finally getting back on track, but alas, I was wrong.  Emerald had disappeared!  After some searching, she was found in the basement, just standing around.  At least she didn't get sick.  But she was getting sleepy, as was everyone else on the lot.  To save time, Adam decided to start the wedding, hoping Emerald would make her way outside.  She did, but so did Jade, who for some reason hadn't fed the baby yet.  Diamond was very hungry by this point, but Jade didn't seem to be able to make up her mind whether she should feed her starving baby or watch her sister get married.  (The choice was obvious to me:  feed the kid!  But Jade didn't want to listen.)  So eventually Jade fed Diamond, missing the entire wedding.  She probably would have laughed at her mother attending the ceremony in her swimwear.  Jackson decided to whip out his moodlet manager again and cure some sleepy sims.  He should have remembered to cure himself, but that comes later. 

Well, maybe Jade could make the cake-cutting.  Checking in on Trent, who had been playing with his imaginary friend, Patches, showed that the cake-cutting would have to wait for Jade.  Trent was tired and cranky.  Jade hoped she could quickly put him to bed and make it downstairs for a slice of cake.  Jade must have been feeling guilty about missing the wedding, because she decided put Trent down (on the floor!) and go get some cake.  A certain voice in her head tried to get her to cancel this action and attend to her son first (several times).  And now Diamond has to have her diaper changed, and Jade is close to exhaustion.  Where is Jackson with that moodlet manager?  Oh, yeah.  While attention was on Jade and Trent, Jackson finished his cake and decided to go to bed.  Well Jade wasn't having any of that!  Jackson got  out of bed and took care of Trent while Jade dealt with Diamond's dirty diaper.  Luckily Adam and Emerald weren't behaving quite as stupidly.  Adam cleaned up the dirty cake dishes, while Emerald decided to go check out stuff on the computer.

Well, while she was there, I had her and Adam move out.  I had planned on doing it anyway, but not so soon after the wedding.  I had Jackson tell the Greenwoods to go home, Adam and Emerald move out, and Jade go to bed.  Now with just four people in the family, things should go back to being "normal."

I had such nice plans for this wedding.  Jade was going to take a video, while Jackson took photographs.  Jackson did manage to get two pictures (one of the wedding arch, and one of Adam, but not one of Emerald, or the couple), while Jade didn't do much but walk back and forth between the crib and the stairs as I kept trying to cancel her actions.  I feel like I'm forgetting others things that happened.  I know Jackson tried going downstairs to make drinks at one point, but I don't remember when.  I found myself practically yelling at the screen when everyone kept going downstairs, and especially when Jackson went to bed.  I don't know how he snuck past me to do that.

Anyway, I just wanted to share.  I wish I had thought to take screen caps, because this made a decent little story.  I don't normally take screen shots, or write sim stories, so I didn't think of it until later.  I didn't share looking for advice or anything, but anyone has suggestions on how I could have done things differently, I will gladly read them.  Thanks for reading!

[saltpastillen]

How frustrating! But amusing.

This just goes to show that even if we think we are the ones running things, that might not be the case.

My most disastrous wedding didn't end as well. It ended up a non wedding since the groom was glitched and couldn't get married at all. Every time he went to the arch the action would simply drop. I didn't get the hint about them not being compatible and tried to marry them for 2 WHOLE days. All the guests were miserable by the end of each night. What a circus! It was the gen 3 in my immortal dynasty so finally I had to give up and marry her to someone else. I guess they showed me who's boss.

[Abandag]

Well, I don't feel so bad now.

I forgot to mention two other things that added to my frustration.  My game was lagging quite a bit.  Every so often things would just slow way down, then after a while they would return to normal.  This was the first time I've experienced this with the Sims.  I cleared my caches after I finished playing, so hopefully that will help that problem.  Also, my furnace is acting up, with the heat coming on even though it was close to 70 degress (F) outside and I had the thermostat turned off.  I think I fixed that problem too.

I've never tried a dynasty, but I've been looking at them.  I think I might give the immortal one a shot at some point.

[Gheez]

If looks could kill... please help her out of the quicksand, bro.



Background: I was trying to test out shift clicking on invisible lights (as per Vincent's post, here in Building & Construction), wasn't having much luck so added a new house to experiment in.  I'd enabled testingcheats and forgotten to turn it off.

Game-wise: Whale made the phonecall to move house whilst his sister, Orca, was swimming in the pool. She started swimming to the new house. Had to 'resetsim' to rescue her.

He was wooting and having a fine old time whilst she just kept swimming, slowing occasionally as if to glare at him. I was most amused.

[Janna]

I hope it is okay to put this here, if in the wrong spot, could someone move it for me? Thanks


I had downloaded a house from the Swap Shop.  Didn't pay attention (my fault) and had too much plants and furniture close to the fireplaces (seven of them).  Of course, they caught on fire within ten minutes of my sims moving in. 

First time I knew I was going to lose a sim to a fire. so decided to take some photoes.  Glad that I did.



Sybail catches on fire as she is dancing around yelling about the fire.



Sybail dies, but I wasn't worried, she has two death flowers so she will be coming back.

Grim's pleased to get the flower, so he lets Sybail go. 




Now Sybail is back, and she starts back to yelling and jumping around about another  fire.




(I had labeled this one wrong, in this one he has come back)

Grim shows up, I think he just wanted to watch the show

 
Unfortunately, he becomes the show, as he catches on fire.





Barrack, Sybail's husband is so thankful that Grim spared his wife, he jumps in and saves Grim from burning up (wonder if he dies, who come to collect him     )




Out of apprecation, Grim decides to stay and help put out the fire.  Guess there wasn't anyone dying so he had some free time.  I had Sybail use the shower can to put her fire out. 




Just as soon as one gets put out, another one starts up.  Slowly, at least for this one fire, it gets put out. 

It was after this that Grim leaves, saying he is hungry and is going to go and get a sandwich.  I had a photo of him walking away; I'll try to see if I can find that one.

I don't know why the words aren't showing up, in the game you can see the box that has the words, but they aren't showing up in my photoes.



I learned, the hard way, not to have furniture, plants and other items so close to fireplaces.  The rooms were narrow and I didn't think to check to see how safe the fireplaces were.

I will be able to go back to an earlier save and change how I remodeled the rooms and not crowd them so much. 

[grimsoul]

LOL, That's a nice little story. It's nice to see Grim doing something good.
If you have the handy skill you could try to upgrade the fireplace to fire proof so it wouldn't catch items on fire.
As for the words not showing, when you use screen capture in the game is doesn't show the user interface. If you want a picture of everything you can use the Print Screen button to save it to your clipboard.  And then use a graphics program to save it. But the clip board will only hold one picture so it's not good for a series of pictures.

[Grim Reaper]

I like it when the Grim Reaper does stuff like that.  Or, in general I like seeing the Grim Reaper stick around after his job is done and he does sim stuff for a short time.

[Grim Reaper]

I found this video, it's funny but not for the Grim Reaper.  This is what happens when he's on fire---no one helps him out.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4A5CPyaR4o

[Janna]

@grimsoul,

It is my gardening couple, so they have mastered handiness, gardening and logic, Barrack has mastered writing, Sybail has mastered cooking and both are close to mastering athletic. 

@GrimReaper,

I was glad to see him being so nice.  What has surprised me was that he came back after he left, I guess it was because she caught on fire again, but hubby had put it out. 

From what I tried to fix, there were some areas that I couldn't reach, at least without some major tearing down.  It will be easier to just go back to my last save and make the changes of not having so much near the fireplaces and making them fireproof.  Love the house, it's the Shingle style Victorian by PolarBlair. 

The video was funny to watch, poor guy, I stopped being leary of him when he had to pick up a dog that has died.  He was so nice to it, played with it, gave it some treats and it was a small dog so he picked it up and cuddled it as he left. 

[saltpastillen]

I love when Grim does weird things. He sen't this to one of my sims. He'd only met her once, when he came for her dad, about 2 weeks earlier in game.



On a side note: I have a friend named Grim, it always cracks me up because I keep catching myself trying to hum the "grim sounds" when we are meeting up.

[Chuckles_82]

I love when Grim does weird things. He sen't this to one of my sims. He'd only met her once, when he came for her dad, about 2 weeks earlier in game.


On a side note: I have a friend named Grim, it always cracks me up because I keep catching myself trying to hum the "grim sounds" when we are meeting up.

Yes, I just hummed that in my head as I read it. Hands up who else did?

On a side note I'm glad someone broke the silence. I hate it when the forum goes quiet for an hour or so. Yes. Addicted much.

[Magz from Oz]

Yes, I just hummed that in my head as I read it. Hands up who else did?

Hand in the air    guilty as well

[Snufflesxx]

On a side note I'm glad someone broke the silence. I hate it when the forum goes quiet for an hour or so. Yes. Addicted much.

Haha, I know how you feel! I get that as well 

[Danielle Haydis]

A funny thing happened to my sim today.

I had her skinny dip in the pool then, afterwards, she wanted to play the piano. After putting her clothes back on she starts walking on water.  And if that wasn't weird enough, when she gets to the edge of the pool she changes into her swimsuit and starts swimming in the ground. I couldn't stop laughing.

Here's the pics:
Walking on water


Swimming in the ground

[bubbles]

That is just plain weird.