Hello everyone!
I found I needed a bit of a break from my legacy challenge family. Not much of one but one where I didn't have to worry about the monthly bills so I switched computers. By switching computers when you log into your Sims game it's as if you are starting all over. Something I have found I enjoy. I can still play but not affect my legacy challenge family game.
One of the weird things about the Sims 4 is when you play the game all other sims play too but on their own. What?? you might be thinking? yeah! so was I. Until I saw it with my own eyes.
Meet Ms. Youngblood and daughter when I first made them.
Hmmm.......yes, I might have played a bit much of World of Warcraft. When I logged in this is what I had found.
Okay, they were still green when I logged in but they had aged a lot was really my point here. lol
I loaded my game to find both of them in the house. The Mom was in her party clothes and late for her job. The daughter was dressed like some punk rocker chick and I was like ! when I saw that.
I wanted to get them a normal skin color. NOT that there is anything wrong with green if you are an Orc. I happen to love Orc's and Orc women are very handsome in my book but they looked to be in trouble so I figured the best way to start was changing their skin to a normal color.
Now because I had already played them I had to use a game cheat to be able to change their skin color and traits. To do that you log into the game, press Ctrl+Shift+C and then type in the box that comes up testingcheats on after the cheats have been enabled you then type in cas.fulleditmode. Once you have done that you can go to manage worlds click on the Sims you want to change and change anything you want. Save and play again.
The sweet young child I had made wanted to be the leader of the Vampire world! All I could think about was poor Mom left alone in her double-wide trailer house in a dead end job while her only daughter goes off and takes over the Vampire world so I changed the daughter asperations and traits. (yes, I'm a bit old fashion!)
I made the Mom want to be a World Cheif and the daughter already loved art so made her an artist and dressed her better.
Oh, and then I gave Mom one million dollars. Ctrl+Shift+C, testingcheats on, money 1000000. It's good to be an Angel sometimes!
I then went off to build them a MUCH better house!
When it comes to building houses in Sims 4 your imagination can take you anywhere. I have a hard time coming up with floor plans. What I have found helps me is to Google what I am looking for.
In this case, while thinking of my Legacy family also, I Googled 4 bedroom, 1-floor houses and found this floor plan.
I like making houses this way because most of the plans come with what the outside of the house looks like and you can, by looking at the photo, know what the roofs really look like. For me building a roof is the hardest thing in the game to make.
Using the plans as a reference I then build a new house for Ms. Youngblood and her daughter.
All in all, I really liked how the floor plan turned out. I can see me using the shell for new family's I make that don't have a million dollars. It would be very easy to start the house smaller and then add the extra rooms later when your new family gets more money.
I was happy. Now to move the little family to their new home and see if the house was easy to play sims in.
It worked really well! The little family was very happy with their new home. I realized I had not added a few things so fixed that and then hired them a Butler who seems to have the childish trait and logged out. I will go back and check on their story from time to time in the future but for now, they have over 800K in money so they should be set for a bit.
I have to say it was a very fun night and relaxing. I love to build and decorate and Sims 4 lets you do that also. You could just spend your day building and never play a Sim but I do love building houses and then putting families in them to live.
Happy Gaming!
Snook
A few of my other Sims posts:
And he went hunting
Sims and my love for the Butler!
The Day the Music died...Sims 4
Buffs! Traits! Oh my! ~ Sims 4