As funny as the low-skill instrument playing is, it's even funnier when Sims with mixed creativity skills are all playing at once. You have a drummer doing all these complex fills and everything while the guys on the piano and guitar are just flailing around making awful noises.

Sometimes teens have matching outfits and elders can wear adult stuff as long as it's not separates. Are you planning to do pictures of the teen 'uniforms' as well?

No, I'm not planning to do any more. I have what I need for my purposes and it was a bit annoying/time consuming. I just decided to share what I'd done for me so that if someone else wants the same info, they don't have to go through it

I did notice that for a couple of outfits, specifically the coach and the wetsuit, there seemed to be 2 GUIDs - I realised that one version was used for jobs that overlap with the teen track, and the other was used for jobs which don't. So I think those GUIDs include a teen set of clothing.

By "use the adult version for elders" I meant that the game just uses the adult bodyshape outfit for the elders - this was more common in later EPs, I always thought it was lazy, though I suppose it's better than not including an elder outfit at all.

Bulbizarre's post reminded me of the fact that many people, myself included think of the Creativity skill as just too broad. You have a Sim who can paint really well, and suddenly they can play masterpieces perfectly on the piano as well. It just doesn't make sense, they could have just added a hidden skill for each instrument like there is for dancing, writing, or pool.

The guy doing the complex drum fills was a novelist who'd never picked up a pair of drumsticks in his life.

The Sims 3 skilling honestly makes far more sense.

- He's got the beat

(In my country, people can dance. And there is an old song: We've got the beat; We've got the beat/Everyone else has got the money/ But we've got the beat Inborn rhythm, that's what that drummer has).

This is one thing I do like about TS3/TS4. The skills are more unique and refined. For example, you have painting and guitar as separate skills. I wish TS2 would've better refined the skills, so it isn't just a generic "creativity" skill.

There's a in testing mod here that fixes that. https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=660072

That's one thing I like most about TS3, the skills are far more detailed and make more sense. TS3 wins on this one in my opinion.



TS3's skills aren't that broad which is logical. I understand EAxis wanted to have skills that are more general, if they had that many as TS3 they would need to build the idea of skills better thus taking more work and time. But even though having flexible skills can mean more ideas of what this could be (TS2's Cooking skills and TS3's Mixology skill) things like this case can happen. If they added more specific skills like TS3 they would need to make the other skills more individual too. I think the more unique skills they made hidden, and even they were only to change animations and fail chances (Dancing for example)

Bigfoot and the Grand Vampire were jamming together at the local park. Surprisingly, they were both good.

Started playing The Sims (2!) again after a multi-month hiatus, and still got my own custom hood going :D. Debating now whether to add new families or breed existing ones. Decisions, decisions. Also, had to stop playing on the laptop and move over to the desktop[1].

[1] Luckily this just means packing the wine prefix, then extracting it on another computer. 5 minutes job rather than messing about with re-installs etc.

That's a great band name :D

I accidentally made about 15,000 food objects in killed state. The game took more than a minute to close without saving, but it did without crashing. The error report was over 1.2 megs. When I added about 7000 memories before too many iterations, it was slightly bigger, but I didn't save it.

Okay, how did you manage that?

This might be nostalgia speaking since Pet Stories was my first ever Sims game but Arbor Falls is really, really pretty, and the developers did a much better job building the lots and neighbourhood itself than in any mainline game. The lots on Scots Pine Street especially are really lovely. Even the modified versions of Modern Masterpiece they put there were much better than the one we got.

After a burned toaster pastry resulted in a massive kitchen fire, every single Sim on the apartment lot keeps sprinting around. It's honestly kind of hilarious.

If only they could keep the running style without being reset when visiting an unmodded toilet or going to work or class.