Di's Victorian Vexes

Soooo, all the townies are in and (nearly) all the npcs are created and made over.  I'm still missing some, but I can wait and make them over as the game generates them (in both hoods).


( A list and some pictures this way )

Time for another rebuild update.

( list this way )

Sooo, no proper rebuild update this week. It’s not that I’ve not done anything because I have. Everything for the first stage of setting up the hood is complete, and I’m about halfway through the rotation so I can get the last couple of buildings packaged up and into the new hood. I’ve also done a lot of thinking about ages, made a couple of mods, and worked out how old all my characters are in human years. And in the process of doing all that, I’ve burnt myself out with regards to sims. So much so that I can’t even face the thought of posting my list and talking about what I need to do next, so I’m not going to. I’m having a complete break from the Sims for at least a week, possibly more, it all depends on how I feel.

Instead, I’m really enjoying playing the Mass Effect games, and since I missed being able to talk about ME and ME2 with my friends when Cait was playing, because I’m behind the times, you get to see my thoughts here instead. I give you all fair warning, there are spoilers for the games, especially the first one below. If you don’t want to know what happens, don’t read this. Enjoy.


( Very long ramblings about Mass Effect follow )

Time for another rebuild update.  :D

( Progress report )

I wanted to post this on Friday, but due to circumstances beyond my control, I was without internet most of Thursday and all of Friday.  It came back on yesterday, but I spent my internet time catching up with various things.  Anyway, I've been making very good progress with the rebuild the past two weeks.

( List and thoughts under here )


Anyway, that's what I've been doing with my game recently.  :D

Earlier today I was suddenly struck by the thought that I really, really miss writing Alexandra.  This is good, because 1) it means that maybe I'm coming out of the writing funk I've been in for the past year, and 2) I'm now itching  to get the rebuild finished so I can play and then start planning the next set of chapters.

And I am making progress with that.  I'm planning on posting pictures of what I've been doing this week once I'm finished, so hopefully they'll be out in a few days.  In the meantime, here's my to-do list for getting the neighbourhood ready.

( Great big list )

Hi guys, just popping in with a few notices for you.

First up, Boolprop in its current form is closing. Rhea explains all here, and it looks like she is going to make a new forum, on a free forums site. If you have anything there you want to keep, go and back it up. Since it's closing, I'm not going to do comment responses over there now. Instead, I've saved all your comments, and I'm going to do something with them on the new forum, when it's up and running. So you will all get responses from me, just not there, and probably not for a little while.

Second of all, this is something I've hinted at, but not officially said. Well, now I'm making it official. My legacy is on hiatus while I deal with rebuilding the neighbourhood and making things awesome there. I don't know how long this will take, so I can't say when I'll get back to playing or writing, but I'm not giving up on the family at all. The main problem, and why I'm rebuilding and putting the story on hold now, is that the best place for me to transfer everyone to the new hood, is when Bertie graduates and moves home, before any of generation 6 are born. Well, that's also when the plot explodes for generation 5, and to be quite honest with you all, if I leave the end of chapter 24 where I'm planning to, and then take four, five, or even six plus months to rebuild and update again, you will all hunt me down with pitchforks and flaming torches. So, what I'd like to do, is get the last part of chapter 24, and the first part of chapter 25 out within a short time of each other. In order to do that, I need the new hood ready to go as soon as I've finished playing my next rotation.

Notice the third, my rebuild is currently on hiatus too. December is turning out to be a busy month for me, and my computer time in the evenings is going to be used for other projects for the forseeable future. Given how lacking my inspiration with decorating has been this week, this break from it might turn out to be a good thing. Well, one can hope.

After a lot of swearing, and deciding that I hate brass, (honestly, why so shiny?  It made things very, very difficult), I've finished the fireman's outfits.  Well, as finished as I care to be at the moment.  The helmet isn't perfect (both in terms of mesh and texture), but it's the best I can do at the moment, and, to tell the truth, I think it looks pretty damn good.  Certainly a lot, lot better then anything in game, and I've not seen anyone else attempt this, so ....

( Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiire! )