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valarltdIt is so NOT fair that cribs are twice as restful as beds. Energy 14 vs the best bed on the market which has a 7 rating.
So, little Padme is walking and potty-trained. This is a big help to her daddies.
Leia made her transition to toddlerhood nicely, and potty-trained right up with a help from some SmartMilk.
But Luke has been using his maternity leave time to stay home with the kids (he's the family sim and wants to teach them to walk, talk and potty). That's fine. But it puts him on a weird schedule, up at all hours, endless bottles and emptying potties. He finally made it to work, but that temper got the better of him "much anger, yes," and he Made a Statement with some lab sheets. Busted. he's back to being a lab rat.
I got to thinking of the ways one can boost skills--without reward objects--at various ages.
Babies: no skills.
Toddlers: charisma, logic, creativity
Children: cooking (TV, toy stove, study), mechanical (study), charisma (no), body (pool), logic (chess, telescope), creativity (easel, piano), cleaning (doing it, study)
Teens: all skills.
I've been actively working to get Padme's Charisma maxed before she leaves toddlerhood. Since she's hogging the Possessed Rabbit Head, Leia gets the Shape-Sorter for logic (and the PRH when Padme's asleep).
And Luke, oh dear. He fell in love with Gila Ophidia (who knew he liked his men green and scaly?) just by hugging him good-bye. Hope Gila's wife, Diamond, doesn't find out it's mutual.
Over at Akasha D'Arque's place, she got busy climbing her career ladder in order to make enough money so she could quit selling her fridge every time she needed a shower or her shower every time she got hungry. She was so good at it, she is now a Lieutenant on the Sim City PD.
She got herself comfortable, but was hampered by a distinct lack of men. She knew a number, but they were either married or didn't like her. Ladies? ladies loved her. She finally fell for, moved in ($18 grand really spruced up the hovel) and proposed to her best friend, Sandy Bruty. The Brute is a heartless Romance sim and promptly broke Akasha's heart by rejecting her. Akasha, being clever, took Sandy to bed, and demonstrated all the old Drow secrets. Sandy happily accepted the proposal the next day. And they got pregnant.
(Note on "pregnancy for All": in a male couple, the non-initiator gets pregnant. In a female pair, the initiator gets pregnant.)
The very fit Akasha did not get pregant. The less-fit Sandy did, and is having a miserable pregnancy. When Akasha married her, Sandy went totally red and had to have a visit from the Psim Pshrink. I can only imagine what a baby will do. If it's not a beautiful Drow baby, the worthless human will be out on her chubby blonde ear, with the little human bastard. Akasha may be superneat, but she is NOT nice.
I want to play the Remus family for a while and get little Akela grown to toddlerhood.
And Indigo Azul just wants some lovin'. Maybe from that handsome red chap on the next block.
So, little Padme is walking and potty-trained. This is a big help to her daddies.
Leia made her transition to toddlerhood nicely, and potty-trained right up with a help from some SmartMilk.
But Luke has been using his maternity leave time to stay home with the kids (he's the family sim and wants to teach them to walk, talk and potty). That's fine. But it puts him on a weird schedule, up at all hours, endless bottles and emptying potties. He finally made it to work, but that temper got the better of him "much anger, yes," and he Made a Statement with some lab sheets. Busted. he's back to being a lab rat.
I got to thinking of the ways one can boost skills--without reward objects--at various ages.
Babies: no skills.
Toddlers: charisma, logic, creativity
Children: cooking (TV, toy stove, study), mechanical (study), charisma (no), body (pool), logic (chess, telescope), creativity (easel, piano), cleaning (doing it, study)
Teens: all skills.
I've been actively working to get Padme's Charisma maxed before she leaves toddlerhood. Since she's hogging the Possessed Rabbit Head, Leia gets the Shape-Sorter for logic (and the PRH when Padme's asleep).
And Luke, oh dear. He fell in love with Gila Ophidia (who knew he liked his men green and scaly?) just by hugging him good-bye. Hope Gila's wife, Diamond, doesn't find out it's mutual.
Over at Akasha D'Arque's place, she got busy climbing her career ladder in order to make enough money so she could quit selling her fridge every time she needed a shower or her shower every time she got hungry. She was so good at it, she is now a Lieutenant on the Sim City PD.
She got herself comfortable, but was hampered by a distinct lack of men. She knew a number, but they were either married or didn't like her. Ladies? ladies loved her. She finally fell for, moved in ($18 grand really spruced up the hovel) and proposed to her best friend, Sandy Bruty. The Brute is a heartless Romance sim and promptly broke Akasha's heart by rejecting her. Akasha, being clever, took Sandy to bed, and demonstrated all the old Drow secrets. Sandy happily accepted the proposal the next day. And they got pregnant.
(Note on "pregnancy for All": in a male couple, the non-initiator gets pregnant. In a female pair, the initiator gets pregnant.)
The very fit Akasha did not get pregant. The less-fit Sandy did, and is having a miserable pregnancy. When Akasha married her, Sandy went totally red and had to have a visit from the Psim Pshrink. I can only imagine what a baby will do. If it's not a beautiful Drow baby, the worthless human will be out on her chubby blonde ear, with the little human bastard. Akasha may be superneat, but she is NOT nice.
I want to play the Remus family for a while and get little Akela grown to toddlerhood.
And Indigo Azul just wants some lovin'. Maybe from that handsome red chap on the next block.
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Date: 2005-02-20 10:38 pm (UTC)Oh, you're kidding?
So that's why the little bastards wake up every couple of hours and scream as if they're on fire?
I used the telescope hack you linked on your LJ the other day, btw. My gay cowboys Heath and Jake got knocked up in no time - Jake because he's a knowledge Sim and then after witnessing his lover's abduction, Heath decided (very cleverly) to start peering through the telescope.
Result - two incredibly whiny men waddling around in elastic waisted pants, eating everything in the house, fighting each other for squatter's rights to the bathroom and throwing tantrums because it was no fun carrying alien spawn in one's belly.
Guys, welcome to the world of women.
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Date: 2005-02-21 12:36 am (UTC)Cooking skills went WAAAAY up tho' from having to eat all the time.
Luke was the only one who got barfy, so there wasn't a lot of bathroom hogging.
Enjoy your pregnant gay cowboys. My pregnant gay pirates were quite taken aback by the whole thing. (I have Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom skins, so I tarted the former up, and put them both in pirate coats.)