Jungle Adventure - part 2 of 4 - Tour Guide Brenda Kammin

In this miniseries for the blog, you get reports from 4 sims with a different agenda in Selvadorada. First out was the Archaeologist (Fred Clump), and next will be the Tourist followed by the Celebrity. Today you get the Tour Guide :)

Brenda Kammin (68) lives in Willow Field, Gloomville with partner Mark Oaksdale and their two teen daughters Tilla and Lilly (16). Brenda worked as a Tour Guide for Way To Go Travels since many years, but it was just recently they started touring Selvadorada.

Read her report below:

Island Living - Bonus Video Clips

[TS4] Did you watch the Island Living presentation on Twitch of June 8th? Here are the bonus clips shown on the presentation, that are not included in the official trailer! I love watching them again and again to look for new details. I removed the talking, but the visuals are what you want, right?

This EP looks good, can't wait to find out more! Release for PC on June 21st 2019.


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You can watch Twitch on EA's channel again - lots ofg good info there!

Jungle Adventure - part 1 of 4 - Archaeologist Fred Clump

So, I finally added Jungle Adventure gamepack, and I love it! I had so many plans for this pack, but decided to wait for a next sale. Currently all TS4 packs are 40-50% off, you better go grab whatever you miss!

I prepared a miniseries for the blog, interviewing 4 sims with a different agenda in Selvadorada. First out is the Archaeologist, to be followed shortly by the Tour Guide, the Tourist and the Celebrity :)

I never saw a sim as happy as Fred while exploring the jungle of Selvadorada!

Fred Clump (30) is the youngest son of famous jazz singer Olivia Clump. Read his report from Selvadorada below:

As Days Go By - Year 218 - Picture Post

It's time for another update on my "As Days Go By". This is the picture thread series where each update covers one sim year, and here you will meet families that are not featured in the "As Sims Go By" video series.

I just completed year 218, and there's so much going on! I've also built a few more community venues, most of them will be featured in the video series. And - many new couples are about to have their first child, which is always exciting, of course :)

Let's start this 28 pictures tour in San Myshuno. I still find new aspects to like about living in city apartments. You might recall the painting artist Vince Remeréz, he was thrown out from his rented room with the von Kaching family. But no reason to worry, he is successful, he has got the money he wants, and now he even coupled up with actress Penny Pizzazz.

They resides a huge flat in Arts Quarter, and I really love this flat and don't quite understand how I never played this lot before!

Elections - Rules & schedule

In my Region 12 there is an election taking place on 1st day of Spring every 5th year. The election decides who the 5 councilors will be for the coming 5 years.

This is where the 5 Councilors work minimum 2 days every week.

Feel free to copy some of this if you want to try something similar. Also find several articles on the
Year 220 election on this blog and on my Youtube channel - tagged "How I Play".


The election runs like this:

How I Play (5) - Photo Backdrop

[TS4] Did you watch my old video showing how you can add new backdrops when using the Photo Studio (Get To Work)? Well, here are even more ideas to creative backdrops for your sims' unique photos. Although this video is based on Get To Work EP features, you can also use some of the tips with the cell phone.


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If you missed the old video, here it is!

As Sims Go By - Saving the Elderly Vote (ep5)

Episode 5 of my Machinima series "As Sims Go By" is up on my Youtube channel! It's finally time for Fanny to focus on retirement homes, and the new Fun Factory house is opening. But so much more is going on; a wedding, a pregnancy, and the investigation of a murder...

I'd love to have more feedback, so whether you like it or not, don't hesitate dropping me a note :) Is too much goin on? Are the scenes too short? Too many characters? Too long episodes? Let me know, it might make it easier for me to decide whether I shall start planning a season 2, or not.

The Free Will Show - Episode 5

Episode 5 is online! Will bills get paid? Will there be a fire? I think so!

After Don left they are currently 5 contenders, but at end of episode 6, which completes this first season, one more lowest score sim will be kicked out! Who will it be? From season 2 there will be just 4 contenders and 1 dog in the house.

In episode 5 Andrew is Sim in Focus. Like in every episode Sim in Focus will pick 3 alternative actions/events to be voted by you, and the option getting most votes will be executed the next morning around 8 AM. Vote by leaving a short comment under the video, one capital letter is enough! More info on the Youtube channel.

Voting is open for 7 days from release.

Enjoy!

How I Play (4) - Shopping Malls

A new episode is up, sharing how I play my game! This video is 6 minutes of a bried introduction to my shopping malls, followed by a tv-show where you meet my sims explaining and debating two of my shopping malls.

I'll shortly write more in detail, but basically you will need to set the lot category to support only one kind of feature. So, if your mall offers clothing, florist, café, gift store, photographer service, and a gaming arcade in the basement - you can't have them all to full effect. Which feature that will attract customers, will depend on the lot category. Say, if the lot is a café, the café section will thrive, while the other sections will be more like settings. If the lot is categorized as retail, the café will not be served unless your sim hires a barista, and eve if you do, the café will not attract customers because the lot is about retail.


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Check out the video for more, and check back for an article coming in May :)

Get To Know All My Sims!

It's finally on line, my Sims Residents Registry! You can easily look up any of my sims, alive or dead, and there might be a few familiar EA residents, as well. You will find info like their bio, personality, social status, DNA, skills, relations and much more.

The coolest thing about this registry, is that you can break down the lists by location, careers, aspirations, traits and lots more.

As Days Go By - Year 217 - Picture Post

Here is another picture heavy post from my ongoing The Sims 4 game! Lots of stuff is happening, join me on a brief trip around my worlds.

Starting in Gloomville (my Willow Creek). The von Kaching household is busy, and you might recall them from the As Sims Go By video series on my Youtube channel. Rose found that the fampuse painting artist, Vince Remeréz, who rents a room, had been painting Aili, the daughter of the house.

So, Vince was told to move out, although Rose knows it might harm her Gallery Ex-Po.

New Residents Index Coming Soon!

I'm doing it again! A full fleshed out Residents Index for all my sims of all my worlds!

On my old TS2 site I had a detailed and quite cool index of my residents, with info on their personality, careers, interests, lifeline and more. There was even a family tree making it easy to see their relations, and an easy way to switch to another sim's bio. You will find the old index here - some info seems to be broken, but click some links and you'll get the idea. Each sim even had their individual diary page!!!

For TS4 I will do it a bit more simple, like skipping the family tree. It's been too long since I programmed anything in Javascript, besides I play rather slowly so there wouldn't be that many generations to explore, anyway. I can't just transfer the old TS2 script, because TS4 sims have a different set of info that no longer match my old programming.

The main reason why I'm creating this index, is that in my community I often need a search tool to find certain sims. Say, who are single, YA and of a certain social class? Who works in the Business career and might be candidates for a new top job? Who would be candidates for a new council election? I do keep all the info in a spreadsheet, but it gets quite hard to find a group of sims based on specific data. I can scroll to find ideas, but not to see the bigger picture. Besides, it would be nice storing all residents' photos somewhere - and to share all this with you.

This new index might be up and running within a week, but it will probably take much longer to add all my residents - there are probably more than 250 of them including those who died already. I'll of course post again when it's due to take a look :)