Kiepie’s Weblog

My TSR challenge adventure

A Boy Needs a Dog – Playing! Monday, 9 June 2008

John David Anderson is the target sim.

For some strange reason, my game corrupted this family – and ONLY this family. Maybe the person who wrote the challenge corrupted it – I dunno. Point is that none of the sims’ names were sorrect. John david was Tosha Go. Go figure ;-)

So I created a new Anderson family in CAS. I couldn’t remember what the Dad’s names should have been, so I just named him Jonathan. Christy had to be Christy, since she was part of a few of the objectives.
Boy was this hard for me. Usually by the time my sims have babies they already have a steady job and some skills, but for me this family started at ground zero. I rewarded myself by using maxmotives only twice – on a Tuesday, and that same Saturday. By then Dad could cook a decent meal and there were enough leftovers in the fridge so John David didn’t have to live on juice while Day slept. Jonathan has a LTW to reach the top of the music career ladder. It took more than 7 sim days for that job to become available on either computer or the newspaper. In the meantime he got a job as a Test Subject, but was fired ‘cause he chose the wrong coloured liquorice.
Christy grew up to a child, but she wasn’t potty trained and couldn’t walk – at least she could talk, but she was in platinum when she aged, so the transition wasn’t so bad.
Dad Jonathan was just too busy with working and paying for a Nanny and a Maid that I moved a towny in with him. She’s earns a good enough salary for them to cope with the bills while Jonathan waits by the computer for his big break. She brought §13 000 when she moved in. Off to the petshop they went and John David got himself 2 dogs, Prissy and Rover.
James David aged to a teen – poor thing was wearing a ballet outfit… Thank you Eaxis for making teenage years even more awkward.
I’m sort of ignoring the adults in the house now. They’ve got freewill, so now I’m focussing in John David building good relationships with his dogs and sister. One of the objectives is that John David teaches Christy how to study. He can only do this as a teen. So even though Christy had had a want to ask for help with homework for a few days now, I had to wait until John David was old enough. John David also has a lemonade stand, but so far had only 2 real customers, the other ones were family who bought it from him ;-)

I made John David a fortune sim, since it’s easier to keep them in platinum mood.

 

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.