I decided to go green with this generation. Practically Amish, even! There are only two electrical things that Sims need to survive: a fridge and a hot water heater (for baths).
To power these two items, I plonked a collection of solar panels on the roof of the house I built for Adirim.
(After taking this snapshot I discovered that I had botched the lot placement, and had to rotate everything 180 degrees.)
Actually I was surprised at how relatively normal the off-the-grid Sims lifestyle could be. Adirim takes a nice long bath every day.
And reads a lot.
At night, she reads by candlelight.
I gave her a makeover that I felt suited her new hippie lifestyle a little better.
Adorable!
Next it was time to find that special Sim to share her life. I sent her off to the bar scene. She rides a bike instead of driving a car, obviously.
This guy is suffering from a condition I call “Bouncer’s Elbow.” I mean, just look at it!
This bouncer, whose name is Raul Amador (!!), has it, too. Tragic!
She spent night after night in a series of empty bars.
This has to be the emptiest city I’ve ever seen!
Even the gym was empty.
One day her tub broke, and she hired a repairman to fix it.
As soon as the repairman showed up, Adirim had a wish to “Flirt with Chadrick Lunsford.” I’d never seen anything like it! She was severely smitten. So I invited him back for dinner.
I adore this snapshot! This is what happened when I instructed Adirim to “Put The Moves On Chadrick.”
(He’s in his boxers because he had been playing in the sprinkler.)
Speaking of the sprinkler, Adirim spends her days gardening, as every good back-to-the-land-er should.
That night I had her ask Chadrick out to one of those empty bars.
She even bought him a pretty pink drink!
They danced for a while, and then she invited him home. He’s into her, too!
Ooh, I love a man who reads!
The next day seemed like a good one for sleeping in.
I thought Adirim might be getting tired of eating hot dogs – which she can cook on the grill – thus, no electricity needed. So I ordered pizza for the two of them.
After pizza, I had her pop the question.
And he said yes!
Do the solar panels *really* power the fridge and bath?
Naww he has matching overalls! Such an adorable post =)
Ooo, you should totally put that lot up on the exchange! I love it!
He sure seems to love playing in the sprinkler. (I assume that’s why he was in his boxers again for the proposal…)
Are the solar panels something you have to buy from the exchange, or are they something that’s in the expansion packs?
I’m getting really frustrated with my game lately. Takes almost 40 minutes to load, and then when it’s loaded, I discover that it hasnt saved anything! I started using dates as the file names for my games. It hasnt saved anything I’ve done since the 28th. I’ve played about 5 times since then and I keep ending up where I left off on the 28th. I’d kidnapped ghost Tyler from his family with a cheat. (testingcheatsenabled true and then I added him to my active family) The game keeps opening up where I left off. He’s in the hot tub with my main sim (totally platonic hot tubbing) and they’re just chatting with each other.
I’m tempted to start over with fresh sims and see if that will save my game. I just dont want to start over with fresh ones. I want to play my beat up, tortured sims! I’m emotionally attached to them! They love me…hopefully. I’m their benevolent god that makes them do weird stuff.
I bought a simbot during one of the gameplays that didnt save. I had him in the household for less than a sim day, and then kicked him out into the town. I was thinking of trying to populate the town with a few simbots. (I’m going to start killing off or deleting some of the children and grandchildren of my sims (there’s more than 50 children)
I’m just frustrated that it takes 40 mins to load the game and not have anything saved when I get there.