Amy, Coco, and Josephine
So I abandoned Melonie for 3 TS2 sims I wanted to bring to TS3. World Adventures seemed like a good EP to bring them in. Coco was a little experiment with Melonie to see if I could make a TS2 sim in TS3.
11/15/09 05:06 AM
Updated: This post about what I wanted to do with World Adventures was written just before WA came out.
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I was thinking about some of the sims I want to send on adventures and my mouth nearly hit the floor after a sudden realization.
A little back-story first, maybe you will find it nostalgic.
I started
The Sims "2" mainly as a builder. Then I moved on to stories. I created a fun story about 3 young ladies, fresh out of college and sharing a house owned by one of the girl's father. They were basically house-sitting until they got their careers started and found a soul-mate.
But enough about the story. After I had finished the series I put my three characters in the game, sharing the same house. That's when playing The Sims 2 became really fun for me and I vowed I would recreate the girls in the Sims 3 and play them again. I really knew their characters from making a story about them first and it just really immersed me into them while playing the game.
They were nick-named Go-Go, Jo-Jo, and Co-Co
I was thinking about Go-Go (real name, Amy Li). She's Chinese, so I will definitely send her back to the land of her ancestors. Then I remembered Go-Go was a master of Kung Fu in my story. She was this sweet girl who could kick your butt. Wow, I'm going to give her the Discipline trait and have her master Kung Fu!
But there's more! Jo-Jo (Josephine Derring)is named after her grandmother, who is French. That was her background in the story. She will be going to France. She is also a hopeless romantic, so it's even better. I guess she will learn how to make nectar.
Co-Co (Co-Co Parker)is African American. There was nothing in her background about having any ancestry going back to Egypt, but there is now.
So this is really great. My three favorite characters that I had planned to make again in The Sims 3 have origins in each of the destinations in World Adventures.
I'm going to send them to all the destinations as a group so they can share in each others cultural origins. In the Sims 2, they had this odd modern house:
I'm still working on the TS3 version. It's a little different. But I think I'll change the story this time around and have them in a tiny house and have them earn the money for their bachelorette pad by treasure hunting.
As for the TS3 versions of the girls, I made Co-Co and Jo-Jo, but they need refinement. However, I just made a new version of Go-Go. I'm happy with her.
I won't be sending them on day 1 that I get WA because I have other families that I planned to send first, but I am really looking forward to this EP now.
11/17/09 12:04 AM
Wow, World Adventures will be here tomorrow and while Amy, Coco, and Josephine are ready, their neighborhood isn't. It's custom and I have quite a few homes I want to build to go in it. I may just start downloading homes from the exchange, but I am concerned about downloading unwanted CC.
But anyway, I gave the house a test with the girls in it.
Coco and Josephine need more tweaking, but Amy is perfect. Coco's eyes are a bit large.
I won't be uploading the house anytime soon because when I placed it in a test neighborhood I found that the game elevated the property and really messed up the edge of the lot and stairs. Any homes that I plan to upload from now on will be built on flat lots.
I flattened out the edge of the lot and added more stairs, but it's a mess. I can still play the original lot as designed. That's a burglar in the picture. He wasted no time trying to rob the place on the first night. The following picture was so funny and true-to-form for me.
In my TS2 story Coco had a sixth sense for sensing when something wasn't right. Here, she woke up and attacked the burglar before he even set foot in the house.
A little error in the game, but I loved it. Traits have brought them so much closer to their story character profiles than TS2 ever could.
This unusual house is really taking me back to days when TS2 was fresh and exciting. And now with The Sims 3 and World Adventures these girls will be so again.
A little tweak to Coco and she's good to go:
I can't wait until they are taking their cab ride off to their adventures.
First stop will be China, second will be France, and then off to Egypt, and yes, I will be playing on Epic lifespan.
Cya on the forum.
11/21/09
How it turned out.
Wow, I'm days into World Adventures now and I feel like I've only scratched the surface. This EP has been wonderful for these particular sims. I'm having a great time with it. Each sim is the leader of their particular destination. Amy leads China and is the only one allowed to collect Visa points for it. Josephine has France, and Coco has Egypt.
Amy visiting the land of her ancestral roots and World Adventures has been great for her. Not so great for the guy downwind of her, she just finished some martial arts training.
It's a little thing, but her learning a Chinese song made me smile. I felt like saying, "Ok, you can shut up now," when she sang it a little too often, but I still think it's great. Not so bad now that she has learned another song.
Learning to kick butt is also another plus. It's the
martial arts, but I guess she is thinking literally, art.
China and Martial Arts are my favorites so far. In my old TS2 story's back-story, Amy had taught martial arts to Josephine. Now I actually get to play it out.
I know some aren't crazy about this EP, but it feels like it was created just for me. I'm enjoying it.
Traits are fantastic!!!
Josephine is adventurous and a hot head, but she is scared of creepy things that go bump in the night. I had to pretend in TS2, but now she acts it out.
The Chinese furniture is coming in handy. I've started adding the Asian Fusion set to the house.
It's odd, but I really like playing this TS3 re-imagining of my TS2 home.
I also like this old Volkswagon Golf. The new red one isn't bad either.
I caught Coco looking at me while Josephine played guitar.
Yep, this take me back to fun TS2 times.
Unfortunately these sims took advantage of Nightlife, kind of boring to play them in TS3, but going to China and Egypt was fun with them.
This is the knowledge pod.
Where Coco and Amy meet often to play chess.
The view is so much better in TS3.
Josephine returning from work. She want's to be a rock star.
Two very sleepy sims.
Up early and ready to dance.
Thanks for expanding my sim's world EA.
I have sent the girl's to all three destinations. I have pics of them too, but this thread is flooded with them already.
No thanks for the CC Snafu that created this mess though.
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