Want to take a guess at who’s writing yet another post that have absolutely nothing to do with Harrington? It just might be me, but this time, I feel very justified (I did last time as well, but shhh xD). You see, a certain someone (that’d be me!) have been fiddling with things. Well, not just any thing but the dreaded Milkshape and came to the conclusion that, hey! I want to try something, what something? Well, you’ve either guessed by the preview picture, or you’re about to find out Read more »

I’m testing out a new writing style, so we’ll see how it goes!

2014-2015: Raiden Aspen is 33, Celia Garnet is 31

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Although neither one of us are all too stretched for cash (though Raiden recently changed careers, he can still support himself just fine) Raiden and I figured that’d it’s save us some expenses to live together. And besides, we used to share a dorm at university so it’s not very different, well, we get to decide what colours are rooms should be this time around! It took us awhile to settle on an apartment, we didn’t want to live on top of each other, but we also didn’t want to go over our budget. In the end we found a rather nice (and large!) apartment with two bedrooms and enough space for the both of us. The landlord seemed nice enough, though I admit, I winced when I saw how she styled her hair, it’s fine to do that for renfairs and conventions and what have you, but I’d have thought that a landlord might wear her hair more… Traditionally.

Oh well, on the bright side of things, I did get some shopping done at the new clothing store, Velvet. I should try to coax some of the more… interesting looking inhabitants of Harrington down there.

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I’ve been thinking a little about changing my defaults lately, the thing that’s kept me from it is that some of my sims use geneticized eyes/skins and so I’d have to make sure that they’d get a similar looking pair of eyes/skin if I did. However, testing would mean that they’d all end up with the wrong skin and well, I’m not in the mood to boot up my game only to test skins then turn it off again so I can play with my proper skins and eyes.

So, I decided to use the magic of Bodyshop to give me an idea of how it’d look if I changed, normally, I would skip showing off, but I’m proud of myself for being very good about remembering which content was used with each image. So, show off time!

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I’ve added a couple of new pages;

Regulations – a page with the general rules for Harrington as far as marriage, tax, university etc. goes, it’s still in development so I might shift things around as I try them out. Its content is heavily based on Lakeside Heights and Sullivan Sims (especially the latter), with some influences from the Build a City Challenge and me.

Stats – a page for well, stats, it’s horribly barren right now but that’s partly because I couldn’t come up with much to add and partly because Harrington is still a small hood. I’ll change as I go I guess

Custom Content – you probably figured that one out, but yeah, links to some of the custom content I use, it’s pretty much ripped from Vivienne Hamlet, but I’ll update it sometime soon (it’s still pretty darned accurate in some aspects)

Hacks – this too, is ripped from Vivienne Hamlet, though it’s pretty much exactly the same hack cocktail that I have now save a few newbies that I’ll get around to adding

You may, or may not, see a few pages dedicated to the various Households and their stats popping up soon, I haven’t decided yet if I’m going to do it. (If I do, it’d sort of be like Sullivan Sims’ sim profiles, only it’ll be separated by households as I doubt I’ll like the thought of maintaining individual sim pages).

I am however going to implement the season system that Sullivan uses, it’s easy enough for me to do without getting too detailed. It also allows me to keep track of birthdays if I want to. I won’t be able to put this into motion until I’m done playing this round though. If you’re curious these are the households I have left to play for this round: Enthycia-Gale, Eldon-Sweet and Mungo. I’ll hopefully get some playing done tonight and/or get the Aspen-Garnet update up.  Either way, it’s only three households and shouldn’t take me too long, after that Harrington will officially have a sensible season-centered system.