Focus
I’m really not the most focused person in the world, or, I am but most of the time I have 300+ things all trying to get my attention which results in me paying nothing attention at all. Currently there’s quite a few victims to that curse, my uni-reading being the most stressful one, writing being the second and simning being the last if only because it doesn’t really leave my mind the way the other stuff does.
I haven’t a clue when the “new” project will be up, as it is I’m taking my time and trying to figure out what I want to do and such before I go ahead with anything. I do like it though, it very much suits my general needs though exactly how often I’ll play and update I’ve no idea (which reminds me, I really should cut back on work or something <_< Blergh.) but I’ll figure it out as I go I guess.
Anyhow, I wanted to give a quick update just to keep myself in the “mode” I guess, even if there’s no pictures or anything else I do like rambling about sims anyhow <_< Even if only for my own enjoyment.
But yeah, right now everything is stretched between uni and work, both which take up a lot of time and make me very tired (I really need to cut back, working 3 days one week which adds up to 18,5 hours is just too much for me. I can deal wit 5-10 hours, but not 18,5! I don’t have many lectures, but I have 300+ pages to read for each lecture and I’m already behind /rant)
*Cough* Back to sims, current project is humming along. It’s Victorian based (not in London though, I prefer to keep things fictional, less pressure to be exact about the streets etc.) and I already know (and have created) how many families I have etc. what I need most is houses, community centres etc. I’m trying to be good and building first, but I really really hate it so we’ll see how many houses I build before I cave!
The second, very much on the backburner, is present-day Victorian ‘hood, that is Rotham (the name of the Victorian based ‘hood) in our time, with the descendants of the families from Victorian-Rotham and such. However I need to finish and play (but not finish playing the ‘hood, that’d take ages!) the Victorian ‘hood first, but I’m kinda-sorta working on the modern ‘hood now and then too.
As for how it’ll work, I’ve basically decided that the Victorian ‘hood will only impact modern ‘hood up until a certain point (thinking up to 1900-1910) after that I’ll likely just let the Victorian ‘hood move through time without anything really impacting the modern ‘hood. But as I’m starting in 1830 this isn’t really something I have to be dead certain about just yet.
A part of me did wonder about letting the ‘hood move through time naturally, but a) that’d be a lot of CC to download as time went by, not to mention removing some of the older CC as it would no longer be used and such without making entire houses go blue and b) I’m an impatient creature who’d like to play in the modern age without having to play my way up until the modern age.
We’ll see how it goes as the Victorian ‘hood falls more into place, everything else is still up in the air I guess.
Well, it sounds very interesting! I admire anyone who can do a period hood and make it at all realistic. I’ve tried but I kept wanting to use all the modern CC I was downloading, so it ended up being one of my many abandoned Sims projects!
Valneanne Reply:
February 27th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
I’m trying, but I actually have to hold myself back from wanting to be too realistic, downside of studying history, lol! I know way too much, which comes in handy as I go, but when I’m just starting out some things will have to wait a little
My “secret” is that I have a modern ‘hood as a side project, so I can dabble there or download things to it then go back to the Victorian ‘hood. Without it I’d be hard pressed to make it work too!
Victorian theme sounds great! I love period hoods and downloads. I’m looking forward to this project when it all comes together.
Valneanne Reply:
February 27th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Thank you Maisie! I’m having a lot of fun with this (and it helps that I’m taking my time with it and not feeling pressured or anything!), especially as Victorian is my favourite era so that alone makes this wonderful to me