Crown of Antlers

Another (sort of) custom world I've been testing is Wickery Glen which is labeled as a "Moonlight Falls" makeover. Although the mod creator didn't have many screenshots I decided to take a look to see if it works better than the original Moonlight Falls.

After installing it I placed Gloria's home and household in her usual lot and entered the world. Visually I see very little difference other than the lighthouse that was added near one of the beaches. I suppose it has the modern day looking streets, but since I'm using the cobblestone road replacement I see the world with the Dragon Valley style road.

The town and houses are still there, but everything is empty, and so far the game has not tried to bring any of the vanilla sims back into the world the way the original MF did when I attempted to empty it out for my Elder Scrolls crew.

Incidentally, the author made some new Wickery Glen Lots to give the town more of Victorian look. I particularly like the library lot.

So far the test save loads and saves quickly and there has been no lag, but at the same time there is only ONE household in there, so it's not a true test. From time to time I'll go in there and slowly add in some other households just to see how things go.

This doesn't mean I'll stop the game I just started with the Winchester Farming Community, for that is a charming little world and it works well, but IF Wickery Glen shows itself to be a more stable version of Moonlight Falls, perhaps Gloria will move there after she grows up. I can easily imagine her deciding that the island is too crowded for her taste.

I'll guess we'll see as I continue to hope into WG now and then and see if the flaws in Moonlight Falls have indeed been fixed.

Sarasvati and Aeronwen are not the only ones receiving unwanted attention.

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To sum it up; it worked. Now I know for a fact that the homeworld university set-up works as it should.

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The unexpected story of Granny Sarah lusting over the Big Bad Wolf continues. This is one of the funniest stories I've ever seen evolve in a game. It was another day of Gloria having a full day of classes at the university so it was Cody's job to harvest the produce from the garden and get it to the grocery store. Once that chore was done he headed over the gym. He has the Athletic trait so he often wants to work out.

He was in the process of pumping iron when she entered the gym. ( Read more... )

Just one more Moonlight Falls related entry before I load up my Pelagiad save and have life proceed there (mental note: reset the town. It needs it).
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Sick of seeing my sims wander around in their athletic outfits instead of their carefully chosen everyday outfits, I did another search to see if any modders addressed this and found this mod: Dresscode.

I tried it out in my Moonlight Falls game, placing one of the dresscode signs on every community lot, then activated the sign in live mod and selected the attire that I want my sims to wear on that lot. Then I just let the day progress.

After a while I panned the camera around and the only place the sims were wearing their athletic outfits was at the gym. Everywhere else they were in their everyday attire except for the bistro which is set to formal.

Granted I had hoped to find a mod that would make the sims change back to everyday outfits right after exercising and it can feel a little tedious to place a dresscode sign on every lot, but it does work. I hope to get into my Elder Scrolls themed world this afternoon and will start placing the signs in there as well.

So, this is one way to keep characters in medieval or Victorian themed worlds from spoiling everything by walking around in t-shirts and shorts or sweatpants.

This is what friends are for.
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This is better than any soap opera.
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