There was some interest in the alien abduction adventure of my Chiana Sim over in the character's thread, so I thought I would give the whole crew a place to show off. If anyone else has their own Farscape Sims, please share!

A note on appearances – while Sims has a selection of base faces, and allows you to manipulate them to a certain extent, a likeness is never going to be perfect, especially with alien characters. I’m aware D’Argo looks like dren, and I may switch him out for a better attempt in the future. Maxis constraints are also why all characters are the same height, and there’s no Rygel yet. I’m working on getting them guns =D

John has been spending a lot of time in his lab, carrying out some rather strange and dangerous experiments. I'm not quite sure what that's all about yet, but he tends to have an inordinate amount of thought bubbles about robots and cake when he's working.

Meanwhile, while she waits for her gun to arrive, Aeryn has been enjoying their baby girl, Beheti, teaching her to
talk, and joining in with some semi violent dollhouse play. She left the potty training to John though.

John & Aeryn are very much in love, and frequently make out, sometimes with extreme ardor. It's so very sweet.

Yesterday they went on their first date since the baby was born - pancakes and ice skating. Inexplicably, Sikozu showed up in her swimsuit (note the lady in the parka behind her) and she and Aeryn chatted while John did a little dance.

Next: Sikozu passes out in her pie, D'Argo gets his farm, and Chiana skips around town, flirting with anything that moves.

Hee! I love it! In that last picture of John's lab, it looks like he's building the wormhole weapon from PKW! Look out, Sims!

Also, it seems like Sim!John is just as bad a dancer as Real!John.

And now I'm going to the Special Hell for thinking Chiana and Sikozu hooking up would have been hot. *sigh*

I've got to figure out a way to share video - the dancing is hilarious.

And I'll join you in that Special Hell - I thought Chiana and Sikozu had better chemistry than D'Argo and Chi, and would have made a more interesting couple. I put my Chiana and Sikozu sims in the same house for easier play (honest!) and was genuinely surprised when they started flirting since they used to fight all the time. I may let Sim nature run its course (best thing about sims is that you set them up with personalities, and then their free will takes over - you can tell them what to do, but much of the time they go about it themselves and decide what they want to do or not do), though if things end badly, as it seems they would, I'd have to move one of them out. Right now they're rather zen. I'm suspicious of all the time Sikozu spends on the computer, while Chiana is napping. She's up to something, possibly Scorpius related.

Each sim has daily wants/fears, and if a want is met it elevates their mood, a fear being recognized brings them down - currently both John and Sikozu have a short term want of Chiana to meet aliens, worth 5,000 points. I wish past encounters mattered, because I don't want to put Chi through the trauma again. Aeryn wants to teach her dog, Polaris, every command he can learn, while Chiana just wants a bubble bath and to woohoo in a car. Such a simple girl. I already met the woohoo in a hot tub want with D'Argo - another candidate for video, since sims flop and dive around like drunken dolphins when doing it in the hot tub.

Each Sim also has a lifetime want, determined by the game based on their personalities. If achieved, they'll get platinum mood status for the rest of their lives, no matter what mindgames you play with them (I locked D'Argo's 'be rejected for engagement by Chiana' fear so he can be crushed after I have him ask, bwahahahaha - though if she hooks up with Sikozu in public and D'Argo sees, there may be a rumble and he won't feel like asking anymore).

John & Aeryn both have a lifetime want of reaching the top of the Adventurer career path (which they'll start on as soon as Beheti is in school), D'Argo wants to have 8 grandkids for which he'll need a lot of luck, with his temper, Sikozu wants to max out all her skill points, and Chiana wants to be a celebrity chef. See, here she made flaming crepes suzette (which for some reason look as though they're garnished with pepperoni) during their darts and hot tub soiree. So it should be interesting. John/Aeryn/Sikozu are Knowledge Sims, D'Argo is Family, and Chiana is Pleasure (there's a Romance option to, but I learned the hard way that means 'Shallow Slut Uninterested in Anything but Woohooing') When I make him, Rygel will be Fortune.

Wow, that's amazing! I can't get over how much Aeryn looks like, well, Aeryn. And Sikozu and Chiana are terrific as well. John looks like he could gain about 50 pounds of muscle, yet it's incredible how you've been able to give them such perfect personalities! Is there a reason why the little girl's face is hidden in all of the pictures? Is that some Sim rule?

To quote Firecracker... much gnashing of teeth for the lost 5th season. I mean, it's possible that this could have been a fifth season storyline, no?

Opie301


I wouldn't have been upset at the development, and seriously, I think it could have flowed pretty naturally. They were already headed in that flirty direction at the end of Prefect Murder.

I feel like writing some fanfic now, I have so many ideas for season 5. Don't want to destroy it horribly though =D

Quizzical1



Thank you! I'm quite pleased with my ladies, as they took a lot of time. I used a different base face for each of the 3, and then adjusted features while looking at promo photos from the show. Sikozu's sputnik hairdo actually came with the game, but her skintone (hard to see in the stills) is custom with a light golden spotting, and I downloaded Chiana's hair and skintone as well. That's why her hair is long and messy - all the short white hairdos had weird eyebrow action, and looked completely unnatural. I really grew to like this look though, it's too cute on her.



Yeah, I know - sims doesn't allow you to make them muscular, even when they've earned all their body points and work out all the time they look the same, and when they get fat they only get a belly and a chin, and stay thin elsewhere. You can download user created meshes for muscular body types, but they often interfere with gameplay and are more trouble than they're worth.



This is what the personality maker looks like. I never pick a sign, I fill in the traits individually, and it picks the sign. If you do it right, it really pays off in gameplay - I don't have to tell John to pal around with Chiana, or D'Argo to start arguing with someone, or Sikozu to read a book. They just do it :-) As you can see, I attempted Zhaan...I'm not sure yet if I'm pleased with her, or if I'll try again, to get the face closer... The name is switched around so that other characters will call her Zhaan, and not Zotoh. The skintone is the nicest I can find, all of the brighter blues look one dimensional and smurf like. Perhaps this is a changed Zhaan, after she blew apart into bits, rained down on a planet with proper soil, and spent the last couple cycles pulling herself back together I have to find a mask so I can have Stark - that'll be too much fun.



No, that's just my poor photography skills and the massive amounts of hair she was born with ;-) Here are a few closeups:
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/A...8/beheti001.jpg - with daddy
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/A...8/beheti002.jpg - with daddy
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/A...8/beheti003.jpg - being told about movies through a teddy bear
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb189/A...8/beheti004.jpg - picking her nose

And the always fun, let's throw the baby in the air while mommy's napping.

Wow! So cute! And, uh, that pink and white rabbit's head in the background--did you plan that or is that a coincidence? :-)

And I hate to criticize, but I've noticed one serious flaw with John: his ass. No way that's John's ass! No wonder Aeryn finds time to nap occasionally, and Chiana is seeking companionship with Sikozu!

Oh my Gods, I totally want to move in with your Sims. That looks like so much fun!

*grin*




It comes with the game, but it's optional - I thought it would be neat ;-) When toddlers play with it, they gain charisma points. I think I'll keep it around after she's grown.



lol, I agree, Sim John's ass is very disappointing! Look, it's so skinny he can't keep it warm. Though Aeryn (quite fiendishly too) and Chiana seem to be making the most of what's there.

My girls went clubbing last night - Chiana picked out this outfit herself, but Mr. Arevhat requested a change, and I humored him.

They danced up a storm.

John and Aeryn spent a quiet night stargazing, and in the morning the girls stopped by on their way home - Chiana and John went fishing, and she caught a boot.

John ruminated (with grandiose hand gestures) about his science experiment, and then their was a birthday party for Beheti. She's a big girl now (who'll have to go to school and get good grades, or the social worker will come).

John was exhausted, but he congratulated her, encouraged her to be nice to others, and danced with her.

After he went to bed, Chiana went back to the lab and gave the contraption a whirl. i wonder if John will be mad.

I think I'm going to try to redo D'Argo - I haven't been playing him because he looks too wrong, it makes the game less amusing.

School!? It seems like just yesterday that she was being toilet trained! :-)
So how fast do these kids grow? Also, did you make her up or did you make Aeryn pregnant, or was it that the computer made Aeryn pregnant in the fullness of time as part of the game that you don't control?


Oh, that's soooo cute! They're dancing by having her feet on top of John's feet! Squeeee!

the thing about D'Argo is that as he is right now, he kind of looks like Anthony Simcoe. Which seems OK.

Holy crap! Quick, someone call a doctor! She's come down with SORAS!

Those pics of her and John dancing are the cutest thing! I can totally see the real John actually doing something like that with his daughter.

Also, every time I open one of the pics with Chiana in the white bikini, just for a second I think she's naked. And I'm actually more surprised when I realize that she's not.

I'm regretting having her grow up (you can turn aging off and on)...she was so cute, and soon she'll have an attitude, and zits, and boy (or girl, sims are very open-minded ;) problems. sigh John & Aeryn will just have to have another baby.



If you don't create them as a toddler, child, teen, or adult (the younger sims need to be created in a household with at least one parent), pregnancy lasts 3 days, infancy 3, toddlerhood 5 (I think), childhood 8....they stay teens for 12 days, and adults for 29, at which point they become an elder until they kick it. Adults can also die, but kids are safe. Not sure about 'young adults' - teens in university. I have the Uni expansion pack, but haven't played it properly.

Beheti was a product of the computer's choosing - I'm usually very lax about taking pictures...only doing it now because I'm sharing....and I didn't document Aeryn & John's courtship and marriage. Also, it was boring and as rushed as possible, because I wanted to get to them as a real couple. When sims are in bed together, or a hot tub, car, dressing room, or photo booth together, and have a strong enough relationship, clicking on one will give the option to 'woohoo' (have sex). With straight couples, 'try for baby' will also appear. Gay and lesbian couples need to adopt if they want a baby. 'Try for baby' has about a 25% success rate - when they fall asleep after, you can sometimes hear music playing if conception occured, other times you don't notice anything until your female sim is puking all over the place and having to pee every 5 minutes. Pregnant sims aren't allowed to clean litterboxes or go in the hot tub in the 3rd trimester. It's great. But the maternity clothes are awful.

Anyway, John & Aeryn had a bit of an infertility problem - it took them 12 tries. I don't think they minded ;-) The computer generates the baby's gender, and appearance, by combining the genetics of the parents. I was hoping for a boy, like in the show, but was happy with the girl - I semi-made up her name, Bahati is a Swahili name I've always liked, that means 'good fortune'. I made the A's E's, and am pretending it's Delvian or something.

If they have another baby, I'll document the pregnancy and the infancy - the baby babies are UNBEARABLY cute.





I know! My heart just melted when that happened - it's a new one for me, as the dancing with a child option hasn't always been there.



Hmmm....that may work, thank you! I'll give him another try. Maybe different hair would help.



Hee. She does like that bikini. She changes into it at every opportunity (snuck into the hot tub while Sikozu and John were talking, and Aeryn was reading to the baby). Which stunk because she was at J&A's house, so I couldn't control her, and so couldn't tell her to get properly dressed for cake and singing.

I'm very tempted to make a humanoid Rygel, just so I can add him to the mix. It won't be the same, but it's better than no Rygel at all.

And Scorpy and Braca will be coming soon. Life in Suburbia is too quiet, and not nearly soapy enough. They desperately need some villians (and I'm hoping for torrid affairs, faked deaths, and amnesia).

I am really enjoying this. Don't stop. :)

Hee! I had no idea you could find S/m get ups for your sims!

Just like Aeryn's real-life pregnancy! :-)


So does every Sim created as an adult only last for 29 days, then they become elders? Or if you create someone as an adult, do they just stay an adult with no time limit?

You, uh, kept count?

Can you create a child that stays a child? Could Rygel be a child? Or maybe have a Noranti/Rygel mix?

*spew!*

If they don't meet with an untimemy death - as I related in the Chiana thread, adult Sims can sometimes meet horrifying ends. They can die as adults of starvation, electrocution (from an appliance or from lightening - Sikozu's major want right now is to be struck by lightening and survive, the weirdo), drowning, alien abduction...the worst is when they catch fire and burn to death. There are probably others, but those are the ones I've experienced during gameplay. They also have a chance to survive any of those things, if they're strong enough when it happens/the fire is put out quickly enough. When enough of their life stats hit zero they die. And become a ghost. Scorpy's current want is to see the ghost of D'Argo - not good since D'Argo isn't dead.

You can't resurrect dead sims (though when the grim reaper comes to collect their little sim souls, there's a slim chance other sims can talk the reaper out of it. I've never been successful with that approach, so I save frequently.

Elders can also die of all of the above, but usually just die of natural causes after awhile.

Some of the guns I've been trying to get them (custom content other people created and made available, but for some reason they won't show up in my game) have the capability of killing sims with one shot. It'll be useful to get rid of some of the annoying game created townies - Scorpius can sit in his front yard and pick them off as they walk past.



No, they still only have 29 days (game days, which pass pretty quickly in real time). I always play with aging turned off, unless I'm purposefully trying to age someone. It's a cheat - the sims don't age, but there are still seasons, and night/day.



Yes, yes I did ;-) Only because conception usually happens after the 2nd time, and when I didn't hear the music, I started paying attention, and kept count when it started getting ridiculous. A lot of times I don't see the sims woohooing because they like to sneak off. Well, most of them. Some like to do it in public with passersby hooting and hollering.



You can only create a permanent child by turning aging off. I considered making Rygel a child, but there is no cheat to get children out of school (they spend most of their day in school, or doing homework) and they have childlike wants and needs. They can't interact with non-family members in a lot of ways, can't go out by themselves, and their aspiration is to grow up. I want Rygel to be a greedy bastard, who can properly interact with the others.

I created him full sized, and am pretty pleased with how he turned out, considering the constraints of the program. And Scorpius has arrived in the little sim town of I Have A Plan, and is already instilling fear (mostly in me lol) Pictures and story in the next post :-)

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It's been a very eventful couple of days for the sims. Zhaan and Rygel were reunited with their fellow Moyans. True to form, Aeryn and Zhaan compare notes on the afterlife while Rygel and Chi get excited about breakfast; then Aeryn and Sikozu had a chat about a space shuttle, Chiana and Zhaan discussed prison, and Rygel went to the bathroom.

There was a little friction, when Chi pranked Rygel, he got mad and made her cry, and Zhaan had to intervene. Later Ryg invited Chiana over to his castle, and even let her sit in his special chair (love that he dreams of himself). They gossipped and jammed and went for a dip in the moat. I think they'll be fine.

Scorpius has arrived.

His lifetime want is to be a mad scientist, but his first immediate want was for a toaster pastry, so I indulged him. Unfortunately for John, Scorpy saw him walking by the house, and invited him in - for a game...

*****

Whenever a new sim moves into the neighborhood, the established ones come by to say hello. Aeryn, Chiana, and D'Argo showed up while John and Scorpius were getting into it.

Scorpius and Aeryn got into a massive argument. I think the gist of it was, what the frell are you doing moving in across the street?

This is terrific!



*spew* Oh John! Beware.... *eek!*

OMG! That is SO amazing!!! I love the looks of the characters you've done! And the first thing John and Scorpius do is play chess???!!! Be afraid, be very afraid! And how'd you get that coffin in Scorpius's house? When John and Scorpius are arguing, John is talking about Aeryn, and what's Scorpius talking about with the red X over the brown blob?

And there are so many things that just seem right. Sikozu would totally want to be hit by lightning--probably would recharge her or something.

Things then took a unexpected turn - Sim Scorpy is very devious. As I said before, I anticipated a Chiana/D'Argo breakup when he discovered that this was going on.

After John and Aeryn left his house, Scorpius said something to Chiana. Then he said something about Chiana to D'Argo. And from the symbol above Scorpy's head, it was about an affair. But Scorpius can't know about Chiana and Sikozu - he hasn't even met Sikozu yet! It makes me very uneasy.

So D'Argo punches Scorpy, and then he attacked Chiana! She fought back but lost, and Scorpy looked on impassively and then went to bed.

The next sim day, Chiana stole D'Argo's paper (it disappeared from her hand after she picked it up, objects do that sometimes in the game - love the flames of fury around the image of D'Argo), and Zhaan counseled D'Argo. Hopefully both D'Argo and Chi will apologize to each other.

On the Sun-Crichton front, Aeryn got a new dress, Beheti had her first day of school, and love was in the air. They conceived their second baby! So I can document the pregnancy and infancy for everyone. Then they'll get to work on their adventurer careers :-)

Quizzical1, the coffin is a real bed - you can have vampires and werewolves in the game :-) And the thing over Scorpy's head is a jigsaw puzzle. I love thought bubbles - I'm telling myself this is a wormhole, even though it's probably not. It's what appeared when Zhaan asked John what his interests were. So, wormholes or recycling ;-)

Thank you for the compliments, it's a lot of fun, but time consuming as well, which is why I haven't been posting in the rewatch threads.

Bad D'Argo!



What does it mean when Chiana stole D'Argo's paper? What paper? *confused*

His newspaper ;-) She also knocked over his trashcan, but I wasn't quick enough to get a picture. He crank called her in return - this could stay messy. Next time I play, I'll have Scorpius and Sikozu meet. And I need to make Braca a house, so he can join in - I've made him already, but am kind of meh on house building at the moment.

Stark will be coming as soon as possible - I'm scouring the net for a suitable mask.

I'm enjoying this way too much! Now I want my own Sims game, and the only thing that is stopping me is that I know I wouldn't enjoy it nearly as much as reading your accounts.

This is awesome, Arevhat! I love all of it, but my favorite thing just might be Scorpy eating a Pop-Tart ;)

That makes me think--what have we ever seen Scorpy eat? Just John's brains? Plus the crystherium utilia flowers? Not a balanced diet.

Didn't Braca hand him some sort of hypo-spray that he plunged into his neck? I'm drawing a blank on any of the details, but for some reason I thought that was his sustenance.

Nothing like delicious brains, flowers, and Pop-Tarts, with a liquid nutrient chaser ;)

I couldn't resist ;-) And thank you.

Mmmm....brains.... There are custom foods you can download, I'll have to look for something that resembles brains and or flowers. I still can't get the guns to show up in my game, it's very frustrating. I think Aeryn is going into withdrawl, her pregnancy craving appears to be for weapons of mass destruction. Stark shouldn't encourage her.

You know it's Farscape when there's vomit. Poor Aeryn, it looks like she missed the bowl.

Eeeeew!

*starts looking for the hidden plot/emotion/storyline the writers were trying to sneak past the audience.*

How very Aeryn.

I find it hilarious and somehow strangely appropriate that Sim!Stark has emo hair instead of a mask. Hee!

I couldn't find an appropriate mask (the closest I came was a white Phantom of the Opera mask, and that showed his eye anyway), so I figured if Rygel could be as tall as the rest, and Zhaan could come back from the dead, Stark could grow his hair out. He does have an applique around his eye that is hard to see, with all the hair - it was meant for 'Autumn Elves', but it works in a pinch ;-) He was surprisingly hard to make - all your teenage sims will look the same age, all the adults, all the elders, etc - there's no range within the catagory. Paul Goddard isn't old by any means, but he does look older than John, Chiana, Aeryn, and Stark looks so worn...it's weird having him look so young and fresh here. But I was itching to be able to add him to the mix, and there's not much you can really do.


Firecracker - no hidden meaning yet, just morning sickness ;-) She also has to pee and eat about twice as often as before, tires quickly, and will be showing soon. I'm hoping for a boy this time :-)


The last posting was short because I had a mini dinner party to put on, but there were a more images from the short time I played yesterday - Aeryn was still thinking about her run-in with Scorpy, but they told Zhaan and Stark about the pregnancy.


Stark was very excited.

Zhaan calmed him down. He's a little fiendish, it's cute.

What happened next was interesting, since I didn't know it could happen. Zhaan went back downstairs to John & Aeryn, and Stark looked through the telescope during the day, and was apparently aimed at Chiana's house. The brown house you can see there with the above ground hot tub is D'Argo's, the girls are across the street in the greenish house with the silver car, and John & Aeryn are next to them, with the black car. Rygel is on the other side of Zhaan, and Scorpius is on the other side of D'Argo, across from the Crichtons. Anyway, Stark appeared a little shocked by whatever he saw, but kept on peeping, until Chi ran up behind him and gave him what for. I'm a little surprised she minded. Maybe Sikozu sent her over.

Stark responded by literally growling at her, and she left to talk to John. Maybe she found funding for his experiments? He looks very happy.

Stark took a nap, and then apologized to Chiana, and she accepted.

And poor Chi does get in trouble where ever she goes, without even trying. There's a townie (game created character) named Mrs. Cumplebottom - Chiana was minding her own business, warning Rygel about Scorpius, and this woman starts lecturing her. I was happy to see that my girl responded by making the 'you're crazy' hand gesture, though in that last pic it looks like she wants to shoot herself in the head.

Next time: Sikozu and Stark meet Scorpius, and Stark meets Rygel.

Mrs. Cumplebottom's got quite a bitchin' pillbox hat! Her name makes her sound like a refugee from the Shire, though...

I love Stark, and "emo hair" is the best description ever :)

Hee, a Shire refugee - I mistyped Crumplebottom, though I don't know which one is worse ;-)

I have an emo outfit I could give Stark, to go along with his hair.

I hadn't notice the way you mistyped it. But now that you mention it, I see. And the way you mistyped it? Much worse! When I checked and saw the mistyping just now--I literally had to struggle to avoid spewing over my keyboard the water in my mouth from the drink I just took.

Sorry about your keyboard, Quizzical ;-)

It appears that D'Argo and Aeryn may be planning some sort of robbery. More interesting to me - John got a haircut and new clothes. Much better and sexier in Aeryn's opinion.

I was going to use this tree hit by lightening as an example of fire in the game, but there was a much MUCH worse one! It was traumatic, I didn't know kids could catch fire. I know they can't die - I think if their stats go down enough, the social worker comes and gets them. Luckily, they put her out, but in the commotion, Aeryn left the stove on. Remember to change the batteries in your smoke detectors!

Later, most of the gang went out, except for some weird reason, Rygel wouldn't sit and eat with the others, even though I ordered him the lobster themidor he wanted. It also seems they discussed Maldis.

Chiana loves her new undies.

This interaction weirded me out so much! It's Starkozu! They separated okay, but then Sikozu started drinking. I've never seen a sim drink straight from the bottle before. I've never seen two get their heads stuck together either though.

The experience also appeared to upset Stark. But Zhaan made everything better.

More in a moment, don't want the post to get cut for length :-)

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Let's see....

Our Dominar got some new threads. Very dignified. Stark agrees. They seem to get along. Mostly.

Sikozu made a futile effort to get herself struck by lightening. Not even the pool during a storm worked. Maybe next time.

She also became very irate at the mess caused by the broken bathub. I was a little scared.

She first encountered Scorpius one night while she was stargazing, and he passed by. She invited him in, and he went straight for Chiana's drums. Look, they both dislike friendships. She went over to his house, where he inquired about space travel and it appears she offered the Farscape module. A partnership seemed promising but there was tension.

Continued in a moment...

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Just a few cute random photos.

Back to Stark for a minute - he had an encounter with Scorpius, who is doing the same research as John, only using Stark as a lab rat. Stark makes the most of it - thrill me again, Scorpy!

Unfortunately for Stark, but fortunately for us, because it's damn funny, his run in with Scorpius seems to have left him even more unbalanced that usual. He fashioned himself a pet, named it Sir-Bricks-A-Lot and tried to teach it to sit up, but was unsuccessful. Still, he loves it very much. It's oddly touching.

*****

Continued....

John and Chiana had a rock paper scissors rematch, with John victorious. I love these two.

D'Argo loves his makeover so much he did a strange little dance. He also tended his farm and orchard, and went fishing with John. He's also mending things with Chiana.

Asto the biggest development, after a short yet tiring pregnancy during which John was very excited and very cute and romantic, and more than a little bit horny, Aeryn went into labor and gave birth.

It's a girl!

Introducing Stella Sun-Crichton. She's so cute it makes my ovaries ache.

So very adorable!

That's it for this update, enjoy!

That was awesome, Arvehat. Thanks! Did you choose John's shirt and haircut, or was that a game choice? It's exactly his shirt and hair! And did you tell Stark to fall in love with Scorpius, or was that a game choice?

I chose John's hair and clothes for him - he had the others because they were the best options that came with the game, and I hadn't yet found appropriate custom content to download. SO glad I finally did, my mother can stop telling me they all look great except for John ;-)

It was the game's choice to have Stark make googly-eyes at Scorpius, though I gave Stark his turn-ons - underwear and full face makeup (for chemistry with Zhaan - there are limited turnons and turnoffs). Scorp is wearing full face makeup though (the wrinkly bits), so it works there too I guess.

Glad you liked it! Next time I play, I'm sending Aeryn to work in her Adventurer career while John stays home with the girls and works on the wormhole contraption, and I may get Chiana and D'Argo back together, at least for a short while. He's growing on me, with his cute haircut and apologies. Plus, I give Sim!D'Argo Anthony Simcoe's natural voice and that helps a looooooot with the attractiveness of the character ;-)

I love your Sims! It's like a peek into an Unrealized Reality where all of the Moyans are living in a suburb together!

The weird thing about these Sims is that they seem to act almost exactly as they would on the show, just in suburbia instead of in space. Will there be a Noranti sim? She would probably make fast friends with Scorpy, Stark, Zhaan, and Rygel. Not to mention, you'll have a crazy witch drug dealer around to play with Chiana and John's fragile psyches. She could also tell the Sun-Chricton kids ghost stories...

Or you could have a Peacekeeper house with Grayza, Braca, and Crais to pay unexpected "visits" to John and Scorpy.

The weirdest similarity was Stark and Sikozu starting to merge into Starkozu. I mean, really!

Yeah - very cool.

Thanks, Raksha!



There will be a Noranti sim very soon, also Crais. I had a Braca made but deleted him once he was in the game, he just didn't look anything like he was supposed to, so I'll start over. Grayza I'm torn on. I hate her so much, but maybe it would be good to have a truly evil character in the mix - Scorpius is causing some chaos, but he also has admirers in Stark and Sikozu. I would love to come up with some way to represent Pilot and Moya...if I could create my own custom content I'd give it a try, but I don't know where to begin. You can upload video files into the game that the sims can watch on their tvs - it's possible that someday they'll be able to 'talk' to Pilot that way :-)

For Noranti - you can buy different potions in the game from certain townies, so I'll have to figure out how to give Noranti that ability. I sooooo wish I could get some weapons in there, even if they're decoration. Aeryn would be so much happier.

I agree about the weirdness in the simularities sometimes. I gave them their basic personalities, and then set them free to interact...free will is turned on, and I give them small nudges now and then, but pretty much just allow them to do what they want, which almost always happens to be what the characters probably would. They're such good sims.

The Starkozu thing was delightful - I was sitting there clapping my hands with glee ;-) You can't make that happen. They were sitting outside, hanging out, and it started to hail, so they stood up and looked around, with their hands out, but it looks like they're communing with each other. And then I guess they were in the right position to pass through each other when they leaned forward to protect themselves from the hail. Inanimate objects pass through eachother all the time in the game, and a sim standing close to a wall will have their arm pass through it, things like that. But I've never seen two sims pass through each other. And that it happened with these two - perfect =D

Doesn't Sims 2 come with the chemistry kit from Sims 1? Also I think Sims 1 came with an expansion that was supposed to be all about ghouls, ghosts, and magic potions. Bare in mind, I haven't played the game in more than five years, so I'm not keen on the difference between the two games; however, I would imagine that aspect of the game would have carried over to its sequel.

No; it has none of that, unfortunately....you can buy love potions ans potions for your pets, and can be turned into a werewolf if a certain dog bites you. Ghosts appear after a sim dies in the game. I've heard that with Sims 2 they pretty much started over, and didn't include many things people enjoyed from the first game, but I never played Sims 1, so I'm not sure.

Wow. I just found this thread, but this is great. I have no idea how Sims work, but now I want one. Is it software for the computer or do you need one of those game thingees? If it's for a computer, I might buy one. Not that I'd get anything close to the FarScape world. I don't know how much is the player and how much is the computer, but from what you've said, Arevhat, I'm guessing you give traits and things and the computer plays it out? Sounds like fun - and the kind of computer game I could handle. You know, the kind where Ninjas don't suddenly appear through the woodwork and you have to fight everyone. I'm pretty terrible at that kind of thing.

I've loved watching the Earth Saga so far, Arevhat! Keep it up!!!

It's for the PC :-) Sims 2 is the base game (I didn't have a computer when Sims was big, so I never had a chance to play it) and then there are a bunch of optional expansion packs that each add lots of new objects, actions, career paths, game events, etc. So far the expansion packs are University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, and Seasons. Bon Voyage is expected in the fall, but it might be spring before I get it - they run about $30/30 euros each, and it would be smarter, especially with the current exchange rate, to order it from Amazon and pick it up when I visit my family in the states in the spring.

There are also $20 Stuff packs that I've never bothered with - they have clothes, furniture, things like that. I've been playing it since the base game came out in 2004 but only sporadically until now. You also need a desktop with a good processor - it would run on my laptop but so slowly it was extremely frustrating.

Be warned that it's very addictive ;-) And if you're a perfectionist like me, it's can even get aggravating - you delay playing with the characters until you have everything perfect around them, and feel annoyed every time something doesn't go/look right ;-) But all in all I think it's a fantastic game. Like the best, most exciting dollhouse ever. Before Sims my gaming was limited to occasional Majesty and Zuma, so I don't know how it rates with someone exposed to a wide variety of games, but I love it.



If you do get it, try the Farscape world :-) It's not as difficult as it might look - and it's a lot of fun playing around with other people's characters. I've had many original sim creations in the past, but these guys are beoming my favorites. And yes, when you create your sim (which I've apparently been doing wrong all this time, by creating them in the game itself...I just found out that if I had created them in Body Shop (a free program that has never run on any of my computers) I could have saved them upon their creatio, copied, saved, etc. I could have had two Johns! *sniff*) you're able to determine their personality - you set a marker anywhere you like on the spectrums of serious/playful, active/lazy, outgoing/shy, sloppy/neat, mean/nice...I think there are about 8 different catagories. You also choose two turnons and a turnoff (very general choices, like haircolor and body type) and adults/teens are given an aspiration - what kind of sim they are and what they most want in life. The choices there are Knowledge, Popularity, Romance, Family, Fortune, and Pleasure. Contrary to how it sounds, the Romance sims are the dirty sluts of the sim world, while Pleasure sims just want to have a good time all the time, which includes sex, but doesn't revolve around it to the exclusion of all else. I have had some bad experiences with Romance sims - never again. I made Chiana Pleasure, D'Argo Family, Rygel Fortune, and most of the others are Knowledge.

There is also supposedly a hidden aspiration with Nightlife, where your sim can have a Grilled Cheese Sandwich aspiration - I have not seen it myself though, so it may be an urban legend.

Once you have your sims in the game, with their personalities, wants, and fears (wants and fears change constantly, depending on the sims' mood and how many you've fulfilled, they pretty much run themselves. With free will turned on (the game default) they do and go where they want, and come up with new wants and fears by themselves. A lot of the time they will carry out the wants with no prompting if they're able, but you can also direct them to make things run more smoothly. For instance, one of Chiana's wants was to juggle. So I clicked on the expresso maker while she was the active sim, and chose 'juggle cups'. To me, that's still free will on the part of the sims, I'm just helping them out. I also have to exert my will over them to get certain characters to start interacting (since the sims can't really hijack a leviathan together ;-) but once they know each other, it's cool how naturally and rightly they behave most of the time.




No Ninjas, but there are fires, freezing, electrocutions, mortal enemies, repo men, social workers, and sims that turn into gibbering idiots who talk to giant rabbits ;-) I could have the last happen to John, but I feel like it would be mean, and require a lot of twisting on my part, though the pictures would be great.



Thank you :-) I haven't had as much time to play lately, but finally was able to put together an update:

I gave Scorpius a chair. In suburbia, the Aurora Chair has been replaced by a cosmotology chair, but Stark still seems pleased to be chosen.

Scorpius and Sikozu went on a creepy date where they toasted something that sounded suspiciously like Kaloosh. Scorpy got a little intimidating, but smoothed things over and they went back to his place where they....recreated. I was very happy that the game doesn't show you wants going on under the covers.

Immediately afterwards, Scorpius got up and wrote an email about it.

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*snort*

Who too?

I suppose it's okay that Sikozu is dallying with Scorpius, because Chiana has been stepping out too. As cute as this was -though their singing made me finally, truly understand the term 'caterwauling' - it made me miss my girls. I'm hoping for lots of loose relationships and secrets.

Later, she came by, they talked and kissed and made love in D'Argo's truck, and then again in his bed. He made her spaghetti, but they seem to have opposing views on earth.

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John, actually ;-)

I'd like to introduce Talyn. I downloaded a submarine house another user had created and made available on www.modthesims2.com, stripped it down, and redecorated to make him look a bit more like a leviathan warship hybrid. I love his kitchen. His weapons are bonfires that college sims use, but it has the added bonus of allowed Captain Crais to roast marshmallows.

The first person Crais met was John, but it was a little tense. He talked with Talyn (I use cheats to allow different objects to occupy the same space, in a kind of lame attempt to approximate an engine room ;-) and Aeryn stopped in, spoke with Talyn and discussed weapons with Crais.

Things were going smoothly until Crais let his feelings be known, and Aeryn rejected him. He tried again, butgot angry.

Still, they're on good enough to terms for Crais to visit the Sun-Crichton house, something I haven't been able to have happen with Scorpius, because of all the anger and hate. But Bialar may be on shaky ground - he was rude to Beheti, so she built up static shock rubbing her feet on the carpet, and shocked him. John told her to apologize, but Crais wouldn't accept.

Really? John?

And they say women gossip! roflmao!

Yup ;-) He went in and sat down at the computer, and his wants were 'write email' and 'talk to John', so I combined them. I'm dreading having John check his email though - I half want him to save Sikozu from making a terrible mistake, and but then I also want their relationship to remain secret for as long as possible...I don't know how Chi would react. Anyone else, she probably wouldn't care, but she hates Scorpy after what he did to her and D'Argo.

On the domestic front, Aeryn loves being a mommy.

Stella is a total cutie. John has diaper duty.

A very happy family.

Birthday Girl! She looks like daddy. Mommy missed the party because of work, but Beheti played with her sister and shared toys. Stella also loves Polaris.

Aeryn's Adventurer career is progressing well - she was an Ambassador's Aide, then a spelunker, and a multi-national sim of some interest. She was just ptomoted to deep sea diver, but I don't have a picture of her work uniform - this was a cool work dilemma that popped up during the spelunker days - Mr. Arevhat pointed out it was a literal wormhole. Unfortunately, I didn't get to choose for her because the box disappeared after I tried to save the cap in Paint.

Chiana still loves to cook and she got a job in a fast food joint in her quest to be a celebrity chef.

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The wormhole pic above will also give you an idea of how the game looks in play, since it's a screencapture, and not a picture taken with the game's camera - Beheti is the active sim there, you can see her current wants/fears/need status.

With Seasons, it's possible to be having a summer pool party at one house, while next door, it's a winter wonderland, complete with penguins. Spring came early though.

Beheti is growing up fast - next time I play, it'll be time for her to become a teenager. Right now she still loves her lemonade stand, runs to meet Aeryn when she comes home from work, dreams of books, and wakes up so adorably. She taught the dog to shake paws, and spends a lot of time hanging out with Chiana (and love of flying runs in the family). Chiana is teaching her gymnastics - they have a lot of fun.

She's also old enough for the telescope, which makes Aeryn proud. After Chiana, Stark is the Moyan she wants to spend the most time with.

On the other hand, Stella is everyone's darling (she's much more outgoing), especially D'Argo's. It melts my heart towards him. A little. Interestingly, perhaps because of their custom alien skintones, D'Argo/Chiana and Sikozu/Scorpius are not genetically compatible enough to have a baby.

Noranti is completely inappropriate. She also discusses potions and bugs, radiates stinkwaves, and eats rotten food without getting sick. She was very excited about Stella's birthday.

This was a mistake on my part - sims are jealous creatures, with certain actions deemed romantic no matter what. So you have to be careful. I had pretty much the whole gang at John and Aeryn's, Zhaan gave D'Argo a 'leap into arms' hug of her own accord, and it got Chiana and Stark very upset. I like how Rygel just keeps eating. D'Argo slapped Chi back, and then went and cried. Stark and Chi sat down on the floor looking very despondent, and Aeryn tried to cheer them up.

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And a few random happenings:

Chiana bought some lawn ornaments, while Sikozu attempted to exercise and failed again to get struck by lightening, despite her best efforts.

Chiana busted a move.

John does dishes and works from home, Stella loves her bear. And Aeryn is teaching her to walk.