sul sul! introducing... a 100 baby challenge! i've tried doing one before but the game kept breaking. it's been a couple years though, so i'm hoping it'll work out better this time around!
here's my girl, ami, in her party outfit - she's supposed to have the makeup in all outfits except everyday, but the game removed it for some reason so. she doesn't have it in any of the screenshots lol. i put it back on and hopefully it'll stick this time!
Ami Keyn
gloomy
genius
family-oriented
i think she's really pretty. i tried to give her a kind of thin gaunt gloomy look but in a pretty way, and i also wanted her to have that "not wearing makeup" look with makeup off so i didn't give her blush by default (i usually slap blush on all my sims to make them cuter lol).
i wanted her to have an even narrower gaunter face, but it kept looking too uncanny or ugly so i scaled it back to this. i like that she looks kind of generically pretty with makeup on but a bit more distinctive without makeup! realistic imo haha.
i'm trying to not do cheats, but i'm cheating motives once in a while when things get unmanageable. otherwise, rules i'm playing by are thus:
- mother has to work from home
- no nannies/butlers
- no one can move in
- she can't get married
- to age up early, kids have to meet specific requirements; otherwise they have to just age up when they age up
- one partner per pregnancy, no doubling up
- if a sim decides they dislike something / want to change a trait, i'll let them (mostly)
- aspirations/traits for the kids are all randomized
i've got heaps of mods installed, some of which make things somewhat easier. i'm not too intense about the rules aspect. also i have all the expansion packs and most of the game packs.
my game is already crashing occasionally, probably due to some mod or another; i might move a bunch out of my folder for this save if this persists, because it's very bad.
we're at five kids at the moment! first there was Annie, then the second pregnancy was TRIPLETS (good god what a nightmare) - Beato, Bito, and Bea, and the youngest is Celene.
the triplets were & are a fucking nightmare. oh my god. i wasn't going to use any cheats at all but ami literally couldn't sleep or piss - she was just constantly going from baby to baby taking care of them until she passed out over and over again!! i underestimated how much additional suffering the infant lifestage would add to babies.
once i've gotten her some reward points and traits to smooth things over + annie is old enough to help out around the house cheats won't be necessary any more i suspect.
ami is turning out to be a pretty funny sim. i like her a lot actually! she fucking hates everything - most activities i've had her try she has decided she dislikes. she doesn't like programming, video games, painting, or writing. she's acquired the "squeamish" trait and the "unflirty" trait. one of my mods has expanded relationship stuff wrt pregnancy, including a setting for how much they're looking forward to having kids - she started off wanting kids, then switched to neutral after having a few, then switched to Not wanting kids any more.
the goofy "good reputation" mechanic seems to have mistaken her sleeping with a couple people and being on good terms with her kids as her being "popular", so she gets a huge boost when meeting new people and gets calls with job offers every couple of days. i started her off as a social media girlie, now she's in fashion.
despite the big boosts from her good reputation, a couple levels of charisma skill, and 7 levels of romance skill, she's been striking out hard for a while. she's awful with people; she'll make a good first impression and then immediately tank her relationship with the person on their second interaction. i have never had this much trouble getting a sim laid before. it is usually very easy.
ami, however, has an off-putting vibe. guys are Not Into Her.
that last one with the earrings was a cupid's corner date. they hit it off so badly; he wasn't interested in interacting with her at all. they both wandered off, she ended up posing in front of the bathroom mirror for some reason while he played computer games?? i ended that date early.
after a few failed attempts at flirting at home and in public, i figured the romance festival might be better - what with the flirty potions and whatnot. i even left the kids at home. surely ami can't fail to get a guy at the romance festival! i only need one, after all.
...here's some pics of ami striking out at the romance festival.
it would probably help if she wasn't always so miserable due to the filthy house and screaming kids and never sleeping, but i've been having poor luck with her and socializing even when i cheat her needs up!
i kinda like that she always seems sort of pissed off; gloomy sims usually do a lot of crying, but she mostly just gets mad because she's so Uncomfortable all the time.
after a bunch of tries, i felt bad for her and let her give up on the festival and go home. the repeated failed attempts at flirting were compounding her terrible mood and it just wasn't going anywhere. sorry, ami.
she slouch-walked the whole way home like this, scowling all the way.
later i took the kids to the children's festival over in mt. komorebi and tried flirting with guys there, too. same thing; good first impression, disastrous attempts at further interaction. it's not like she's mean! she's not mean! it's just that no one likes her flirting - even when i use the options that aren't the pathetic "unflirty" versions, the interaction fails. even if they like her, even if her Romantic Introduction lands super well, even if they're best friends.
i have pics of even more guys she failed to flirt with, but you get the idea hahaha.
yeah, i know babe.
the plan was to not have any major breaks from being pregnant until the household is full, but finding a new guy for that sixth baby is turning out to be pretty tough. i think the combination of her unflirty trait and her always being in a bad mood due to sleep deprivation and stinkiness is just too much atm. also, i forgot to give her turn-ons and turn-offs & other likes/dislikes, so i think that wasn't helping - i popped into CAS and randomized some for her, in the hopes of facilitating better matchups.
with the triplets in M-F daycare & Annie in school and a maid cleaning the house, things are improving a bit; there's just Celene to look after at home, and Ami has a bit of time to sleep and shower and sometimes even do stuff for work. Ami got to ride her bike around and i discovered she really enjoys that! finally something she doesn't immediately hate!
despite being so miserable and the kids constantly being filthy and screaming, Ami does like the kids and the kids like her.
since they've just been a gauntlet of constant crying/bathtime/food the babies dont have much personality, so i'll give profiles on the kids when they're children. Annie and the triplets all have the "unhappy infant" trait due to the nightmare of four simultaneous babies.
in other exciting happenings, a townie who froze to death down the street has ambled into the house in ghost form a few times.
this happens a lot in winter with the seasons pack; townies freeze to death somewhere in the vicinity and will wander over to your house. fortunately this one didn't break anything! she just looked around for a bit. as long as she doesn't get too disruptive i don't mind.
i added a bunch of people on social bunny; i forgot that sims just autonomously and unannounced do a bunch of stuff on that, so Ami does have a bunch of really close friends i only vaguely know who they are. she's got a bustling social life online, but in person she's a mess...
her online fashion job is going okay; she got jumped up to level 5 with her "good reputation" inroad, and i've gotten her most of the skill levels for the next promotion. just need to get her writing score up. it's tough because she decided she hates writing, but oh well.
to close out this initial update, here's a last Ami anecdote: i cheated her needs up and sat her down to practice writing for a while for work. when she got really pissed off from doing something she hated for too long, i told her to stop.
a second later she autonomously hopped back onto the computer to write a blog, making herself even angrier in the process.
she has the true spirit of a blogger, no?
one last pic so you can see her sans makeup not making an outrageous face. she's so pretty :) i love cc skin details haha.
