A royal challenge
I took a break from my usual families to work on a Royal Challenge I started some time ago. My computer is sectioned off so I actually have two Sims games I could work on. My royal challenge is in Veronaville which is still pretty empty. It will be slow going and time-consuming. I have two families - rather like the Caps and Montys of the original set-up, but I got rid of them and have my own - same sort of Romeo and Juliet scenario but I'm going forward 7 generations. So, the daughter from one of the families was in love with the youngest son from another family. They eloped (to university) and then lived in a little house far away from their homes.
The two families are situated on opposite sides of the river - one has a giant black knight on their lawn facing the giant red knight on the opposite family's lawn. I'm trying to make their homes, etc medieval, but there are not a lot of suitable objects. There are only two medieval gowns that the queens and/or princesses can wear. The men can wear armour or some Star Wars type outfit, but that's it. There is no suitable clothing for kids (pirate uniforms for boys perhaps) or teens and young adults. I'm going to have to download some from somewhere.
Anyway, back to the story - I probably won't update on this Royal Challenge much, if at all, but it's the reason I haven't updated on the other families or posted pics.
The two families are:
ANAR: Kras (king), Niya (queen), Sakan (oldest son), Daron (youngest son - the Romeo). Sakan married Corana and had two children - Aniya and Aldhar. (The names are random - some I've stolen from astronomy books!) Sadly, Corana went nuts and had to be locked away - she died of starvation.
LANVI: Head of family - Markon; his wife, Ari; son Hadar and daughter Maya (the Juliet). Hadar married Dasol and had a boy, Krano.
Daron was killed by the Anar family (I drowned him in a pool pretending he was being attacked on a beach). (Maya was now alone and pregnant.) This of course angered the Lanvi family so they went to war. This involved killing off the men - Markon, Hadar and Sakan and Kras died later, leaving the widows and children (the oldest just became teens).
This meant experimenting with different methods of killing Sims. Having Daron's ghost around at Maya's place was a pain - he left puddles everywhere and eventually scared Maya to death and a screaming baby was left alone until the Social Worker came and took it then just hung around in the car and the game basically froze. So - I tried again and this time sent Daron's headstone elsewhere.
I put Markon and Hadar in an enclosed space and experimented with fire. Fireplaces were no good - the fires just went out eventually. But a barbecue, meant for outside use only, was perfect. Even with reasonable cooking skills, it caught fire and they had nowhere to go. Exit Lanvi men.
I experimented with a different method on Sakan - enclosing him in a confined space with rotten food. Apparently there was a possibility that flies would attack him. Instead, the piles of food caught fire and Sakan died of fire as well. This left Kras. He still had years of elderhood left, so I killed him with the 'death by flies' cheat. Perfect - took seconds rather than minutes.
Hadar's son, Krano, is the eldest of the third generation so he'll be the next king.
A major frustration with trying to do pre-modern Sims is that they're hard to keep happy. Their aspirations involve things like buying mp3s or cellphones. I don't let them so their aspiration level is in the red zone most of the time. This leads to nervous breakdowns, constant visits by the shrink and panhandling for simoleans at the roadside. Corana did it so often I had to get rid of her. She would have been locked up anyway. She was a danger to the children (still babies - who she ignored while going mad).
I need to make some other families - nobility (for potential marriage partners) and merchants and peasant types - that's going to take ages.
I'll leave this challenge there for now. Back to my regular Sims...
