I am very sorry for being so absent and not responding to comments or personal messages (42 unread messages in my inbox, oops). 
I love you for giving support or simply friending me because of downloads or other stuff. 

Half an hour ago - yes! - I got my gaming laptop back, a lot sooner than expected and I'm very excited to play again. I haven't played for at least six weeks and my little sister bought the Sims Medieval a week ago on Queensday fair. Price; five euros and looks good as new. 

And she's sweet enough to let me borrow it, so I'm going to have fun with that!

See you soon and thank you once again. <3

Instead of finishing my Magic Town lots - which I really should do, I'm such a slowpoke - I got this idea yesterday of remaking the Sims 1 base game hood for Sims 2. I already found this marvelous terrain + lots, but I want to build the lots myself. I also want to make the families who lived in the houses there and possibly make up a story about it.

There are several ties between Pleasantview and the sims 1 neighbourhood, not only the obvious Goths, Burbs, Michael Bachelor the time traveler and the Pleasants, but also the fact there is a cat lady, named Ginia who was introduced in Unleashed. A cat lady who's surname is Kat - and, she owns even more cats than Tara kat does. This Sims 1 lady could be her grandmother. Also, my personal headcanon says that Olive Specter lived here when she was young and was a frequent visitor of Magic Town. 

Then there's also Gunther Goth. We learnt he lived in Sunset Valley when the Sims 3 came out and we also know he's the father of Mortimer Goth living in the main neighbourhood. This is a very interesting fact because Gunther Goth was the founder of Sims 1's Old Town.  There are a lot of what's and why's and I want to discover what else is connected. 

The fact that Bella Goth and Kaylynn Langerak were both children in the Sims 3, and the fact that Bella was already an adult in the Sims 1 while Daniel Pleasant was still a child, makes me wonder how much older Kaylynn is than Daniel. Suddenly their relationship in the Sims 2 becomes a lot more .. interesting. 

I want a Sims history book.

So I'm having a bit of a problem. I don't know when it started, but I think I've located the problem. I just have no idea how to solve it.

Since a week or so, my families in my custom hoods that are on custom terrain maps refuse to fully load. The game screen freezes on the loading screen while the actual game just goes on. This only happens when sims live on the lot. I have no trouble entering a lot to build on.



This screenshot explains it better than I do. Everything's fine, except that the loading screen is stuck for some reason. I did the usual procedure of the Simswiki Game Problems, let it regenerate new folders etcetera. I tested one of the newly generated original hoods and they were doing just fine. I made a new, custom hood on one of the EA Game terrain maps and they worked just fine.

However, when I put back my custom terrain maps, made a hood with one of those and tried to get a family to load, I got stuck with the very same problem. I redownloaded the files, but that was of no help either. It's not a problem with my CC, as I left out the Downloads and SavedSims folder as well when testing.

The .sc4 files do show up as RollerCoaster Tycoon files, but they've been doing that for months since I installed that game, so I doubt that has anything to do with it. I wonder if it has to do something with the settings in the C:/ directory, but I don't want to experiment there with the chance to mess it up badly. 

I know I've quite some lovely people on my friendslist, so I'm wondering if you could help me out? :3

To be honest, I hadn't even noticed I was tagged by keoni_chan until I scrolled through her LJ to check her resources. :3

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
- Knee socks... (ssh)
- My Exam Polo I got from Highschool when I was in my last year(it's grey with pink letters and it is awesome)
- Multi Culti Knitted Scarf in Technicolour

THREE THINGS YOU WANT VERY BADLY AT THE MOMENT
- some piece of chocolate
- a ticket to Scotland, I miss a foreign friend very much
- spring

THREE PEOPLE WHO YOU HOPE WILL DO THE MEME
Um... I have no idea who hasn't been tagged yet.
heirbanaan
nuffysims
& ladengrey

THREE THINGS YOU DID LAST NIGHT
- Skyped with friends in the middle of the night
- Made something for the GoS monthly theme
- Tried and failed to clean up my room

THREE THINGS YOU ARE GOING TO DO TOMORROW
- Staring at the sky, hoping for more snow
- Going to the music practise day from orchestra
- Going to retrieve my repaired bike

THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE DRINKS
- Tea
- Coffee
- Orange Juice

THREE THINGS THAT MADE YOU SMILE TODAY
- Waking up only to see deers accross the meadow behind our yard
- Little brother asking me to play Lego Star Wars together because he wants to spend more time with me (ahwww.. unfortunately he had to go to school ten minutes afterwards)
- Snow! <3

On another note, I should probably make a dump post here, since I posted some sims stuff all over the place (walls on tumblr, some recolours on GoS and I also haven't shared the sims of the montly challenge yet). I am excellent in forgetting it about crossposting it to LJ. :P