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Another post about buildings and Oz
Feb. 5th, 2004 04:33 pmI stupidly didn't think to back up my Sims data when uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Fortunately, my old families and houses were still in the Export folders, so I was able to get them back. I think I accidentally deleted one of my houses, though, and nobody has any friends anymore. It's not a big deal, especially since most of my families are rich enough that they don't really need to get any more promotions, but making friends is one of the more tedious aspects to the game, especially since Hot Date. I think friend-making would be more fun if you had more direct control over it--letting YOU decide what to talk about, for instance, and how your Sim reacts to what other Sims do to them. There are a lot of improvements I think could be made, though, many of which are probably impossible due to programming restrictions. Maybe I'll write about them sometime, but not right now.
I might actually want to rebuild some of my richer Sim families' houses from scratch. I'm not really very good with design, and most of the houses I made don't really have very nice layouts. I was purposely trying to be tacky and/or nonsensical with some of them, but others just didn't work out as well as they might have. My best house might be the "castle" one, which really doesn't look much like a castle (that's pretty much impossible without turrets and such), but does have a fairly logical layout.
In non-Sims news, I got the 2003 issue of Oziana, the International Wizard of Oz Club's fiction magzine, in the mail. So far, I've read the first two stories, "The Bashful Baker of Oz" and "Tik-Tok's Transformation." The former was very good, I thought. I remember the author, Kieran Miller, mentioning it on Nonestica, and being interested in reading it. Since it focuses on fairly ordinary Ozites rather than established celebrities, it provides a somewhat different perspective on Oz and the Emerald City. The latter story was okay, although I don't think its premise (Tik-Tok coming to life) was explored that fully, and it didn't really work the way I would have expected it to, either. It's interesting to know that Ozma apparently still carries a grudge against Eureka many years after Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, however.
I might actually want to rebuild some of my richer Sim families' houses from scratch. I'm not really very good with design, and most of the houses I made don't really have very nice layouts. I was purposely trying to be tacky and/or nonsensical with some of them, but others just didn't work out as well as they might have. My best house might be the "castle" one, which really doesn't look much like a castle (that's pretty much impossible without turrets and such), but does have a fairly logical layout.
In non-Sims news, I got the 2003 issue of Oziana, the International Wizard of Oz Club's fiction magzine, in the mail. So far, I've read the first two stories, "The Bashful Baker of Oz" and "Tik-Tok's Transformation." The former was very good, I thought. I remember the author, Kieran Miller, mentioning it on Nonestica, and being interested in reading it. Since it focuses on fairly ordinary Ozites rather than established celebrities, it provides a somewhat different perspective on Oz and the Emerald City. The latter story was okay, although I don't think its premise (Tik-Tok coming to life) was explored that fully, and it didn't really work the way I would have expected it to, either. It's interesting to know that Ozma apparently still carries a grudge against Eureka many years after Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, however.
