Sims 2

27
Feb
2014

Introducing the #MonthofSims Twitter event!

#MonthofSims

As some of you know, the other game that I play a lot of along with The Sims 3 and the dozen or so indie titles that I love is Guild Wars 2. When 2014 rolled around one of the players started up a Twitter event called #GW2Project365 which involves posting a screenshot from the game once a day for a year. I thought it might be fun to do something similar for the Sims!

Rather than do the event for the remainder of 2014, I thought maybe I would start small and have this event last for the month of March. So I came up with the idea of #MonthofSims. If you are interested in participating all you have to do is the following:

-Post a screenshot from any of the Sims games (1, 2, or 3) once per day throughout the month of March with the hashtag #MonthofSims

-You can either upload the screenshot directly to Twitter or post it on your website and then link to there, either way is fine.

-Share the event with others so that more Simmers know about it. The more that know, the more that can participate and the more awesome Sims screenshots you get to see!

-HAVE FUN!  Enjoy posting silly, funny, sad, serious… basically any kind of Sims related screenshot that you wish (they do NOT need to be related to the Legacy Challenge, it can be anything Sims related!). Just make sure the hashtag #MonthofSims is included on the Tweet so that others can find your screenshots!

This will be a great way for fans to celebrate the game that they love so much, by sharing screenshots of their Sims with others.

I’ll start things off on March 1st on my Twitter page, but if you live in a different time zone and March 1st comes earlier for you than it does for me (I’m in EST) then feel free to get things started!

Posted by Mystic in #MonthofSims, General News
23
Feb
2014

Legacy Challenge Let’s Plays!

So first of all… whoa! Neither Pinstar or myself had any idea that there were so many Legacy Challenge Let’s Plays on Youtube. You guys do some amazing work!
We didn’t actually have a section on our Links page for Legacy Challenge Let’s Plays, but now we do. So if you’d like to check out some really awesome videos, check out the links page and look for the Legacy Challenge Let’s Plays section.

If you have a Legacy Challenge Let’s Play and don’t see yours on the list, please contact me by either leaving the information in a comment below or emailing me and I will add the link!

Posted by Mystic in General News
18
Jan
2014

ImaginingMystic’s Sims 2 Legacy Challenge – Update

Hi all!

Unfortunately there will be no Sims 2 Legacy Challenge chapter today. My Sims 2 game has decided to die again. It was having near constant errors for the last couple of weeks where I would only be able to play for a few minutes and then it would shut down. Now it won’t boot up at all.

I’m going to be honest here. I’m tired for fighting with the game. I tried getting everything moved to Origin, but only a few of the Sims 2 games are available there. So, I’m going to have to throw in the towel on the Sims 2 Legacy. I just can’t keep fighting with it. I am hoping to get a Sims 3 Legacy up soon and POSSIBLY do it as a YouTube Let’s Play instead of written chapters, but that is a big if at the moment. I have to see how my computer handles video recording and editing. I’m skeptical as to whether or not it can. If it can’t, I’ll do written chapters like I’ve been doing with the Sims 2.

I am sorry to everyone that has been reading my Sims 2 Legacy story. I was really having fun with it, but it’s just not worth the stress of fighting with The Sims 2 game anymore.

I’m hoping to get my Sims 3 Legacy up (in one form or another) by next Saturday, so stay tuned!

Posted by Mystic in Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 2 Stories
11
Jan
2014

ImaginingMystic’s Legacy Story – Chapter 7

Well here we are again for another Legacy story chapter. Interestingly enough, even though I’m still only partially into Generation 2 in the stories, I’m already well into Generation 5, almost Generation 6 in game. It’s nice to go back and see all of the Sims from the previous generations!

Sims 2 Legacy Chapter 6.18We last left our family with Lancy getting her first kiss from Jake. Aww, how sweet.

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Posted by Mystic in Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 2 Stories
04
Jan
2014

ImaginingMystic’s Legacy Story – Chapter 6

Chapter 5 of my story saw the birthday of the twins, Lancy and Baden. They are now teenagers, yay! However, as Sarahzsmyl pointed out after I posted Chapter 5, I neglected to mention the aspirations that the twins rolled. Whoops!

Baden rolled Romance and Lancy rolled Pleasure… *headdesk* Lancy’s lifetime want is to Become a Game Designer and I don’t remember what Baden’s was. At least Lancy’s LTW was one of the less painful Pleasure LTWs…

As I mentioned in Chapter 5, I decided to finally go ahead and add some custom content replacements to my game. I showed a picture of what Lancy looked like, but not Geneva. Here she is. I'm really loving the skintone replacement, it looks much more realistic.

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Posted by Mystic in Sims 2 Stories
28
Dec
2013

ImaginingMystic’s Legacy Story – Chapter 5

Hello again everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday.

Now that we’re back home and no longer traveling I can finally get back to playing my Legacy family and working on the Legacy story.

Sims 2 Legacy Chapter 5.1

It would seem that the walls in the Legacy household were not build to code. Snow should not be seeping in through the bottom like this. Yikes.

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Posted by Mystic in Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 2 Stories
08
Dec
2013

And now… a word from the Good News Department

*clears throat*  I am pleased to announce that….

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They’re baaaaaaaaaaack!

Just as randomly as my Sims 2 game stopped working for almost 3 weeks, it has randomly started running again!  My Legacy family is fine, just where I last left them and everything is right with the world again.

I have no idea what caused the game to have constant errors, all I know is that it is working again.  The only thing that changed is that Windows performed an update the other day.  So maybe that had something to do with it?

Who knows.  All I know is, I’m ecstatic right now!  I can’t wait to get this family to Generation 10!

Posted by Mystic in Legacy Challenge Stories, Sims 2 Stories
29
Nov
2013

Some updates and some sad news for my Legacy Challenge Story…

First off, I hope all of our American readers had a great Thanksgiving yesterday.  Also, Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate!

Secondly…. I guess I may as well give the sad news….

My Sims 2 game seems to be a goner.

It hasn’t been able to load without an error (a completely blank error by the way) for the last 2 weeks.  I’m not sure if the CD was scratched or if something else happened, but I have been unable to get it to load.  I had installed 2 other games in that time and I thought maybe they caused a conflict and deleted them, but that didn’t help the matter.  So it looks like my Sims 2 Legacy Challenge is done for… at least for the moment.  If I can figure out what happened with it and can get it working again, I will try to start it up.  However, I am not hopeful.  This tends to be the trend for me.  I get super involved in a Sims 2 Legacy only to have a glitch or game error completely destroy it.

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Posted by Mystic in Legacy Challenge Stories