I'm gonna do something I've never done... Fill every single empty lot by actually making the family and house. That way there are more people for the Payne's to interact with.
(And more places to go, not all the places will be homes)
I forgot I had life’s drama mod turned on... and went to let the dog out and... a little ways down the street...
This teen is just on fire... while a celeb watches.
Maria to the rescue! but she literally got whisked away to work a moment later so i don’t know if I’m gonna come back to a on fire sim or a dead sim on their sidewalk...
Update, after getting to work and getting on the computer, this popped up... guess she saved her? Unknown why it’s a baby bottle symbol...
So without my intervention Grayson has discovered, talked to and made friends with the monster under his bed...
I’m only shocked because normally they all run to tell their parents about the monster.
He just stood up and went “Haa ha haaa” like the generic superhero theme thing then “tee hee”...
And now he’s taking a nap.
Meanwhile his older brother Gabriel (the criminal) is napping in his father’s money...
I just watched Toby literally pass out. Shaky legs then just PLOP on the floor. I have enough pet beds bud... (That’s why those two Zs are way to the right... he fell over)
Meaning a literal day not a Sim Day because those are way too fast.
Curfew is set to 9pm (only for Grayson as he is the only child)
Pet bowl is filled
Beds are assigned
Kitchen side door is locked for everyone but household
Fishtank is fully stocked with fish
Turns out I put in the Vault door backwards...whoops
I accidentally locked the man in the vault... again... whoops
OKAY turns out that’s just a door and not a vault....
There is now a vault... IN the “vault”...(I wanna play Fallout 4 now..)
Edmund loaded up his vault then started playing in it
meanwhile no one has left the entryway except Grayson who’s on his brother’s computer while Toby barks at him...
Added in career stuff. Edmund’s desk is all set up, Gabriel’s “Crime Cave” has stuff in it and Joelle has a new piano, stereo as well as her two awards.
We’re gonna leave them all alone for about 5 real time minutes at 2x speed...
Minute down and the twins have not stepped away from the TV... now their father and brother have joined them... the mom is on her daughters computer.
Set lock settings on the laptops...
The mom joined them in watching TV X.x
THEY STOPPED! =D They’re not super lazy after all! (To be fair they were standing...)
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Ending day 1 early cause my neck is killing me from sitting here for hours making the house...
Not gonna do one of these every day but I’ll probably try to think of other thinks to do to make this blog more interesting.
Obviously they’re a Sims 4 family; but who are they really? (Yes this is super fricken cheesy and I don’t care, I’m having fun with it.)
Click Read More to get to the actual “Profiles”
For now, I need to actually get everyone to the right career and give them all their appropriate skills.
Using our handy dandy notebook CTRL+SHIFT+C and “testingcheats true” I can now change skill levels and jobs.
Link to ... basically all cheats
Father, Edmund Payne is a successful Business Tycoon. He wants to be fabulously wealthy, he’s romantic, self-assured and frankly a bit of a snob.
Mother, Joelle Payne is a free spirit. She spends her days composing piano pieces for her performances as Professional Pianist. She wants to be a musical genius, she’s a music lover, natural singer and dancer. (NOTE:The traits Natural Singer and Dancer are from a mod.)
Gabriel Payne (Twin Brother to Maria) is a Minor Crime lord despite having only graduated the previous year from high school, he wants to be public enemy number one and one day pull off the greatest heist. Looks like he’s doing pretty good at being bad (I know that’s grammatically incorrect but shush). He’s a kleptomaniac, a programmer and hot-headed. (NOTE:The trait “Programmer” is from a mod.)
On the other hand Maria Payne (Twin Sister to Gabriel) wants to be friends with the world. She’s good, cheerful and charming. (NOTE:The trait “Charming” is from a mod.) She wants to be a detective and catch criminals... not doing so well if her own brother is a crime lord but oh well she is only a Cadet after all.
And last but not least we have Grayson Payne. Still only a child, he looks up to his mother and wants to be something “creative” when he grows up. He’s honestly just a little goofball that likes to draw.
(NOTE: The mod mentioned in this post is kawaiistacie ‘s Traits Bundle )
For the building of the “Payne” House (and setting up everyone’s careers later) I will be using cheats at first.
Ctrl + Shift + C to open the cheats window
“testingcheats true” to enable cheats
(Though I’m sure you all know that by now)
I’m going to enter “ bb.enablefreebuild “ to be able to build without money restrictions.
We’re on Hallow Slough a 30 x 20 lot in Willow Creek. I’ll be giving the lot the following traits: Private Dwelling, Homey, and Great Acoustics.
Their neighbors are the “Goth” Family.
Some must haves for this home are a vault for all of Edmund’s money, a music studio for Joelle, a “lair” for Gabriel, (Still don’t know what Maria’s going to be so her must have is unknown as of now), and of course all the child and pet stuff they could ever need.
I absolutely LOVE the “Seasonal Entryway” I think I use it on literally every house I build so this will be no different. Going with the default Yellow.
However! I will be widening the room on each side by 1 and changing the front door.
Don’t worry I’m not going to do the entire house bit by bit like this (that would be a VERY long post) I will be showing off each room for each person on their own posts later on. For now, I gotta get to building this house...
Alrighty let’s say it’s been about an hour because I honestly don’t know how long it’s been and we’ve run into a problem. Sometimes I get OCDish about the placement of certain objects the couch and lamp below is an example of one of these moments.
I want the lap to be next to the couch... but there isn’t technically any room for it. SO “bb.moveobjects” will allow me to place the lamp where I need it.
Much better.
...
Okay time skip again, let’s say another hour if not two.
Finally DONE with the house. The only thing I need to do is add in the items the Sims get from their careers.
Here’s the outside and top down of each floor of the house: (and yes I am aware the vanity in the master bedroom is missing a chair, I added it in after)
The house is now complete. To see each individual room check each Sims’ ...”Profile Post”s
There are a plethora of hair and clothing mods I currently use, too many to link all of them there. I find them on The Sims Resource(TSR). If there’s something in particular you would like the link to please let me know and I’ll do my best to find it again.
Other mods I use include the following:
azoresman ‘s Set Gender Preference
kawaiistacie ‘s Traits Bundle (you’ll see a few of the sims of the “Payne” Family have a few of these modded traits.)
The rest of the mods I have are from kyutso (sacrificialmods) - Link is to the downloads page where they all are - but I don’t use all of them even though they’re installed.
I currently have the following: Life’s Drama, Armageddon, and The Cursed Painting (I don’t think I’ll be using some of these in this playthrough XD)
I was gonna do “Simily” like Sim family but that was taken so I got...creative?... not the right word...
Anyways I’m going to be focusing on ONE family, I will be using Mods and I’ll link everything and there’s gonna be photos and maybe videos and we’re just gonna follow this family along however long they last.
The Profile pic will be whoever the “Main” Sim of the house is (or whoever I control the most, honestly).
