I think I’ve accepted that I will never have another TS2 hood besides Kulo Seeri. I’d have to keep them all in separate Sims 2 folders to minimise purple soup, but I hate having to update mods in more than one cut! Believe me, I’ve tried... and no matter what else I set up, I always feel dissatisfied with it and come straight back to KS. Especially since I also despise building with a fiery burning passion.
This means I will have to scratch most of the ideas I had off my TS2 bucket list, and that I’ll probably never use any of the hundreds of gigabytes of non-KS-appropriate CC on my external hard drives, so it’s a little bit of a depressing revelation. It means I’ll never actually play any of the following:
- that Elephant Sea uberhood I keep wanting to do
- Turnstone, the haven for misfit supernaturals I planned out last year
- my Plants vs. Zombies 2 inspired 15-gen legacy idea with each generation named after one of the mint families
- or even the mining subhood I was planning to attach to KS in this iteration.
Worst part? Kulo Seeri itself sort of feels like it lacks purpose at times. I mean, it’s my escapism and my comfort blanket, but at least I had a goal fifteen years ago when it was a third-rate alphabet legacy. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t actually want to play to a challenge ruleset - escapism and bookkeeping are polar opposites for me - but most of the time, when I go into the next household in my rotation, I’m like “what do I even do with this bunch?!”
Gameplay becomes a little repetitive. My sims don’t farm, have careers or businesses, or even use that many of the Sun&Moon manufacturing stations. Very few of them actually have a role - just the headwoman, shaman, loreleepers and Vedraloga - and not much distinguishes those households either. I’ve added ACR and other romance mods back to my game, and I’m sort of regretting that decision because I already have four pregnancies in KS and I’m only on household 3. My sims look like they’re wearing uniforms - I wish I had a more varied and colourful clothing selection, but I couldn’t mesh or texture my way out of a paper bag, and most of what’s available for tribalish settings turns my aroace stomach.
I think I need a little more time for soul-searching. I want to play, but I can’t focus because of all this. Half my mods were added in anticipation of having a subhood that does actually trade and farm and stuff, and now that’s rendered useless by purple soup, and I have too many conflicts again and it’s frustrating me. But I refuse to redo anything while I’m still testing positive.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading! Any advice is appreciated :)
