Tolkien Sims!

[Lalwendë]

If you have both Sim City 4 and Sims (original version) installed on your PC, you can download characters you've created in the Sims to live in your cities, so you really could have Sauron in Barad Dur and so on, if you have any custom skins downloaded (maybe from the site I posted the link to).

I'm not sure that cities with roads, power stations and skyscrapers are very Middle-earth, but if you used the cheat for money, you could create something appropriate by sticking to little towns and having farmers' markets and so on.

Anyone with a really good graphics card could conjour up some really funny scenarios to take screenshots from! Especially if they enabled the 'disaster' option on Sim City - which if I remember rightly includes a volcano?

[JennyHallu]

You could have an appropriate Ninth Age city I suppose...

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

My, my, I know this is an ancient thread, but I had to say something. This is what got me lurking around here for a while, since the site in question (and all the stuff on it) is one of mine. We all have our little guilty pleasures, don't we? I was so touched by what I read that I decided to lurk around and learn more about the community -- and I liked it. So hello and thank you from a new poster/long time lurker.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Ibrîniðilpathânezel

My, my, I know this is an ancient thread, but I had to say something. This is what got me lurking around here for a while, since the site in question (and all the stuff on it) is one of mine. We all have our little guilty pleasures, don't we? I was so touched by what I read that I decided to lurk around and learn more about the community -- and I liked it. So hello and thank you from a new poster/long time lurker.

Awesome! You've given a Tolkien and Sims fan hours of fun with your skins and furniture! I have to say it was really good to find some Tolkien skins that were not based on the film characters/actors for once. Not only was it more fun to have the more unusual characters in the game but they are lovely to look at...and I couldn't stop laughing when Sauron caught Guinea Pig Disease

I'm off for another look now to see if you've done any new stuff.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

I've done new stuff, I just haven't gotten it posted since... last July, I think. It's been a bad year, and posting new things on the site can be a real time-consuming headache. But I have new stuff that will show up in time, both in meshes and skins and objects. Glad you've been enjoying it.

Sauron caught the guinea pig disease, eh? In my game, once upon time, Gandalf wound up with a foundling on his doorstep (don't ask me how that happened; I've never heard of anyone else getting a foundling, especially not when it's a single person living in the house!); it turned out to be a boy, so he named him Frodo. He got Frodo a guinea pig (as this was long before Unleashed and pets came along). The guinea pig loved Gandalf, but bit Frodo every chance he got. Poor little tyke wound up with the disease and... well, so much for foundling Frodo. Then there were Melkor and Sauron and the swimming pool of death. I'd forgotten to put in an exit ladder, and guests that used it kept dying until I realized what had happened. It seemed bizarrely appropriate, especially since the two of them didn't appear the slightest bit interested in it, but every guest they had practically made a bee-line for it. Sigh. And then there's my Yavanna and Aule. They have to live in separate houses, despite the fact that they love each other, 'cause when they're together for too long, they start getting on each others' nerves. Why does this remind me of the two of them in the Silmarillion...?

[Lalwendë]

Oooh, a foundling! I've heard rumours that could happen, and also rumours of twins! I got an alien abduction once but it was very annoying as it reversed the character's personality...

The swimming pool without an exit ladder is a good way of killing off characters in order to create ghosts - so long as you bury the urns on the lot. I made a haunted monastery that way once, and I invariably try to create at least one ghost in each lot. You could create the dead army that way. Hmmmm...or maybe Saruman after he's been punished by the Valar? I did make a mini website dedicated to ways to kill Sims characters once

I managed to cure Sauron's Guinea Pig disease though by making him go to bed and drink lots of coffee all day long. Morgoth had to support him by going and getting a job

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Lal

Anyone with a really good graphics card could conjour up some really funny scenarios to take screenshots from!

I've had Galadriel get into a fight with Elrond once, it was definately worth his three days of stalking around her house/feeling depressed . Unfortunately, I was being stupid and never took a photo of it, and that was before my computer crashed, so I lost all of them.
Thankfully, you can access all of the photos you take in the game from the collection file in the game now.

Only thing is, I dunno if I could ever have the random chance of having another overly-aggresive Galadriel again. She fought everytime she went out shopping... So annoying after the first five minutes.

Gandalf wound up with a foundling on his doorstep (don't ask me how that happened; I've never heard of anyone else getting a foundling, especially not when it's a single person living in the house!)

I've never had that happen, that would be neat though!
As for twins, I have that happen all the time with the wrong couples. So, they end up having four children instead of two, which is a pain when they'd rather be depressed all the time raising the bunch.

~ Ka

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Oooh, a foundling! I've heard rumours that could happen, and also rumours of twins!

I've never heard of a foundling! That's awesome! Perhaps it doesn't happen in Sims 2. I came to Sims so late that I got the deluxe sims 1 on sale a mere few months before Sims 2 came out, so I never got to discover all the little twists of that game, and I liked Sims 2 so much better that I never bothered with going back to the first game.

Before loading the Open For Business expansion pack mysteriously deleted my sims, my Aragorn and Arwen (whom I'd raised from babies in my Rivendell house...gah, so much time!) had twin girls. One of them had Arwen's pointed ears, and one didn't. Weird.

I never had the pets expansion for Sims 1. Did the guinea pig disease just kill Sims? I've never heard of a Sims 2 Sim dying from a cold.