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GageNation BACC - June 2, 2018

Posted: January 10th, 2018, 4:50 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Yes, you read that title right. I'm actually doing a scored strict BACC. I had to replace my hard drive and although I do have backups of my other stories, the glitches were so severe that until I can get things fixed, I am starting fresh and vanilla. Or almost vanilla. I did do ONE download: Gage Uglacy.

Gage Uglacy is founding a BACC, played strictly according to the rules found here, with one twist. CAS points must be spent on moving in breeding fodder from among the townies and NPCs, and that means that everyone born into GageNation will be descended from Gage Uglacy.

Spoiler:
Right now, I'm still playing without mods, fixes, custom content, or simselves. If you would like to have your simself as part of the story, let me know here or in a PM, including a description of your personality, links to any necessary CC, and a request for one business of your choice. CC for businesses will also be allowed, but I'm adding in the downloads very slowly, trying to make this game last as long as possible, and to make sure each download works properly. If you don't have any particular business in mind, I'll add a business according to the needs of the city. Please note: simselves will be townified, and will only move in (and get their business) IF they breed with Gage or his descendants. So, you may simply be able to have a front-row seat to watch all the fun, without having to deal with Gage. And if a few generations creates a Prettacy, you may want to join up then. But we'll see what the sims tell us to do, won't we? I'm not forcing any matches against sim will. Even my own simself will be a powerless townie. I'm playing it straight. No deadline. New townies can be added at any time.


Chapter List
Week 1
Gage Uglacy Week 1 - January 14, 2018
Sandy Bruty Week 1 - January 14, 2018
Kiera Knight Week 1 - January 17, 2018
Christy Inada Week 1 - February 8, 2018
Week 2
Gage Uglacy Week 2 - February 26, 2018
Sandy Bruty Week 2 - Februaty 27, 2018
Christy Inada Week 2 - June 2, 2018

ETA: Is it just me, or does anyone else read this as "GagNation"? It's oddly appropriate, of course.

Re: GageNation - a scored BACC

Posted: January 10th, 2018, 11:58 pm
by Hollywood3015
I am excited for this

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Re: GageNation - a scored BACC

Posted: January 11th, 2018, 4:28 am
by MichelleCYoung
Thanks, Hollywood! I'm having fun with it, so far.

Want to take a wild guess at who his first babymama is? You'll recognize her, and it's just oh, so appropriate, and inappropriate, at the same time. I laughed so hard, but you can't fight the chemistry.

Re: GageNation - a scored BACC

Posted: January 11th, 2018, 11:43 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Grrraaarrrawwwrr!

Windows 10 forced an update, and my presentation, which was half-way finished, has been completely wiped out. I have to start writing it all over again. That, on top of having to completely uninstall and reinstall the game, because a simple factory reset was just not enough. :timebomb: Take this as an indication of how much I really love Sims 2, that I have not simply thrown my hands in the air and moved on to other things, entirely.

In short, Chapter 1 is delayed, but I'm still determined to do it. I just hope that I don't have to start the neighborhood all over again, too. Better test that, before I spend hours re-writing the presentation, huh? :headache:

Re: GageNation - a scored BACC

Posted: January 14th, 2018, 4:03 am
by MichelleCYoung
Bump! Chapter 1 (Gage Uglacy's first week in GageNation) is up!

Re: GageNation - January 14, 2018

Posted: January 14th, 2018, 10:19 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Wow! Two chapters in one day. And that's even with Windows 10 FORCING (I swear, I set it for manual updates, only, but this keeps happening!) an update that has literally broken my presentation program, so that now, it randomly makes pictures invisible. Well, I guess that's what captions are for, huh?

Second chapter here.

Re: GageNation BACC - January 14, 2018

Posted: January 17th, 2018, 5:12 am
by MichelleCYoung
And the third posting is up: Kiera Knight Week 1

Re: GageNation BACC - January 17, 2018

Posted: February 4th, 2018, 2:27 pm
by Anya
The mere concept of this amuses me, and the story itself has not disappointed. You write Gage so well!
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I also love that Kiera the Atrociously Evil Witch named her baby Krampus. Sproglet would've been a good name, but Krampus the Christmas Demon, for a child of warlockified Gage Uglacy? Heck yeah!

Re: GageNation BACC - January 17, 2018

Posted: February 4th, 2018, 10:13 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Thank you! I have to admit, this is a lot of fun. It's an interesting twist on the regular BACC (I must have my twists), and Gage is just so perfect for it. And this is the first time I ever really played with genetics, but now I'm doing an unofficial uglacy and unofficial prettacy, too.
Spoiler:
I know, right? He's barely even been born, and I just love the kid so much. That community lot glitch is scary, but he WILL be saved, somehow or other. I'm not so sure about his mother, but HE will. The Grand Llama has full cheating authority to save the Christmas Demon. After all, someone has to give birth to Sproglet, eventually, right?
Thanks for reading!

Re: GageNation BACC - January 17, 2018

Posted: February 7th, 2018, 11:59 pm
by Anya
Gage is indeed perfect for it, and I am quite excited to see how the unofficial uglacy turns out. I bet it'll be fun to play; my own uglacy Sims regularly have me in stitches with their hilarious facial expressions, and I'm only just getting to Gen 3.
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I hope Kiera escapes the glitch... I considered offering my Simself as Krampus's caretaker if you have to kill Kiera, but I really don't want Sim!Me to be required to woohoo Gage Uglacy, not so much because he's ugly than because I'm way too gay and afraid of the mere idea of pregnancy to even entertain the concept. Plus, it would probably be funnier to have Gage take care of Krampus; Romance Sims tend to hate childrearing, and I'm pretty sure we'd all love to see Gage Uglacy get tormented by the Illamanati by being forced to change diapers.

Re: GageNation BACC - January 17, 2018

Posted: February 8th, 2018, 2:41 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Oh, Anya, if you want to be a townie, on the strict rule you never marry in, I suppose I could do that. After all, the rule is you have to try for baby to be playable, but there's no limitations on plain woohoo. And Gage has several daughters now. No reason you can't get with them when they grow up. Let me know when you find a daughter you fancy. Or one of the babymamas, if you prefer not to wait for kids to grow up. For you, I will hook you up with your choice. I do not play with ACR, so the initial flirtations, at least, have to be player-directed. And I have no same-sex pregnancy mods, so you're pretty much guaranteed to be safe with a woman, anyway. I don't wind up playing same-sex partnerships very often in my challenges, because in an apocalypse, it's almost always about bringing in the next generation, so that just doesn't work for the heirs and the spares can't marry, and I'm family-oriented and want people to either marry their loves, or not be broken hearted and lonely with love they can't fully enjoy. But GageNation, despite the whole "gotta be a part of the bloodline" thing is rife with plain old, just-for-fun, who cares about fidelity, woohoo. I'm really letting loose in this town, and would be happy to oblige you.

Actually, if you want to be playable, there's always cheating, and letting your lover have the baby. As long as you contribute to the bloodline, you qualify for playablility. Just let me know what you want. I'm sure High Drama Llama would be pleased to push through some paperwork, just for you. Tombstone of Life and Death can create a genetic merger, without woohoo, and you don't have to be the one who gets pregnant. I do want to add recognizable faces to the game. It makes it so much fun! Also, I don't recognize a large portion of the townies, anymore, thanks to Makeover Mania. Of course, if I do have to cheat to get you in, I might have to charge you a price for the cheating, such as a small challenge. Something short, like Messy Messlot, possibly an asylum challenge. Of course, the inmates would all have to contribute to the bloodline immediately upon release. I'd probably turn aging off for them, so that they are still young and fertile when you beat your challenge. Or is there any other short challenge you'd like to try? What's your preference?
Spoiler:
I tried literally everything I could think of or find on the internet to get Kiera and Krampus playable, even downloading mods and hacks specifically for this (so no longer plain vanilla game). I tried going back to my last neighborhood back-up, but boo-hoo, I backed it up during GAge's week! GAAAAH! I've backed it up again, now, but too late for Kiera and Krampus. I admit, I really wanted to just kill off Kiera and make Gage raise Krampus, himself (you totally read my mind, there), but it was simply impossible. They are in sim-limbo, and I can't get them out. My High Drama Llama responded in appropriately dramatic fashion. I'm polishing the chapter now, trying to get my presentation program to stop dropping my pictures. They never used to do that. It used to work just fine for presentations. I NEED a new computer! Waaaaah! This machine just hates me. And I HATE Windows 10 and its forced updates.
Just when I get things sorted and working right again, it forces another update, and it always LIES ("Click here to cancel the update." click "A restart is not required for this update. Would you like to proceed?" No. "Click here to cancel the update." Click! "A restart is not required for this update. Would you like to proceed?" No!
"Click here to cancel this update." CLICKETY CLICK CLICK CLIIIIIICK! "A restart is not req....." AREGLEAWLHEGOI#'y81OI!!!!! Yeah, I hate Windows 10, but am not capable of going back to Windows XP, darn it! I loved XP. Heck, at this point, I'll take Vista! :banghead:
Ahem. Sorry about that rant, there. Anyway, thanks for reading. I'll post another chapter very soon. It might not have all the pictures, because :censored: but at least it will have most of them, and all the text. And at least it's not Photobucket, so all the pictures are gone. I miss my photobucket proof of killing The Grim Reaper. Man, that fire was EPIC! He stayed so long collecting souls that he caught fire, himself. But he robbed me! ROBBED ME! He died, but did not leave behind a tombstone! And then he just regenerated, and collected more souls. Actually, I should be grateful it did not break the game files. But, yeah, I LOVED that picture on Photobucket. And i can't get it back, because it was from a different computer, that wasn't even mine, and is no longer in existence. Which is why I like posting presentations, because it SAVES the darned things, onto the internet, so they don't disappear, even if my computer blows up.

Ahem. Sorry about that rant, again.
Spoiler:
Oh, btw, Gage is a surprisingly attentive father when he visits households with his babies. He interrupts every date, at least five times, to go hold the babies. And he even feeds them! He's like, "I'm such a stud! Look what I produced with my magic juice! Yay, me! :#1: " As long as he doesn't have to actually RAISE them, he has completely embraced the whole "Father of a Nation" thing. Although he won't change diapers. Of course.
Just another reason I love Gage Uglacy. He's going to be in charge of my "Let's Build It" entry this month, of course. We need more households, after all. Hehe. Even with the glitches, I LOVE this game. In fact, I have an idea for the next baby-mama, already. I downloaded someone special for it. And service calls are not yet unlocked. Hehehe! BWAAAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA! Ahem. Now I'm totally in the mood to go back in the game, and face down those glitches! Yay! Thanks for cheering me up, Anya!

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 8th, 2018, 10:51 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Bump! Christa Inada's first week in GageNation as a playable is posted here.

Re: GageNation BACC - January 17, 2018

Posted: February 8th, 2018, 10:59 pm
by Anya
I'm glad I could help out, Michelle! *big Internet hug* As for Simselfs and such... I'm not really sure how to upload one, so that's a bit of a stumbling block. I'd be cool with being townie aspiration fodder for gay/bi ladies of the bloodline, though if you want to move my Simself in and Boolprop a baby with her bloodline girlfriend, I'd be cool with that. In-story you could call it artificial insemination via induced meiosis of skin cells into sperm, which is totally a thing science is working towards. (I was a bio major for a year and a half, can you tell?) If that means a challenge... Asylum could be fun, and my Simself has a lot of Nice points, so she'd be on board with helping some crazy Sims rehabilitate.
Spoiler:
It's a bummer Kiera got lost, because of all the babymamas, she'd be my Simself's first choice. Speaking of which, here are the stats for my Simself... Knowledge aspiration, Aquarius, 4/5/3/5/8. I'm a Virgo in real life, but I figured it would be better for my Simself to reflect my actual personality than my astrological sign. Turn-ons would be red hair and witchiness (yep) and turn-off would be... hmm... stink or cologne; BO is gross and perfume makes me sneeze. I'm not sure where her genetics would fit in, though; my Simself is kind of in that weird place of being too odd-looking for a prettacy, but not bizarre enough for an uglacy. Oh, and secondary aspiration, uh... Fortune, I guess? It fits more than any of the others.
Ugh, Windows 10 issues... I've heard of them; they're the reason I still use Windows 8.

Oh my god, you killed the Grim Reaper? That is amazing! Stupid Photobucket and their stupid rules. I wanna see the pic, frammit!

Gage Uglacy is just a hilarious Sim all around. He's so hideous that he's almost cute, and his unabashed Romance Sim ways are both horrifying and hilarious.

A downloaded babymama? Ooooh, I can't wait to see who it is! For now, though... I'm off to read Christa's week!

By the way, during the test run of my Uglacy, I created a bunch of absolutely hideous custom townies with the intent of having spares marry them. Some of them might come back in Mutation Central, but I'd definitely be willing to share if you want any seriously ugly townies to shake things up a bit. Some of them are truly hard to look at without a strong stomach, though... and when I say that, I mean it. Several have no discernible eyes, one has a terrifying horse face, and one has no lower jaw.


EDIT: Just to check, have you tried moving Kiera and Krampus out and back in? I figure that's probably the closest equivalent of turning it off and back on again, which always seems to fix my tech issues...

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 9th, 2018, 3:08 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Oh, I didn't try moving them out and back in again! Thanks! I'll totally try that! Haha. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" I LOVE "The IT Crowd." I've only ever seen the British original, on Netflix, but I understand there was a US version, as well.

Edit: OK, I tried it. It wants me to return everyone home before I can evict them. DANG!

I would love to play with your "interesting" townies. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Although, I'm confused about how you can upload townies, but not a simself? Anyway, I'd love that.

Yeah, I was thinking, either a "science experiment" or else magic would induce the pregnancy, with the other person carrying the child. I've never finished an asylum, and so would certainly welcome the chance to play one. Again. There's also the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves challenge, which actually only lasts a few days, but I wouldn't do that to you! Perhaps you'd like to try the LTW that I have never even bothered to attempt: Raise 20 puppies or kittens. Has *anyone* ever done that?! It would be cats, of course. I like dogs OK, but I am totally a cat person, and I believe you said you are, too.

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 9th, 2018, 4:06 pm
by Anya
I don't really know how to upload townies either... once I do, though, I'd be happy to hook you up with some truly horrifying ones. I can PM you some preview pics if you'd like, so you can choose the best ones.

I adore cats, so much that I faced down years of allergy shots starting at age seven so that I could get one. I've actually made a Sims version of my cat so that my Simself won't be lonely in Downtown Uglacyville (or any other neighborhood I drop her in). She's an orange tabby, and I've set her personality to match how she actually is: Genius, Lazy, Independent, Aggressive, and Finicky. She totally lords over the other two cats in the house, even though she's getting old and arthritic and they're both bigger than she is, and she's snarky with pretty much every human except for me and my dad. She also gives me these looks when I return from my catsitting jobs, as if I've been cheating on her or something. I could go on about her adorable little personality quirks for hours.

So yeah, raising 20 kittens would be sweet. I mean... CUTE KITTIES!

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 9th, 2018, 4:20 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Oh, she sounds adorable!

OK, if you can manage an upload, you're on, and she can be your starter cat. Whoot!

Yes, I'd love to see pics! Thanks!

I'm glad you like Kiera, but you'd have to be playable to get with her. On the other hand, since she STILL is stuck at Makeover Mania, if you're playable, she can be your "townie" girlfriend. Somebody else would be the Gage-bloodline person who carries your genetic donation to the line, and you won't even have to raise the kid. You'll be too busy with your kittens.

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 9th, 2018, 11:13 pm
by Anya
She is!
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And she has excellent taste in books!
Currently trying to figure out MediaFire so I can get my Simself and the Bizarro Townies uploaded.

So moveout/movein didn't work? Dang, she and Krampus really DID bork the game! Uhhh... what about loading up another one of the babymamas and boolpropping her and Krampy into the family via Tombstone of L&D?

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 11th, 2018, 4:12 am
by MichelleCYoung
Unfortunately, I can't do that, either. It won't let me.

So, I've taken a bit of a side-track onto another project. An apocalypse! Because I can't NOT have an apocalypse going at any time, right? RIGHT? Anyway, my founder is just about ready to graduate, and the snows are about to fall. I'll have to get back to GageNation soon, though, because he's building my Let's Build It competition piece this month, so it won't be too long until the next update.

OH, and good luck with yours, and your job search. :crosses fingers and toes for you:

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 11th, 2018, 9:42 am
by simsterlyrock
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Hopefully you can figure out the glitch with Kiera so you can play her and Krampus again!

Re: GageNation BACC - Feb. 8, 2018

Posted: February 20th, 2018, 11:09 pm
by MichelleCYoung
Thanks!
Spoiler:
I have tried everything I can think of, looked up stuff, tried that, got suggestions, tried those, and I STILL cannot get her playable. I can't move her into someone else's household, and I can't kill her off to resurrect her later! Can't adopt poor Krampus. It sucks!

But at least I can still keep playing the game, right? Better than a flaming ball visible from space, at least.