Some help with Error 16?

Well I got Supernatural a few days early and I was all excited! It even loaded faster than normal and the game didn't lag as bad as it had been before. Everything was going great and I was working on renovating an awesome little premade house and family in Moonlight Falls to play around with. Then I tried to save, after hours of work. That part didn't go so well. Error 16 popped up, and continues to pop up every time I save.

I've already tried looking it up. Everywhere I click says to just "Save As" and it'll be fine. Nope, that doesn't work at all. I've tried defragmenting my hard drive to see if that worked. Nope again. Nothing's working, and I can't play my game at all until I can save! :( If anybody could help, that'd be amazing and I'd be eternally grateful for it.

R.I.P. My little game...

Meet the Contas!

So they're finally finished. Yes, THEY as in more than one. Don't worry it's a traditional start-with-only-one-Sim legacy, but I don't just wanna plop down a random Sim without some sort of excellent backstory! So my legacy will have a little prologue before fully starting. And of course I'm playing random legacy style so that'll make life pretty interesting too.

Okay time to meet the founder and her parents. 1st up is Jacob Conta, adventurer, spy, family guy...

Next is the stunning Lorraine, top notch actress and full-blown beauty queen. With a twist though, she's secretly as bad ass as her husband. ;)

And finally the ever-so-adorable Whitney. Way ahead of her age, she's already seen most of the world and has the brains and experience to prove it.

The prologue is gonna be so much fun to write, and will probably wind up pretty long too. There's just so much I need to explain about and I'm not quite sure which ending / beginning I'll use yet. Either way, Whitney's legacy will start in Moonlight Falls. Anything happening elsewhere (Bridgeport) is gonna be the prologue. So keep an eye on The Conta Legacy if you wanna see what happens to land adorable little Whitney in Moonlight Falls!

A Supernatural note...

Just thought I'd let everybody know that Supernatural is on sale at Amazon! Instead of paying $40 for it, you can now pay a very nice $25. I've already ordered my copy and it should get here this weekend, so yay for that! I'm so excited to check out Moonlight Falls, and all the new Sim species too of course. Plus I have this whole idea for my legacy that requires Supernatural to work so...

I'm so excited to play with witches and werewolves! For some reason sparkly vampires just aren't doing it for me, and fairies are cool but I feel like they'd get annoying pretty fast. Zombies...I'm just praying they aren't as common as everyone says cuz I don't feel like losing my pretty little Sims to an attack for braaaaaains lol. Anyways, witches are definitely the one I'm most excited about! Potions and wands and magic brooms, and being able to turn other Sims into frogs! How exactly is that not cool? And werewolves are gonna be fun just because of all the new interactions (and werewolf toddlers are supposed to be absolutely adorable). So I will definitely, DEFINITELY be playing with those 2 species a lot.

Actually, I wanna add a little something extra in really quick. I promise I'm working on the legacy. It really is gonna happen. I'm just stuck waiting around for Supernatural to be able to make it happen. It should be really cool, and hopefully worth the wait...I really do want to try to write up a legacy and stick with it. :) Hopefully the Conta family will be the one to stick!

I want a witch!

The producers over at EA released that new producer walkthrough and it's actually really interesting. It shows all the new Sim types and just kinda gives you a brief overview of Supernatural. Personally, I think this 5 minute walkthrough is better than the hour-long live chats they've had for it so far. Seeing fairies and werewolves and vampires interact was pretty cool, but the coolest was easily the witch. Brooms and spells and magic wands all sound cool, look cool, and are making me all excited about getting my very own witch to play with!

The zombies slightly worry me, but maybe the zombie outbreaks will be easier to control than it seems. I just don't want a ton of zombies constantly attacking my houses and Sims! That'd be horrible and annoying. Plus the zombies kinda freak me out lol. But they say we can control the different Sim types with sliders in Options, so hopefully that'll fix my problem.

What about you? Witches, zombies, werewolves, vampires, fairies...which are you looking forward to? Or do you like the ghosts, mummies, imaginary friends, and genies? Lol or...aliens!?

Another new EP idea already out there?

So we all got super-excited for Supernatural right? And then even more excited when only a few weeks later Seasons was also announced. Seems like EA's really starting to pick up the pace with EP production. Well they may already have their next idea! I just stumbled onto this and I gotta say, it sounds pretty dang cool!

It reminds me of those old Sims 2 games, the Stories. Castaway Stories to be exact. Plus merSims! I guess with the oceans and rivers opening up, it would be a good time to try out a new species of Sim. This also sounds like they're incorporating an Open for Business type of thing, what with running your own businesses and hotels.

The visiting tourist idea has me fascinated as well. Sims from the World Adventures EP already wander around your towns occasionally, so I guess this would be an expansion of that idea. My guess is they're your guests and they drag in more Simoleans to sustain your lovely new businesses.

All around I'd love an EP like this. A combination of old and new in a new kind of gameplay...I'd buy it!

Singing along with Showtime!

Yay! I finally managed to install Showtime after fighting with my computer for hours. It runs great somehow, and I'm thrilled! Definitely gonna keep my fingers crossed that it stays that way though, since I don't trust my old computer very much these days lol.

The new objects that come with Showtime are amazing. EA finally did something right, with the mechanical bull, photo booth, golf tee, and the new around-the-house objects. Lots of cool plants, a classy glass table, and probably more that I just haven't seen yet.

As for the 3 new careers, I'm not quite sure yet. They really don't pay much in the beginning and I haven't gotten up high enough yet to see if it pays better higher up. I gotta say, I wouldn't try starting a household on an acrobat's salary. It's incredibly hard. Their tricks are so cool to watch though! And the magicians...awesome stunts and cute little magic tricks. I don't know much about the singer career just yet, but I'm going to eventually try it out. I mean that too lol, I'm curious!

Anyways, that's my current take on Showtime. Look for more acrobat details in my Conta legacy, as my heiress is currently attempting to live as one. It isn't going so very well at the moment. I might post a few pictures of Starlight Shores later. And maybe a few of other Showtime things. :) Like the Sims and the new objects. So check back tomorrow, because there may be pictures! Hopefully I'll have some extra time; school just started back up today and the teachers aren't shy about giving out homework lol. I'll try though.

Rolling out the welcome wagon!

Welcome to my new blog! Like the name says, this is gonna be all about my Sims. Their houses, families, any little stories I come up with...stuff like that. I do have another blog specifically for my legacy: The Conta Legacy. That one is just about the Conta family though. This one is about all my other Sims, and my game in general.

I guess I'll share a bit about my gaming situation. I was originally planning on having a nice shiny new laptop to play on, but my birthday came and went with no laptop in sight. So I'm still stuck on an old desktop which isn't exactly the best computer ever. If there are ever any blurry pictures or something that just seems wrong, that'd be why. The computer is a bit outdated lol.

Anyways, hopefully by the end of the day I'll have a few pictures and maybe a completed house to share with you all, potentially some Sims too. I'll just hafta see. :) Happy Simming everybody!