The Sims 2 Pt. 3

Alright, so do you want to know some of the stuff I did to unravel the drama in the Sims 2 neighborhood Pleasantview? Let's take a look. Please note that since I played these premade Sims back while I was still getting used to the game, I turned the aging off to give myself unlimited problem-solving time.

As I said yesterday, the Dreamer household (with Darren and Dirk) was the one I played most often. It was more or less my testing grounds for a lot of basics like homeworking, skill building, job ladder climbing, private school enrolling, romancing, etc.

Yes, I did say homeworking. And the reason I said it was because Dirk would put his homework on a desk and be unable to get it back to work on it. It was an absolute nightmare before I figured out I had to fill that empty desk space so he would put his homework on the floor to be able to work on it. But once I had that figured out, it was more or less just instinct to have him ask Darren to help him with it. Dirk learned to study, yay! His grades went up, yay!

But the real nightmare with Dirk came in trying to enroll him in the private school. I must've gone through about four or five disasters before even just figuring out how to serve the headmaster a meal... One memorable evening, the shower was even broken and flooding the bathroom, and Darren had burned the food I tried to have him prepare! I did eventually (barely) pass, and Dirk completed that want of his to go to private school. Yay!

Now Darren. His big thing was his crush on Cassandra, right? But she was engaged to another man. Solution: have Darren fall in love with another woman, this time someone available. So I had him check out some girls, and eventually settled on one. I never did get to the point in their relationship to have them marry, though. Maybe I should go back to this household and correct this sad, sad issue.

Anyways, those are the major things I remember working on with them. I'm realizing now that there were probably more things I could have done. Dirk has a bad relationship with his girlfriend's dad, right? I could've tried straightening that out. And what about a job for Darren? Should I have kept him at home, even though he had some wants to enter a career in the science or medicine field? He is an artist, after all.

Well, I think that should be it for this post. Tomorrow, I suppose you have the Broke family to look forward to! Yay!