Well it looks as though my latest game is doomed again due to Sims disappearing! 

I\'m going to try and keep going but I can\'t play for more than an hour before it occurs and then I have to go back to my last saved game which is very frustrating. Is it worth it! lol!

You can read about the glitch here if you want to know more

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/109074.page

Almost two weeks have gone by since my last blog and I\'m back playing the Sims 3, trying to spark my interest again and find something new to do.

I decided I would create a Sim and have that Sim resurrect all the dead Sims in Pleasant Rest Graveyard. I\'ve called it \"Waking the Dead\"! lol! I would achieve their LTW, have them re-united with their families, let them live out their lives again and send them back! I haven\'t played many ghosts in the game but from what I have seen so far they are not really that different from Sims apart from they like to \"scare\" others which can really bring down the relationship score. It would have been nice to have an age changing potion to bring some of those Elders to YA\'s again, but I will save them and re-create them in CAS and perhaps play them again in Riverview as proper families.

The first ghost my Sim resurrected was Tragic Clown. He seemed to be around when my Sim visited the graveyard and they made friends quite easily, even though they have no traits in common. Your Sim needs a high relationship with a ghost to be able to put the headstone into the inventory from the graveyard. His LTW was to be a World Renown Surgeon. His Traits are hydrophobic, excitable, clumsy, neat and a bookworm. His favourites were missing so he has no preference for food, music or colour, which is a bit Tragic! Not sure how a Sim would make his favourite meal. He has eaten all the meals and not shown a preference for any so they really are missing. He is Tragic Clown resurrected. 

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x160/RozeeS_photos/Sims%203/Ghost%20Stories/TragicClown.jpg 

The second ghost I resurrected was Opal Suarley, the little girl. Her LTW is to be International Super Spy. Her traits are family orientated, good, daredevil and her favourites, electronica, sushi, red. When she aged up I randomized her traits rather than choosing them, and she was assigned, snob and great kisser. She is currently working her way to her LTW which was already chosen for her when I had her ghost made playable. I decided not to change it.  

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x160/RozeeS_photos/Sims%203/Ghost%20Stories/OpalSuarley.jpg

I haven\'t had a ghost baby in my game yet but got one the other day. I\'m holding out for one of each colour! Joel\'s LTW is to be The Emporer of Evil. His traits are, evil, good sense of humor, technophobe, perfectionist and easily impressed. His Favourites are, classical, dim sum, violet. 

This is Joel Astroman and his baby daughter Josie

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x160/RozeeS_photos/Sims%203/Ghost%20Stories/JoelAstromananddaughterJosie.jpg

Quite a few NPC Sims in the game show only a few traits and not all five. After I resurrected the Tragic Clown, he didn\'t have any favourites showing, the same was for Jennie Clavell (the mother of Buster Clavell in Sunset Valley) and she only has one trait, bookworm. It\'s easy enough to add traits but I don\'t know how you can add favourites to an already playable Sim when they are missing.  It was interesting to see that the Jennie and Ransom Clavell died as Young Adults, death by drowning, Buster their Son is an Elder in the game. Jennie\'s LTW is to be Professional Author and Ransom\'s Forensic Specialist DNA. Ransom\'s traits are loner, workaholic, absent minded, flirty, hopeless romantic. His favourites are, indie, french toast, Irish green. I haven\'t assigned any more traits to Jennie yet as not sure whether I should just randomize the missing ones or choose them. 

I will post more of my ghost findings in my next blog, once I have played a few more of them, Rozee.

Nothing really new on the website! Still no sign of a patch to sort out the Story Progression problems, music problems in the game and numerous other things that need sorting. 

I feel the Sims 3 has been made for those who want to make things in the game, I\'m not really into that. I appreciate the way we can customise things but I don\'t really want to share every little thing I make in my game or upload it! I want decent gameplay that doesn\'t feel repetitive or become boring after a while. I have never felt this with the Sim 1/2 so what has changed with the Sims 3? Has it lost the magical touch of the Maestro, Will himself? Or has everything been done before and they don\'t want to repeat it? I don\'t mind rinse and repeat, the best of the Sims 1 and 2 with updated graphics and gameplay. I know many people probably wouldn\'t, but a Sims 3 update of the Sims 1/2 would have been the ultimate game for me! Hot Dates, University, Open for Business, Pets, Superstar and Magic would have been tops! Still holding out that some of those things will come to the Sims 3. World Adventures sounds ok and it may be great, but it\'s disappointing that this theme was chosen over previous top Sim 1/2 titles. And what happened to Aliens? There are \"signs\" of them around the Neighbourhood, so are they planned to be added into the game at sometime?

I\'m seriously losing interest in the Sims 3. I have very little interest in loading up the game and playing it with all the problems and glitches. When I do go to play I quickly find myself becoming bored as the only way to play is with aging and story progression off to stop the Town from dying out! I want to play my family with aging on, to give me some \"challenge\" in the game to keep the aging process back! What\'s the point of having ambrosia when your Sims don\'t age. It is only useful for ghosts. 

The time it can take waiting for \"opportunities\" to come up can make the game \"boring\". I want to be able to choose these things myself, not have the computer decide when they should become available! This for me is one of the fundamental problems with the game, it can be too random and the inconsistencies are annoying.

The biggest inconsistency in the game for me is the gardening side of the game. When I plant a seed or fruit I want that fruit to stay the same quality as it was when it was a seed. Only the crops on the plant should improve by fertilizing or talking to the plant.The Omni seeds when ordering are always Normal, although after fulling the opportunity your Sim get a variety of quality. Is this another glitch when ordering more seeds? Why can\'t the Omni seeds stay the same quality after planting several in a row, instead of becoming better, I would prefer this to happen in the game than what is happening at the moment. I find the inconsistencies confusing and not fun. I would find it fun to have different qualites of fruits and items in the game with the variety that the Omni seeds can give us but this is very difficult to achieve. And why do Green Thumb Sims appear not to have much more skill than a non Green Thumb Sim? Why can\'t Green Thumb Sims revive all plants?

We hear very little on this site about what is planned in the distant future. I do not frequent \"fan\" sites much and feel that those people are often given the news before we hear about it on here.  

With no further updates or new stuff for the Sims 2 planned, it is indeed a very sad situation. I feel at a complete loss at the moment.

I shall wait to get the new EP, to hear what others think about it first. It may be the end of my Simming days as far as the Sims 3 is concerned unless themes that put the Sims 3 more in the line of the Sims 1/2 are planned.  I feel the Sims 3 is going in a different direction than it\'s two predecessors.

Rozee