I have family coming this weekend but I think I have enough pics for another update before Monday, I hope! Gosh my loner self dreads the fam, siiiiiigh!
- legacy archive at top of journal



The Von Dyne Legacy - Part 4!

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Previously in the Von Dyne Legacy:
Babies were made
Kitties were cute
A Dog stole my heart
& a new house was built!

( click clack click clack )

I am such a terrible person with updates -back2back then nothing for months! Anyways, hope you guys don't mind my spastic-ness *flops around*
- archive at top of journal



Welcome to Part 3 of the Von Dyne Legacy!

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Previously in the Von Dyne Legacy:
Eva & Bryce settled into life together
Bryce had a birthday & a mid-life crisis!
♥ A romantic trip to China joined their lives forever ♥

( onward~~~ )

Hi guys!

I have been away for over a month but now I am back & want to answer the
questions I seem to see non-stop where my sim downloads are concerned.

1) When will I finish Pleasantview sims?

- As most of you know who follow me here, I lost EVERYTHING on my desktop & laptop when both computers died within days of each other. That is all my personal & gaming things so it has taken me a while to really come to grips with all I lost as well as trying to replenish everything. So I lost interest in finishing things, especially since the day before my desktop died I finished all the Pleasantview sims! It is very hard for me to REDO the little buggers after I already did them -ha. But I do hope to get back into the swing of things sometime in the near future.

2) Will I upload CC versions of the sims?

- I have been overwhelmed with requests via PM as well as some comments about this & I have decided that I will try to do this to the best of my ability very soon. Since I am redownloading my own sims from here (lost everything after all) I will be fixing them up with CC for myself anyway. The only problem I have with doing this is the fact so much CC, in terms of makeup, is not labeled in game & I have no idea where I got it. But I hope if I get at least most of everything labeled correctly then that will be okay :)


Will I move on to Strangetown or Veronaville after this?

- I really want to do Strangetown sims since I absolutely love them & miss Aliens in TS3 like crazy! Seriously EA, whyyyyyyy oh why have you not given us real Aliens again!? And why oh why was Luna Lakes not an alien neighborhood!? *poutpoutpout* But I am not sure if I will do Veronaville since I never really played that neighborhood & feel no real connection to it or desire to have them back in TS3. However, I will not say never!

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If anyone has any other questions or requests just let me know :) I sat down this week & cleaned out my overflowing downloads since I went a bit crazy with this new computer -had over 8gb of downloads, lol!

Now that I am back I am going to try & catch up with all the legacies I am behind on, can't wait to see you guys in LJ land *passes out cookies & dr pepper*

- ♥ Thank you all so much for the amazing love you gave in my last update! ♥
Hope you enjoy Part 2 (part 1 in archives at top of my journal)!



Welcome back to the Von Dyne Legacy!

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Previously in the Von Dyne Legacy:
You met Eva the Diva Devine & Tink the Tyke
Eva started on her epic journey to be a famous Acrobat
A hot Acrobat & Eva got along smashingly & he earned points as a 'potential'
One Mr. Hottie Mc Hot Pants kept shooting Eva down *grr*
And another guy swooped in under the radar & stole both our hearts & Evas!

( clickity-click-click! )

-Thanks for sticking with me after I lost TWO computers in ONE week!
Hope you guys like & enjoy my new legacy ♥



Welcome to the Von Dyne Legacy!

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( So excited, click here to meet my founder & read! *bounces* )

*peeks head around the corner*

Hi everyone! *waves*  I got completely sucked into life & preparing for ME3 by replaying ME2 then having huge DA2 battles with my guy to see who was the best... I totally kicked his butt!

ME3 broke my heart by having an ending that not only made everything you did in ME1 & 2 for the past SIX YEARS completely invalid, but then made zero sense in terms or lore & previous knowledge of anything & THEN randomly had this escape thing with people that should be dead that apparently all abandoned you on Earth to run away....

yeah.

*cries forever over my favorite game series being ruined by sucky ending*

IN SIM NEWS... I have been catching up with you guys the past few days & reading/commenting on legacies -so much goodness! & I finally got around to starting my new one!  Really loving my chick & look forward to hopefully posting in the next week or so. <3

*passes out cookies & dr pepper*
-Nicole

archive in links section :D




Welcome back!
I know it's been a while since the last update, as most of you know by now, I play in spurts! I will play constantly for weeks then nothing for months -lol! & this is actually an update from pre-pets that I never got out... UNTIL NOW! Hope you all haven't forgotten me!

History of House Amell
(I had to go read through the archive myself this afternoon! LOL!)
Sibling rivalry was rampant!
& other fun stuff!

( let's see if I can get back in the swing of things! WOOT! )

archive in links section :D

HUUUUUGE update under the cut!
Anything over 100 pics is huge for me!
& this time we hit over 130




History of House Amell
Bills that threaten to ruin the Amell household
Baby #2 of Generation 5 was born!
Galina left you with the most beautiful facial expression EVER!

All in all it was a pretty tame update!

( let's see how this one goes!!! )

archive in links section :D

Whoa, new font used when posting on LJ ITS FREAKING ME OUT!!! LOL! /end crazy random thing



History of House Amell
WEDDINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!
Horrible shocking death :( Still annoyed :/
Generation 5 was born!
NEWWW HOUSEEE ... yes again -lol!

( ONWARDSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!! )

archive in links section :D

Horrible BLEHS past few weeks, I hope I haven't missed any updates! I spent the morning going through my friends list trying to catch up, if I missed your update let me know :D



History of House Amell
Cecilia inspected men's sperm counts...
Dace & Parker moved out *sniffles*
Cecilia got a makeover <3
House Tour
Parties & Strippers!

( WEDDINGGGG TIMEEE!! )

archive in links section :D
Miss end of Generation 3? CLICKY!



History of House Amell
Heir was announced!
Dace had a surprise for the family
Parker married him anyway!
The living room exploded
Crashing issues discovered!

( Generation 4 kicks things off -whee! )

archive in links section :D



History of House Amell
Cecilia proved you don't wanna mess with her awesomeness!
Cecilia also made a mistake with a guy she regrets deeply
Parker was grounded multiple times over... lol!
Galina continued to run away every time Dale got ~srs
Dace & Dale aged to YA!!! AHH!!!
The twins went on a 6 'month' Egyptian sabbatical
Both boys cheated :O -Dace lead the pack!
There was full pack wiener roasting... oooo!

( last of generation 3 chapter under the cut )

archive in links section :D




History of House Amell
It was a Dace & Dale EXTRAVAGANZA!
2 new girlies were introduced
The Splunks captivated me!

( get a fly girl & catch this beat )

So many people ask me about Awesomemod so I thought I would just make a post about it for easy access of information for people

•   What is Awesomemod? To put it simply: it just fixes all the crap that EA was too lazy to deal with. It makes your game better on so many levels & far too many things for me to mention here.

•   Is it compatible with mods from Nraas Industries? Yes, unless otherwise stated. I use Story Progression & Master Controller from Nraas along side awesomemod & have never had any issues
  -as long as you set Awesome's config file properly.

•   Where can you download Awesomemod? It is located here, any of the 3 links works.

•   AwesomeMod Configuration Tool is located on the same page as linked above, click it to go to the customizing page. - There are tons of options but I will highlight the most important
  
  1) If you are using Nraas SP then the very first thing in the config file (UseAwesomeStoryDriver) needs to be set to Disabled.
  2) CAS & Sim Creation Features -find this section of the file.
  3) CASSliderScaleIncreased, set this to ENABLED
  4) CASSliderScaleMultiplier, located beneath the previous one, I like to set mine to 3

•   What do those last 2 things do? They allow you to create more unique sims by magnifying the sliders so you can have the best sims possible!

•   Where can I find more sliders than the game has? This is a custom search for you on MySims3blog, follow this link, every slider that has been created for TS3 is located within this search! So just browse the pages & snag anything you want!

•   Will Awesomemod break my game? No. No! NO! This is one of the safest mods, I have never had any trouble with it unlike the trouble every other mod out there has caused me. From the day awesomemod came out I have been using it & I never play without it.

•   Is it always updated for new EPs? Yes, sometimes it takes a few days -max a week, after an EP comes out for this to be updated, but it always is.

•   Anything else you should know? Just like other core mods such as Story Progression by Nraas, if you take out Awesomemod from a hood that has been using it then it can mess up your game. Mainly this is b/c the mod fixes so many things, so when you take it out (why on earth would you unless you ignorantly blame it for a problem you are having :P) your neighborhood will be borked and possibly become unplayable.

•   Specific Awesomemod Cheats located Here -My favorites are 'therapture' to clear out towns for a legacy to get new sims & 'backtowork' for sims after they have babies, I hate the 3 days off!

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Hopefully that answers any questions you guys have :) I get asked something about awesomemod almost every update I put out, so I thought I should make something like this so I can link if ever asked again to save me from saying the same thing over or forgetting to mention something. :) If I left out something anyone wants to know then just let me know & I will edit this! :D

More information can be read in this thread I typed up @ NH.

*passes out cookies & coffee this evening*

archive in links section :D





History of House Amell
Sad times were sad :'(

( Who needs a man! PSH! )

-archive in links section-

*warning -some things may be off from the last update since I had to do lots of editing to save my family*




WOW! I can't believe I was actually able to play & have an update! Granted I am playing without any build/buy mode objects & very limited CC since my game is lagging ever since I got Generations :( Stupid EA -always messing up everything! ANYWAY! UPDATE WHEEE!

HISTORY OF HOUSE AMELL
Unexpected death threw me for a huge loop!

( hope I remember how to do updates... )

-archive link on the left-





Welcome back you guys, thanks for sticking with me last chapter when I was dealing with the most horrible virus of all time! lulz! Now on with the crazy :D

History of House Amell
Moved to AMAZING Queenstown!
Got some new digs, woo woot!
-met some dwarfs-
Followed the entire Amell clan around
(last count was over 30 living Amells, whoa)
Bethany create her first monster/child - Martin
We had an early heir poll :O

( toot toot )

-archive in links section-




You can tell I played though this entire update while feeling horrible.
Usually I am crazy picture snapping happy, but I hardly have any pictures considering how much time passsed. Oh well, I guess that just means Generation 2 is moving fast like a bunny. :)

I also think I may include the heir poll at the end of this. Granted Cecilia is still a child at the end of this update, but I plan on playing more tonight & tomorrow so I may be to the point I need to know soon.
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History of House Amell
I'm so bleh with this virus I can't even remember.
*blinks*
Babies came? Yeah ... I think so ... k on with show!

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( sorry in advance for lame update :/ hope you like anyways! )

-archive in links section-




Welcome back, you guys!
I really have no idea how I end up with so many pictures when not THAT much time has passed in game - gah!
*smacks my pic happy self* But we have a big update, so grab yourself a cup of coffee or your favorite drink and wiggle your butts into House Amell!

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History of House Amell
Anora punished me :(
Fabio pissed everyone off
Bethany was blissfully clueless
Babies were born!

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( click click click )