State of Play - End Round 1 Spring 1AE

 At the end of Round 1 Spring, 

the mayor is chosen based on who has the most friends, and the general popularity score.

Sims have had 5 days to discover who they are, and what they like to do without worrying about falling in love. (Unless you're Fiona and Chris - in which case you got into that way earlier than everybody else!)

This 5 day period was the only time when things can be bought from the catalog - so important stuff like benches, and hobby stuff was bought (assuming they had money for it).

Fiddling with the lots to make them work, and make sure isn't any blocked objects or pathing problems. All done.

Spring weather was very wet, and thunder and lightning - very, very frightening! So mods were added as required. Still haven't managed to stop the more foolish of the sims from playing in the puddles in a lightning storm.

Holly Gear opened the first store - a home business florist shop. that also required tweaking to make it work.

So that's all the hood news. Details under the cut:

BaCC Round 1: Spring Year 01 AE (After Escaping) - Kiri

The first 5 days away from SimCity has had the sims glorying in the life outside of SimCity. 

Smelling flowers, playing in the rain, smelling flowers, 

 getting to know each other, smelling flowers, 

 starting to find things to do, smelling flowers...

You know, the usual before you start putting in mods to stop them from smelling the flowers.

Spring has been very rainy, quite stormy with occasional fires from lightening.

Every household has spent their first day skilling. Because no-one is allowed burglar alarms or fire alarms until restrictions are lifted, there's no way I was letting them near the stove until at least one cooking skill was obtained.

The political candidate will be the one with the most friends and the highest friendship scores at the end of Round 1. They're escaping the fascism and 'democracy' of Sim-City, and experimenting with what real democracy could look like.

Kiri's home was first. After getting a cooking point and a creative point (easel), she got a visit from Fiona. Fiona and Kiri got on very well, and spent time admiring each other and wanting to be friends then best friends.

The Studley boys came over and Kiri was very chatty with Simon while Stephan spent most of the time hanging out in the flowerbed on all fours. Spaghetti was made for dinner and everyone was appreciative of Kiri's ability to put a saucepan in the oven.

Fiona was impressed by the wall. Simon was impressed with Kiri's underwear choice. Kiri was not impressed that her guests didn't go home when asked. At 1am she shooed them out of the house and went back to bed.