Sims Medieval: Facepalm Endgame

Once you finish the first stage (Basic Mode), you have to start over in a new game for a different achievement.

No new maps, no new buildings, no new townies, no taking any of your old game into a new one.  You can either replay the game from scratch or just fiddle around in Free Play on your old kingdom -- just free play, because you can't do quests or get kingdom points anymore once you "win."  So you can't do big things like annex people because you need kingdom quest points for that and there's no way to get them.  So winning the game = losing.

/facepalm

I might replay it once and go for different quests.  See how many kingdom quest points I can rack up and try to annex everybody.  My queen is going to be obsessed with pastel pink, since I had a human male king last time who wore red.

But I doubt I'll "finish" the next stage.  Might just see what I can do and then uninstall the game.

I have to say, when I "won" and got the quest to pick a hero to start a new kingdom, I really thought I'd be following that hero and getting a new territory with slightly larger houses for everybody that are decorated differently so that I don't have to remodel them all again.

That would have been worth continuing.

Sims Medieval: Complete Cheats Listing

Here you are, cheater-McCheatyPants!

Edit: After finishing the game, I've chosen to play a second game with cheats.

Sims Medieval: Gameplay Tips

Cooking
Kingdom Aspects
Legendary Traits & Their Quests

Sims Medieval: Confusing Quests

It's pretty fun.  For me, at least.  It's the Sims but with storylines you have to follow (i.e. quests) and actual goals to fulfill and levels to hit.  You can even take your time if you want and hang out with friends or make Simoles with your profession.  Oh, and your Sims worship you as their god.  It's awesome.  You, the player, are The Watcher, to whom they created 2 whole religions.

Yet there are a few badly designed quests, which I will list here and add to over time:

Cheat Your Way Through Gardening

Do you want a master gardener in your town?  I, for one, like to have reasonably nice public gardens and you need a solid gardener for that.

No, not just solid.  A gardener who can grow eggs, cheese, burgers, and steak.  Perhaps even an Omni Plant?

Using AwesomeMod, you can get a very skilled gardener in a snap.

Famous People: Monroe, Presley, King, Einstein

I made these Sims to kill and put in my neighborhood graveyard because I LOVE graveyards and I LOVE ghosts floating around in them.

You can download the .sim files from me but you need certain (free) Custom Content to make the Sims look right.  Also, please note that I use Lady Frontbum's default skins and Cutthroatdollie's default eyes.

Put the .sim file in Documents -> Electronic Arts -> The Sims 3 -> SavedSims.

If I have any incorrect info here, please let me know.

The Most Fun Part of Sims

Is depicted in this graph.

I'm building a neighborhood to populate with people I know in real life.  I have a few enemies in the neighborhood.  Three of those are dead and will be in my graveyard: I killed them by drowning, thirst (vampire death), and meteor (which I see as God's vengeance; which is true because I am the God of my Sims town).  I would have given the vampire the Mummy's Curse, but that's not how vampires die.

I also have people I like in my graveyard, of course.  I gave my granny the nicest headstone and put her with MLK Jr and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Einstein.

I made two of my friends into vampires because one really likes to cosplay creepy dark anime characters and she says her boyfriend is a vampire IRL.

Other creepy things include my brother skinny dipping in the public hot tub with our granny; a friend dating another friend's mother and then aunt (I had to go in and manually fix that); found something wrong with my and my husband's oven so that our Sims had half-prepared food everywhere and were starving to death; I made the showers at my local gym unreachable so I saw quite a few people on their way home trailing stench; and lastly, I gave no one vehicles so everyone in my town ended up walking or running to their destinations (unless they had a work carpool).

That's the news from Lake Simbegone for today.  Where the women are athletic, the men are eye candy, and all the children aren't being taken away by social services.

Ghosts Leaving Graveyard

I thought this was a glitch when I first noticed it.  My ghosts are getting in cars and riding off when they pop up in the graveyard at night.

I found a forum post about it, where others say that it's a function of Ambitions that goes with the Ghost Hunter profession: "Ghosts and spirits are wandering out of their graveyard and the catacombs."

It's not my favorite change, but I'm glad it's not a glitch.

Grave Types: How to Give Your Sim Its Dream Gravestone

Small Grave: Less than 75,000 lifetime happiness points.
Medium Grave: 75,000-150,000 lifetime happiness points.
Large Grave: 150,000+ lifetime happiness points.

Cheat Your Way Into Happiness

• Go to the Main Menu.
• [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[C]
• "testingcheatsenabled true"
• [Enter]
• Enter your saved game.
• Go to the Lifetime Happiness tab on your Sim.
• Hold [Ctrl] and click on the panel around the happiness points number.

The key is that you must enable the cheat code in the Main Menu before you enter a saved game.