Um... anyone out there??

If anyone is still listening, hi from the blog that hasn't been updated in five years...

I kind of drifted away from playing Sims a while ago, although these stories were still bubbling away in the back of my mind. Then a few months ago, bored silly while stuck at home with Covid, I started playing again. And once I was playing, I started to think about blogging. Blogging my stories and being part of the community around that used to be one of my favorite things.

I thought about starting a new blog with new sims, or some kind of spin off from Richmond, but kept coming back to the one I'd left hanging. It would be silly to start something new when there is so much backstory here. A few years have passed in Richmond since I left off, so it's a fresh start in a sense anyway.

There have been some changes in my game, too. When I remade Richmond in TS3, there was a lot about the game I didn't understand. I made the mistake of putting Richmond and Redwood City in one large world - it was great to have a city with a suburb over the hill and sims travelling freely between the two, but it wasn't made for the number of sims I have. I also opened up the immigration setting in Nraas Story Progression, and added all kinds of buildings with registers that needed NPCs... it was overpopulated and chaotic and freezing and crashing pretty much every time I played.

Thanks to the wonders of Nraas Traveler, I have now split Richmond and the city into two smaller linked worlds, without the other mistakes I made in the first version. The game is running much smoother with no freezes or crashes, and playing is fun again. To counter the reduced space in my new worlds, there will be more sims moving away now, but not to become unplayable. Using Traveler I will be playing them in the linked worlds they have moved to. It also means I can play more of the fantastic worlds I have come across, while still keeping this story going.

I don't know if there's still an audience for this kind of blog. I see there are people still doing them, and I've been catching up on those blogs, too, between working to revive this one. I don't know how regularly I'll post updates around r/l stuff. I might only post one update a month. It doesn't sound like much, but if I'd done even that for the last five years we'd be a lot further ahead here than we are now. They might not be as long or wordy, either, although the first round probably will be given that over three sim years have passed and quite a few things have changed for some of these guys.

There are a couple of updates sitting around in draft now. Time to get started again and see where it goes...