Vaux
ACR is certainly interesting on this lot, Orrick and Nicole have always had an interesting relationship, based mainly in the bedroom.
However even though neither sim is a family sim, Nicole finds herself yet again pregnant this round despite her age of 37 is starting to go against her.
She miscarried last round and if thought that would be the end of the Vaux family however i was wrong and we welcomed baby Brenna to the house in fall.
Christopher is also threatening to be interesting, having to wait 9 rounds to get married he’s likely to start looking elsewhere. I’ve started to forge a friendship with Muirean Lynette’s daughter, however thats the end of my interfering.
I don’t want to force a romantic interaction, with ACR sims tend to choose for themselves soon enough, so either something will happen or it wont so your guessing as much as I am. The storyline will follow it either way however i will say Muirean is not the only girl his been introduced to.
As a whole when it comes to marriage for peasants I let ACR choose there spouse, as long as the targeted sim is suitable I let them pair up. the only thing I do to influence it, is I bring suitable sims together.
For example with Fransis Gawen and Edmund Beav both are peasants/ merchants how have just reached teenage.
What I’ve done is look though my list of “single peasant/merchant girls” and I’ve invited each of them over and got them chating, after that its totally up to the sims and ACR to do the rest.
As soon as the boy “picks one ie a romantic interaction occurs I consider the decision made, sometimes it happens quickly and sometimes it takes a while, I work it in the same way for girls who come of age.
Nobles and Royals work totally differently, as do certain merchants ( Lynette’s daughter’s for example ), these have arranged marriages and love doesn’t come into it.
For these I let the story line and “genetic need” decide basically I pick partners based on who’s available and who I think their parents would choose, some of these matches end up being fairly compatible and some don’t.
However ACR still plays a big part in these relationships, sometimes ACR ends up picking their spouse as “their one”, sometimes it picks someone else and cheating occur.
These are only guidelines however story line always effects whats going on, sometimes a “autonomous” action on the part of a sim, sparks and idea for a story… and sometimes a story effects how I set up ACR and force my sims to behave.
For example the whole Thomas / Holly story line was sparked because every time I turned around Thomas and holly where “busy” and Thomas didn’t seem interested in Raeann in the slightest.
While the whole Valdemar / Marrisa relationship is something I’ve forced upon them, Valdemar and Marrisa actually have 3 bolts for each other, and if I stop being mean, by making them fight every day they might actually stop looking elsewhere and become happy…. might !!!!
