Just got all caught up. It's a fun read! I like watching you explore the game. I'm learning some new things too. I don't really play the sims 3 much cause of the glitches. How dare sims disappear from my family tree!
Poor Juls getting ragged on by all your siblings sucks. I like Jillian has the heir. I can't wait to who she ends up with

One of the reasons for playing without mods is to get the 'pure' experience, really. I guess that means glitches and all.
I love the sim in your profile picture! He looks so unique <3

Thanks for reading! I know there are a lot of glitches, but it's all new to me, so it's been an experience learning about them!
I felt bad for Juls, but he was the natural target! And I'm glad Jillian won - she's so expressive and so much fun to take pictures of!
I'm glad you enjoyed!

Yay for finding wedding gifts in the mail and the eventual nursery. I can't wait to meet the new baby.

Haha, I'm glad you liked the airplane. I really was just panning around while they were working toward the kiss, and that was the first time I looked at the sky.
I'm just no good at romance. I don't like it in books or movies either. I get all shifty and uncomfortable - I don't know why!

So is Arrian's child Tibs? Or did I miss something? Or are you keeping it secret?
Either way I'm excited for the impending babies! Also, congrats on how many updates you're getting - wait, that doesn't need to be in the spoiler. Too late now. Too lazy to change it.

Also, I'm sending you internet hugs about your mother.

The mods definitely help! Thanks for recommending them. And don't worry, I just shove everything under the spoiler /shrug

Arrian's babydaddy is a mystery for now! There are hints, but I don't have a good gauge of too subtle/too obvious so who knows if they can be picked up on. I mean, it's obvious to ME, but I was there, I already know X3

Thank you for the hugs!

I appreciate your feedback, and I hope you're enjoying the chapters!

(The babies are adorable - I've seen them as toddlers and had to stop myself taking a million pictures :3 )

Both babies have the same daddy, don't they? The broken heart, the thought bubbles, the constant fighting between Arrian and Liang...

Anyways, even if I'm right or wrong you don't have to tell me! Though I must say you're a lot more lenient on your Sims than I am. I once caught one of my Sim's hubbies flirting with his daughter's friend and boy oh boy did I rage on him. Took away all of his privileges, forced him to apologize to his wife for being a scumbag... threatened to raise his mother from the dead so she could scold him... had his father knock some sense into him ( which he was more than happy to do... everyone loved the woman Mr. Flirty married, so...), oh and then his grown daughter stopped talking to him for a week.
I'm mega harsh on the cheaters.
Anyways, I love Prince. He's adorable and very protective of his bed!
Jillian is amazing as always (will openly admit I was the one vote for her to remain the only heir. buuut I'm happy with any results, of course) and Liang has earned my skepticism.

Also - perhaps this will help for you?
I'm glad the mods are helping you though! NRaas is generally a really safe mod user to have. I usually like to use Master Controller (the Reset Sim feature on that one is ahh-mazing, the regular game cheat "ResetSim" doesn't get a clean as that one does) and a few other for-fun mods (like Story Progression and Woohooer and Careers). I'm not sure if this is an option through the normal game, but you may be able to advance to the next career level with Liang and see if that fixes your bug through a cheat of some kind. I know Master Controller has the feature where you can pick what career level you want him to be at, but I don't know if the regular game does. I don't usually play vanilla much these days (if I can help it).

Anyways, I don't mean to troubleshoot every problem you have, but I run into them a fair amount myself (as I used to/sometimes still do frequent Carl's Sims Forum tech board where I would troubleshoot problems there... It's second nature for me). Hopefully your game keeps going for you, but you can always put them in a fresh neighborhood and start from there if the bugs get to be too much. Keep in mind you'll lose your tomb progress (most likely) for Jillian.

Yep! If you look back at 3.5.1 in the picture of Liang's back, the hands around him are too pale to be Jill's, and they're pillow-fighting in their undies immediately after the woohoo. Angelina actually caught them, but she died right after.

I can't blame them though, because it was me who instigated it, not them. I had invited over one Arrian's lovers but he got deleted by errortrap. I panicked a little because Jill was already pregnant and I wanted them to be pregnant at the same time... so I improvised!

Liang does eventually go back to work, thankfully. He might have actually been on a paternity leave? I just wish the game wouldn't lie about when he goes to work next. It happens to my kids sometimes too, where they miss a day of school that isn't a weekend/holiday/snow day. It's weird.

I'll give traveling one more go, because I really do want to go back to France (plus I find it fun when it works right). We'll see if I can get it to work - I already tried most of those solutions!

I hope you enjoy the latest chapter! I better get picture taking and writing the next one for tomorrow...

It's finally announced!
Welp, I'm still mad at Liang and rooting for Jillian, as usual (DUMP THE CHEATER). Though I highly suspect there was cheating on Jillian's end too.
I love Prince and dog/toddler interactions are amazing. I love the "Lick" interaction when the dog licks the toddler's face. It's too cute.
I'm glad that Liang is able to go back to work now. The game usually doesn't lie about things like that, so I think you just encountered a bug that worked itself out.
As for France, if it doesn't work in this file, I know it would work in a new save file. I've never really had issues with Traveling when I have my mods in from the start, but sometimes there's a "point of no return" where even NRaas can't help.
Either way, I can't wait to see the boys all grown up and the new children too!