Here are some memories I have jotted down, not put into story form yet.
TSO Memories
I stumbled upon TSO by complete accident.
Bought my 1st computer and needed a game to play, so I went to best buy and bought a copy of sim city/sim theme park, which came with a free trial of TSO.
I had played the sims before and I had never played a game with online interactivity.
my 1st sim was born on my birthday in January 2003 he was a clown faced character simply named Edot.
the first choice I had to make was which city was I going to move into, I looked through the city names and Mount Fuji popped out at me, I think simply for the reason that my initials are MF.
I remember being overwhelmed and not knowing exactly what to do, what the game goals were or if I was going to even enjoy the game itself.
I visited a few places, watched people interact and do what sims do. I found a property that did payouts for story writing and they were looking for roommates. I can't remember the house name but the owner was a female sim named Parker Posely. Her and the roommates of the property liked to walk around in sim pajamas and call themselves the "butt-flap crew".
after my free trial was up I wasn't sure if I was going to continue playing for a price. I reactivated my account about a month after my trial expired.
by that point I already had collected enough funds to buy my own lot which was a small money making property, jams and story writing with no payout bonus... That didn't go so well with most of the other properties paying a bonus per sale.
I spent a few months just roaming around, skilling at various places, jamming for money and meeting people.
after some time I ran across a store property that advertised the do rare pet pulls, I didn't know what this was but I was interested to find out. This is where I met my best "sim friend" in my time on TSO. Her sims name was Little Happy Kitten or Happy Little Kitten, lol it's been so long I kind of forget the order. She taught me what a pet pull aka rare hunt is.
made 3 more sim accounts, all clown sims, all with edot in the name. IKnowEdot,WhoIsEdot and WhereIsEdot. At 1 point in time, before I became a full out rare hunting shop owner, I used a pizza bot to make money faster. It was ok but nowhere near a profitable as it was for me as a shop owner. Even after I stopped doing pizza, I kept my 3 extra accounts to help with shop hours and for holding the 2 rare lots I owned ( 1 island and 1 peninsula ).
my top 5 Mount Fuji store was called Rare Pet Hunting, I did a few pet pulls for customers but preferred to keep the luck to myself so I could sell all the rares I pulled.
I pulled mount fuji's very 1st rare pink poodle and almost pooped my pants IRL in the process. I sold it for 21 million, 5 cheetahs, 5 afghans, 1 tiger and 1 Saint Bernard. That was my biggest and most memorable cash in, in my sim career.
at 1 point I took to the eBay market, selling simoleons, pets and other in game rare items. My 1st sale was for a complete set of pet statues, 6 in all, 2 cats, 2 dogs each material, gold-silver-bronze, for $125.00 USD. Over time I made over 100 transactions for a pretty penny. My last transaction ended bad, I got a charge back to my paypal for over $150 for a tiger and a few million because at the time, tangible items were not covered.