Hetal out to an early lead, then William overtakes her, then Hetal and William are neck-and-neck, but Chris is coming up from behind….
And it’s a tie! Hetal and William!
A TIE? Seriously? How can you do this to me??
I jumped the gun and wrote up the results with an hour left on the poll because surely there are not enough simblog readers out there for voting to really go up to the end. Then I finished writing, reloaded the blog, and with 45 minutes to go one more person voted.
13 people have voted in this poll. I wasn’t entirely sure there were 13 people READING simblogs :). I feel loved, guys. Thank you!
Results were:
Marigold Maldano: 0 (0%)
Hetal Anjali: 7 (53%)
Rick Lugosi: 3 (23%)
Chris Whoovian: 6 (46%)
William Pierce: 7 (53%)
Votes: 13
Below is the post I wrote before the final check. As the arbiter of ties, I’m going to let it stand. But William’s come-from-behind half-victory is going to have to factor in somehow…
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And it’s Hetal Anjali by one vote!
I spent a stupid amount of time reloading the poll to watch the voting. It was nail biting.
Well, color me surprised. Hetal was my favorite. I tried not to let it show. Not sure if I succeeded :). She just really has a face that hearkens to fairy tale witches while also being nontraditionally attractive. I figured one of the spicy celebrity sims would win.
Also, as the generations roll, finding an EA sim who looks really interesting is going to get harder. I don’t know how many generations it takes for townies to end up with totally bland faces with the genetic mixer, but it turns out to not be very many. It’s not really EA’s fault; there are mathematical reasons why this is a hard problem, assuming faces are paired up essentially randomly. At any rate, I see a lot of celebrity sims in this legacy’s future, so it’s nice to get in an EA one.
William would have been my second choice because of the legendary Spike cheekbones. Though truth be told, the designer used some makeup shading on his cheeks, so I don’t know how hollowed out they really are without taking off the makeup — I assume they’re as high and prominent as the editor can handle. (And OK, I wouldn’t mind watching him walk around my game for a generation either. But I was trying to think only about his genes.)
Random side-note: I’m not sure that even James Marsters ever really had the Spike cheekbones. In some shots you can actually tell he’s sucking in his cheeks to get that effect. Snerk.
After that, it was a toss-up between Chris and Marigold. Nobody liked Marigold. Poor sim. Let’s not tell her. Then again, she was never in danger of having to marry Allison, which you might view as a benefit.
Note: I did a Google search, and it turns out that there is in fact a way to back-hack a poll into a post. I will try this in the future. Instructions here.
Now I can go back to playing!
Awesome! I voted for William, but Hetal was a very close second for me. Maybe Spike can just hang around for a few generations? Like he does on Buffy? He always did bring the pretty.
Yay, I voted for both 🙂 So glad they technically both made it.
You could do another vote between those two…or not. 😉
Just found this, so too late to vote. Love the concept and would have voted for Spike/William even though I think Hetal is completely awesome!
I didn't know daredevil sims can't die from fire either! Good to know as the one in my prettacy keeps trying to play with the fireplace.
Lady Bhugg
Wow! Thanks, and hello Lady Bhugg!
Where's your Prettacy?
Yes, I think it's pretty clear that William is going to have to stick around and make babies in this legacy. At first I thought, "Well, there's no reason Allison has to be faithful." And that could be fun, but since it's a genetic legacy, I'd been forced to choose between Hetal's and William's genes at heir time. So I think he's going to just have to be a future spouse. So there :).
If I had made it in time to vote, I probably would have voted for William, so I'm glad I was late because it'll be nice to see the story play out
Awww. Yeah, I left the poll open for only about three days, during which time everyone who was currently commenting had voted, several friends of mine on Google+ who I didn't realize were reading had voted, and a bunch of other unidentified people had voted. And I wanted to get on to playing.
The problem with a mate poll as I've discovered is that it's very hard to continue to play forward without knowing who you should be spending your precious free time getting to know :). Of course, since William is Allison's coworker, she should be schmoozing him anyway.
Looks like if I'd left it open another two days, William would have won hands down. However, the more I think about it, the happier I am that it's Hetal. Not only is she an EA sim, she's an EA sim with a *mother* who has the most fascinatingly ugly genetics I've ever seen. That gives us the chance for some more sophisticated inheritance than you'd expect for Gen 1.
I think I'm going to freeze William's aging and marry him off to whichever poor child wins the heir poll. 🙂
I bet that can be a big hindrance to keeping your game going, waiting for the outcome of the poll! I guess it's good you have two games going, so you can play the Samples while you wait (HINT HINT). haha
And I don't know why, but I can't figure out how to subscribe to the Wonderland blog. Usually you can do it where you see who else is subscribed, but that part isn't there… Hmm.
Hee. Samples are on hold for a memory upgrade because I'm starting to be plagued with Error 12s. However, I probably have about 10 posts in the queue, so I don't have any real excuse. The gap in me actually playing will probably be seamless for the blog :).
Er, I'm going to guess the subscription thing is a widget I failed to add to the sidebar. Lemme look….
Do you see the subscription thing in the sidebar now?