Setting up an Uberhood
Watching playthroughs and Let's Plays on YouTube got me interested in making an Uberhood.
See Pleasantview as the Base Neighbourhood in my Uberhood
Online you will find many methods of setting up an Uberhood and when researching how to do it, I found it rather awkward and longwinded. So I decided to do a quick method that is mentioned online in a few places.
In Documents, EA Games you will find the Sims 2 folder for your game. If you rename that and start the game up, the game will think 'The Sims 2' folder is missing and generate a new one.
This means you can create a new folder for each game you want to play. I have one for my Uberhood and my Veronaville Playthrough.
It is important to remember that whichever game you want to play, you leave that 'The Sims 2' folder named just that. Below you can see I am playing my Uberhood currently and my Veronaville game is left 'incorrectly' named so the game will not open it.
How to merge all the neighbourhoods
You will need this subhood selector from ModtheSims from Mootilda firstly.
This mod will allow you to select the subhood for the shopping districts and downtowns etc.
The way the Uberhood is built is you choose a hood as your base hood (I use Pleasantview) hen add all other desired hoods as 'Sub-hoods' i.e. shopping districts which can be found here from Meetme2theriver.
Meetme has re-released their clean hoods separately which can be found on their tumblr with a quick google search or use the links below:
https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/189832896668/happy-holidays-here-it-is-finally-the
https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/189832896668/happy-holidays-here-it-is-finally-the
I then play them until they are synced up to the start of a certain season such as spring or autumn. That means some families will be played for 1 day and others for 5 days.
My Uberhood
My personal Uberhood play is Pleasantview as the base hood and all other hoods except Veronaville and Strangetown as subhoods.
Veronaville I removed because my main hood play for the past few years has been a Veronaville, please check out my 100yrs + Veronaville if you like long-term stories and lore.
If you recently read my post on the Timeline of the Sims you will see that I believe that Strangetown is happening around 36 years later than Pleasantview and all other Sims 2 hoods, and thus should not be in line with the rest for an Uberhood.
I add n all bin families to my hood, playing most of them in the expansion pack they accompanied. Such as the Ramaswamis in Riverblossom Hills, the Goodies in Belladonna Cove and so on.
Some of the families I added in places I felt they fitted. The Travellers are in Pleasantview, near the Goths. Cyd Roseland is in Bluewater Village, whilst the Critturs were adopted by the Oldies in Pleasantview. Kim and Kat families were both added to Desiderata Valley.
Have you ever tried an Uberhood? Would you try it now you can see how easy it is to set up?
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