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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Veronaville 100 years later

 Veronaville 100 years +

Welcome to Veronaville 100 years +. A hood I have been working on in my normal gameplay for many years. This is the Veronaville you knew of old, but the Romeo and Juliette stories of old are a mere distant memory. See how the descendants of those well known faces live their lives whilst you insert yourself into their stories.


"A century has passed since the tales of Romeo and Juliette, but the passion of romance hasn't altered. With the council making all major decisions for the town, do these residents push the boundaries further than any generation before them?"

Base Game Neighbourhood Number 3, was focused on romance and storytelling of young love with a Shakespearean theme.
I began with a genetically correct Veronaville (I find it irritating that sims look nothing alike to their ancestors with premades) by LordCrumps, and played the game rotationally following a wants based gameplay. I like to create some form of governing idea, inheritance, class system within my hood usually and I feel the 'Veronaville Feud' has basically done that for me.

Hood Theme

Capps Vs Montys is the major theme in the background of this hood as is the Capp rule of Matrilineal inheritance vs the Monty rule of Patrilineal inheritance.
Following the memories of many of the Capp and Monty members you realise quite quickly that the inheritance that is used is not based on eldest child. For example, Juliette is not canonically the eldest granddaughter and neither was her mother the eldest daughter of Contessa (the last Capp Monarch/Leader). So I decided that both families must have some form of elective house system, and I considered that Juliette is the favourite female in the family and Romeo the favourite male in the family. Looking at Patrizio, who is still alive, Romeo is his highest relationship male within the family. 
Et Voila!
Both the Capps and Montys will pass the 'Head of Family' title based on the favourite sim (highest joint LTR and STR relationship), correctly gendered, sim in the family.


Let us see this in practice with a modified Capp family tree taken from the Sims Wiki found here:
https://www.thesimswiki.com/wiki/Capp_family



Being matrilineal means that at the beginning of the game Hal, Kent and Tybalt are unable to become family head after Juliette. Should Juliette have daughters they could inherit the title of family head, but her sons could not. In the last instance, the title may then move to Hermia, or her daughters, or Miranda or Ariel. The possibilities are endless (sort of)!

Each family in this future Veronaville hood has a storyline, bios and are set up (as best I can) for some fun. Below you will find my ideas for each family and where you could take them. Inspired by the old scripted events in the hoods, I have added some questions and ideas in quotations that could be imaginary pop-ups to get you playing in game.

Families

University Sims - Académie Le Tour

I would start by finishing the university round off so those sims can be available to add into the stories of the main town of Veronaville. Ceres is a Junior studying Political Sciences, Lavinia and Mutius are both Sophomores with Lavinia studying Biology and Mutius; Art.

Their bio implies there is a secret here, it is not that Ceres is pregnant, but she has had a fling with Mutius her fiancé's younger brother previously. 

"Ceres has had a secret fling with her fiance's brother, Will she do it again now he has left college?"

Summerdream Family

Reading either their bio or the Frost Family's bio you will see a major wedding is taking place imminently.
As you load the game and click play, the wedding will happen and Florizel should be taking Peaseblossom's name.
Afterwards you will notice Peaseblossom's father John is fighting with Dion Frost, the zombie, and the family often runs to see what is happening after the wedding. I use a Mod where zombies can "eat" other sims and this is the intention here for John to be killed by Dion. Peaseblossom has the ability to use inflammo, to start a fire (one of the few ways of killing a zombie in the game).

To play this out as I intended, I would make Dion selectable using the simblender or other methods. Make sure her hunger is low, otherwise it will just be a normal fight!
Should she not kill John by eating him, you may need to select it a few times after the ceremony (and I even had to lower his body skill in one test run just fyi).
Peaseblossom can use inflammo on the ground near Dion, I recommend doing this when she is out in the garden because otherwise you could burn the house down.

"More mysteries exist in this family. What secret has Florizel brought with him to hide for his mother? "
"Does Peaseblossom have a secret of her own brewing inside her?"
"Why no electronics in this house, and what is hidden behind that wall upstairs?"
"How does Helena look so young for someone who could soon be a grandmother?"

Frost Family

Reading their bio talks about the wedding, and it is better to play that wedding scene out at the Summerdream house first. If you did, you will be left with only 3 sims here.

"Dionyza is desperate to try her genie lamp, head up to her room and make some wishes. Does she want granny Dion back as a zombie again? Will she right the wrong and bring John Summerdream back?"

Capps Family (Main Branch - Cressida's Family)

"Brutus is looking for a promotion, will he make it to work in time?"
"Cressida is a growing in fame pop star, and with that notoriety come adoring fans showering her with love, should she give them some loving back?"

Here you will need to send him to work, and as you do one of Cressida's lovers (Leonato Monty) rocks up *cough* invited over *cough*
After a few flirts they should have fallen in love and with ACR they will often woohoo if left alone.

Capps Family (Mirandian Branch - Paris' Family)

"Will Paris ever find love again? Will Dardanius find his calling in life?"

A lot of freedom with this family for you to experiment.

Lee Family

With whispers around town of a young woman pregnant. Is Ceres going to return from college with more than her degree in her arms? How would Lucius react to this news?

"Will Ceres and Lucius go through with the wedding?"

"Is Alice past it, or can she still be the life of the party?"

Alice wants to throw parties and never really has, Lucius is desperate to marry Ceres, and if you have completed her at College you could.

Phillipine Family

"Ophelia is tired of having to clean up around the house. Time to hire a maid?"
This is also useful because Gobbo wants to 'Befriend service sims'

"Audrey is early in her pregnancy, she is the secretly pregnant young woman in town, and she wants to marry Mutius, in what order will she do them both? Marriage before baby?"

This isn't the only pregnant sim in town, find out who else is!

Monty Family (Borachian Branch - Borachio's Family)

Come and meet the town Werewolf. Is he as scary as people say?

With the kittens ready for new homes, Borachio could make a small profit is he finds the right place for them.

Claudius Capp has the want for a kitten locked so would make a great customer, plus other family sims in town will likely roll the want for a kitten too.

Monty Family (Ferdinandian Branch - Eleanor's Family)

If you play these after the main Capps, Leonato will be in love with Cressida and may roll some family wants such as marriage and baby.

Looking at Eleanor's and Rousillon's wants will imply they care for Bertram (despite them not knowing him) this is due to Rousillon being his birth mother - Spoiler!

"Why does Rousllin care so much for Bertram Monty-Flexor? Will she form a relationship with him? Why not invite him over?"

"Virgilla wants to meet aliens, can you make it happen?" 

There is already a telescope in the garden ready for it.

Capp Family (Arielian Branch - Cassandra's Family)

"Violenta is getting friendly with some of the Monty boys in town. Will her mother allow her that freedom to be friends with who she wants?"

"Casca and Agamemnon both want more success, will they find it?"

"With age catching up to them both, is it now time for Cobweb and Casca to move to the retirement home?"

Violenta could get with her cousin Claudius if you removed their family tag, but she may also fall for Bertram Monty-Flexor or Bartholomew Monty when she ages up which could cause feud number 2!

Retirement Home

"This home currently has some space for a few more sims and the Carer at the Retirement Home is always happy to care for more elderly sims. Any sims in town that would make a perfect pair of residents?"

I would move Cassandra and Cobweb in here, into the double door spare room available

Flexor Family

"Thomas is desperate to get his old job back, but can he make better money with his little toys upstairs?"

"Is now the right time for Lucentio to get a job, he is used to living off of Thomas' money."

Lucentio often rolls a job want here but can make decent money if he paints. Thomas can make decent money too with his toymaking, plus he has quite a stash of toys in his inventory already.

Monty Family (Baptistan Branch - Baptista's Family)

"Baptista has been missing out on his hobby recently, will he get out and enjoy a jog before work?"

When Dorothy gets home from work, she can pay off the rest of her loan that she owes using Moniques Hacked Computer Loan system ($700)

"Dorothy finally has enough money to make the final loan payment for the house, head to the computer and pay it off."

Can Bartholomew and Cleon keep the lovers they have? Do they even want to?

Capp Family (Cinnan Branch - Cinna's Family)

"Menelaus realises he spends too much time at work and wants some alone time with his beautiful wife."

"Octavia wants to sneak out tonight with Dardanius, she better make sure she is on her best behaviour and attends school."

"Cinna's latest lover isn't too pleased with her, can she use her powers of persuasion to change his mind before he reveals her secret to the world."

Octavia should be fine at school as long as she attends. Cinna does not work and so could invite any of her lovers around but one lover in particular Hyun Ngai has a bad relationship with her and she could invite him round to change this.

Menelaus and Cinna are both about to wake up and could fulfil Menelaus' want to flirt with Cinna

Monty Family (Main Branch - Alonso's Family)

"Hortensia is hoping to make it big as a DJ, perhaps there is a small community lot she could buy and make a go at her dreams?"

The Rave Warehouse on Pentameter Parkway costs around $14,000 so she would need a further $15,000 loan on top of the $15,000 she already took to make a go at this business.

"Coriolanus wants a first kiss, maybe he should invite his crush Virgilla around after school?"

Want to play this yourself?

I am sharing the town itself on my google drive alongside my aspiration calculator for those of you who want to play it. Please make sure to copy and/ or download it before editing. I have run hoodchecker on this a couple of times, but make sure you check it and download at your own risk, you never know what corruption has crept it's way in over the years.


Do you play hoods for the long haul and over many generations? Do you ever give yourself an end point?
Which hood is your favourite? I would love to hear how you play with hoods in your game

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Thanks to EddySims for their icons for Sims 2 which I have used to make the main picture of the hood. See these on their Tumblr here:
https://eddysims.tumblr.com/post/185733520054

Thanks to LordCrumps for the original Hood. A genetically correct hood of Veronaville which can be found on Mod The Sims. See it here:


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