Sims 2 My Class System

Upper, Lower or bang in the Middle!

Whilst a class system isn't something I prescribe to, I always found it strange that as someone from a "Working class" background, my chosen career path automatically made me "Middle Class" if I had lived 100 years ago in the UK.

Being the creative soul that I am, and also a lover of royal history and themes within that, I decided to implement a class system in my Sims 2 game.

Middle Class Gilbert Jacquet marries Upper Class Cassandra Goth, bring £55,000 dowry with her.

A class system adds to the depth of story telling for my Sims and can be a great way to control who speaks to who, and who marries who etc.

A great Mod I have used in the past and still use somewhat or will use in the future is this one by Marhis.
https://modthesims.info/d/310786/al-social-groups-for-playables.html

This allows the social interactions between the 5 social class groups to be the greeting interaction for playable sims, which can be a great way to split into 5 classes. But currently I am running my Uberhood on a three class system which you can see detailed below. 

Firstly I use the "How much money do you have?" system to work out wealth. See more information on this in a previous post found on my blog

https://insertthesims.blogspot.com/2024/04/does-sims-2-understand-what-rich-and.html

In short this is the outcome of "How much money do you have?" :

Lower class (not rich) '$' is any household fund up to $5,000

Middle class (moderately rich) '$$' is any household fund from $5,000 - $15,000

Upper class (very rich) '$$$' is any household fund $15,000 and above.

$$$ Upper Class Rules:

1. Free to use the Cemetery (After all, their ancestors probably owned the land!)
2. Attend the Grand Ball
3. Can ONLY marry Upper or Middle Class
4. Must pay £50,000 for a Morganatic Marriage (Marriage to the lower class), they also cannot be their family heir and must be disowned if they marry a lower class
5. Have a specific Heir for the family
6. Offspring in Private School (£1,000 fee paid every Monday)
7. Teens go to Boarding School (I use a self-adapted version LordCrumps 3t2 boarding school system)
8. Usually go to University
9. Can hire ALL services
10. Must have at least 1 service
11. Use more Regal naming conventions
12. Have a specified heir to their family
13. Pay large dowries to their female relatives marriage partners
14. Can join Gardening Club
15. Shunned if they have a child out of wedlock
16. Upper class clothing, looks and aesthetics
17. Upper Class Specific Majors and Jobs
18. Upper Class Specific Boarding Schooling
19. Public WooHoo will result in you having to pay off the Paparazzi, rolling 1,000 - 10,000 Simoleons to pay
20. Can run any business, but more so clubs/selling high end products
21. Can be or become eligible suitors or debutantes
22. Lot Value more than £100K

Upper Class Geoff Rutherford

$$ Middle Class Rules:

1. Can Marry up or down
2. Can go to University
3. Can go to Private School if a parent did or through wants (parental wants)
4. Teens only go to boarding school if a parent did
5. Mixed naming conventions
6. Can hire all services except Butlers
7. Middle class clothing, looks and aesthetics
8. Middle Class Specific Majors and Jobs
9. Can run a business selling middle value products/handmade or run pubs or the like
10. Can negotiate child's betrothal to Upper class if applicable (Cost of £20,000 paid to the Upper class family)
11. Pay £5,000 to have grave at the Sim State Cemetery
12. Lot Value £50k - £100K

Middle Class Tina Traveller

$ Lower Class Rules:

1. Can go to University (but rarer to go)
2. Cannot go to Private School
3. Poorer naming conventions
4. Can hire nannies ONLY
5. Lower class clothing, looks and aesthetics
6. Lower Class Specific Majors and Jobs
7. Lower Class Specific Boarding Schooling
8. Can run businesses selling handmade items or very poor quality general store
9. Can negotiate child's betrothal to Middle class if applicable (Cost of £10,000 paid to the middle class family)
10. Public WooHoo will result in the Paparazzi paying you for the story rolling £50 - £150 payment to the Sim
11. Lot Value less than £50K
12. Pay £2,000 to have grave at the Sim State Cemetery

Lower Class Newson Family

I am excited to see what rules you all use to play with Social Classes, if you do?!. Let me know below in the comments.

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