Uberhood Round 1 Bluewater Village

 Uberhood Round 1 Bluewater Village in the Springtime

Next up is the OG shopping district of Bluewater Village. I play this as a beach theme with matching landscape features/skylines etc and no Winter season, but a double summer together after spring. Of course the natural storyline here is all about business but I play wants based, the only real story I always go with is whom Malcolm Landgraab marries which we shall find out below!

Tinker Household

In the set-up round, the Tinkers opened 'Tinker's Toys' and began selling and making toys, but the business is not making much money. Melody is working hard to study and use her telescope and general logic based objects.

I think it is important to note here that I always play the Tinkers with an agenda. Let us turn to the Landgraabs with Malcolm IV. Looking at his family tree you can see that the Malcolms marry women whose name starts with 'M'. If you scour the game you find only a seven 'M' women who are close enough in age to be eligible for him.

1. Mary-Sue Pleasant - She is likely too old and of course married with children
2. Mary Gavigan - Also married with a child
3. Marissa Cleveland - Also married with a child also too old as well
4. Monica Bradford - At University
5. Marla Biggs - At University
6. Miranda Capp - a teen (Not in my Uberhood)
7. Melody Tinker - a teen, lives in the same town of Bluewater Village

Looking at this list, the only eligible 'M' woman suitable in my Uberhood is Melody Tinker and I feel that was the plan from EA/Maxis for her, to become his wife. They tend to have good chemistry, 2 or 3 bolts I find usually, Malcolm IV has an odd quirk also that Melody as his wife fits (in my head), he has skin tone 3, his father has skin tone 2 and grandfather has skin tone 1. Following this pattern would say that Malcolm V (Malcolm IV's future son) should have skin tone 4 and Melody marrying him makes that very much a realistic option. With that said, Melody will marry Malcolm Landgraab.

Wanda and Stephen both want a child and Wanda has a daughter Olivia this round. Due to a mental breakdown i.e. aspiration failure, Wanda's life changed a lot this round. Firstly the new baby, plus she also ditched the idea of a home business, it wasn't making them money really anyway. Thus Wanda now a secondary pleasure sim (I run my calculator for a secondary aspiration when sims have a mental breakdown), decided to get a job and she joined the Journalism career. Stephen and Wanda must be a perfect couple, because despite not having the same mental breakdown, Stephen too wanted to get a regular job, using his physics degree he became an Architect's Apprentice and shut down his business.

Here is the second Tinker daughter in her father's arms.

Landgraab Household

Malcolm is actually one of my favourite sims to play, I love his backstory and powerful family concept plus his business can tend to be actually viable at making money, or you can focus him on a business career I find he often wants. But this playthrough I will focus on his Club - Club Dante. Last round in the set-up, the club got to rank 4. Starting this round his focus will remain as business and making money. I start with depositing some money to start gaining interest for him on Monique's computer.

Doing a few days at Club Dante, then to the Electronic store, makes Malcolm a decent amount of cash, which he invests to buy more items. Now with £30,000 in his bank and £39,000 in household funds, he is a pretty rich sim.

Jacquet Household

The Jacquets spent their prep round with Gilbert (the romance sim that he is) flirting and woohooing with other sims. Firstly the short haired sim he has a crush on, in my game she is called Gina (She has a different name in every version of the subhood if I remember correct) and so he woohooed with her. Whilst playing as Jessica Peterson, they became another notch on each other's bedpost and finally this round, Gilbert woohooed with Florence Delarosa.

Denise spent much of her time wanting to follow her science hobby with shooting stars and stargazing. But eventually rolled a want to marry rich and see her son engaged. So Denise took it upon herself to find Gilbert a rich wife. Kim Cordial, Vivian Cho, Tara DeBateau, and Cassandra Goth were the options, and despite Gilbert showing no attraction/chemistry with Cassandra, according to his Turn ons she would be the ideal wife. Fun to note I have actually had them marry before in other playthroughs and they are usually successful with a family. (FYI he did actually get 1 bolt of chemistry in the end, clearly needed to see all of her "goods" before he decided she was hot haha!)

After a successful date Gilbert and Cassandra seemed to be destined for one another, but Gilbert had other plans. Alexandra O'Mackey became his fourth venture and now he planned to make Cassandra his fifth. Meanwhile Denise was running the bakery making pittance and not selling much despite her (albeit cheated) excellent sales badge.

Denise now had her sights set on Cassandra for her son to marry and despite her pushing them together, every time Gilbert asked Cassandra to go serious she refused, but was happy to woohoo instead (call yourself a family sim Cassandra... tut tut!). Denis came up with the plan to blackmail the set-up, inviting Cassandra and her family over. Denise convinced Mortimer that Gilbert was the only real option for Cassandra to marry and agreed, they were arranged to be wed on the spot and had a sweet little ceremony in the flowers.

What will life hold for these newly weds? Will they remain in wedded bliss?

Ramirez Household

During the set-up Lisa chose to follow her dreams of working in Medicine and became a general practitioner, whilst Checo focussed on the furniture store and banked £10,000 in the bank online to star making some interest, fortune sims usually do this when I play as them.

In the last few days of Tessa being a child I forgot about the nanny and almost had her taken away, thank God that children can call for a nanny themselves haha!

Tessa almost always grows into a Romance Sim using my calculator and she did again here and with her family being rich, and Tessa being best friends with Alexander Goth meant it wasn't long until they were kissing in the living room. I hope he doesn't think she will remain faithful to him.

Lisa was struggling with needs and soon found out she was pregnant and gave birth to a son Xavier. All the time she spent this difficult pregnancy, when not fighting to keep her needs up, pining for more skills to help her career.

Delarosa Household

For me, Florence always ends up quite the loner, or marries a widow. In previous games she has been with Mortimer Goth, Stephen Tinker and Darren Dreamer, often never making the first moves. This set-up round for her was no different, she sometimes thinks of flirting with Gilbert but then quickly wants to learn skills in cooking or logic instead. So the focus previous and this round for the Delarosa household is Florence's business, ranking it up to allow her to relax, because her house being so large and full of rather expensive things can make her bills costly often about £500 per time.

Working on her business meant her house, relationships and garden were a mess, so a well deserved day to recover was needed. During this tidy up and recuperate, Flo called for a booty call using ACR and Daren Dreamer arrived, despite being about 50/50 in relationship and no tag, not even friendship they got down to it and became lovers.

Larson Household

Now the Larson's I tend to play with them getting jobs, often law and architecture, and make their money that way, but I decided to follow their business dreams and they opened their home business called 'Larson venue' where they play/sing music to make money. It is difficult as they make pittance, but is a nice change from the static 9-5 feel the rest of the Uberhood tends to have.

In the prep round they were struggling for money and using the ticket machine to charge people very little to watch them play piano and sing. A rearrange of the house shifted the venue into their loft and partitioned most of downstairs for themselves to live in. Later after some stars and business rank up, they invested in a bar, poker tables and karaoke machine to make even more money.

Gieke Household

Chester got a job in Medicine and worked his way to Level 4 Intern in the prep round, now in his first round he is in need of friends to progress in his career. He previously kissed Cassandra (his first kiss) despite not yet being friends and of course she was married to Gilbert Jacquet further up so not a match for him. Chester tried flirting with the maid Kaylynn Langerak and had a slow dance and hug with Natasha Una but no-one seems to tickle his fancy, with all three women so far having 0 or 1 bolt of chemistry for him.

After two promotions and now GP Chester's round was coming to an end, but wait... Kaylynn wants to hang out afer tidying up the tiny house of course... Oh WooHoo on the sofa, well that escalated but of course. Kaylynn spent the night and these two love bird were romantic all night woohoo-ing and eventually fell in love. I wonder where their relationship will go next round.

Roseland Household

Cyd's round began with him becoming friends with Checo Ramirez and Kimberly Cordial and him getting a job in the Science career track. In the first proper round, Cyd was promoted and has everything already for the next promotion to level 5. Concerned his round would be boring, I rolled my ROS Scenarios and he is now going to have a love affair, this is useful because Kim Cordial and he have 2 bolts of chemistry. After a few night of love and woohoo, they were going steady and to end the round Cyd was now an Inventor an had moved up a rank in the social class system I implement

What sorts of fun stories do you have to tell with your own Bluewater Village, be it attached to one main hood or part of an Uberhood?

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Uberhood Round 1 Pleasantview

Uberhood Round 1 Pleasantview in the Spring

If you saw my previous few blogs, you will have seen that I was building up towards starting my first Uberhood. This was simple to set up and followed my other discussions on blogs. Thus Strangetown and Veronaville are not included. Veronaville has been a main playthrough of mine since I returned to the Sims 2 fully (deleting the Sims 4 from my life...) a few years back. Strangetown, in a previous blog I explained is not set at the same time interval as the rest of the Sims 2 neighbourhoods, and thus won't be included in my Uberhood.

So my Uberhood will consist of Pleasantview, Bluewater Village, Riverblossom Hills, Desiderata Valley, and Belladonna Cove.

I am aligning all the neighbourhoods to make round 1 Spring, because switching season 1 to winter for most towns (second autumn for the beach area that is Bluewater Village).

Below you will see each run through of roughly what happened in the household this round, with new family additions pictured and a small screenshot of my spreadsheet at the time their round ended. Yes I track my sims on quite a meticulous spreadsheet, I am somewhat of a swap for details! So buckle down and enjoy the read.

Lothario Household

Don played through a few extra days of the prep round or round 0 i.e. the winter round in Pleasantview and then through spring for round one his main focus was of course WooHoo, gaining both the Caliente sisters as lovers/conquests, as well as Ivy Coppur and Sharon Wirth. He continued to work on his career getting to level 6 and becoming the General Practitioner for Pleasantview.

Goth Household

With the relationship with Don rocky, Cassandra attempted marriage only for Dina and Don to make out during the event, Cassandra to fight with him and he to leave her at the alter. Since then, Cassandra is looking for love but hasn't exactly done much with it. A kiss with Chester Gieke and a little flirt with Connor Weir, but nothing major on the horizon.

One drunken night, Mortimer got engaged to Dina, despite Cassandra having just been arguing with her for losing her Don. But that engagement didn't last long, Mortimer was already dating Betty Goldstein, and Dina found them in bed together so Mortimer ended it with Dina and she left looking for a new rich husband to score from...
Alexander grew up here into the Fortune Sim he is destined to be, but with my calculator he should have been Family and so I used Family as his secondary. Lets see if he will be more family or money focussed. I think he will be more family focussed because Secondary Aspirations tend to have a bit too much weighting on what my sims want to do I tend to find.

Caliente Household

The Caliente's were women of town in this round. Nina was woohooing with whoever she could alongside working as a Stand-up Comedian in the entertainment career. As well as Don Lothario, Herb Oldie became her conquest as did Julian Cooke and Daniel Pleasant. But she and Dina has the cold twice during this round so this slowed down their progress.

Dina spent this round desperately hoping to get engaged to what felt like every rich man she could find. Dina started the round newly engaged to Don Lothario as Don had the fear of her rejecting his proposal (which in my game equates to a want to get engaged) at the end of the prep round. So Dina caught Don cheating, Shocker!, and fell back in love, then had an affair with Mortimer herself during Don's round and he broke up with her. Then as I said above Mortimer proposed to her and then broke up with her, so by the time we got to the Caliente round she was through two engagements and desperate to marry a rich sim still!

After fighting with her sister regularly! A WooHoo with Darren Dreamer and Geoff Rutherford, she proposed to Geoff (of course only for his Rutherford wealth!) leaving him potentially wanting to marry her at his own round?

Broke Household

As they usually are, the Broke's were a tough play in round 1. Dustin was struggling with school, Brandi was sewing and not making much as a seamstress.

The Broke's ended more broke than ever. Yes they have £322 in funds but through work and school Dustin needs £150 for the time he has worked in hi personal bank, whereas Beau needs £200 for school gains (Drums and stuff) so Brandi will let them deposit that when she is in the green next round (Hopefully). Dustin did no real focus on school for Angela Pleasant so their relationship is dropping quickly into the early 90s for both STR and LTR.

Of course we haven't mentioned baby number 3, Brandi gave birth to daughter Kelsie who is an Insane Loner, so let us see what fun she will get up to in this house of negative finances! haha

Looks to me like little Kelsie looks far more like her mother than her dead father...

Dreamer Household

Now the Dreamers had rather a boring time this first round. Darren was just wanting to paint to pay the bills and Dirk wanted to play with his helicopter and go to school, so that is exactly what they did, bish, bash, bosh, Dreamers done...

Pleasant Household

Daniel and Kaylynn are still continuing their affair but Daniel is pretty damn smart with when he does them, often waiting for Lillith to be the only one home, who would believe that unwanted brat afterall he probably thinks? Mary-Sue hasn't realised he has also been having an affair with Nina as well as Kaylyn, she is too focussed on her career and Pottery. mary-Sue has worked up to level 5 in the Political career and despite all the WooHooing, Daniel has made it to Coach at level 9.

Angela was really wanting some friends this round and they all seemed to be boys! Just as she was friends with Jacob martin, she then wanted Rick Contrary and had 2 bolts with him and so they got friendlier and friendlier. Lillith was of course ignored by her family and me mostly (Ooops!) most of their round but did get her first WooHoo in with Dirk this round. Lillith became friends and best friends with Violet Jocque as Angela was hoping to make a move on Rick Contrary, then boom in comes the Cinematic of a first kiss. But who? It was Rick Contrary and Violet Jocque and Angela in the background was fuming. Citing her sister had planned it all (I am sure) and fought Violet and kicked off, arguing with her and throwing drinks! Angela made the move on Rick herself, she has 2 bolts with him and only 1 with Dustin Broke, and WooHooed with Rick. Let us see how this relationship goes when we get to his round in Desiderata valley.

Burb Household

The Burbs began with a longer Winter round of 5 days and in this time Jennifer got a job in the Business career using her Literature degree I gave her. Lucy found out her hobby was Film and Literature and her subcategory was reading books aka Bibliophile and began doing very well in public school. Jennifer fell pregnant and had a baby girl called Katie Burb. lastly the set-up round has John want to get a job and Medicine seemed to fit and he became a Paramedic. Returning to them for Round 1 Spring, saw Lucy grow up into a teenager and become a Family sim with a turn on of ginger hair. Sadly despite her long-time wants of first kiss and falling in love, she has had no luck so far. Karen Gast the nanny was rude to everyone. I swear these nannies are always just vile human beings! John was crying daily over her! John was promoted to Nurse and Jennifer to Junior Executive. Lucy has the sim 3 trait of light sleeper which became rather annoying with a baby sister and pet rat in her room, so as a teen I build her a little outhouse to be her room with a bedroom and bathroom.

Katie grew up to a toddler and learnt potty, then into a child gaining the traits Good, Loner and Neat respectively. John continued his gardening, whilst fortune sim Jennifer was desperate to get promoted constantly and kept learning skills to help her in that pursuit.

Here is little Katie enjoying a jump around on her bed, now a room she gets to have all to herself - Yippee!

Oldies Household

The Oldies moved in and I merged the 'Crittur Household' into them in the prep round, they make sense as the dog owners I always feel. Of course Sarah had puppies: Sadie, Jet and Wishbone, and in the main round they were adopted by Tessa Ramirez, Gilbert Jacquet and Xander Roth respectively. Herb has been cheating as a romance sim on Coral with Brandi Broke, Nina Caliente, Catherine Viejo and Coral caught him with Brandi broke s they are currently not doing great in their marriage. Despite this Coral (via the ROS) wanted to host a cook-a-thon making 9 meals for her friends and family to enjoy and let her know which was best, the only key event that happened was that the Pleasant girls had a huge fight and Lilith won!

Traveller Household

Yes, the Travellers in my Uberhood are here in Pleasantview. They were added with Bon Voyage with the intent from EA/Maxis to be added to a current hood I presume. At this point only Pleasantview, Bluewater and Riverblossom are the only options in my hood that would be viable for the Travellers at that time and Riverblossom and Bluewater just didn't feel the right fits for them, so they moved in just across to the right from the Goths. The infamous 5 bed house where most of the rooms can't fit a decent bed haha!
Trent with his Biology degree wanted to be an adventurer and became a deep sea diver and Trisha fell pregnant in the set up winter round. In Spring Tabitha was born and Trent worked on his skills for his job, the fortune sim cycle strikes again, whilst Trisha worked on making friends, specifically Lucy and Jennifer Burb and Opal Contrary. Tina tried to get an A+ at school (which seemed to take forever!) and eventually did it! And is now ready to age up well Whoop Whoop!

Here is the unfortunately looking Tabitha. I think she got the worst traits of her parents - Bless her...

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Setting up an Uberhood

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.

https://modthesims.info/download.php?t=420924

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.

https://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/63030.html

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/179020464788/clean-pleasantview-templates-rerelease-fixed

https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/188220538308/clean-desiderata-valley-templates-rerelease-its

https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/188220303568/clean-riverblossom-hills-templates-rerelease

https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/184808823213/clean-bluewater-village-templates-rerelease

https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/182802340653/clean-veronaville-templates-rerelease-fixed

https://meetmetotheriver.tumblr.com/post/179357146508/clean-strangetown-templates-rerelease-fixed

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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Overall Timeline of the Sims

 The overall timeline of the Sims

Playing the sims 2 and finding out it was set 25 years later had me hooked as a concept and probably birthed my love of how things can change, story telling and the rest.

When Sims 3 was coming out and I learnt that it was the prequel I could not wait to play it and do the steps needed to get the game to the 'Sims 1' correct timeline.

As Sims 3 continued to generate more towns, they increasingly hinted to and felt like they were not all set in tandem with each other. In Twinbrook we see the Curious family with Notzo as a toddler, not fitting the 50 years prior to Strangetown that Sunset Valley and Riverview had set (being 50 years prior to Pleasantview). This got me thinking, in the Sims 2 we assumed all hoods were happening at the same time in tandem and Sims 3 broke that idea with it's later packs and many varying points on the timeline.

Lets delve into why a Cassandra Goth and Vidcund Curious shipping cannot work unless she is a real cougar!

Initial Timeline

Let us start at the most basic of timelines the Pleasantview-Sunset Valley Timeline. The original Sims represents year zero with Pleasantview and Sunset Valley 25 years out respectively.

- 25 Years Sunset Valley

Year 0 Neighbourhood 1 / Old Town

+ 25 Years Pleasantview

It is safe to assume that all Sims 2 hoods took place at the same time as Pleasantview, lets see the towns that Sims 3 introduced and see how this no longer fits the trend.

Initially as a download came Riverview, having many ties to Sunset Valley and being a sister world to it, placing it in exactly the same timeline position as Sunset Valley with the Broke and Newbie family. I know Don Lothario appears here, but his story here clearly implies he was thrown through a time machine of some sorts and arrive here at this time in Riverview.

The first town to alter this trio of timelines is Twinbrook, showing the Curious family. If we imagine the Curious family with the brother's and Jenny, 25 years prior to Strangetown i.e Year 0 they would be children and Jenny a teen. In fact Early Strangetown found on Mod the Sims shows this really well. Their father Glarn would be an older adult at this point. Looking back 25 more years to line up with Sunset Valley, Glarn would be a late Teen or Young Adult. Instead Twinbrook introduces his father Notzo as a Toddler.

For Glarn to be a Teen or Adult and Notzo to be a Toddler is a different of around 50 years, this would mean Twinbrook is 100 years before Strangetown.

Twinbrook/Bridgeport Timeline

- 100 Years Twinbrook and Bridgeport

- 25 Years Sunset Valley and Riverview

Year 0 Neighbourhood 1 / Old Town

+ 25 Years Pleasantview (All other Sims 2 Neighbourhoods?)

Next came Bridgeport in Late Night. In this town the Big Bling Household mention they came from Twinbrook, implying it as a small town. Also in Twinbrook a City can be seen in the distance implying Twinbrook, to me I feel this is evidence they are both contemporary with each other.

Between Twinbrook and Bridgeport came Barnacle Bay, the town set after Pleasantview. The Caliente's are back still as Adults, so much time has not passed. But the GilsCarbo family implies Celeste (a young child) is the daughter of Goopy from Pleasantview, confirming a few years have passed.

Hidden Springs came after Bridgeport and introduced us to Bert Alto, clearly Nick Alto (from Sunset Valley)'s younger brother, confirming they are at the same point in time.

Pets came with Appaloosa Plains and this one is difficult to align right now due to having no connections to any families, yet! We will see it return.

Taking us to Lunar Lakes - Clearly the future at some point - Case closed!

Then with Showtime came Starlight Shores taking us to 9 worlds (and the half way point of the Sims 3). This town has the Worthington family with a teen called Girbits, which is not his real name, that is hidden from the player. Girbits is 5 days away from Adulthood, enjoys computers and could easily make a decent amount of money from it, the game already implies he is hacking for money from people. Francis J Worthington from Strangetown's university of La Fiesta Tech is called 'The Third' and the implication is his family were wealthy. Girbits and Francis have a similar look and I see Girbits as his Grandfather, Girbit's real name being Francis (the first!) This matches perfectly to being 50 years before Strangetown. Providing us the midway timeline below.

Midway Timeline

- 100 Years Twinbrook and Bridgeport

- 25 Years Sunset Valley, Riverview, Hidden Springs, and Starlight Shores

Year 0 Neighbourhood 1 / Old Town

+ 25 Years Pleasantview (All other Sims 2 Neighbourhoods?)

+ 30 Years  Barnacle Bay

"The Future" Lunar Lakes

The next two worlds are Lucky Palms and Sunlit Tides, which both introduced infamous Pleasantview families slightly earlier than in the timeline than Pleasantview's 25 years after Sims 1.

With Daniel and Mary-Sue newly weds in Sunlit Tides and Darren Dreamer chasing after Darlene sets these between 12 - 15 years before Pleasantview, giving time for them to have 'teenage' children in Pleasantview, creating the Semi-Prequel timeline.

Semi-Prequel Timeline

- 100 Years Twinbrook and Bridgeport

- 25 Years Sunset Valley, Riverview, Hidden Springs, and Starlight Shores

Year 0 Neighbourhood 1 / Old Town

+ 11 Years Lucky Palms and Sunlit Tides

+ 25 Years Pleasantview (All other Sims 2 Neighbourhoods?)

+ 30 Years  Barnacle Bay

"The Future" Lunar Lakes

With Sunlit Tides comes Griffin Alto, who states he was due to return to join the family business. This idea is a little more personal choice, but I feel like the Alto's of Sunset Valley leave for Riverview and Holly Alto and Dallas Shallow marry. Griffin here looks a lot like the children that can be born to Holly and Dallas so I feel he is their son. This also fits the Timeline with Sunlit Tides being 36 years after Sunset Valley and Riverview, so Holly and Dallas could be his parents.

Moonlight Falls comes with the Goth family, Samuel which is Victor's brother and Frida, the missing sister of Gunther both of whom are dead. They seem to have been dead for a few years at least and with no other connections it makes sense to have Moonlight falls in the same timeline position as Sunset Valley.

Monte Vista comes next and this is solidly in line with the Sims 1 games. Goopy GilsCarbo appears as a toddler and the Monty family from Veronaville also appear at 25 years earlier than they were.

'Calm before the storm' Timeline

- 100 Years Twinbrook and Bridgeport

- 25 Years Sunset Valley, Riverview, Hidden Springs, Starlight Shores, and Moonlight Falls

Year 0 Neighbourhood 1 / Old Town and Monte Vista

+ 11 Years Lucky Palms and Sunlit Tides

+ 25 Years Pleasantview and Veronaville (All other Sims 2 Neighbourhoods?)

+ 30 Years  Barnacle Bay

"The Future" Lunar Lakes

The next world to arrive was Aurora Skies, the timeline breaker!

Firstly the Beakers appear here around 25 years younger, with Loki a child and Erin a toddler, so right now it would be placed next to Monte Vista at Year 0, because we are assuming Strangetown and Pleasantview are happening at the same time.

Enter the Mango Cousins - Which ruin it all...

Magnus Mango is in the military and it mentions he is a cousin with Maru Mango who appeared in Sunlit Tides. The game strongly implies that Maru's and Magnus' storyline are happening at the same time, contemporary with each other.

But wait, that would mean Aurora Skies and Sunlit Tides would be at the same point in the timeline. This results in the below outcome.

'Broken' Timeline

- 64 Years Twinbrook and Bridgeport

- 25 Years Sunset Valley, Riverview, Hidden Springs, and Moonlight Falls

- 14 Years Starlight Shores

Year 0 Neighbourhood 1 / Old Town and Monte Vista

+ 11 Years Lucky Palms, Sunlit Tides, and Aurora Skies

+ 25 Years Pleasantview and Veronaville 

+ 30 Years  Barnacle Bay

+36 Years Strangetown

"The Future" Lunar Lakes

So Strangetown is now happening 11 Years later than Pleasantview?

Lets finish off the timeline with the town's from Sims 3 and see if they change the timeline back or confirm this new theory.

Dragon Valley is next which features John and Jennifer Burb (still a Pleasant) as they are about to wed. This could fit anywhere between the +11 and +25 years positions on the timeline, but makes sense roughly in between them as John and Jennifer need to marry and have Lucy before Pleasantview.

Midnight Hollow brings in the murderous Olive Spector and her toddler Nervous, but with no other links to anywhere but Strangetown this could work with Strangetown in its new proper place in the timeline or the more traditional place being in line with Pleasantview.

Roaring Heights the final world introduced has the Capps practically in the same age positions as the Montys we saw earlier so this one is simply in line with Monte Vista.

Oasis Landing was the Future world from the final expansion pack, though not an official world it is clearly set far far into the future.

Isla Paradiso came with the Island Paradise and contains a few families linked to other worlds.

Firstly is an Alto family return. Alonso the Adult looks somewhat like Nick and Vita and could be a son born to them after the start of Sunset Valley, implying this is set after that. 

The Mangos return with Matthew Mango, with similar traits to the other Mango men. Not implied to be any particular relative, he could be another cousin or child or parent, so he doesn't help us to pin point the position in the timeline.

Edward Dregg occurs here as a Ghost and his bio implies this is set before the Sims 2 Bon Voyage hood of Twikki Island. If we are assuming those hoods are in line with Pleasantview, then Isla Paradiso is set before Pleasantview.

Lastly we have Akoni Kahale. He states in his bio he is a cousin to the Kahale family from Sunlit Tides. As with before, if the sim is stating they have family in another world, those worlds must surely be happening at the same point in the timeline.

If Isla Paradiso and Sunlit Tides are happening at the same time, then Alonso being the son of Nick and Vita Alto would be around 36 years old, and having a teenage daughter this would fit the timeline. Below we can see the complete timeline, where all other Sims 2 hood have no evidence they do not happen in line with Pleasantview, but Strangetown cannot. Because the 25 years needed between Loki and Erin beaker to go from Aurora Skies to Strangetown is not the same amount of time needed for the Pleasants to go from newly weds on holiday to having teenage daughters. Remember we saw Daniel Pleasant 25 years before Pleasantview, he was in Old Town with his parent's and therefore Sunlit tides is less than 20 years before Pleasantview (allowing time for him to go from child to adult).

This brings me back to Appaloosa Plains which is somewhat of an outlier. The only connection is with the Parrott family. There are some Parrotts that are described as cousins in Sunlit Tides and Isla Paradiso again reaffirming their connection of happening together. What is interesting is that the Parrott twins from Appaloosa Plains actually look a lot like Gregory Parrott from Isla Paradiso. Perhaps they are his sons? In Sunlit Tides are the Parrott Sisters and then a random NPC firefighter named Carissa Parrott, but with no family relations. I theorise that she and Gregory Parrott were married and that the Parrotts of Appaloosa plains are their children, Kale and Kanoa Parrott of Appaloosa Plains. Them being adults would imply around 40 years later than Sunlit Tides setting at +11 Years

Complete Timeline

- 64 Years Twinbrook and Bridgeport

- 25 Years Sunset Valley, Riverview, Hidden Springs, and Moonlight Falls

- 14 Years Starlight Shores

Year 0 Neighbourhood 1 / Old Town, Monte Vista, and Roaring Heights

+ 11 Years Lucky Palms, Sunlit Tides, Aurora Skies, Isla Paradiso

+ 16 Years Midnight Hollow and Dragon Valley

+ 25 Years Pleasantview and Veronaville (Including Desiderata Valley, Belladonna Cove, Riverblosson Hills, and Vacation Hoods)

+ 30 Years  Barnacle Bay

+36 Years Strangetown

+ 51 Years Appaloosa Plains

"The Future" Lunar Lakes

"Far Far Future" Oasis Landing

How do you feel the timeline in the sims exists? Have I convinced you that Strangetown and Pleasantview are not in line with each other?

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Does Sims 2 understand what a Rich and Poor Sim is?

Rich and Poor Sims - Does the game know the difference?

Do you find that the 'Marry a Rich Sim' memory can be a little hit or miss with no apparent quantitative link?

Morty Roth is very rich, or so he tells Rose Greenman he is!

In my gameplay I often use a social class system and economic system to know who is rich and who is poor by the games standard.

Whilst taking a break from my Veronaville playthrough I decided to try making my own Uberhood. I have been watching a lot of Lauraaloosims and Brianna Peppers playthroughs of their Uberhoods which inspired me to try my own out. Please check out their playthroughs on Youtube if you are interested in the idea of a Uberhood.

'How much money do you have?'

Making my Uberhood I decided to introduce a class system and decided to use the best option I had at my disposal - 'Ask' ... 'How much money do you have?'...

I decided marry a rich sim is too unreliable to be able to track everyone and would not tell me about the family until I worked up to a marriage which is too late to think "This breaks my class system"

Using this interaction generates a speech bubble over the sims head with a number of Dollar signs: $ or $$ or $$$. I thought great lower, middle, and upper classes.

Here Cleo Shikibu tells Sanjay Ramaswami that she is lowerclass i.e. not very rich 

Playing as the Jacquet's I begin seeing who was Rich and Poor based on this system of dollar signs.

Of course the Goth's and the Baldwins came up with $$$

But both Brandi Broke and Florence Delarosa had $. Brandi lives in her trailer with $25 to her name. Florence had a net value of $90,813 and of that a household fund (HHF) of $3,827. Brandi does not have that! 

Chester Gieke matched them with $ whilst having a net worth of $19,800 and HHF of $3,500.

Round 2 of searching for how the '$' Sim 'Richness' scale works:

- Geoff Rutherford Net $183,195 HHF $63,552 - $$$ (as expected...)

- Checo Ramirez Net $85,671 HHF $6,883 - $$ Wait What?!

Florence Delarosa is worth $90K and Checo is worth $85K yet she is lower class and him middle class?

It dawned upon me that the 'How much money do you have' means actual cash and cannot actually determine a rich sim.

For example:
- Pleasant Family were $ (the same as the Brokes) despite being the token 'Middle Class' family in Pleasantview

- The Patels and Vivian Cho from belladonna Cove were both $$$ and therefore upperclass despite not giving off those vibes in their housing or monetary situation.

To confirm how the $ system worked I checked a few families out:

- Gabe O'Mackey with $4,445 was $

- Cyd Roseland with $5,122 was $$ (Confirming the first threshold is $5,000)

- Ramir Patel at $24,763 and Kim Cordial with $25,816 both at $$$ confirmed, the 'Rich' threshold was low in the game.

- Jessica Picaso at $10,784 and Vivian Cho at $16,101 confirmed the threshold for upper class was set at $15,000

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.

So it would seem that the game does not know to to track Sims based on wealth, only based on their HHF value.

Marry a Rich Sim

If you search for the numbers around this it seems to be mixed. Marry a sim with $100K net work, Marry a sim with $50K net worth and anywhere around those ideas.

I considered whether the value is perhaps 10x the mains sims but I feel this need more research before I post this into a blog (excuse my inner scientist coming out here...)

The important thing about the marry a rich sim memory is who initiates the marriage. Take a Rich man and Poor girl. If the poor girl marries the Rich man on her lot and he moves in, she won't get the memory. If the rich man marries the poor girl on his lot she will get the memory usually. But household fund quantity seems to change this hence why more research is needed.

In conclusion... for now!

The game does not make accurate use of Rich and Poor sims based on how much money they have, taking into account no net worth or property value. A bank rich sims with no property t their name is considered rich by the game. But a land rich sim with all their money invested into business and property and no cash in the bank is considered poor.

What do you think of this? I am intrigued to see how my fellow simmers use economics and rich vs poor sims in their game, have you ever restricted marriage based on wealth like it would have been for much of our history?

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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).

The killing zombie mod can be found here on Mod the Sims by Meduza.
https://modthesims.info/d/619376/deadly-zombies-without-zombie-apocalypse-now-with-klyntar-mod-support.html

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.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KU27R6JjXPpTXc1MgQGH9jkivScoG4U1/view?usp=drive_link

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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Meet Claudius Capp, he just loves his new kitty.

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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:

https://modthesims.info/d/652632/genetically-correct-and-fixed-veronaville-for-uc.html