Uberhood Round 2 Upper Class Households

The new Mr and Mrs Goth

Goth Household

Like Betty wanted, Mortimer and she married at the beginning of this round with Alexander and his new girlfriend watching (Tessa Ramirez). Coral Oldie also crashed this small and intimate wedding haha!

Alexander got a promotion and got fat this round and had his first WooHoo with Tessa. The newly weds enjoyed their time together, kissing, doing hobbies and generally doing what elderly sims do.

Pleasant Household

It would seem that being rich has rekindled Mary-Sue and Daniels romantic passions for one another and they have spent a lot of time in the first few days of this round WooHoo-ing in Angela's tent. Of course the girls were fighting but a visit from Dirk meant Lilith had other priorities with her lover and Angela went sunbathing by the pool. Soon enough the time came for both to head to college.

Here Angela sunbathes whilst Lilith and Julien Cooke chat and flirt

Whilst at college Mary-Sue got promoted and Daniel began searching for his next lover. Now the girls have returned will both girls end up with the right lover, both have two men on the go, like father like daughter eh?

Jacquet Household

The Jacquet round began with Cassandra getting her baby bump. Gilbert despite being a romance sim in the slacker career and with no degree, actually focussed well on work during this time and was not interested in WooHoo-ing at all and did not cheat on Cassandra this round. Perhaps he has turned a new leaf I think? Probably not Haha!

After a couple of promotions Gilbert was Level 7 Home Video Editor and earning a decent amount of cash for the family, but a few things transpired and changed this family's future.

Cassandra had an easy pregnancy, in fact on reflection it was probably one of the easiest pregnancies I have ever played, she gave birth to daughter Eugenie Jacquet.

Now a grandma, Denise wanted to head to the J'Adore bakery to earn some cash, I changed the cash register for an automartic one and she made a good start selling hr desserts and making some stars and a business rank up, then a few bum sales the business lost all it's ranks and she sacked the only worker and went running home to tell her son, the owner...

Now promoted, a father, and with his mother ruining his business (one he has never been to I must admit!) Gilbert quit his job and sold his business. Yes that gave him £50K in the bank and still loads in the family funds, but will they be able to live off all this cash? Plus their house is now feeling cramped with a dog and a baby in the midst.

Landgraab Household

Malcolm began the round rich and due to working hard at both his businesses he is now even richer thanks to the money gifting business perks. Club Dante and The Electronics Center are both thriving with managers in place.

This has meant that the latter end of his round, Malcolm could focus on his family line and dynasty. Melody Tinker is the perfect match for him as I discussed in a previous blog post and after a proposal and quick wedding they end this round in wedded bliss.

Ramirez Household

Little Xavier grew up the first day into a neurotic and athletic young toddler. Checo went to his furniture store and made a killing, and so I decided to expand his store to focus on high end products ditching all that cheap crap outside in the yard and instead getting more expensive items. Lisa that same day got a promotion to Specialist in hr Medical Career.

That leads me to Tessa, and oh boy has she had a heck of a round...
Firstly her parents put her into Smuggworth Prep Boarding School (this is a new to me mod I have just added in and it fit the Ramirez's well I felt.) She returned from school and boom she got a baby bump. Yes Teenage Tessa Ramirez is pregnant and despite having a couple of romances on the go, she has so far only done her WooHoo with Alexander Goth. These two upper class families will have big decisions to make!

After much discussion and decisions made, the outcome was...

Alexander and Tessa wed to legitimise their baby. When little Bianca Goth came along it was decided she would spend the rest of this round with her mother. Next round she would spend with her father (who would be going to college) in the Goth Household and then Mortimer and Betty would raise her until both Alex and Tessa were ready to re-join the family.

How will this arrangement work out, we will have to wait until the Goth round next time to see how it all goes...

Roth Household

Stella's hard work came back in leaps and bounds with a double triple this round, now to a higher level than her husband! Morty is not far behind and will likely be promoted again soon.

Sandra came back this round from uni and is now on the search for a job and a husband. Despite wants for Jacob martin (literally all the time!) they are angry with each other ever since she found him with Angela Pleasant when we were playing his round. This meant she has ended up with Justin Cleveland and the two are now an item. I wonder if in the Cleveland round they will take this further? She already wants to marry!

Lastly Xander, now in Boarding School, he has spent this round desperate to make his thing with Pauline Aspir official!

A successful WooHoo for Sandra Roth and Justin Cleveland but with her constantly hungry and tired, it may mean their relationship is about to become a throuple...

Kim Household

Cynthia Kim's in-home salon was thriving this round and ranked up, giving Cynthia the cash business perk. With little aging up this round, we focused on hobbies, skills and had a pretty easy round. With a final perk for Cynthia, her round with her salon was complete. Robert was promoted to Level 9 in the Entertainer career and is ready to reach the top. Justin has worked out and worked hard at school, leaving little Nancy, who has aged up to be a slob and a lover of yellow.

Contender Household

The Contender round was as expected for the most part. Jessica and Carlos both were WooHoo-ing with each other and behind each others back. Jessica was pregnant this round and gave birth to their daughter Francisca, a red headed cutie!

The only major drama was the pair finding each other in the arms of another and have some fury from that, but they are already romantic once more and will continue to be I am sure.

Baldwin Household

The Baldwins began with Isabel and Marcus heading to the park for some family fun.

Upon return to the family, Sofia found out she was pregnant. As a teenager. With lower-class Daniel Bell. Being a Romance Sim and knowing her parent would not approve and Daniel was not overly family focussed, she decided to not become a mother at this time and entered into boarding school when the matter was finalised.

Isabel and Benjamin both worked hard this round and tried to maintain family status in what has become a rather cramped space for this family of five. It all came crashing down for Benjamin when thanks to a chance card he lost his job and was demoted to Level 1 Test Subject.

Will this family plateau after all the upheaval now that all the children are growing or is more big changes on the way?

Riley Household

Now in their own house the Riley's have grown well. Etsu became a teenager, looking a lot like her deceased father, she became a bookworm with a focus on family a lot like her mother. Viv gave birth to her and Tim's daughter Ivy who looks a lot like her mother. Tim was promoted and Sally made a little move on Justin Kim but it never got very far.

DeBateau Household

Armand and Samantha loved their shared parenthood and right at the end of this round had a second child, a son Henri. During this round Tara went to University and will return next round and Samantha got promoted to Level 6 of the Medical Carer.

That is this family in a nutshell.

Cleveland Household

Within a few days Justin returned home from college and like his father was desperate to join the Law Enforcement career. Justin quickly flew up the ranks and after a dodgy chance card, surpassed his father and became his boss. Marissa continued with her writing this round, writing books and article to make some money, but the biggest shock for her came when the ROS gave her £100K jackpot win, in which she quickly invested half for herself and half for her son, making a tidy regular interest via Monique's computer.

More money equals more clothes in Marissa's eyes. Here is her new outfit.

Justin and Sandra were already engaged by the end day of the round and thinking how Marissa would be, they ended the round getting married and moving out. Here is the moment before two families were united.

This lead to Justin and Sandra wedding, moving out and into the apartment opposite, forming two Cleveland families.

Rutherford Household

Geoff after a quick WooHoo with Jason Larson spent a lot of this round wooing Kimberly Cordial and did a lot of WooHoo with her, I will be surprised if she is not pregnant...

Connor continued his steady relationship with Cleo, but a late day to work lost him his job the day after he had been promoted to Vice President Level 7 in her career. Whether because he felt stuck with Cleo or whether he had lost his mind slightly with his fall from a high end career, but Connor went over to Geoff and proposed marriage and Geoff accepted. I had not realised that a sim could be steady with one sim and marry another, that is interesting potential game play to know Mwuaha!

Minutes later Geoff, who had just finished kissing Kimberly whom he had invited over prior to the proposal from Connor, did a WooHoo with Kimberly and Connor saw, and broke up that very short lived (20ish in game minutes) proposal.

Now with their relationship pretty much unrepairable they decided to part as friend after lots of playing chess, so Connor moved out at the end of the round and can now move in with Cleo when Patricia leaves her on her own when she leaves to move in with Gabe O'Mackey, this is like hermit crabs here, everyone swapping houses at once haha

Patel Household

The Patel's round began with Ana giving birth later that morning to son Kripa, but tragedy struck...

Thanks to Ramir's convincing plea, Ana was saved from death and little Kripa would grow up with his mother around. When Ana and Ramir had gathered enough friends, Ramir was promoted to Congressperson.

At the end of the round Ana gave birth to their 3rd son Levi and that means more time off work for her.

Ramir now has a wife and 3 sons to support, will his job as a Congressman be enough in this now bursting at the seams apartment?

Cordial Household

Kim had an easy round, she was working for most of it and did get promoted to Level 7 and did many WooHoos with Geoff, but no pregnancy. In the final night Kim now ready with friends and skills for her next promotion went on a date with Geoff and got engaged to him, but will he turn her down at the alter? We will have to find out next round...

Gavigan Household

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Goodie Household

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I hope you are enjoying reading my blogs and stories. Have you played with a class system? Do you consider these families I have played to be the upper class ones in your head or gameplay?

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Uberhood Round 2 Middle Class Households

With my recent class system post (please go and read if you're interested) I have now decided to move to playing my rotation (this round at least) by class. One, to get me more acquainted who is in which class, but second and more important so I can have some variety between the hoods and families.

Lothario Households

Don spent this round with more WooHooing. He has been working his way through the single ladies in town and his co-workers. It is  like a sitcom! He is the hunky Doctor who WooHoos with all the nurses haha! One of his new dalliances was Natasha Una, who seems rather taken by him. Will she tame the infamous Casanova of Pleasantview?

I am just surprised no one is carrying his child yet!

Traveller Household

Tabitha and Tina both grew up in this round. Tina is growing up to be a little spoilt and childish. Tabitha, however, is evil and mean spirited, sounds like she will be a joy to play when we age her up again.

Trent got promoted and Trisha finally rolled a career want, becoming a journalist. Last round Trent, via my ROS, rolled to kill another Sim. This round he selected Angela Pleasant as his victim. This is beginning to sound a planned out murder oops...

Delarosa Household

Florence was a rather boring round as she continued to sell her wares and make some money, gaining a few ranks in her business, but nothing more. 

Gieke Household

Chester was a pretty easy round, he worked hard, got a promotion and fell further into love with his cleaner Kaylynn Langerak. But will their relationship go further or result in a marriage or children?

Roseland Household

Well as the picture shows, Cyd is dead and so is the Roseland line...

How did we get there I hear you ask. Well...

Cyd was doing well this round, with 2 promotions he was now Level 8 of his Science Career. But painting outside for hours, combined with the flu was shown to be a deadly outcome. Overheating dropped his hunger, then a coughing fit dropped it further and he too dropped... to the floor...
Who will adopt little Porthos the dog now?

Wan Household

Patricia and Cleo both focussed on their blossoming romances and their careers. Cleo spent a lot of time doing her reading hobby and building skills for a promotion. Patricia despite spending time with Gabe never got any further with him.

After 2 firings, Patricia has stuck around level 1 and 2 in her career despite desperately wanting to progress. But ROS rolled to force a pregnancy and she ended up this round carrying Gabe's child, whilst her future step-daughter was already with child.

O'Mackey Household

This round Gabe was focused on career and skills again and never had a single want for Patricia, I am beginning to think they will never be married. But actually with her ROS roll to get pregnant, she will be moving in with the O'Mackey's in the next round and Gabe and her will be (forcibly) paired up into a relationship to raise this baby. 

Ironically whilst we may have been desperate for Patricia and Gabe to have a baby, Jules who only wanted a WooHoo with David Ottomas, has also found herself pregnant and due the following morning after we return to this family. Will she stay or will David in his round have other ideas?

Larson Household

Jason and Jodie have once again been focussed on their little business, trying to maintain their economic status ( and just achieving it), ranking their business up  and have thus far not focussed on careers elsewhere, love or family, but could that change now they are both nearly 40?

Aspir Household

The Aspirs lived a pretty humble and normal family round. After Taxes basically made them bankrupt. the family have worked hard to maintain their Middle Class status. Elizabeth is now Senior Manager at work. Pauline grew into a Teen in this round and like is destined for her, she became a Knowledge Sim, but because of her having a higher Pleasure sim score on my calculator she is a secondary Pleasure Sim. Little Fern grows up a day after and the family seem set to remain strongly Middle class as a happy little family unit.

But as it does so often for us Simmers, Flu strikes and Victor dies, to make it worse Luis kicks and smashes his urn up and everyone one else wants to resurrect him. Thankfully there is already a lamp in this household as set up by EA and so Victor is swiftly resurrected to end this round off. Here is Pauline as a teen and her little sister Fern.

Una Household

Natasha continued selling her artistic wears, gaining new badges in pottery, sales and restocking. Ranking her business up twice left Natasha a very rich spinster and with her cousin Luis' want for a relative to get engaged, over appears Don Lothario, whom Natasha has a crush on (I promise I did not invite him very much on purpose). After some flirting and WooHoo, they were in love and Natasha popped the question. Now engaged and rich, what will life hold for Natasha in the next round where she will be moving to the upper class.

Cooke Household

Despite love affairs with Chastity Gere, Nina Caliente, and Sharon Mole; Julien had not found his true love. I had suspicions that he and Lilith would make a nice duo and now she was an adult he invited her over and they did hit it off. After multi WooHoo-ing sessions, lots of flirting and cuddling the duo were deeply and madly in love. But regardless of his feelings, Julien ended the round with a promotion to Sous Chef and nothing more solid in a romantic relationship to show other than his love for Lilith. I wonder if she will feel a need to push their relationship further after her college round?

Contrary Household

The Contrarys had quite an easy round really. Opal and Edward focussed on skills and their career promotions. Late in the round, Rick arrived home from college and still has a terrible relationship with them. Will he move out to be with Violet or Angela?

Picaso Household

The Picaso's round was tough. Twin toddlers is always a rough time and this family was no different. Earning good money through work and promotions in the Military career has meant that Jessica and Matthew have been able to extent their house an entire floor and are ready for their family to grow once more as Jessica is pregnant again at the end of this round.

Viejo Household

Catherine now as the only elderly lady in the house had very few romance wants and mostly just played her piano and cared for herself. Andrew got a make over from last rounds ROS and then a promotion at work. When Jacob arrived he was torn between his fiancé Sandra Roth and Angela Pleasant and due to his wants, both were invited over and he was flirting with them in tandem. After eventually WooHoo-ing with Angela, Sandra broke up with him despite being desperate for a marriage and baby.

Will Jacob stick with Angela now?

I hope you are enjoying reading my blogs and stories. Have you played with a class system? Do you consider these families I have played to be the middle class ones in your head or gameplay?

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Sims 2 Personal Gameplay Tips

 Are you a beginner on the Sims 2? Whether or not you are, here are some useful tips for playing the game.

General Gameplay Tips

1. Pause and Plan: Use the pause button frequently to plan your Sims' actions, especially in large households or busy/messy situations.
2. Use Aspirations Wisely: Focus on fulfilling your Sims' wants to keep their aspiration meter high and earn rewards. Use these rewards to your advantage
3. Utilize Needs Bars: Regularly check and balance your Sims' needs to keep them happy and productive. Be logical with them. Whilst sims cannot multitask in Sims 2, have a flow with the needs, toilet, then shower, get leftovers, then to bed. Base it on the layout of your house too!

Building and Decorating

1. Blueprints First: Plan your house layout before you start building to save time and resources. Building in the Sims 2 an be clunky so plan first.
2. Use Cheats for Creativity: Enable cheats like "moveObjects on" for more flexible building and decorating options. I keep many cheats set as on with a Userstartup system.
3. Functional Design: Ensure that bathrooms, kitchens, and living areas are easily accessible to all Sims. Don't do what some premade houses do and have 3 doors into a tiny 6 tiles bathroom...

Social and Relationships

1. Socialize Smartly: Use group interactions to boost multiple relationships at once. These do exist to an extent and use them, from kickybag, to 3-way phonecalls.
2. Match Interests: Pay attention to Sims' interests to find compatible friends and partners. Not overly important for matches unless you play that way. But their hobby will raise their fun faster than other things might.
3. Gift Giving: Use gifts to quickly improve relationships (Apologizing works well if you fell out with someone).

Career and Skills

1. Multitask Skills: Combine skill-building with other activities, like reading a skill book, Swimming, Painting. These may raise fun, hobby enthusiasm and make some sell able items depending on what you choose to do.
2. Choose the Right Job: Select careers that align with your Sims' aspirations and skills, they will be promoted faster which means more money!
3. Networking: Make friends with co-workers to boost your career progression. Networking can get you a raise, promotion or even a freebie.

Financial Management

1. Start Small: Begin with a modest house and expand as your Sims earn more money. If you have Monique's Hacked Computer Mod, you can invest to earn some money.
2. Invest in Skills: Spend money on skill-building objects early on to improve your Sims' job performance and income.
3. Gardening and Crafting: Use gardening and crafting stations to grow food and create items for additional income.

Family and Generations

1. Teach Toddlers Early: Use the toddler stage to teach essential skills like walking, talking, and potty training. This will not only give them a huge aspiration boost, but also making care for them a little easier.
2. Encourage Homework: Help children with their homework to ensure good grades and future success. I use a mod that makes them drop everything to do homework at 7pm every night.
3. Legacy Planning: Focus on a main heir for smooth generational transitions and keep family relationships strong. You don't always have to think "Right which of the kids is the heir", I usually think which family will continue this family name.

Managing Time

1. Schedule Routines: Establish daily routines to manage time effectively, such as set meal times and designated study/skill hours., making sure everyone can use the bathroom and sleep is key to surviving Sims 2.
2. Vacation Benefits: Use vacations to give your Sims a break and boost their moods and relationships. I actually tend to use these more as a way of gaining lots of aspiration.
3. Night Owl/Early Bird Advantage: Utilize the night hours for quiet skill-building activities. Especially when the kids are in bed and you don't need to sleep just yet, or be an early bird and spend the early hours doing some hobbies.

Cheats and Shortcuts

1. Money Cheats: Use "motherlode" or "kaching" for quick cash infusions if needed.
2. Motivation Cheats: Use "maxmotives" to fill all needs bars instantly in tough situations. I actually use the Simblender for this.
3. Use Mods: Use Mods to improve your gameplay, fix some bugs and also make the game easier and more manageable to play. In my eyes this is more fun too!

Miscellaneous

1. Memory Management: Regularly review and clear unnecessary memories to improve game performance. I hate that the sims will get a memory every time they make a BFF or stomp some vermin.
2. Pets and Servos: Consider adding pets or servos to your household for added fun and utility. Other quirks such as occults are available too.
3. Weather and Seasons: Use the Seasons expansion to add depth to your gameplay with seasonal activities and gardening. Other Expansions and fun are available too!

In all honestly the best tip I could give would be just to play and find out, dong things wrong is the best way to learn and that makes the Sims 2 so much fun!

What tips would you have for someone new to playing Sims 2?

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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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