NAME: Stephan STUDLEY
AGE: Adult, 01 Sep 2002, VIRGO
Employment: Founder, None
Stats: Neat Freak, Introvert, Serious (8,2,6,3,6)
Aspiration: Family
Star Sign: Virgo
Hobby : Science
Gender Preference: Straight
Turn-on/offs: Cooking,Cleaning / Stink
LTW: Become Celebrity Chef (not going to happen)
Interests:
Passionate, Hates: none
Very Interested: Food, Politics, Work
Really Dislikes: Crime, Entertainment, Health, Sports, Weather
Skills: Cooking (2), Creative (6)
AGE: Adult, 01 July 2002, Cancer
Employment: Getting ready to Feed and Heal
Stats: Introvert, Very Nice (6,3,4,5,7)
Aspiration: Family/Knowledge
Star Sign: Cancer
Hobby : Cuisine
Gender Preference: Bisexual
Turn-on/offs: Creativity, Brown Hair / Stink
LTW: Reach Golden Anniversary
Interests:
Passionate: Animals, Food Hates: Sports.
Very Interested: Entertainment, Environment, Paranormal and Toys.
Really Dislikes: Crime, Money and Work
Skills: Cooking (5), Creative (3)
NAME: Holly GEAR
AGE: Adult, 01 July 2002, Cancer
Employment: Owns a florist business
Stats: Neat Freak, Serious (7,4,6,3,5)
Aspiration: Fortune/Unknown
Star Sign: Cancer
Hobby : Science
Gender Preference: Unknown
Turn-on/offs: Hard Worker, Logical / Stink
LTW: Hand of Poseidon (not going to happen)
Interests:
Passionate, Hates: none
Very Interested: Fashion, Money, Paranormal, Travel, Work
Really Dislikes: Health and Sports
Skills: Cleaning (0), Cooking (1), Creative (3)
AGE: Adult, 01 May 2002, TAURUS
Employment: Founder, Mayor in training
Stats: Sedentary, Very Playful (4,5,3,8,5)
Aspiration: Knowledge/Family
Star Sign: Taurus
Hobby : Music and Dance
Gender Preference: Unknown
Turn-on/offs: Beards, Black Hair / Stink
LTW: Become Hand of Poseidon (not going to happen)
Interests:
Passionate, Hates: none
Very Interested: Animals, Food, SciFi, Toys, Travel
Really Dislikes: Crime and Politics
Skills: Cleaning (1), Cooking (2), Creative (6)
At the end of Round 1 Spring,
the mayor is chosen based on who has the most friends, and the general popularity score.
Sims have had 5 days to discover who they are, and what they like to do without worrying about falling in love. (Unless you're Fiona and Chris - in which case you got into that way earlier than everybody else!)
This 5 day period was the only time when things can be bought from the catalog - so important stuff like benches, and hobby stuff was bought (assuming they had money for it).
Fiddling with the lots to make them work, and make sure isn't any blocked objects or pathing problems. All done.
Spring weather was very wet, and thunder and lightning - very, very frightening! So mods were added as required. Still haven't managed to stop the more foolish of the sims from playing in the puddles in a lightning storm.
Holly Gear opened the first store - a home business florist shop. that also required tweaking to make it work.
So that's all the hood news. Details under the cut:
The first 5 days away from SimCity has had the sims glorying in the life outside of SimCity.
Smelling flowers, playing in the rain, smelling flowers,
getting to know each other, smelling flowers,
starting to find things to do, smelling flowers...
You know, the usual before you start putting in mods to stop them from smelling the flowers.
Spring has been very rainy, quite stormy with occasional fires from lightening.
Every household has spent their first day skilling. Because no-one is allowed burglar alarms or fire alarms until restrictions are lifted, there's no way I was letting them near the stove until at least one cooking skill was obtained.
The political candidate will be the one with the most friends and the highest friendship scores at the end of Round 1. They're escaping the fascism and 'democracy' of Sim-City, and experimenting with what real democracy could look like.
The Studley boys came over and Kiri was very chatty with Simon while Stephan spent most of the time hanging out in the flowerbed on all fours. Spaghetti was made for dinner and everyone was appreciative of Kiri's ability to put a saucepan in the oven.
Fiona was impressed by the wall. Simon was impressed with Kiri's underwear choice. Kiri was not impressed that her guests didn't go home when asked. At 1am she shooed them out of the house and went back to bed.
Based on Nepheris' BaCC rule set, and adapted for how I want to play
Restrictions
- No electronics. There is basic electricity for fridges and stoves and lights due to a wind farm. But that's it. No TV reception, no internet.
- Swimming in the lake. Sprinklers on the community lot are fed from the lake. But basic plumbing came with the houses and are fed from the lake. There will be a dice roll if there is a lack of rain in Autumn/Winter to determine if there will be water rationing.
- No cars. They were dropped out here, and left to fend for themselves. Cars won't happen until they build them themselves!!!
- No delivery service of any kind. That includes groceries, Pizza and Chinese food.
- No services of any kind. That includes the maid, butler, repairman, gardener, exterminator, nanny, adoption service.
- No townies. Your settlers are literally the only people in town as of yet.
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No fertilising gardening plots. The land is wild and has never been
tilled before, and it will take a while before it can yield good crops. The land can be fertilised from compost that you have made.
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2 community lots only. Mossi Lake and the Communal Allotment. Have minimal structures but are needed if the community is to survive. While Mossi Lake is available, sims will not go there until they are comfortable at home.
- No Home businesses that sell anything other than items you crafted/grew/caught yourself. Where would you get them from, anyway? All things that are sold here, come from here.
- No home businesses can be started unless the sim has at least 1 skill point in the associated skill for it.
- No hobby lots. They're back in the city, miles and miles from where your settlers currently are.
- No careers except Politics. This is assigned once the community has chosen a leader (based on who's most popular at the end of Spring, Round 1 after a community meeting at the allotment - free will based).
Bits and Pieces:
Round 1 lasts for 2 Seasons. (Seasons are standard Maxis length which is 3 days I think?)
At the end of Round 1:
1. Choose a BaCC. Wanted a small terrain, and had a hankering to do 4 Corners from Life Stories.
Couldn't find the SC4 terrains online, so have created a rar from the LifeStories game. Pop them in the SC4Terrains folder to use. There are no pictures, but it has an inbuilt picture?
2. Stuff I want in game - Loaded up my defaults, basic genetic choices.
The six starter houses. Have been updated to look all slightly different. Inside has been changed to give wood floors, white tiles, and buttercup walls - because that's what council houses do. When they have money to change them up, they can redecorate.
The main community lot - set up as communal allotment like they have in some places where people can go to grow their own food.
There are the 3 Maxis trees, and the Sun and Moon Trees - two dwarf trees and one full size tree. A place where they can fish , and a row of places to plant vegetables. I want to plant Sun and Moon veges, but will start with tomatoes, lettuce and whatever else they normally have.
Once the fridges are empty of food, they will not be buying food except what is grown there. Tours of lots on a different post.
There is also a place to make coffee, and go to the bathroom in the shed, and one of simwardrobe's packing stations so that we can pack up the food in bulk.
The final lot is a more recreational lot that was made by a friend of mine - Mossi Lake.
When they want to have fun, it is to Mossi Lake they come! (I should make a tourist poster for it!)
The current batch of starting Sims. Fiona deSimberville, Holly Gear, Sim-Kiri, Christopher Miller, Simon Studley and Stephan Studley.
Holly Gear is from my D&D campaign (home), Stephan and Simon Studley are sims I made back in 2005 that were updated.
The Studley boys have the same father but different mothers. They found each other only after their father died. He was a sailor who had a family in every port. The will was complicated and that is how they realised they were half-brothers.
Everyone here is starting up this hood because they were tired of problems in society at SimCity. Years of fascism and racism has taken its toll and no-one feels safe. Here they are trying to build a safe and inclusive society. Fascism, racism, sexism, prejudice of all kinds are not acceptable.
(Yes, they are all white sims - this is a fact of poor eyesight (mine) rather than a bias against people of colour - more people of colour will be arriving as the society grows and I get a new monitor.
Also, sims need to see that they are inclusive before they trust them. Who knows whether they are able to do as they think.
