Year AE 1: Stephan Studley

 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)

Year AE 1 - Fiona DeSIMBERVILLE

 

NAME: Fiona DeSIMBERVILLE

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)

 

Year AE 1 - Holly GEAR

 

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)

 

Year AE 1 - Kiri ELEISON

 

NAME: Kiri ELEISON

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)

 

State of Play - End Round 1 Spring 1AE

 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:

BaCC Round 1: Spring Year 01 AE (After Escaping) - Kiri

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.

Kiri's home was first. After getting a cooking point and a creative point (easel), she got a visit from Fiona. Fiona and Kiri got on very well, and spent time admiring each other and wanting to be friends then best friends.

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.

Starting Rules - Playing Round 1.

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.

- 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.

- 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:

1.  Every sim who pays bills (that money notionally goes to the Town Leader - it will be rosebudded to the leader at the beginning of their turn). The Town Leader is not able to use this money except on public projects.
2. Income is generated by selling things to each other, so home businesses are allowed. They are also allowed to sell from their inventory to SimCity which will notionally be understood as the Town Leader takes the things to sell to SimCity when they go in for their training.
3. If a baby is born, they can buy from the buy mode unless there is already a furniture store. Notionally understood as Town Leader buys the baby things to bring back to the community and sells at cost.
   

Round 1 lasts for 2 Seasons. (Seasons are standard Maxis length which is 3 days I think?)

At the end of Round 1:

• everyone is taxed 10% of their net value.
  
• For every new baby, a new immigrant is available. Minimum amount = 1 new immigrant.
• For every new business, a new immigrant is available.
  
• Skills and events are tallied to determine which thing the community decides to work on next.
• For each Sim, one new piece of Hood Deco is allowed to be added.