#simerican settlers

[cloudberry-sims]

Potential legacy founders...

Britta and Nils Tapper , first generation immigrants from Sweden to the fictional town of Walleye Creek, Minnesota.

Their surname "Tapper" means brave or valiant and was a soldier name. It was common practice for soldiers to have unique surnames do differentiate each other within the Swedish army , yet Tapper was pretty common name. Nils would have grown up in a "soldier croft" , a small cottage given to soldiers to host their family and to farm.

Swedish immigrants started to appear in the Americas between 1840-1920 due to the high birthrate , poverty and the religious climate at the time. Most settled in Minnesota and Chicago.

Headcanon is that Britta and Nils met on the boat to America as children or teenagers back in 1840.

Walleye Creek has a high population of Scandinavians , specifically Swedes and Norwegians, as well as German and Irish.

[fizzigigsimmer]

To B, With Love

This has taken me forever to build. I have started a new sims save in order to play the Simerican Settlers Challenge, and of course I had to recreate Billy & Max for this.

Your founder(s) has some farmland and is ready to start a family and find a way to support it. This is the beginning of your journey as a settler, what can you do with it? America is at the beginning of a long depression. Unemployment runs rampant across the US, thousands of people lose their jobs, and hundreds of banks go bankrupt. Jobless and hungry, can your family make it through?

This has been so fun to create, and even though I just started the game play is already hard. Per challenge rules, these sims are living entirely off the grid which means they have to grow all of their food, fetch their water, and sell their produce and crafts for money. Poor Billy out here struggling. He spent an entire day harvesting wheat just to make 60 simoleons. 😆 We’re not going to make it like this fam. Time to invest in a new crop.

[enkisstories]

Daniel: "Now won't the neighbors like that... the werebeast and his brat are leaving New Henford!"

Gavin: "It's clever, yes? They will treat you and Tina better while I'm gone, thinking I left for good. Meanwhile we will perform some behind the screen stage magic, that hopefullly will save both the town and the pack."

Daniel: "Thanks, I hate it! All I ever wanted was you. If you don't come back, I won't forgive that!"

Gavin: "Now let's pick up Hank and then make you the second Pontiac."

Connor: "The "zeroth president"? He's quite famous, but what for exactly?"

Gavin: "In the face of a neverending stream of settlers from europe, Pontiac occupied Detroit and then talked the colonists into declaring independance from their respective motherlands. That's how the United States came to be. At first it was a mere buffer zone between the Europeans and the native Simericans, but it survived those dangerous decades and grew into a proud nation."

Connor: "Sounds similar to our problem. Tell me more about the story while we travel to Moonwood Mill!"

More alternate History:

- Detroit is the capital of the USS (naturally, these being my Detroit sims)

- In 1811 Tecumseh founded the Federation of Indigenous Simerican tribes

- Spain was able to keep some of their colonies, that in 1820 formed their own country.

- That gives four about equally powerful political bodies in addition to several smaller nations: The Iroquois League in the North, the (very loose) Simerican Federation, the United States of Simerica and the former spanish colonies.

- The end result is a continent as fractured as Europe.

- Gameplay will remain small scale. The sims will receive opportunities to make differences locally, they won’t be able to influence the greater political landscape.

- One possible way for this save to evolve is a massive timeskip into the present after the founding generation has passed. By then each of the Sims 4 worlds will be its own country.

[twistedsimmer]

Meet The Founders

As the son of the CEO in charge of the Littlesprings Project, it was no surprise that Jake Morris was chosen to lead the new settlement. Despite his laid-back and goofy attitude, he is fiercely protective of his fellow settlers, and determined to prove himself worthy of his title. Time will tell if he succeeds.

Amayata Nairi spent her youth travelling with her missionary parents, aiding them in their charitable work of bringing modern infrastructure and the word of the Watcher to many a remote village. Her expertise in architecture, agriculture and wilderness survival caught the attention of Everytech's recruiters, and so she became the group's Engineer. She hopes that Littlesprings will be the place where she can finally settle down, and raise a family of her own.

Marf Foobar has a natural gift for persuasion, which helped fuel his meteoric rise in the Everytech sales department. Though upper management was "sad to lose such a legendary salesman", his reassignment to the expedition is rumored to have saved the company at least $12,000 a year in coffee-related expenses. A self-professed coffee connoisseur, he aspires to one day launch his own chain of trendy cafés.

From when she was a young girl in Takemizu, it was always Emi Uzuki's dream to become a doctor. Many years of hard work later, she became the youngest Sim to hold a Biology degree, and was given the position as Littlespring's first medical professional. While her intellect is unquestionably keen, many have remarked her interpersonal skills leave much to be desired.

An aspiring actress, Mona Lott is well-known in the independent film scene of SimCity, being described as "sweet, ditzy, and a total hottie". While she applied for the Littlesprings Project by mistake (thinking it was an acting gig), she accepted the job nonetheless. She takes her job as 'morale officer' very seriously, doing her best to keep her fellow settlers smiling.

Brigette LeRoux comes from a long line of gypsy matchmakers, tarot readers and dousers; some of her relatives currently roam the streets of Downtown SimCity, arranging dates for petty cash. It was her skill as a midwife that won her a spot in the expedition, with her ability to induce a supernatural sort of calm in pregnant Sims and animals. As she keeps to herself, not much else is known about her.

Some Sims just want to write the next great Simerican novel, and Solomon Utes is no exception. Though he has yet to finish his magnum opus (or fully decide what it'll be about yet), he's built a reputation for his photography and (sometimes scathing) news articles. He hopes the fresh mountain air will help relieve his writer's block, and looks forward to the new stories that will unfold as Littlesprings grows from a collection of tents into a real town.

[ladydarling]

Andrew Kearney getting in as much time with Bonnie as possible in her final days.

[jessieberusims]

So, I’m starting the Simerican Settler Challenge. This is the lot I’ve built for my founders.

Stuff

[misty-sims]

So I started this Simerican Challenge thing and I'm pretty hyped so far even though am as European as you can be.

[tiredtoothache]

This is my little old timey save, the Smiths (inventive name ik) I’m doing the Simerican Settlers Challenge and its really fun!

Joseph and Beth make some cute frickin kids...

[sims4historicalhq]

Historical Sims 4 Gameplay Challenges

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=578298Here are some ts4 challenges that can give you some structure (and ...challenge...) to your historic gameplay!

Most well known:

The Sims 4 History Challenge (Original Info Post, Updated Info Post)

The Sims 4 Legacy Eras Challenge 

Decades Challenge (Original, Updated) 

More:

Through Time & Space (@tempusetspatiumsims)

Greek God Legacy Challenge Sims 4

Persephone’s Underworld Challenge

Sims 4 Viking Challenge

Ye Olde - Pygmalion Prince(ss) Challenge

Sims 4 Simerican Settlers Challenge

The Settler Challenge

The Victorian Challenge

The Victorian Living Challenge

Dark Victorian Legacy Challenge

The Sims 4 Upgrowth Challenge

Sims 4 American Girl Challenge

Not explicitly historical but could work well with historical gameplay:

Nomad Challenge

The Sims 4 Royal Kingdom (& TS2 to TS4 conversion version by enblithhefair) 

Sims 4 Suleiman (Harem) Challenge (Darker content, probably 18+)

The Sims 4 Immigrant Challenge

The Pioneers Challenge

Build Challenges:

Come Party With Me In Prehistory (closed, but rules still posted)

Sims 4 Building Challenge Dollhouse

Please let me know of any other challenges that should be added!

[nameless-simmer-plays]

The start of my Simerican Settlers Challenge! The top photo shows the two sims I’ll be playing. Emmanuel Addington and Caroline Hopewell. Emmanuel and Caroline fell in love back at Illinois. They decided to move to Oregon together and due to unforeseen circumstances were not able to get married back at Illinois. Instead, they plan to get married at their new home at Oregon. 

Caroline is a romantic, willing to leave everything behind for love, family oriented, she loves family and is excited to start one with Emmanuel, and gloomy, she misses the family she left behind at Illinois. Emmanuel is jealous, he is overprotective of Caroline and worried she’ll leave him at Oregon since they aren’t already married, ambitious, he wanted to move to Oregon to start a new life and find his fortune, and loves outdoors nothing brings him as much pleasure as a hard day of work outside.

The second photo shows Emmanuel’s brother’s family. From left to right, Ruth Addington, Ava Addington, and Archie Addington. Ruth is independent she had to do a lot of things on her own on the trail and has become independent as a result. Ava is outgoing, she loves being around other people, neat, she likes her life and surroundings clean and organized and, hot headed moving to Oregon was quite a sacrifice for her and she’s not super happy with her husband’s decision. Archie is outgoing, he also loves being around other people and is quite the charmer, a bookworm, he loves reading and being informed and is a kleptomaniac, he fell on some hard times in Illinois and on the trail and to make ends meet has gotten in the habit of theft.

The third photo shows Emmanuel and Archie’s parents, Muriel Addington and Murdoch Addington. The fourth photo shows their youngest daughter (Emmanuel and Archie’s only sister) Lilias Addington who died on the trail. Muriel is family oriented, her family means everything to her, an art lover, she enjoys beauty and loves dressing up, and erratic, she was best friends with her daughter Lilias and hasn’t been the same since she died. Murdoch is a loner, preferring to spend his time alone or with close friends or family - not surrounded by strangers, active, liking to be hard at work and doing what he needs to, and hot headed, ever since losing Lilias he’s been angry about her death.

Rules for the Simerican Settlers Challenge are here: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=615038

[enkisstories]

Tina: "So is the next thing we should do to build a fence around our property?"

Hank: "Nah. The townspeople will do that for you..."

Rose: "Uh-huh. When the pack makes true on their threat to attack the 1851 Moonwood Trail trek, the settlers will take it out on the easiest target. Your farm. And then mine."

Gavin: "In this case a certain mill and two bridges will burn! Let's see how they enjoy grinding their wheat by hand!"

Hank: "Then you'll be even deader! Don't you see where this is going? I say we pack up and move soon as the snow melts. There's always a spot in the forest people haven't reached."

But that was the problem: The werewolves of the Moonwood had gotten driven to that remote spot, yet the settlers kept pressing on and now there was nowhere left to retreat to.

Gavin: "Let's pay the pack a visit! The more we know about each side, the better our chances."

Rose: "Good idea. You aren't the most diplomatic of our bunch, though, Gav."

Gavin: "True dat! But I'm raising that diplomat ever since we left Henford-on-Bagley. Remember how Connor gave Matto Black, an actual professional negotiator, a run for his money?”

(Note: Matto = bear, sapa = black, therefore the Simericans have taken to address Matto sapa as Mr. Black)

[pixelowls]

so for all my more structured gameplay (history challenge, decades challenge, simerican settlers challenge, the mcc/warwickshire challenge) i always keep notes on what happens on which day whenever i play just for like Science bc god knows i never actually post anything anywhere but like

apparently in september i did like the entire rotation of one of my families in my ts2 mcc-ish save and just..... didn’t write anything down or if i did i can’t find it

not only that but i do not remember playing that family AT ALL

so needless to say when i went to their lot and discovered the rotation was almost over (2 days left out of 8, no i don’t know why i didn’t just play the last 2 days to begin with either) i was very surprised

[ladydarling]

Margaret and James Kearney on their birthday, just before the celebration.

[jessieberusims]

Meet Siobhan Fraser-Montgomery. One of the Founders of my Simerican Settlers Challenge.

She is: - Lawful Good - Family Oriented - Neat

Aspiration: Successful Lineage

Siobhan is the middle of 7 children. She’s a Scotch-Irish Immigrant who came to America with 3 of her 6 siblings, two older brothers and one of her younger sisters. Her sister, Ailis, died on the journey over to America due to illness. Siobhan, Patrick and Killian continued on their travels together. Once they arrived in New York, Patrick fell in with a gang and lost contact with his siblings. Siobhan and Killian left information for him, if he ever cared to look, saying they were headed west to Illinois. 

Illinois was great for Killian, who met a fine woman and married her fairly quickly. Siobhan, however, was left wanting. Nothing seemed to fit her in Illinois. So she decided to press on further west and try to find better fortunes for herself. 

As soon as she was able to hook up with a wagon train, she left Illinois behind. Somewhere along the trail, she met a man named Benjamin Montgomery. He was a hard worker and smitten with Siobhan rather quickly. Being a practical woman, she decided that if Benjamin asked for her hand, she would say ‘yes’. Love isn’t particularly important when you’re one of seven children and know that there’s only so well you can do in marriage. 

She and Benjamin were, indeed, married on the trail to Oregon. The journey was long and fraught with danger. But they managed to make it to their new home relatively in one piece. 

Now, the real work must begin. 

[anotherplumbob]

"Once upon a time...when the world was still young and the sims still had their humble beginnings. Before the men from the Old World came with their ships and their so-called progress...the Rahkaros inhabited this land....”

Note: And so it begins my new project. This will not be a history challenge. The thing is I have always wanted to do this: build my sims’ family trees and towns little by little, from the beginning. It will still be a story (with gameplay-driven plots), but my idea is to try and play the different generations on normal lifespan (or at least at a good pace so that I don’t get stuck in generation 1 forever as it always happens to me). 

The first generation is set around the time the first settlers came to Simerica and founded Windenburg. Please note this is not intended to be a lesson on American history at all: it’s Simerican history. And Simerica has its own history and its own rules :)