#ts2 prosperity challenge

[skeletorsims]

Coloma

I have been playing a lot of my other hoods but the math is driving me insane. Instead, here is a lowkey prosperity challenge with some changes, mostly that I'm not keeping points and am adding households based on how many community lots I have.

I am pretending it is a full town despite the fact I made it too big and ran out of building enthusiasm.

[atlene-sims]

Y1: Summer - Martinez

Aaron Martinez (top left) and Maria Martinez (top right) were high school sweethearts who had their oldest daughter Delfina Martinez (bottom right) in their final year of high school. This didn’t stop them both from going to university and getting good degrees, however! They did wait until after graduation to have middle child Micaela Martinez (bottom left), and little Soraya Martinez (bottom middle) followed not long after. Now they’ve decided to move to Aspiration Point to have a bit more room, and are considering expanding their family even more. SimCity Housing Association was very keen to add university educated sims to the Aspiration Point community!

Aaron Martinez: Age: Adult Aspiration: Knowledge/Popularity - Become Media Magnate Sexuality: Straight Zodiac: Capricorn - 7/4/1/8/5 (Neat, Shy, Lazy, Playful) + Brown hair, green eyes - Glasses Interests: Politics, Environment, Sports, Fashion. Hobby: Unknown Traits: Commitment Issues, Coward, Star Quality, Perfectionist, Eccentric Maria Martinez: Age: Adult Aspiration: Romance/Family - Marry Off 6 Kids Sexuality: Straight Zodiac: Leo - 4/10/4/4/3 (Messy, Outgoing, Lazy, Serious, Grouchy) + Fatness, brown eyes - Red hair Interests: Politics, Environment, Fashion Hobby: Unknown Traits: Heavy Sleeper, Inappropriate, Lucky, Great Kisser, Eccentric Delfina Martinez: Age: Teen Aspiration: Family Sexuality: Straight Zodiac: Scorpio - 6/5/8/3/3 (Neat, Active, Serious, Grouchy) + Good at cleaning, blue eyes - great dancer Interests: Entertainment, Paranormal, Culture Hobby: Unknown Traits: Virtuoso, Ambitious, Excitable, Neurotic Micaela Martinez: Age: Child Aspiration: Grow Up Zodiac: Gemini - 4/7/8/3/3 (Messy, Outgoing, Active, Serious, Grouchy) Interests: School, Entertainment, Paranormal, Travel Hobby: Unknown Traits: Hot-headed, Night Owl, Rebellious. Soraya Martinez: Age: Toddler Aspiration: Grow Up Zodiac: Cancer - 6/3/6/4/6 (Neat, Shy, Active, Serious, Nice) Interests: Toys, Animals Hobby: Unknown Traits: Loner, Easily Impressed.

The Martinez Family got the Cape Cod Classic house from the Lot Bin because they needed a few bedrooms but couldn’t afford anything bigger.

Little Soraya’s nursery is on the ground floor, Aaron and Maria have the upstairs room on the left, and Delfina and Micaela share the upstairs room on the right. There house has been furnished with the basics because that was just about all they could afford.

Aaron gets right inside studying cleaning and learns a deep appreciation for Nature. Bird-watching is his favourite past time.

Meanwhile, Maria is left to potty-train Soraya, and make funny faces while she waits.

The Welcome Wagon for this household was Blair Davis (pictured) and Luc and Frank Noel. Aaron is pleased to meet the neighbours.

Maria might be even more pleased to meet the neighbours. She immediately rolled the want to flirt with Frank as soon as she met him. Romance sims....

Delfina studied cleaning and decided to follow in her father’s footsteps with a Nature hobby. She prefers to spend her time in nature hiking though, not bird watching like Aaron.

Of course the first sim Delfina brought home from school was Bradley Armstrong, her crush.

She found out that he felt the same, and they quickly fell in love.

Love didn’t stop her pelting him with a football though!

Of course, she decided she wanted to have her very first kiss and make things official with Bradley as soon as possible.

Apparently, she couldn’t keep her mind on her schoolwork because she came home with a D-. But she also came home with Bradley in tow!

Delfina made her move and she and Bradley had their first kiss.

When she asked him to Go Steady with her, Bradley said yes! Delfina’s parents were a little too excited for their daughter and her new boyfriend, and immediately rushed over to congratulate them.

True Love!

Micaela scored an A- in school, while Delfina’s grades dropped to an F and she became officially the worst student from Aspiration Point.

Aaron wanted to finally sit down and use his literature degree to write his first novel. Neither he nor Maria had jobs so he figured this might earn them some money.

Soraya manged to learn to use the potty while her sisters were out at school or with boys! Delfina and Micaela took some time to hang out with their babysister and help her learn from the charisma bunny.

With all three of their daughters busy, Aaron and Maria took the opportunity to have a date night for the first time in years.

[fingertipsmp3]

Today has been a productive day :)

[harmoniouspixels]

It's time to discuss the resident farmers of Crystal Valley, the Brown Family!

Family Description:

The Brown Family name is synonymous with farming in the Crystal Valley region. Although they haven't had many roots in Crystal Valley proper, Patrick and his family have been changing that over the years.

Patrick Brown

Aspiration: Family

Secondary: N/A

LTW: Become Education Minister

Personality: Scorpio (6/5/8/3/3)

Turn Ons and Turn Offs: Blonde Hair, Creative; Cologne

Job: Owner of Brown Farms

Skills: 3/5/3/4/1/1/2

Talent Badges: Silver (Gardening); Bronze (Fishing, Sewing)

Bio: Patrick has been part of the community for generations. Now that it's his turn to take over the farm, will he be able to see it prosper?

Alice Brown

Aspiration: Grow-Up

Secondary: N/A

LTW: N/A

Personality: Sagittarius (3/0/8/7/7)

Job: N/A (Toddler)

Skills: 0/0/0/0/0/0/0

Bio: Little Alice still has a way to go before she knows how the world works, but her curiosity is all she needs right now.

Jennifer Brown

Aspiration: Family

Secondary: N/A

LTW: Graduate 3 Children from College

Personality: Pisces (4/3/7/3/7)

Turn Ons and Turn Offs: Fitness, Red Hair; Fatness

Job: Co-Owner of Brown Farms

Skills: 5/2/1/1/1/5/3

Talent Badges: Silver (Sewing); Bronze (Flower Arranging, Gardening, Fishing, Pottery)

Bio: Hippie at heart, Jennifer has enjoyed living out on the farm. Hopefully being close to nature will have a positive effect on her children.

Nathan Brown

Aspiration: Grow-Up (Future Family)

Secondary: N/A

LTW: N/A

Personality: Virgo (9/2/6/3/5)

Job: Elementary School Student

Skills: 1/0/1/0/2/2/0

Bio: Nathan is a very inquisitive young boy, with a promising athletic career in front of him. He cares very deeply for his best friend, Leo.

Creation Notes:

The entire family here? They're all based around Nathan! This is because I downloaded Nathan back in the Exchange days around 2011. He's packaged as a teen with a pair of custom underwear (tank top edit to put a wolf logo on it, and a custom boxer color).

In the original, I aged him down to child and built up a family around him (parents and younger sister). Part of this reason is that I needed potential partners for the spouses of the Baker twins, and he was one of them!

However, I have since revisited that, and the aforementioned Leo will be his future partner. (No, really. Leo married the other Baker twin, and despite the two being in marriages, I would imagine Leo and Nathan together. Surprised I didn't just get them together at first, but that was life then.) I'll talk more about Leo in the next family intro!

Jennifer's free-spirit is based upon the shirt and the shirt alone. I remember I got it from another Exchange sim, who was the founder of a 100 Baby Challenge story on the site. Can't remember if I have that original sim, but the only similarities they share are their clothing.

Alice is probably the least developed sim character-wise from the family. I think it's because I made her a toddler back in the day, and I was focusing my efforts elsewhere before her. The 'hood was gone before I really started to get into what made her.

Also poor Patrick. Rolled into this version of the 'hood with a career-based LTW. But hey, never say never, since it could happen! I'm bad at farming in TS2, so let's hope if I do get back to playing this 'hood that I can at least manage to not have everything be sickly!

[saralynnx]

This is Kim, Gina’s cat. Kim was a stray, but Gina recently adopted her! I guess she felt they were kindred spirits, both being alone in the world.

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WELCOME TO YUCCA JUNCTION

[mrslandgraab]

Prosperity Challenge Progress List

Yes, I am slow and yes I cannot shut up - but hey, it’s Saturday and everything is allowed to be just a little crazy :) For the Prosperity Challenge I decided to just step up my game and goals a little so currently these things need to be done:

Finish making Townies (18/30), Families (0/3) and find out if there is a way to create/make-over NPCs as well or if I just let them spawn naturally.

Attempt building/download way prettier community lots and decide on a neighbourhood theme

get my default replacements folder nice and filled

maybe make a few pre-gameplay pictures of the families (bc, yes, dead spouses will feature in those and I kinda want them?)

finally get around to use traits that modify behaviour

decide if i really wanna commit to use the tag “three shades of getting rich” for this

kinda get university stuff done first bc you know real life

What are you doing on this lovely day? <3

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Willow Grove - University update

The uni updates seem to fly by, so here we go.

Evelyn seems to have taken up painting since she moved in. They absolutely do not need the money from it as they get a ridiculous amount from scholarships and getting good grades, but it make her happy so she can paint to her hearts delight!

Mitch and Evelyn kept rolling wants to hang out and be friends, so they did.

Graham and Evelyn seem to have becoming a little bit more than friends (Literally everyone in the neighborhood has their gender pref set to bi soooooo)

Of course, Graham still has time for Mitch as well.

The boys working out!

Theo looks a lot happier about this than Graham does.

Mean cow guy came back and made Mitch cry :(

Graham was sympathetic about the whole thing and brought pizza back with him.

Study time!

Cuties <3

Graham seems to be getting with everyone :P

And just like that it was time for Theo to graduate!

Of course everyone was invited...and immediately started dancing.

And that’s it for this update, into the next neighbourhood!

[panpixels]

The twins Blair and Daniel Franklin (who i literally took almost No pictures of until they were teens.. why me) children of John and Melissa. Both in the midst of their teen years right now, they might be going to college by the end of this round but I’m not sure right now.. Daniel is officially dating Marta Harrison but Blair also has a fling with her lol. They aren’t aware of this though and are close as could be.

[asimmingpunsquared]

A while ago, @glabeglarn shared the amazing Stilla. I’ve always been interested in playing a Prosperity Challenge, so I decided to start one here. This is what I’m calling my “Tumblr” hood, as well, where I only place lots and sims (except generated townies) that I took from Tumblr.

To begin with, there are (only!) two households in Stilla: the Wineheart and the Summ household. Wineheart comes first in the rotation, and then Summ.

[skeletorsims]

Keene

silas and thomasina

Silas has been holding down the family home, since their parents died while Thomasina has been exploring the world. Imagine her surprise when she returned and all she found was rusted metal and old furniture. She hates the fact she is expected to live like this now, and is intent on transforming both their lives. Silas doesn't like admitting he might have been in a slump. Silas doesn't really like admitting anything, really. Her brother has always been the strong silent type, but this is different. He's always been a romantic, dating around and trying to find happiness in others, but he's really fallen into his passion for sewing recently and Thoma is hoping that it's a good thing. She is taking care of the hens and the garden and re-opened their family's old Farmer's Market lot.

Thomasina Keene Fortune/Romance- become a space pirate Silas Keene Romance/Popularity- sew 200 things.

I'm actually really unhappy with how Silas turned out ahaha. I need to give him a makeover. their house is here

[atlene-sims]

Y1: Summer - Recap

It was a great summer in the newly built housing project - Aspiration Point. Four families moved into their new homes and begun their lives in this growing neighbourhood - The Armstrong siblings, the elderly Noel brothers and grandchildren, The Martinez family, and the Davis household.

Bradley Armstrong and Delfina Martinez began crushing on each other and soon fell in love.

However Bradley also has feelings for Emeline Noel - who returns those feelings!

Matthias and Roland Noel made fast friends with the only other kid in their school from Aspiration Point - Micaela Martinez. 

Micaela Martinez quickly found herself becoming one of the family - Emeline Noel welcomed her with a noogie.

Trouble could be brewing in the Martinez’s marriage...Despite her husband being the commitment-phobe, Maria Martinez found that Frank Noel caught her eye.

Delfina Martinez and Bradley Armstrong had their very first kiss and became boyfriend and girlfriend.

Aaron was determined to sell a great novel - so first he had to write it!

Islay and Fenella Davis decided to take part time jobs in the Science career - making them the only sims in the neighbourhood with jobs of any kind.

They both quickly received promotions to “human guinea pigs”...which doesn’t seem great, but they were happy.

Their adopted son, Blair, awkwardly made small talk with the maid about relationships.

At the end of Round One (Year 1, Summer), we have: - 4 households (still) - 16 sims (still) - a neighbourhood networth of $95,588 Total Points: 17

[fingertipsmp3]

Okay I really hate to say it but TS4 is actually kind of growing on me

[anachronisims]

Welcome to my simblr! There’s not much here yet, but I have a big new project under construction, and I’m REALLY excited to throw it out into the universe in case it gives anyone else any joy, inspiration, schadenfreude, whatever. So here’s the elevator pitch: I am about to embark on my third attempt at a Test-of-Time/Prosperity neighborhood, and, for the first time, will be sharing everything I’m doing (but like, entertainingly edited) on youtube, up in here, and on ig (anachroni.sims).                                                   * * *

Here’s the slightly longer rundown: I’m a 32-year-old who still plays a game originally released in 2004 because I’m a control freak who can’t let go of the community time mod, even though it means sacrificing better graphics and, in many ways, more intuitive and detailed gameplay. Luckily, the phenomenal TS2 CC community continues to inspire me to overcome the irreparable hood corruptions of the past and try yet again to make my dream come true of playing family lineages through 20-odd generations over five periods of human history: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Dark Age, Renaissance, and Georgian/Victorian.*

This project will bear a passing resemblance to other Test of Time challenges you may have witnessed before, but has a few significant modifications for both my playstyle and my personal inability to stomach the racism and sexism built into the “original” ToT challenge rules. At some point I’ll post a link to my full challenge rulebook, but here are the key points:

Most importantly, eye color/family lineage will completely sub for skin color when making class assignments starting in the Bronze Age. All six of my starting pairs’ descendants will have an equal opportunity to become the wealthy and privileged Patricians or the downtrodden slaves of the Bronze Age. Likewise, the “dominant gender” title will be up for grabs in the Stone Age, creating the potential for a permanent matriarchy instead of defaulting to patriarchy.

I’ve also created custom careers for each age** that not only increase the realism of the game over the original rules, but are actually tailored to the game I’ve designed for myself. My fully-original chance cards reward excellent choices with growth for the whole village and punish egregious ones with penalties up to and including death. Certain careers are also open to the non-dom gender, because, duh, women under historical patriarchy worked outside the home all the time - they just didn’t get to, you know, own property or be their own legal person. Whatever.

Anyway, there’s a lot more to it, and a lot to be done before I officially “launch,” but everybody’s got to start somewhere. If you read this far, thanks so much! Consider following to see where this journey takes me. Everybody responds well to positive reinforcement :)

Until next time.                                                             * * * *Yeah, I’m aware Georgian and Victorian are, like, totally different things. I’m also aware it’s intensely reductive to narrow the entire scope of human development from 1714-1901 to what the British were doing during that time, but the limits of this game engine and the bulk of CC creation are what they are. I will be incorporating other cultures through BV travel beginning as early as the Bronze Age, if my Sims earn it, so, there’s that. Hope it helps. **They’re done for Stone Age and Bronze Age, and planned loosely for the Dark Age. I’ve never actually made it out of the Bronze Age before, so there’s never been a need for them. But I’ll be working on the rest once the hood gets rolling.

[saralynnx]

So when Zsombor asks her to go steady, she continues to roll with it and agrees. <3

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SIMBLR GAMEPLAY STYLE EVOLUTION CHALLENGE (TS2, TS3, TS4)

I was tagged by @immerso-sims 3 months ago. Thank you!

Rules:

Post two photos. One earlier gameplay photo (at the very latest would three months ago but preferably go even way back), and one of your most recent ones (within the past month).

The only restriction is they must be from the same game (so two TS2 photos, two TS3 photos, or two TS4 photos).

State when the photos were taken, and include a link the post itself if it’s still around.

Tag 5-10 people once you’re done.

The photos on the left are the earliest I have access to, from way back when I started my Prosperity challenge town in 2012. (The blog for it still exists, and presumably the neighborhood does too, on my old laptop somewhere.) The photos on the right are all from this summer, from my current hood, plasticbox’s Elsewhere. I found hood views, posed portraits and (semi-)spontaneous gameplay shots that look kind of similar. Credit for any improvement goes to the talented cc-creators in this community bc watcher knows editing is still a challenge for me. I have been enjoying my game immensely tho, and even thinking about posting gameplay again, but who has the commitment for that.

I’m tagging @marvelann, @moocha-muses, @pixelasher, @retromaisie, @holesoulsims