DYSTOPIA

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All The Sims 2 Lighting Mods (I think, but I'm not sure, that these also can be used for the The Sims Stories Games, if you only use the files for the base game and the expansions present there)

All The Sims 3 Lighting Mods (These can be used 100% with The Sims Medieval too!)

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To start, we can start with a compilation of lighting mods that I LOVE and have personally tried all of them. Most were originally created by @dreadpirate (know creator of lighting Mods for The Sims 2) or @brntwaffles (Known creator of Lighting Mods for The Sims 3) BUT which have been kept alive and updated by a single person: @softerhaze , who then ALSO contributed with their own lighting mods! Lets start!

World Lighting Mods

Softerhaze Compilation - includes:

No Blue by @brntwaffles

Astral Lights by @brntwaffles

No Blue Not Orange by @dreadpirate

Moonglow by @softerhaze

Twinkle Toes by @softerhaze

Milk Thistle by @softerhaze

Sunblind by @softerhaze

Purple Skies by @lotharihoe (Updated until For Rent, for Tomarang)

Cozy Days by AveryPing on CurseForge

Sims/Furnitures Lighting Mods

These are lighting mods that only affect the lighting of the sims (and I believe the furniture sometimes) NOT the world. They can be used together with world lighting mods (if compatible).

Better in-game lighting by @northernsiberiawinds

Even Better in-game lighting by @northernsiberiawinds

NoGlo and NoBlue by @luumia

Out of The Dark by @lotharihoe

Into The Light by @lotharihoe

In-Game Sim Lighting Mod by @simplyanjuta

Brighter Walls and Foundations by @lotharihoe

CAS Lighting Mods

These are lighting mods that ONLY affect the CAS lighting. They can be used together with a world lighting mod and a sim/furniture lighting mod. They are usually compatible with any lighting mod.

Golden CAS Lighting by @simplyanjuta

CAS Lighting by @simplyanjuta

Immersive Lighting by @luumia

Gentle CAS Lighting Mod by @northernsiberiawinds

Project CAS Light by @rebouks

CAS Lighting Mod Set 01 by @vyxated

CAS Lighting Mod Set 02 by @vyxated

CAS Lighting Mod Set 03 by @vyxated

CAS Lighting Mod by @helgatisha

CAS Lighting Mod V3 by @helgatisha

CAS Lighting Mod V4 by @helgatisha

CAS Lighting Mod V5 by @helgatisha

CAS Lighting Mod V6 by @helgatisha

CAS Lighting Mod V7 by @helgatisha

Realistic CAS Lighting Mod by @squea

Custom CAS Lighting Set by @mosaica

Softie Filters by @pwffy

I started NSB in 2015, and in my head I thought, “I will never delete any premades and townie because I am curious about how genetics will progress generation after generation.”

Aside from the fact that I only discovered that I could stop the game from deleting deceased sims with MCCC after around generation 5 (I still grieve for all the previous generations that the game brutally deleted entirely. Luckily, I have backups of those sims, and I have them in my multiverse save but they no longer exist in the NSB save 😭)

I'm now on the ninth generation and I bitterly regret having trusted the game's story progression. The game deleted tons of sims for no reason even though they weren't even dead, so I have tons of unknown sims in the family tree, and for some reason the game couldn't get a sim to stay married to just one sim, each sim had a husband/wife, at least 6 lovers and 78 children from each lover, you can imagine what my family tree looked like 💀

In addition to this I had a bug that lasted for many patches where the sims were generated without a last name, while the animals had a first and last name, so many sims in the family tree didn't even have a last name, so I can't even try to figure out whose children they are since many of the parents have been deleted by the game.

And... remember that after the R&L patch the family trees have broken and often the game creates parents and partners that don't even exist, but above all it makes spouses siblings, so who knows if this also happened in my NSB save.

Theory N. 1: Lady Mimsmy...was actually another sim!

This isn't certain, just my theory...but I've always had the impression that Lady Mimsmy wasn't born to be Lady Mimsmy.

But who is Lady Mimsmy? Lady Mimsmy Alcorn Shallot, is one of the two Windenburg ghosts who haunt the Von Haunt Estate, which has become a sort of museum and tourist attraction over the years.

Investigating her story, it is discovered that the cause of her death was a fire accidentally caused by her husband Bernard. ("accidentaly" is yet to be verified.)

But I would like to point out many details:

The cause of her death was fire

She had blond hair and an up-do

She had gray eyes and light skin.

Call me crazy, but these are all details Cordelia Capp has. (Aside from the tied hair, but now I have something that explains that too.)

At the beginning of The Sims 4, Cordelia Thebe was NOT Cordelia Thebe, but was the parallel version of Cordelia Capp.

You're following me here, right? This means that at the time of Get Together Cordelia Capp and Cordelia Thebe were still the same person.

A detail that not many people notice is that many of the furniture inside the Von Haunt are Princess Cordelia's furniture. A coincidence, many would say, "they gave the appearance of being elegant and therefore they put them, after all they are objects from the base game", but coincidentally, to discover the story of Mimsmy and Bernard, the player ends up also reading the descriptions of those objects... and thus discovering Princess Cordelia.

Princess Cordelia exists from the base game, but only starts to be mentioned properly from Get Together.

But what am I trying to tell you? Do you remember when I told you that Windenburg should have been Veronaville? Or even the first world released? It couldn't have. Not only because the plot has been changed several times, but because if you remember well...ghosts didn't even exist in The Sims 4 at the beginning. They were added many patches later.

But much more important, taking into account the origins: what if...Mimsmy was actually supposed to be Cordelia Capp and Bernard Caliban Capp? The cancellation of "let's make Windenburg Veronaville" changed everything... because EA had a much bigger plot in mind for Cordelia. It may also be a coincidence, but without reading the description of the bust, Cordelia's bust looks like Mimsmy, because of the hair.

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Theory N.2: The Villareals and the Capps...are related!

This is more of my headcanon than a verified theory, also because I have no proof, but I thought: Jacques Villareal's wife suddenly disappeared into thin air. And the game hints that he was the one who made her disappear.

But Tybalt Capp's wife is also missing. And now you're asking me: so what??

When Royalty & Legacy was released, many people, including me, had the same thought: "Beatrice Capp looks like Luna Villareal" and so I thought...what if Jacques' wife and Tybalt's wife were the same person?? Consequently the mother not only of Beatrice, Celeste and Virgilio, but also of Luna, Hugo and Max.

Jacques has always been very close to the nobility, with all that still unsolved mystery of the Knights of Windenburg. Right now mine can only be a very forced theory, in fact, it probably is...and yet if you think about it it would be a very convenient way to unite Windenburg again with Veronaville lore.

The Villareals have always had a very strong reference to the Capps. It doesn't matter if Morgan Fyres was supposed to be Juliette and Sergio Romeo/Paolo Rocca were supposed to be Romeo. The Villareals were a clear reference to the Capps: Jacques represented Consort, Luna Juliette, Hugo Hermia and Max Tybalt. But with the difference that Jacques is not the grandfather but the father.

Chronologically, it should have gone like this:

Lady X married Tybalt in Bellacorde and gave him three children. Then for some reason she ran away or was chased away from Bellacorde.

Once she arrived in Windenburg, she found comfort in Jacques and gave him three more children... and then disappeared forever. (Probably by Jacques himself?)

Before Royalty & Legacy, Queen Thebe and Princess Cordelia were two different sims.

In My Wedding Stories EA alluded to Arnessa Thebe being a descendant of Princess Cordelia, but didn't specify how until one of the secrets revealed that she was the niece of Queen and Eetion Thebe.

Which is impossible because in The Sims 2 neither Queen nor Eetion have siblings, this alluded to the fact that Queen had a sister who would be added in The Sims 4 lore and probably from that sister would have originated the entire lineage up to Arnessa. That sister could even have been Princess Cordelia herself.

But suddenly in Royalty & Legacy Arnessa is no longer the niece of Queen and Eetion, and it is here that we discover something very important: Princess Cordelia and Queen Thebe are the same person, and there is no sister. Suddenly, in the lore, Princess Cordelia Thebe who is at the same time Queen Thebe, has become Arnessa's great-grandmother, but how is this justified?

It's simple. Do you know which dynastic line Arnessa descends from? Arnessa descends from Rodrigo De Pablo.

In the beginning, among Princess Cordelia's many pirate boyfriends, she had one whom she loved more than all, although in the end she married Eetion.

Princess Cordelia had three children by three different fathers:

Andromache Thebe from Eetion (Consort's mother)

Cordelia II from the pirate John Wilson

Aaaand...Rodrigo Thebe from Rodrigo De Pablo.

So you might say, "But why Rodrigo Thebe?

The description of the Laurent house (Arnessa's family) says: "

"Thebe Estate is one of Porto Luminoso's historical buildings—its origins are draped in rumor and are often gossiped about by curious locals. The Thebe family, now the Laurents, have lived here for generations as noted by their fine collection of family heirlooms."

Then, a new sim who doesn't appear in MWS even though he is mentioned there, has this description: "Rodrigo Thebe is the child of Cordelia Thebe and the person responsible for the construction of Thebe Estate. This is revealed to the player through the responses Camille Soto provides in her Gravevine Gossip interaction. He returned to Tartosa twenty years after Cordelia's departure. He claimed his father died in Tartosa, who could potentially be Rodrigo De Pablo, as he did not leave Tartosa with Cordelia and shares his namesake."

Putting 2+2 together, it becomes clear at this point that Rodrigo Thebe is an ancestor of Arnessa. But...at this point you're probably wondering, how? And how do you make all this work? How could Cordelia Thebe I be Arnessa's great-grandmother IF Rodrigo Thebe is the son? Arnessa cannot be Rodrigo's daughter, otherwise Cordelia Thebe would simply be her grandmother.

Well...just try to imagine that Rodrigo Thebe is her maternal grandfather, like this.