Neytan

Download at SFS or Box.

This is a default replacement for all the conversation icons: the basegame interests, the Freetime hobbies, the "tell story about" interaction that came in Apartment Life, and the pet interests that will sometimes turn up in a pet's dreams or thought bubbles. That extends to the UI elements, where the sim's level of interest in a subject or enthusiasm for a hobby is displayed.

I made this for my Test of Time challenge, because every speech replacement I could find was way too modern for my Stone Age hunter-gatherers.

My sample shots were taken against both Eddysims' high-res speech bubbles and Simborg's TSM speech bubbles, so you can see how they look against both. This was absolutely a deliberate choice and not just that I decided to switch my default in the middle but didn't want to scrap the screencaps.

As you can see above in the crabby toddler shot, I also default-replaced the motives, because I was tired of seeing the same "TOILET!" or "BED!" thought bubbles in the stone age as I'd seen in Pleasantview. A sim who's too hot will think about wanting a cool breeze, not an iced beverage; a sim who's on the verge of bladder failure (or wetting their diaper) will think about relieving themselves in a shrub; a sim in hygiene desperation will think about washing off in a waterfall, because of Marvine's waterfall shower. (If you see the manure pile, they want the place cleaned up.) This is a separate folder from the speech defaults, so you can choose if you want that or not.

This isn't perfect - some icons have some compression/color bleeding that I can't seem to get rid of, and the fuzziness of the era and setting (I don't call it the "Neanderthal" era but that is the official name) means that there are some anachronisms and inconsistencies baked in - the next stage is the Roman Empire, so any New World vegetation or animals shouldn't be there, but they're in a tropical setting, but if there are strays in the neighborhood they have domesticated cats and dogs, which Neanderthals wouldn't... My seven-year-old daughter, in fact, pointed this out and refused to let me have domestic cats and dogs in the children's speech pool. Kids talk about wolves and leopards instead:

The other samples of basegame interest discussion:

In my game, I have Almighty Hat's alien abduction mod, and Plantsims, so the discussion of elves and dryads fits right in. Instead of school or work, sims will discuss important survival skills and cultural knowledge: hunting, fishing, weaving, making tools and preserving food. And so on. It may not suit everyone's game perfectly, but it's better for mine than anything else I could find.

Credit and acknowledgments: The icons used here came from a variety of artists via Freepik and Flaticon. The Puppet Characters collection, Max.Icons, Monkik, and Eucalyp all got heavy use. I also got some from UltimateArm, though I'm having a hard time finding a link to their page specifically.

Without Sims in Low Space, this default wouldn't exist - it was from her novel default that I got the idea to use Flaticon as a source. I also referred heavily to other speech defaults, including Keoni's modern one, and the medieval replacements by ClstlDrmr83 and rugrat0ne.

And if you read all this, you may not want to scroll back up, so here are the download links again:

Download at SFS or Box.

Aw, if that's what the other anon said, then I'm sorry if my reply was a bit upset. Maybe I should turn anonymous asks off to prevent me from assuming that the intentions of the message may be bad. Especially that I don't master english and might misunderstand things.

I think you might be right, I should talk to them, but the thing is I won't. Not that I despise them -far from it-, but because of my sick mind that makes me froze and hyperventilate when I have to talk privately to strangers. And if I miraculously manage to talk to them, then I might suddenly stop replying for the same reasons which is quite rude, isn't it ? + I like my solitude. I'm not a social person at all, even in my afk life. People with depression or autism or other mental health issues might relate. So I'm asking publicly hoping that if someone plans to do the thing, they'll reply or they had said it somewhere (in which case tere might be a lot of people that might know the info and tell me). Does it makes sense ?

Anyway, I'm still a bit skeptical about the idea that small sets might/will become duplicates simply because they are smaller sets… To me, the "duplicate" word implies that something similar already exists, so the first conversion can not be the duplicate one, you know ? It's the conversions made after the first one that are duplicates, no matter if it's from a small or a huge set. At least that's what feels logical to me.

SUL SUL! For a while now I wanted to make a version of Veronaville and Pleasantview combined, and seeing as I love Veronaville I thought I would give it some love. So I made a new hood full to the brim of community lots, decorations, CC and hidden community lots. This hood is very decorated and has used optimized lot imposters.

Riverbanks / Bridge / Streetlights all light up at night without the BETTERNIGHTLIFE mod

DISCLAIMERS - seeing as I made this for me I wont be going around to change the lot imposters back from optimized to normal, consider this your warning that this is a very resource heavy hood.

Some lots require your sims to walk there, as the cars will clip with hood deco, such as the teen hangout, its somewhat written in the community lots description if sims can drive there or not.

This hood requires a bunch of CC, in order for ease for everyone else I have compiled a Veronaville collection download folder and included the CC that I did not make that am allowed to share (If I understood their TOU correctly) with the hood, so make sure to look for duplicates.

The CC that is not included, is majority of the walls I used for this project are from my 4T2 Defaulted Walls Collection. The new Tudor walls are included in these files. AND The floors are not included either, sadly I have no way to track which floors I used for this project, so instead of including 900+ floors in the main folder, I figured I would least let people decide if they want that or not, however, not having them in game, would mean there will be the default wood floor in all lots.

Please also note, that this is an EMPTY version of the hood, this is so that I can add and remove sims for future projects. To have Veronaville and Pleasantview sims in this hood, add them as a subhood and then remove said subhoods, all families will be put into the bin.

CC Downloads

DOWNLOAD REQUIRED CC - SFS

DOWNLOAD REQUIRED CC FLOORS - Tumblr

Hood Downloads

DOWNLOAD MAIN HOOD VERSION - SFS DOWNLOAD SUB-HOOD VERSION - SFS 

Subhood version coming soon if wanted…

CREDITS

hey, Neytan! I had to think about it, I never quite felt any pairing was totally unexpected. That being said, I feel like the romantic situations were unexpected.

This was way longer than anticipated because I rambled about my previous uberhood and didn't want to delete it lol. I'm just not as far in my current one.

I'd also love to read yours and others!! Let me steal see your plotlines!

Tank Grunt and Kent Capp