Reborn Strangetown: BYE, CORRUPTION (testing)
Hi! This is the project i've been working on for several weeks now. I got an idea (and I don't think I'm the first simmer who did) to recreate the base game hoods from scratch using @jawusa's simless versions of them. I started with Strangetown since it had the least amount of families or complicated family ties.
!!!Remember this is only in testing, don't rely on this Strangetown very much!!!
What is the purpose of the hood?
There are two particular goals I tried to achieve: to adapt the hood for all of the expansion packs, and to get rid of corruption.
• It's made absolutely from scratch - which means there is no corruption at all. And THAT means all ancestors are safe to play with and have their own graves, including all Olive's victims!
• Ancestors also have restored faces which Maxis intented them to have originally. They were recreated by carrit on MTS.
• Since there was A LOT of ancestors, I had to build a small graveyard at 45 Road To Nowhere. You may find it aside from the Grunt house.
• All alive sims are now have corrected genetics, memories, turn ons/offs, outerwears, LTWs and hobbies. I tried to go the closest with Maxis's image of the sims so everything should make sense.
• All of the circumstances have been restored - you will start the Curious family at 1:00 in the correct weekday as in the original, for example. Johnny is having birthday, Olive and Ophelia are 2 days aways from dying/growing up, the Beakers have roaches, etc.
• All of the zodiacs, interests, relationships and etc. have been restored due to original hood. There are only a few changes to correct some mistaked (e.g. Pascal now knows Circe which was presumably intended)
• Bella Goth is present here, and has been remade into her Pleasntaview version.
• All houses now have matching ceilings - finally!
Known issues
• No scripted events & popups. This is the next thing I'm going to
study and try to make, but I can't promise anything.
• Pascal Curious have incorrect maternity clothes - don't know how to fix yet.
• No townies yet - also the thing to be added in the updates.
• Sims have random wants at the start - not sure how to set certain wants for them, e.g. Olive's want to reitre.
• Possible wants about ancestors, because in fact they died just an hour ago lol. I tried to clean them as I could, though.
• Not all important dead sims have memories - Lyla Grunt, Olive's husbands and others. I plan to give them memories so you can play them with joy.
• Welcome wagon is possible - it didn't appear in my game, but appeared when my friend tested it.
This is not perfect, but IMO it's better than the dirty Maxis ones - I will at least worry less about corruption and waste less time on setting hobbies, LTWs and everything else. There are only playable sims & ancestors & dead sims from Olive's lot. Also I added Crystal Vu, Meredith Lillard, Abhijeet Cho and Bella Goth - they share everything with the originals. The only extra sim is the driver (someone tried to go to work), but I remade her to Stacy Phelps, driver from the original hood. Her preview is not refreshed yet, though.
Download Strangetown WITH Bella Goth
Download Strangetown WITHOUT Bella Goth
All of the news about the project will go under #reborn maxis hashtag, so you can keep in touch. If you find any bugs & mistakes, feel free to report or ask. If you want to help, you can also contact me!
Credits:
@jawusa for the clean template of Strangetown
carrit on ModTheSims for recreated ancestors
@lowedeus for technical support