Kaylynn Langerak theories?

Guys, did you even read theory 4? I said it was likely Maxis/EA didn't care (or screwed up as you worded it). But I also said thats not fun, even if it's likely the reality of things. I like the idea of putting a spin on it to make it seem not like a "mistake".

"Pary;c-17455532" wrote:
The Sims 3 is supposed to be a prequel to Sims 2. A bit of a poor decision by EA, but they're known for that kind of thing. It's kind of ridiculous since TS2 is apparently supposed to be about 50 years after Sims 3, which would make Kaylynn somewhere around about ... 60+ if she were the real thing?

I do wish they had tried to keep to a much better timeline than what they did. But they seem to be of the idea that whatever they can't explain away, they just throw into an alternate timeline or universe and call everything good to go.

Kaylynn doesnt even look remotely attractive or like her TS2 self when aged up, but this isnt unique to her, Bella also looks a bit weird aged up, as does Gunther and Michael. The only returning character from 2 that doesnt look weird compared to the Sims 2 version, is Mortimer, who looks real good as both adult (TS1 Mortimer) and elder (TS2 Mortimer). Kaylynn has the Skip Broke problem too, he too appears too early in Sims 3. I think both of these two, if following Sims 3 rules, found and used elixirs, or wish for a long life from a Genie. But generally occult stuff like that isnt too canon in the stories right? (Although it IS canon that Mortimer invented the Elixir of Life from 2)

"Dijktafone;c-17454420" wrote:
They simply screwed up and that's all. They also screwed-up the Capp household (where is Cordelia?). Maybe because 'only 10% of the players care about lore, so we put zero effort into that'

Cordelia needs to be born in-game; Contessa starts off pregnant with Kent, although his gender wasnt set; he can be born female (Kentessa? XD) or as twins. Cordelia would be conceived after the point that Roaring Heights starts with. The Monty family has a similar situation with Claudio; he starts off as an unborn baby, and isnt flagged as male only, and has to be named Claudio manually.

The Capp/Monty situation gets even more bizarre if you try to link up both families to their Veronaville origins; The Capps and Montys have never met in 3, while in 2, the rivalry started off rather early, although the memories in Veronaville are known to be mixed up I guess. the family album DOES show Patrizio arguing with Consort while hes balding.. The Montys are all about a long line of culinary cooks, while the Capps are a line of business people, yet in Sims 3, Patrizio is a doctor, while Isabella is a journalist. Even in Sims 2 PS2, the Montys are present, and Isabella is established as a good cook. Their parents are also all elders, while in Sims 2, they died as adults.

"Devalaous;c-17460315" wrote:
I wish we got ALL the original premade TS2 families in Sims 3, we got all three from Veronaville, everyone but the Oldies from Pleasantview, and quite noticeably missed out on the Grunt family from Strangetown, along with the Smiths (understandable, we would have only gotten the Smiths if Seasons shipped with a world). The Loner, Loste and Salamis families from Strangetown were also entirely absent.

The Smiths are just an offshoot of the Curious' though, unless you mean the actual Birth Queens and Pollination Technicians and drones and whatnot in Poll Tech 9's family tree, which are meant to be not around sims living in a normal world anyway. You'd have had to make an entire alien world for that to work.

Kristen Loste and Ajay Loner have no real close relationships or stories with any of the rest of Strangetown at the start so it's very easy to glance over them. Especially Ajay, though they kind of screwed over that character with his last name to be fair.

"Devalaous;c-17460683" wrote:
Curious family in Twinbrook is just TOO far back to be the only Curious family rep in 3, would have liked to have seen Glarn alive and well, as hes quite a remarkable ancestor, with the highest child count in the series and a life full of drama, with his impregnation and divorce of Glabe. He also had the potential to introduce a brother or sister that explains where Sinjin Balani fits into the family tree; hes stated to directly be a cousin of Lazlo's, and this requires Glarn to have a sibling that we'd never heard about prior. I made an 'Eva Curious' (Pun!) to link Sinjin to the Curious siblings in my Sims 2 remakes recently, but it just doesnt feel right being 'fanon', I prefer official stuff only.

To be honest I don't even know how Twinbrook makes any sense. The only returning family there, correct me if I'm wrong, is the Curious family. But given Notzo is a toddler, it would have to be set at the very least 100 years before The Sims 2 to make any chronological sense, given Glarn's not even close to being born at the start of TS3 but has probably spent about a decade six feet under at the beginning of TS2. And Twinbrook certainly doesn't look like a town set before the 50s, nevermind earlier. Maybe tech and chronology is different in The Sims world. Shrug. Lol.

Treat each neighbourhood separately, in it's own era.

Like if all was canon, then Sunset Valley happens long before Sunlit Tides, which is probbaly the closest to the TS2 Pleasantview era.
Then we have this 1920/40's setup leading to Veronaville 30 years or so later, making Veronaville happen earlier than the other two.
And well then pheraps, Strangetown happens in the future of these two, IF Twinbrook is set in the same time as Sunset Valley.

This also implies that Midnight Hollow would happen in the future of both Pleasantview and Veronaville. And that Bluewater is drifting through time and space.

"Dijktafone;c-17460730" wrote:
Treat each neighbourhood separately, in it's own era.

Like if all was canon, then Sunset Valley happens long before Sunlit Tides, which is probbaly the closest to the TS2 Pleasantview era.
Then we have this 1920/40's setup leading to Veronaville 30 years or so later, making Veronaville happen earlier than the other two.
And well then pheraps, Strangetown happens in the future of these two, IF Twinbrook is set in the same time as Sunset Valley.

This also implies that Midnight Hollow would happen in the future of both Pleasantview and Veronaville. And that Bluewater is drifting through time and space.

Its more the architecture and the town itself that throws me off. I'd buy treating it as its own neighborhood in its own timeline, but I don't buy it being super old despite the at least 100 year difference in time between the events of Twinbrook and Strangetown. This would make Strangetown based in the future as you said. Which then makes Bella Goth being "sent there", if that's the theory you want to go with, even more *cough* Strange.

Through my calculations, Kaylynn should've the age she had in Sunset Valley during Sims 1, not SIms 3 SV. I think they just didn't thought about it too much... Like, I've made some calcualtions to know exaclty how long the "25 years" between Sims 3/1 and between Sims 2/1 was, and they weren't the same amount of days.
Even Sims 2 had some discrepancies, like... In Sims 1 Michael Bachelor totally looks like he's a young adult fresh out of college, but in SIms 2/3 he's older than Bella. Honestly, I don't mind those minor mistakes, what I don't like is the mess they made in SIms 4. Don't get me wrong, I like SIms 4 premades, but they would be more interesting if they lived among classic premade families and had cohesive storylines/backstories/relationships.

"Dijktafone;c-17460844" wrote:
Ho ho Mortimer!

Here's one Non-Theory: Bella never really loved him, she married him for his money. The source being Ts2 PSP, a source I can confirm, as she revealed it in my most recent run on it.

And so, the fun fact would be, following your theory, that we would see Mortimer, in the family pictures, actually waiting for Aliens to come, not Bella to come back. That's so good! Missleading the audience like that, that would be genius!

Strangetown Bella has been confirmed by the devs to be the real one. We can't go past that one unfortunately :(
https://web.archive.org/web/20120605015012/http://thesims2.ea.com/community/bella_interview.php

Whats odd about Sims 2 PSP's Bella saying that, is that in that official interview she says the opposite and that she really DOES love him. Im guessing her memories are still muddy in TS2 PSP's incarnation (or its just a different dev team mucking it up; theres a few oddities in that game where it looks like people 'forgot' details: The Curious brothers are often implied to not be brothers, Buck Grunt and all the family bin people were forgotten about, Johnny Smith is regarded as a teenager still, and his romance with Ophelia was totally forgotten)

Sims 2 on the GBA I think it is, shows Bella back with her family, implying she did get home eventually, but on the other hand it could also be before her abduction. Her ultimate fate is to end up on Lunar Lakes somehow; given the prevalence of time travel in Sims 3 (Don Lothario in Riverview, the Ambitions time machine going to the past AND future, and the entire expansion pack about travelling to the future), it wouldnt surprise me if she ended up in the future, then on the ship that went to Lunar Lakes. And yeah, devs confirmed that Bella is real too >_>

Just a wild theory here.

Maybe at one point in the timeline it became impossible for sims who are not a part of currently active household to age and Kaylynn took advantage of the opportunity and became a NPC, thus not being able to age ever?

"Cinebar;c-17454115" wrote:
I think as they said they couldn't remember the stories and backgrounds so therefore they didn't give it a whole lot of thought.

What?? LOL. I have no words...

I think it's also bizarre that in TS3 she was the daughter of a rich and successful family and in TS2 she suddenly becomes a maid. I always imagined in my head that the family went downhill at some point and lost all their fortune.