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Simmerville
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15 years ago

Aliens vs. Sims - NEW RELEASE: *** SAVE GAME file "40 YEARS LATER" ***

August 14 2010: The save file - "40 years later" is available! - please see DOWNLOAD section below for link, and page 4 for info!

March 21 2010: While I'm no longer updating this thread, I still look for feedback, comments and questions, and will of course respond if anyone post.
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Aliens landed in Goodville! Play the locals, or play the aliens. Who will transform who?
(NB: A little bit of imagination adds to the fun :lol: )

http://www.hinsides.no/caw/aliensvssims/aliensim.jpg

ALIENS vs. SIMS - TECH: Created on a WA system, but with no use of WA content it should also work on base game only. Goodville comes with 19 residential lots and 11 commercial lots. Many rabbitholes included. Spawners. Riverview is needed to get the townhall.

STATUS Feb 26: A grey button bug reported (not possible to restart a save version of the world), I think it has been fixed. The download is a new version that also comes with a saved game (optional).

Many lots are quite large, most lots are flat, so content can easily be adjusted. The crashed spheres are there to stay forever though, but they are not completely useless. Premade families (both locals and aliens) are available for download on the exchange. See direct links below. These households require WA. If you run the world with only the base game, and upload new alien households, notify me and I'll link them from this thread.

http://www.hinsides.no/caw/aliensvssims/00-a.jpg

DOWNLOADS:

ALIENS vs. SIMS worldfile - download at Mediafire (zip includes a saved game that includes all 6 households).

ALIENS vs. SIMS save file "40 years later" (more aliens - info on page 4) - download at Mediafire (the world file is required, so is WA).

(Save files include the following houses)
HICK household - download at the TheSims3 Exchange
GOOBER household - download at the TheSims3 Exchange
PINEWOOD household - download at the TheSims3 Exchange
3 ALIEN LANDING LOTS WITH ALIENS - download at Mediafire

ALIENS vs. SIMS - THE CONCEPT:
Goodville used to be a quiet and friendly smalltown where most families live quite ordinary lives. No poor sims quarter, no super-poch area, a very low crime rate, not too busy streets. Kids go to the park all alone, elders have not been afraid of teens for decades (well, old Mrs. Nerfous who was afraid, was afraid of everything, but is now resting in her scary grave). Every day is nearly a copy of yesterday; good morning and what a lovely day, dear neighbour!

But this morning the future has crash landed in Goodville! From the kitchen window Mrs. Hick saw the purple fog everywhere! Blinking lights! Police sirens, a few screaming sims running in the streets! She gathered her family, and they tuned into the local radio. Outer space beings had crash landed in Goodville! Everyone was told to lock all doors and stay inside until further notice! Laura was not going to school, Mr. Hick not to the office, and Mrs. Hick would have to cancel her planned walk to Jacob's Park together with her neighbour.

A few hours later the TV news could tell that 4 huge spheres had crashed into town, there were lots of small craters filled with purple slime and something that looked like steaming water. Keep distance! Don't touch! Because the spheres mostly hit open land, only 4 locals were killed. One or two UFOs were observed hanging in the air over Goodville. Was the event this morning an accident, or was the town under attack from outer space? Is Goodville getting invaded by aliens?

The fog is now gone. You must find out if the locals are brave enough to unlock their front doors and to face reality. Or do you rather want to see this from the blue aliens' view - will they try to establish contact with the locals? How will Goodville's future and DNA look after this - WHO will transform WHO?

PLAY INSTRUCTIONS: If you want to play this world like it was intended, there are a few things you must pay attention to when installing it all.
* Download 3 local households and 3 alien landing lots. Or create your own sims.
* Check the street addresses to find the correct lot for each downloaded household.
* Enter all local houses *before* you place the aliens. Check that everyone's boss is generated. If you place aliens, aliens might become bosses. While in a house, lock their doors. This will prevent that sims from non-played houses will wander the streets when you start the game.
* Play a couple days with locked doors, it's different, and occasionally your sim might see a blue alien walking by... Note that with locked doors school and work will be missed, and bills will not be paid. I think 2 days is safe.
* Have fun :-)

ALIENS vs. SIMS - DATES: Released on February 5th. Beta testing have been ongoing January 24 - February 5, many thanks to the testers (check their comments and pictures in this thread).