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AstroX1424
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5 years ago

Recently Been On A TS3 Kick... (Pic Heavy, heheh)

Wow, so where to begin. So a few years ago, a fellow simmer (Jessa_Dakkar) created a small empty world which gives off the small town away from the city feel. I had started to place a couple of lots here and there but then got busy (extremely) with life so I put Simming on hold for a good long while. Well recently I got back into TS3 again, and went back to that old save and started it up again and have been having a blast filling up the world with some of my pretty... uh, unigue(?) sims, lol. Kind of just wanted to show off the world itself and some of the my sims in it. I didn't realize how hard it would be for someone that's not very creative (me) to create a bunch of unique individuals for this town, but I feel like I've been getting the hang of it! And also, I cannot say enough how thankful I am for Nrass mods, seriously, total life-saver.

Anyway... this is an over view of the town as it currently is. Like I had said, it's relatively small but I'm slowly adding more and more residential/community lots and trying to reduce the amount of rabbit hole lots so I can make the world completely interactive.
And pretty much since I started playing the Sims, I've matched the seasons to real life, hence the orange trees.
https://i.imgur.com/2Grlj4G.jpg

Like I said, I've only made a few families so far and I'm trying to take the time to make each of them unique (and some Supernatural as well >:) just to spice things up). It hasn't been to difficult, as long as I have a purpose for the sims that I'm creating. As of now I'm rotating through each family to see how they're living their lives but ultimately I would like to move my main family in from Riverview into this town and focus on them as I have invested quite a bit of time into them.

But enough rambling... The first family that I created included an age group that I had NEVER played as before, Not sure why because they are actually pretty cool and have some neat interactions, and using the cane with its different walk styles is actually hilarious.
So here is Archie and his wife Suzette, and also their cat (I kind of forgot his name, pretty sure it was something generic like Whiskers XD)
https://i.imgur.com/3o7Ion2.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/i2bxA52.jpg
Suzette might also be a raging alcoholic, as before I shut down the beach bar for the fall she was always there getting a drink...
https://i.imgur.com/j7h3EVO.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/C6Rh8iy.jpg

Archie Loves to fish, I'm thinking about having Suzette take up either gardening or Nectar making as I haven't really delved into those activities yet.
https://i.imgur.com/IFQTiMu.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/UTLO1ZV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/66othrY.jpg

Once again, I wanted to create a couple that I could put in some Service Roles around town, particularly ones that I hadn't played with to much which was the stylist career, and firefighter.
Owner and operator of Lizzie's salon is Lizzie Reece herself (giving a makeover to the Mayor's daughter, which she ended up not liking, LMAO)
https://i.imgur.com/VHFAin9.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/mszo1Am.jpg

And then there's her boyfriend Dion, who I made a firefighter (currently the only one in the neighborhood, hoping that can change soon)
https://i.imgur.com/5CGym7x.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/roXrbgv.jpg
But it seems like he's been doing a pretty good job.
https://i.imgur.com/DBhFigR.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/TxTTdK4.jpg

Now for my only current 'big' family, The Whitmans; which includes the Mayor- Jason, his wife- Elane (school teacher, and in the first trimester of pregnancy)....
https://i.imgur.com/n9J0lsy.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/8Yset3q.jpg

...and the two kids- Jaden and Tiffany
https://i.imgur.com/9ASN4SR.jpg

I won't age them up for sometime, not sure what my plan for them is yet. But for now they'll stay in school.

These next sims are all single (or so it seems for some of them) living in their own separate house.

The first one I made a while back during the summer, his name is Xander Clavell.
https://i.imgur.com/oSfX00Y.jpg

My plan for his was to be the best lifeguard that this neighborhood ever saw, but since the beach is closed till springtime I'm thinking of letting him work at the consignment store for now.
But since he loves the sea, I take him down to the coast every once in a while at least until winter when it will get unbearably cold.
https://i.imgur.com/qkN4i2Y.jpg

And how could I forget Archie and Suzette's son Nick????
He's been moved out of his parents house and moved into a trailer across town, and I employed him at Lizzie's Salon as the Tattoo artist. Hasn't had any clients yet, but that will hopefully change soon as I move in some more sims that will be a little adventurous and get a couple of tattoos.
https://i.imgur.com/JqOgHEa.jpg

The only supernatural I have in this town currently is a witch- Dax Granger.
https://i.imgur.com/G3XxTgR.gif

Originally I was playing as him in the town that came with Supernatural (Moonlight Falls I believe?).
But I figured he would make a nice addition to this town, and also the owner of the Elixer Store; so I moved him along with his house from Moonlight falls into this town right across the street from the Elixer Store for an easy commute.
https://i.imgur.com/yXdFIt0.jpg
I don't think practicing magic on the clock is against the rules...
https://i.imgur.com/Gfk1ZE2.jpg

And last but not least (for now anyway) is a sim that showed up randomly as a Mixologist for the local bar, even though I disabled Immigration and Role sims as I wanted to appoint those to my sims. But anyway, I edited her to my liking to make her look the part. So now she's there open to close and can't be interacted with to much by other sims. Oh well.
(pic didn’t upload correctly:(


Also some random moments that happened around town today....

A pack of wild horses congregated in the park, to talk about.... eating other horses? O.o
https://i.imgur.com/cFeVlSp.jpg

This moment was completely random. Xander and Nick were acquaintences but when I popped over to Nick's trailer I noticed that they seemed to be a bit more that acquaintances. But who knows how that's gonna play out since Xander's isHeartbreaker.
https://i.imgur.com/GnsFTur.jpg

So that's all I got for now. If you actually read though all that here's a thumbs up for you because I know it was a lot, lol. I'm hoping in a months time I can have this town decently filled with sims so that way community lots won't look as barren as they do now.

What I really need are some ideas for new sims, along with what their function in town could be! Give me some Ideas please!!! :)
And If you wanna you can post some of your favorite unique townies, I'd love to see em!



10 Replies

  • Awesome pictures, I absolutely LOVE your stylist :D
    I have Jessa's world too, it's lovely isn't it! I'm still building mine up, but it really lends itself to a small town / island feel very well.
  • Love reading about the town and the folks that live there! Great stuff @Astro!
  • I'm sure I'm not the only one who loves looking at pictures, so you don't need to be concerned about your post being too long. Your sims look very good, and they sound very interesting. That island is beautiful too. What is the name of it?
  • I am in awe of Archie (I never really played elders either) and Lizzy the stylist is gorgeous <3 Awesome job on your sims!

    Love the pics, when I am able to play S3 again, I will definitely DL that world. I love the small and medium sized worlds.

    I don't have any ideas though. I imagine it will be chaos in my game when I am able to play S3 again :D
  • I really enjoyed seeing pics and reading about your wonderful sims.
  • That was a fun read and yes I read it all, I like all of them and even though Tiff is going to be young for a while I can picture her trying to milk a possible daddy's girl situation while he tries to keep her out of trouble so he and his family can appear perfect. That said I've been doing it too I'd make a crazy cat lady and crazy dog guy but without pets so their "collection" is all in their heads, also four couples, 1 fast but perfect, the other fast and a disaster that sticks together, another that may not be clear but is doomed to fail, and the last is only a couple cause you put them together as they are best friends in denial. Something like that they could also be supernaturals if you prefer just a thought.
  • AstroX1424's avatar
    AstroX1424
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 years ago
    Thanks for the kind words! As someone who is a terrible builder I’ve only ever been decent(?) at making sims. I guess the creativity is somewhat showing, lol.

    @IreneSwift The town is called Camden Island, you can find it on the exchange.

    @FairyGodMother Elders have grown on me lol, since I play rotationally (with a mod) I keep finding myself coming back to them to see what they’re up to.

    Thank you! @Sharonia

    @RedDestiny92 Funny thing is that’s sort of the plan I had for Tiffany in the future, and I would probably have her brother grow to be a successful somebody.
  • Dorabella123's avatar
    Dorabella123
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago
    Great pictures of very attractive sims - even your oldies are cute. It looks like a lovely little island.

    I used to love making nectar when I last played TS3 and I want to get back into it again now I have returned. I think your Suzette will enjoy it.

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