Welcome to the new forums everyone! I’m thinking it will be great to connect with TS3 members who made the transition especially since some folks have different forum names now. Perhaps add a brief intro and link to your studio / site / blog etc.
I’ll start…
soocoolsim … same name as on the previous sites.
Active since The Sims, became more of a builder than a player with TS2 and love building in TS3 the most.
Hi Lizzielilyy Been checking out your links and enjoyed your WA walkthroughs. I started playing WA a couple months ago and some of the older walk throughs don't work the same anymore so that will be a valuable resource. Thanks!
Same username as the previous forum. I didn't really become active playing The Sims 3 until 2021, where I continued from a save I started in 2016 when I still only had the base game.
During 2020 I bought the University Life expansion pack, probably in anticipation of the younger generation growing up and going to university.
When I joined the forum in early 2021 I had just finished making (or was in the process of finishing) my first town using the Create a World tool, which I called Sprottenham - and that's where my username comes from.
Fireworks over Sprottenham.
Shortly thereafter I started my thread, "The People of Simbria" and placed my Sunset Valley save and the town of Sprottenham into a larger context - on a map of a country called "The United Kingdom of Simbria".
Then as the kids of Sunset Valley grew up and it was time for some of them to go to university, a new town was added to the map - Lake Onebega (University town). Somewhere in between here I also got the Seasons Expansion Pack, because, well, weather.
Inge and Oliver Freddy from Sunset Valley arriving at university for the first time.
Then the packs just began to pile on, and a few more towns were added, most importantly the town of Bewickton (Twinbrook), and I kept on rotating between these four places.
The town of Bewickton was first introduced to the storyline when Leya (who lives in Sprottenham) travelled over there to visit her family, summer holiday 2021.
A couple of years after that - in 2023 - I had my blog up and running. I had figured that rotating between four different towns in one thread was getting a little disorganized, and my blog was/is an attempt at doing that a little better. So my blog really consists of one 'Main Page' or 'Landing Hub' and then links to the other towns on a side panel.
On the Main Page I also make a new post for each post in the towns with a link to the actual post itself. So, here are the links to the Main Hub and the individual town blogs:
I also made another town called Lagash which I used for a supernatural story called "The Red Winged Angels", then a smaller town called Warenford which is mostly just an airport and some farmland a few km. to the northwest of Sprottenham.
Downtown Wad Nahadau during sunset. Old town of Lagash. Lagash is in a completely different universe from the 'The People of Simbria' story, and has no connection to it. Or does it?
And then I built the city of Wad Nahadau - my biggest project yet - which unfortunately will forever remain unfinished, because in the meantime the EA App was launched and made it so that I couldn't access Edit in Game to save the lots to the town itself....
My story thread was transferred to this forum, but it was all without the images, of course, so I don't know if I'll use it, make a new one or if I'll just stick to my blog...
So.. the old forum was a major contribution to me expanding the story as much as I did - and buying the expansion packs. If I had been met with this 'forum' back then, I don't think any of this would have happened.....
edit: Ok, disregard this post, now suddenly my introductory post appeared! Now I have probably made three posts in this thread where I only meant to make one! What the.. uhh, something.. this forum is confusing....
Trying again, because my first post vanished for no reason.
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My username is the same as the old forum, and I chose it because when I first joined the forums I was in the process of finishing (or had just finished) a town I was working on called Sprottenham.
Back then I only had the base game, and had just recently bought the University Life Expansion pack.
Seeing other people making story threads, I made my own and that's when the idea of 'The People of Simbria' came to life.
Here's a map of 'The United Kingdom of Simbria' where the story takes place.
Here's another picture I used in the original post of Leya visiting her parents in Bewickton.
Will maybe add more info to this post if actually sticks around and doesn't disappear.
Thank you ^^ I eventually plan on sharing Tokyosou files so people can freely edit it in CAW to their liking or make a empty world version. If I can figure out the forums here.
