Simcharest- Romanian/Carpathian World
I'm wanting to start making a large world based mostly upon Romania and the Carpathian mountains. I've never used CAW before so this will take a lot of practice before I really start the actual world. Right now I'm working on learning how to make natural looking mountains, with pictures of the Carpathians as inspiration.
I'm wanting to create a large world with a mountain range serving as a border, a hilly/slightly less mountainous and heavily forested rural part, a town bisected by a river (situated more-or-less in the middle of the forest), a small river delta wetland/marsh, and a small black sea resort coast.
I will try to make the town look as authentically Romanian as I can without using cc (perhaps excluding rabbithole rugs, because I may use those). It will be inspired by București (Bucharest) and other Romanian cites, but also a little bit by Budapest (yes I know that's actually in Hungary, but the river in this is inspired by the Danube). The town will not be massive though, buy hopefully reasonably sized.
The forested area will be inspired by Transylvania and the a few other different influences like a medieval castle/digsite inspired by a castle in Slovakia. I will have an area inspired by the Hoia forest which is famous for alleged paranormal activity. I will place a heavily forested big park lot with tents near the road and spawners for rare minerals and I don't know if there are specific spawners for will o' the wisps, but if there are I will place those in the park and in the few houses nearby which I will hopefully populate with ghosts (assuming CAS made ghosts transfer well with custom worlds, please correct me if I am wrong). I will place in the forests a few sporadic clusters of smaller houses and a few castles with real world equivalents (or at least they will be inspired by real world castles). I will also build a wooden church like the wooden churches of Maramureș.
The delta will have swamp rushes, willows, and oaks with a few fishing spots. To the south of that I will put a resort, a few houses, and a bit further south a lot on the beach and cluster of houses kind of inspired by Vama Veche.
I will put supernaturals in the world (I will challenge myself though since after supernatural came out all of my sims have been supernaturals, and try to make less than ~35% of the population supernaturals unless asked to make more sims be supernaturals. I will explain their presence in their family descriptions using Romanian and south Slavic folklore (especially the vampires).
Demographically I will try to make about ~70-80% be Romanian, ~10-20% Hungarian, ~2-5% Rromani, and maybe a few households that are Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, and/or Greek, and a single sim that will either maybe English, Scottish, or American (with their own story). This is subject to change.
I will most likely use all EP's (with the potential exception of ITF) and potentially all SP's excluding Sweet Treats. I will use Monte Vista, Lucky Palms (the fountain specifically), More Magic set, Midnight Hollow, the sauna from Sunlit Tides, the Bohemian garden set (for the plants and lights mostly), the Vegetable and lemonade stands, the Mill set, Amore venue, and Dragon Valley (gold edition), items from the Tudor and medieval sets, and occasionally other store items. This is subject to change.
Any suggestions, recommendations, or advice are more than welcome.
I'm wanting to create a large world with a mountain range serving as a border, a hilly/slightly less mountainous and heavily forested rural part, a town bisected by a river (situated more-or-less in the middle of the forest), a small river delta wetland/marsh, and a small black sea resort coast.
I will try to make the town look as authentically Romanian as I can without using cc (perhaps excluding rabbithole rugs, because I may use those). It will be inspired by București (Bucharest) and other Romanian cites, but also a little bit by Budapest (yes I know that's actually in Hungary, but the river in this is inspired by the Danube). The town will not be massive though, buy hopefully reasonably sized.
The forested area will be inspired by Transylvania and the a few other different influences like a medieval castle/digsite inspired by a castle in Slovakia. I will have an area inspired by the Hoia forest which is famous for alleged paranormal activity. I will place a heavily forested big park lot with tents near the road and spawners for rare minerals and I don't know if there are specific spawners for will o' the wisps, but if there are I will place those in the park and in the few houses nearby which I will hopefully populate with ghosts (assuming CAS made ghosts transfer well with custom worlds, please correct me if I am wrong). I will place in the forests a few sporadic clusters of smaller houses and a few castles with real world equivalents (or at least they will be inspired by real world castles). I will also build a wooden church like the wooden churches of Maramureș.
The delta will have swamp rushes, willows, and oaks with a few fishing spots. To the south of that I will put a resort, a few houses, and a bit further south a lot on the beach and cluster of houses kind of inspired by Vama Veche.
I will put supernaturals in the world (I will challenge myself though since after supernatural came out all of my sims have been supernaturals, and try to make less than ~35% of the population supernaturals unless asked to make more sims be supernaturals. I will explain their presence in their family descriptions using Romanian and south Slavic folklore (especially the vampires).
Demographically I will try to make about ~70-80% be Romanian, ~10-20% Hungarian, ~2-5% Rromani, and maybe a few households that are Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, German, French, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, and/or Greek, and a single sim that will either maybe English, Scottish, or American (with their own story). This is subject to change.
I will most likely use all EP's (with the potential exception of ITF) and potentially all SP's excluding Sweet Treats. I will use Monte Vista, Lucky Palms (the fountain specifically), More Magic set, Midnight Hollow, the sauna from Sunlit Tides, the Bohemian garden set (for the plants and lights mostly), the Vegetable and lemonade stands, the Mill set, Amore venue, and Dragon Valley (gold edition), items from the Tudor and medieval sets, and occasionally other store items. This is subject to change.
Any suggestions, recommendations, or advice are more than welcome.
