Are You Playing A Historical Save or Planning to?

"PlumbobGrandma;c-17172071" wrote:
I have no idea whether to get into a Historical Save or not...do any of you guys have any tips at all?

Well...it's a massive amount of work. Just finding and downloading cc is time consuming, as is decorating lots. I would say one tip is to just expect it to be slow moving. Other tips:

- Look especially for cc that replaces electronics and plumbing to fit whatever era you're in.

- Play in certain areas that can look mostly like your era. Some areas have backgrounds that ruin the look, so go into a lot with a sim and look around to see what the background is. Most parts of Windenburg are great for 1800s or before, but there's one section that has too many modern elements (bottom right), so you just have to scope out where you want to play.

- Be prepared to download mods, too, to get the game to do what you want it to do. For instance, I have a mod that makes most phone interactions look like the person is just thinking rather than looking like they're on the phone--you don't see the phone even though they're on it. It's awesome.

- Use clubs to get sims to do what you want. For instance, I have different classes (upper, middle, and lower class) in my 1800s game. Middle and upper class women can't just go hang out at the pub, so I have everyone in a club according to class and gender and restrict access to certain areas for certain people.

- Read about what the era was like to get ideas for different types of businesses and groups for your sims to participate in. For example, I know from my research that during my era, many upper class men were in male-only clubs where they would go to drink and read, so I'm going to set one up just for them.

- Don't try to have the variety of clothing like you do with modern sims if you don't have that many to choose from. Each of my sims have mostly the same outfit for every category, with hats being added for hot and cold weather, and gloves being added for those categories, too, for my refined ladies.

- There are a lot of great sites that list common names for different time periods, so make use of them. I love finding weird historical names to call my sims, like Sumner and Berdie and Fidelia. :)

"PlumbobGrandma;c-17172071" wrote:
I have no idea whether to get into a Historical Save or not...do any of you guys have any tips at all?

Possible story-ideas
You can always start with a short sweet story. Following a family or a small household for shorter period of time. Children going over to visit grandma, young married couple staying at a small cabin or a single sim taking a sabbatical. You decide yourself how you want to implement it. Start with perhaps one lot and let it expand and place more if you want to.

Mod-recommendation
Here is a great mod for avoiding phones made by Triplis.

Summary:
Wanting to play a time period before Phones, or just tired of seeing your Sims on them all the time? This mod replaces Phone animations with the listening animation.

https://triplis.github.io/mods/phone-listen-anim.html


There isn't a wrong way to make play a historical save. It is your save, you are playing for your own amusement. I have plenty of mods but I have never tried CC-clothing. I think I will one day but so far I haven't tried it. And that is ok, because you don't have to get the correct CC-clothing for the era in order to play but it is great that it is there if I want to try it.

Playing a historical save can be a huge thing with lots of mods and CC. But it doesn't have to be that way. Take a look around and see what would make playing your save more fun for you, and add that.

I did it in the Sims 2 with a Victorian era, but it was so much work and then you still get modern annoyances.

I kind of did it in Sims 3 with the Dragon Valley world, setting it in medieval times. I had a lot of fun with that one cos I had the store castle kit and the glass blowing station that came with the art studio and my sims rode horses everywhere. But there were still modern things popping up and killing it for me and never enough clothing choices.

It's too much work to set the whole world to suit with a certain kind of historical era and there will always be modern day Sims walking around using cell phones and modern clothes etc and ruining the whole thing. Also it's difficult to find right era clothes for Sims, especially toddlers. I don't use CC or mods, so help from those are not options for me.
I'm currently watching DrGluon's "Peasantry to Royalty" challenge (medieval era) on YouTube and I've enjoyed it a lot. I just don't want to do it myself.

I'm looking forward to a more successful attempt in the immersion, this time, due to the off-the-grid lot trait. I might have to see if there is any more 18th century clothing choices out there than before.

I have no interest in that and even if I did, the game strongly emphasizes the fact that the game is set in modern times it's literally impossible to do. The fact that everyone automatically has a cell phone instantly kills the ability to do this properly.

"ListentoToppDogg;c-17172584" wrote:
I have no interest in that and even if I did, the game strongly emphasizes the fact that the game is set in modern times it's literally impossible to do. The fact that everyone automatically has a cell phone instantly kills the ability to do this properly.

I'm nothing if not contrary. ;)

I am definitely interested but the time to set up a historical save puts me off.

My main problem is how important the phone and pc are in a sims life, nearly impossible to avoid. And also the situational outfits are annoying and break the immersion in another time. Does anyone know a mod to stop those?

As a sort of compromise, I am considering a save with a time traveler. A medieval sim stranded in a modern surrounding but still living in his home as he would live in his own time.

I like seeing them, but I don’t want to play one myself.

I'd love to play one in theory but I don't really use cc, I'm worried it'll make the game slower and clunkier then it already is, and I definitely don't want to overhaul entire neighborhoods so can't do it.