Are You Playing A Historical Save or Planning to?

Yes, its called the upgrowth challenge by Holliebb

It was more like the vampire family and in some other save dark elves were historic in all their ways in a modern world around them. It was a lot of fun.

I would gladly play if features like cell phones could be turned off. In TS3 I liked Roaring Heights very much and even got a cc typewriter/computer. I tried a stone age game in TS4 for a while, but I didn't like pretending the texts, phone calls and festival announcements didn't happen.

I started a thread here about the ability to disable certain worlds. Something like that would help in an historical save. Tall glass buildings tend to break the immersion. Create-A-World would be nice too :)

It does sound like a lot of work. If Realm of Magic comes with a lot of medieval stuff I'd think about that, but I'd probably do more fantasy than real history.

At least I try. Since I play without cc or mods, I have to play with what the game has to offer (clothes, furniture etc.).
Also I hardly travel with these Sims, except in parks. But when NPCs are constantly walking around in their modern clothes staring at their Iphones... well :D.
But it's still fun and a welcome change from my main (modern) save :). Also I love taking screenshots in this save.

@QueenofMyshuno @SilentKitty

Thank you both for your informative replies. If you have time, would you be able to describe "a day in the life" of one of the families you are playing in a historical save? Do you have them go to work as normal? Do you modify all the citizens and houses in the neighborhood?

Thanks again! :D

"ambara;c-17172857" wrote:
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 neighbourhoods so can't do it.

Hi there! I'm not playing a current historical save but I do have a bunch of cc in my game. It doesn't look like it affects a lot of my gameplay and I'm sure you'll be able to add it fine. I do also think there's a way to overhaul entire neighbourhoods without installing the lots one by one but I would have to check with the overhaul videos lol

"PlumbobGrandma;c-17173663" wrote:
If you have time, would you be able to describe "a day in the life" of one of the families you are playing in a historical save? Do you have them go to work as normal? Do you modify all the citizens and houses in the neighborhood?...

I'm putting most of my 1800s stuff on tumblr now, and I literally have a "day in the life" of my Victorian teen, Heidi, so you're welcome to check that out: https://queenofmyshuno.tumblr.com/

I hate rabbit holes, and the active careers are too modern, so I don't have them go to work. I'm going to have some of them own businesses that fit in with the time period, like a cafe, and I also have commercial lots where my sims will go as a club as "workers" at the lot, even though technically they're not really at work. That's what I do with my bank.

If I'm with my big, upper class family, it's very hectic as they have 4 servants and a toddler. My wife is usually in the parlor, and my husband goes between there and the kids. My toddler will get into trouble the second I stop watching him, so my governess is very busy with him. She's supposed to take care of their child daughter, too, but the child usually gets neglected because the toddler takes up all of her time. The family doesn't have access to the kitchen, and the servants don't have access to the formal dining room, so I'll have the servants cook meals. Then I'll manually move the food into the dining room and have the family all grab a plate. Then I'll move the meal back to the kitchen, and have the servants all grab a plate (they have a table in the kitchen). I might have the family go out to a commercial lot, such as the bank or a park, in the afternoon.

What happens during a sim's day also depends on who I'm playing and what their interests are. I have a farming family, so they'll be doing a lot of gardening. I have a painter/photographer who goes for walks and photographs/paints landscapes. I have a teen who likes to collect rocks. I have a family who is trying to marry off their daughter, so they have a lot of dinners with different single young men. I have a factory with a mean boss, so they are mostly working, being yelled at, or going to the pub.

As for the neighborhood, I set a big goal of building all my own lots or modifying maxis lots (no gallery lots), and of populating the world with mostly my own sims. Building my own lots makes progress very slow, but I like the end result. EA really likes to generate those townies, so I will probably be getting MCCC soon so that I can control which clothes the NPCs wear instead of editing them all by hand. I also spend a lot of time looking for and downloading cc, both objects and scripts to make the game more appropriate to the time period.

This is the slowest save I've ever played because of all the extra work it takes, but it's also the funnest save I've ever played. :) I'm so excited you're planning to start a historical save and hope to see your screenshots on the forum!

I'm not saying I wouldn't be interested, just don't see it mixing well with the game. Also I don't currently use cc or mods and would probably need those too.

I don’t use CC or mods, and I think it would be hard to do with limited clothes and objects not conforming to older historic times. And of course the phones. Though with witches and magic coming I will probably have a witch living in the boonies on her own with off the grid. I hope it comes with a few items that look more like you are living off the grid. I would like them to come up with a way to use the old looking refrigerator off the grid too. Maybe make food not last quite as long, as it would work more as an ice box. And for plumbing.... there is a well that came with Get Together, they could repurpose that to the base game and in off the grid lots they could make it where you fill a bucket with water and put it into a bath tub, and they could make a bowl you could fill with a bucket once a day to wash your hands throughout the 24 hour period. Add, farm animals you could use as meat, milk, etc, a canning station, a sewing machine you could make clothes and toys, horses you could ride, a way to turn off phones and barn dances where you could play instruments and you would have some old fashioned entertainment. Then I could see making a historical world.... you would also have to be able to set certain clothes as historical so townies would have to wear them, and then I think it would be fun to play a historical save.