Historical Sims Stories and Worlds

@whimreaper What a great idea, it's for sure something I would be interested in! Especially your idea for Windenberg!

Oasis Springs could be a Western world like around Wyatt Earp's era. Get Famous will have CAS and possibly objects to support that I think.

I do time travel roleplaying, so I'm into historical themes. One problem though is some random sims could "invade" that era with inappropriate clothing. What I do is change some lots into "Residential" and then move in a group of sims with the right attire. For example, I will convert Wild West Park into a Residential lot. That way, when I zone in on this lot, I'll have sims with cowboy hats and boots.

Personally, I don't really play historical Sims.
But I'm sure people who are playing the decades challenge (or similar) will like things like this :)

"DJQ1308;c-16810700" wrote:
@whimreaper What a great idea, it's for sure something I would be interested in! Especially your idea for Windenberg!

Oasis Springs could be a Western world like around Wyatt Earp's era. Get Famous will have CAS and possibly objects to support that I think.

Thanks, @DJQ1308 ! I'm glad to hear you're interested! Also, that's a great idea for Oasis Springs! I may be a bit late getting "Get Famous", however, so it may be an idea for me to store away.

I love historic themes! The Vampires pack is great for a Victorian era, which is one of my favorites.

I also really like @DJQ1308 's idea of using Oasis Springs for a Wild West setting. The Fame pack's costumes will definitely help that along, and so will some of the movie sets.

Forgotten Hollow would make a great Salem, MA 1692 Puritan town in the midst of the witch hysteria.

Newcrest might be a good place to build a 1930s/1940s Art Deco setting using the Vintage Glamour pack and also some stuff from Get Famous when it comes out. :)

"LiELF;c-16810733" wrote:
I love historic themes! The Vampires pack is great for a Victorian era, which is one of my favorites.

I also really like @DJQ1308 's idea of using Oasis Springs for a Wild West setting. The Fame pack's costumes will definitely help that along, and so will some of the movie sets.

Forgotten Hollow would make a great Salem, MA 1692 Puritan town in the midst of the witch hysteria.

Newcrest might be a good place to build a 1930s/1940s Art Deco setting using the Vintage Glamour pack and also some stuff from Get Famous when it comes out. :)

@LiELF Those are some crazy good ideas! I never thought of doing an Art Deco setting, and with education background in Art History of that era, I could focus on the art culture specifically in addition to political aspects leading up to WWII.
Unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure I'll be getting the Vampire pack soon, as I've been eyeing up other packs first, but if this idea gets enough attention, I'll definitely consider it! I do love your idea of a witch craze town, though, and I'll be sure to write down your ideas for future reference.

"nastyjman;c-16810709" wrote:
I do time travel roleplaying, so I'm into historical themes. One problem though is some random sims could "invade" that era with inappropriate clothing. What I do is change some lots into "Residential" and then move in a group of sims with the right attire. For example, I will convert Wild West Park into a Residential lot. That way, when I zone in on this lot, I'll have sims with cowboy hats and boots.

A solution for random sims showing up. If you use the MCCC mod, you can click on the sim and under the cheats menu make them leave. They leave immediately. I use it a lot when I don't want certain sims showing up in some of my screenshots.

I'm currently using Willow Creek as the Shenandoah Valley (of which I've never seen in RL). Newcrest will be the Settlements my family removed to back in 1773. That area eventually became East Tennessee. For a short time I played with cc, but a patch threw the cc out-of-whack and I've since restarted just playing the families with a contemporary bent to them. Oh, well, I'm having fun.

Thought I'd add a few images:

The basic cabin of the 18th century: Disregard the clothesline, they actually laid their clothing out to dry over bushes.

https://i.imgur.com/UfeX1Jl.jpg

A brother of the groom and their mother (forefront):

https://i.imgur.com/eCjqr7P.jpg

The young bride and groom: John and Sarah 1761

https://i.imgur.com/cc9Toyr.jpg

Lastly, my favorite picture of all: The bride dispenses with the cake :open_mouth:

https://i.imgur.com/Q71QS3N.jpg

"whimreaper;c-16810720" wrote:

"nastyjman;c-16810709" wrote:
I do time travel roleplaying, so I'm into historical themes. One problem though is some random sims could "invade" that era with inappropriate clothing. What I do is change some lots into "Residential" and then move in a group of sims with the right attire. For example, I will convert Wild West Park into a Residential lot. That way, when I zone in on this lot, I'll have sims with cowboy hats and boots.

Great point! Do you think that making all lots residential may decrease playability, though? For example, you need to be invited to a lot in order to go there, so bars and clubs might be too desolate and meeting other families would be rare. Also, some activities on residential lots are deemed "inappropriate" by the residents, so helping yourself to food at a restaurant may even prompt the other sims to get angry with you. Do you think it would be best to leave bars/restaurants as commercial but change parks and gyms, etc to residential?

I befriend the family in the controlled lot so I can do some "inappropriate" cooking. Also, you can buy the "Always Welcome" trait to circumvent that.

For me, I do leave the clubs and bars alone. Since I do time travel RP, clubs and bars are futuristic, and anyone with weird attire are "being retro."

Another thing that can be done to keep clothes accurate for the time period is to use MCCC, save the outfits that fit, and make sure to select the option "only use saved outfits" so all randomly generated sims will be limited the outfits you've hand-picked. Unfortunately glasses will still show up, but you can blacklist all the glasses one-by-one. This is very time-consuming, but I found it to be essential for immersion when I played the first few eras of the "History Challenge."