All work and no play...

...makes William a dull and unhappy boy. I have been working simultaneously on my Roman, Japanese and Scottish neighborhoods; and have mostly been in the building stages of them all. I have actually gotten to the point where I dread booting up the Sims2 just because I know that I'll be building instead of playing. I just want to play the MCC, with a couple of add-ons, so I think I am going to go back and retry it with my original English medieval neighborhood again and I'll set it during the high middle ages so I don't have so many content issues, with the exception of some default medieval stuff actually being Tudor/Stuart period.

So, Edo period Japan, 17th-18th century Scottish highlands and Ancient Rome are officially back-burnered and we're moving back to medieval England. I don't have to build as much, because there are plenty of lots available for download that are perfectly period appropriate. I don't have to scrounge the web for content, because there is much more medieval content than Japanese, specifically Scottish or Ancient Roman. As a bonus I can always add a Scottish sub-hood and still use all of the good Scottish stuff I have found.

I don't know if I'll be rebuilding Wessex again, although I kind of like the area. I may narrow it down to Devonshire and be placed firmly in England, but between Cornwall and Wales. I can also now change my icon at the keep to my SCA arms, because it'll match my Sims stuff. I wonder if anyone could make a shield or something with them on it, that would be pretty cool.

 

 

Scottish too

OK, so I started on a Scottish neighborhood too. The main 'hood is in the highlands with, so far, one other highland sub-hood and a lowland sub-hood.

I apparently have Sims2 related ADD, but really it's because my daughter was doing it "wrong" by not adhering to a historical period and theme like I would have. It makes things slower for building my other neighborhoods, but I figure I have the time.

My Scottish Highlanders are set in the late 17th-early 18th century, so that should make things interesting when I get around to making the more "civilized" areas of the world, like Paris, which I intend to make for a university out of deference to the Auld Alliance.

It's also the Jacobite era, so that will make things interesting scenario-wise. Like my Tokugawa/Edo era neighborhood it's a time of great social change, so apparently I like to model that in the Sims2. I suppose I'll have to try and find some British Red-Coat uniforms eventually too...