This thread is to document progress in my Beginning of Pleasantview neighborhood, which is the new Beginning of Pleasantview Plus that can be downloaded from MTS.

First, my personal rules for playing this hood and how I plan to tackle the challenge:

I will attempt to have all of the Sims born who start out in base game Pleasantview, with the correct genders and ancestors (i.e., Cassandra, Don, Dustin, etc.). However, I will not necessarily follow the same paths with this last generation only. In other words, Cassandra may not become engaged to Don, Dustin may not start dating Angela, and so on. That depends on what those Sims want.

Otherwise, I will let all of the families live their lives and have children, form relationships, and pursue careers as they desire. I will also play all of the other Sims in the neighborhood, including all Sims born in game, through their natural lives.

I will play the hood like a very loose BACC. I will add a new batch of families plus a community lot each week. These community lots represent the kinds of lots present in Pleasantview at the start (although they will not be the exact same lots because I hate them). I will build additional community lots based on the Sims' accomplishments in their careers and their wants to own businesses. This will gradually build the neighborhood up over time. I will assign families different socioeconomic classes to start but after that, their fortunes rely on what they do in the game. There will be no townies (other than the Garden Club, who represent the original rural settlers before the founding families came to Pleasantview). I will start with Downtown (necessary for my story) and Sim State University; however, Downtown is considered to be a distant city that requires travel and effort to reach, so Sims won't just be dashing off there all the time.

The plan:

First Monday: Add the founding families Goth (upper class), Crumplebottom (upper class), Bachelor (middle class), and Hall (servant). Community lot: Woodland Park

Second Monday: Add the Sims and Jones families (both lower class). I am not concerned about the ancestors of these families, since they are not needed to get to the Sims in base game Pleasantview. This is just to have some extra Sims in town. Community lot: Grocery store, owned by Alice Jones

Third Monday: Add the Pleasant (upper class), Danders (middle class), Oldie (lower class), and Ruggbyrne (lower class) families. Community lot: Clothing boutique, originally owned by Mamie Ruggbyrne, but she decided to sell it back to the community soon after her arrival

Fourth Monday: Add the Marsh (upper class), Burb (middle class), Dreamer (middle class), Darong (lower class), Newbie (lower class), and Simovitch (lower class) families. Community lot: Public pool

Fifth Monday: Add the Fiorello (upper class), Lothario (middle class), Caliente (middle class), and Al Mahmoud (lower class) families, as well as Erik Darling (bachelor). Community lot: Electronics store, owned by the Fiorellos

Other families will be added when certain events happen in the game: Jocasta Euphoria when Simis is an adult; Katrina Libros when Flamenco is an adult or if needed for a role; Matlapin family when Darren's parents get married; Broke family when Brandi's parents get married; Langerak family around when Don is born.

Note: I am using a custom lifespan. Pregnancy lasts 2 days. Babies: 1 day + day they are born. Toddlers: 3 days. Children: 7 days. Teens: 6 days. Young adults: 4 days. Adults: 31 days. Elixir of life: 3 days allowed to Sims who go on vacation.

Progress thus far: I am just about to start Week 5.


NOTE: I am going to delete the posts in this thread because I have restarted the neighborhood from a backup and there have been some changes. I thought we used to be able to delete threads but I can't figure out how now, so this is the next best thing. I will probably start a new thread with the updated posts.

I just want to take a moment to pay homage to this man: https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Domini...ominic_Gray.png

He is a Downtownie. His original name is Dominic Gray, but he is called Amir in my Pleasantview. He is a literal godsend to all the female Romance Sims I have in this neighborhood. Each and every one of them has two or three bolts with him. He calls them all up on the phone all the time. He is always ready and willing to come over, go out on a date, have a makeout session, or woohoo. Doesn't matter if he's besties or not--he's down. He has fulfilled the three woohoos and/or three makeouts with quite a few of my Sims and is helping keep those ladies in platinum while they raise their toddlers. This man is a legend.