Disclaimer 1: I have private gameplays in at least 4 other neighborhoods, so I can't be that devoted to Pleasantview these days. Disclaimer 2: If you count the families on the first shot, you'll see there are 25 of them, not 24. But the one at the very bottom (IKEA house) are the Ramaswamis that I haven't fully added to Pleasantview yet. Disclaimer 3: The Story Progression mod is not something I'd like to have in my Sims 2. In other Sims games - sure!
I absolutely agree with not having a story progression mod for TS2- I think progression works fine in the other games but when I do TS2 I make it a whole thing lol
I have a fan fiction of this playing in my head where she was abducted, and then basically became the sims world version of Starlord (Guardians of the Galaxy). So she periodically goes into cryo while traveling..which is why she aged so slowly and seemingly doesn’t die. 🤓
I always allow Brandi to have as many kids as she wants; but, I feel like when you live in such a huge (and broke!) family those children are sometimes so fed up with taking care of their siblings that they don't want to have babies on their own in their adulthood :)
More realistic death and disease, death by childbirth, and deadly fires have been a life saver, although I'm not above trapping the more annoying sims in swimming pools.
I've been playing Strangetown for 4-5 generations and some days I'm just ready to drop it. It does get overwhelming. I started out bringing too many new people in, like townies, so I'm trying to partner the playable ones together. Except... So many are distantly related. Issue after issue now 😅
I have a crazy megahood that I started in 2015 with over 3,500 Sims (counted by character files) where a few sims even have disappeared due to corruption, and the way I play them is I cram 3-4 families in one biggest-sized lot and just watch the chaos. 😁
@@UnlimitedApathy Well, no, I actually use a cheat that allows for households to have more than 8 sims. It’s uintProp maxTotalSims [number you want]. I don’t still have a problem with the gene pool, though, because over time, I have created so many god damn families that I’ll probably not run out for a looooooong time to come. 😆
i had this problem HORRIBLY in my first-ever custom neighborhood; i was playing strictly wants-based so every family sim had ten kids and by my second/third generation the population had spiked from 20 to 200. i started a new neighborhood when i got a new computer and i've been enforcing a birth control system where i set caps on each sim with acr based on their primary/secondary aspiration; kind of based on pleasantsims system. family sims have three children, popularity, knowledge, and fortune have two children, and pleasure and romance can have one child. then secondary aspirations, if family is their secondary then i add 1 to their total and if pleasure or romance is their secondary i subtract 1 from their total (with a limit of 1 child at the lowest to preserve genetics). this system has been working really well for me so far and i really recommend setting a system like this to cap the population for long-term hoods :-D
My general system is even more simple: Family + Family = 3 kids Family + Other = 2 kids Other + Other = 1 kid I don't take secondary aspirations into account.
That's why I find so hard to play rotationally. I don't mind having no story progression but the only way I can keep interested in a neighborhood for long is by making every sim age together. With some families, I just want to help with the big steps and let them live in the background while I play with more interesting Sims.
I never got this far into a neighborhood I discovered rotation gameplay a few years ago and been playing the sims 2 again only recently. Your dedication is admirable. :0 Currently I'm playing a mini megahood with PV and ST and I can already feel like it's gonna be 50 families after a while... grouping families in big houses could be a solution to have less houses to play in a rotation idk.
I started a Prosperity Challenge in Sims 2 several years ago. The main gyst of the challenge is to start in an empty neighborhood with a random number of families with a random number of sims in each of random ages and see how prosperous the neighborhood can be in 5 generations. I started with 5 households, two of which split up because of having 2 adults that got married and moved into their own homes. I now have 37 households and 188 sims total (I think that includes the ones who have died). I play each household for 4 days and I'm on round 20 right now. It's a lot! If I didn't have all their info written down I'd never know where I was at in gameplay. I'm enjoying it but it is a lot of sims! I can see where it can get overwhelming.
wow that family tree is so impressive! my pleasantview is not even THIS far ahead but i completely feel all the things you said about overpopulation, lord i really wish i knew more about how the game works when i started playing this neighbourhood 5 years ago, i could have saved myself so much headache. i currently have 36 households that are active in my rotation (oh yeah i also have bluewater village added to it), and some more sims that i created a long time ago and now just keep around in the bin or in the trailer park in case any of my sims need them. and so many townies. SO many townies. god. ✨ regrets ✨
I have a neighborhood with 301 sims in 67 households. But I don't play it that often anymore, so a 4 day round takes probably 1 year rn. I also started with only 2 families, so a family tree would probably be hilarous. But it's still fun to play sometimes. Just don't put the stress on you that you've to get the neighborhood ahead in time.
This is 100% how my Belladonna Cove save is gonna end up if I keep it up...and I'm keeping it up 😂 Edit: I'm not kidding. Last family I played had multiples twice. Another family has 8 children. I'm trying to complete the "have 10 children" want for once just to say that I did but I just know it's gonna backfire tremendously on me not too far down the road. Belladonna Cove is gonna be a freaking metropolis nightmare 🙃 Edit 2: I've banned family sims from the next generation. They're driving me crazy. I've already decided they're gonna be cut off for a while after this generation. Want based gameplay is important to me. Some of the families are probably gonna have to be combined down the road. There's also ALOT of redheads omg
I'm playing BC now and I locked "have 10 kids" today for Isabel, because she is the only sim in the world that can have this many kids , they live in a mansion and she is rich, I was thinking about give her super fertility and finally get the triples and quads mod because It's something I wanted forever. But now I'm rethinking because BC is giant in the begging, imagine after one single family have 10 kids! At least Ana Patel probably don't gonna have so many kids because I'm trying to play with traits and her husband dislikes children + she almost died from childbirth. I have several mods that can make my sims die more easily, so this can help with the big population too.
@@fernandaa7334 I have some CAS sims alongside the premades so its a hellscape but its fine 😬 Not like I've yelled at my sims out loud at least 10 times per save because of how stressed I am or anything. 🙃
This makes me want to play TS2 again! Pleasantview was my first neighborhood. Back then I didn't know about game-breaking things you shouldn't do (deleting graves, binning occupied houses, etc - if it's that bad why can we do it?!) and I didn't play in rotation mostly keeping my focus on the Goth house and the many generations that sprang from there, occasionally playing other houses just for the break. Eventually the map and Sim bin were filled with cast off relatives that should have long since died! Amazingly I made it to about the 12th generation before the bad things I'd done early on caught up with me. Sims were disappearing out of households with no Sim having any memory of them! The game was still playable but it was like a mass alien abduction was happening. When I started the game one day the Goth house was completely empty except for one child (there had been 6 sims living there!) that was promptly taken away by the social worker, I realized I needed to delete that whole neighborhood file and start fresh somewhere else! Good times. lol
My current Neighborhood has 30 households and counting. I deeply regret having that many children and I will introduce some childless Sims from now on. I can deal with 30 hosueholds quite nicely and I dont mind taking 1-5 months per round. But soonish having 50 plus families? Hell no.
6:10 "You hear that, Cindy?!" 😂🤣 Super interesting to see just *how much* dedication you put into growing your neighborhood, having them reproduce like rabbits almost 😅 Definitely agree that not every couple needs to have children though (neither in the sims nor in real life), but somehow everyone seems to believe "the more kids the better"; which can be quite annoying and boring sometimes. I can't imagine how overwhelming it must be to try and actually play this amount of families rotationally. Totally understandable if you didn't wanna touch this one ever again! Huge props to you, dear Marta! Thanks for showing us this 🙏
i always made my own neighborhoods and came up with stories for my sims which gave me a challenge of making sense of just plain, fresh out of cas sims. but i gotta say, on 4th generation, it gets complicated because figuring out who is related to whom just takes some time and thinking and often changing the original ideas because oh no, turns out they're cousins
I loved this family tree. A lot of work is required to achieve this. Congratulations! I'm currently playing in Pleasantview. I got inspiration from Cindy's (Pleasant Sims) gameplay. I use a mod to "correct" ages and lifespans. I'm keeping track using the notepad because I ran out of paper hahaha I joined all the families together, and I already played for 30 or so Sim days. Each rotation is 2 days long. Brandi married Darren and they adopted a baby girl. It is funny that she is younger than her niblings. I'm not using the clean version because I don't like to have Bella in the game. I think that it ruins the "original purpose" of the story. But I managed to clean it using hood checker, I'm making my backups and using mods to prevent corruptions.
When I have a family in my rotation gameplay which I don't really like... I usually "skip" rounds by subtracting days to live there using insimenator! This way I don't have to play them and the rounds are even. Thanks for the video! 💚
I have over 165 sims that I have to keep track of with a Google spreadsheet. Unfortunately, when I started I wasn’t aware of the tragic looking Ottomas family so most of my Sims are descendants of them.
Im trying to keep my family count in my neighbourhood under 15 at all times - sometimes my sims have big families, because i enjoy the chaotic gameplay of it, but other sims don't have any children and dedicate themselves to other endeavours (businesses, pets etc). Some of my single sims, especially the poorer ones (i use mods to keep my sims poorer in the long run) live together as roommates to reduce the amount of individual households.
I aleays play realistic, so... usually nowadays people tend to have 1 kid irl, and if you go bavk in time it has been like that probably since the 1950s or so. Of course there will be one or two exceptions (mostly family sims) but you don't need to fulfill everyones dreams everytime. Some people are just unlucky.
I have been doing that for a while with families in TS4. Now I have over a 100 played families, + many unplayed. Playing with some of them for generations is fun. But only with some. Others become a routine that I wish to finish as quickly as possible.
I’ve started my Pleasantview maybe a year ago, at that time I knew a thing or two about hood corruption, but still made so many “illegal” things like deleting Ottomas and Newsons straight from the family bin, and also somehow lost Mortimer’s urn (no idea how when or where) And as always fell for the same making too many kids for one family thing... Now I’m on Cassandra-Don-Dina-Nina’s great grandchildren generation, managed to cut number of families by 13 (you’re not the only one with sim-pandemic idea😆) and to somehow preserve blonde hair and light eyes genes in gene pool.
I just started playing strangetown again after a good while. Started over, and i'm gonna follow you're advice and like, maybe the next generation(except for family sim, and good looking sim) to only have one child each. I'm already up at 15 families, and i dont want it to get bigger than this.
Pandemic sounds like a great solution. I would love to see it in action. Maybe some mod? Or just rol the dice in each family on how many should die and then roll the victims.
I combined Pleasantview and Emerald Heights (an already huge downtown custom neighborhood) and Blue water Village. I have 28 families, but it's nice to have so many families to choose from to play. My second generation are all teens/young adults now, so we'll see if my world expands exponentially soon lol.
I play a medieval good (with ACR and an 18 hour pregnancy mod) and 8 Kids aren't even that many in my families 😅 But due to the Warwickshire health system, bride prices, and other things overpopulation isn't that much of a problem 🤷♀️ grave yards on the other hand...🙈 I started playing Sims 1 in elementary school and got stuck on Sims 2 upon its release. I didn't know about custom content until I was in my mid 20s 😅 And yes, it is a miracle non of my hoods ever crashed with all the tombstone deleting I've done in the past🤭
Oh my... that's a lot of families... I've just started playing an ULTRAHOOD with all of the premades and I'm, uh... I'm already starting to feel the number-of-households panic. Uni Sims I don't have a story for may be quietly given I Am Dead tokens so that I can say they "moved away." Or I'll find some story reason to kill them off - sort of planning to have Jonah Powers and Roxie Sharpe tragically die, leaving their child to be raised by Uncle Edwin.
I have the same issue with my other neighborhood having too many children. That's why I started a new neighborhood with a rule of 3 children on average for each family. I want to see how that works out. I feel bad for my family sims, but having 10 children is unreasonable lol!
I've started an Uberhood of pleasantview strangetown and Bluewater and I let them have 2 kids Max. And only if both parents rolled the want to have kids or it was 5% risky woohoo. Cassandra will die childless probably... Darren just doesn't want to have another kids or even woohoo with his wife.
I started a new neighborhood in 2017 and I'm on my 6th generation, I know I messed up a lot of things and maybe it's corrupted, sometimes I just want to start a new neighborhood but I really like my sims, I'm trying to reduce my population, I have like 60 sims and it will be too much for 7th generation bc I don't play a lot
I've been trying to finally get myself to play in an Uberhood (with fixed ancestors so that I can have huge graveyards from the get-go, I also brought all the missing family members from The Sims 3 and even The Sims 1 and other games so that I can have the most complete game haha) but first I wanna add all the students and all of the no-family ones like Julien Cooke their parents and gradparents so that it won't bother me when I play them. That's gonna be a shitload of sims and families I know
Have you thought about trying the story progression mod for sims 2 to still progress boring families lives without actually having to play them? If you do i'd be fascinated to see how that works out for you in a video!
I’m sure that other people have done this too but I played with a couple and then eventually they populated the whole neighbourhood and couldn’t really reproduce anymore cos it literally was their neighbourhood now lol.
Lol my neighbourhood has so so many families in it. It's an uber hood with a whole lot of custom sims thrown in. I have a ring binder to keep track of my town lmao.
I started playing with the story progression mod for sims 2 and gotten way more future then I normally do but I have to admit, kinda sucks you don't spend as much time with your sims.
I've only ever "fiddled" with premade neighborhoods. I do my own custom neighborhoods & I've found it must pretty much eliminate the corrupt file issue (I don't play npcs in the bin, I delete them) I've been playing sims 2 since it released & only ever had 1 save file go corrupt & honestly I think it was either the computer at the time or cc that did it. I don't keep track of anything other than making sure each family has progressed to the next season (which tells me I've not missed anyone) My rules are to play each family as realistically as possible (speed 1, give them as full a life as I can, use the job chance cards to spice it up) If I happen to forget Susan was wooing Joe & she flirts with Mark......oops, that's life & consequences if any are coped with. It can get mighty interesting. lol After 2nd cousins I don't over worry sims being distantly related, that too, is part of life unless I want to play a mega hood & well, I just can't. Population is controlled by various deaths; fire, illness, drowning, trapped in a room *cough cough* & are also coped with as most are natural. So far, it works for me. I can't do the micro manage thing as it would add stress to the game I play to relieve stress & escape. After however many generations I tend to get bored & I'll find myself starting a new custom hood.....and after not playing the previous one for weeks or months will delete it.
I used to play rotationally on Strangetown for a short time, about maybe 3 or 4 generations. My problem was actually the opposite. When I played TS2, 90% of the time my Sims had every aspiration EXCEPT family. I always found that the wants, gameplay of that was so boring. I'd much rather try to climb the career ladder and have my sims be the best in every skill, have the best reputation, have the most lovers etc (unless it was different for story purpose). Only rarely, either for story purposes or because I actually did feel like it, did my sims have children. So likely only every 5th sim orso had a baby. I ended up shrinking the neighborhood to like.. 4 actual families I think because the originals died and by the time I hit Gen 4 they all sorta had relations to each other. Then it kinda got boring, lol
Now a good time to Use Progression mod! Pregnancy on 0%! Choose who is gonna get a child 👍🏻 I just let mine sims have one Kid. I hate that, if I have not a story for the sims! 👍🏻 So what I also do is, mixing them with npc for new blood. 👍🏻
With sims I have lost interest in, I either stick them in an out of the way lotnor subhood and pretend they are townies until it's time to age them up with their generation. Or I turn them into townies using cheats. 😂
I have +- the same number of families and around 200 days passes and it's not that bad (of course when not everyone is a family and they can married to more than one sim)
i like to play with big families, so all my sims would end up having 2 to 5 children, but after some weeks it started getting overwhelming for me, so now i just kill families that i find boring lol, half of the houses are full with gravestones but i can't delete then bc corruption
Get the "No Unlinkage on Urnstone Delete" mod and you can delete them safely. You need that mod anyway to avoid corruption because the gravestones sometimes disappear themselves, or can be destroyed by teenagers with bad aspiration score.
Why don't you just stop using rotational gameplay for your save and just play with the families you like? It's your game, you don't have to continue playing rotationally just because you have for a while
Well, at the same time I don't want to leave any families behind :P I would have to at least push their age with mods because everyone has to be in sync. I already have one family where I do that!
SP would just cause more problems, especially that it treats college as normal passing days, so there would be huge age disproportions between Sims. And everything has to be perfectly in sync in my game.
@@Marticore That's true. I never used sp during university so I don't really know how it effects things. I'm guessing your sim would return from college to find everyone they knew from the neighborhood to be long dead? xD
I use Semester Changes, so there would "only" be 8 days of difference, but I personally treat college as frozen time, so it would still be very significant.
This video made me think of a messed up idea for a megahood: play a megahood with as many families from difffrent neighborhoods as possible, but when you play through them, you keep the dangerous fires/deadly disease/death by childbirth mods to max settings and play with a fears based play style until you are down to 12 families. I call it Survival of the Fittest/The Hunger Games Megahood Challenge
Disclaimer 1: I have private gameplays in at least 4 other neighborhoods, so I can't be that devoted to Pleasantview these days.
Disclaimer 2: If you count the families on the first shot, you'll see there are 25 of them, not 24. But the one at the very bottom (IKEA house) are the Ramaswamis that I haven't fully added to Pleasantview yet.
Disclaimer 3: The Story Progression mod is not something I'd like to have in my Sims 2. In other Sims games - sure!
I absolutely agree with not having a story progression mod for TS2- I think progression works fine in the other games but when I do TS2 I make it a whole thing lol
I love how Bella Goth is still technically "alive" in the family tree even though everyone she ever knew is long gone.
Like 135 years later and her picture still in full colour looking down at her descendants
@@solanita222 Bella Goth - "Lol you peasants are dead?"
I have a fan fiction of this playing in my head where she was abducted, and then basically became the sims world version of Starlord (Guardians of the Galaxy).
So she periodically goes into cryo while traveling..which is why she aged so slowly and seemingly doesn’t die. 🤓
I always allow Brandi to have as many kids as she wants; but, I feel like when you live in such a huge (and broke!) family those children are sometimes so fed up with taking care of their siblings that they don't want to have babies on their own in their adulthood :)
More realistic death and disease, death by childbirth, and deadly fires have been a life saver, although I'm not above trapping the more annoying sims in swimming pools.
I wouldn't exactly call them "life savers" 😂 But I have them all!
I find it fascinating how much your neighbourhood can grow. Makes you feel like God, watching over his creations lol.
I feel like this is how Sims was originally intended to be played, but then we all got distracted by pool drownings and affairs
@@poralitical 🤣😂🤣😂
I love seeing what others have done with the premades in their own games! I also used to breed my sims like crazy and regretted it afterwards lol...
I bet we’ve all been there😄
@ZenLuca - Oh hey! Yeah it's on the list of things I wanna do on my channel.
I'm starting to regret all the kids in my Strangetown. Everyone in town is related to the Curious family in some way XD
@@Violetshy5 Oh no 💀 I mean it eventually happens but still...Gotta get some fresh genetics in there lol
Do not reproduce all the sims like rabbits
Or
"Sweet home Alabama" also works
Yeah I always kill all aliens in strangetown to start with.
I've been playing Strangetown for 4-5 generations and some days I'm just ready to drop it. It does get overwhelming. I started out bringing too many new people in, like townies, so I'm trying to partner the playable ones together. Except... So many are distantly related. Issue after issue now 😅
I have at least two marriages of second-cousins in this Pleasantview, so I know the issue :E
I have a crazy megahood that I started in 2015 with over 3,500 Sims (counted by character files) where a few sims even have disappeared due to corruption, and the way I play them is I cram 3-4 families in one biggest-sized lot and just watch the chaos. 😁
lol!
That's a genius way to force the families to stay small!
@@UnlimitedApathy Well, no, I actually use a cheat that allows for households to have more than 8 sims. It’s uintProp maxTotalSims [number you want].
I don’t still have a problem with the gene pool, though, because over time, I have created so many god damn families that I’ll probably not run out for a looooooong time to come. 😆
i had this problem HORRIBLY in my first-ever custom neighborhood; i was playing strictly wants-based so every family sim had ten kids and by my second/third generation the population had spiked from 20 to 200. i started a new neighborhood when i got a new computer and i've been enforcing a birth control system where i set caps on each sim with acr based on their primary/secondary aspiration; kind of based on pleasantsims system. family sims have three children, popularity, knowledge, and fortune have two children, and pleasure and romance can have one child. then secondary aspirations, if family is their secondary then i add 1 to their total and if pleasure or romance is their secondary i subtract 1 from their total (with a limit of 1 child at the lowest to preserve genetics). this system has been working really well for me so far and i really recommend setting a system like this to cap the population for long-term hoods :-D
My general system is even more simple:
Family + Family = 3 kids
Family + Other = 2 kids
Other + Other = 1 kid
I don't take secondary aspirations into account.
I have five families and it's overwhelming.
That's why I find so hard to play rotationally. I don't mind having no story progression but the only way I can keep interested in a neighborhood for long is by making every sim age together. With some families, I just want to help with the big steps and let them live in the background while I play with more interesting Sims.
I’ve recently discovered your channel and I really enjoy your content and humor! It’s hard to find Sims 2 videos nowadays :)
Check out Pleasant Sims!
@@isadora5826 or CozyPixels, I don’t think the Sims 2 is that unpopular on TH-cam 🤔
I never got this far into a neighborhood I discovered rotation gameplay a few years ago and been playing the sims 2 again only recently. Your dedication is admirable. :0 Currently I'm playing a mini megahood with PV and ST and I can already feel like it's gonna be 50 families after a while... grouping families in big houses could be a solution to have less houses to play in a rotation idk.
I started a Prosperity Challenge in Sims 2 several years ago. The main gyst of the challenge is to start in an empty neighborhood with a random number of families with a random number of sims in each of random ages and see how prosperous the neighborhood can be in 5 generations. I started with 5 households, two of which split up because of having 2 adults that got married and moved into their own homes. I now have 37 households and 188 sims total (I think that includes the ones who have died). I play each household for 4 days and I'm on round 20 right now. It's a lot! If I didn't have all their info written down I'd never know where I was at in gameplay. I'm enjoying it but it is a lot of sims! I can see where it can get overwhelming.
Marticore and Pleasant sims are my favorite sims lets player in youtube. God Bless You all!
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wow that family tree is so impressive! my pleasantview is not even THIS far ahead but i completely feel all the things you said about overpopulation, lord i really wish i knew more about how the game works when i started playing this neighbourhood 5 years ago, i could have saved myself so much headache. i currently have 36 households that are active in my rotation (oh yeah i also have bluewater village added to it), and some more sims that i created a long time ago and now just keep around in the bin or in the trailer park in case any of my sims need them. and so many townies. SO many townies. god. ✨ regrets ✨
I have a neighborhood with 301 sims in 67 households. But I don't play it that often anymore, so a 4 day round takes probably 1 year rn. I also started with only 2 families, so a family tree would probably be hilarous. But it's still fun to play sometimes. Just don't put the stress on you that you've to get the neighborhood ahead in time.
This is 100% how my Belladonna Cove save is gonna end up if I keep it up...and I'm keeping it up 😂
Edit: I'm not kidding. Last family I played had multiples twice. Another family has 8 children. I'm trying to complete the "have 10 children" want for once just to say that I did but I just know it's gonna backfire tremendously on me not too far down the road. Belladonna Cove is gonna be a freaking metropolis nightmare 🙃
Edit 2: I've banned family sims from the next generation. They're driving me crazy. I've already decided they're gonna be cut off for a while after this generation. Want based gameplay is important to me. Some of the families are probably gonna have to be combined down the road. There's also ALOT of redheads omg
I'm playing BC now and I locked "have 10 kids" today for Isabel, because she is the only sim in the world that can have this many kids , they live in a mansion and she is rich, I was thinking about give her super fertility and finally get the triples and quads mod because It's something I wanted forever. But now I'm rethinking because BC is giant in the begging, imagine after one single family have 10 kids! At least Ana Patel probably don't gonna have so many kids because I'm trying to play with traits and her husband dislikes children + she almost died from childbirth. I have several mods that can make my sims die more easily, so this can help with the big population too.
@@fernandaa7334 I have some CAS sims alongside the premades so its a hellscape but its fine 😬
Not like I've yelled at my sims out loud at least 10 times per save because of how stressed I am or anything.
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This makes me want to play TS2 again! Pleasantview was my first neighborhood. Back then I didn't know about game-breaking things you shouldn't do (deleting graves, binning occupied houses, etc - if it's that bad why can we do it?!) and I didn't play in rotation mostly keeping my focus on the Goth house and the many generations that sprang from there, occasionally playing other houses just for the break. Eventually the map and Sim bin were filled with cast off relatives that should have long since died! Amazingly I made it to about the 12th generation before the bad things I'd done early on caught up with me. Sims were disappearing out of households with no Sim having any memory of them! The game was still playable but it was like a mass alien abduction was happening. When I started the game one day the Goth house was completely empty except for one child (there had been 6 sims living there!) that was promptly taken away by the social worker, I realized I needed to delete that whole neighborhood file and start fresh somewhere else! Good times. lol
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My current Neighborhood has 30 households and counting. I deeply regret having that many children and I will introduce some childless Sims from now on. I can deal with 30 hosueholds quite nicely and I dont mind taking 1-5 months per round. But soonish having 50 plus families? Hell no.
Living for your updates 💕💕💕💕
Same !
6:10 "You hear that, Cindy?!" 😂🤣
Super interesting to see just *how much* dedication you put into growing your neighborhood, having them reproduce like rabbits almost 😅 Definitely agree that not every couple needs to have children though (neither in the sims nor in real life), but somehow everyone seems to believe "the more kids the better"; which can be quite annoying and boring sometimes. I can't imagine how overwhelming it must be to try and actually play this amount of families rotationally. Totally understandable if you didn't wanna touch this one ever again! Huge props to you, dear Marta! Thanks for showing us this 🙏
This is what I'm aspiring for - the length and stories at least! Great job committing to this for so long! I tend to start over alllll the time. >..
i always made my own neighborhoods and came up with stories for my sims which gave me a challenge of making sense of just plain, fresh out of cas sims. but i gotta say, on 4th generation, it gets complicated because figuring out who is related to whom just takes some time and thinking and often changing the original ideas because oh no, turns out they're cousins
Yeah! You don't even have to be that far in gameplay to be confused. Now I use the "Extended family" mod to stop marrying second-cousins, goddammit!
Hehe and your pic is Benedict. His character in August Osage County was seeing his “cousin” secretly. You can watch the rest if you haven’t already 😬
I loved this family tree. A lot of work is required to achieve this. Congratulations!
I'm currently playing in Pleasantview. I got inspiration from Cindy's (Pleasant Sims) gameplay. I use a mod to "correct" ages and lifespans.
I'm keeping track using the notepad because I ran out of paper hahaha
I joined all the families together, and I already played for 30 or so Sim days. Each rotation is 2 days long.
Brandi married Darren and they adopted a baby girl. It is funny that she is younger than her niblings.
I'm not using the clean version because I don't like to have Bella in the game. I think that it ruins the "original purpose" of the story.
But I managed to clean it using hood checker, I'm making my backups and using mods to prevent corruptions.
What an inspiration. Thank you for sharing! Re discovering my love for the Sims 2 and see what it can do! *Chef kiss*
When I have a family in my rotation gameplay which I don't really like... I usually "skip" rounds by subtracting days to live there using insimenator! This way I don't have to play them and the rounds are even. Thanks for the video! 💚
I do that with one family made of elders, but I don't have the heart to just skip stuff in others :c
There's just something satisfying about looking at a huge family tree!!! Also love your voice!!!!
I have over 165 sims that I have to keep track of with a Google spreadsheet. Unfortunately, when I started I wasn’t aware of the tragic looking Ottomas family so most of my Sims are descendants of them.
Im trying to keep my family count in my neighbourhood under 15 at all times - sometimes my sims have big families, because i enjoy the chaotic gameplay of it, but other sims don't have any children and dedicate themselves to other endeavours (businesses, pets etc). Some of my single sims, especially the poorer ones (i use mods to keep my sims poorer in the long run) live together as roommates to reduce the amount of individual households.
Woohoo! I was so invested in your old videos of this hood. I'm bookmarking to watch tomorrow. 😁
I aleays play realistic, so... usually nowadays people tend to have 1 kid irl, and if you go bavk in time it has been like that probably since the 1950s or so. Of course there will be one or two exceptions (mostly family sims) but you don't need to fulfill everyones dreams everytime. Some people are just unlucky.
I literally feel like my Pleasantview had the Baby Boomer phase and now the population is decreasing 😂
@@Marticore good storytelling excuse haha
I have been doing that for a while with families in TS4. Now I have over a 100 played families, + many unplayed. Playing with some of them for generations is fun. But only with some. Others become a routine that I wish to finish as quickly as possible.
So cool! That’s what I’m trying out in the sims 4 now, but is overwhelming as there are so many cities!
0:29 omg that is so iconic, please tell me how you made her bestie, also im screaming- 2014-
I’ve started my Pleasantview maybe a year ago, at that time I knew a thing or two about hood corruption, but still made so many “illegal” things like deleting Ottomas and Newsons straight from the family bin, and also somehow lost Mortimer’s urn (no idea how when or where) And as always fell for the same making too many kids for one family thing...
Now I’m on Cassandra-Don-Dina-Nina’s great grandchildren generation, managed to cut number of families by 13 (you’re not the only one with sim-pandemic idea😆) and to somehow preserve blonde hair and light eyes genes in gene pool.
This is amazing! I could never play with a whole town like that, I get overwhelmed trying to do rotational gameplay with 3 heirs 😭
I just started playing strangetown again after a good while. Started over, and i'm gonna follow you're advice and like, maybe the next generation(except for family sim, and good looking sim) to only have one child each. I'm already up at 15 families, and i dont want it to get bigger than this.
Your writing is beautiful love the "caligraphy"
You've made me reconsider how I play my game. Thank you.
Pandemic sounds like a great solution. I would love to see it in action. Maybe some mod? Or just rol the dice in each family on how many should die and then roll the victims.
I would choose the Sims to die
I combined Pleasantview and Emerald Heights (an already huge downtown custom neighborhood) and Blue water Village. I have 28 families, but it's nice to have so many families to choose from to play. My second generation are all teens/young adults now, so we'll see if my world expands exponentially soon lol.
I play a medieval good (with ACR and an 18 hour pregnancy mod) and 8 Kids aren't even that many in my families 😅 But due to the Warwickshire health system, bride prices, and other things overpopulation isn't that much of a problem 🤷♀️ grave yards on the other hand...🙈
I started playing Sims 1 in elementary school and got stuck on Sims 2 upon its release. I didn't know about custom content until I was in my mid 20s 😅 And yes, it is a miracle non of my hoods ever crashed with all the tombstone deleting I've done in the past🤭
Been looking for a vid recently on a long term Pleasantview save, thanks for delivering! :)
I totally forgot that I modeled all my Covid-furlough gameplay rotation after your graph paper!!! I have a similar sheet for my pleasantview 🙏☺️☺️
No one:
Marticore: upload Video in different day than usual, 8h later than usual and at 22p.m. Her time.
Oh my... that's a lot of families...
I've just started playing an ULTRAHOOD with all of the premades and I'm, uh... I'm already starting to feel the number-of-households panic. Uni Sims I don't have a story for may be quietly given I Am Dead tokens so that I can say they "moved away." Or I'll find some story reason to kill them off - sort of planning to have Jonah Powers and Roxie Sharpe tragically die, leaving their child to be raised by Uncle Edwin.
Sweating in "have 10 kids" want locked in Belladonna Cove. I'm rethinking my game choices rn.
I have the same issue with my other neighborhood having too many children. That's why I started a new neighborhood with a rule of 3 children on average for each family. I want to see how that works out. I feel bad for my family sims, but having 10 children is unreasonable lol!
I've started an Uberhood of pleasantview strangetown and Bluewater and I let them have 2 kids Max. And only if both parents rolled the want to have kids or it was 5% risky woohoo.
Cassandra will die childless probably... Darren just doesn't want to have another kids or even woohoo with his wife.
damn thats sad af haha
Yeah, I watch pleasantsims new let's play and I'm scared to see more that three children in almost every family..
The Sims and Crusader Kings, my favorite genetic simulator games.
I started a new neighborhood in 2017 and I'm on my 6th generation, I know I messed up a lot of things and maybe it's corrupted, sometimes I just want to start a new neighborhood but I really like my sims, I'm trying to reduce my population, I have like 60 sims and it will be too much for 7th generation bc I don't play a lot
I've been trying to finally get myself to play in an Uberhood (with fixed ancestors so that I can have huge graveyards from the get-go, I also brought all the missing family members from The Sims 3 and even The Sims 1 and other games so that I can have the most complete game haha) but first I wanna add all the students and all of the no-family ones like Julien Cooke their parents and gradparents so that it won't bother me when I play them. That's gonna be a shitload of sims and families I know
I literally play a family for 2 days then delete it and make a new one hahahah I could NEVER be this dedicated 🤣👀
Have you thought about trying the story progression mod for sims 2 to still progress boring families lives without actually having to play them? If you do i'd be fascinated to see how that works out for you in a video!
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@@Marticore Ah, sorry missed that. Fair enough.
Would you ever consider sharing the save folder? I don’t mind about missing cc or it being corrupt 😶
when i saw the family tree i got overwhelmed and im not even the one playing ahhaha
I’m sure that other people have done this too but I played with a couple and then eventually they populated the whole neighbourhood and couldn’t really reproduce anymore cos it literally was their neighbourhood now lol.
Two words: zombie apocalypse! It did wonders in my hood.
Zombies don't do anything in TS2 xD
Lol my neighbourhood has so so many families in it. It's an uber hood with a whole lot of custom sims thrown in. I have a ring binder to keep track of my town lmao.
I have a ring binder too, but 15 families is a total limit for me
I started playing with the story progression mod for sims 2 and gotten way more future then I normally do but I have to admit, kinda sucks you don't spend as much time with your sims.
I've been playing Pleasantview for about 100 days, currently have 8 households.
How? Does everyone live together?
@@mip3324 No, i rotate between the households.
@@flowerzgamez9365 Cool that you still play this. How is your Pleasantview going after all this time?
I've only ever "fiddled" with premade neighborhoods. I do my own custom neighborhoods & I've found it must pretty much eliminate the corrupt file issue (I don't play npcs in the bin, I delete them) I've been playing sims 2 since it released & only ever had 1 save file go corrupt & honestly I think it was either the computer at the time or cc that did it. I don't keep track of anything other than making sure each family has progressed to the next season (which tells me I've not missed anyone) My rules are to play each family as realistically as possible (speed 1, give them as full a life as I can, use the job chance cards to spice it up) If I happen to forget Susan was wooing Joe & she flirts with Mark......oops, that's life & consequences if any are coped with. It can get mighty interesting. lol After 2nd cousins I don't over worry sims being distantly related, that too, is part of life unless I want to play a mega hood & well, I just can't. Population is controlled by various deaths; fire, illness, drowning, trapped in a room *cough cough* & are also coped with as most are natural. So far, it works for me. I can't do the micro manage thing as it would add stress to the game I play to relieve stress & escape. After however many generations I tend to get bored & I'll find myself starting a new custom hood.....and after not playing the previous one for weeks or months will delete it.
I used to play rotationally on Strangetown for a short time, about maybe 3 or 4 generations.
My problem was actually the opposite. When I played TS2, 90% of the time my Sims had every aspiration EXCEPT family. I always found that the wants, gameplay of that was so boring. I'd much rather try to climb the career ladder and have my sims be the best in every skill, have the best reputation, have the most lovers etc (unless it was different for story purpose).
Only rarely, either for story purposes or because I actually did feel like it, did my sims have children. So likely only every 5th sim orso had a baby.
I ended up shrinking the neighborhood to like.. 4 actual families I think because the originals died and by the time I hit Gen 4 they all sorta had relations to each other.
Then it kinda got boring, lol
Sims 3 - fixes 'short comings' that didn't get exposed / realized until Sims 2... pointed out flaws.
I would watch that if you made a video killing them off lol
I've been playing the same family over 20 generations. But only the 2 or 3 households they are scattered at.
Whenever I have many kids almost none of those children get their own ones hahahahahah
Kill the boring, keep the interesting! 😂
Now a good time to Use Progression mod! Pregnancy on 0%! Choose who is gonna get a child 👍🏻
I just let mine sims have one Kid. I hate that, if I have not a story for the sims! 👍🏻 So what I also do is, mixing them with npc for new blood. 👍🏻
With sims I have lost interest in, I either stick them in an out of the way lotnor subhood and pretend they are townies until it's time to age them up with their generation. Or I turn them into townies using cheats. 😂
Why did I read the title as pleas ant view and not pleasant view
Damn. Free time and Apartment life are only available for the PC version of the complete collection:(
So…should I not follow through with Brandi’s want to have 10 kids?
It's up to you, but you might end up with too many Sims
I have +- the same number of families and around 200 days passes and it's not that bad (of course when not everyone is a family and they can married to more than one sim)
6:46 So that's how covid appeared!
Masz jakiegoś moda na stawianie podjazdu po prawej stronie parceli czy wystarczy włączyć moveObjects?
Są dwa rodzaje podjazdów. Jeśli jest po prawej, to jest to podjazd bez "wyjazdu" i bez animacji, auto po prostu teleportuje się na jezdnię :D
omg the last ideia is so good hahaha I always do that with Newson.... sorry not sorry, but they are so bored to play lol
In my Riverblossom Hills, I severed all their family ties, gave the toddlers up for adoption and changed the rest into townies :D
I just use clean stealth hoods to don't have the Newsons at all))
@@leaselmary_sims2189 yeh I should do it that, I used a clean template, but I forgot the family in the bins lol
i like to play with big families, so all my sims would end up having 2 to 5 children, but after some weeks it started getting overwhelming for me, so now i just kill families that i find boring lol, half of the houses are full with gravestones but i can't delete then bc corruption
Get the "No Unlinkage on Urnstone Delete" mod and you can delete them safely. You need that mod anyway to avoid corruption because the gravestones sometimes disappear themselves, or can be destroyed by teenagers with bad aspiration score.
4:31 Yeah.... i just realised this, right after my Brandi gave birth to her 4th child..... 👀😑
In trying to pirate this game so bad but it's just not working I need to play the sims 2 agaaaaaiin
If you dont feel like playing it, maybe you could share it with us crazy peoples
I'm wonder how far your Pleasantview wolud be If you only played here + don't have social life. I have bigger progress in less than year
Do you mind sharing the folder? 🥺🥺🥺
Btw out of all the Sims 3 families to bring into the Sims 2. You brought the ugliest one from Sunset Valley in your town 🤣?
Hey, respect the Bunches! Ethan is extremely cute and I love Arlo too.
Why don't you just stop using rotational gameplay for your save and just play with the families you like? It's your game, you don't have to continue playing rotationally just because you have for a while
Well, at the same time I don't want to leave any families behind :P I would have to at least push their age with mods because everyone has to be in sync. I already have one family where I do that!
I would love to play the sims 2 again but last time I downloaded it on my pc it messed it up. Idk why 😭
A jak Jane umarła? Czy denerwuje Ciebie że na angielskim kanale pisze komentarze po polsku?
Choroba, ale sama ją zabiłam dla historii
Which family is the most boring for you now?
Lothario-Kearney, with Don's grandson + plenty of Newson descendants in one house.
A z kim Jake Pleasant ma dziecko?
Z Joy Despret XD Która u mnie nazywa się Steffi Ng
Download story progression, problem solved. ;D
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@@Marticore True
SP would just cause more problems, especially that it treats college as normal passing days, so there would be huge age disproportions between Sims. And everything has to be perfectly in sync in my game.
@@Marticore That's true. I never used sp during university so I don't really know how it effects things. I'm guessing your sim would return from college to find everyone they knew from the neighborhood to be long dead? xD
I use Semester Changes, so there would "only" be 8 days of difference, but I personally treat college as frozen time, so it would still be very significant.
You culd say some kind of illnes or disaster strook and just kill of many sims
But if you have too many Sims, kill them.... Maybe add a serial killer to your neighborhood? ;) they are fun to play
At the same time I'm also attached to most of them, especially that they've been there for a while. But I did mention a pandemic situation :P
R4c15t much?
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This video made me think of a messed up idea for a megahood: play a megahood with as many families from difffrent neighborhoods as possible, but when you play through them, you keep the dangerous fires/deadly disease/death by childbirth mods to max settings and play with a fears based play style until you are down to 12 families. I call it Survival of the Fittest/The Hunger Games Megahood Challenge
Oh no 😂