The Duchess' Botanical Table

So, you know I have lots of TS4 game related stuff on a web site aside of this blog? It contains the Residents registry and lots of administration info from the 5 Councilor departments, and all is linked from the top, and also from some articles.

This Winter Duchess Claudine de Cavalier made her long going botany project public, and I think I forgot to mention it here. It's available from the Science & Education section of the mentioned web site. Over 10 years she investigated most plants, of course with hired gardeners doing most of the dirty work. Anyway, the result is a table where crops and flowers can be sorted in various ways: By group, by active seasons, and by earnings when growing normal plants and perfect plants.

This is very useful information if you want to grow the plants that will give the highest income, or if you want to be busy in your garden only in a specific season.

Although the main project is completed, there will be added more pictures and info on special plants.

Direct link to the Duchess' Botanical Tables.

It's rumored that the Duchess will be guesting the HIP Prime show in a few weeks, to tell us more from her findings.

As Sims Go By - Episode 3

Here is the 3rd episode of this season! In my ongoing video series As Sims Go By you follow the ups and downs of Region 12's 5 Councilors and their families. Plus in this season the main story deals with (my take on) the Villareal household's backstory! In this episode Wilhelmina gets lost, there is a party at the Chateau Cavalier, the secret vault project gets released, and there is also focus on University in several ways.

This season has only 5 episodes, each lasting about 16 minutes, so next chapter will be up late February.

If you are new to this series, it's recommended to watch season 1 (6 episodes), but you can hopefully enjoy this episode even if you start here.



Enjoy!

Free Will Show - Episode 9

Here's day 9 of the Free Will Show! And it's the most filthy day so far!

I basically think sims are less interesting than I expected, so a few more extras are added to the daily schedule. Starting with this episode, there in an additional Social Vote - we start gentle asking who shall hug their best in-house relation? Post a comment with one name - Charles, Brenda, Sonia or Ramona. They will get no points, but hopefully it might trigger some more social interest.

And there's more: starting in episode 10, Sim in Focus will be allowed to replace one object in the house - in today's episode you will see why this will become useful for them :)

More rule adjustments might occur for the 3rd season, so if you have any input. let's hear it!

For now - enjoy a new day in the Free Will house! And keep in mind that yopu can vote both for Social Vote and the daily Action. More info in the Youtube channel.

More videos coming soon

It feels stupid to blame my video updates delay on the Holidays, because my plans were actually to release more videos end of December. But whatever happened, I now see that there were absolutely no videos at all last month... not quite as planned...

A filty day in the Free Will house! Dump from the upcoming episode...

Good thing is that releases are pretty close:

New year and more projects

Happy new year! I've started 2020 with diving into my game's old history! I love story telling and history, and whenever I create something in my game I also like to know its origin. I want all my sims to have a background spanning many generations, even if those were never played out.

The past week I really dived deep, exploring the past of my Region 12. My year count is currently at Year 222, so I went right back to Year 0 - I imagine this was when the community transferred from TS1 to TS2 and time was no longer static. They started a new and needed to define a top level of society, to control community but also handle politics and wars. There was established an organization called the Royal Chamber, with the power to approve the best man for each peerage. Many families claimed a noble background from TS1, but brought no proofs. Hardly anything could be verified.

The Royal Chamber introduced the King of SimNation, Baltazar II of the De Froux family. This family had a Coat of arms already that could actually be verified, and left no doubt about high nobility (pictured). But for the rest?