Neighborhood Action Plans

Yay! The Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle comes with alternative Neighborhood Action Plans (N.A.P.). Each plan will affect the residents' behavior, and there is a voting weekends to pick the better one. As NPCs will also vote (your can influence them), I'm guessing (or hoping) that the vote result will not be completely random, but reflect the aspirations and traits of those voting. If so, the result might change over time as sims die and families switch hoods.

Here's some info on the plans I came across (not yet having the pack). More info will be added.

I've tried connecting each of the initiatives to my 3 political parties, RIGHT, LEFT and MIDDLE. I reckon the typical Eco-related initiatives were pushed by the MIDDLE party which has the younger members and is less traditional than the other two. So, my list is grouped, starting with the MIDDLE Party:


Free Love
Who needs negativity when you could be drenched in love? Who needs jealousy when you could be embraced with understanding? Vote with your heart and we can transform our community into a butterfly of love for all. Whether Single, Married, or just open, we embrace loving each other in all of its beautiful forms.

When Free Love reigns, you can gain Influence through Romance interactions.

Bills delivered on any weekday

Finally! For quite some time I've insisted that som of my homes got their bills delivered on other days than Mondays. It felt like most simmers doubted it could actually be true, and I could not prove anything. Until today!

Bills delivered on a Wednesday at 10 AM. This lot is in Brindleton Bay.

Download: 8 Victorian Backdrops for Photo Studio

July 2022: Downloading from this blogger post no longer works, so please head over to a new page listing all my TS4  custom content. All free. DOWNLOADS

[The Sims 4 GTW] Here is a new set of alternative backdrops for your Photo Studio - this time your sim can be accompanied by inviting Victorian landscape paintings! These paintings makes a formal and traditional background, perfect for any upper class families who like to have old fashioned portraits on the wall. Royals and nobility should applaud this set, but any serious Photographer will have this kind of backgrounds ready for anyone who asks (EP Get To Work required).

This is a separate Photo Studio object with 8 new graphics. You will find it next to your original photo studio in catalog.

Political parties

Did you ever realize that the game has a vague system covering political parties? San Myshuno (City Living EP) introduced the Political career, which includes a lot more than just another job! Politicians need to pick their course, which means choosing one out of five political statements that they will work for. This can be based on personal interests like environment or capital, but it gets even more interesting when they are to debate a subject - then they can choose to discuss it from the RIGHT or LEFT.

If you take a closer look on the signs they wave while protesting, an object that is also found under wall decor in the buy catalog, it comes in 10 versions. There are two versions for each of those five courses! "Money for all" comes with 2 generic images, and I see them as one version for each of those two parties. It means "Money for all" can be approached and solved in two ways, depending on what party you represent.

The Jewelry Boxes

Few months ago I announced that I was prepearing to bring my noble houses' jewelry boxes online. And here they are!

Some details will be improved, but the different houses' collection of jewels can be browsed, and maybe the most interesting - there are links to where you can find most of the items online.

My Stock Market

Did I ever write about my stock market?

Just a Region 12 overview, as I had no picture of the stocks ;)

In my TS2 game I had a living stock market and now I have this in TS4, too! I keep track on owners, results and a possible dividend. Back in TS2 the results were based on how successful the stores were run, but now I just use a dice to decide development. When a shareowner dies, heirs get a small or big part of those shares. Change in owner structure might cause sudden challenges or conflicts between family branches, actually beyond my planning.

High Nobility: Duke von Windenburg

(Current Year: 224) I want to present the story of each of my High Nobility houses. Originally my region had ten high nobility peerages, and the Duke of Windenburg was the very first to be introduced by King Baltazar II in Year 2. Windenburg administratively belongs to Region 1.

The Windenburg peerage expired 8 years ago, but they used to be very important and their story is included in the ongoing season of my video series "As Sims Go By" (season 2, 5 episodes).


Coat of arms
This is one of rather few houses where the coat of arms was unchanged over the generations.

House von Heimlich got their coat of arms registered as the peerage was introduced Y2. Their main color is blue, as an reference to their connection to the ocean. The ice blue is a reference to Windenburg's rather cold climate. The centered symbol is a silver flower representing the Christmas Rose, actually set by King Baltazar II when he used districtual flora to find the first districts' high nobility.