Maz Bank is coming

(Year 234, Fall) Kingdom of Mazaloom now gets its first national bank: Maz Bank. In the past, Sim City First Trust Bank (SimNation) operated our nation, with offices in most regions. But now their organization covering Mazaloom has been separated from the main consern, renamed and sold. Maz Bank is reality!

This means that changes are coming to residents having a bank account with Sim City First Trust Bank, but also those owning shares in the Sim City bank. Both bank accounts and ownership will be transferred to the new bank, Maz Bank. All affected were already informed and must take action to avoid the move.

Mr Robert Sutton (59) has been the CEO of Sim City First Trust Bank's affairs in Mazaloom up to now. He served the Magnolia Promenade office for two decades, but will now be CEO of Maz Bank instead. The office will be renamed, but most customers will not notice many changes beyond the new logo.

Internal Community Stats

 While waiting for the Simmerville Show to air (took a bit longer than planned, but nearly there!), I decided to share some tidbits from my internal stats!

These are facts from my universe that are not linked from neither this blog nor the associated website. It's simply not intended for the public view, but then I thought some of you might be interested in a quick look, anyway!

Building a Sim's Personality (2 of 3): Aspiration

I always paid attention to my sims' personality. In addition to additional DNA strings regarding both looks and mindset, I also have a routine for picking Traits, Aspiration and Likes/Dislikes, which I'm sharing in 3 articles.

Finally a teenager! It's time to pick the better Aspiration! 

These details are somehow passed down from parents to child helping me narrowing down the options, but also with a chance of personal uniqueness. This way siblings will often have some personality details in common, but not without a chance to stand out as the family's unique gem - positively or negatively. I love it when siblings resemble their parents in how they behave and react.

Building a Sim's Personality (1 of 3): Traits

I always paid great attention to my sims' personality. Because I want more to it than the basics, I added individual DNA strings with lots of details regarding both looks and mindset. I've shared tidbits from the DNA string previously (TS3 actually, have grown since). I also have a routine for picking Traits, Aspiration and Likes/Dislikes, which I'll share in 3 articles.

These essential bits of a personality are passed down from parents to child helping me to decide it all, but there is also a chance of randomness and uniqueness involved. As I think the game leans way too much on randomness, I made my own routine to make sure siblings often get some personality details from minimum one parent (often from both), but with a small chance to stand out as totally unique.

Let's start with the Traits, as they are the first thing you need to consider in a sim's life. My routine for picking the Traits can get a tad complex, especially in a larger household. Not only Parents' traits are involved, but also what traits siblings picked already will affect the options. And in some cases - which I love - a young sim is forced to pick a negative trait. In other cases the sim can choose quite freely.

Community Section - Company Index, Job Listing and Stock Holders!

(Year 228) There's loads of new information to check out in the Community Section of this blog! A big part of my game is administrating the community aspects, and I needed more tools to keep track on the businesses and their shareholders. This also included a better look on what jobs these companies offer, included a much better listing of job openings. More will be added later, but there's enough to let you check it out. And if this is not your cup of tea, you might still get a few ideas for your own game.

First of all; the Community Section can be accessed from the thumbs on top of this blog. It basically contains bio pages for each of my 400+ played sims including family trees (some spanning 225 years all the way back to Medieval!), and then there is one start page for each of the five departments as run by my Council. Most stuff is linked from the left side menu on most pages.

New Household Index

(Year 227) Yay! After all these years I finally took the time to create a Household Index! This new feature includes all my current 100+ households, with lots of key info at one glace. 

See who are the household members (name and age), their financial status (if great or bad) and fame, any lot challenges, what farm animals they have and what they grow commercially. Their address is of course given, and also whether this is formally registered as a House (with Head's Coat of Arms) or a regular household.

Your Noble Life - 4 - Elders to Afterlife

I've made my own set of rules to guide my nobility through life. Most rules regard heritage, economics and administration, although nobility naturally takes easier on this than real royals. Most of this can be used regardless of series (TS4, TS3, TS2). Here is the last of four guides based on a noble person's life stage.

Life goes on even if you decide to step back as an elder. Finally time to spend more time with your chosen one?

Not too serious, but not without a touch of importance either...

Your Noble Life - 3 - Young Adult to Adult

I've made my own set of rules to guide my nobility through life. Most rules regard heritage, economics and administration. Although nobility can take easier on this than real royals, there are certain obligations. Most of this can be used regardless of series (TS4, TS3, TS2). Here is the first of four guides based on a noble person's life stage - young adult to adult.

Jarret Ross and Ribra Lynn T. Ross, Duke and Duchess of Rossie.

Not too serious, but not without purpose and importance...

Your Noble Life - 2 - Teenagers

I've made my own set of rules to guide my nobility through life. Most rules regard House, peerages, heritage, economics and administration, although nobility naturally takes easier on this than the real royals would. Most of this can be used regardless of series (TS4, TS3, TS2). Here is the second of four guides based on a noble person's life stage - teenager.

Students at Chateau Cavalier have their private class room for homework and studies.

Not too serious, but not completely without purpose, either...

Your Noble Life - 1 - Baby to Child

I've made my own set of rules to guide my nobility through life. Most rules regard heritage, economics and administration, although nobility naturally takes easier on this than real royals do. Most of this can be used regardless of series (TS4, TS3, TS2). Here is the first of four guides based on a noble person's life stage.

In your first year you will be more interested in that bottle of milk than your rank in the line of successors.

Not too serious, but not totally useless , either...

New feature: Family Tree

Long ago I decided to keep my TS4 residents registry simple, but as you know it has been growing over the years with more and more detailed info. I also decided never ever to add a family tree feature - so yesterday I programmed one :)

All personal details were already in the script, so the job was not overwhelming. The result allows you to easily jump between a person's bio page and family tree. It will certainly be easier for me to keep track on relations.