How Long Has Your Neighborhood been Around For?

[McChoclatey]

How many families are in it?

My neighborhood has been around for about 2 years, now. For two years, I've been playing with the same families and making sure their children were woven into this little web of a community I have. I have about a dozen families living in my neighborhood in clusters, and I'm afraid I might need a new neighborhood if I'm going to fit more of them in. As generations develop, new homes are to be made--and that means eventually all the living space will be filled up. I'm guessing I'll just start recycling old houses of dead Sims...

Anyway, how long have you been playing your neighborhood?

[Fivey]

All of my neighborhoods haven't been around long. My computer is a crapshoot, so I can't have too many neighborhoods with too many sims present at once. The one on my computer where I am now, one neighborhood has been around for a month or so. It's the one I tested the challenge i made on, so there are only two occupied houses in Veronaville, and the families are related.

The other neighborhood I created yesterday, and it has all custom townies and only one family, which is a relatively new family.

[M.M.A.A.]

Right now, one of them has been "alive" for like 6 months +. It has 32 households right now.

[gazania]

My oldest neighborhoods were five and seven years. One got corrupted; the other, I just felt it was time to bid it "good-bye". I had done so many VBTs to it, I had a whole bunch of downloads exclusive to it that I wanted to clean out, and it was pretty much played-out, IMO.

Right now, my oldest neighborhood is my reset Pleasantview, at two and a half years. I will probably consider resetting that one later this year. I'm finding that after three years or so, neighborhoods tend to be played out, and I find that either the game "burps", or I have done "stupid Sim tricks" that probably have corrupted or glitched it, anyway, What makes things worse is that I can't stand letting my Sims die, so my neighborhoods can be quite full after three years!

I started with about five or six "core" families, and they have all intermarried, or married Townies. Most families have had about two to six kids, and their children have intermarried, started their own households, or are still in Uni. I have also created at least a dozen single Sims that are in Uni, have been moved into households as nannies or boarders, or have married townies or members of the"core" families.

[dieKristina]

My current custom ´hood was created in October 2011. I recently recreated it because of different things, but it´s still virtually the same ´hood with (almost) the same sims, so I think I can say I have had it for 6 months. Not so long in other words, but it´s probably the neighborhood I have been playing for the longest time. My intention is to keep playing it for a very long time since I´m very attached to almost all of its sims and I just get more and more interested in it.

[Peni Griffin]

Drama Acres was created in late August, 2010. It's the only major neighborhood I've ever played, and it contains not quite 50 households.

[Barbie Crash]

I can never play the same neighbourhood for very long. I get bored.

[lil_princess_of_evil]

Not too long for me. Only about 3-4 months and it's a BACC challenge. It currently has 35 households. Before that I had one that probably lasted a year, but I got bored of it. It lacked a theme and a direction, just a bunch of sims that lived in the same area basically. The BACC challenge has given me a lot of ideas to go with once I finish the challenge, so once I finish the BACC challenge, I'll make a new neighborhood to hopefully stay.

[lazzybum]

My hood, Driftwood, started around Oct 2010, if not slightly earlier. It has since been the only hood I play. Its still alive, its just I'm not currently active to play TS2. I can't wait to jump back into it though! I think its only on their 3rd generation too. Its probably the longest I've had a hood that I never lost interest in, but its because I've been so attached to each household and the town's history as a whole. There's even a museum of history in my hood :P

[mangaroo]

I've been playing Prosperity since June of 2008. The neighborhood contains 70 occupied lots, but lots =!= families, since I use multi-family homes to keep the number of playable residences (and potential births) down. There are currently 32 unique family names in Prosperity, but I expect one of those to die out in this generation for lack of offspring.

[Gcgb53191]

Hmm I can't remember when I started my neighborhood. Its definitely been less than a year but I took a mini break from it a while ago.

I started with Robinsons, Robinsons II, Langraabs, Harris and Morgans. And now they're starting to branch out into their own families or merging with others :D

[AlyssaBang]

jeje i've been in my nhood since... 2009 i think and all the descendants are there jeje o how i love my nhood...

[Liv Lukas]

I just looked at the dates on some old documents and my hood started Monday, May 15, 2006. That was the date that I moved Sims in and starting playing. I started building it a few months earlier. It's gone through two terrains since then and I lost a few Sims along the way...but yeah, same hood, same stories, most of the original Sims.

I just started building a new hood last month, I think that one will be ready to play in another two months. (Takes me a long time to build a hood, that's why I put off doing another for so long!) But I will still play my older hood, I just want another for some variety and to tell different stories. The new hood (a work in progress so it is still rough around the edges):


http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1sfh2L53s1r663x8o1_1280.jpg


EDIT: I just found the very first picture I took, on May 15, 2006:


http://i.imgur.com/c2oM4.jpg


Egads. Man, my photos (and custom content for that matter) used to SUCK.

[CowPlantsForHire]

I have two old neighborhoods (both custom). One was made back in the summer of 2009, while the other was created in May 2010. I haven't played them for a while, now, especially the oldest one of the two. I don't remember the number of households in each neighborhood.

[dw14832]

Four Corners my Oldest Hood has about 30 Sims. It was extracted fom Life Stories in 2007. Derk my oldest Sim was one of the first sims I made with the Base Sim2 game in 2004. Brook my second oldest Sim that was made for University in 2005, I also extracted Alice and her dog Sam from Pet Stories. Although Four Corners has had minor Up-dates through the years it is still basicly the same hood from Life Stories.

[frankokomando]

2-3 weeks maybe. :|

[DigitalSympathies]

I started my first two 'hoods in 2005 or so . . . I still have them backed up and they had about three of each type of subhood minus just having one university. The one I'm currently playing - Summerset Bay - is around a year and a half old, but the sims (and architecture) are all from an older 'hood called Blood River that was *this* close to totally blowing up on me. So far, some glitches but none that haven't added to the story. :3 Population including townies is around 730 - roughly around 300 or so are playables or dead. This is counting subhoods. On a mega-legacy round robin I did for three years, we had so many sims we didn't bother running the census tool to find out. It was upwards of 1000. I have a new small subhood that is called Maple Lake, and I plan on starting a new 'hood from a custom map I made called Pelham, which will be a high-crime, urban city with a lot more diversity than the evolving Summerset Bay area.

Summerset Bay: (there's a lot more to either side)

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg823/scaled.php?server=823&filename=snapshot0000000ffc70e7b.jpg&res=landing

Maple Lake:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg201/scaled.php?server=201&filename=snapshot0000001a7c754da.jpg&res=landing

Pelham:

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg713/scaled.php?server=713&filename=snapshot0000001e3c83dff.jpg&res=landing

[Fivey]

Four Coners my Oldest Hood has about 30 Sims. It was extracted fom Life Stories in 2007. Derk my oldest Sim was one of the first sims I made with the Base Sim2 game in 2004. Brook my second oldest Sim that was made for University in 2005, I also extracted Alice and her dog Sam from Pet Stories. Although Four Coners has had minor Up-dates through the years it is still basicly the same hood from Life Stories.

Coners?

[Charmful]

My Neighborhood called Isla Del Kashimire has been around since about 2007. There's about 5-9 prominent families in their third generation about 10-15 lesser ones that are played often with less generations. I couldn't pull the exact number out off the top of my head but minimum total is 15 and max I have is 24/25 families. All in all about 270 Playable sims.

[Saturnfly]

@ Liv Lukas - Beautiful hood you got there. Is that a Simon Baker sim I see? xD Looks like a sim-splitting image of him!
@DigitalSympathies - I wish I was that bloody organized. D:

My version of Belladonna Cove has been around since November last year, no where near as long as some!

[NatteryakToad]

My Patience Island has been around about five months now and contains 66 living playables in 20 households. It started with 4 CAS couples who are all dead now, and the hood is now populated by their desendants and a few more CAS sims, as well as some married in townies.

[HarVee]

My neighborhood "Simdale" has only been around for about a week. Though it has quite a few lots as I have been going crazy with building. It doesn't have any Sims yet though.

@DigitalSympathies: Those images are quite nice. However, what's up with the TS3 Rabbit holes? :wtf:

[maxon]

Little Carping started the month the game was released though it had a reboot in 2007 to get rid of the townies. The reboot was a complete rebuild but the sims were/are the same. Things have developed somewhat since then. I'm a very slow player and I have months at a time where I don't play. For instance, I haven't booted up the game since February (when the Mass Effect 3 demo came out).

[StrangeTownChick]

My nameless empire city has been around since March 21, 2012. It has five families at the moment, and not even a sim-week has passed yet (I play in rotations so everyone is about on the same sim-day. They're currently on Friday or Saturday). I plan for this 'hood to expand and get to generation 10 and beyond.

[Clashfan]

My current hood was activated in March of 2010 and has just started on the 4th generation for the founding families. I had 3 original founders but have since added 3 others that have become core families but are only at 2nd or beginning 3rd generations. I have roughly 40 household lots split up amongst the main and subhoods and about 85 playable sims. Up to now I've let ACR determine the number of pregnancies with the average number of children per family being 3.

One of my add on families was from a challenge and he was a single guy that got abducted alot. Once the challenge was over I decided to keep him and his alien offspring (5) but I also decided that he deserved to have a full normal adult hood. He met and married a townie and they currently have 5 kids courtesy of ACR and a couple sets of twins. He is the only Sim that has ever had 10 kids and since he's a knowledge Sim he doesn't even get any credit for it but he certainly has insured that his family name would carry on for some time.

[Orilon]

I came back to Sims 2 after I got an actual grahics card installed Saturday, so re-started Veronaville last night. This version of Veronaville has been around for about 12 hours give or take. I'm hoping that my game will be more stable this time, and I won't have to keep starting over.

[Lady Scarlet]

My medieval neighbourhood has been around for ... three or four moths, I think.I grow weary of them easily and I always create new ones that simply stay there and exist XD

[TychoH]

My neighborhood is alive since April 1 this year, 15:53:41 :P Not quite long, but I want it to be alive for months, maybe years. At this time the eldest children of generation 2 are turning into adults, so maybe next year I'll be at generation 30 or 40 xD I would love to, they would be all descendants of my favourite Sim, a woman I created at least 100 times.

[saskganesh]

15 months and ... 2 weeks.

Much of the 4th generation is now hitched up and doing that baby making lovin'. Currently 39 houses in two hoods, maybe (?) 160 ish Sims. I think at least a third-to-a-half of them are direct descendents of my first sim and/or her second husband. Almost everyone is related somehow

Family planning is the new trend.

[DigitalSympathies]

@DigitalSympathies: Those images are quite nice. However, what's up with the TS3 Rabbit holes? :wtf:

They're 'hood deco? Somebody converted them for TS2 and I needed to fill up space because that's a more rural area. I think it fits nicely as I have no intention of making a playable City Hall in my already cluttered 'hood.

[SusannaG]

None of my neighborhoods are at present older than about three months. Had to do an uninstall/reinstall, and it took me the month of January.

[dw14832]

Coners?

Fix spelling in post I'm :blink:

[smellincoffee]

Pleasantview has been around since late spring 2008. In game-time that's a few hundred years. I haven't played it in a few weeks, though, because it's so overcrowded that crashes are common.

[Liv Lukas]

@ Liv Lukas - Beautiful hood you got there. Is that a Simon Baker sim I see? xD Looks like a sim-splitting image of him!

Thanks! Nope, I've no idea who Simon Baker is. That's Taylor, he's a womanizer and a bad boy and great fun. This is a recent photo of him:


http://i.imgur.com/KACbV.jpg

(He'd just gotten fired. Again.)

[Firelira78]

My first and my oldest neighborhood Veronaville has been around since early 2008. I've never had to restart any neighborhood from scratch even once. Although there are about 1000+ character files in Veronaville I've not had any glitches, except one CAS sim not recognizing his brother as family even though his brother did and another teen daughter not recognizing her father, even though he did. I'd used Sim PE to correct these bugs ASAP

After the stories I hear about other players neighborhoods (especially Veronaville) getting glitchy, I think I've really been lucky (though I shouldn't say that. My luck tends to run out whenever I do!). Since it was my first neighborhood, I've done all kinds of bad things too, like deleting at least 3 new families from the Sim Bin and also Cyd Roseland. (his dog got taken by the Pet police). I didn't think there was any problem when I did that at first, but after some months when I found out about Sim PE, I noticed all of Cyd's acquaintances, including him and his dog had dummy character files. Fortunately, I could fix it with Sim Pe and the directions from the MATY thread titled "Electric Boogaloo"

Also, I'm a very slow player. Some sims who were adults when I started Veronaville are still adults and the most progress I've made is when some sims who were kids have become adults and married. Maybe, if I'd waltzed though 4-5 generations in a flash I'd see lots of glitches surface too.

I've also done stupid things like going on a professor and townie killing rampage in an unmodded game, that was before I knew that the game would create even more obnoxious professors to replace the ones I killed, hence so many character files in this neighborhood. Of course, Veronaville loads much slower than my other more recent neighborhoods. But that's it. I'm even surprised by Veronaville's longevity myself as according to MATY "all Veronavilles are doomed from the start"

[nuidyaforever]

Five years next Monday. Yup. My Nuidya Tribe was out of action, but I decided to start playing it again, and it will be five years old on April 16th.

I've celebrated the upcoming anniversary by creating the newest (and final!) Nuidya settlement with the same terrain file as the first one (only with dirt roads, because I was clueless about default replacements five years ago). For story purposes, it is the same place, and they've come back to their ancestral homeland to settle after fifty years of wandering.

It's the only hood I've had that's lasted longer than a week, so I celebrate the anniversary every year - and now that I've devised an actual calendar for the Nuidya, they celebrate it too. On the Nuidya calendar's April 16th equivalent, the tribe celebrates the Teeran ni Rissa (Ancestors' Festival - yes, they have their own language too!), On that day, they party it up to honour the dead and give thanks for their survival through various disasters (coughglitches) that have destroyed past Nuidya villages. Me, I just bake cupcakes or something. ;)

Here's to favourite neighbourhoods! :beer:

- VT

[StrangeTownChick]

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/kaytlspicshop/snapshot_00000010_1c902ec1.jpg
The black-haired girl (Reyna Burbi) started as a toddler, if that's any indication. So yeah, haven't been playing this neighborhood very long. Once I finish this rotation and do one more, it will have been one sim-week since I started.

[_sheldor]

I envy you all who have had your neighbourhood for years. The longest time I had a neighbourhood was almost a year and half. My laptop broke and I was so pissed. I lost everything. I'm still pissed.

I've been so discouraged I only played a couple random custom neighbourhoods for a few weeks, then got bored. But just resently I created Los Imprezos which I've had for a couple weeks now. And I plan to take it far. And I hope it doesn't get corrupt. I will probably cry.

[-Zol-]

Four months, give or take.
Saying that, it's the 6th version of the same 'hood I've played, so it probably adds up to a year or so. I keep forgetting that mass cc-purges often mess up the townies when it comes to skins and stuff. I'm amazed at how long some of you can keep a hood going for.

[Peni Griffin]

Back-ups, Zol. Back-ups. Back up at least once per rotation if you play that way; before adding any CC, mods, or hacks; before trouble-shooting; before installing or uninstalling an EP. I'd have lost Drama Acres a couple of times without them.

[esmesqualor]

Yesterday morning.