I thought she had a career in the Athletic track in Strangetown.

That reminds me of another thing I noticed--in Apartment Life, when you search for a roommate, you can have the same townie pop up in different searches--but with a different job each time. Jill Fleig might pop up as being in the Adventurer career track one time you do a search, if her name pops up when you do a search again, she might be in the Slacker track.

Slightly off topic...but it's funny how townies have random jobs.

Why does everyone speculate that EA screwed something up that they made lame cover story for? What could they have possibly done that having to create a whole new plot was easier than simply copying some files out of a back-up? (And I'm sure that there's a nigh infinite number of backups on hand for game designers.) Just look at all the things players can do with SimPE, including restoring Bella! Oh, but I'm sure the actual programmers of the game don't have anything as/more powerful than SimPE at their disposal with which they could have "fixed their mistake." Right.

As a programmer, everything is backed up and recoverable. I don't believe Maxis messed up in that sense. Especially when the memory of her families have of her is her abduction. Does Bella herself, either one, have any recollection of abduction? If so, then that suggest this is part of the story Maxis wanted to create for her.

Why there are two of her? No idea.

I've never bothered doing the whole Bella mystery thing. Can anyone tell me what to do?

In my Strangetown not only is Bella abducted by aliens (1970s) but she reappears in Strangetown 25 years later. Her daughter, Cassandra, Has spent those twenty five years obsessed with finding her mother. This leads Cassandra to get a degree in criminology and then become an FBI agent. Bella reappears in Strangetown in the 1990s, steals a car, gets badly hurt in a police chase/crash. During a cat scan a small electronic device is discovered embedded in the base of her skull. It was being used to control her actions because she, like thousands of others who've been abducted, are being used in a horrible alien plot. To discover the rest you'll just have to read my graphic novel "Strangetown Tales - A Stranger In Strangetown". Oh, there's not only 'bad' aliens in that one but good ones, too. There's even battles in space! LOL!

Okay, I've had this on my mind for a while so I'm just gnu say it :D
My theory is: Don, Nina and Dina, had nothing to do with it however she did get abducted using Don's telescope. She was then cloned by the aliens and to be used as a spy but on the way back to Pleasant View the spaceship crashed in Strangetown and the fake Bella was the only surviver and as she was not fully completed (no memories) and had no instructions she just wandered the streets of Strangetown.

P.s My sims have been abducted using the small telescope so what are you talking about saying you can only be abducted using the expensive telescope? :L

I think I read somewhere on the Sims 2 Wiki that after Freetime is installed all telescope actions carry a chance of being abducted but I can't tell if that means all telescope actions on ALL telescopes. I've only ever had a sim abducted with the expensive one. Now I'm very curious lol

Bella...Bella,what are you doing with my wife?

Well, using the action: search for U.F.O's, or whatever it's called, probably had something to do with it :P

Well I can say one thing and that's that she isn't dead. In Pleasantview, if you look in the family tree, it shows that her family portrait is not greyed out, indicating she's still alive. Also, if Alexander goes to university and Mortimer is already deceased, it shows the cutscene where the kid is Alex but the parent waving him farewell is Bella! I will post a picture if I can get one (I messed up my Pleasantview but maybe I can snag one from my cousin who hasn't touched her Pleasantview). However once the cutscene is over Bella is gone and still unplayable. Also, being Bella was abducted by aliens, don't you think it's just a little ironic that Mortimer dated (and married if you decided to) Dina, who is part alien? Just sayin'!

I consider the Strangetown Bella to be an imperfect clone of the real Bella. The aliens' doing.

Like I said, I just erase the Pleasantview Bella's death token in SimPE, "teleport" her in, and just say she has amnesia. I also fix her age so she's close to elder, within a few days. I'm really reluctant to let her have another child with Mortimer because who knows if her DNA didn't get messed up somehow?

I am using the strangetown Bella to make my story in my New pleasentview. I used one sim from the bin to become her father, her mother left a long ago(i may create one in the story after some time). She is a teen and has a relationship with Mort. right now she still do not know but she is preg. well i will try to post my story in hereafter i write the first chap. and take enough pictures.

I know Strangetown Bella is a fake. But damn all that says otherwise, I'll play Strangetown Bella as the real one, and reunite the Goths all I want.

What I did with Pleasantview Bella:
-I installed the base game, University and Nightlife.
-I spawned her with the Tombstone of L and D.
-I resurrected her.
-I changed her aspiration to family.
-I clicked "set to birthday" in debug mode so she isn't younger than her daughter.
-I installed the other expansion packs and made a backup.
What I usually do with Strangetown Bella:
-I move her to the Curious household and I make a story about her finding out she is a clon (even if she looks nothing like the original Bella).
-Then I move her out and marry her to a new sim made in CAS, I don't want "junk townies" to have children.

Funciona, if you bring PV Bella back using the Tombstone of L&D, won't she disappear from the resurrecting list? I always thought that the only way to bring her back safe and sound is by using SimPE. Correct me if I'm wrong.

In my Strangetown:

Bella had no memories of her former life -- and a few simyears' worth of missing time -- and no real home. As a Romance sim, she got a job in the slacker career, and got around that whole homeless issue by couch-surfing (and staying the night with various boyfriends). She was happy with the life she created for herself, but she realized that there was something...off... about not having any childhood memories or, really, any memories that preceeded her first day in Strangetown. So, she decided to search for a way to restore her memories or, failing that, find out what happened.

She met up with the Beakers, but was a bit put off by their over-eagerness to insert probes into her brain and, in Loki's words, "shock some sense" into her. Bella politely declined their offer and high-tailed it out of there.

Bella's friendship with Crystal Vu eventually brought her into contact with the Curious brothers, who delightedly declared that she must've been abducted. They asked her to stay with them in their household for a while so that they could find out more about her experiences. Bella, having no other place to go, agreed to stay with Pascal, Vidcund, and Vidcund's alien daughter Laika (Lazlo had moved out of the family home when he married Crystal, and Pascal's alien son Sagan was grown and graduated).

Bella never did fully regain her memories; she regained small flashes, such as the memories of her children's faces and a few memories of Mortimer, but nothing that really confirmed her identity beyond "Bella Goth that lives in Strangetown." She did, however, find herself enjoying her stay in the Curious household and the stability it brought (I had changed her aspiration to Family at that point, to reflect her few regained memories). She liked Laika -- though the same couldn't be said of Laika's jealous father, whom Bella warred with -- and she especially liked Pascal.

Now Bella Curious, she spends her days designing webpages -- and asking herself how many "I WANT TO BELIEVE" UFO conspiracy pages the residents really NEED when there are actual ALIENS living in town -- and her nights at home with her husband Pascal and their twin children Fortran (middle name: Cassandra) and Cobol (middle name: Alexander).

It's a long story -- and a lot's been left out -- but I found the "fake" Bella to be a fun sim to play

If you install the Base Game, University and Nightlife only, she appears in the resurrection list, just like all the dead sims in the graveyard. With later expansions the premade dead sims disappear from the resurrection list, I suppose because they have no memories and wrong genetics. So when I reinstall the game I install the base game and those two EP, I resurrect her, save the game and then I install the other EP. Last time I reinstalled I forgot to resurrect her, so I used AnyGameStarter to make a new game with only the base game and the two EP. I don't make her have more children because her genetics might be wrong.

Interestingly, Bella Goth from Strangetown has the very same bio as Bella Goth from TS1. She's definitely supposed to be the real one, Maxis didn't include her into Strangetown just for kicks.

But I'm surprised that in TS2 she has a romance aspiration. Does it mean that she visited Don's condo for, well, various pleasures? Too bad he doesn't have a memory of that, but then again, she must've been whisked away by aliens after some stargazing quicker than they had a chance to do anything.

I had the Strangetown Bella marry Nervous Subject. I got the "real" Bella using SimPE and the tombstone of life and death, and of course I had to edit her and Mortimer's relationship to be higher. Eventually, I'll have them marry and age Bella to an elder to be around the same age as him. I guess I'll have to change her aspiration as well. I was also surprised about the Romance aspiration she had. I take the Bella interview on thesims2 website as the real deal, so perhaps Bella was upset with the fact that the Caliente sisters were trying to get with him, and then once she was gone he had quickly moved on and it upset her, so she decided to become a romance Sim because of it. But now that she's back I'm of course trying to get them to make up.

When i got Bella back in Pleasantview [the real one], i used 'add neighbour to family' from the tombstone of life and death. she has a few memories, but zero personality or biograghy... does anyone know what starsign she is and if she has a biography?

I know for a fact that the Bella Goth in Strangetown is obviously a clone. The aliens that abducted her are covering up any evidence of her being gone, but the clone was accidentally dropped in Strangetown. They weren't able to clone her again, so they just ignored that.

I brought back the Bella Goth from StrangeTown to find that she had no relationships/jobs/memories so I just enjoy the Bella Goth that comes on SimTV sometimes to play the piano..

I revived Bella once with the Insimenator, I was all like, woah snaps, it's Bella Goth. She was super young so I made Mortimer an adult again but he was blond . . . I kind of freaked out, lol, he deff had black hair in Sims 1!

What is the PE in SimPE?

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The real question is "What is the Sim in SimPE?". Answer "Simple":
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpe/

Last edited by Mootilda : 23rd Jul 2011 at 09:16 PM.