mrrakkon's Sims (and stuff)

[mrrakkonn]

21 hours ago, Loveternity said:

@mrrakkonn Lilith is missing her 2nd party outfit boots. Considering that she's the neglected one in her family, that's kinda fitting. ?
 

Fixed and reuploaded! They're by Dallasgirl79 by the way https://dallasgirl79.tumblr.com/post/190937361348/fw2020-week-2-london-louboutin-botalili

[Santana-Red]

Is Jermaines skin in the folder? Because he's a white guy when I place them from the gallery. Maybe it's just not assigned?

[mrrakkonn]

1 hour ago, Santana-Red said:

Is Jermaines skin in the folder? Because he's a white guy when I place them from the gallery. Maybe it's just not assigned?

I'm pretty sure it's a skintone from Wicked Whims. Should be included in the tuning package (for Wicked Whims that is, I'm not includiong the mod with my download). I'll double check which one it is just to be sure. 

 

Yup. It's included in Wicked Whims. 

[mrrakkonn]

Broke Family

 

Continuing my process of remaking and uploading Maxis sims in preparation for the world I'm setting up, here's my remake of Sims 2's Broke family. They're a lower class family in somewhat dire straits, in Sims 2 Brandi's husband Skip has died leaving her alone to raise her two kids, rebellious teen Dustin and toddler Beau, she's unemployed, the family has almost no money and on top of that Brandi is pregnant with yet another kid. 

 

 

Not all of these challenges can be recreated with a family in the library, so it'll have to wait until that until these are fully done with their challenging starting situation and all. I left Skip alive in this upload, but I'll kill him off for the world save, this is so you can actually have him in the game both for those who decide to do away with him and those who want to keep him alive. Other than that both Brandi and Skip have some bad traits from Parenthood, though Skip is a Speed Cleaner, indicating that he was the one who kept their trailer home clean while he was still alive (the home I've set them up with has both the grody and filthy traits).

 

Dustin and Beau both have poor character values, and Dustin is failing school. Dustin and Skip both have the ADHD trait from a relatively new Basemental Drugs version (don't know if it's gone public yet), I'm not very familiar with how it works except it says it should be difficult for them to focus and also enable them to get a prescription to ritalin. That may prove beneficial for Dustin, since I've chosen to give him some low skilsl in drug dealing to reflect the fact that he was in the criminal career in Sims 2, which may prove a way to supplement the family's income. 

 

NOTE: There's a version of Dustin Broke that came with Get Famous, it might be a good idea to delete him from your world if you decide to place this family into your game. 

 

CC Credits

Spoiler

Hair
https://anlamveg.tumblr.com/post/173735847187/yandere-chan-high-ponytail-credits-yanderedev

Tattoos
shoulder tattoo by simplesimmer

Makeup
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-makeup-female-blush/title/[-charming-]--blush/id/1312289/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-makeup-female-eyeshadow/title/s-club-wm-ts4-eyeshadow-04/id/1298741/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-makeup-female-lipstick/title/brassica-lipstick/id/1422663/
acne 4 by Scarlett
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-makeup-female-lipstick/title/lemo-lipstick/id/1431079/

Accessories
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-accessories-female-rings/title/s-club-ts4-wm-nails-201907-/id/1446435/
https://peachiiesims.tumblr.com/post/176311072815/bearly-gnome-download-not-so-high-base-game
https://figsandpersimmons.tumblr.com/post/156910092317/sims4-marigold-knit-loose-socks-low-version
http://sims4updates.com/sunglasses-thomas-tom-ford-sunglasses-wore-starlord-sims/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-sets-accessories/title/potema-necklace-set/id/1433033/

Clothing
august 2018 top 38 by Curbs
https://simsontherope.tumblr.com/post/105007497951/basic-jeans-and-rolled-jeans-for-the-sims-4-hi
http://ubersims.tumblr.com/post/175756780080/thongsssssssssssssssss-my-sims-needed-them-and-i
https://lazyeyelids.blogspot.com/2019/09/ripped-knees-skinnies.html
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-clothing-female-teenadultelder-everyday/title/basic-racerback-crop-tank-top/id/1438478/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-clothing-female-teenadultelder-everyday/title/s4-cool-pyjama-shorts/id/1373281/
https://lazyeyelids.blogspot.com/2019/10/raglan-tee.html
https://www.simsdom.com/en/download/the-sims4/item/elliesimple-henley-top-164524
https://ooobsooo.tumblr.com/post/145916674609/kk-t-shirts-with-cap-t-e-male-new-mesh-custom
https://marvinsims.tumblr.com/post/160730374168/three-piece-suits-i-couldnt-believe-we-didnt
https://www.simsdom.com/en/download/the-sims4/item/elliesimple-adidas-long-tee-113094
https://www.simsdom.com/en/download/the-sims4/item/childtoadult-female-winter-jacket-by-ivkasims-118081
https://simsontherope.tumblr.com/post/189214916906/bomber-jacket-for-the-sims-4-one-of-my-first
november 2017 pants 3 by Curbs
https://lazyeyelids.blogspot.com/2019/10/shirt-with-tanktop.html
simple bralette by puresims 
https://www.simsdom.com/en/download/the-sims4/item/elliesimple-cami-top-164522
https://www.simsdom.com/en/download/the-sims4/item/elliesimple-short-satin-dress-143787
windbreaker jacket by lazy eyelids
https://gorillax3.tumblr.com/post/173988961859/beach-board-shorts-bottom-new-mesh-all-lods
https://wild-pixel.tumblr.com/post/159036921567/backyard-stuff-jeans-recolour-by-wild-pixel-11
https://peacemaker-ic.tumblr.com/post/178568995749/summer-fun-loose-cut-and-loose-bands-tank-tops
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-clothing-female-teenadultelder-everyday/title/s4-shorty-shorts-/id/1360235/
https://www.nitropanic.net/2020/03/sheer-cut-top-for-sims-4.html
gym pants by AAStyle

Eyebrows
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-hair-facial-eyebrows/title/tessa-eyebrows-n126/id/1405743/
http://xldsims.tumblr.com/post/162144512619/this-is-the-v20-of-the-major-hair-which-is

Shoes
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-clothing-male-teenadultelder-everyday/title/high-cut-shoes/id/1264016/
https://www.patreon.com/posts/now-free-2018-3-25181107 shoes 16
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-shoes-female-teenadultelder/title/madlen-freda-shoes/id/1420791/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-shoes-female-teenadultelder/title/madlen-piacenza-boots/id/1316338/
https://www.simsdom.com/en/download/the-sims4/item/nike-air-force-one-by-lazyeyelids-152689
https://dallasgirl79.tumblr.com/post/190937361348/fw2020-week-2-london-louboutin-botalili

Custom CAS Presets
https://obscurus-sims.tumblr.com/post/180893051423/2-eyes-presets-for-male-2-eyes-presets-for-female might be this one, it's called eye preset 1

Skin Details
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-makeup-female-skindetails/title/eyebags-n1/id/1444621/
https://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/details/category/sims4-makeup-female-skindetails/title/hairline-%2303/id/1410954/
https://luumiasims.com/post/160374208324/body-hair-v5-body-hair-is-back-and-even-more
https://xldsims.tumblr.com/post/149505614209/ive-been-hording-this-for-a-while-now-and-use-it
http://sims4nexus.com/?p=5702

 

 

Brandi

Age: 31

Height: 5'3"

Occupation: Welfare Recipient

Notes: Smoker, Clubber, Compassionate, Argumentative, Irresponsible, Fertile, she's set up to be pregnant, 

Lifestyles: Close-Knit, Sedentary

 

Outfits

Spoiler

Everyday

 

Formal

 

Athletic

 

Sleepwear

 

Party

 

Swimwear

 

Hot Weather Clothing

 

Cold Weather Clothing

 

Nude

 

 

Skip

Age: 31

Height: 6'0"

Occupation: Unemployed

Notes: Smoker, ADHD (Basemental Drugs), Great Storyteller, Compassionate, Speed Cleaner, Irresponsible, Carefree, Physically Gifted

Lifestyles: Close-Knit

 

Outfits

Spoiler

Everyday

 

Formal

 

Athletic

 

Sleepwear

 

Party

 

Swimwear

 

Hot Weather Clothing

 

Cold Weather Clothing

 

Nude

 

Dustin

Age: 16

Height: 5'6"

Occupation: High School Student (F)

Notes: Smoker, Weed Dealing skill, low Manners, Responsibility and Conflict Resolution.

Lifestyles: Adrenaline Seeker

 

 

Outfits

Spoiler

Everyday

 

Formal

 

Athletic

 

Sleepwear

 

Party

 

Swimwear

 

Hot Weather Clothing

 

Cold Weather Clothing

 

 

Beau

Age: halfway through toddler stage, I haven't thought about how to translate it into an actual age

Notes: poor toddler skills and character value scores

 

[mrrakkonn]

Here's a bit of a preview giving a quick look at what I've done with Oasis Springs so far regarding the lots and placements of households in Oasis Springs for my world save. 

 

 

I'm done making homes for Don Lotharia, the Caliente sisters, the Pleasant family, the Broke family and the Goths (well not completely). Most of the lots are gallery lots that I've added to suit my needs. 

 

 

Here is the Goths' Villa Ophelia transplanted to Oasis Springs. It looks a bit out of place, but to be honest being weird and out of place is probably appropriate for the Goth family. While I haven't yet done much with the interior of this one (it's furnished as this is a gallery lot, but I want to edit it for myself as well). What I have done for the interior is make these CC paintings of the Goth family ancestors, I did a post on this in R-Lo's thread some time back, check it out!

 

 

Here's the new downtown area, it consists of a diner/fast food restaurant, a dive bar (the one in in the picture of Skip proposing to Brandi above), my Vanilla Unicorn strip club and a gas station. I might very well remove the gas station, because it doesn't really serve a purpose other than cosmetic (and there are gas stations to be seen in the background scenes of some neighborhoods in Oasis Springs), but it's there for now. Since I won't be adding my strip club sims (and I need to create and place an owner) in the initial release, I might redecorate the Vanillla Unicorn's exterior to make it looke like it's currently shuttered. 

 

 

Here's the condos housing the Caliente sisters (left) and Don Lothario (right). The left property was a little too big really so I ended using that empty space to create the impression of another condo that was under construction but was abandoned as development ceased. I think this actually ended up looking really neat. 

 

 

Opposite the condos is the home of the Pleasant family, not much to say really. It's a big suburban house with a swimming pool. There are two more residential lots in this neighborhood, in all likelihood these will be occupied by the Dreamer and Burb families, whose homes I've yet to begin making. But probably will soon, since the Dreamers are going to be my next upload in this project. 

 

 

Then there's the lower class area in the upper right corner, this one I'm almost done with. The first thing you notice here is this abandoned motel lot, which was the first CC lot I downloaded which introduced me to alot of CC build object creators. I'm including it in this world as a park of sorts (and also with some custom lot traits I downloaded, a place where drug dealers will gather) because I really like how it looks and also because I spend an ungodly time downloading the thing and all the CC (this was not all CC included, I had to download everything individually).

 

 

Lastly there's the trailer park homes opposite the motel, the lower left trailer is not really assigned to anyone, but I'm strongly considering having Frank the NPC drug dealer live there. In the middle is Johnny Zest's trailer, transplanted from its old position which is now taken by the motel above (I very possibly might go about trying to de-pretty it, as it looks a bit out of place compared to the other two. There's also the possibility of having Johnny Zest be homeless as I don't think he's as interesting to actually play and occupy a residential lot, but I do still want him to exist (and actually be related to the Landgraab family). In the upper right is the Broke family's trailer. 

 

That leaves one lot I haven't touched and potentially another one unoccupied if I evict Johnny Zest in my world. These two lots are then very possibly going to be used as the residence of the strip club owner I'll put together (likely the untouched lot not shown on the picture above), and if I evict Johhny Zest, the middle lot is likely going to go to someone in the Stojanovic family, either Linnie and Cara's parents or possibly just Linnie herself. Both of these possibilities are for future updates. 

 

The upscale area in the upper left corner is currently entirely untouched, consisting of 4 lots I'm very likely going to place my version of the Alto family in one of them, and Michael Bachelor (Bella Goth's older brother) in another, leaving two for future use. As for Michael Bachelor, he's going to be alive in my world (and in a relationship with Dina Caliente, though not married yet), I've already made him, and I'll likely do a quick upload of him and a couple of other Goth-adjacent sims in an upcoming (probably pretty soon) Goth family "add-on" of sorts. 

 

Once more, alot of words (and some pics), but it's kind of fun to show this stuff off and show how I'm doing this and thinking about it. Also writing it out like this helps me look at what I've done and make decisions. 

[mrrakkonn]

But wait! I've got more words and previews of a sort. I went back to this question and sort of changed my mind about the answer I gave to it. 

 

On 3/21/2020 at 3:05 PM, RedThirst said:

Do you plan to share an update for Maryam, eventually? I have seen in the last pictures you put of her, some things were different, like the nose color. Maybe a different skin overlay?

Anyway, thank you again for your amazing work

 

In short, I will be sharing an updated version of her, today most likely, as I just sat down and finished going through and updating her appearance and warderobe, here's some preview pics of a couple of changed and new outfits I've done. 

 

        

 

       

 

I'm also planning to finish up and upload her family, which I put together the basics for a pretty long time ago. This would be in the future and and not part of the simple update to Maryam herself I'm planning for today. It would tie in with me beginning to add my own sims to my world, especially because I'm considering setting her uncle up as the owner of the fast food reastaurant in Oasis Springs. Here's some pictures of the ones I'm currently happy with, I want to add a couple of more family members to this, before I finish it, I have made her grandmother, but I am not happy with how she looks, so she's left out of the pics below. 

 

Mother and father, Farah and Mahmoud

 

    

 

Grandather, uncle and cousin, Davud, Vandad and Rustem

 

       

[TriggerBlade]

Do you plan on adding Sims from Strangetown and other neighborhoods from Sims 2?

 

Also, any plans on sims from some spin off titles like the Urbz? I feel like Jade as a character would be really up your alley.

 

PS. I REALLY love your redesign of the Broke family. Too many people try to make them as close as possible to the Sims 2 aesthetic. You have a talent for making characters feel "real." I probably wouldn't get along with half of them as people, but I love them as characters. Keep up the good work dude!

[mrrakkonn]

Maryam Khoroushi has now been updated! 

 

 

Check out the new description which has been updated with new pictures and CC credits! https://www.loverslab.com/topic/127124-mrrakkons-sims-and-stuff/?do=findComment&comment=2772402

 

I've added a new face overlay which changes the shading on her nose, I've changed her cleavage overlay and I've used version 2 of Cmar's enhanced butt slider to adjust the shape of her butt. It's included now in the shared CC archive, remember to remove version 1 of the slider if you have that one. 

 

Other than that it's a bunch of outfit changes and additions and some re-arranging between her "formal" and party outfits. 

[mrrakkonn]

2 hours ago, TriggerBlade said:

Do you plan on adding Sims from Strangetown and other neighborhoods from Sims 2?

 

Also, any plans on sims from some spin off titles like the Urbz? I feel like Jade as a character would be really up your alley.

 

PS. I REALLY love your redesign of the Broke family. Too many people try to make them as close as possible to the Sims 2 aesthetic. You have a talent for making characters feel "real." I probably wouldn't get along with half of them as people, but I love them as characters. Keep up the good work dude!

I haven't planned any further Maxis sim makeovers beyond the ones I know I'm doing now. I might very well do more in the future, but after I get out the initial release of my world save I'm going to shift gears for a little while into adding my own sims into the world. Whether I do some Maxis sims as well (from whatever game) along the way I can't give a definite answer to, though it might very well happen. New NPCs though are very likely to be based on the Pleasantview NPCs though, at least in terms of names and personality (though in terms of apperance they'll likely just be some of my currently unused or unfinished sims). 

 

I'm glad you like my version of the Broke family, I'm happy with them as well! I honestly feel like making a sim from the ground up using just the Sims 2 (or 3 for that matter) appearance is a total dead end, mostly because Sims 2 sims look very different from Sims 4 sims, none of them really look like real people and nearly all of them kind of have the same face.

 

What I've ended up with for most of my Maxis sim makeovers is essentially repurposing sims I had already made or started on that I hadn't fully completed or found a use for. I make all my sims using reference pictures by the way (actors, pornstars, video game characters, random pictures of people I find through reverse image search), not because I'm very interested in recreating those people/character exactly (though it can be nice when I get a good likeness) but because I find it really helps in creating sims with somewhat realistic, distinctive features. Then I use the apperance of the sims from the games as a guideline mroe or less to make the finishing touches and small edits to get something of a resemblance while keeping the basic appearance of the sim I started out with. 

[RedThirst]

Hello,

 

thank you for this Maryam update, it is very much appreciated!

 

Regarding Sims makeovers, I would really like to see your version of the Spencer-Kim-Lewis family from TS 4, maybe with Olivia as a teen instead of a child?

 

Anyway, amazing work!

[Kashked]

I had Alba "get to know" her new co-workers (don't mind the beard, that's Mr. Rockwell himself, just a sideeffect of Flerbs automatic beards that keep them growing even when I'm not playing them)...

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

Since she is only level 1 fame she isn't yet allowed to join their exclusive pornstar club, but I figured she should introduce herself ahead of time anyhow. Of course they wouldn't speak to her as she is below their fame level, but ColonelNutty's "Consent to rough sex" worked for her. 

[TriggerBlade]

So random idea for Selda Demirci popped into my head for the world save.

 

Since she's a student and you're going for the gamer/streamer thing, you can have her in the e-sports career.

[RedThirst]

One question, for the updated Maryam do you use Sopor’s Allure now or are you sticking with Better Body?

[mrrakkonn]

5 hours ago, TriggerBlade said:

So random idea for Selda Demirci popped into my head for the world save.

 

Since she's a student and you're going for the gamer/streamer thing, you can have her in the e-sports career.

Yeah. Honestly that would be a good idea, I hadn't thought of it. 

 

3 hours ago, RedThirst said:

One question, for the updated Maryam do you use Sopor’s Allure now or are you sticking with Better Body?

Yeah, I don't use it as my default, but she's one of the sims I've taken to using Allure with rather than Better Body. 

[alexbsh32rus]

How do you set up the sims' family relationships and skills? Which soft/cheats do you use? 

[TriggerBlade]

So two things. A question and a... I guess bug report?

 

Question: You use Basemental Drugs in most of your characters. Do you play with Basemental Gangs? Some of your characters have a criminal past and it could make the world more dynamic. Especially since it seems 90% of your... IDK shared universe? Overarching Narrative? Takes place in the Sims' version of Los Angeles. Which the majority of the neighborhoods do look like they'd fit in California. Which Windenburg could be Northern Cali with all the Vineyards and Sulani can be Hawaii since that's close by... Sort of? Now it's my turn to be sorry for being wordy. 

Bug Report?: I grabbed the height slider you said you used and pretty much everyone that's not one of your NPCs gets ridiculously tall or short. So you may need to edit the vanilla NPCs or get rid of them entirely.

[mrrakkonn]

58 minutes ago, alexbsh32rus said:

How do you set up the sims' family relationships and skills? Which soft/cheats do you use? 

 

MC Command Center, though for the uploads the family relationships are just set using CAS, as that's the only thing saved when you save a household to your library (it doesn't preserve friendship and romance relationship values). 

 

36 minutes ago, TriggerBlade said:

So two things. A question and a... I guess bug report?

 

Question: You use Basemental Drugs in most of your characters. Do you play with Basemental Gangs? Some of your characters have a criminal past and it could make the world more dynamic. Especially since it seems 90% of your... IDK shared universe? Overarching Narrative? Takes place in the Sims' version of Los Angeles. Which the majority of the neighborhoods do look like they'd fit in California. Which Windenburg could be Northern Cali with all the Vineyards and Sulani can be Hawaii since that's close by... Sort of? Now it's my turn to be sorry for being wordy. 

Bug Report?: I grabbed the height slider you said you used and pretty much everyone that's not one of your NPCs gets ridiculously tall or short. So you may need to edit the vanilla NPCs or get rid of them entirely.

 

For the bug report, yeah, that's unfortunately just the nature of the beast. I thought I had written that I generally don't encourage others to use the same height slider that I use in the install desriptions but that must have been in an old post somewhere. You could say it's a bit "antiquated" as it's way older than alot of the newer ones that are custom sliders, the one I use just repalces the base game's feet size slider which means that any premade or randomly generated sims will have a height corresponding to what their foot slider is set to.

I still prefer this one to the newer ones I've tried out, because I like the scaling of it and it seems less prone to make a sim's arms and legs all bent and weird, also because it replaces a base game slider I can easily set the slider to specific values using MCCC. 

Because I don't really play the game all that much normally it works fine for me, if I need to take some pictures or do something else that doesn't work well with height differences I generally just use MCCC to set the slider values to 0 (or I adjust sims' elevation and position with TOOL if I really feel like it), if I actually play the game in some fashion I typically just temporarily remove the height slider from my mod folder, and since it just replaces a base game slider the slider values will be preserved and sims will revert to the heights I set for them when I put the slider back into my game. 

Because I'm aware that most who use height sliders use a different one than I use, I generally don't recommend getting the one I have, and it's also a part of the reason I've listed sims' heights in the descriptions so that people who download them and use different sliders can try to set their heights using different sliders if they wish. 

 

As for the California thing. Yeah, that's kind of how I see it. At the moment it's limited to me essentially treating Oasis Springs as a suburb of Del Sol Valley in how I set things up. I haven't really given much more thought to the rest at the moment. Obviously Sulani would be Hawaii and San Myshuno is San Francisco. I'll bulldoze all the community lots (I might leave Britechester) outside of Oasis Springs and Del Sol Valley when I release my world save, then I'll begin reincorproating the other neighborhoods as I begin adding more sims in. 

 

As for Basemental Gangs I have it, but I haven't really played with it or tried out its features, only thing I've really done with it is use the new tattoos. I have thought of using it though, I think it'd be fun to add in established gangs into my world, upload the sims in question kind of like with the NPCs (I think you'd have to use the world save to actually have them be in a gang as I don't imagine saving sims to your library preserves that information).

Thinking of using this guy I made a while back based off Martin Madrazo (didn't end up looking that much like him, especially as hair goes, but he's a decent sim so I keep him around) from GTA V to head up one of the gangs. 

 

 

 

Then as I understand it (having read the documentation) I need ~3 gang members, a second in command and 2 enforcers as well as a hideout/base of operations to fill out the gang, if I remember it correctly. I think it'd be fun to have in the world and it will very likely be a future addition. 

 

 

[TriggerBlade]

1 hour ago, mrrakkonn said:

I think it'd be fun to have in the world and it will very likely be a future addition. 

Would any of your current available Sims be members of the gangs or are you gonna surprise us? I totally see Rockwell being connected to some form of organized crime.

 

Also good luck finding resources for for the Simkuza. I cannot for the life of me find any decent back tattoos that would work for Yakzua sims and a lot of the people who make quality Japanese Yakutas and Kimonos paywall them. There are some good ones that aren't but they're few in comparison.

Also while writing this I remembered Tracy was born in Japan, so I guess that could be a link to the Simkuza. Or maybe her mother. She could have an uncle who's a Yakuza head and pissed off that his sister married a gaijin and his niece went into porn.(I'm putting way too much thought into this lol)

 

Also I've noticed you've been adding parents and younger versions of certain characters. Will you be adding Jason levels of extended family to your sims for the save file? Thalia and Alexis are childhood friends and you mention Tracy's parents in her blurb so more cousins, parents, and siblings to invite to Winterfest.

[mrrakkonn]

25 minutes ago, TriggerBlade said:

Would any of your current available Sims be members of the gangs or are you gonna surprise us? I totally see Rockwell being connected to some form of organized crime.

 

Also good luck finding resources for for the Simkuza. I cannot for the life of me find any decent back tattoos that would work for Yakzua sims and a lot of the people who make quality Japanese Yakutas and Kimonos paywall them. There are some good ones that aren't but they're few in comparison.

 

Most likely it would be new sims, in the sense that it would be sims I haven't uploaded yet. I could see Owen Rockwell being friends with someone in organized crime, but not being a member himself, if that makes sense. Adding the gangs would in many ways mirror how I've begun to make NPC sims otherwise. 

 

As for the yakuza tattoos there are actually a couple included in Basemental Gangs that I can see, so I don't think that's much of a problem. Don't know if I'd consider Kimonos all that essential though. Might be fun to start adding them in if I get to San Myshuno. It's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a Mexican cartel option for Basemental Gangs, as I think the sim above would be perfect as the leader of that, and I can make gang members using characters from GTA V as a reference (GTA characters are pretty good for this actually, alot of them are pretty ugly and have very defined features so they're fun to try to create). I redid the sim I posted a picture of above also.

 

 

I guess an option is to just treat Cosa Simstra as though it were a Mexican drug cartel, but I kind of got the idea just now that incorporating Basemental Gang's Cosa Simstra would be an interesting starting point for a reimagination of the Alto family, as they are clearly a spoof of the Sopranos (the name is a pretty good giveaway). 

 

25 minutes ago, TriggerBlade said:

Also while writing this I remembered Tracy was born in Japan, so I guess that could be a link to the Simkuza. Or maybe her mother. She could have an uncle who's a Yakuza head and pissed off that his sister married a gaijin and his niece went into porn.(I'm putting way too much thought into this lol)

 

Also I've noticed you've been adding parents and younger versions of certain characters. Will you be adding Jason levels of extended family to your sims for the save file? Thalia and Alexis are childhood friends and you mention Tracy's parents in her blurb so more cousins, parents, and siblings to invite to Winterfest.

 

That's actually a pretty good idea. I might do something like that!

 

I enjoy playing with genetics in CAS, it can give interesting sims and creating the extended families is fun and a good way to add the elders, children and other sims to my world that I normally don't have that much of an interest in creating so I've done it at various times for several of my sims, though I haven't shared the most of these.

 

You can see in a post above that I've began doing it for Maryam as well and I like how her family is turning out. I was considering maybe incorporating Fatima into her extended family as well, I've also created a brother for her by the way. Though currently I am leaning towards "no" on that, seems perhaps a bit racist that both of the Iranian sims I've got would be related to each other ?Also in terms of sim genetics they don't really share anything except that which has arisen through coincidence. 

 

   

 

 

[mrrakkonn]

@TriggerBlade Based off your idea I just started putting together a family for Tracy. I actually got a pretty good result for her mother straight off the bat! This is just random from genetics, I haven't made any edits yet. 

 

[TriggerBlade]

2 hours ago, mrrakkonn said:

I guess an option is to just treat Cosa Simstra as though it were a Mexican drug cartel

This could work as "La Cosa" is both Italian AND Spanish for "The Thing." Being Latin myself I can confirm that Simstra is gibberish and it could work either way

2 hours ago, mrrakkonn said:

Cosa Simstra would be an interesting starting point for a reimagination of the Alto family, as they are clearly a spoof of the Sopranos (the name is a pretty good giveaway). 

This is a REALLY good idea. If you want to use both the Altos and and your Mandrazo character I could suggest that the Cartel could be set up as overseeing the The New Crest Thugs. Similar as how to Mandrazo hires the gangs and freelancers in Los Santos to do some of his dirty work. He and his top men could be Mexican in name and design while the rest are just a random assortment of thugs you'd find in Newcrest. Since you pointed out that San Myshuno is essentially San Francisco, then Newcrest could be Oakland as the backstory for Newcrest Thugs is that they split off from Fifteenth Street Gang which is stated to be based in Myshino. 

 

2 hours ago, mrrakkonn said:

That's actually a pretty good idea. I might do something like that!

Thank you! ^^

 

2 hours ago, mrrakkonn said:

seems perhaps a bit racist that both of the Iranian sims I've got would be related to each other

Eh I'm not Iranian but I mean if it's part of your narrative, establishing family ties seems more of a priority. Some random townie with no connection to them that generates can be Iranian too  

While I'm here, since I mentioned the California thing I actually came up with area comparisons.

==LA Area:

Del Sol: The Pinnacles is obviously based off of Beverly Hills, Starlight Boulevard is Hollywood, and Mirage Park to me seems like it's based off of Hyde Park. Both in appearance and they're both well known poor neighborhoods with Park in their name.

 

Oasis Springs: The sections here give me a distinct sense of Santa Monica being near the water and the gated community being Malibu. I don't have any strong ideas for the rest but they could be parts of Thousand Oaks with the park in the center being Topanga State Park or Malibu Creek Park.(Funnily enough north of Malibu and Thousand Oaks is "Simi Valley")

 

===San Fransisco Area:

 

San Myshuno: The Spice Market gives me mad vibes of being Market Street and the Port district... because it's called Market and it's next to the port. Having actually been there it also looks similar. It also has a bit of the Mission District which has a large Mexican and Latin American community possibly contribute to the name Spice Market with the chili peper. The warehouse aesthetic of some buildings also gives me the sense of SoMa which is also near by.

Uptown ironically resembles Downtown San Francisco combined with the Financial District. Myshuno Meadows is giving me vibes of some parks I saw during my visit to China Town. So maybe you could replace that lot with your version of China Town? The Arts Quarter seems similar to The Marina District with its shops with the Casbah Gallery possibly being able to be paralleled to the Palace of Fine Arts.

The Fashion District reminds me of Haight-Ashbury. Planet Honey Pop looks like some Hippy bar which is reminiscent of the counter-culture history the area. I can't really discern anything else.

 

Newcrest: Okay not a lot of justification. It's nothing special. I'm calling it Oakland because it fits in with the backstory...

 

===Misc:

 

Britechester: Sacramento and Davisville. Davisville is the town outside the University of California and Sacramento has a bunch of technical schools to fill in for Foxbury like MTI College.

 

Magnolia Promenade: While in game I think it's an extension of Newcrest, but if you don't want to say it's downtown Oakland it does remind me of Sacramento as well. I can imagine the kids in the dorms leaving Davisville and going to the capital to get some shopping done.

 

Brindleton Bay: BB reminds me a little bit of Santa Barbra(Feel free to insert the cast of Psyche lol) in that it has nice looking town features and is near a lot of woods and is right on the coast. There's also a few farms further out which goes a long with the whole pets aesthetic if they actually add horses -_-

 

Strangerville: It's Nevada. It has its own little Area 51. It strikes me as more Reno than Vegas tbh.

 

Sulani: We agreed it's Hawaii

 

I'm trying to find more grounded reasoning for the other places to be connected to California.

 

Part of me feels like I'm going a little overboard but it's my hopes that these comparisons inspire and help  your save make more sense to you. Some of the neighborhoods are small and it's better to think a relative just lives in the town over than to force yourself to make extended family homeless like I have done in the past.

 

1 hour ago, mrrakkonn said:

@TriggerBlade Based off your idea I just started putting together a family for Tracy. I actually got a pretty good result for her mother straight off the bat! This is just random from genetics, I haven't made any edits yet. 

 

Awesome!

[Nalebranc]

Two of your sims I use (Cassandra Goth, Thalia Jordan) have costumes or custom outfits set to the formal category. I don't remember why for Thalia as hers is a witch outfit, but for Cassandra it's a stripper outfit set to formal. Were they suppose to be worn for a specific reason and if so, how are they set? I remember somewhere you mentioned using MCCC to set the outfits and I think for specific ones being worn for a specific occasion. 

[Diodonea]

On 4/14/2020 at 1:41 AM, mrrakkonn said:

@TriggerBlade Based off your idea I just started putting together a family for Tracy. I actually got a pretty good result for her mother straight off the bat! This is just random from genetics, I haven't made any edits yet. 

 

Tracy's mom?

[mrrakkonn]

7 hours ago, Nalebranc said:

Two of your sims I use (Cassandra Goth, Thalia Jordan) have costumes or custom outfits set to the formal category. I don't remember why for Thalia as hers is a witch outfit, but for Cassandra it's a stripper outfit set to formal. Were they suppose to be worn for a specific reason and if so, how are they set? I remember somewhere you mentioned using MCCC to set the outfits and I think for specific ones being worn for a specific occasion. 

Mostly these outfits are just ones I put together at some point and decided to include with the sim, just because really. Thalia's witch outfit is because I set up a Halloween scenario once and had her wear a witch costume, liked it, and I've continued having it around, I usually use formal outfits to "store" outfits that don't otherwise fit into other categories, mostly because you rarely see formal outfits actually used in any case. 

 

I discussed copying an outfit onto a sim's work outfit (to replace it) in the description posts for my WW strippers (Alisha, Candace, Jana, Veronica, Victoria) so you could look up those to find that, though if you are unsure how to copy and paste outfits with MCCC you'd probably be better off looking up a tutorial, I'm sure there's something on Deaderpool's website and very likely someone has even made a video tutorial. 

 

5 hours ago, Dr.Slump said:

Tracy's mom?

Yeah. At the moment at least. I made her becasue I wanted to make her uncle, who currently looks like this. 

 

[mrrakkonn]

Just to notify that I've added a very small and quick update that adds in members of the extended Goth family that I intend to use for my save. This is an addition adding extended family members to the Goth family. They're Mortimer's parents Gunther and Cornelia, Corenelia's mean and bitter sister Agnes Crumplebottom and Bella Goth's older brother Michael Bachelor. All of these guys are dead in the Sims 2 iteration, and in my world I'll likely have Gunther and Cornelia be dead (and ghosts) but have Michael Bachelor and Agnes Crumblebottom alive, though Agnes is going to be very old and. With the exception of Michael, they're all pretty basic in terms of how they are set up with outfit, almost all the CC used is for Michael Bachelor. 

 

 

The archive contains an extended Goth family and requires the CC for both Bella Goth and the main Goth family to work properly.