Trade #2 Whitlock: Current household members are: Liam & Chastity (Gen 2 Heir/Wife - elders), Oliver (Gen 3 Heir - adult), Erin (Gen 3 - teen), Dylan (Gen 3 - child), and Davina (Gen 3 - toddler). Owen and Brendan moved out. The shop is doing well and the family is plugging away at their goal of becoming Gentleman Farmers. Incidentally, since I'm able to choose either Professional or Gentleman Farmer whenever someone ranks up from Trade, I've decided that I'll base that decision on whether that family was formerly Poor or Subsistence Farmer. It makes sense to me that farmers would continue to want to live off the land and those who were career focused would continue to be. Household bank balance is $4239/$100,000.
Trade #3 Stanbury: Current household members are: Thomas & Joy (Gen 2 Heir/Wife - elders), Robert & Leila (Gen 3 Heir/Wife - adults), Mary (Gen 3 - teen), Claudia (Gen 4 - toddler), and Simon (Gen 4 - baby). James and Sarah left home and Leila is pregnant with #3. The textile business is booming! So much so, in fact, that I'm considering getting a second sewing machine so that Joy and Leila can sew at the same time. They are having a tough time keeping up with the stock for the shop. I need to take advantage of Leila's good moods, so that she can not only help more with the stock, but also build up her badge. Once Mary leaves home, things will get even more difficult, since they won't have anyone else to help out with the household chores and the young children. Household bank balance is $21,255/$100,000.
Trade #4 Godwin: Current household members are: Silas & Matilda (Gen 2 Heir/Wife - elders), Adolph (Gen 3 Heir - adult), Milo (Gen 3 - teen), and Patricia (Gen 3 - child). Yes, the Godwins finally leveled up to Trade class! They've opened a bakery, which at the moment, has mostly birthday and wedding cakes. Despite being 60, Matilda only has four cooking points, so she can't make a ton of desserts yet. She'll work on it. Meanwhile, with Olivia Hayward now being too old to marry, and his new Trade Heir status which will only allow him to marry a Trade woman, Adolph's wife search is pretty much at a standstill. Household bank balance is $1661/$100,000.
Trade #5 Hayward: Current household members are: Noah & Grace (Gen 2 Heir/Wife - elders), Abraham & Amelia (Gen 3 Heir/Wife - adults), Robin (Gen 3 - teen), Camilla (Gen 3 - teen), Paula (Gen 4 - child), and Walker (Gen 4 Heir - toddler). There is currently no room for another baby, but Robin will leave home soon. The Haywards leveled up from Sub Farmers to Trade and opened a fishmonger/produce market. Trade families are allowed four garden plots max, but there don't seem to be any rules against having a pond, so I gave them a small one. Since there isn't really anything from the Buy catalog that would work for this shop, they're going to need to grow/catch everything they stock. For now though, they're concentrating on the fish side of the operation, because Winter in coming and they won't be able to plant until Spring. Household bank balance is $649/$100,000.
And that is it for Victoria's Peak! It's been a whole "year" and I'm ready to move on to something else now. I've decided that will be my Megahood, which is kind of similar to TS4 in a way (though I built this 'hood years before that game was released) because it's basically an alternate reality timeline. I wanted a neighborhood that connected all the base 'hoods, but the twist is that I started it time-wise shortly after TS1. I recreated all the houses, community lots, and sims from TS1 for Pleasantview, copied the houses and community lots from the other base 'hoods to their counterparts in the Megahood, and then recreated the sims who lived in those 'hoods at the age they would've been in TS1. Consequently, anyone younger than adult at the start of TS2 does not exist in the Megahood. I made some other adjustments to some of the characters, but I'll explain those as I go along. Suffice it to say, for now, that we started from a point where Cassandra Goth was a teen and moved forward from there (she's been out of Uni for a little while now, if I remember correctly). Some of the couple who are "supposed" to be together are, but most aren't. Some of the kids who are "supposed" to be born have been, but most have not and many new ones have. I know, it sounds complicated (and it is a little bit), but it's also a ton of fun watching all the new couples get together, move to neighborhoods they've never been in before, take unexpected jobs, and just basically have completely different lives than they once did. Anyway, until tomorrow, Happy Simming!
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