Round 1 – The Walker family

Finally, another update of my prosperity families! The Walker family turned out to be much easier to play than the Campbell family. It was a bit rough at first, but things turned out for the best at the end of this round.

I hope you’ll enjoy the struggles of single father Jack Walker and his kids!

The Walker family

Jack Walker had managed to get his hands on a prime piece of land in Aurora Valley. It was large enough for farming and it already had a little abandoned farm. Jack couldn’t believe his luck, finally his dream of becoming a farmer would come true!

The good, the bad and the ugly maxis townies…

It’s make-over time! I really, really, really don’t like the maxis townie faces. And somehow I always find something wrong with new default templates available for download. But I’ve discovered the wonders of SimPE’s Sim Surgery! It takes a little time but then those ugly townies finally look like sims I like.

Anyway, I’ll stop blabbering and show you the result of some of my Sim Surgery victims!

Benjamin Long

Round 1 – The Campbell family

Aaaarg! The Campbell family and my hair both only barely survived round 1. Just like I expected the Campbell family turned out to be the most difficult family to play so far. It’s so hard to earn some simoleans when all you have for the workforce is an elderly lady and a budding teenager after you deduct the costs of a nanny. From here all the other families should be a piece of cake.

Anyway, here are the adventures of Martha Campbell and her grandkids. I hope you enjoy!

The Campbell family

The Campbell family moved into the two trailers opposite to the Jackson family. Martha had hoped for more, but the two trailers were large enough to accommodate her and her grandkids. The kids loved the new surroundings, with so much more room to play than the her small city apartment.

Round 1 – The Jackson family

Yay! Another family survived the dreaded first round. It was I close call, but then again I never expected that a single parent household with 3 teens and a toddler would be a piece of cake.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the ups and mostly downs of the Jackson family as much as I did

The Jackson family

Their housing turned out to be a bit of a disappointment. All the Jackson family was able to buy with their last simoleans were two run down trailers in Aurora Valley’s trailer park Pine Paradise. Rochelle immediately showed her disliking of their new home: “Ow flaming Llama doody! First we’re homeless, now we’re trailer trash. Could things get any worse?” Unfortunately for Rochelle, their streak of bad luck was far from over yet.

Round 1 – The West family

This prosperity challenge is finally on the road! Every family now has it’s own home in Aurora Valley and I played the first family through round 1. I decided to play each round per season and not per week because to me it feels like a more natural ending of a round. Every family will end their first round on the first day of winter, the second round will end on the first day of spring and so on.

Anyway, here’s the first post of round 1. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

The West family

Being the “first” family in Aurora Valley, both literally as in the honorary title for the mayor’s family, the West family ended up in the most beautiful home of the little village. Unfortunately the quality of homes in Aurora Valley didn’t turn out to be as good as promised. But Michael and Jennifer couldn’t care less, it was a new start and the beautiful scenery surely made up for all their trouble.

Meet the Families!

First of all, I would like to thank everyone who commented on my first post! Still figuring out how to give proper replies to them, because I am a newbie to WordPress blogs But I’m determined to learn. (p.s. Yay for me! I figured out I can edit the comments)

Anyway, back to the prosperity business. I rolled the massive amount of six families to start out with. This is more than I hoped for because I learned the hard way that playing more households takes a lot of time. So I’ll probably try to bring some of these families together to reduce the time playing all my simmies in Aurora Valley.

Introducing Aurora Valley

Inspired by those wonderful sim blogs out there, I started a new project Aurora Valley. It’s a Prosperity Challenge and I wanted to play one for ages, but lazy me just never started. The goal of The Prosperity Challenge is to create a well-run, prosperous neighborhood from scratch. The set up of the neighborhood is decided by the roll of your dice. But first I need a nice new neighborhood to start with. There are some wonderful custom neighborhood terrains out there and my eye has fallen on a small neighborhood from N99 Forum, Ridgton.

I had a lot of fun decorating the neighborhood and this is what Aurora Valley looks like so far: