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#1 Old 29th Mar 2015 at 7:41 PM Last edited by Sampinjon : 31st Mar 2015 at 3:19 PM.
Default Crystal Valley Neigborhood
Hello all . This is my first newborn work,so i hope that you will forgive me bad aspects of it.
The reason I've decided to share this hood is : i am always searching for new populated hoods,and when i find one for download i am happy like a little kid. Hope someone else will be happy with this one.
It was imagined as a small,closed community of ordinary people which we can find almost on every place on the earth,with all their good and bad sides. They're falling into love,get married,have kids,sometimes they cheat their partners,they have jobs or they look to live like leaches,spending money other Sims have earned. There are also "dark side" of C.Valley with creatures from hell(dead girl returning as vampire,legends about hungry zombies) ,alien abduction,rumors about mad citizen who sacrifice people in attempts to discover elixir of eternal life, few mysterious disappears ,and family past mysteries and complicated relations.
For all those who asked themselves what happens with nasty Sims which likes to "visit homes during the night",after police capture them- there's a C.Valley Prison.
Crystal Valley is built on Bluewater SC4 terrain,and don't require camera mod to see entire map. It also don't have added sub-hoods (like Downtown or University).
This neighborhood does not have any Custom Content in it.
You will need to have installed beside Base Game- University,Open for Business,Nightlife,Pets and Family Fun Stuff Expansion Packs.
C.Valley contains 18 playable families with 47 Sim. Some are single,some are married,some are roomies,some have kids,some other don't.
C.Valley have 26 residental lots . 18 occupied and 8 free. Free lots are empty inside. There is : 1 huge lot (size 5x6) , 3 large lots ( 2 size 4x4 and 1 size 5x4) , 5 medium lots ( 3 size 4x3 and 2 size 3x3) and 17 small lots ( 10 size 3x2 and 7 size 2x2) . They are separate into four parts of the town : Beach Boulevard, Winter Street ,Street of Stars and Cottage Quarters with few exceptions which don't belong into any of this four parts. All residental lots are made by me.
There is also 5 community lots which are game based , and they're not made by me . They are Planetary Pet Park (size 3x4) , Pepe's Pets ( 2x2 ) , Bluewater Village Micro Mall (4x4) , Planetary Pet Store ( 3x2) and 3 in 1 Bookstore (2x2) .
C.Valley will require around 145 Mb of disc space.
There is few pictures i provide.
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#2 Old 30th Mar 2015 at 5:13 AM
Okay, that's a sizable neighborhood. Many of the lots are bigger than I'd care to play, myself.

For the upload thread, you'll need to briefly describe the families and their stories, and also explain how you went about making it - what precautions you took against corruption, whether you used AGS or empty templates (and which ones) to create an empty environment, what game configuration you made it in, and of course a CC list if you used any. It's clearly not a base game neighborhood, since you've got those giant knight statues. It's important for the downloader to know which EPs and SPs it requires to run properly.

Study the Creator Guidelines and check out the upload threads for the neighborhoods already here, to see how to format the presentation and what kind of information is expected. You will also want to present it attractively, to encourage downloading. This is a huge neighborhood - what makes it worth playing, preferably that distinguishes it from other hoods on offer? Put enough information in the first entry, the one that appears when you click on the tab, to intrigue; then go into more detail, and provide more pictures, in the comments. Your pictures vary widely in quality. They'll need to be clear and detailed, and will need to be accompanied by information like names, relationships, and story hooks.

Good luck. A neighborhood suitable for sharing is hard work to make, and to present; but it's very rewarding when you see people playing with your babies and taking them places you never would have thought of going.

Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
(My simblr isSim Media Res . Widespot,Widespot RFD: The Subhood, and Land Grant University are all available here. In case you care.)
Test Subject
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#3 Old 30th Mar 2015 at 5:17 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Peni Griffin
Okay, that's a sizable neighborhood. Many of the lots are bigger than I'd care to play, myself.

For the upload thread, you'll need to briefly describe the families and their stories, and also explain how you went about making it - what precautions you took against corruption, whether you used AGS or empty templates (and which ones) to create an empty environment, what game configuration you made it in, and of course a CC list if you used any. It's clearly not a base game neighborhood, since you've got those giant knight statues. It's important for the downloader to know which EPs and SPs it requires to run properly.

Study the Creator Guidelines and check out the upload threads for the neighborhoods already here, to see how to format the presentation and what kind of information is expected. You will also want to present it attractively, to encourage downloading. This is a huge neighborhood - what makes it worth playing, preferably that distinguishes it from other hoods on offer? Put enough information in the first entry, the one that appears when you click on the tab, to intrigue; then go into more detail, and provide more pictures, in the comments. Your pictures vary widely in quality. They'll need to be clear and detailed, and will need to be accompanied by information like names, relationships, and story hooks.

Good luck. A neighborhood suitable for sharing is hard work to make, and to present; but it's very rewarding when you see people playing with your babies and taking them places you never would have thought of going.


Thank you Peni for your suggestions. Detailed presentation of families and their homes are in process of preparation already.
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#4 Old 30th Mar 2015 at 11:58 PM
Are you using all EPs/SPs? Peni makes some really good suggestions too
Some of the roof pitches on the houses are a bit too high in my opinion. I would lower them if I was you

Want a specific style of house or community building? Why not take a look at my profile and see what I build and then come ask me to make it!
Test Subject
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#5 Old 31st Mar 2015 at 2:17 PM
Default Austin Family
Austin Family have two members. Raymond and Cindy . They are siblings.
Raymond (Adult,Pleasure aspiration,Taurus,Unemployed) - All he wants is to continue to live his life fulfilled with pleasure and fun .He does not show much care about world around him(not even his sister).He had some casual relations to few hood girls.
Cindy (Adult,Knowledge aspiration,Aries,Unemployed) - She's obsessed with knowledge,and recently she claimed that she went to "hang out a little" with aliens. After that she blocked way into her room and all she's doing is preparing herself to became one of them and painting. Her artworks are solid money income for her brother.

They live in Beach Boulevard 01.
This is residental lot,medium size 3x3.

They household is worth 30,412 $
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#6 Old 31st Mar 2015 at 2:29 PM
Default Henderson Family
Henderson household have two members. Emily and Hank . They are temporarily roomies.
Emily Henderson (Adult,Romance aspiration,Taurus,Unemployed) - After she was reason for Hank's marriage to collapse,she decided to give him a place to stay. Soon she figured that with him hanging around she can't have full freedom about what she like most. spending quality time with guys in her hot tub. So she's looking for way to get rid of him.
Hank Sanders ( Adult,Romance aspiration,Libra,Employed as MailRoom Technician in Business career track) - After his wife Fiona catch him exchanging kisses with Emily he got a ticket in a one way out of house. He's now looking to take some influence over his daughter Sendy, in hope that she can contribute to his efforts to restore good relation with his ex wife.Also,he wants to give some pleasure to his female co-workers.

They live in Beach Boulevard 02
This is residental lot,small size 3x2)

This household is worth 67,697$
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#7 Old 31st Mar 2015 at 2:39 PM
Default Jones Family
Jones family has one member - Leslie.
Leslie ( Adult,Family aspiration,Leo,employed in police career track as Desk Sergeant) - She have lifetime dream to became a Captain Hero. In the town she worked before,she made a "big failure" when she tried to arrest some police generals in corruption affair,and she was forced to quit job and leave town in "exchange" to keep her biography "clear". Now she came into Crystal Valley and started all over again.
She had casual relationship with one of her co-workers,and recently she made enemies with man she arrested and put into C.Valley Prison about some tax related felony,and who have stated that he will revenge to her as soon as he came out.In spite of that,she have some strange feeling about that man,and thinks that there's "something more",which(if she can prove it) can keep that person behind the bars for the rest of his life.

She live in Cottage Quarters 01
This is small lot,size 3x2.

jones household is worth 18,487 $
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#8 Old 31st Mar 2015 at 2:47 PM
Default Kavendish Family
Kavendish Family have one member-Lea.
Lea(Adult,Vampire,Knowledge aspiration,Scorpio,Unemployed) - she died in car crash with her best friend .
She is in : Haunted Lot
This lot is medium,size 4x3.

Since two girls died in a car crash near the place which wasn't much popular in the town even before that - no one goes there.
Never the less,few rare citizens which were near this lot during the night,said that there's some strange blitz lighting inside the house,and some strange noises as well.
Of course,it was good start for spreading rumors about unrested souls of poor girls,but in this times,only few people believe in things like that.
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#9 Old 31st Mar 2015 at 2:57 PM
Default Jovanovic Family
This family have one member,Steve.
Steve(Adult,Family aspiration,Leo,Captain Hero) -He is local sheriff,concerned about keeping this town in order,and making it pleasant and quiet place. In his free time he likes to paint and write crime novels.
Steve ,recently bought a new lot near the beach and he started to make new house,which he didn't finish jet(cause he don't have enough money).Important part is one room on the second floor where he's planing to make Art-work gallery and expose his paintings to visitors.
His old friend Robin met him with his sister,Glen,and she turned his life upside down in a positive way.They felt into love after very short time.

He lives at Beach Boulevard 03
Small lot,size 3x2 .This lot is unfinished.

Household is worth 40,508 $
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#10 Old 31st Mar 2015 at 3:14 PM
Default Boyle Family
Boyle Family has four members. Two single parent with their kids.
Sarah and Alfred are old friends who moved into same place to split high rent price .They live with mutual respect.Can terrible secret which some members have spoil good relations and bring unrest into this household?
Alfred (Adult,Fortune aspiration,Virgo,Work as Campaign Worker in business career track)-Alfred is a serious,tough man and you will not see much of emotions from him.He's trying to keep his son on way of strong discipline and to keep his life in a perfect order.
James (Teenager,Pleasure aspiration,Scorpio,Public School student)- He is a little annoyed with his fathers strong,iron hand which leads his life in a opposite direction from one he wants. He is in love with Sophia and they're going steady.
Sarah (Adult,Family aspiration,Leo,Work as Golf Caddy in a Slacker career track)- she's a woman who just want to secure good and healthy surrounding for her daughter to grow up in.And also,she's asking herself did she made a mistake when she unit her family with Alfreds.
Sophia(Teenager,Popularity aspiration,Aries,Public School student) - she see her mother as a sacred role model for the way her life should go.She's in relationship with love of her life,James,and she's planing to spent rest of her life with him.

They live in Winter Street 02
This is small lot,size 3x2.

Household worth is 47,177 $
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#11 Old 1st Apr 2015 at 1:53 PM
Default Hiatt Family
Hiatt family have one member -Shawna.
Shawna (Adult,Popularity aspiration,Scorpio,work as Campaign Manager in Politics career track) - As a child Shawna was a little traumatized. No one of other kids wanted to play or spent time with her,and she's always been ignored. She grew up in loneliness and ignorance. Now,a lot of years later she returned with ambition to became Major of Crystal Valley and to show who's the boss. All those pity souls will on their knees in front of her. She don't have any friends,but if she wants to progress in her career she must make few. Will that help her to change herself or she'll just use them to climb on her goal?

She lives in Cottage Quarters 06
Small lot,size 3x2

Household is worth 30,130$.
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#12 Old 1st Apr 2015 at 2:09 PM
Default Lancaster Family
Lancaster family have 3 members. Tomas,Elisa and Francesca. Tomas and Elisa are married,and Francesca is their daughter.
They moved here to avoid bad influence of big town on their daughter . Officially.

Elisa( Adult,Fortune aspiration,Gemini,Unemployed) - is head of this house,and she make all decisions. After they run into some financial issues,she decided to move family from RichTown into cheaper C.Valley. After she met woman from neighborhood,Penny Anderson,and realized how rich Anderson family are,she made a plan to put together her own daughter Francesca and Penny's son Jason. If two of them get married,she will have nothing to be concerned about for the rest of her life. She is very manipulative.
Tomas (Adult,Fortune aspiration,Aquarius,Recruit in Military career track) - is just slave of her wife's decisions and he don't have any purpose in the house except to work,work and work.
Francesca (Teenager,Fortune aspiration,Sagittarius,Public School student)- is lovely daughter,role model for any parents in the world,She is excellent student,overachiever,with plans to go on college.And she hope that could be her way out from being forced into relationship she don't want to be in.

They live in Beach Boulevard 06.
Small lot,size 3x2.

Household is worth 31,541$.
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#13 Old 1st Apr 2015 at 2:19 PM
Default Bristow Family
Bristow family have two members.Lorena and Mandy.
They are in love,and they live together.Lorena is person with high responsibility,employed,and she's trying to make something of her life,and Mandy's too.On the other side,Mandy is interested only in pleasure,and easy life provided by someone else,in this case her soul mate Lorena.Will she fall under pressure of her loved one and start to work and contribute to family or she will find somebody else to be her "sponsor"?
Lorena (Adult,Popularity aspiration,Sagittarius,Team mascot in sports career track) .
Mandy (Adult,Pleasure aspiration,Virgo,Unemployed)

They live in Cottage Quaters 04
Small lot,size 2x2.

Household is worth 18,929$.
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#14 Old 1st Apr 2015 at 2:30 PM
Default Krakovic Family
Krakovic family have two members. Mark and his daughter Leona.
Mark and his wife Camile moved into C.Valley because they wanted to start new life in new place. Soon after they arrived Camile disappeared . Only clue Mark had were words of his daughter how she saw her mother coming into woods near Old Mine,across their house. He called police,they've searched place,and they found some blood and one arm,so they officially declared her dead. Little Leona is devastated,and Mark is reluctant to do what police couldn't - to find whoever is responsible and bring him (or them )to justice. So far , he only heard local legend ,that Old Mine were inhabited with some family,whose members suffered from a rare,genetic disease,which turned them into brainless,aggressive,hungry beasts,after they turned into adult ages.
Mark ( Adult,Family aspiration,Sagittarius,Unemployed)
Leona (Child,Libra)

They live in Old Mine Watch House
Small lot,size 2x2.

Household is worth 18,780$.
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#15 Old 1st Apr 2015 at 2:49 PM
Default Crystal Valley Prison
Crystal Valley Prison have two playable members. Warden Johnson and Robert Barret.
This lot have civil quarters,where Warden Johnson lives,and prison quarters-where are prisoners.Prison part have three areas. Women sector,where are female felons;Men sector,where are male prisoners and Isolation Sector,where goes those who make troubles or fight between themselves.Prisoners in Isolation are locked in their cells during whole day,others have freedom to walk inside prison walls.They also have kitchen and gym under the clear sky.
Just keep gates blocked,keep girls and boys separated and all should be just fine.
You can also add unplayable prisoners to family or just make them selectable and play with them.Make gangs and stuff like that.

Warden Johnson (Adult,Fortune aspiration,Libra,Unemployed) - is man who take care of prisoners,and let them in or out when they serve they time. He has his own quarters which are outside of the prison walls.
Robert Barret (Adult,Family aspiration,Sagittarius,Unemployed) - is only playable prisoner. He is inside because he tried to avoid paying taxes. Never the less,he claims that he is innocent and he is reluctant to make a revenge to the policeman who captured him(Leslie Jones).He is also in love with Selena Colchester,member of one of the playable families.
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#16 Old 1st Apr 2015 at 6:32 PM
Default Benton Family
Amanda Benton (Adult,Fortune aspiration,Sagittarius,have her own house business) - is girl who thinks that only one thing is important in life - money. She came into C.Valley,bought a nice house on the beach,and rest of her savings she invested into small house shop. Now she's looking forward to spread her business and finish her home. She don't have much friends,all she care about are satisfied customers which brings her money. She is very ambitious ,and she don't intend to stop at just this one business she have right now.

She lives at Beach Boulevard 04
Medium lot,size 3x3.


Household is worth 86,923$
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#17 Old 7th May 2015 at 2:58 PM
Default Foster Family
Foster Family have 4 members.
They are: Robin (Adult,Family Aspiration,Scorpio,Employed as Intern Politics) , Monica (Adult,Fortune Aspiration,Piesces,Unemployed) , Toby (Child,Sagittarius,Public School Student) and Glen (Adult,Family Aspiration,Leo,Unemployed).
Robin and Monica are married and they have son named Toby. Recently Robins sister Glen came to live with them after she got fired and lost her house. With few of her stuff she moved in into their guest room.She hope that she will soon get on her own again,and till she waits for that to happen she helps her brother and his wife about raising their son.When her brother introduces her to one of their neighbors,she quickly fall in love with him.
Despite Robin and Toby are happy to have Glen helping around,Monica seems to be less and less happy every day.After Glen fall in love with her soul mate,she made a plan to get rid of intruder.All she need to do is to give some motivation to certain people to relocate Glen from their into neighbors house. Specially after she saw her vomiting few mornings in a row.
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Mad Poster
#18 Old 7th May 2015 at 4:27 PM
At some point you need to make the neighborhood itself available for playtesting. I am unlikely to do it myself due to the size of the neighborhood and reluctance to spread myself too thin, but MTS has a solid core of people interested in making shareable neighborhoods and you'll get enough knowledgeable takers to be helpful.

Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
(My simblr isSim Media Res . Widespot,Widespot RFD: The Subhood, and Land Grant University are all available here. In case you care.)
Top Secret Researcher
#19 Old 8th May 2015 at 12:46 PM
I want to test this out... It looks really nice and cool... I've never playtested anything, but I wanted to play Sims 2 in a bit different way lately. This looks great, and I would love to take on that challenge. When will it be available?

Looking at it right now, it has a very few community lots that are actually from Pets and Open for Business, so it would be easy to test community part of the town.

It would be nice if you would add two to three more community lots.
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#20 Old 22nd May 2015 at 3:37 PM
Well,i hope that i will make it available soon.I still need to introduce few more families and free lots here in the comments and than to finish some stuff in the game.Unfortunately,in last few weeks(unexpected),because of job and some other real life things i barely have time to do anything related to the internet and game,so that's the reason why all this took so much time.I hope that i will grab some free time till the end of this month and finish it all.
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#21 Old 9th Jun 2015 at 4:19 PM
Default Sanders Family
Sanders family has two members. Fiona (Adult,Family aspiration,Pieces,Unemployed) and Sendy (Teenager,Family aspiration,Libra,Public school student and overachiever,works in medical career track). Sendy is Fionas daughter.
Fiona caught her husband Hank cheating and after that she kicked him out of the house and she divorced from him. At this moment she is focused on sending her daughter into college. On the other side,Sendy is very disappointed by her parents split off and after her first attempt to keep them together fail,she is looking forward to find some other way to put her parents together again. She is not happy by her fathers decision to cheat,but she thinks that Fiona needs to find a way to forgive him for the benefit of family.
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#22 Old 9th Jun 2015 at 4:34 PM
Default Anderson Family
Anderson family have five members. Bill(Adult,Fortune aspiration,Sagittarius,Unemployed) , Penny ( Adult,Family aspiration,Virgo,Unemployed) and their 3 children : Jason ( Teenager,Romance aspiration,Pieces,Public school student) ,Jessica (Teenager,Romance aspiration,Libra,Public school student) and Jennifer (Teenager,Family aspiration,Leo,Public school student).
Bill had very nice family Organic food producing business and after he sold his farms and took big money he went with his family into nice,quiet place to live. He and his wife Penny trying to teach their children to fight with life on their own without relaying on family money. It seems that this don't have much effect,since kids are still acting like spoiled snobs. Most of their hopes about making independent college graduated person they have about their youngest daughter Jennifer,but the fact they don't know is that she's a little disturbed and her thoughts are distracted from school by stalking one of the citizens , for which she fell in love .
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#23 Old 9th Jun 2015 at 4:52 PM
Default Colchester Family
Colchester family are the "oldest" family in the town.Few generations of Colchesters are buried into Crystal Valley ground. Family history ,burdened by secrets,and mysterious deaths,complicated relations inside family and sudden disappearance one of its current members are some of the things Colchesters needs to deal with.
After last standing "ancient" Colchester died, younger generations are on their own.
Bob and Carla fell in love and decided to put aside fact that they're blood related cousins,and they got married.Other members of family did not take that with wide opened hands.After that,David run away from home and what's happen with him- no one knows.
Britany is teenage girl which her way out of family madness see in going into college,and Selena is another "problematic member" of this family,because she's (despite other members of family are against) in love with jailed criminal, Robert Barret.
This family have five members : 4 in house - Bob (Adult,Family aspiration,Pieces,Unemployed), Carla(Adult,Family aspiration,Sagittarius,Unemployed),Selena(Adult,Romance aspiration,Aries,Unemployed),Britany(Teenager,Fortune aspiration,Public school student) ,and one missing - David (Teenager,Pleasure aspiration,Libra,Public school student).
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#24 Old 9th Jun 2015 at 5:03 PM
Default Klemenson Family
Klemenson family have three members : Hubert(Elder,Knowledge aspiration,Libra,Unemployed),Selena(Elder,Family aspiration,Libra,Unemployed) and their daughter Lucie (Adult,Knowledge aspiration,Pisces,Unemployed).
Hubert gave his fascination with knowledge and fascination with science to his daughter,and she decided to dedicate her entire life to it.
In return for that "gift",Lucie is determined to find "cure for death" ,juice of eternal life,which will keep her and her parents on this world for a long,long time.
Only few people in the town knows them,and others call them "mad scientists family". Rumors about them,how they are conducting their mad,non ethical experiments in the secret areas of their large fortress are the main reason why almost everybody avoid them. It seems that this is not something which bother Klemensons more than dirt under their fingernails.
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#25 Old 9th Jun 2015 at 5:33 PM
Default Playtesting.
Ok,who wants to test this my newborn child - it's available now.
For that acrobation you'll need to have base game, and Nightlife,University,Open for business,Pets and Family Fun stuff expansion packs.
Just put "characters" folder into "NCV1" folder.
Attached files:
File Type: 7z  NCV1.7z (16.27 MB, 14 downloads) - View custom content
File Type: 7z  Characters.7z (15.96 MB, 13 downloads) - View custom content
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