Shared neighborhood - ground rules
Ancient Sim:
This seems to have moved on from my original idea somewhat! In some ways, I'm not too keen on the way it's going in that I wasn't looking at a challenge situation, which is what it's sounding more like as it develops. I had no intention of limiting mods & hacks (which I certainly have no intention of doing), but for all of us to play IN OUR NORMAL WAY, just using the same neighbourhood. I didn't even envisage passing it around either, just all of us use the same neighbourhood and compare the different ways our families develop and the different events that happen to us. In other words, rather than everyone's John Smith marrying everyone's Jane Brown, he will marry different people in different games and we can then say "Ooh, how come he married her, he HATES her in my game" - personally, I think that would be more interesting than repetition-repetition-repetition all along the line.
Somehow it seems to be being made more complicated than it needs to be, but I'm just a typical moaning old Brit, so you may prefer to ignore me totally.
JadeEliott:
Ancient, that can be a problem with things like this, everyone has thier own ideas...and it may not go in a direction everyone likes...
So I am watching the thread, contributing where I can, offering my ideas, and then if I want to later, I can start my own shared hood experience that runs the way I wish it to.
The fact that the process has not broken down completely into niggling and/or anarchy and/or drama is a sheer miracle as far as I can see, in any case.
I only wanted to say Kudos to the brave Simmiecal for trying to bring this all together in a reasonably simiple manner. Good for you, SimmieCal!
:-)
Issy:
Ancient Sim : That's the way I thought it would be, I just love the idea of playing sims that have been created by others, then sharing the different outcomes of every family.
Eventually my sims end up looking the same, and it gets monotonous playing the same way over and over. Main reason why I haven't been playing for a couple of weeks, and this put some interest for me into the game.
I know I am new, as well as alot of other people I've noticed have recently shown an interest in this - so what I suggest is that you and Motoki and maybe a few others who know each other better and can work together decide, and the rest of us that wants to join will accept the rules as you all see fit. This is just my humble opinion.
Motoki:
Bleh well here comes the dissent.
I think I will bow out for a while into the rest of you can figure things out. :P
I just sort of figured since the thread about making the game more challenging was so popular and everyone seemed to favor the idea, it wasn't a bad idea. I also thought some aspects of the Legacy Challenge were dumb like you can use the energizer machine as much as you want but can use any hacks even annoyance fixes like No What's This.
I guess this was too complicated to get everyone to agree on.
Oh well, I'm going to buy The Movies and play that for a while and maybe the rest of you can figure things out before then or maybe not. *shrug*
eaglezero:
I have to say, I've been following the threads on this topic since they started, and it was a big part of why I decided to stop lurking and actually start posting, but I'm absolutely confused about what we're doing. I think there are as many ideas as there are people posting on the subject.
Brynne -- a livejournal community would be far better than a yahoo group. If you set it on moderated membership, people request to join and then the moderators approve them, and I think that's what you are looking for, isn't it? You could then make all of the posts with download links, etc friends-only, so no one except the members would be able to view them. Plus, you can put pictures in, and there are linked comments, so there's none of that yahoo-group "quote someone's entire original post in your reply" nonsense. People could host their pictures wherever they wished -- photobucket, imageshack, their own webspace, hotlink from the exchange if you can do that, whatever. Downloads of the lots could be hosted at either the exchange, or, if we agree that they should be completely private, on member's personal sites (with the links then only available on friends-only posts) or a gmail account where we all know the password (they're actually pretty good for filesharing).
This livejournal isn't a community, but community behaves pretty much the same way but with multiple posters: http://www.livejournal.com/users/cloudlessnights/55234.html#cutid1 (See, storylike! That's the kind of thing you mean, right?)
edited to add: whoops, I gave you the cutscene. The actual chapter is here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/cloudlessnights/53554.html#cutid1
Also, yes, I know livejournal has a reputation for being ... well, BBS-like, in terms of the immaturity of its posters, but if you only let people you knew join the community, that would all be eliminated.
On re-reading your post, Brynne, I'm now a bit confused about whether you were talking about for your own personal site or for the sharing thing, but either way. If you want it for your personal site, I'm pretty sure you can embed your journal in it. Somehow. I haven't ever done it because I'm lazy and only have a basic knowledge of HTML and haven't bothered to learn anything fancy.
Also, Ancient, as I've said elsewhere, I'm a fan of the original idea where everyone contributes a lot but then everyone plays the various lots in different ways and shares what they've done. Not shares as in shares the FILES, but shares as in shares pictures, anecdotes, etc. It's like reading about whoever had the Don Lothario with the billion million toddlers -- that was HILARIOUS, and mainly so because I know Don in my game has massive trouble with his two children by Cassandra (yes, they're married, and poor Cassandra has no idea that Don invites girls over every day while she's at work. Poor Cassandra. But it's okay because I've never really liked her anyway.)
I do think the idea of wildcards is good though, because it would make you do things that you otherwise might not have done with your sims. Like, although you wouldn't ordinarily have everyone's John Smith marrying everyone's Jane Brown, but what if your wildcard said they had to? What if they had already each gotten married ni your game, to different sims? You'd then have to make them do something like fall in love, get caught cheating by each of their respectives spouses, break up with the spouses, and get married. I know that I wouldn't ever have that happen in my neighborhood if I was controlling everything that happened, but with the wildcard I'd do it, and it would introduce an aspect to the gameplay that I don't see ordinarily.
*sigh*
Again, my post is far longer than I meant it to be, but I'm attempting to achieve some kind of clarity, and I'm not sure it's working out.
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