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What have you done with the "Maxis Gallery" premades?
Karon
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Just for curiosity, what did you do with the premades of the official maxis/gurus account on the gallery? The ones like Amber, the Purdue brothers, the Trailer sims, the Sims 2 ones, etc...
Feel free to add pictures, texts, or whatever you guys like, just put it under spoiler to avoid making the thread super long.
Feel free to add pictures, texts, or whatever you guys like, just put it under spoiler to avoid making the thread super long.
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I ignore most of them, but the few I have adopted I use in every save.
From the demo:
Amber Stein - Creative, Goofball, Dance Machine (or similar traits)
I often pair her with either Armand or Johnny Zest and keep her bubbly personality.
In my current save she is finally becoming a world-renowed actress and singer, as I always headcanon'd for her. Amber is living in Oasis Springs with her fiance Jerry, an aspirering actor who specialises in dread pirates. Together they often give improvised shows at public places, but despite them being so close they are afraid to tie the knot just yet. In keeping with Amber's excentricity I'm making her backyard into an enchanted forest with a pond, greenscreens and acting spots whenever she has money to spend.
Armand Diaggro - Snob, Materialistic, Romantic (or similar traits)
Him I usually cheat rich and put into the Knights of the Hedge or any Gentlemen's clubs I create. In my current save he is only a minor character, saved as a favorite, but not played (yet).
June Kay
For some reason the crazy woodworking gal always ends up in a police or social worker position. She remains a background player most of the time, but I'd miss her if she weren't around.
In my current save she is in the police career and appears at the station for some of my police sims. Since I have two clubs for police members that often go on outings, Kay is good friends with many of my played sims. Maybe I'll move her in with Daniel, the police station's janitor (and leader of the first police club). He is currently in a relationship, but it seems to be a short-lived one.
From City Living:
Danny Sino-Miller
Another typical candidate for police officer/social worker. He became the first babydaddy in a recreation of my favorite Sims 2 legacy, but later ended up with Morgan Fyres. In my current save he is an annoyance who has red relationship bars with many of my played sims. I consider having him join the Renegades, although that would go against my concept of Danny as a street-raised, but non-criminal person.
Jordan Mayer
Just like the ones before: I want her around, but she usually stays a townie. Her part in the story is often that of a journalist or diplomat.
Jordan became playable briefly when I played the Christmas Challenge. She saved Windenburg's festival and reformed two criminals - not bad for a townie! Also she is my OTP for Danny.
From Get together:
Portia Colch - Romantic, Non-commital, Klepto, Ambitious, Materialistic (or similar traits)
She appeared in the trailers as a member of the Good Timers and was never uploaded by Maxis. The recreation I use is either by VampiresTeeth or iamkerri. (I can never remember which of the two made Portia and Brandon and who made Carlos).
Portia is a small-scale criminal and accomplice of Jacques Villareal's. In some saves she is his ex and mother of one or more of his children. Sometimes I reunite them, but in any case they are always close. Portia is fun to play, she works hard and parties hard, doing nothing by halves. In a way she is Mia Munch's evil twin and I'm very happy that the two befriended each other in my current save just from being together at venues. Maybe this time around I will pair them up.
Brandon Colch - Hates Children, Active, Loves the Outdoors, Geek, Lazy (or similar traits)
Portia's son and a member of the Renegades. Sometimes he is also Jacque's son or at least step-son, but there is also always some sort of rivalry between those two.
I picture Brandon as the Renegades' jack of all trades and generally a bland face in the crowd. His military pants and cap could mean that he is interested in that career or just a poser. Before we had the military career I headcanoned Brandon as a closeted space enthusiast - he is actually real good at crafting and also intelligent, but hides it from his friends for fear of being bullied.
As a teen and young adult Brandon is under the influence of Jacques and like most of his friends works for him as a criminal. But if I play the Renegades as adults (I usually do not, my saves are short lived) Brandon makes his dream of going to space true. One time he married an alien, gave her triplets and was abducted right after the birth (the extended family wanting to say "Hi!").
Carlos Patel - Romantic, Active, Mean, Genius
Another Renegade, but unlike the rest he is of age already. He wears a dogtag-like pendant, therefore I headcanon him as being interested in that career or having worked as a career soldier or mercenary at some part of his life. It depends on what YA means in that save, since he can be anything from 18 to 30 sometimes I give him a longer backstory. In the first save I used him in I even declared him Brandon's father (I didn't use Portia in that one).
Carlos is the most level-headed and least eccentric of the Renegades. He has a very good grasp of tactics, sometimes he is also interested in studying medicine (because the white coat gets all the girls!).
In my current save Carlos had a short fling with Summer Holiday, left her pregnant and fled to Strangerville to join the army. He was one of nine sims involved in solving the mystery. Ultimately I might give him to Morgan Fyres again, except if she prefers Max. We'll see.
From parenthood:
Lori Keye
In the first stream she was called Mia McNally and that's the name I gave her back. I'm not interest in playing Mia's family, so I normally stuff her together with June, Carlos and Neal into a lot with other teens and call it a living community for troubled teens. Danny is their supervisor and the lot stays unplayed until I move the inhabitants in with other sims.
Anyway, Mia has good chemistry with Brandon Colch, Neal Peterson and Max Villareal, so she usually stays in Windenburg.
In my current game original Mia is just another Renegade, but she has at one point of the story sold her image for use in a series of nanny androids. I have one of those in a household in San Myshuno. Her name is Lori Thornton, she is a young adult and one of my favorite sims. Lori excels at parenting, comedy and charisma, she is also a gamer, Mrs. Thornton's manager and she has worked for the police briefly. On top of it Lori is well liked in the city. If Mia ever comes to San Myshuno she's in for a shock
Neal Peterson
Neal I wish I would remember more often. I liked him in the trailer, but somehow I always overlook/forget him in my saves. No wonder he is always sad! Just like Mia, he currently is just another Renegade.
There was the Arrival household. 5 friends who were looking for 1 more to help pay the bills. Raj Khemlani was engaged to Kalista Kalid, but then a new girl moved in their house: Babs L'Amour. Raj and Babs started cheating on Kalista, but one day she caught them on act, she gave Raj his engagement ring, but not before beating him up, she became enemies with both, and the rest of the household agreed that they needed to move out. Olivia Stewart and Moose Dubros became such good friends that when they started dating, it felt so natural...
Babs and Raj were living in a new house after that, one day the Welcome Wagon showed up and Bjorn Tu'Rock was in it. Babs couldn't resist him, everything happened all over again. Raj had what he deserved: karma. Babs and Bjorn started dating, but then he meet Armand and karma knocked on Babs door. After him she achieved her aspiration, and then meet Ollie Purdue, they married and had the 3 kids they have in the "Outdoor Retreat" trailer.
Armand and Bjorn married. Amber is Armand best friend, she was dating Sean Sullivan. Unexpectedly she became pregnant, she was so happy that she prepared a super romantic diner with Sean, and to tell him she was pregnant, she asked him to be her husband. BUT, he was a jerk... Noncommittal sim that he is, he rejected her. They broke up, and he was such a bad father...
June i didn't play much, but she never had a real job. She used to do woodworking, sell her stuff, but if i kept playing with her i would have bought a store for her. She was lesbian.
I married Steve Fogel with June Kay.
I married Andre DaSilva with Sophie/Sophia Jordan.
That’s all I remember off hand. A lot of them I never downloaded.
Holly Vinedal was the ancestor of my played sim.
I married Babs L'Amour with my Sim ( Vinedal's grandson).
And I also added the missing member of Renegades from the gallery
Rest of the premade I used it as a townies mostly.
Brandy Wood was introduced in Vampires GP
Then, the game crashed and bugs appeared and I deleted the save.
I tried playing the other premades but was annoyed to not have their names or traits, so I hunted them down on the gallery, but eventually gave up.
I stll want to rewatch all the trailers and play them. I'd like nice and tidy family package delivered by ea, just like we used to have in sims bins.
Also, I'm always undecided where to move them... It annoys me.
What? What? What?!
Where are these?! Sims 2 premades?!
Their official gallery account. Fair warning though, a ton of the forum hates them because apparently they’re not as good as the originals/unofficial ones.
My favorite one is probably Amber, she shows up as a professional DJ.
thanks!
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@LaBlue0314 They are all looking so cute, love what you did to Armand. So stylish!
@LindsaySeddon The sims 2 premades are being added to the gallery every friday. Some of them are not 100%, but i am loving all of them!
@logion Amber is indeed iconic. Love your makeovers...
@LindsaySeddon1 @BlkBarbiegal Yes, they are uploading them every friday or thursday...
She's probably my favorite promotional sim after Carlos and Brandon and I love seeing makeovers of her. Back then her trailer was universally hated and I'm no exception there. Still don't like the trailer, but love Amber!
Her are two makeovers I gave her, the left one is from 2014, the right one from my current save:
And here she is singing shantys with her fiance, Jerry (the same Jerry from Detroit Become human. One of them, anways):
I have those costumes saved as "hot weather wear". Because I do not have Seasons the sims can only wear them when I tell them to, never accidently. Amber also has the celeb perk where she can use any costume.
Carlos Patel after solving the Strangerville mystery:
Brandon Colch and Carlos Patel in prison (with teenaged Max Villareal and YA Wolfgang Munch):
Portia and Brandon Colch living in the Villareal mansion:
These are very subtle makeovers that leave both of them mostly as-is.
Jordan Mayer (leftmost sim) and her two playalongs in the Christmas Challenge:
I love Jordan's style in the promo screenshots. The outfit she's wearing there is saved as her athletic wear in the gallery, but I usually make it her primary one again. This is a rare picture where she wears something different.
Lori Thornton as police officer, quite puzzled how her superior in Detroit/Michigan sent her to patrol in Windenburg/France:
Brandon Colch and Neal Peterson in a 7 toddler challenge:
Danny Shino-Miller as captain of a college basketball team (the rightmost sim is Darlene "Darling" Walsh):
They won that match against a team with Alexander Goth and Max Villareal b.t.w.
And this one is from my Settler Challenge save that was based in Australia. I had prepared the sims to sail around Australia with Matthew Flinders. Never actually finished playing this, but this household conveniently has almost only gallery sims in:
left to right Max Villareal, Lori Keye, Carlos Patel, Amber Stein, Armand Diaggro, Neal Peterson, Brandon Colch
EDIT: Okay, I guess I found it... https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Gallery_Sims
not so berry family tree
@Hejix I just checked the link, it seems that most of them are there, not sure if all of them, though...