LOL--Yes, I'm sure my avatar is going to throw a lot of people off. I went from caucasian avatars to a black one. I'm neither caucasian nor black, so none of my avatars was ever an accurate representation of myself. I'm actually a very mixed and blended race person--predominantly asian. I'm usually mistaken for hispanic, Greek or Italian, though I'm none of those things, either. It's quite confusing!
What? I thought everyone looked just like their avatars. I am actually a Na'vi
Yeah, but look at it this way Johnny, at least you made your Avatar. In my case i chose a premade EA Avatar and the sad part is she actually looks very, VERY much like me. The only difference is the hair color. I never turned white haired or gray haired like most ladies my age and my hair is still blonde, sort a baby light ash blonde with ultra shine. The healthiest thing on me has to be my hair - probably because i've never had to do anything to it, as it naturally goes into that hair style - the same exact one my avatar wears all the time. It's scary to be looking through genetic EA sims and find yourself. It sort of makes me laugh when I see others use that avatar as i wonder if I have a whole bunch of duplicates. I also prefer cotton button down shirts with a collar over turtlenecks, and never purple. I wear green, white, or black usually. i have green eyes and people tell me I have porcelaine skin. I avoid sunlight like a Vampire, hehehe.
Genetically I am Norweigin, English, German, and Dutch. I had a grandparent that was full blooded of each of those countries. My mom is Dutch and Norweigin; my dad was German and English, and my ancestry dates back to the founding of America.
Leave it to Clayworld to crack me up.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
Hehehe, Thank goodness!!! If my ancesters had been anything like me, they would have been happy staying put where they were, as i sadly lack the pioneering, pilgrimage type of spirit that would move people to cross a wide ocean to parts unknown. No taming a wild land for me, never mind displacing the human already there, and the wild life.
But I do love, love, love hearing from people around the world, their lives and their country. it's always better to hear it from the people themselves than from anything else. I basically love all people and all countries.
I think other lands should be visited but not overtaken. Cultures should be treasured and not interferred with. i technically would have not seen eye to eye with many of my ancseters and their conquering natures. If I was akin to being like any of them, about the closest i come to is the Dutch Quakers and even they and I might not see exactly eye to eye. As they tended to look down at folks not a Quaker, where I on the other hand love to know everybody on an equal basis. I don't feel anyone is better than anyone else and we could all learn so much from each other instead of creating strife. You could say I am a bit different than the way our government here does things. Many Americans do not like the way our government acts so all high and mighty sometimes - but we definitely let them know, for all the good it does us.
Nothing makes me angrier is to see people anywahere persecuted for their beliefs or ethnic background. People and their diversity should be cherished.
Maybe I am just weird, but it's who I am.
Actually as far as your Irish heritage goes, i do think it is a rare scottsman without at least a wee bit of Irishness in their soul. Celts were in my head the original nature lovers of history and knew the secrets of nature. A whole lot of todays medicines owe a great deal to celtic ancient apothicaries.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
That`s right Reg, the Celts essentially had a pretty neat view of the world and nature (not unlike native Americans). The problem with Celtic history is that it was more often than not (rightfully or wrongly) described as barbaric by the more "civilised" cultures of Europe at the time.
The whole Scottish/Irish thing goes back to the Scotti who were a tribe of peoples actually from the north coast of Ireland who settled in south/central Scotland. The Scotti brought their gaelic language and eventually formed a Kingdom called Dalriada. Meanwhile the ancient Picts (mostly based in the east, and my neck of the woods) carved a niche for themselves (they were the bane of the Roman Empire, Scotland never came under Roman rule), over centuries fought many battles against the "Scots" of Dalriada.
Scotland eventually united in the year 843 under Kenneth Macalpin and the new country called itself Alba. The flag of Saint Andrew (Saltire) is in fact one of the oldest (if not the oldest) flag in the world still in use today. That was only really the start of the troubles though... a certain southern neighbour had it`s own idea of what Britain should call itself.
Phew, that pretty much covers Scotland`s first 1000 years.
The cool thing is (sorry Clayworld), unlike the na`vi, the Celts were/are real.
I think civilized society looks down their nose at anything not to their upper class standards anyway. Did not the pilgrims do the same thing to the Native Americans. I don't know about Native Americans 400 years ago, but many of my native American friends and even a few family members now, are a gentle and loving people who have a strong belief and ties in and with their ancesters. it is not unusual to know Native American who have never departed very far from the way their people believe, think, and did things centuries before we rudely came in here and displaced them. Perhaps the civilized society could not get a grip on people who loved mother nature and how to be one with the world around them. Some of our greatest mystical and fantasy inspired ideals stem from the ancient celts and their mystical way. That is a culture man should have relished if you ask me, the same as the native Americans and many other ancient peoples, but then who is asking me. hehehe. It is more like so called civilization was afraid and found it easier to brand folks barbarians than benefits from learning from them.
History is filled with both good and bad on both sides of the coin of life and man. In todays society I'm sure the caveman appears barbaric, but then where wouuld we all be if it was not for the Caveman?
There needs to be room in this world for everyone and if one set of people don't like the way another group of people are, get over it.
Our world's history of conquering and devoiding the earth of people that did not fit our ideals as a good mold for humanity is not in my mind all that honorable. Throughout history man has a tendency to destroy all that is good just for the sake of civilizing society. There is more wisdom in the ring of a tree, then in all the brainiest humans on this earth that have ever existed.
There is nothing totally wrong with modernization and civilization in general, but there is also nothing wrong with the old way as long as people do not presecute each other in the process.
I know, I am a bit of an idealist, but i can't help but sometimes indulge my more wishful side. I am enough of a realist to know things could never be the way I wish they were, but one can always hope anyway.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
I just started playing with this neighborhood a few days ago, I love it! I have never found a custom made world I enjoyed as much as Sunset Valley and Twinbrook until I came across yours. Thanks so much for sharing it!
I like how there's plenty of room for expansion. Like SS said, it goes great with Fast Lane plus I think I'll be able to make the downtown part really lively once Late Night comes out. Even as it is there's already a few places for bands to perform gigs on stage. If surfing is ever implemented later on I can already see where I could have a secret surf spot or two.
I find it interesting that there's a small shack on an island by itself that's registered as a community lot, is there a story behind it? I've converted it into a residential lot where I have a wise old sage sim living there, and he gets to the main part of the island by zeneporting.
Hi CaptainTHPS4, I`m glad you are enjoying Saskan Harbour. It was my first completed world and I was fairly happy with it. Regarding the shack on the island, at the time I thought it would be good for loner sims to live out there, but during the testing I found severe lag due to service sims (like the postman or newspaper delivery) trying to route out to the island, this stopped when I set the lot as Community/ No Visitors Allowed.
I have since found that dive wells are okay to use to get out to the offshore island. You seem to have found your own way too. Anyways, keep enjoying yourself and thanks for your message. I appreciate it.
I simply had to come here especially to thank you for this world. I have tried many others and none can compare, its beautiful and totally playable. It does not matter what type of sim I make there is plenty for him or her to do. Superb the way you have left room for expansion but if one does not want to expand everything is there anyway. Brilliant and genius.
What I like in particular is the way it makes the sims spread out, many here and many there, they do not all congregate around the same place like Twinbrook for example where they all seem to go to the town centre. Again pure genius.
The only thing I would prefer to be removed is the beautiful vista on every lot. I usually have a sim who likes the outdoors to gain the plus 20 mood but with this hood most lots, including homes give a huge vista mood boost.OK everyone is in a good mood but thats unrealistic. I do not have create a world so I cannot and would not know how to remove the vista boost anyway.
I have tried to find others you may have created but cannot seem to, perhaps you have not made any yet.
Do make about another million or so and I would download all of them.
Seriously, this is the best world I have encountered, well done and thank you very much for you hard work and attention to detail.
loopsydoo, thank you for your compliments. It`s a bit of a blast from the past whenever I see anything about Saskan Harbour. It was my first real world, with it`s fair share of first world misjudgments (ie, the Beautiful vista on lots, I`ve learned since).
Actually, I do have another world finished, it is called Matkooskee. http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/279427.page
You`ll need to have High End Loft stuff pack installed for Matkooskee to install correctly. If you read the intro you`ll be able to tell if you can play it or not.
It is a medium sized island world.
I`m presently working on a small tropical island and a large mountain lake wilderness world. I`ve not been playing the actual game so much lately as I detest the whole celebrity nonsense aspect of Late Night. Still, your praise does my heart good. Thank you.
All of your world's and Ehaught58's Fort Sim are my favorites. This one in particular, I still play every chance I can get. Why on earth, are these beautiful world's not featured. Simply some of the best I have played. Hugs, and thank you for them.
Very nice! Question though, how did you get the tents to be set up like that? I tried doing it by using buydebug cheat but could not get them to be pitched. They just stayed rolled up...
Thanks Yorkchop. It`s been a while since Saskan Harbour and it`s nice to know there are some people who still like my first attempt at creating a world.
SweetAthena86, you are very sweet, thank you. Yes, Ehaught`s Fort Sim is a lovely world, his buildings are wonderful. I`m jealous
Dreamer32910, I honestly can`t recall how I set up the tents at the camping site. I think I had a sim set up the tents then saved the lot with the tents up, but I`m not even sure that`s how I did it. Nowadays, I`d just use the Bluefunk pre-set tent mod. It`s nice as it doesn`t harm your game in any way, as the tents are already available in buydebug. It just let`s you place pitched tents on any lot you want.
Thanks Yorkchop. It`s been a while since Saskan Harbour and it`s nice to know there are some people who still like my first attempt at creating a world.
SweetAthena86, you are very sweet, thank you. Yes, Ehaught`s Fort Sim is a lovely world, his buildings are wonderful. I`m jealous
Dreamer32910, I honestly can`t recall how I set up the tents at the camping site. I think I had a sim set up the tents then saved the lot with the tents up, but I`m not even sure that`s how I did it. Nowadays, I`d just use the Bluefunk pre-set tent mod. It`s nice as it doesn`t harm your game in any way, as the tents are already available in buydebug. It just let`s you place pitched tents on any lot you want.
Saskan Harbour is gorgeous. I've been playing it for just a few minutes and already I'm impressed. I love the look and feel of it, definitely Pacific Northwest-y. I love it. Thank you for your hard work!
this looks like a beautiful world however i don't have wa, *shrieks in frustration* can someone point me in the direction of a really good world that doesn't have any custom content or store content that is not free and doesn't require wa! (if it has ambitions and late night its fine but those are my owly two eps), pls........ it is soooo frustrating, i stink at making worlds myself or i would not be begging people everywhere for one!
this looks like a beautiful world however i don't have wa, *shrieks in frustration* can someone point me in the direction of a really good world that doesn't have any custom content or store content that is not free and doesn't require wa! (if it has ambitions and late night its fine but those are my owly two eps), pls........ it is soooo frustrating, i stink at making worlds myself or i would not be begging people everywhere for one!
Zerhai, try checking out the World Index and look under the Base game friendly worlds, there are lots of really nice worlds there which require only the base game. A couple of my personal favourites are Constant Springs by Doublemedion694 and Longview by Rflong7/13.
Good luck.
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What? I thought everyone looked just like their avatars. I am actually a Na'vi
Genetically I am Norweigin, English, German, and Dutch. I had a grandparent that was full blooded of each of those countries. My mom is Dutch and Norweigin; my dad was German and English, and my ancestry dates back to the founding of America.
Leave it to Clayworld to crack me up.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
It`s cool your ancestry dates back to the founding of America, I expected no less. I promise I won`t hold that against you
But I do love, love, love hearing from people around the world, their lives and their country. it's always better to hear it from the people themselves than from anything else. I basically love all people and all countries.
I think other lands should be visited but not overtaken. Cultures should be treasured and not interferred with. i technically would have not seen eye to eye with many of my ancseters and their conquering natures. If I was akin to being like any of them, about the closest i come to is the Dutch Quakers and even they and I might not see exactly eye to eye. As they tended to look down at folks not a Quaker, where I on the other hand love to know everybody on an equal basis. I don't feel anyone is better than anyone else and we could all learn so much from each other instead of creating strife. You could say I am a bit different than the way our government here does things. Many Americans do not like the way our government acts so all high and mighty sometimes - but we definitely let them know, for all the good it does us.
Nothing makes me angrier is to see people anywahere persecuted for their beliefs or ethnic background. People and their diversity should be cherished.
Maybe I am just weird, but it's who I am.
Actually as far as your Irish heritage goes, i do think it is a rare scottsman without at least a wee bit of Irishness in their soul. Celts were in my head the original nature lovers of history and knew the secrets of nature. A whole lot of todays medicines owe a great deal to celtic ancient apothicaries.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
The whole Scottish/Irish thing goes back to the Scotti who were a tribe of peoples actually from the north coast of Ireland who settled in south/central Scotland. The Scotti brought their gaelic language and eventually formed a Kingdom called Dalriada. Meanwhile the ancient Picts (mostly based in the east, and my neck of the woods) carved a niche for themselves (they were the bane of the Roman Empire, Scotland never came under Roman rule), over centuries fought many battles against the "Scots" of Dalriada.
Scotland eventually united in the year 843 under Kenneth Macalpin and the new country called itself Alba. The flag of Saint Andrew (Saltire) is in fact one of the oldest (if not the oldest) flag in the world still in use today. That was only really the start of the troubles though... a certain southern neighbour had it`s own idea of what Britain should call itself.
Phew, that pretty much covers Scotland`s first 1000 years.
The cool thing is (sorry Clayworld), unlike the na`vi, the Celts were/are real.
History is filled with both good and bad on both sides of the coin of life and man. In todays society I'm sure the caveman appears barbaric, but then where wouuld we all be if it was not for the Caveman?
There needs to be room in this world for everyone and if one set of people don't like the way another group of people are, get over it.
Our world's history of conquering and devoiding the earth of people that did not fit our ideals as a good mold for humanity is not in my mind all that honorable. Throughout history man has a tendency to destroy all that is good just for the sake of civilizing society. There is more wisdom in the ring of a tree, then in all the brainiest humans on this earth that have ever existed.
There is nothing totally wrong with modernization and civilization in general, but there is also nothing wrong with the old way as long as people do not presecute each other in the process.
I know, I am a bit of an idealist, but i can't help but sometimes indulge my more wishful side. I am enough of a realist to know things could never be the way I wish they were, but one can always hope anyway.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
I like how there's plenty of room for expansion. Like SS said, it goes great with Fast Lane plus I think I'll be able to make the downtown part really lively once Late Night comes out. Even as it is there's already a few places for bands to perform gigs on stage. If surfing is ever implemented later on I can already see where I could have a secret surf spot or two.
I find it interesting that there's a small shack on an island by itself that's registered as a community lot, is there a story behind it? I've converted it into a residential lot where I have a wise old sage sim living there, and he gets to the main part of the island by zeneporting.
youtube.com/IronSeagull
I have since found that dive wells are okay to use to get out to the offshore island. You seem to have found your own way too. Anyways, keep enjoying yourself and thanks for your message. I appreciate it.
What I like in particular is the way it makes the sims spread out, many here and many there, they do not all congregate around the same place like Twinbrook for example where they all seem to go to the town centre. Again pure genius.
The only thing I would prefer to be removed is the beautiful vista on every lot. I usually have a sim who likes the outdoors to gain the plus 20 mood but with this hood most lots, including homes give a huge vista mood boost.OK everyone is in a good mood but thats unrealistic. I do not have create a world so I cannot and would not know how to remove the vista boost anyway.
I have tried to find others you may have created but cannot seem to, perhaps you have not made any yet.
Do make about another million or so and I would download all of them.
Seriously, this is the best world I have encountered, well done and thank you very much for you hard work and attention to detail.
Actually, I do have another world finished, it is called Matkooskee.
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/279427.page
You`ll need to have High End Loft stuff pack installed for Matkooskee to install correctly. If you read the intro you`ll be able to tell if you can play it or not.
It is a medium sized island world.
I`m presently working on a small tropical island and a large mountain lake wilderness world. I`ve not been playing the actual game so much lately as I detest the whole celebrity nonsense aspect of Late Night. Still, your praise does my heart good. Thank you.
I just downloaded this world and it's great!
SweetAthena86, you are very sweet, thank you. Yes, Ehaught`s Fort Sim is a lovely world, his buildings are wonderful. I`m jealous
Dreamer32910, I honestly can`t recall how I set up the tents at the camping site. I think I had a sim set up the tents then saved the lot with the tents up, but I`m not even sure that`s how I did it. Nowadays, I`d just use the Bluefunk pre-set tent mod. It`s nice as it doesn`t harm your game in any way, as the tents are already available in buydebug. It just let`s you place pitched tents on any lot you want.
Here`s a link in case you want to try them out for yourself.
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=427515
There are quite a few items there to check out too. Good stuff
Okay, thank you
Thanks for the hard work and a great-looking world with a good name to it.
Good luck.