Paternoster

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Uploaded: 28th Jun 2023 at 2:45 PM
Updated: 30th Aug 2023 at 10:03 AM
Edit: Replaced both files after a report about the Art Gallery - fixed now.

Edit - Added a subhood version (shopping hood) - after a couple of requests. The subhood is B224 and the main hood is P244.

Paternoster is inspired by a small town/village on the West Coast of South Africa. The hood has no custom content. Some defaults and custom content are used in the screenshots.

The name means The Lord's Prayer, and it is attributed to a Portuguese ship stranding there in the early 1800's on route to India; not long before the town was proclaimed. Every single one survived and showed how grateful they were by praying The Lord's Prayer for days on end.

"We live in heaven here, we only have to die."
Some tourists say Paternoster reminds them of Greece. "We say Greece reminds us of Paternoster."


There are cultural lots like the church, library, art gallery, etc.


Shops, because Sims has to go shopping:


3 Farmhouses for your farming sims:


and provision is made for fitness, sport, artists, musicians and those who don't want to eat any old fish from the sea.

A Bit of Background


The hood is unpopulated, except for 5 NPC's that have spawned. I have built it with the UC; if you don't use the UC, you will need all expansion and stuff packs and your game should be fully patched.

If you use a pond water mod that requires swimming pool squares, I have added those, and your mod should work.

HOOD ID: Paternoster; UID; P224
Terrain Type: Lush

(The climate in RL is Mediterranean)

After more than a year, a computer breaking down, abusing the Modify Neighborhood Terrain daily until the lots across from the beach lots stopped being flooded, getting on terms with Windows 11 and facing hours every day without electricity - I am so happy to say there are;

83 lots, 48 residential, 2 apartment lots with 4 units to rent each and 33 community lots. Have a look at some of them, most of them (excluding the beach lots) with the sun at the back (all of them are in the screenshots). Most residential lots are fully furnished and have a garage or a driveway.

Residential


Community


Lot sizes and prices;

Most of the lots are on the small side, sizes are per the lot adjustor, which adds the 10 tiles from the road. (That means a 3X3 lot will be 3X2 in normal size).

See spoiler about lot sizes and prices


LIST OF COMMUNITY LOTS, SIZE AND PRICE


GRAPHIC GLITCH


Translating some words:
Kolwyntjie (the bakery) - cupcake
strandloper - beach walker
malmok - local name for a mollyhawk, a large type of albatross found on the West and East Coast of Southern Africa.

This hood is dedicated to:
1, those of you who always download my lots, your support means a lot to me.
2. those of you who have allowed me to enter building contests, competed against me, made me laugh, made me cry (tears of joy when I did something right) and even made me throw my toys out of the cot - I have learned so much from every single one of you and you will always be special to me.
3. A special thanks to @Karen Lorraine and @HugeLunatic, who moderated my first lots and taught me a lot when they kept asking me to make changes
4. And a special thanks to @joandsarah77 too, for making me a judge in her last contest, where I learned more than I ever thought I'd know.

I hope you like it

Mod used to build this hood

Not needed for the hood to work.

vNoTownieRegen by Pescado
vAnti-Redundancy by Pescado
Buyable Objects by HugeLunatic
SEP by Numenor
CEP by Numenor
AL Multi Mailbox for non-apartment use by Sophie-David
Buyable Career Objects by Sophie-David
turn-on-off-all-lights by Mootilda
LotAdjuster by Mootilda
Shift EverythingLamare
Roof Shader by Niol
buyable objects by Ponderosa

Custom Content recommended.
Invisible Driveway recolor by Sophie-David
Neighborhood Tree Defaults by Honeywell
Roof Trim Defaults by Honeywell
Blurry Skies by Nopke
Wall top replacement by Maranatah
Default floor edge stucco white by Mootilda
Allow souvenirs in non-vacation hoods by Lord Darcy

Thank you to Mod the Sims and everyone who wrote a tutorial on creating empty custom hoods. Also thank you to SimCity4, which I used to make the map. Also, thank you to @Jawusa for the empty templates, all the information and getting me interested in creating a hood in the first place.