Darkling

Darkling- A populated Neighbourhood for Sims 2, with special career



This is a little neighbourhood which is populated with 10 households.
The neighbourhood is a remote island, and the livelihood of the community depends largely upon the main business, Calos Jutor's Plantation. Many Sims on the island work for Calos, making forestry products for use on the island as well as for export. Other sims have businesses making products and services that the local population needs. This makes the island mostly self-sufficient, and the local sims depend upon each other for their wellbeing.


This neighbourhood has a unique identifier: SDAR (UID 2115)
It uses the Dirt terrain and is in UK English.
There are 37 character files (30 playable sims, 6 deceased sins, 1 NPC animal generated for the buyable cat display)
There are 22 Lots- 10 residential, 12 community.
This is a main hood, with no subhoods, townies or NPCs except for the display cat.


Requirements:
The Sims 2, fully patched with all EPs and SPs
The Colour Enabler Package by Numenor
Simsample's Forest Products career (included as a seperate file)

Installation:
Unzip the SDAR.zip file and place in your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods folder.
Unzip the ssample_ForestProduct_CareerAdult.zip file and place it in your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads folder.
Important: Do not play the neighbourhood without the career file.


Example Sims and homes:





Example Pets:





Example Community Lots:





Suggested mods (you don't need these to play, but I do recommend them):




Career Information:




Additional information:

Many of the owned businesses have employees. The businesses are all set at the lowest level with no business perks earned.

All of the sims and households have Biographies, so that you can figure out what their backstories are. It is up to you how they continue to live!

All of the sims have memories, but I have chosen to give them only the most significant memories that might give you a clue to their past.

Some of the residential lots are not well equipped on purpose. For example, Windswept (Midgaff family) does not have an indoor bathroom, and Plantation Beach (Badaro family) has no indoor bedroom. This is for storytelling purposes, as well as to fit the backstory of the island (no mains utilities until recent years). Of course, you may choose to modernise them.

The Guzeg lot (Spindrift) has a bedroom with a double bed placed against the wall, so that one side is inaccessible. This is deliberate, and the bed is intended to be that of Manee and his deceased wife, Larn. Manee pushed the bed against the wall after Larn died.

Deceased sims: There are six deceased sims on the island, their graves are on the lots of their surviving families.

Sim Heights: Some of the sims are taller or shorter than standard sims. This sometimes causes some funky walk styles on stairs and also some clipping during animations and interactions. This is cosmetic and does not affect gameplay. Heights are not genetic, so if you want the sims to have future ancestors who inherit their heights, you will need to do this in SimPE or with a height mod.

Language: This neighbourhood has had all name strings replaced by the UK English strings. The sims and lots should be the same for everyone, no matter what language your game install is in. I made up the names, I apologise if I inadvertently use words that mean something rude in other languages!

Forest Products Career: The career file can be downloaded alone if you wish to play it in another hood (it is rather specific to this hood though, be warned!). But please don't play the neighbourhood without the career.

Note on etymology: The word 'Plantation' is used in the British English sense, defined in the Collins English Dictionary as:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/d...lish/plantation
"a group of cultivated trees or plants"
Although in American and English Colonial history, the word Plantation implied the use of slave labour, in this sims world slavery as a concept is unknown. The career and plantation lot included use paid employment.

No camera mod needed to play this hood, but I used my own modded camera files in creation.

Optional Terrain file: I have added the SC4 terrain file for this neighbourhood, should you wish to use the map to make your own neighbourhood. You do not need to download this file to play the hood. The hood terrain is in Darkling.zip; extract the SC4 file to your Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SC4Terrains folder.

This is a populated main neighbourhood, I have not made empty or subhood versions of it. You may use this neighbourhood and the lots and sims in any way that you like. This includes using them to make your own uploads. If you want to make an empty version, or subhood version, or use the sims or lots for your own creations, it's okay by me! Anything goes, have fun!


Mods used during creation (these are not required to play the neighbourhood)
Thank you to these creators!


Many thanks to my daughter Deedle-D, Aspersim, abc_ente, Victor_tor and Sokisims for beta testing.

Musical soundtrack- thanks to Deke, Leke, Peke, Anika, Michael, Ture, Norbert, Hans, Gary, Andy, Alfio, Maiah, Marc and Charles.
Brought to you by the letter ∆

Thank you as always Tashiketh and all of the mods and members of Modthesims.

Please let me know if you have any problems with this neighbourhood!