Squeeee, spoilers!! Thank you! I accidentally played the neighborhood backwards lol. I started with Service Area after hearing about it from SpringSims and only found out about JSO later. So, I made JSO a subhood, finished playing the families in Service Area and am now working my way through JSO. I just got to the Ormans and now I'm like "Ooooo, the plot thickens" I've gone through the snapshots of the last update you posted here (SJSO 2025 Test1 (NoCorrectNames) and SSAR 2025 Test1 (NoCorrectNames)) and just those snapshots made their story make a lot more sense. You're doing a great job. Just have the Rosales and the Toledos left and I'll have played all the families in both neighborhoods as of your last release.

Just let me know when you're ready and I'll get on it.

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Alrighty! Just downloaded it and I'll start going through things this week. I'm so excited to see the differences and the new ancestors! I'll keep notes along the way - do you want me to DM those to you?

I just moved Markus Automotive into the Caravan Park Apartments so I'm excited to see the changes you've made. And bless Trauma. That poor girl...her poor nose and especially now seeing her lineage

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So sorry I took so long to reply! Had a thing this week happen and only just started today. I'm going alphabetically and I've got some stuff on the Automotive family to send you that I'll DM after I write this. Lol, things are already juicy.

I think without the extended family tree mod, those relationships won't show up. So maybe just recommend it? If you install it and then save the neighborhood with it in there, I'm not sure what that will do to the save for anyone who doesn't install the mod. Maybe you can just have it in, see if it's showing the relationships you want, close without saving and then delete the mod.

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The other day I wrote all the community lot descriptions xD. I don't know why it took me so long to do so; I guess I put it off until later and it had become a standard. I also added four more townies. Some might think there's no need for more townies. But I assure you, I managed to make all four interesting. xD

Creating AI art for Service Area is quite fun xD. If I fix that cactus a bit, it really is a pretty creepy painting worthy of Madame Zirconia.

As always, I'm continuing to sort through memories, and I'm also editing some biographies, especially those of NPCs. I'll see if I can update them soon. I've seen some YouTubers want to play the neighborhood, and I wouldn't want them to play the old version. lol

I've been using SimPE for a few days now, clicking on each Sim's option to have their names appear correctly in all languages. I'm going for letter N! XD I know you can do all the sims all at once, but I don't know how to do it. So I'm doing it one by one and checking the bios at the same time. I'll probably upload the new version to modthesims in a few days. It still needs to edit more memories, there are probably some order errors, but I think it's better to update now.

Ooh, can you?

@simsample I think @HarVee said you can copy strings or something. I actually thought I'd read it carefully later, but it got lost in the forum.

As I recall I was referring to the "copy string to all" function in SimPe, which as it implies will take the currently selected string and batch-copy it to all available languages. There is no way to do several strings to all languages at once, if I am recalling correctly. So basically, there is no way to do all the character files in one go. Sorry if I confused you about that.

@HarVee I wish someone would make a mod for that! xDD

Now that I've updated Service Area, I'm back in Jeans Shaker Oasis. I actually left it in a pretty advanced state, so maybe it won't take me too long to update this neighborhood too. ^^

It's been a while since I've edited memories; honestly, it's one of the last things left to upload both neighborhoods xD I hope I get around to it soon!! XD It's like I have to edit the memories of 400 characters. xD But anyway, at least everything else is almost finished. To make up for the wait, here are some pictures of the new houses in Jeans Shakers Oasis. I've also been editing all the texts and bios for both hoods and I'm happy with the result, although maybe I went a bit overboard with the geekiness and swearing in some of them xD Maybe I should tone them down a bit.

Well, I've almost finished everything. I'm just adding the McBunny family photos and tweaking a few things. But I'll probably update both neighborhoods in a few days! Honestly, those who played the old version of Jeans Shakers Oasis will find it much more complete, almost like a whole new neighborhood xD. There are probably some things that would be good to point out when I update, like texts that get cut off, jumbled memories, or broken family connections. Even though I check all those things, there will probably still be a few bugs like that, so please let me know so I can fix them! But yes, after this update I promise there won't be any more lore or characters added to either neighborhood. The lore is truly established now. Just fixes.

Regarding Aberon Garden, it's only about 20% complete, so it will probably take a while to finish and there's no set date. Maybe in the future I'll ask some forum members for help with building some of the castles xD. The positive part is that I already have a pretty well-developed story, along with the characters and their ancestors, so the hard part is really just building the castles XD.

Okay, I've edited these two collages I was missing xD Now I just need the neighborhood photo with Cassidy's picture and then I can add all the neighborhood description images, which are the only ones left

New video of Sammy playing Service Area!