Those of you who play with any kind of Story Progression turned on in the sims 3, do you ever restrict your build or buy mode and CAS to only certain patterns, themes or technology when you first start playing your town, then as you advance through the sim year live, do you reward them with newer technology and public outings based on whatever era your currently in. For example Pinball machines became popular in the 1960's and 1970's and in the 1980's was when arcade cabinets and full blown dedicated arcade amusement halls came on the scene. Playgrounds have been around since 1859 according to google today.

(edit) modern colored's CRT monitor computers came out about 1987-2000 as my own estimate living during those ages. TV's started becoming popular given by what by grandma said I'm guessing about the late 1940's is when TVs first started becoming mainstream but TV had already been invented about 20 years at this point in history according to google.

I am hoping we simmers of the 3rd series could all post our knowledge of the past based on some of the objects we see in the sims 3 game catalog so simmers can get an idea of when to place certain items as we continue our journeys through our sims 3 towns and villages and even cities. Similar or related to what I posted, comments are always welcome as well.

another example is the console TV's of the 1970's and 1980's they were often wood and had dials instead of remotes and they sat on the ground can I get a witness????

or turn table stereos of the 1950's and 1960's when before today's Ipod's &, Iphones a

and Mp3 players became a thing in the early 2000's to late about late 2000's

If you are unsure about something then just do a quick internet search so maybe we all can learn how we could play our games and roll with the times

I have never done this and never will. And Sims has its own times no matter what we would do, such as inclusion of cell phones. If you read about the timelines of the games as I posted, I think I read 3 is set about 50 years before 1 so pretty much zero in the game would make sense.

And anyone playing can use/place anything that was done prior to the time one thinks is playing, if one considers that at all.

This shows 50 years prior to 2.

https://gamerant.com/every-sims-gam...ies-storylines/

With a little imagination I think it can be done and I don't mean to make the games 100% accurate I lean on some basics I just came back to post on

here is how civilizations generally start rising from the ground up it we were to start a new society in our Sims game from a variaty of real life timestamps

1: Grass ground
2: Dirt or Gravel surface
3: Stone Buildings
4: Wood or Aluminum Surface Buildings
5: Brick Buildings
6: Cement Buildings
7: Metal Buildings
8: Steal Buildings
9: Glass Buildings
10: Neon Buildings
11: Space ships

Here is the general surface quota for most electronics since the beginning and when I predict will continue into the future in real life.

1: Wood Grain Surface
2: Plastic Surface
3: Tin Surface
4: Steal Surface
5: Diamond Surface

again we can include always pretend that smart phones always existed or we could mod them out in which I do not recommend

This game was never designed to play that way, but if you want to.... go for it. That has been a problem whenever people wanted to do Medieval worlds. Modern things would be in the game no matter what they did. And unless you play worlds with no roads, for example, the cars, buses, taxis, fire trucks, etc. will be there no matter what. The ice cream truck...................

And unless you build all with RH rugs you will have to use the RH EA made and those time periods will be in your game. And the non played Sims will dress as they do and not match your time period.

This is very problematic as many simmers have found over many years.

haven't you ever heard of custom rabbit holes??


you know technically it was a thing, I know because I was the only man as far as I knew to do a YouTube video about it, but I took it down because it portrayed elderly sim abuse in it, when I could not wait to shoot the video and forced an elder female sim with a cane to walk to a custom stadium through a snow storm in the video, I heard myself laughing like an Idiot and I didn't want to offend the sensitive crowd so I removed it off of Youtube


here is a ancient thread about making a custom rabbithole,

https://modthesims.info/t/384618

and best of all "You Don't Even need Custom Content, you can use any rabbit hole core and place it in the basement of a rabbit hole shell building and boom as long as you have default rabbit hole in the basement of the structure your sims can simply enter the custom building as normal, then walk directly to the basement automatically and enter the real hidden default rabbit hole underground, all you need is "move objects on" cheat to place it down there.



I won't click on the disagree button and be mean even though it is looking vary tempting right now, and I thought you were an avid the sims 3 player, how could you never have heard about custom rabbit holes?

the member daisylee does have a point about running a medevil world would take a lot more modding and work but what I'm doing now is simply doing things like buying a older model tv from buy mode than upgrading it to something more modern as time passes in my town

I use rabbithole rugs all the time. I now have no need for custom rabbitholes putting them in basements. I have a lot on the exchange where I put many of the RH in one lot in a basement. It was uploaded in 2013.

https://www.thesims3.com/assetDetai...assetId=7729901

Are you going to update all the community lots also as time passes? Do you rotate households and will update all?

@Aspersim
You might enjoy the Test of Time challenge which was designed to make you play a sim town throughout various stages of history. (The original rules call for TS2 style aging and rotational play but since I personally dislike that, I just play it with normal TS3 aging and it works just fine!)

I actually really enjoy playing in historical worlds, even for my "modern" saves I usually imagine they start somewhere in the 1960s, so for example my sims can't use computers until the second generation reaches adulthood. My recommendations for a more immersive historical gameplay:

• Use a custom world without streets to get rid of the cars
• Arsil's "no cellphones" mod (this one's almost a must-have, since sims will constantly mess around with their smartphones otherwise)
• You can use a combination of Nraas Dresser and MasterController to blacklist any clothes that don't fit with your neighbourhood's time period (this can take a while especially if you have a lot of CC outfits but the result is worth it imo)

I've given up trying create a playable historic world from scratch, even if I could get CAW to work it would take too long and I want to get on with my story. So I must take what others have created and adapt. The best roadless world I have found, or rather the one that best fits my purposes, is Moon Valley (By Elle0808). It is supposed to be a medieval/fantasy world but, without making too many drastic changes, I have 'modernised' it. Or perhaps I should say 'Victorianised' it. For although my little kingdom may be lagging behind the times, the 19th century has begun to make its presence felt. What were muddy streets are now paved with cobblestones, and gas lighting has recently been installed.



Nantrelor has rich supplies of natural gas, so in that respect they are ahead of the game: most other places still burning coal gas.

(N.B. Please note that apart from the changes mentioned, plus the shop signs and window display, everything else is just as originally made by elle0808).

But for story telling purposes, of course, it is easy to select what is shown, and avoid anything anachronous. Under the main town lot there are various rabbitholes, which the audience will never see, and the City Hall, Military Base and Police Department rabbithole rugs are in the cellars of Trelorne Castle, the seat of Nantrelor's parliament. The chief mode of transport is supposedly by horseback, but to speed things up when moving sims about there are subway stations hidden about the map, which the audience will also never need to be troubled by. Some of them look just like medieval hovels: https://www.simszoo.de/filebase/fil...exte-h%C3%BCtte. There were also a few of those telephone box things from Supernatural on some of the original lots, but I have substituted them for these: https://modthesims.info/d/664348/ma...tive-llama.html. Mysterious relics of Nantrelor's past, perhaps? Whatever could their purpose have been?

All the main characters have been suitably dressed, as have many NPCs, and if anybody else shows up, I whip them into CAS, give them something suitable to wear, and then something useful to do. For example, Grady Elfman can be seen doing odd jobs around Brelor Castle, dressed in guardman's fatigues...



His side burns are perfect Victorian.

And Milton Tong (who washed up on the shores of Nantrelor a few years ago following a shipwreck) now holds a very important position...



...as landlord of the Wyvern Tavern.

Well speaking about the timeline, for custom worlds or my own worlds I have zero problem. I have a wide range between medieval to modern days to cyberpunk world.

However, TS3 shipped worlds with some returned Sims, are the few those I still confused with their timeline. The only world that I've played and still playing (and also my only favorite one), is Riverview. Let's just say we live Don Lothario alone because he obviously came here by a time-traveller and not just a teleporter, while the others like Skip Broke or the Newbies/Simovitches are still young like they should. The real problem is some technologies, like Daisy said, computers or cellphones, even a normal one and not a smart-phone from UNI is a bit...off. So I don't know if anyone here redone their world in everything and go back to 50s/60s/70s like it might be. (If anyone has done this please let me know, I wanna see your beautiful pics too)

My solution is to set Riverview to a complete alternate timeline from our real world lol. Since I also really want to play Riverview as a modern world, although I always feel like I probably have just break The Sims lore or not haha.

I was thinking maybe their technologies just different from our world lol. Could say I just worry too much, it's a simulation game anyway so I could make Riverview to what I like it to be. :D

I have never paid much attention to the lore as I play soley my legacy family and other than playing the Newbies and killing her in a kitchen fire the first day or so I played (!), I never play the EA households.

For me this game is to have fun and not to worry over more than needed. I think you have the right attitude. Just do what you would enjoy playing the most.

And Elynda, that is darn cool.

No, I don't play this way, but this post is so uncanny, it's scary!!! I was thinking the other day how The Sims franchise should've progressed and was thinking that a sequel should've played out exactly the way you're talking about, where there was a "legacy" mode, in which players had a choice of playing a family through the ages. So, starting off in the prehistoric ages (like The Flintstones), then medieval and so on and so forth. This would've been something I think Will Wright would've done, given Sim City and Spore.

But back on topic, I've built worlds that had "old/leftover" areas from previous eras. In these areas, the lots will have the same decor. For instance, there's a part of Oceanview where all the houses are ranch-style houses with wood cabinet TV sets, blue carpeting and wood paneling on the walls. In Sim Acres, there's a part that's supposed to be left over from the atomic age era--tiki venue, mid-century-modern architecture, etc.

Right now, I am finishing up a venue that's supposed to be left over from the 1980s/New Wave era, and am thinking of making the entire area from that period:

I didn't mean to frighten you sorry

I believe most of the human minds think alike on earth I believe their is nothing to worry about, you may have even heard my voice on the radio since I do have my own popular online radio station, generally all humans tend to think the same thoughts as some of the other people on Earth, it's normal, it might have something to do with the moon's position or the position of the planets I don't know the full details, But I do have an extremely sensitive mind that tends to pick up on things like real life ghosts and spirits

In short I believe that all people and even extra terrestrials are connected in some odd way

I was only using an expression to express shock about how I was literally thinking a few days ago about which direction the Sims should've gone in 😉, and it was this exact same thing that you happened to make a post about. I was thinking, "Imagine if in the next sims, there was this "history/legacy" mode, where you start out in the prehistoric period. Then, with every generation, you get a choice of whether you'd like to stay in the time period or progress. When you progress to the next time period, you get new inventions, clothing, etc. to reflect the next era, and get to play in a new town, and so on and so forth, from the Renaissance up through the 1960s, 70s and beyond (to the future)."

I just wanted to comment on that photo that, that venue looks exactly alike an early 1990's McDonalds I went to as a toddler. those black and white floor tiles bring back this memory I have burned in my mind of what life was like back then.

and how different it was then from today. Back then the FM radio was still the king of entertainment and stereos were still valuable, and would cost often $300USD or more for just a cheap one. Back then almost everyone was listening to the FM radio or CD or Cassete decks in their car stereos. Movies and Music were both just as popular as one another with Video games a close 2nd to both of them.

Today video games and videos are the kings of entertainment TV is on the back burner and Radio is actually slowly making a comeback their are now about 500,000 individual streaming online radio stations like my own and mine alone has about 10,000 listeners per hour sometimes less depending on when I can keep the server running long enough to build an audience, I can't tell where anyone is from in my station server becasue 99.9% of my listeners use VPN. But I have another method of headcounting how many listeners I have without seeing any kind of IP's.

Guess you do not follow politics or the news or social media or whatever as the way people think is extremely diverse/divided. Even more now than in the past.

All of this and other things is why it is so nice to Sim... to get our minds off the real world for a while. And into our Sim sandboxes.

I agree that I keep inside of a bubble, even though I am on social media a lot and run a Christian page with a diverse audience, Unlike most other Christian teachers that rarely make appearances on social media anymore I let my most of my audience express their opinions and thoughts as long as it's not spam links. I try my best at respecting other peoples opinions as long is it obtains no cussing of anyone out including myself, luckily for me I get more readers than trolls to my works. Some would call me a cult leader but rather than a personal page following I started a Community Page following, I had a few hecklers but not that many, or at least so far not as many hecklers as the more popular mega church leaders who often are famous for doing things that is against exactly what they tell their followers not to do. Now the tables are against the mega churches because people have caught onto their schemes

I first off don't preach for money never did, and 2nd I try my best not to make things up or lie, because I believe we all get punished for lying by what some people believe in I run "Modern Christian Believers" on Facebook

Karma is gonna bite some folks big time. There is a price for all we do. Nothing is free. And the hypocracy of some so-called churches, but we will not get into that ...

I did like that there was some religion in Medieval and from 2 different views.

Social media is not reality. It's always been driven by trolls, shills and plants, some of them staff members of these platforms. I can't go into detail as to how I know this, but the tens of thousands of "employees" that were let go from Twitter, Facebook, etc. were the ones driving most of the divisive posts on these platforms. Many of these trolls and plants would play games where they'd juggle multiple accounts and pretend as if they were two people arguing with themselves.

The worst part of all this is that so much of the divisiveness are driven by people who are outsiders posing as insiders, commenting on the affairs of cities and countries they don't live in or have never visited. As a New Yorker, I see this in plain sight all the time.

Totally agree. There is a lot of discussion now about what the social media addiction is doing to youth now, especially. Will not go into that, but it is bad, very bad. And things are just different overall now, and not in a good way.

Why we need some diversions. And Sims is great for that!

Thanks. That was the look I was going for, that crazy Memphis Style/New Wave look that was very popular.



What I miss about the 1990s was being able to browse music stores and spend an hour or two at the listener booths.

Unfortunately, it's not just youth. I know a lot of people who are obsessed with both Facebook and other forms of social media, and they come from different age groups. They all sound like brainwashed drones, just absorbing all the disinformation and trolling like a sponge and eagerly repeating it back to me. What is particularly disturbing is seeing people, who were old enough to have lived through the 50s, 60s and 70s accepting the disinformation they learned online as truth, when they are in the best position to tell the truth from the lie. These were not "stupid" people, either. In one case, one was a neurologist.

I'd love a post-apocalyptic version of the Sims 3. Let's say a game similar to The Sims Medieval but set after an apocalypse.That would be awesome.

Have you played Woeford? That is a fun, very dreary world. Very well done.

I find that one of the biggest roadblocks to playing a historical world for me, or even just a older lot, is how much space you need for routing and how big the furniture is compared to old furniture. It's a little hard to see the dimensions on the rooms but on the floor plan of the Sears home from 1908 at the bottom, the largest bedroom is 8.5 feet (2.6 m) by 11.5 feet (3.5 m). Shifted up to the Sims that's a 3x4 room, barely big enough to fit a Sims double bed- no less a bed, dresser, and a table or two- and still have room to walk. And don't get me started on how much space the straight staircases take!

[Sears, a now a mostly out of business department store, used to sell complete home kits for people wanted to put up well built but inexpensive homes- shipped anywhere within the continental US no less. This is an archive of their plans from 1908 to 1939.]