Round 1 Play Schedule

Here is the roster for round one (well, I will reset my personal counter and start numbering the rounds from one to make it easier to follow along). It is subject to change at any time but this is the general plan.

Update

Just a quick note:

I've updated the previous entries to include the ages of each of the sims now that I've had a chance to take a good look at them. Because of the way that I had played before some of the gaps between parent and child were very screwed up. I fixed it so that there is now at least a sixteen year gap between any parent and child (except for the children born in-game where I know that the parent was really only 14 or 15). Since I am now playing with aging off this won't make much difference. I simply adjusted their age in my files and will wait to advance them or allow them to die until they reach the correct age again (i.e. if I moved someone from 60 back to 55 and they had 15 days left, they now have 20).

Gameplay and Aging

My gameplay has changed a lot in the last year.

Old gameplay:
Originally I played in 1 week rounds so that I could easily keep track of which families I'd played. Aging was the maxis default and I played each house from Sunday evening to sometime Sunday after 6pm before moving on to the next house. Anyone that aged up to adult and moved out at the beginning of the week (before Wednesday) was added to that round's list of yet to be played households and anyone that aged up at the end of the week was added to the list of already played houses. This threw some ages off at times and made for a very long play schedule. When I implemented a rule that everyone had to go to University it fixed some of the confusion because I simply added the graduates to the next round after they graduated, but I also just took everyone that was going to age to adult during that round's week (so, all teens with 7-1 day left) and sent them at once. Which caused all Sims in that 7 year span to be the same age.

New gameplay:
The round that I will begin soon will be my first round using a two-year system based a lot on Sullivan's system. This way I can play with aging off and manually age my Sims. I'll be able to play in each house as long as I want without worrying about them losing sync with the rest of my town which was always my concern. Playing for only two days would allow for quicker rounds but wouldn't give quite enough time to actually accomplish anything. This way they only age two years each round but I can play them as long as I'd like (/duh, *should have thought of this earlier*).

A Brief Introduction to Dieudonné

Hello All,

Caitria here and I'd like to tell you all about Dieudonné, a town that I created in The Sims 2.

I've been playing The Sims since TS1. I own TS3 and TSMedieval but I very rarely play them. For some reason I always find myself coming back to TS2; it is truly where my heart lies.

I started Dieudonné over two years ago as a challenge with my sister to see if we could play a whole town, on rotation, without getting bored and creating new families. The only cheat allowed was money to get the families into decent homes to begin with (and maxmotives only if in dire need). We each made 15 families of varying sizes and makeups and started with an empty hood on our respective laptops. A lot of the families in these towns melded together very quickly. There were a few families with large numbers of children that intermarried and had a couple more of their own. I never really thought about my population until I realized that I had families with 14 kids and each of these kids were going to soon start their own.

Student List for 2000

University:
Seniors-
Isidora Miller, Priscilla Miller, Ophélie Miller, Brady Albright
Juniors-
 Brooke Rowland, Karen Soloman, Artemis Brindley, Mikhail Soloman, Sabine Warwick,  Declan O'Sullivan, Reuben O'Sullivan, Zinnia Hartman, Clifford Hartman
Sophomores-
 Alan Rowland, Gideon Vallee, Rosalie Vallee, Eloise Miller, Riordan Pitre, Arielle McCarney, Chloe McCarney, Adelaide Blackburn, Christabel Blackburn
Freshmen-
Kalypso McCarney, Carson St. Pierre, Evadne Hartman, Niles Hartman, Aurelia Albright, Phineas Albright, Fae Albright

High School:
12th Grade-
Stella Miller, Nicholas Blackburn, Violet Blackburn
11th Grade-
Felipe Blackburn, Ottilie Blackburn, Claire Cook, Dionysia Brindley, Alcippe Brindley, Lucius Miller, Lysandra Miller
10th Grade-
Evangelina Hartman, Cleopatra Pitre, Beth Cook
9th Grade-
Yvette St. Pierre, Ulysses St. Pierre, Antonio O'Sullivan, Brenda Brindley, Adara Cook, Hamish McCarney, Anya Olmstead

Middle School:
8th Grade-
Angelica O'Sullivan, Damaris O'Sullivan, Perdita Rowland, Abigail Soloman, Lincoln Warwick, Fionnghuala Pitre
7th Grade-
Aspen Albright, Brenna O'Sullivan
6th Grade-
Xanthippe Brindley, Josephine Blackburn
5th Grade-
None

Elementary School:
4th Grade-
Rhiannon Pitre
3rd Grade-
Aleksandra Soloman, Alaric Soloman, Timoteo Albright, Daria Brindley, Giulio Albright
2nd Grade-
Jane Olmstead, Malcolm Olmstead, Demetrius Hartman, Augusta Hartman, Bartholomew Hartman
1st Grade-
Colin Soloman, Justin Soloman, Hope Albright, Iliana Blackburn, Napoleon Soloman
Kindergarten-
Rosa O'Sullivan, Ailill Pitre, Svetlana Vallee, Freja Vallee, Amelie Soloman, Eva Rowland