GasBandit
Staff member
It's that time again folks, we're doing this - I'll be running a playthrough of Halforums House in Sims 4, in the time honored tradition that Gusto started and I carried forth.
Sorry to disappoint the HFA fans, but there will not be any sex mods in HH4
You'll have to be happy with good old vanilla woohoo (if anybody actually gets that far into a relationship). I'm also vetoing any vampire sims, for simplicity's sake.
Anyway, this is the thread for character creation. If you already own Sims 4, you can roll up your own sim, save it, and then copy the 5 files (one HOUSEHOLDBINARY file, one TRAYITEM file, two HHI files, and an SGI file for each sim in the household you're sending me) with the same timestamp from your "documents/Electronic Arts/Sims 4/Tray" folder into a zip file and attach them here or e-mail them to gasbandit at gmail dot com.
Or, you can simply tell me the below information and I'll create your sim for you. Do not feel like you need to genderbend to bring the ratio up, as it isn't as important as it was in HFA But if you just want to, that's fine.
I need the following information to make your sim:
Gender - you can either specify male or female, or customize your gender with the following preferences (but you only need to if you are not defaulting to one of the binary norms), specifying Masculine or Feminine for Physical Frame and Clothing style preference, specify whether this sim can become pregnant or get others pregnant or neither, and specify whether or not your sim can use a toilet from a standing position.
Age - Teen, Young Adult, Adult, or Elder. I recommend going with young adult, but if somebody wants to be younger or older, I'm game. No toddlers or children though.
Walk style- Regular, Perky, Snooty, Swagger, Feminine, Tough, Goofy, Sluggish, Bouncy, or Creepy.
Voice depth - how deep is your voice (in context of your gender) on a scale of of 1 to 10, where 1 is deepest?
Relationship - are you someone's spouse or sibling?
Aspiration - what kind of person does your sim want to be? Choose ONE of any of the following:
Friend of Animals - self explanatory. Also you will befriend animals faster, though the house will not start with any animals.
Bodybuilder - You want to be the strongest athlete. Also it is easier for you to stay fit and trim with a high metabolism.
Creative aspirations - choose from Master Actor, Painter Extraordinarire, Bestselling Author, or Musical Genius. You will get boosts to your skills when inspired.
Deviance aspirations - choose from Public Enemy (criminal) or Chief of Mischief (prankster). Your mean interactions will be stronger and more successful.
Family-oriented aspirations - choose from "Big Happy Family," "Super Parent," or "Successful Lineage." Your familial relationships will grow stronger faster.
Food-based aspirations - choose from Master Chef, or Master Mixologist. You will make higher quality food and drink either way.
Fortune-based aspirations - choose from Fabulously Wealthy or Mansion Baron (Baron probably not a good pick for this). You will earn more.
Knowledge-based aspirations - choose from Computer Whiz, Nerd Brain, Renaissance Sim, or Archaeology Scholar. All your skills will go up a little faster.
Love-based aspirations - choose from Serial Romantic, or Soulmate. You will be more succesful at romance than others.
Nature-based aspirations - choose from Curator (aka Collector), Jungle Explorer, Outdoor Enthusiast, Freelance Botanist, or Angling Ace. All will find rare collectibles more often.
Popularity-based aspirations - choose from Friend of the World (wants many friends), Party Animal, World-Famous Celebrity, Leader of the Pack (wants to be leader of the best club in town), or Joke Star (wants to be a famous comedian). Any of these will build friendly relationships faster.
Traits - these will affect how your sim behaves and what makes them happy/unhappy (and confer appropriate bonuses). Pick any three:
Emotional type traits: Active, Cheerful, Creative, Genius, Gloomy, Goofball, Hot-headed, Romantic, Self-assured, Unflirty
Hobby-type traits: Art Lover, Bookworm, Foodie, Geek, Music Lover, Perfectionist
Lifestyle-type traits: Ambitious, Cat Lover, Childish, Clumsy, Dance Machine, Dog Lover, Erratic (read: insane), Glutton, Kleptomaniac, Lazy, Loves Outdoors, Materialistic, Neat, Slob, Snob, Squeamish, Vegetarian.
Social-type Traits: Bro, Evil, Family-Oriented, Good, Hates Children, Insider, Jealous, Loner, Mean, Noncommittal, Outgoing, Paranoid, Self-absorbed.
Note: this is Sims, not HFA, so Evil characters will not actually attempt to kill other sims, they just get happy by making others unhappy.
Physical appearance -
Either I'll need a picture, or you're gonna have to be descriptive as hell. I need to know build, hair color and style, eye color, skin color, facial hair (if any), and I am going to need to know how you want to be dressed in the following situations:
Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Sleep, Party, Swimwear, Hot weather, Cold weather. Again, if you're going to describe it, go into as much detail as you can, and I'll try to get you approximated as closely as I can.
Regarding number of Sims
The game will only let us have 8 people per household. However, we can have more than one household running concurrently. I plan to make an entire Halforums "Neighborhood" of houses. When I am in control of one household, the other households will continue to run on autopilot. I can rotate from one to the next on an update-by-update basis, and can "give keys" to each house to the other sims as well, so that anybody can show up at anybody's house anytime they want. The maximum number of sims the game will let me put in this neighborhood is 80, so I don't think we'll have a problem with anybody getting left out.
Character creation shall be open for a week. I will close it on Saturday, March 16th, and we'll move forward from there.
I haven't decided yet whether the updates will be video or screenshot yet, so I'll be making a poll. Video updates are obviously fancier (a la Halforums Academy 2) but will take more time to produce, and so it could be 7-14 days between updates. Screenshot updates (a la HH1-3, HFA1, and HH:Rimworld) are less fancy, but will come out much quicker - like, every 1-3 days probably. Please vote for which format you would prefer, with these parameters in mind.
So get creating, you guys! I'm excited to get this rolling and see what happens, too!
Example Character:
Gas Bandit
Gender: Male
Age: Young Adult
Walk Style: Tough
Voice Depth: 2
Relationships: None
Aspiration: Computer Whiz
Traits: Self-assured, Geek, Mean
Physical Appearance - medium light skin tone, brown hair, brown eyes, short beard. Heavier set. No tattoos. Gold ring on necklace accessory.
Clothing:
Everyday: Vibrant blue Hawaiian shirt and black shorts, teva-style sandals.
Formal: Guy-fieri style suit jacket and slacks (black/red), shiny leather shoes.
Athletic: Black cotton shirt and shorts, white tennis shoes.
Sleep: Blue long sleeve thick cotton shirt, grey sweatpants, barefoot.
Party: Unbuttoned light blue hawaiian shirt over t-shirt, shorts, leather hiking boots
Swim: Knee-length dark swim trunks with colorful pattern of some sort going up the sides
Hot Weather: Dark shades, cowboy hat, open short sleeve button down shirt with bare chest beneath, blue light cotton pants, teva sandals.
Cold Weather: Leather jacket over hoodie, large thick khaki pants, white tennis shoes, blue wool cap with puff ball.
Sims ready to go: (35/80 sims) + 5 large pets + 1 small pet
Sorry to disappoint the HFA fans, but there will not be any sex mods in HH4
You'll have to be happy with good old vanilla woohoo (if anybody actually gets that far into a relationship). I'm also vetoing any vampire sims, for simplicity's sake.Anyway, this is the thread for character creation. If you already own Sims 4, you can roll up your own sim, save it, and then copy the 5 files (one HOUSEHOLDBINARY file, one TRAYITEM file, two HHI files, and an SGI file for each sim in the household you're sending me) with the same timestamp from your "documents/Electronic Arts/Sims 4/Tray" folder into a zip file and attach them here or e-mail them to gasbandit at gmail dot com.
Or, you can simply tell me the below information and I'll create your sim for you. Do not feel like you need to genderbend to bring the ratio up, as it isn't as important as it was in HFA
But if you just want to, that's fine.I need the following information to make your sim:
Gender - you can either specify male or female, or customize your gender with the following preferences (but you only need to if you are not defaulting to one of the binary norms), specifying Masculine or Feminine for Physical Frame and Clothing style preference, specify whether this sim can become pregnant or get others pregnant or neither, and specify whether or not your sim can use a toilet from a standing position.
Age - Teen, Young Adult, Adult, or Elder. I recommend going with young adult, but if somebody wants to be younger or older, I'm game. No toddlers or children though.
Walk style- Regular, Perky, Snooty, Swagger, Feminine, Tough, Goofy, Sluggish, Bouncy, or Creepy.
Voice depth - how deep is your voice (in context of your gender) on a scale of of 1 to 10, where 1 is deepest?
Relationship - are you someone's spouse or sibling?
Aspiration - what kind of person does your sim want to be? Choose ONE of any of the following:
Friend of Animals - self explanatory. Also you will befriend animals faster, though the house will not start with any animals.
Bodybuilder - You want to be the strongest athlete. Also it is easier for you to stay fit and trim with a high metabolism.
Creative aspirations - choose from Master Actor, Painter Extraordinarire, Bestselling Author, or Musical Genius. You will get boosts to your skills when inspired.
Deviance aspirations - choose from Public Enemy (criminal) or Chief of Mischief (prankster). Your mean interactions will be stronger and more successful.
Family-oriented aspirations - choose from "Big Happy Family," "Super Parent," or "Successful Lineage." Your familial relationships will grow stronger faster.
Food-based aspirations - choose from Master Chef, or Master Mixologist. You will make higher quality food and drink either way.
Fortune-based aspirations - choose from Fabulously Wealthy or Mansion Baron (Baron probably not a good pick for this). You will earn more.
Knowledge-based aspirations - choose from Computer Whiz, Nerd Brain, Renaissance Sim, or Archaeology Scholar. All your skills will go up a little faster.
Love-based aspirations - choose from Serial Romantic, or Soulmate. You will be more succesful at romance than others.
Nature-based aspirations - choose from Curator (aka Collector), Jungle Explorer, Outdoor Enthusiast, Freelance Botanist, or Angling Ace. All will find rare collectibles more often.
Popularity-based aspirations - choose from Friend of the World (wants many friends), Party Animal, World-Famous Celebrity, Leader of the Pack (wants to be leader of the best club in town), or Joke Star (wants to be a famous comedian). Any of these will build friendly relationships faster.
Traits - these will affect how your sim behaves and what makes them happy/unhappy (and confer appropriate bonuses). Pick any three:
Emotional type traits: Active, Cheerful, Creative, Genius, Gloomy, Goofball, Hot-headed, Romantic, Self-assured, Unflirty
Hobby-type traits: Art Lover, Bookworm, Foodie, Geek, Music Lover, Perfectionist
Lifestyle-type traits: Ambitious, Cat Lover, Childish, Clumsy, Dance Machine, Dog Lover, Erratic (read: insane), Glutton, Kleptomaniac, Lazy, Loves Outdoors, Materialistic, Neat, Slob, Snob, Squeamish, Vegetarian.
Social-type Traits: Bro, Evil, Family-Oriented, Good, Hates Children, Insider, Jealous, Loner, Mean, Noncommittal, Outgoing, Paranoid, Self-absorbed.
Note: this is Sims, not HFA, so Evil characters will not actually attempt to kill other sims, they just get happy by making others unhappy.
Physical appearance -
Either I'll need a picture, or you're gonna have to be descriptive as hell. I need to know build, hair color and style, eye color, skin color, facial hair (if any), and I am going to need to know how you want to be dressed in the following situations:
Everyday, Formal, Athletic, Sleep, Party, Swimwear, Hot weather, Cold weather. Again, if you're going to describe it, go into as much detail as you can, and I'll try to get you approximated as closely as I can.
Regarding number of Sims
The game will only let us have 8 people per household. However, we can have more than one household running concurrently. I plan to make an entire Halforums "Neighborhood" of houses. When I am in control of one household, the other households will continue to run on autopilot. I can rotate from one to the next on an update-by-update basis, and can "give keys" to each house to the other sims as well, so that anybody can show up at anybody's house anytime they want. The maximum number of sims the game will let me put in this neighborhood is 80, so I don't think we'll have a problem with anybody getting left out.
Character creation shall be open for a week. I will close it on Saturday, March 16th, and we'll move forward from there.
I haven't decided yet whether the updates will be video or screenshot yet, so I'll be making a poll. Video updates are obviously fancier (a la Halforums Academy 2) but will take more time to produce, and so it could be 7-14 days between updates. Screenshot updates (a la HH1-3, HFA1, and HH:Rimworld) are less fancy, but will come out much quicker - like, every 1-3 days probably. Please vote for which format you would prefer, with these parameters in mind.
So get creating, you guys! I'm excited to get this rolling and see what happens, too!
Example Character:
Gas Bandit
Gender: Male
Age: Young Adult
Walk Style: Tough
Voice Depth: 2
Relationships: None
Aspiration: Computer Whiz
Traits: Self-assured, Geek, Mean
Physical Appearance - medium light skin tone, brown hair, brown eyes, short beard. Heavier set. No tattoos. Gold ring on necklace accessory.
Clothing:
Everyday: Vibrant blue Hawaiian shirt and black shorts, teva-style sandals.
Formal: Guy-fieri style suit jacket and slacks (black/red), shiny leather shoes.
Athletic: Black cotton shirt and shorts, white tennis shoes.
Sleep: Blue long sleeve thick cotton shirt, grey sweatpants, barefoot.
Party: Unbuttoned light blue hawaiian shirt over t-shirt, shorts, leather hiking boots
Swim: Knee-length dark swim trunks with colorful pattern of some sort going up the sides
Hot Weather: Dark shades, cowboy hat, open short sleeve button down shirt with bare chest beneath, blue light cotton pants, teva sandals.
Cold Weather: Leather jacket over hoodie, large thick khaki pants, white tennis shoes, blue wool cap with puff ball.
Sims ready to go: (35/80 sims) + 5 large pets + 1 small pet
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