#kaity b updates

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Howdy Neighbors,

I've been reflecting on my journey of sharing Pleasantview stories and wanted to share some insights with you all. 🌟

From Discord to Tumblr:

My storytelling began as a private collection on Discord, serving as a sort of filing cabinet for all that unfolded during each rotation. This led to the creation of household recaps - quick summaries to share the essence of what happened each season. When I transitioned to Tumblr, I embraced the freedom to post in real-time and explore my creativity, leading to the comic format and narrative style you see today.

Finding the Right Balance:

However, I've realized that the extensive editing and detailed storytelling might be more than I initially bargained for. It's been a joy, but also, I admit, a bit draining. I love sharing the lives of our Pleasantview families, but I feel the need to step back a bit to prevent burnout.

Experimenting with Storytelling:

Going forward, you might notice a shift in how I tell these stories. I'm considering a return to a style that blends simpler imagery with shorter narratives, accompanied by more comprehensive seasonal recaps. This approach harks back to my original method - summarizing key events while still being creative and engaging, but without the extensive energy and focus that the current format demands.

Behind the Scenes:

I wanted to bring you behind the scenes of my creative process, to manage expectations and explain the upcoming changes in my storytelling pattern. Hence why the post c:

A Reminder of Key Terms:

Rotation: Each rotation represents one week (7 days) in the life of a household, equating to one season for them.

Household Blurb: These are the descriptions you read before delving into a household's story, giving you a glimpse of what's happening in their lives.

Thank you for being a part of this journey. Your support means so much, and I'm excited to continue sharing Pleasantview's stories with you, albeit in a slightly different style.

With love and gratitude, Kaity B 🏡💕

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🌸 Hi neighbors!! 🌸

🌟 Small update: My spouse (Nick) and me (Kaity B!) are safe and sound after Hurricane Beryl. Our area took a direct hit from Beryl, but thankfully, our house didn't sustain any detrimental damage. 🏠💖 All our friends and families are safe and sound too! 🥰🌈 We've been staying with my folks since Tuesday night. They got power back earlier that day, so we'll stay with them until we get power back on. 💡✨

Feeling so grateful for all the love and support! 💕 Stay safe and take care, everyone! 🌻🌟

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A Kaity B Update

Soooooo- Y'all may have noticed an increase in Sims 2 content from my reblogs... I have decided to take a break from my Sims 4 stories and gameplay indefinitely, and instead- I'm going back to my first love: The Sims 2. For now, I'm defaulting my Sims 2 game. Which if you've ever defaulted before, I'm sure you're aware of what a hassle it can be. BUT DAMN- that dopamine boost is SO nice when I launch my game and it looks BRAND NEW. *cries* I love it so much #worth. Anyways- I just wanted to take a moment, say hello to the neighborhood and let y'all know what my plans are! Hope y'all have been well! With pixilated love, Kaity B

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Pleasant Update: Meet the Neighbors [WIP]

I'm taking a break from going hard on "For Rent" to work on my "Meet the Neighbor” page. My vision is starting to come together! I’m so excited to add everyone to this! The goal is this page will be a centrally located place where new and long-time residents alike can learn about their favorite Pleasantview neighbors °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° It would be fantastic if a friend could confirm that the hyperlinks are working! Here's a quick link to the page: [x] TYIA This lovely layout is by @retrcmoon thanks for sharing!

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Navigation Update

Howdy, neighbors!

I noticed my hyperlinks for the household recaps on my navigation post were basically all broken. I believe I’ve fixed that!

If a neighbor could confirm for me that the hyperlinks are working for them, I would greatly appreciate it!

The goal of the recaps is for them to give readers a starting place. I want them feel like your reading a household blurb before you begin playing a family in the game. The recaps are intended to give the reader just enough details of past events without having to read every household from the beginning. The recaps are broken down by each season played with that household.

If a neighbor could also confirm the recaps are helpful and coming across the way I intended I would also appreciate that!

You can also use the following hashtags to help navigate my blog:

#the “household name” household - will pull up every post with that household name. For example #the goth household

# “season” 1 - will take you to all the post that happened during that season in year one For example #spring 1

# “household name” recap - will take you to all the recaps for that household. For example #Lothario recap

# “household name” “season” 1 - will take you just that household post for the season. Currently only the pleasant twins is the only household set up for this but I’ll start implementing this in future rotations. For example #pleasant twins spring 1

Hope this helps make navigation a little easier and catching up on the stories not such a tedious or overwhelming task!

Happy simming and have a pleasant day!

- Kaity B 🫶🏻

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Hi! I read avout your gameplay style and really like it! I would like to play rotationally more but I also like having chaotic new relationships happening with NPCs. So I wondered: do your sims only interact with the one you created and do you regularly delete the other NPCs? Also, I am curious about your mccc settings to be able to set up mine. 👀

Hi Joy!! This was the most time-consuming for me to figure out how to manage/manipulate in my game. I think the best way to start answering your question is to define the difference between "townies" and "NPCs" in my gameplay. Townies: These are families, couples, roommates, ts4 families, and, for me, the households from Strangetown and Veronaville. They usually have a backstory of some sort. I don't typically play these households; they're there for my sims to interact with, and if I develop more interest in the townie, I may add them to the rotation. Malcom Landgraab is a great example. He originally wasn’t in my rotation. Nina became pregnant with his son. Then via random autonomy Malcolm proposed to move in. So it naturally occurred for me to add him.

I will also age up the households if my sims have any relationship with someone. Similar to "age up my friends" from ts2. I particularly do this with my households from Veronaville and Strangetown. For example when I moved in Malcom I add a few days to his life span to make it make sense for about how many days have passed for my played sims. I found a mod for this! See below!!

Additional Examples: Kaylynn Langerak and Gordon King as townies. Popular townies from ts2. NPCs: These are sims who fill specific roles in the universe, and the game must have these NPCs worldwide. Bartenders, firefighters, nurses, doctors, maids, butlers, etc. For NPCs, I use simmaddness NPCs on the gallery to fill these roles. (See more information below.) I typically don't touch these households once they're in my game. Creators @anotherplumbob - anotherplumbob's amazing save file includes townies. However, not every world is populated. This is where I used simmaddness as a resource to help populate my world. If you use this save file and don't populate the world, you will have ATROCIOUS-looking NPCs because the game will auto-populate new sims to fill the required roles. (You can also use MCCC to help minimize that impact.)

@simmaddness - simmaddness makes AMAZING remakes of tons of the sims 4 households. AND as if that wasn't enough, they also have toooooons of NPCS already grouped and made for your game, so you can always keep track of which ones are in your game. (You'll need to turn off culling using MCCC so the game doesn't start going through and delete unplayed households.) You can find simmaddness creations on the gallery: simmaddness

Mods

MCCC - ofc! What will be the easiest for me is to make a separate post with all my settings. I'll also look into getting a sims share file account and upload my settings there so y'all can download my saved settings.

Home Regions by Kuttoe - I use this mod to help keep my worlds from being overcrowded. For example- I don't want the mascot or vampires showing up in Willowbrook. This mod allows me to control who shows up where- ESPECIALLY with NPCs/townies. In fact, I can tell which townies belong to what world, and they will STAY in that world. You can also allow the townies to show up bi-directionally. So, for example, in my game, all the occults can visit each other's world freely, but they can't just pop over to Willowbrook. I also use this mod to allow my sims from Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Veronaville to interact with each other and show up in the neighborhoods. Disclaimer: I haven't figured out how to work around this, but when I use simmaddness NPCs, they don't always appear in the right town. For example, I have three bartenders NPC. Those three NPC bartenders are supposed to be used for every bar in every world. That doesn't always happen, likely due to a setting in Home Regions because I need to tell the game to allow that NPC to show up in all worlds. So, definitely play around with the settings on this. It doesn't totally reduce the number of random sims generated for me, but it does curb it significantly. When a new NPC is created, I'll try and make a note of the sim name- or just into CAS and change their name to their assigned role, and eventually, I'll move them into my NPC household. (Example: I go to a bar, a new bartender is spawned, I will edit/make a note of the bartender, and later go into world manager and move them into the bartender NPC household.)

Townie Demographics by Kuttoe - This mod works with Home Regions. It helps keep each neighborhood feeling unique and has many other cool features. townieoverhaul_lessfame by Sims4Me - This one does what I described Kuttoe's mod does. I suspect you can use both together, but you can also use either. Kuttoe's mod gives you more control over assigning townies. Whereas this mod will just manage the NPCs automatically. You can achieve that with Kuttoe's mod, too. You'll just have to play around with the settings. Side note: you'll also need Get Famous to make it work Let Friends Age Up - LitteMsSam - This will allow you to age up friends of your played sims. For example, when I aged Beau to a teenager, I could also age up Button from Veronaville without going into the household! High School More Classmates by Aramitus - I use this high school mod to set which of my townies will spawn at the school and any of the NPCs: janitor, teachers, etc. I definitely recommend watching this YouTube video as a guide to setting up.

Disclaimer: Because of Home Regions, you'll have to play around with the settings and ensure the write NPCs have access to Copperdale. I still have difficulties getting everyone to show up, so I've given up getting it to work perfectly and got it good enough for me.

Aaaand that's how I do my townies and NPCs. It can definitely be a lot to set up. Honestly, I'm still figuring this out and tweaking my neighborhoods always. (With Home Region, click on the townie and specify where you want the sim.) So don't feel like you have to have all this perfect before you start playing.

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Hey Neighbors!

A little update!

I’m excited to get to my inbox to answer the questions from question game I posted the other day! Thank y’all who submitted numbers!

I had a recent death in the family so I haven’t had the energy I’ve wanted to be able to engage with my tumble and stories. I wanted to communicate that I’m still here and I’m grateful for my friends who also love playing with their pixelated dolls!

With love!

Kaity B 🥹🥰❤️

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Kaity B is on the hunt for…

With “For Rent” being out for a while, I’m looking to update my worlds with units that match the other worlds' aesthetic/style/builds. Do y’all have any recommendations for me? What’s been some lots y’all have found and enjoyed? I prefer CC-free lots, but I’m not opposed to CC lots. Please tag me in builds y’all see or ones you’ve built yourself! I’d love to include them in my gameplay! Specifically, I've been watching for a remake of the Sims 2 Main Street Mobile Houses! (See pictures for reference!)

I’m not a builder, but this was one of my FAVORITE apartment lots in Sims 2. And I would LOVE to have a Sims 4 version of this lot. Thank y’all in advance for interacting/reading/responding to my search! I hope you’re having a pleasant day and happy simming! 🫶🏻

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Kaity hi!! Do you know that post where the OP linked a video how to change the camera control speed especially when the speed increases the farther you go up the floors of your build? I think I saw you reblogged it (or not?) I really need it because camera controls goes wonky when I'm in San Myshuno, especially in penthouses. If you haven't seen it, it's okay! So sorry to bother!!!

Hi friend!

No bother at all! Unfortunately I wish I were more helpful, but I don’t recall the post/mod you’re referring to. If I did reblog it, it’d be under my tag #kaity b reblogs or #kaity b saved for later if you want to double check! ☺️ Hope you’re able to find what you’re on the hunt for!

Update: Mod gif completed!