Sunday, January 1, 2006

Index of Household Profiles































Education and School

I've been planning to do this post for some time now, and I finally completely figured out what I wanted to say, so it's time I put this out here.

Sims vs. Real Life
Since my schoolsystem is based on the schoolsystem wed have here in Belgium, I though I'd first explain how the system is here. Later I'll explain how I based my game on it.
In real life school start the 1st of September and ends the 30th of June. There is a 2 week Christmas Holiday at the end of the year, and a 2 week Easter Holiday around Easter (of course!).
We also have a fall break in November and Spring break in March, but with a duration of 1 week. July and August are the Summer holiday.
I don't think it's a really difficult system, but then again I grew up with it.
For my sims it was a little bit harder to put in practice, since I do my age-transitions in January. That's why I adjusted my real life-system to fit my sims.
A schoolyear in SimsVille start the second week of January and ends the 3rd week of December. This way my sims still have a 2 week Christmasbreak. They have 1 week off in March, Spring break, 2 weeks off in April, Easter holiday, 2 months of in July and August, Summer break, and 1 week of in November, Fall break. 
This way my sims are home during the summer, and my age-transitions can still be in January without making it too complicated for me.
I hope it's not too complicated for everyone else.

Studying, skilling, crafting, ...
When I play my households, my sims only study skills or badges whe, they roll the want to do so. When I play my schools my sims study whatever I want the study, whether it's creativity or fire safety, crafting toys, ... they don't have to roll the want.
I'm not saying that I let them study something everytime I play one of  my school, I'm just saying that when I play one of my school it's up to me, and not up to my sims to decide if the study something.

The Schools
There are 3 schools in SimsVille and Simmeria; SimsVille Up Hill Elementary School, located in SimsVille Up Hill, and Simmeria High School, located in Simmeria. There is also a university, SVU, SimsVille University, also located in Simmeria.

SimsVille Up Hill Elementary School

Prinicipal: Marie Gerrits
Teachers: Elisa de Leeuw and Magda Kievits

Kids from the ages of 4 to 11

* general gradework
* skills
* hidden skills



Simmeria High School

Principal: Hans Mokara
Teacher: Melissa Mertens

 Kids from the ages of 12 to 17

* general gradework
* skills
* hidden skills
* badges


SimsVille University

A variety of majors spread over different faculties.
More on my university in this post. (post will be added later)









Careers, majors and post-graduate education
As most of the real great things in my game, this one isn't by me. As most of those idea, all of this also comes from Carla over at Sullivan sims!

I never liked that with the Maxis-system your sims could become a doctor without having to go to univerity, but to work in the paranormal career you needed a college degree. So when I came across Carla's system I immidiatly wanted to use it in my game.

Sims who do not attend college at all are free to enter the following careers and progress all the way to the top (custom careers are marked with an asterisk*): Adventurer, Artist, Athletic, Auto Mechanics*, Bartending*, Catering*,Cleaning*, Construction*, Convenience Store*, Criminal, Culinary, Dance, Entertainment, Events Planner*, Factory*, Fashion Design*, Figure Skater*, Fire Service*, Gamer, Gardening*, Hairdresser*, Law Enforcement, Modeling*, Military, Music, Paranormal, Pest Control*, Photography*, Pizza Delivery*, Post Office*, Repair*, Show Business, Slacker, Taxi Driving*, Writing*.

If a Sim wants to enter any other career, they'll first need a four year degree at the very least. Details on what each career requires are as follows: 

Architecture
Degree required: Art, History, Mathematics or Physics. To progress to Draftsman (Level 6), the Sim must enrol in a 2 year Master's degree in architecture. To complete the course, the Sim needs to write two novels, create four sketches on the drafting table and work alongside a practising architect. Total tuition is $8000. 
Business
Degree required: Any. 
Counseling Psychology*
Degree required: Psychology. To progress to School Counselor (Level 4), the Sim must enrol in a 2 year Master's degree in psychology. To complete the course, the Sim needs to write two novels, learn Couples Counseling and Anger Management and work alongside a registered psychologist. Total tuition is $16,000. 
Education
Degree required: Any. During the Sim's final year of university, they will work at either Sullivan Primary or Sullivan High as a student teacher. To progress to University Lecturer (Level 7), the Sim must enrol in a 2 year Master's degree in education. To complete the course, the Sim needs to write two novels. Total tuition is $8000. 
Game Development*
Degree required: Any. 
Graphic Design*
Degree required: Art. 
Intelligence
Degree required: Economics, History, Mathematics, Political Science or Psychology. 
Interior Design*
Degree required: Art 
Journalism
Degree required: Art, Drama, Economics, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science or Psychology. 
Law
Degree required: Drama, Economics, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science or Psychology. To progress to Personal Injury Attorney (Level 6), the Sim must enrol in law school. Over the four years, the Sim will write four novels and work alongside a practising lawyer. Total tuition is $16,000. 
Libraries*
Degree required: Art, Drama, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science or Psychology. 
Medicine
Degree required: Biology, Mathematics, Physics or Psychology. To progress to Resident, the Sim must enrol in medical school. During the first three years of med school, the Sim will write three novels and observe practising doctors at the hospital. The final year of medical school will be spent as an Intern. Interns can practise medicine, but only while supervised by a qualified doctor. Total tuition is $32,000. 
Natural Science
Degree required: Biology, Mathematics, Physics. 
Oceanography
Degree required: Biology, Mathematics, Physics. 
Politics
Degree required: Drama, Economics, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science or Psychology. 
Science
Degree required: Biology, Physics or Psychology. To progress to Project Leader (Level 5), the Sim must enrol in a four year doctorate degree in science. To complete the course, the Sim must write four novels. Total tuition is $16,000. 
Social Worker*
Degree required: Political Science, Psychology. 
Veterinarian*
Degree required: Biology, Mathematics, Physics.
Adult education
Another idea I borrowed from Carla, to make sure every sim gets the same opportunities, if if he/she was born as a townie without a degree.

Every sim in SimsVille is allowed to follow a cours and get a degree if he/she wasn't able to go to univeristy. It's a correspondance course with SimsVille University. The tuition fee is §10.000.
To complete their degree, the Sim will use Monique's computer to write 14 term papers on 7 different subjects - in other words, 14 different articles on the 7 different skills. They earn some money from these articles, which I consider the equivalent of the grant money YA students get for their grades at uni.
Once they've handed in all 14 term papers, I'll use the Lot Debugger to decide on a major for them and grant them a degree. Now, for all intents and purposes, they are a graduate and entitled to all of the benefits a four year degree grants you in Sullivan. If the Sim wants to get to the top of the career in Architecture, Education, Science, Medicine or Law, they'll need to complete the post-graduate degree, just like any Sim who attended university right out of high school.

Aging, rounds and rotations

I think you all already know how I do these kind og things, but I thought it would be a good idea to write a post about to put in the sidebar.

** Note that most of that things said here aren't my own! I take a lot of idea's from other bloggers. My main inspirations are Carla from Sullivan Sims and Maisie from Millwood. **

Aging

Even though I play with aging off, and age up my sims manually, I've made my age stages default, to make it easier for my to keep all of my sims in sync.

Babies, age 0, 1 day
Toddlers, ages 1-3, 3 days
Children, ages 4-11, 8 days
Teens, ages 12-17, 6 days
YA, ages 18-21, 4 days
Adults, ages 18-59, 42 days (if a sim goes to college this is adjusted to 38 days)
Elders, ages, 60-...

Rounds and rotations

I play my game in rounds. Every round represents 2 years, so my sims age 2 years each round. Since I have so many families I'm able to play with months. I try to make sure every family is played in a different season every round.
Starting round 13, I play every household for one whole week, I know this might seem like a long period, but I just think it's easier this way. This way every family has a complete week and a weekend each round.

I keep track of my sims' birthmonth, and I make sure they age into toddlers in that month. However I don't do their other birthdays in their birthmonths, this is to make it easier for me. Instead I have a huge birthday-post every January, celeberating every one's birthday from the following year.

Feel free to ask question if you have any!

Choosing a Career

I used to give my sims any job I wanted them to have, whether or not is was suited for that sim. I also used to give them the job of their LTW, wich sometimes really didn't fit that specific sim. I tried giving them the the job they rolled, but since I don't think an art-degree is suitable if you want to be a doctor, I had to start looking for another way to give my sims jobs.

And so I found this amazing system for choosing careers that Apple Valley created for Maxis careerd, and that Sullivan sims adjusted for custom careers, and I love it! I've been using it ever since, and it's been a great help.
I use the exact same system those amazing bloggers created, with some really minor adjustments. I use it for my teens, young adults and new adults. This means that sims who already had jobs before I started using this system, might not be in the right career for them, but I'm not going to change every sims' career.

As said this list is merely a copy/paste-job from the others, but I wanted it all on one page.

Adventurer
Personality: Active
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Culture, weather
Hobbies: Fitness, sports
Optional Degree: Literatur

Architecture
Personality: Serious
Aspiration: Knowledge
Interests: Environment
Hobbies: Arts and crafts, tinkering
Required Degree: Architecture, mathemtics, history, physics

Artist
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Pleasure, family
Interests: Culture, Entertainment, Fashion
Hobbies: Arts & Crafts
Optional Degree: Art

Athletic
Personality: Active, outgoing
Aspiration: Fortune, popularity
Interests: Sports
Hobbies: Sports, fitness
Optional Degree: Sport

Author 
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Family, knowledge
Interests: Culture, entertainment, school
Hobbies: Film and literature
Degree: None

Auto Mechanics
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Family, popularity
Interests: n/a
Hobbies: Tinkering
Degree: None

Ballerina
Personality: Active
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Culture, entertainment
Hobbies: Fitness, sports, music and dance
Optional Degree: Performing arts, dance

Bartending
Personality: Outgoing
Aspiration: Popularity, pleasure, romance
Interests: Food, entertainment, culture
Hobbies: Cuisine
Degree: None

Broadcast Journalism
Personality: Outgoing, active
Aspiration: Fortune, popularity
Interests: n/a
Hobbies: Film and literature
Optional Degree: Jourlism, literature, drama

Business
Personality: Serious, outgoing
Aspiration: Fortune, family
Interests: Money, work
Hobbies: n/a
Required Degree: Economics

Catering
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Popularity, pleasure
Interests: Food, entertainment
Hobbies: Cuisine
Degree: None

Cleaning
Personality: Neat
Aspiration: Family
Interests: n/a
Hobbies: n/a
Degree: None

Construction
Personality: Active
Aspiration: Family
Interests: Environment, work
Hobbies: Tinkering
Optional Degree: Mathemetics, physics, mathematics

Convinience Store
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Pleasure
Interests: Food, toys
Hobbies: n/a
Degree: None

Counseling Psychology
Personality: Nice, serious
Aspiration: Family, knowledge
Interests: Health
Hobbies: n/a
Required Degree: Psychology

Criminal
Personality: Active, mean
Aspiration: Fortune
Interests: Crime, money
Hobbies: Fitness
Degree: None

Cullinary
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Food
Hobbies: Cuisine
Optional Degree: Cullinary arts

Dance
Personality: Active
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Culture, entertainment
Hobbies: Fitness, sports, music and dance
Optional Degree: Performing arts, dance

Education
Personality: Outgoing
Aspiration: Knowledge, family
Interests: School, toys
Hobbies: Science
Required Degree: Education, literature, mathematics

Entertainment
Personality: Active, outgoing
Aspiration: Fortune, popularity
Interests: Culture, entertainment
Hobbies: Music and dance, film and literature
Optional Degree: Drama, performing arts

Estate Agent
Personality: Neat
Aspiration: Fortune, family
Interests: Environment
Hobbies: n/a
Optinal Degree: Intirior design
 

Events Planner
Personality: Neat, playful, outgoing, active
Aspiration: Popularity, fortune, pleasure, romance
Interests: Culture, entertainment, food
Hobbies: Cuisine
Optional Degree: Cullinary arts

Fashion Designer
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Popularity, fortune, pleasure, romance
Interests: Culture, entertainment, fashion
Hobbies: Arts and crafts
Optional Degree: Fashion

Figure Skater
Personality: Active
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Sports, fashion, culture
Hobbies: Sports, fitness
Optional Degree: Sports

Fire Service
Personality: Active, nice
Aspiration: Family, romance, popularity
Interests: Crime, work, health, weather
Hobbies: Fitness, sports
Degree: None

Game Development
Personality: Playful, shy
Aspiration: Knowledge, pleasure
Interests: Toys, entertainment, work
Hobbies: Games, science, tinkering
Required Degree: Any

Gamer
Personality: Playful
Aspiration: Pleasure
Interests: Toys
Hobbies: Games
Degree: None

Gardening
Personality: Neat, active
Aspiration: Family
Interests: Environment, weather
Hobbies: Nature
Degree: None

Graphic Design
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Knowledge
Interests: Entertainment, culture, fasion
Hobbies: Arts and crafts, science
Required Degree: Art

Hairdresser
Personality: Neat, outgoing
Aspiration: Family, pleasure, popularity
Interests: Fashion
Hobbies: Arts and Crafts
Degree: None

Intellegence
Personality: Neat
Aspiration: Knowledge
Interests: Work, travel
Hobbies: Film and literature, tinkering, science
Required Degree: Biology, mathematics, physics

Interior Design
Personality: Neat
Aspiration: Popularity, fortune, pleasure
Interests: Fashion, environment
Hobbies: Arts and crafts
Required Degree: Art, mathematics, interior desing

Journalism

Personality: Outgoing
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Travel, weather, work
Hobbies: Film and literature
Optional Degree: Literature, journalism

Law
Personality: Outgoing, serious
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Crime
Hobbies: Film and literature
Required Degree: Law, economics

Law Enforcement

Personality: Active, serious
Aspiration: Family
Interests: Crime
Hobbies: Fitness, sports
Degree: None

Libraries
Personality: Shy, serious
Aspiration: Family, knowledge
Interests: Culture, work, school
Hobbies: Film and literature, science
Optional Degree: Any

Medicine
Personality: Serious, neat
Aspiration: Fortune, knowledge
Interests: Health
Hobbies: Fitness
Required Degree: Biology, physics

Military

Personality: Active
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Work
Hobbies: Fitness, sports
Degree: None

Modeling
Personality: Neat
Aspiration: Pleasure, romance, popularity
Interests: Fashion, entertainment
Hobbies: n/a
Optional Degree: Fashion

Music (classical/hip hop/jazz/pop)
Personality: Outgoing
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Culture, entertainment, fashion
Hobbies: Music and dance
Optional Degree: Music

Natural Science
Personality: Neat, serious
Aspiration: Knowledge
Interests: Animals, Environment, weather
Hobbies: Science, tinkering, nature
Required Degree: Biology, mathematics

Oceanography
Personality: Active, serious
Aspiration: Knowledge
Interests: Animals, environment, weather
Hobbies: Fitness, nature, science
Required Degree: Biology

Paranormal
Personality: Neat
Aspiration: Knowledge
Interests: Paranormal, sci-fi
Hobbies: Science, tinkering
Degree: None

Pest Control

Personality: Neat
Aspiration: Family
Interests: Animals
Hobbies: n/a
Degree: None

Photography
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Fortune, romance, popularity, pleasure
Interests: Entertainment, culture, fashion
Hobbies: Arts and crafts
Degree: None

Pizza Delivery
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Pleasure, popularity
Interests: Food
Hobbies: Cuisine
Degree: None

Politics
Personality: Outgoing, serious
Aspiration: Fortune, popularity
Interests: Politics
Hobbies: n/a
Required Degree: Political science

Post Office
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Family
Interests: Weather, animals
Hobbies: n/a
Degree: None

Publishing
Personality: Outoging
Aspiration: Fortune
Interests: Entertainment, work
Hobbies: Film and literature
Optional degree: Journalism, literature

Repair
Personality: n/a
Aspiration: Family
Interests: Work, toys
Hobbies: Tinkering
Degree: None

Rock Star
Personality: Outgoing
Aspiration: Popularity
Interests: Culture, entertainment, fashion
Hobbies: Music and dance
Optional Degree: Music

Science
Personality: Neat, serious
Aspiration: Knoweldge
Interests: Animals, environment, weather
Hobbies: Science, tinkering, nature
Required Degree: Physics

Show Business
Personality: Outgoing, Active
Aspiration: Fortune, popularity
Interests: Culture, entertainment, fashion
Hobbies: Film and literature
Optional Degree: Drama

Slacker
Personality: Outgoing, playful
Aspiration: Pleasure
Interests: Travel, toys
Hobbies: Film and literature, games
Degree: None

Social Worker
Personality: Nice
Aspiration: Family
Interests: Crime, school, health
Hobbies: n/a
Required Degree: Political science, psychology

Taxi Driving
Personality: Outgoing, lazy
Aspiration: Family, popularity, pleasure
Interests: Travel, politics, weather
Hobbies: n/a
Degree: None

TV Personality
Personality: Outgoing, active
Aspiration: Fortune, popularity
Interests: n/a
Hobbies: Film and literature
Optional Degree: Journalism, literature, drama

Veterinarian
Personality: Nice
Aspiration: Knowledge, family
Interests: Animals
Hobbies: Science, Nature
Required Degree: Biology, mathematics, physics

Writing
Personality: Shy
Aspiration: Knowledge, family
Interests: Entertainment, culture
Hobbies: Film and literature
Optional Degree: Literature

SimsVille Families


Some time ago Maisie started with a family information-page for each playable family. I liked the idea of giving some backgroundinformation of the families, but didn't want to write a full page for each of my families.
Instead I decided to create a page similar to the one of my playable NPC page, where I give some information of each family.

This list is alphabetical, and the 1st family is always the one that gets number 1 behind their name, like Fen and Goofy Mishoen are the Mishoen 1 family, and Marc, Nuan and Tika are the Mishoen 2 family.
Uni-households and combined roommate families are not included in the list.


The Belio Family 
Bram and Ling moved to SimsVille when their daughter, Jo, was only a toddler. They moved here together with Ling's brother and sister, Quan and Yin, to raise their kids away from the big city. When Jo was 10 years old, the family expanded with the birth of their twin boys, Steven and Stephan.
Jo wasn't an easy teen, but eventually made it to college, and married Jack Penninkmeijer in April 2021. In 2022 Jo and Jack had their son, Eli, giving Bram and Ling their first grandchild.
Steven also made it to collge, but his twin-brother didn't. Stephan however did move out to try and make it on his own.
Soon after moving to SimsVille, Bram opened Belio's Bunk, a toy store, in SimsVille, while Ling started out as a housewife. When the kids got older she got a job in housekeeping.
Despite the succes of the store, the family never was able to buy their own house, and are still renting a house in SimsVille.

 The Burrie-Mertens Family
Melissa Mertens is one of the oldest daughters of Mia and Ludo Mertens (read more of their backstory here). She and Mario met at college, after he just broke up with his girlfriend, Magda Sels. Even though they had been dating for some time, they lived with roommated right after college.
In 2025 they bought a house in Simmeria.

The de Leeuw Family:


The de Leeuw-Lillig Family
Larissa de Leeuw married Johnny Young when he first moved to SimsVille. They had one daughter together, Elisa, and Johnny also had a daughter from a previous marriage, Mairi, but she never lived with them, since she was almost 18 by the time Johnny and Larissa got married. Seeing Johnny was quite a bit older than Larissa he died when Elisa was only a teen. Larissa raised their dautgher on her own. She found love again in Berend Lillig when Elisa was already at college.
Berend Lillig is the former boyfriend of Ella (Rai) Roque. They moved in together rather quickly, and have one daughter together, Madeleine. Despite living with Ella, Berend kept looking around and couldn't resist temtation in the form of Emily Robins. He broke up with Ella, and moved in with Emily. This was never Emily's plan, and the couple couldn't make it work, so they broke up as well. Not long  after their break-up Berend met Larissa, and started dating her.
They have been together for several years now, but still aren't married. They live in a rental house in Simmeria, but spend all their free time in their cabin in The Ardens, preferably with their children and grandchildren.


The Draper Family
Jason Draper moved to SimsVille with his sister, Mia, and their grandparents, Eve and Jonas, after their mother, Marie died. He went to college and lived alone for a while after graduation. Jason had many girlfriends back then, one of them being Kristianne Spits. Who broke off their relationship after finding out she was pregnant, and didn't see Jason as a fit father. She never told him about the pregnancy, nor does he know about their twins, Anabel and Anthony.
After his break-up with Kristianne, he went back to the girl he went to college with, Ada van Straten.  They ended up buying a house in Simmeria, they have 1 son, Lucas, and Jason opened his business, Cup Of Cake.
Ada and Jason broke up in 2022, because they both knew they wanted different things from life. Ada wanted to get married and have more children, which wasn't something Jason wanted. Jason got the business and Ada got the house. Jason lived in an apartment for some timen, but after selling his business he was able to buy a small house. Lucas lives 3 days week with his dad.


The Gerrits Family
Marie Gerrits met Sya Mishoen when Sya was still in college. After Sya's graduation the couple moved in with Sya's parents, but they didn't stay there long. Sya and Marie wanted their own place. Even though Marie was working at SimsVillle Up Hill Elementary School, the couple decided to move to Simmeria to be closer to the hospital where Sya was (and still is) working.
The couple got married in 2018. They both wanted kids, and so they contacted Sya's best friend, Marcus Young, and asked him to be a donnor for them. Marie was the first one to get pregnant, and in 2021 their family got expanded with Felix. 2 years later later Sya gave birth to their twins, Caleb and Keira.


The Gradonni Family:



The Heaven Family:


The Min Family
Quan and Chu came to SimsVille together with his sisters and their families. Their daughter Anna was only 2 when they moved. Quan kept his job as a gamedesigner, but was able to move to office to Simmeria. Chu started her political career in SimsVille, aspiring the position of mayor one day. She hasn't yet reached that goal, but she hopes to get there with the elections of 2026.
Chu and Quan already had Anna when they moved to SimsVille, but when Anna was 6, they expanded their family with a son, Benny. When they were 54 and 53, Quan and Chu decided to adopt a child, something no one in their families ever expected them to do. They got through, and in 2024 they welcomed another son into their family, Florian. By that time both Anna and Benny had moved out.
Anna surprised them all by getting pregnant unexpectedly at college when she was only 19. Followed by another unexpected pregnany a year later. After college she opened her own bookstore at SVU and got married to the father of her children, when she was already expecting their 3rd child.


The Mishoen Family
Lin-Mei and Gruns were one of the first ones to move to SimsVille all those years ago. Gruns and Lin-Mei opened their own gym. After their death Fen took over, but despite liking fitness, Fen eventually sold the place to focus more on a stable career.
Gruns and Lin-Mei's 2 daughters, Nuan and Fen,  decided to move with their parents. Nuan was already married to Marc by that time, and the couple already had a daughter of their own, Tika.
Fen, on the other hand, was kind of a wild one. She decided to stay with her parents, when her sister and her family moved to the house next door. Soon after moving to SimsVille Fen met Gunnar Roque, and she started seeing him. When she got pregnant, she hoped Gunnar would choose her over his girlfriend, but he stayed with his collegesweetheart, Frieda. Fen gave bith to their son by herself. She always resented him for ruining things for her and his father, and she was never able to to forgive him, even though she did know it really wasn't Nio's fault. Nio was mostly raised by his grandparents.
A few months after Nio's birth, Fen met Goofy, and not long after their first meeting, Goofy moved in. Even though Fen never had a lot of attention for Nio, Goofy always had time to spend with Nio. It seemed like Goofy was the one for Fen, because after a few years Goofy and Fen got married. And despite her bad relationship with Nio, Fen gave in to Goofy's pleads for a child of his own, and they had Tina.
Nio moved out as soon as he could. He didn't go to college, and married his older girlfriend Stella, who he later has 3 kids with.
Tina kind of took after her mother, and got pregnant at 19, from a guy who left town when he heard he would become a father.
Despite not being the best mom, Fen is a devoted grandmother to her 4 grandchildren. She and Goofy try to spend as much time with them as possible, and even moved to Simmeria, because both the kids live there, to be closer to their grandchildren. They take them out on trips and arrange sleep-overs.
Fen's relationship with her son is better now, although it will never be perfect.


The Mishoen Family
Marc and Nuan came to SimsVille when Nuan's parents decided to move there. By the time they movedto SimsVille theit daughter, Tika, was a toddler, and they thought it would be nice to raise her in a calm neighborhood.
Marc had a college degree history and decided to go work for a law firm in downtown Simmeria. Nuan opened her own salon, 'My Salon', in SimsVille.
When Tika was 8, Marc and Nuan decided to have another child, and Sya was born. Despite the age difference and the differences in their characters, Tika and Sya always had a pretty good bond.
Unlike her older sister, Sya went to college and got a degree in mathematics. After college she met her wife, Marie and they moved in together in Simmeria, later adding 3 children to their household.
Tika didn't go to college. She had been helping her mother in the salon since she was old enough, and so she decided to stay and help instead of going to college, so she could one day take over the salon. Tika met Xiang when he was still going to college. He finished his studies when they were dating, and they got married in 2012. Nine months later they welcomed their first son, Lewis to their family. Later adding Johua and Michael as well. The family kept living with Tika's parens, which was just next to Xiang's parents, and so their sons grew up with their grandparents.
In 2024 Tika and Xiang broke up. After having some minor troubles, Xiang said he couldn't deal anymore and left, he immidiatly filed for divorce as well, which left Tika heartbroken. Their sons now live part time with Tika and part time with Xiang.

The Mokara Family:


The Penninkmeijer Family:


The Penninkmeijer Family:


The Rai Family:


The Roque Family:



The Roque Family
Gunnar Roque and Ella Rai met at college, where he started dating her best friend Frieda Dekkers. Despite loving the women Gunnar soon settled down with Frieda, or at least that's what she thought. After college he and Frieda moved to SimsVille and moved in together and Gunnar opened 'Roque', a nightclub in SimsVille. At that time he also started seeing Fen Mishoen. That relationship broke off when Fen gave birth to their son, Nio, who Gunnar decided not to meet because he didn't want to tell Frieda about his affair. A few months later Gunnar proposed to Frieda, who happily accepted. And again a few years later Frieda and Gunnar welcomed their first daughter, Françoise.Ten years later their family got even bigger with the birth of their second daughter, Eleanora.
When their eldest unexpectedly got pregnant at 19, they welcommed her boyfriend, Yuan Zang, in their house as well, along with their 2 grandsons, George and Charles.
There have been some moments when Nio and Gunnar tried to get a relationship, but neither of them are very comitted in making it work.
Ella's big love has always been Gunnar, but he was always more interested in other girls, and he seemed to have found love with Frieda. Since Frieda was Ella's best friend, Ella never acted on her love for Gunnar, and instead tried to find love somewhere else. She thought she found it in Berend Lillig, and for a while they were pretty happy together, especially when their daughter, Madeleine, was born. But soon they drifted apart and they broke up because Berend was seeing other women as well. Ella also started her own business, Rai Arts, a shop specialised in art and hand crafted pots and vases. When Maddie was older she joined her mother in the shop.
Not long after Frieda's death in 2021, Gunnar met with Ella again, and one thing lead to another. In November 2022 they decided to get married very fast, and they left for a trip around the world.
After finding out the Gunnar's eldest daughter gets married, and that Ella's daughter is expecting her first child in 2026, the couple decides to move back to Simmeria to be around their families a little bit more. They now live in a small house in Simmeria, where Gunnar plans to open a musicstore, while Ella still works at Rai Arts with her daughter.


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The Snijders Family:


The Terrrano Family:


The Tora Family:


The Verbon Family:


The Wagtmans Family:


The Warner Family:


The Young-Roque Family
Marcus Young's father was one of the sims who first moved to SimsVille. Louis came here with his son, Johnny and granddaughter, Mairi. Louis married Jessica, who was much younger than him, and they had one son together, Marcus. Since there was a huge age difference between Marcus and his older brother, they never had much contact. Nor did he have much contact with his oldest niece. He still has contact with his youngest niece, but they aren't that close.
After the death of his father, Jessica raised their only son. When Marcus was almost 18, his mother died, he was left on his own. And he followed his dream of becomming a famous basketballplayer. He lived with Ingrid Carette for a while, a girl who was 10 years older then him. They broke up because they both wanted other things in life. After than he dated Johanna (Belio) Penninkmeijer for a few months, but they broke up when she met Jack Penninkmeijer.
After that Marcus stayed sinlge for some years, before meeting Eleanora Roque, who is 13 years younger. Eleanora moved in with him in 2024, when she was still in college.
Depsite wanting children, Marcus didn't hesitate when his best friend, Sya Gerrits, and her partner, Marie Gerrits, asked him to be a donor for their children (Felix, Caleb and Keira).
Eleanora Roque is the youngest daughter of Gunnar and Frieda Roque. She started dating Benny Min when she was still in high school, and their relationship continued when they both went to college. In the mean time she also met Marcus, and started dating him. Her break-up with Benny wasn't easy, especially since they had to live in the same dorm for the rest of the schoolyear. After moving to a different dorm the next year with her 2 friends, she eventually decided to move in with Marcus in Simmeria.


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The Zanobi Family:


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SimsVille Yellow Pages

Here's a list of different community lots in SimsVille and Simmeria. Some of them are actually owned businesses, others are businesses that I imagine being owned by some one, but that aren't to make it easier to visit (like Landgraab Architects, and the H&M's, all owned by the Langdraab Family). I might add more of these businsses in the future, I might also add regular community lots that act like career lots, so you'll get an idea of where some of my sims work.

Animal Paradise
Business type:
Pet Store
Owner:
Dimitri Zanobi
Employees:
None
Location:
SimsVille

Belio's Bunk
Business type:
Toy store
Owner:
Bram Belio
Employees:
Stephan Belio
Location:
SimsVille

Brems' Car Dealership
Business type:
Car dealership
Owner:
David Brems
Employees:
None
Location:
Simmeria

Book Corner
Business type:
Bookstore
Owner:
Anna Min
Employees:
None
Location:
Simmeria (SVU)


Food à la Draper
Business type:
Retail (pre-cooked meals)
Owner:
Jason Draper
Employees:
None
Location:
Simmeria

Garden Barn
Business type:
Outdoor plants and supplies
Owner:
Reinout Krielman
Employees:
None
Location:
South SimsVille

Gradonni Market
Business type:
Farmer's Market
Owner:
Kürt Gradonni
Employees:
Mia Mertens, Reinout Krielman
Location:
South SimsVille

Gunnar's tunes
Business type:
Music store
Owner:
Gunnar Roque
Employees:
None
Location:
Simmeria


H&M Simmeria
Business type: Clothing store
Owner: Hélène Landgraab
Employees: None
Location: Simmeria

H&M SimsVille
Business type:
Clothing store
Owner:
Hélène Landgraab
Employees:
None
Location:
SimsVille

H&M South SimsVille
Business type: Clothing store
Owner: Hélène Landgraab
Employees: None
Location: South SimsVille

My Salon
Business type: Salon
Owner: Tika Mishoen
Employees: Françoise Roque
Location: SimsVille


Landgraab Architects
Business type:
Achitect office
Owner: Max Landgraab
Employees: Abby Gradonni, Mairi Wagtmans
Location: Simmeria

Rai Arts
Business type:
Retail (pottery)
Owner:
Madeleine Rai
Employees:
Ella Rai
Location:
SimsVille 

Simmeria High School
Business type: School
Owner: Hans Gradonni (principal)
Employees: Melissa Mertens
Location: Simmeria

SimsVille Elementary School
Business type:
School
Owner:
Marie Gerrits
Employees:
Elisa de Leeuw, Magda Sels
Location:
SimsVille

Small beginnings
Business type: Babysupply store
Owner: Harriët Ooms
Employees: None
Location: Simmeria


Tao Technology
Business type: Retail (electronics)
Owner: Xun Zang
Employees: Tao Zang
Location: SimsVille

Toy Soldier
Business type: Toy store
Owner: Kristianne Spits
Employees: None
Location: Simmeria

Zanobi's
Business type:
restaurant
Owner:
Sophie Zanobi (host)
Employees:
Emma Zanobi (chef), Julian Zanobi (waiter)
Location:
SimsVille

Index of Sim Profiles



BURRIE, Mario

COLLINS, Austin







RAI, Damien








Student Index

Student enrolment for the school year 2025

SimsVille Up Hill Elementary School 

David Mokara 

Grade 10
Malcolm Landgraab

Grade12

  SVU
SimsVille University 

Freshmen






Sophomores


Juniors

Serniors

Lars Mertens

Play Schedule 2024 - 2025

Here goes Round 14's play schedule! Round 14 starts in January 2026 and will end in December 2027. This shedule can be adapted as I play, this means when I feel it's necessary or just when I feel like changing something :)
Clicking on the householdname will bring you to that family's update from last round.

JANUARY 2026
Birthdays:
Pregnancy update for Madeleine Rai
Ellen de Leeuw turns 1

Kevin Ooms, Vera Lamberts, Claire Tora, Stephanie Penninkmeijer, Nicholas Penninkmeijer, Eli Penninkmeijer and Olivia Warner turn 4
Lucas Drapers, Ross Zang and Peter Spits turn 12
Stephan Belio, Steven Belio and Marlys Zanobi turn 18
Melina Mokara and Matthew Zanobi graduate.

Zanobi 1
Roque 2

FEBRUARY
2026
Birthdays:
Pregnancy update for Laura Heaven and Ada Grey

Young 1

MARCH
2026
Birthdays:
Pregnancy update for Emma Zanobi
Camille Wagtmans turns 1

Mishoen 1

APRIL 2026
Birthdays:
Madeleine Rai is due

Penninkmeijer 2
Belio 2

MAY
2026
Birthdays:
Laura Penninkmeijer is due

Gerrits 1
SimsVille Up Hill Elementary School
Verbon 1

JUNE 2026
Birthdays:
Emma Zanobi is due

Draper 1
 
JULY
2026


AUGUST 2026

Burrie-Mertens 1
Tora 1

SEPTEMBER
2026

SVU A - Lars, Morgan, Marlys, Steven
Collins-Zanobi 1 - Finn, Emma

Mokara-Min-Willis 1 - Melina, Benny, Joan

OCTOBER 2026
NOVEMBER 2026

JANUARY 2027
Birthdays:
Cédric Forman, Daniel Forman, Dean Zang, Noémi Roque, Caleb Gerrits, Keira Gerrits, Julia Benson and Liam Benson turn 4
George Roque and Enya Terrano turn 12
Benny Min, Eleanora Roque and Lars Mertens graduate


de Leeuw-Lillig 1

FEBRUARI 2027

Zang 2
Mokara-Min-Willis


MARCH
2027

Zanobi 2
Mishoen 3

 APRIL 2027

MAY
2027

Roque-Zang Wedding

Gradonni 1

JUNE 2027


Mokara 1
Simmeria High School
Savage 1
 
JULY 2027
Penninkmeijer 1

AUGUST 2027

Terrano 1
Mertens-Penninkmeijer 1

SEPTEMBER 2027

SVU A - Marlys, Steven
SVU B - Emma, Finn, Austin

Wagtmans 1

OCTOBER 2027
NOVEMBER 2027

DECEMBER 2027

Playable NPCs

Since I have a whole list with all my playables I thought I'd introduce you to my playable NPC's too. After all they only become playable NPC's when they get involved with some of the playables, so they all share something with one of the playables.

So what  are playable NPC's? They are sims who get involved with my regular playables for a significant amount of time (not just girlfriend/boyfriend of the week), but where the relationship ends for one reason or another, or where they have been in a relationship for quite some time but they aren't engaged or married yet.
They are also sims who start a relationship all on their own, when I play a dorm or a community lot, or something else.

My playable NPC's don't have their own updates, but I do play them the exact same way I play my regular playables, which is 1 week per round. I follow the same rules with my playable NPC's as I do for my regular playables for everything. So they aren't that different from my regular playable, they just don't have their own updates.

At the moment I have about 18 playable NPC-family. I know that is a lot, but from some I'm sure they will eventually end up with one of my regulars.
But I do love them, I just couldn't write them off, and I love adding new genetics to my game and playing them without having to worry about getting out a good story.

 
The Benson Family: Emily Robins is the girl for who Berend Lillig left his girlfriend, and mother of his daughter, Ella Rai. Berend saw the relationship very different from Emily, as for her it just was a fling. They lived together for a short period of time, before breaking up. Not long after Berend moved out, Emily met Aaron Benson, and in 2023 they got married.
In November 2023 they became the proud parents of Julia and Liam.

The Bleek Family: Niels Bleek used to date Tina Mishoen when they were both teens. When Tona became pregnant, very unexpectedly, their relationship cooled down quite a bit, and Niels never took much interest in Zoey. At the same time Niels was dating Tina, he also met Belinda Stevens and Samantha Bradshaw.
When Samantha left SimsVille in August 2021, Niels decided to go with her, and cut off all ties with SimsVille, and all his women there.
In 2025 Niels returned to SimsVille. He now lives in a trailer park in Simmeria, and is trying to get some kind of relationship again with his ex-girlfriend, Tina Mishoen and their dautgher, Zoey.

The Brems Family: This family consisted originally of Magdalena and her twins sons, Cole and David. This family was created to give Cole a family, because I wanted him to have family. Cole started dating Madeleine Rai in 2019. In 2023 they moved in together and got engaged, leaving David and Madgalena behind. Cole is now a regular playable. Cole and Madeleine got married in 2024, and they had a first son, Damien, in 2026, giving Magdalena her first grandchild.
Magdalena and David live in Simmeria where Davida also owns a car dealership.

The Collins Family: When their parents dies, Logan took it upon him to look after his borthed an sister. They moved to SimsVille where Logan works as a veterinarian, and runs the SimsVille Equestrian Centre, Logan is currently dating Melina Mokara.
His younger sister, Alana still lives with him. Alana is very passionate about dance. She teaches it after school, and hopes to one day turn her hobby into her career.
Their brother, Finn, the middle one, moved out in 2026, to move in with his girlfriend, who became pregnant when still in high school. Finn works as a firefighter in Simmeria, where he now also lives with Emma and their son Austin

The Dawson Family: Bea started dating Stephan Belio when she was 16. She always saw more in their relationship, and started dreaming of a future together when Stephan moved out on his own. Unfortunatly he didn't think about those things the same way, and even though  they are still dating, things aren't going too well. When Bea graduated high school in 2027 she found a small apartment in Simmeria, where she also works in a restaurant. She hopes to one day open her own restaurant. 

The Forman Family: Robin Sims used to date Yuan Zang when they were teens. When they broke up I aged her along with him and moved her into her own place. Not long after, she met Bruce Forman. Robin and Bruce got married in 2016, and welcomed their son, Nathan, not long after. In 2021 they welcomed their dauther, Jill, and in 2022 their family got even bigger with the addition of their twins, Cédric and Daniel. The family lives in SimsVille, Bruce works in politics and Robin is a realtor in Simmeria.

The Grey Family: Ada van Straten is one of Jason Draper's ex's. They got together in 1996, and even had a son together in 2014. But they broke up in 2022, when they both decided the relationship wasn't working anymore. Their son, Lucas, mostly lives with Ada, but goes to his dad's 3 days a week.
A few months after she and Jason broke up, Ada met Christopher Grey. After 3 year he proposed to her. They got married in October 2025, and welcomed their dautgher, Hope in February 2026.

The Lamberts Family: Ingrid Carette used to date, and even live together with Marcus Young. When Marcus started talking about getting married and having kids, Ingrid realized she didn't love Marcus that way and when she met Claus Lamberts (who is the same age as Marcus, which is 10 years younger than Ingrid), she decided to end the relationship.
Ingrid and Claus got married in 2021, a year after their son, Oscar, was born. A year after their marriage they welcomed Vera to their family.

The Landgraab Family: Max Landgraab is the head of Landgraab Architects in downtown Simmeria. He and his wife Hélène moved to SimsVille Up Hill, to live closer to his job. Hélène is working really hard to open up a line of H&M (Hélène & Max) stores in SimsVille and Simmeria. Their son Malcolm wasn't too happy about the move, bus is slowly warming up to this new town, especially now that he has found friends, and even a girlfriend.

The Ooms Family: Harriët Ooms and her husband were added to my game because she used to have the same last name as one of my playables, Olaf Verbon. She's Olaf's halfsister, who Olaf knew nothing about. She came in his life after Olaf's wife died in a car accident. After all this years, they are still getting to know each other.
Albert and Harriët have 2 children; Bailey and Kevin.

The Sels Family: Magda Kievits is Mario Burrie's ex-girlfriend. Afther they broke up, she turned to her good friend, Eddy, for comfort. They moved to another house on campus because it was hard on Magda having to see Mario every day.
Magda and Eddy gor married in 2023 and are now expecting their 1st child.

The Spits Family: Kristianne used to have an affair with Jason Draper when he was already living with Ada. When Kristanna found out she was pregnant, she knew there was a chance Jason wouldn't leave his girlfriend and decided not to give him the choice and broke off all contact with him. A few months later her high school sweetheart, Richard showed up. After some dating, Kristianne and Richard got married. He's raising Anabel and Anthony as his own kids.
Later they also added Peter and Emily to their family.

The Vega-Stevens Family: Belinda Stevens is one of Niels' ex-girlfriends. She's also Margot and Melissa's best friend. When they graduated from university, the 3 of them decided to become roommates, but only after 1 year, Margot moved out to live with her boyfriend, Jason Savage, and Melissa's boyfriend, Marie Burrie, moved in.
After Niels' departure, Belinda dated a few guys, but now she's in a steady relationship with Dominic Vega. In 2023 their relationship became serious and a year later Dominic moved in with Belinda, Mario and Melissa. Later that year, the roommates decided to split up, and Belinda and Dominic were able to buy a nice house in Simmeria.
Dominic is working in the political career, and Belinda tries to make it as a rock star.

The Willis Family: