Custom Neighborhood: Arbordale

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Arbordale is the custom neighborhood I made for rotational gameplay.

Setup

As a disclaimer, almost all of the setup for this playthrough was made using Pleasant Sim's guide for custom neighborhoods, which I highly recommend trying out if you like planning out and organizing your playthroughs.

I started by using Pleasant Sims' guide to randomly generate 24 adult sims. Everything about them was randomized, from their appearances, to their names, to their interests.

I didn't want to create an entire neighborhood of singles, so I used another generator to create a few couples. But as the rotations went on, some of the single residents paired up on their own.

I also customized the neighborhood with a grocery store, shopping district, park, hospital, and other community lots I forget to use.

For each rotation, I'll play one household Mon-Wed (Midnight on Thursday) or Thursday-Sunday (Midnight on Monday) before switching to the next household. I try to have as little involvement as possible, and I have a habit of playing on 3x speed.

This is how my spreadsheet is organized.
Columns include:

• Rotation number
• Household Name
• First Name
• Last Name
• Role (founder, roommate, child, etc.)
• Age
• Zodiac
• Aspiration
• 2nd Aspiration (using Pleasant Sims' 2nd Aspiration Calculator, which I have included with the sheet)
• Life Time Want
• Degree
• Career
• Level
• Job
• Hobby
• Sub-Hobby
• Partner
• Notes (where I usually write a Sim's old surname if they change it after marriage.)