Fanon:Newbie family

The Newbie family is the largest and wealthiest family in SimVille. It consists of Dan and Betty Newbie, their sons Justin and Evan, their six Servo robots (Amar, Andrew, Chase, Julius, Oscar, Roland), and Alec Bigfoot.

Original MTS thread
The Newbies — well, not so new

 The Newbie Family 

Yeah, and I'll admit that the name is pretty pathetic (and unoriginal). I named this family the "Newbie" family because it was the second family I created in The Sims 2 (The first being one I deleted in the family bin... which is a VBT), and the first I intended to play seriously. When I abandoned my first neighbourhood due to corruption, I extracted the appearances of the Sims in this family and imported them into the hoods I wanted to play them in. This, if memory serves correctly, is the fourth hood I've moved them into, and so far they've settled in here for the longest. And given the progress I've made with them now, it's hard to move them again.

I installed Cyjon's Bigger Families mod and cranked things up a notch, because more is always better. It does have the unusual (and interesting) side effect of screwing up the family photo:



There's supposed to be six Servos and two children in this photo, but only five and one appeared. Huh.

The Newbies are the wealthiest family in the hood, and only partly through their effort. Most of their money came from the use of cheats, and with so much wealth at their disposal, it wasn't hard for them to advance rapidly up the career ranks. The Newbies also have the most friends, and it's in their blood to befriend everyone in the neighbourhood. Whenever someone new moves into the hood, they're always the first ones at their doorstep to welcome them. The Newbies are also very into music and dance, and they don't shy away from the opportunity to show off their talents to the neighbours.



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The house

The Newbies have the loftiest house — literally. I got the initial design from a loft house that shipped with Glamour Life, and since then I've kinda fallen in love with it. Given the fact that there's so little building space in the hood, I had to build up, which leads to a house that probably would've collapsed in real life. The house is elevated from the ground via support columns, which leaves space for two parking spaces, a pond for fishing, and a swimming pool.











One of the cars is a refurbished restorable car from FreeTime. The other was purchased from buy mode. The Newbies are one of the few families that own cars in SimVille; most Sims live in apartments that do not have garages. The Newbies also own two cars, while other families who do have cars only own one. Despite this, the Newbies still use a carpool to get to work. In fact, they walk to community lots like everyone else. The cars are mostly a symbol of status and prestige — and as sentries to supplement the outdoor burglar alarm when a burglar waltzes onto the lot.





The second floor is where the main entrance, kitchen, dining room, and living room is. There's also a stereo, a bookshelf, an electric guitar, and a drumkit. The last two existed long before I built the music room upstairs, but instead of moving the instruments up to the music room I just bought new ones. No biggie, given how rich this family is.



Third floor houses the rec room and the master bedroom. The rec room contains a pool table, a pinball machine, a weightlifting machine, a dartboard, a treadmill, a chess table, and a Myshuno machine. It's also the room my Sims seem to spend most of their time in, from my observations.



Fourth floor has the kids' bedroom and a music room for the musical instruments. There's also a DJ booth that I pull out and move downstairs into the living room during parties.



The fifth and sixth floors make up the roof of the house, and a hot tub, telescope, and basketball net finish the picture.



This house won't win any contests here on MTS, and some people probably won't find it to be a particularly pretty house, but hey, it's functional!