Summerset Bay History

Today I want to share a little history regarding Summerset Bay.  The founding of Summerset Bay actually began in TS1.  When I played TS1 I played a collection of sims who were unrelated and I played them fairly independently of each other with a few exceptions.  The concept of families didn't figure into my game play style at the time.  However, when it was announced that with TS2 we had generations where sims knew their spouses, siblings, grandparents, and could distinguish them from other sims that were merely friends, I became excited.


With this new concept of extended families and generations, I wove a beautiful series of families from my collection of TS1 sims.  I next thought about the world I wanted my families to live in.  With TS1 we didn't have any choice in the world they lived in and I longed to create my own world.  This newly created world in  TS2 was the founding of Summerset Bay, although at the time it wasn't called Summerset Bay.  First it was named Shamrock Bay.

Over the course of TS2  Summerset Bay changed over and over again.  Due to numerous glitches, corrupted save files, the jump bug, and a host of other issues,  I would lose my world and my sims again and again.  Finally, I figured all of the glitches, bugs, and other issues out. I found mods to fix the glitches, patched my world, and rebuilt again.  At this point the world became renamed Summerset Bay and it was beautiful.  A quaint village suburb area surrounded by trees with beautiful ocean views, Summerset Bay was the main area where my original families lived.  Off to the north was the Embercombe Univeristy and to the west was Starborough the downtown area of my world with it's apartment buildings and Night Life hot spots.

When I heard about TS3 I really had no intention of purchasing the game.  Everything I would see in previews went against the way I enjoyed playing.  At some point though I did change my mind and bought TS3.  Here we are with the newest reincarnation of Summerset Bay and those same sims I started with in TS1.

The reason I wanted to delve a bit into Summerset Bay's History deals with the original sims in Old Town.  I never recreated those families and sims in TS2, and I disliked EA's storyline in Pleasantview.  However, I have this idea floating around in my head.  A tropical island world completely done in a steampunk victorian style.  I'd like to invoke a bit of the feel of the original Old Town with it's New Orleans style and it's quaint Gothic Quarter.  I'd also have all of the TS1 Old Town families such as; Claire Charming, the Hicks, Ginia Kat, the Burbs and even the original families like the Goth's, and  the Pleasant's.