EffTheGrid

Hey everyone,

I am sorry to have stepped away so suddenly and completely back in May. 

I offer sincere, extra apologies to my dedicated batch of Patreon subscribers, whom I will be contacting individually to issue refunds for the month that they were charged. If you see this post, please give me a shout because I have been struggling within Patreon to find you. (read ahead)

Around Memorial day my laptop's battery failed catastrophically, destroying my computer and hard drive. I lost most of my projects, except for some backups I have, and lots of personal saves and other data that I had stored. When that happened, I was locked out of my Google account and also lost many of my saved passwords (inc'l Simtropolis) which had a ripple effect that is still affecting my accounts. I was able to get a new computer this month but I don't have my Sketchup suite up anymore, and frankly in the summer I don't have a lot of energy to work on big SC4 projects. I'm not going away---but I don't have the means to stay active as a modder right now so I will be shutting the Patreon down and quietly lurking on the STEX instead.

I hope everyone has been well and is staying motivated. This forum is a fabulous community of talented individuals who dream to envisage the world differently, through their own lens, by their own hand. What a beautiful thing we do, capturing and reimagining our favorite pieces of our built world into a format in which we can both preserve, and nurture it back to virtual life. Our creations are often Rorschach images of our lives and experiences, as such they are deeply personal... maybe that is why we push this old game to its limits, collaborating and competing with one another to create a the best versions we can. I am so excited to see what you will create next. 

Thank you for many years of immersion in this world, and many to come.

I love you, ST. All of you so much.

Joey