Abandoned

Hi, My name is Abandoned, and since I hope to post my next story here on Simtropolis soon, I thought I would fill you in on what has gone on before. Smallville's World began on October 16, 2016 with my World of Banished blog posting of the town of Smallville. That one settlement snowballed into 98 more towns and stories, the last being posted just before the WOB site went down last week. Most of the settlements are connected in one way or another to Smallville. Most are rural villages or small towns although some are not so small and the last settlement, number 98, was Central City. Banished is a much different game than SimCity and takes place in a much earlier time period. Smallvilles' World has 2 time frames; Smallville Time (SVT) starts in year 1, however most stories are told from the year it was settled being year 1. So, a town that was settled in year 30 SVT is being told as its year 1; its year 3 would be year 33 SVT. Smallville's World is made up of a diverse group of settlers; there are Elves, Dark Elves, Dwarves, Hobbits, Leprechauns, Fairies, Pirates, Gypsies, Egyptians, Asians, Native Americans, Pilgrims, Aliens, and even Santa, his elves, and 8 tiny reindeer. ho ho ho Their settlements are scattered all over the map. I started a rough map of Smallville's World on a piece of scrap paper. A comment from Brad, who is here at Simtropolis, said it was difficult to tell where my Bannies were. The comment prompted me to make a (not so good) map that I posted in the Intro of the next several stories. My stories and my map improved as time went on. The 1st map shown below appeared in the Intro to Story 10 and had 10 towns on the map, by Story 17 there were 17 town. Another WOB member named Savidan asked if he could make me a new map with a program he had. Story 18 displayed a beautiful new map in the Intro; it is the 3rd map shown below. To this map I added town after town, and rivers, railroads, and wagon train trails. My goal was to have 100 town on this map, 98 were posted when WOB went down. Central City Story 98 is in the center of the 4th map shown below. Each story starts with an Intro page telling where the new town is and why, and the SVT year it was settled or the SVT year the story was being told. I give the map generating information and then I list the mods used in mod order. There is often a new Kid mod being test and is so notes. I have 366 mods in my windata folder, but I activate 50 or fewer mods per story, my mod list stays the same, the mods are just activated or deactivated. My mod list improved over time and my system works for me. I have a lot of variety. I often add a music video or 2 of old songs to the story that in some way influenced the story or sets the mood. So, weary traveler, I hope to see you in Red River Valley (story 99) soon here on Simtropolis.

I've just posted the last 2 albums in Abandoned Images in the Banished club. I am a bit late with album 7 Summer in July which contains a few red, white, and blue summer pictures to celebrate the 4th of July in the USA. Album 8 Summer Farmlands contains a few pictures of farm fields from various Smallville stories. I hope everyone is having a nice summer. All 12 Smallville photo albums can be found here Abandoned's Images - Simtropolis

I just posted a Season 6 Summer album in Abandoned Images in the Banished club. The pictures are summer scenes with some summer fun from various Smallville Stories. Find album here Abandoned's Images - Simtropolis