Generation 4 Adults

With the oldest generation 4 twins, Drusa and Antonia Nixeira, all grown up into adults, it's time for another overview of the neighborhood. This is the size of Winter Valley as we've reached what I believe to be halfway through the Roman Era. It's grown quite a bit and how holds a total of 18 households.

Not only has our 4th generation started to become adults and marry, our 3rd has started to become elders as well, and generation 5 has already arrived in the neighborhood.

The little Patrician/Slave bastard cousins Elizabeta (right) and Greta (left) Nixeira are the same age and make the oldest children of their generation, just like their mothers before them.
You might have noticed that the names I'm giving the babies are changing in some families - these are names of the Dark Ages, instead of roman names. The names will vary depending on where the family will be living as the western half of the Empire falls. I'm not spoiling those details yet, but feel free to guess from the names of the babies, haha.

Let's take some time to check out the statistics of Winter Valley at this moment:

Population per age:
Babies: 9
Toddlers: 7
Children: 20
Teenagers: 19
Adults: 30
Elders: 6
Total living: 91
Dead: 49
Total all: 140
Conclusion: We're really close to a three-digit population. If the population boom that's been going on the last two rounds continues, we'll be there already by the end of Round 7/19. And around an extra half of our current population has already lived their lives in this neighborhood - every time I do this I get surprised at how high the numbers are.

Population per generation:
Generation 2: 4
Generation 3: 32
Generation 4: 51
Generation 5: 4
Conclusion: The 4th generation is dominating, which isn't surprising at all. The vast majority of the babies, toddlers, children and teens are of this generation, and they are many. We're starting to say goodbye to the 2nd generation, and welcome to the 5th.

Population per gender:
Male: 42
Female: 49
Conclusion: I really shouldn't complain, it's really even. More so than I thought. I know for sure that there's a bigger difference among the babies and toddlers right now - the girls win by far - but hey, it'll work out.

Households per class:
Patrician: 5
Plebeian: 4
Slave: 9
Conclusion: The Emperor's family is counted among the Patricians. I know, it's not perfect, but at least the number of slaves is the biggest. There's still two young Plebeian boys who hasn't married, so that'll increase really soon. Unfortunately, I believe the Patricians has three boys/men in the same situation... I'm going to let this be and try to make a more pyramid-like society when the Dark Ages arrive.

Males per family:
Callani: 13
Jax: 3
Seoli: 5
Zima: 11
Nixeira: 10
Conclusion: This doesn't mean that there'll be 13 branches of the Callani family soon - some of these males are heirs and won't be creating their own branch. As you can see, the Jax family is in a bit of trouble. They have 0 4th generation males. The Seoli's has 1. I'm praying hard for this to change, haha. If not, this god-hand is going to impregnate some girls to make some bastards. Desperate times call for desperate measures!

OBS!
Lastly, I have an announcement to make. I'll be visiting my family in another country for 6 weeks this summer. I leave in 7 days. Because I'm such a huge geek and can't possibly imagine being without The Sims for 6 weeks, I'm bringing my neighborhood and my CC on a USB-drive. However, I won't bring my computer (it's stationary so that would be nothing but crazy), and I can't guarantee I'll be able to play. It's very likely though, since I come from a family of geeks, lol. I hope you readers stay with me even though the tempo drops!

Okay, I'm happy with my rambling now - time for the story to continue!

Entering the Roman Era

This is how the neighborhood looks now when the Roman Era begins. The Colosseum is pretty obvious. I didn't build it, by the way - I downloaded it from ekrubynaffit @ simfansuk. This is the only buildning I didn't make myself though.
The big building close to the Colosseum (not the one beside) is the Palace, where the Callani's live. The bigger houses in the bottom left corner are the Patrician's houses, homes to Callarai's and Callandile's. The small building above them is where the Plebeian family Jax is living, where they have a small farm. Next to the Colosseum is the Bathing House.
To make things realistic, I even built apartment buildnings for the poor people. So far we have two buildings with three apartments each for Slaves (these are the long, thin buildings). They may look decent on the outside, but there is nothing lovely about the insides. All the slave families (Zima, Zimayo, Nixeira and Nixsana) live here. The bigger (and more square) apartment building is for Plebeians, and although it's just one room just like the Slaves apartments, they have a somewhat higher standard, a shared kitchen and some entertainment. This is how the Seoli family lives.

I did mention all the families and their class above, but I'll make a list to make it easier anyway.
Emperors: Callani
Patricians: Callarai (descendants from Dakarai Callani) and Callandile (descendants from Andile Callani)
Plebeians: Jax and Seoli
Slaves: Zima, Zimayo (descendants from Adebayo Zima), Nixeira and Nixsana (descendants from Nkosana Nixeira).

I have started the first round and will hopefully be updating tonight. The new pictures are straining our internet to upload and I have to wait until I'm the only one using it so I won't make people angry, lol. You better enjoy them!

Generation 3 Adults

Before we step into the Roman Era, I would like to make a small conclusion of the Stone Age and find out how the neighborhood looks at the moment and what this will lead to.
On the picture we have Winter Valley as it stands when our oldest generation 3 - Fulvia Zima - becoms an adult.
According to the rules, the family with the highest funds of the couples with skin 1 or 2 will be the Emperors. I have to modify this rule somewhat, since I only have one couple where both of them have skin 1 or 2. My rule is: The family with the highest funds of the couples where the man has skin 1 or 2 will be the Emperors. This means that it does not matter which skin color the wife has, but to get closer to the original rule I will only count the sons with skin 1 or 2 as heirs and skip the ones with darker.
This means I have 3 different families eligable as Emperors: Seoli, Jax and Callani. The Callani's have 3 different households; I will add these together as one Callani-fund. These are the results:
Seoli: §25054
Jax: §25950
Callani: §46303 + §3407 + §1758 = §51468

Not surprising, the Callani's has the highest funds, and this means our first Emperor will be the oldest male in this family - Zephania Callani. (Which means our first Emperor only has 1 nice point!)
On the picture are Monifa and Zephania Callani, when they first fell in love. Who knew it would come to this!
Like I said, we have 3 Callani-households. I will make the main household, Zephania and his family, the Emperors, and the other two the Patricians (this means we're going to have some cousin-weddings, but during the Roman Era this was completely normal).
The Seoli's and the Jax's are going to be my Plebeians, which means that the huge Zima and Nixeira-families will be the Slaves. Considering how the Slave-population was almost the size of the free population during this age, I am more than happy with the outcome. The Zima's and Nixeira's might not be, but at least they won't live in huts anymore. (Now they will live in cramped one room apartments - yay!)

As we enter the new era, we have quite the population. There will be 9 households, some big, some small. Some will have new last names that I will introduce you to as their turn begins. Our population are:
Babies: 4
Toddlers: 2
Children: 14
Teenagers: 16
Adults: 9
Elders: 4
Total: 49
If we add the ones who lay in the graveyard, I know for sure we have had around 75 sims. Phew! It really hasn't seemed like this many.
Lastly, I would like to tell you that I have downloaded new skins for my sims, and with that and the Roman make-overs, they might look completely different. I will re-introduce you to them all. I have also started using Fraps, which will improve the quality of the pictures a lot.
First update probably should come tomorrow. See you in the Roman Era!

Generation 2 Adults

Since we now have the first second generation adults I thought I would make a small break in the storytelling. This is how the neighborhood looks now - the main difference is the new road I downloaded, hehe. I added a graveyard, a lot where the teens lived during their week away, and so far only one new lot for brothers of the heirs. I expect this number will rise very soon.
I counted some and the average number of children each member of the first generation had was 5. The total number of children was 21 - 11 boys and 10 girls, which means one boy will be unmarried until we have a widow (it could also be a divorce, the future will tell).
Pilirani and Tamrat Nixeira had the most with 7 and Adisa Zima had the least when he died with only 3 children.
Refilwe Callani had the most sons with his impressive 4, of which one is dead. Masozi Seoli didn't have any sons, and her ex-husband had one in the very last second with another woman instead.
So far, only 6 sims died (and 1 wolf). All of them died from floods (3) or wolf attacks (3).
The family with the most money in their main household is by the start of this generation the Seoli's, but since they only have one boy I don't think it's likely that they will be the emperors in the Roman Era. You never know though!
Things might change a lot though, since Winter Valley is about to live up to it's name. It's time for an ice age.

Getting Started

To begin with, I'll give this overview of what the neigborhood looks like at this stage, when I'm beginning Round 1. I know, it's not much and not pretty - and less so in the neighborhood view where the details on the huts/caves/stone-rooms doesn't show - but hey, it's something.

So this is Winter Valley - not much of winter here yet, as the weather is still pretty much tropical and my dear sims will have more problems with getting overheated than frozen as we begin. 

On these little lots we have 5 starting families, with a last name that all means something that has to do with winter in different languages (you'll have to excuse me though, since I forgot to write down in which languages): Zima (meaning winter), Nixeira (both nix and eira meaning snow), Seoli (meaning frost), Jax (meaning ice) and Callani (meaning cold). I'll give you a proper introduction to these people in the following posts.

For anyone who's interested in knowing more about this challenge, here's the link to the rules:
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=438591&c=1&ht=&page=1&pp=25#startcomments
I will be using my own, modified version of these rules though, to make the challenge more enjoyable for myself. But I hope you enjoy following it too!