The Brokes are the only family I actively try to keep pun names in. So Dust in Broke Beau (bo) broke The baby boy clone is always Connor (con nor) and usually will be the criminal mastermind Dustin wimps out on being due to Angela. As for the female baby in a clean neighborhood I haven't actually decided on a concrete name for her.

I named her twins Skip and Tuck.

Clean fixed neighborhood here, so Dylan if a boy and Bethie if a girl.

Playing my new clean megahood, Brandi just had a girl whom I named Shawna because I wanted something that sounded appropriate for a trailer park lifestyle.

In my last game I can't remember what I named the kid; I wasn't using a clean neighborhood template so it was a boy. But Brandi became a home business owner to support herself and then I think she married the private school headmaster. This time she will probably go the home-business route again, because I really enjoy a narrative in which Brandi pulls herself out of poverty by her own bootstraps.

Usually I name him Skip, or if she's remarried, I'll name the kid after one of spouse's ancestors. I don't usually do that, but for Brandi, I feel the need to keep it a family name.

I never let Brandi have her third baby because it doesn't work with the timeline of events, but if I did, I would name it George.

I named him James. I've carried on with the family tree, so James married Katherine Dreamer (daughter of Darren and Cassandra) and they had 2 sons, Skip (I thought that since Skip died before James was born, he would want to name his son after the father he never knew), and Jacob, Skip now has two sons of his own, Alan and Edward, and now James has long passed away from old age.

I named him Uber, once.

I've named him Skip Jr occasionally. Also Robert or Elizabeth (I use a clean version of Pleasantview, so sometimes it's a girl). Also Jayden or Kevin (for a boy) and Tracy or Chloe (for a girl).


I hadn't thought of that. Good idea! :-)

I just finished naming the baby so this is cool that the question popped up now. I named him Grady.

sorry to go off topic but how do you get to play them over and over? You say you started a new uber clean hood? What is that. I thought you would have to delete and the re install sims 2 to get the beginning sims back at the starting point.

If you delete the Sims 2 folder out of your EA games folder in your documents, the next time you load up the game its like brand new, hoods reset, and you loose all your downloads folder, its basically like unistalling and installing but a lot quicker! But you do loose all your data if you havent made a copy before you delete.

On the other hand you can download the hoods from various places that would give you them packaged up all new and when people say 'clean' they mean someone has gone through the trouble of cleaning up all the mistakes Maxis shipped the hood with for you to download, this minimlizes the risk of problems in the long run and sorts out things that were missing or wrong.

An 'uber' hood is where you download the before mentioned clean hoods and then add them to a main hood as shopping districts, this then means you basically have one big hood with say Plesantview, Strangetown and Riverblossom Hills all as one big hood so the sims can cross between them with no trouble

Hope that clears up your confusion starla!

Thank you for clarifying. I really appreciate that. I hope you don't mind if I ask a few more questions. Could I possibly just delete one hood in the documents folder that I want to restart with instead of everything? By copy do you mean just copy the files in the document folder before deleting them then after restarting the game place the files I want to keep back into the folder?

Does MTS have the clean hoods you are speaking about or how would I go about finding them?

An uber hood sounds interesting.

When I first started out I deleted many of the hoods like strangetown and veronaville. Would they show back up if I deleted the document folder?

If you just want to reset one or more neighborhoods, you can copy them from your Program Files folders. Here's a FAQ:
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title...t_Neighborhoods

That FAQ also contains a link which explains about resetting your entire save game. However, that's really overkill for what you want, since it destroys everything.

If you want to restore all of the shipped neighborhoods, I would recommend just moving or deleting your Neighborhoods folder. That will regenerate all of the shipped hoods without destroying your CC. However, it will also remove all of your custom neighborhoods.

Tarlia has the best cleaned and fixed hoods. As well, she has converted most of the shipped neighborhoods into subhoods, so that you can attach them together to create your own megahood.
http://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/63030.html

Boy or girl, I always name the kid Dakota. It seems to me to fit the trashy theme. Also where I live and teach I have known just as many male as female children named Dakota.

In real life I used to babysit these kids named Buster, Beau, and Ginger. I always thought they sounded like pet names, especially as a set. I'm determined to eventually work all three into my Broke family. Beau exists already and one of Dustin and Angela's quads in my game is named Buster. I look forward to when I can next work in Ginger.

I named him Jack! He eventually went on to have an affair with Dustin's wife, Angela and all three of them died. Then Lilith adopted Dustin and Angela's kids. Only they, Lilith and Beau ended up living happily in that family.

I named him My Little Ponny <3

Simoleon Broke.

Yep, I'm so original.

She had twin girls this time. I named them Jaime and Jillian.

I named him Will, as the future auxiliary: Brandi wanted a better future to her children.

You don't need to delete the whole folder, just delete the Neighbourhoods folder (or remove it and copy it elsewhere if there are neighbourhoods you want to keep - copy them back once you've run the game and reset the neighbourhoods but make sure you don't copy over new neighbourhoods with the same number).

I named it Aaron last time.

Unfortunately Brandi had spent the early days of her pregnacy worrying about the 25,000 loan she had taken out in order for the boys and herself to move from the trailer house into an actual 2 storey house, that she had a miscarriage.

-True Story-

I haven't played Sims 2 in so long, but I saw this thread and now I think I'll go reinstall it! I miss the Brokes.

Anyway, I've played the family so many times and each time the baby got a different name, but Royce is the main one that I remember. It just seemed to fit

Brandi had twins due to cheesecake in my game, and so I named them Ripp and Skip

Brandi Broke had twins in my game. I named them Skip and Rip. Skip was named after his deceased father, Skip Broke. Rip was named after Skip Broke's deceased state (RIP = Rest In Peace). Get it?