Archive for 'News from The Sims Online'

Free Money roomies break with Van: Racist-themed Welcome Property Emerges

Story by Los, Deep Max, Anonymous, and The Eye In the wake of recent crackdowns on the Free Money for Newbies (FMFN) scam site, but driven largely by interpersonal conflicts, two new scam sites have emerged in Alphaville, both operated by FMFN alumni. The first house, currently number 2 in the Alphaville Welcome Category, is [...]

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To Be Or Not To Be? That is the question when it comes to new content on TSO

By The Phantom To be or not to be. This, it appears, is the question on many players’ minds recently. In a recent announcement by Maxis employee and senior TSO Community Rep Tigger (the only TSO official who bothers to speak to the community) on the Stratics boards, we have been informed that Blackjack and [...]

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Interview with Selene Moon on Wicca and Witchcraft in Alphaville

Recently, Selene Moon came by the offices of the Alphaville Herald and asked one of our staff members why we haven’t written any stories on the Wiccan community in Alphaville. Good question! And while there are some key Wiccan community members that we want to interview eventually, we thought we would start by talking to [...]

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Evangeline Mocks EA: You Can’t Stop my anti-n00b “Terror Network”

As reported in the Alphaville Herald, Maxis has recently moved against accounts associated with the newbie scamming Free Money for Newbies property, although predictably they have moved in a half-hearted and impotent way. They terminated some of the accounts associated with Evangeline, but not all (they left his Evangeline Merrill account), and two other accounts [...]

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JC Soprano: Now the City is Mine!

JC Soprano speaks in detail about his mafia family operations, including his “executive games” in which minimum wager per bet is 100K simoleans and in which he has taken over 2 million simoleans in bets from a player (around $100 US in today’s market). He claims that his advertised cyber-brothels were just for show, and [...]

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Alphaville braces for mafia wars.

With the Sims Shadow Government currently non-operational in Alphaville, there is growing concern that sim “mafias” – essentially griefers that roleplay as Mafiosi — from other cities will come in to fill the power vacuum. Mafia presence in Alphaville is currently fairly limited (examples include JC Soprano’s family, the Sclafani family and a handful of [...]

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Adults Preying on Children for Cybersex in TSO? Stratics Board Discussion Heats Up

by The Phantom With a strongly worded and impassioned initial post, eyeseenoone has opened a topic on the stratics board entitled SENSITIVE AND SHAMEFUL which raises the uncomfortable yet pressing issue of adults engaging in cybersex with children in TSO. In the opening post, eyeseenoone offers a long thoughtful and tightly argued post on the [...]

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Interview with former SSG General, -Storm

In this Interview, -Storm discusses his departure from Calvin’s Creek because of mafia harassment of his #1 skill house, his arrival in Alphaville, and his eventual joining of the Sims Shadow Government (SSG) in April. He talks about his role in fighting the Alphaville mafias and the role of diplomacy in persuading some mafias to [...]

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SnowWhite and –Storm Resign SSG: Is it the end?

In the past few days SSG Overlord SnowWhite and key a general, –Storm, have resigned the SSG. Both officers site burnout with the game and with their responsibilities in SSG. The decision by –Storm also seems to have been driven by operational differences with SSG leader Sayeh in SWG. These resignations continue a series of [...]

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Profanity Filter or Thought Filter?

By The Alpha Riot Grrrlz O.K., so like say you wanna talk nasty but what you wanna know, is, like, well, is this like something that Maxis will think is profanity? We certainly wanted to know, so we figured you did too. So we undertook a very serious investigation into the matter, and what we [...]

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