Board Notes - August 2018

Happy Saturday!

Here is this month's summary of SimRealist's inner workings. 

• Mod Fund: Good news is we are still moving up in regards to Private Practice funding (I've updated our Mod Fund page on our website to reflect this small change). However, it wasn't super high. Due to this, I'm looking into getting outside sponsorship for SNB from financial institutions that would be interested in partnering with our project. Not sure if this will work but it wouldn't hurt to try right? That way if it is routine we can have monthly work on that while we build our number ;)
• Private Practice 0.6: This version is still going but our download numbers currently at 13,157. This is way better than the last version's first month period in which we were at 8,806. Final numbers won't become available until we do another update. Which may or may not happen this year due to other potential projects (I will add a poll on mod scheduling for the rest of the year so you can choose ;-) )
• Organic Beauty: Merman Simmer has started his part of creating a set of CC hair for this project. roBurky was scheduled to start and complete his part in September (after SNB), but due to scheduling it will be pushed back (see next poll post). (This mod pack will start with the ability to have growing hair and the maintenance of said hair. I would like to expand upon that later with other aspects of human biology that changes over time but what makes us unique and beautiful in our own way) 
• SNB 2.0: As mentioned before, this mod will be released around September 21st with the listed features in this post. I've updated the progress bar for this mod on our MIP page as well.
• R|E: This is being slotted for October; after the completion of Organic Beauty. (Previously I was thinking more of a simple UI for Landlord type setup but I think I would like to start with creating a Real Estate market type situation where your Sim's house 'appraised' value fluctuates according to certain parameters. I think this approach would better match the SNB feature schedule that was voted upon, see SNB's 1st poll summary post on our blog) 
• Questions: Let me know if you have any questions/concerns regarding these announcements in the comments below or in the Discord #patron-forum. 

Much Love,

Nichole