As you are hopefully aware by now, The FreeSO Server is closing on the 8th of December. However, we aren’t done quite yet! The FreeSO Finale will take place over the final week, giving you one final chance to experience and celebrate the game.
The final week will be packed with unique events, reruns of favourites and ways to leave your mark on the Sunrise Crater before it closes for good, on the night of the 8th of December.
Here’s a schedule of everything we have planned, day-by-day. More information will be posted on the day of each event. Feel free to pop in if you can!
Monday 2/12: The Final Town Hall
This week, the final mayoral elections of FreeSO are taking place in the following neighbourhoods:
- Volcanic Springs
- Meta Mesa (new!)
- MOMI Mire
- Multilevel Metropolis
The four mayors elected will obviously be able to shape their Town Hall one last time before the server shutdown, but in this election there is a greater purpose.
Starting on Monday 2nd, the Final Four Mayors of Sunrise Crater will be placed in charge of The Final Town Hall – a special property designed to show people accessing the Sunrise Crater Archive history told and shown by its residents, and links to the best and most unique properties across the crater. This property will be a first landing spot for users of the Archive client, so it’ll be important to make a good first impression!
Each of the four mayor will be able to invite donators and build donators to the project to help build the property, but the mayors will be in charge of the project’s direction. All organization should be done in the FreeSO Discord, so the process can be streamlined and we can build something great by the end of the week.
On Discord, users will also be able to nominate and vote for their own favourite properties of all time to link to and immortalize in this Town Hall, alongside links to all previous event lots, and a few Staff Picks.
Make sure you get your mayoral nominations and votes in this week!
Tuesday 3/12: Jams vs. Money
Over the last decade, we’ve observed an unusual obsession with a certain type of single money object. Despite having a simple animation, little visual flair, no significant difference in pay or completion time, the Canning Station has taken the crater by storm as the community’s shared hyperfixation, to the surprise of nearly everyone with some level of analytical thought. This hasn’t come without detractors, of course – big potions, gnomes and painting fans have been feuding with them since day one, chalkboard and typewriter fans have been actually making money, pinata… exists, and who can argue with a little cold calling?
On Tuesday 3rd December, we’re finally going to settle the score, letting YOU decide whether Jams truly is the king of all money objects, or if the variety and flexibility of the others outshine it.
To collect points for either Jams or Money, simply complete any money object and collect your profits. Alongside your profits, you’ll see a point added to a token in your inventory for each sale. These points will be tallied on the Jams Vs. Money Battlefield, where a live updating score will tally all points earned across the crater and display them in realtime, so you can see which team is ahead. Your personal score will remain in your inventory even after the server has closed, so your allegiance and level of dedication is permanently recorded.
As usual, this property can be visited by using the payphone at the front of your property, and selecting “Go Somewhere Nice”… but you should remember that doing money objects on any property counts, so you can use the opportunity to fill your favourite money lots one last time.
If Jams wins, we will concede that it is The Best Money Object. If it loses, however, it will be labelled as The Worst Money Object, forever. It’s this kind of decisive end result that makes The FreeSO Finale so dramatic and emotionally rewarding. Please look forward to the community meltdown at its conclusion.
Wednesday 4/12: December Fools
Remember, remember, the… 4th of December? On the 4th of December, all previous non-fire April Fools effects will be enabled. This includes some that haven’t been seen for a long time! Stack as many hats as you can, take a dip in a ball pool, and parkour around your property with a tiny version of yourself. Occasionally, you might have to get creative to talk to other sims. Remember that pressing : will get you a nice autocomplete search of every emoji that your heart may desire.
Fire will not be enabled due to the approach of The Save Date. Wouldn’t want the Sunrise Crater Archive to include a save with your limo actively burning up.
Thursday 5/12: M****: One More Platform
With players given ample time to practice their parkour skills on Wednesday, we’re going to put that to the test on Thursday evening, with an all new platforming course designed to test the limits of what insane levels you can build… in The Sims Online. There’s no strict start time for this, but it will be around 10pm GMT on Thursday 5th December. Stay tuned to this blog and the discord for more information on the course, and how to get there.
The camera, performance and general smoothness of the platforming have been improved since last time, alongside neat improvements such as regenerating health, so there will be no excuses for failure. You’ll only have yourself to blame…
A prize will be given to players for completing our killer platforming course – they will get the giant 3×3 cake from the Fructose Monsoon event, just in time to save it in your property forever. You’ll finally get that cake that She promised, all those years ago…
Friday 6/12: The Save Date
Join us at the town hall for a countdown to The Save Date – the moment where all database, avatar and lot save data will be locked in and backed up. This will be released with the Sunrise Crater Archive at a later date, where all player properties will be made accessible via a client that self-hosts a server for you to explore, potentially with friends by invitation. Much data will be wiped, so to ensure your property and all its signs are incluided (or deliberately _exclude_ your data from being included) please check the paragraph in the shutdown blog post for more information.
We’ll likely be present at the last half-hour of the server uptime, so around 23:30 GMT on Friday 6th December. Remember that anything that happens after this point won’t be saved, so make sure everything in your property is how you want it to be! After this event, the server will be down for multiple hours to save and backup the city data.
Saturday 7/12: The Final Object Distribution
After the save date, we will make available to the community various objects with… destructive capability, and that are generally unfinished. Fire will be enabled. Most special objects will become available via the catalog immediately… though at the Sunrise Crater Town Hall at Saturday 7th December, 10pm GMT, we will be revealling and distributing a special object that the community has yearned for almost a decade. My sources tell me that the object is completely unmodified, and everything will happen exactly as expected. Please look forward to it.
The Sunrise Crater Town Hall may not be openable after this point. I’m not sure if we can reverse what will be put in motion.
Sunday 8/12: FreeSO Sunset
The sun will set on the game at midnight on Sunday 8th December. There will be some special visuals for this moment. There is no formal event planned for this time, as it’s really up to players how they say goodbye to the game, though I imagine it will be easy to find somewhere to hang out.
All of that is our plan, but you can obviously run your own events and use these tools to your advantage to have a blast on the game’s last week. Updated information on events will be made available on the dates they occur, so keep posted on the Discord and this blog!
Rhys
