Studs County - You Are The Author Of Your Own Life's Story

For all intents and purposes, Stud County is a small country place somewhere in the Midwest United States.  You arrive by bus and find yourself standing in the bus station in front of a sign asking you to create your back story.  See, Studs County is a simple concept of role play in that you create your own character. However, you do that by creating your past; where you came from, where have you been and what ultimately brought you to Studs County.  That part might take a little time but once you have that accomplished, the fun begins.  You find yourself immersed in a small modern day country town with all the amenities and through your story you become a local, adding to the community and its daily needs and commerce.

I talked to Stevethere, the creator/Mayor of Studs County and asked him how the creation and concept of this amazing sim came to be:

Steve:     Oh the concept was an interesting history.

Steve:     When Bowery finished, that was one RP sim where I played, as a firefighter captain, I decided to use this island I already had to build a new RP sim.

Steve:     The original idea was Brooklyn, NY and I started to build.  I built about half the sim and spent a lot of time and money building.

Clinton:  What was the RP going to be behind Brooklyn?

Steve:     The build included a Brooklyn bridge model, a copy of the City hall, several buildings.

Steve:      It was a big city RP, as exist several already in SL.

Steve:     But while I was building, I was thinking, the buildings were so monumental, people would be so far from each other and it would e so difficult to integrate all of it together.

Steve:     And then I had the idea of the small country town, in our modern days, because I am from a small town myself, a country town.

Clinton:   Lol, I am as well.

Steve:     But I had invested a lot in Brooklyn.  Do I continue? And while I continued, the idea of the small town was growing stronger and stronger in my mind.

Steve:     So at a point, I decided to stop, return all of Brooklyn and start it all again from zero, with the small town concept that I had already named Studs County.  And I got very happy when I did that.

Clinton:  So the big city man returned to his small country roots?

Steve:     Exactly.  I thought a RP based on a simple life day by day, where people were honest, friendly and hard working.  Far from violence, drugs and the things that are the theme at big city RPs.

Clinton:  And the same in RL as well.

Steve:     Oh yes, I thought the concept would catalyze good things and people would be naturally happy here.

Clinton:  So you have read almost everyone's submitted back story and of those how many have ran away from a big city to be in the small town?  I know that mine was.

Steve:     Oh, a lot of people wrote running away from big cities.

Clinton:  Yeah, I think a lot of guys just yearn for something more simple, easy going and laid back even in RP.

Steve:     You know, It is also good for administration.  Things can happen without hurry. I can start things one at a time.  So I always have something new to start.

Steve:     Now we started our firefighters RP and they are volunteer

Steve:     People are loving it, almost everyone wanted to join.  People have other jobs and they also volunteer to protect their homes and businesses

Clinton:  I wanted to join the firefighters lovers group ... but that group hasn't started up yet.  

Steve:     Hahaha, that group does not exist, but for sure you can RP to bring a cake to thank them for the service they do for the community or get a child to say he's your nephew that he loves firefighter's trucks ... LOL

Clinton:  Oh, I was thinking about offering help in the shower area etc

Steve:     HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Steve:    In the upcoming months we will be working on city council elections .  There will always be a place and job for everyone who wants to be part of Studs County.

Clinton: And who wouldn't want to be?

So, if you're looking to be a ranch hand, a bartender, a newspaper reporter, handyman or anything else you can creatively think of, hop on the bus to Studs County.  The friendliest of folks are waiting to greet ya!