I am so overwhelmed!

"slynnski;15368498" wrote:

"surraaaaaa;15368214" wrote:

Maybe making my own sim and starting like that won't be so bad.... Idk, I really wanted to play around with the premades. I got used to how I play S4, and from what I understand, neighbors don't age unless you play them? So I dooooo want the ages to make sense...
The sims 2 came out when I was in middle school, basically all I did was make me and my crush married and have 6 babies, one after the other pretty much, then I'd get overwhelmed, then I'd stop hahah it is so challenging! Now that I'm older that challenge is appreciated.
Start out slow is great advice though haha (I just want to dive in!!!) Thank you :)

Hmm yeah I guess coming from Sims 4 or Sims 3 to Sims 2, it would be weird that nobody else ages. It's just something that I'm used to so it doesn't bother me really. Plus I play neighborhoods rotationally so everyone ends up aging more or less evenly with everyone else. Townies don't age because you can't play them, but I always viewed townies as disposable anyways...just there to make friends for jobs or to use as potential spouses/baby daddies. :D

One of the first families I made when I first started TS2 was me and the guy I liked. I made myself a romance sim, thinking that the romance aspiration meant my sim wanted to fall in love and get married. Boy was I shocked when I found out what the romance aspiration was really about. :D

In the end there is no right or wrong way to play the game. Just play how you want to, and have fun. :)

PS I cant help but laugh at your experience with the Pleasants. They are my favorite family in Sims 2, but they definitely are a handful when you first start playing them lol.

Sounds like what you really wanted was the Family aspiration, lol.

I made a mother and teenage son (VERY poor) for a custom neighborhood. They literally had nearly nothing. I bought them the most basic fridge and a microwave so they could at least cook food somehow because I couldn't afford a stove for them (though I put a fire alarm in place for the future when they finally could get a stove). So, the mother got a job in law enforcement and kept bringing Goopy home. They got along really well, so I got them to a point where she was able to ask him to move in. They fell in love and eventually got married, but I had no clue that Goopy is a romance Sim. So, down the line I got him to be friendly with the nanny so I could get the nanny to move in and take care of the toddler permanently but without having to pay her. She's got to be like 80 something but that didn't stop her from falling in love with Goopy and Goopy getting friendly with her and courting her (I never let them get beyond that point though). Well, one day the nanny is downstairs in the library, reading, and Goopy and his wife decide to get it on. So after they're done, the nanny dropped the book and raced upstairs and slapped the $#** out of the wife and they got into a fight, and the nanny is brokenhearted, and the wife is confused because she had no idea he'd been flirting with the nanny. I didn't know what to do and the animosity continued growing between the wife and nanny until they came to major blows again, and HATE each other. Suddenly though, the nanny and the maid started hitting it off, so I quickly took advantage of that and built their relationship up until I could get the maid to move in and they eventually got married (my first non-traditional couple), and it helped take the nanny's mind off of Goopy, and I was able to start repairing the relationship between her and Goopy's wife. So now they're a mainly happy household. Anyway, that's how I learned about romance Sims. I got lucky though. Goopy, in spite of being a romance Sim is also a happy family man, so I've been able to keep him from really straying.