"thenightcourt;c-18080028" wrote:
"Seera1024;c-18077732" wrote:
@thenightcourt
What motive or motives do you have the most issue with?
How many Sims and what ages are they?
I’m playing the Broke household with 4 sims, and it isn’t a single motive, it’s all of them lol. Time management is my issue, I think :)
It's hard to start with one of the harder difficulty families.
I would step back from the Brokes and maybe look into one of the houses with just 1 or 2 Sims in them - preferably teen or older.
Or make a household with just one or two sims.
Get used to the controls and the rate at which needs drop in an environment with less risk of failure.
But if you want to stick with it here are some tips:
1. Group meals even if it's a single Sim household. Make sure you store the left overs. This reduces time to get a Sim to eat on busy mornings when they overslept or they have better things to do than cook a meal.
2. Red hands raises fun really fast if they live with someone who has a good relationship with them.
3. Upgrading the bed is first priority. Faster they sleep, the less time they spend sleeping and more time they can use to get a promotion or tend to other needs.
4. No one ever died from low hygiene, fun, bladder, social, or energy on their own. Hunger is the first priority for all Sims. Followed by Social for kids and younger as they will get taken by the social worker if their social is too low for too long. Just be mindful of low motives if you have ghosts on the lot as the scaring will drop their motives.
5. If they are too tired to eat a meal at the table, either pull the chairs away from the table and have them eat or have them eat a snack. They can't nap in their plate if they have to hold it and without a table, Sims will hold their plate and they will always hold a snack. If you go the snack route choose chips or cookies and then have them sleep for an hour or two and then wake them up to eat some left overs before sending them to bed again - if no left overs, have them eat another snack to get them to morning.
6. If you can't get all motives topped off before work or school they will eat and take care of their bladder at work. Unless they have platinum aspiration they likely won't get promoted if you send them with low hunger and/or bladder due to their motives being too low, but if you find yourself crunched for time, it's something to be mindful of.
7. They will watch tv until directed to do something else, even if you told them to watch tv so you can't queue anything up past watching tv.
8. The floor dividers will keep things moving in the bathroom and let someone shower and use the bathroom without having any embarrassment issues. Just remember to leave some space in front of the tub/shower and toilet for Sims as they have to be in the same room to use the item.
9. The floor dividers will also work as sound proofing so you can block off the crib and then a toddler or infant won't wake a sibling or parent in the same room.
