Rotation players: question
How many days do you play each family and why?
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I do not have a rule for rotation length, but it usually turns out 2 or 3 days with one household. The reason is that I want the other households to react to what happens in the one I'm currently playing. For example if a sim in household A woos one in household B, it would be way too easy, not to mention unfair, if he just went through with it from start to end, trumping over sim B without me having played her side of the story first. Or that of her parents and friends.
I stopp playing a household for that round when it reaches the last night of the current season and only open that particular household again if everyone else has reached the end of that season, too.
After all this time I'm still fiddling with synchronizing college. One season is too short to equal the eight semesters, but two seasons are too long for my taste. Fortunately once a sim has turned eighteen it isn't required to keep them in sync with the others, as not everyone is showing the same signs of aging at the same time. (That's why it doesn't bother me that, for example, Lola and Chloe have a different number of days left despite being twins. Lola is simply more suspectible to age related ailments and will function as an elder earlier than Chloe despite being of the same age numerically.)
I stopp playing a household for that round when it reaches the last night of the current season and only open that particular household again if everyone else has reached the end of that season, too.
After all this time I'm still fiddling with synchronizing college. One season is too short to equal the eight semesters, but two seasons are too long for my taste. Fortunately once a sim has turned eighteen it isn't required to keep them in sync with the others, as not everyone is showing the same signs of aging at the same time. (That's why it doesn't bother me that, for example, Lola and Chloe have a different number of days left despite being twins. Lola is simply more suspectible to age related ailments and will function as an elder earlier than Chloe despite being of the same age numerically.)
