Rotation players: question

I'm currently playing half a season per family. :) So one round goes up to 3 or 2 days left and the next goes to the season change. :)

As long as I feel like...

"Scribal_Goddess;c-16240229" wrote:
So when I get a college for New Edenia, my rotation will be 1 day per regular neighborhood household, then a full semester of college for each college household, then back to the regular neighborhood. On the last day of the season I just skip the college crew. I try and minimize the number of college households to keep things more interesting (and so studious sims can benefit or suffer from the antics of their party animal buddies,) so at first it's probably going to be only one household.

That's pretty much what I do for college - one semester and then 1 day with each of my families. I found that it age people up pretty well. Usually by the time my kids graduate, their parents are close to seniors. I also save up my college students until I have 8 and send them all at once. For my first play through University, I had 9 kids. Well guess what: one dropped out of college. ;)

Someone mentioned in another thread that the didn't like seniors because there was nothing to do with them. Maybe it's because I'm almost a senior (I can already get cheap coffee at McDonald's!) but I find they can do all kinds of things like help raise the kids so both parents can work, have a home business to make money, etc. Plus if you move one of the kids back home with the parents, guess what happens to all the family wealth when the senior passes on? To heck with life insurance! The "good" child who lived with the parent becomes pretty wealthy. Since I like to grow my neighborhood organically, by the 3rd generation, some of my families can have anything they want, have HUGE houses, butlers, etc.

Anyway, thank you all for your responses. I just find it interesting the differences in how we all play.

@Rhiannon58 - That sounds like a fun way to play seniors :smiley: ! Unfourtunately for me I don't usually want to be able to afford everything or live in large houses when I play the storylines of my Sims out. I much prefer them to have lower to mid level jobs and have an average amount of money or struggle for it. I also enjoy when the Sims grow into adults that they start from the ground up. I find the game loses enjoyment if my Sims are able to afford everything in the game. But that is just the way I play :smile:

Fortunately, not ALL of my Sims end up wealthy. For instance if there are two kids in the family, one of them moves into his/her own place after college. I had one Sim who is BARELY getting by. She spent nearly all of her money buying a tiny little house. She met a nice young man passing by her house, they fell in love and she asked him to move in (I'm thinking "YES! Money problem solved"). Well, he had a whopping $2k. So they are still broke with a baby on the way.

So there will always be some low income families to play. I just like having the ability (after an entire generation of poor families) to be able to create some larger houses, have cars, garages, etc. Last weekend, my richest family was able to call for a butler. He will arrive next time I get to play - probably next weekend. I loved butlers when I played before. They changed diapers, tended the garden, answered the door, cleaned up, cooked. I'm looking forward to exploring that again.

I tend to play however long I'm in the mood too, kind of treating each house like a different save file sometimes it's one day, and sometimes I stay to put a kid through university and then get them married, or just hang around until the baby is born. All depends on what I have to do.

I have never played a schedule, I would have not survived The Sims if I played on any set schedule even set by me. I play whatever hits my fancy no matter what is going on. I played all of the series that way. If I want to see what Johnny thinks about Mary then I jump from house to house to find out what is going on from their point of view. Legacy style play would have killed this game for me years ago. That is why I loved The Sims so much, because I had the freedom to move around and play them all.

Actually, when I rotate families I usually use common in-game event markers to decide when to switch households: an important birthday, the turning of the seasons, etc. It's much easier for me to keep the story flowing when I use in-game events to time my rotations, since I like to sync those things up with surgical precision.

I play with no set rotation. I play whomever I wish for how long I wish. (then I play catch up with all the other households :/ )

When I play rotation, I like to stick to my rotation times because it works for me and keeps them together~That's when I rotate. If you don't play rotation, then you don't play rotation. :lol: