-old thread ignore please.

Early to bed, early to rise makes a sim healthy, wealthy and wise.

So I like my sims ready to leave the house in the mornings, fed, washed and in a relatively happy mood. Then they can have a good productive day at work.

To achieve this I make sure the sim goes to bed at a reasonable time and isn't hungry when they go to bed. That should mean they wake at a reasonable hour without being too hungry. Next they are sent off to the bathroom because nobody likes a smelly sim at work . Finally if they show any signs of becoming hungry again I make sure they have a quick snack, usually fruit juice.

At weekends or days off during the week they are permitted to sleep in and have cooked breakfasts/brunch.

Obviously when the sim babies come along the routine changes. The working sim is permitted to sleep through the night but the child caring sim is expected to get up and attend to the baby. This way the working sim, who also has first dibs on the bathroom, should continue to go off to work in a reasonable state. The child caring sim can sleep/fed/shower during the day depending on what the little one needs. At weekends where possible the roles are reversed so it is the working sim who gets up for the early baby feed or nappy change.

Finally by the time the children are of school I try to have a house with two bathrooms. Otherwise first thing in the morning sims are struggling to get through their ablutions in time to leave the house promptly. I also make sure there are leftover breakfast things in the fridge so that anyone who is still hungry can eat. Dirty dishes obviously go straight in the dishwasher. In a house with non working elders, which is unlikely because I expect them to keep working long past retirement age, the elders are kept out of the way until everyone else has left for school/work. Unless I can persuade one of them to cook breakfast while the family are getting washed and dressed :D

Apparently, they do. I left my sims household to play another for 1 day mind you, and without my knowledge they went from dating to married and pregnant within 24 hours. I only learned this because the sim I was playing atm spawned a wish to say wedding congratulations to the couple.

So I very angrily took her to their house deep in the swamps, and saw both of them gardening early in the morning. They always did that while I was playing them but it was nice to see them continue to do it even without me, one of the things I love about ts3. It was quite sweet really, but I'm still bitter that I didn't see the proposal, didn't get to plan the wedding, didn't get decide when they would have a child ):. They did it all without me... in 24 hours.

"Sunnyyesjams;c-16547970" wrote:
Apparently, they do. I left my sims household to play another for 1 day mind you, and without my knowledge they went from dating to married and pregnant within 24 hours. I only learned this because the sim I was playing atm spawned a wish to say wedding congratulations to the couple.

So I very angrily took her to their house deep in the swamps, and saw both of them gardening early in the morning. They always did that while I was playing them but it was nice to see them continue to do it even without me, one of the things I love about ts3. It was quite sweet really, but I'm still bitter that I didn't see the proposal, didn't get to plan the wedding, didn't get decide when they would have a child ):. They did it all without me... in 24 hours.

Wow! my sims never do that on their own even when I leave the household for a bit.I had to install a mod to do autonomous proposals.

@Springfairy556 Wow what mod is that? I have nraas story progression installed so that's what is causing my sims to move on, but I'd love see autonomous proposals while I'm playing the family.

(sorry, wrong thread)

"sassygray5;c-16553311" wrote:
My Sims usually get up when the game forces them to for work or school, so usually about one hour before carpool. Which not does not leave a ton of time! I try to get them all showered and have them eat something before they leave, but often there is only time for one or another. I usually don't let them head to the car/bus until it's about 30 mins before work/school. They are often a bit late to either :D In my larger households it's a struggle of balancing the number of bathrooms and Sims. I too let the ones who need it most have dibs.

I'm curious about the relativity mod, but I'm also afraid it would make the game drag and I'd get bored.

NRaas Relativity does not make the game "drag," it allows sims to perform routine tasks in less (often considered more realistic) game clock time. By default, the game clock speed is 37. Lower numbers mean fewer ticks per sim minute, so things take less game clock time to get done not that each minute takes that much more real time to get through. The most popular setting is 19, but that's too much a change for me and I prefer 23. Others settle for settings more like 25 but some prefer actually lower than 19.

The differences are subtle, not quite jarring as let's say making each day twice or three times as long in real time to get through might be -- this is not what happens. But my sims don't have to get up in the middle of the night just so they have time to shower and prepare breakfast to make it to work/school on time and they do have more game clock time for something after dinner other than maybe watching TV for 20 sim minutes and then collapsing from exhaustion. Nor does it take them sim hours to get out of the house and across town unless the town is really that large and their method of transport is really that slow. :)

"Sunnyyesjams;c-16551697" wrote:
@Springfairy556 Wow what mod is that? I have nraas story progression installed so that's what is causing my sims to move on, but I'd love see autonomous proposals while I'm playing the family.

It is Bluejetsu's Autonmous More Romance Mod.My sim's romance just asked her to be his girlfriend and a couple months ago in my other game, a townie proposed to her.

My current sims are the Woode family and Cassie wake up really early at 5 or 6am, then she'll go and eat some fruit, practice magic and garden until midday when Darius finally wakes up with full energy and Cassie goes back to sleep again for a few hours. She never has a full energy bar but seems to do a heck of a lot. Darius has a simple routine, eat and stare out window and brood outside. I'm really glad that Cassie still seems happy even with all the stuff that she has happen to her. Most recently an earthquake and fire, so it's pretty amazing she's always trying to say happy stuff to Darius and he always shoots her down because he dislikes he wife.

Yeah, I keep my Sims on a morning schedule. I use the regular old in-game clock. The trick to my success is I do a lot of planning for the week ahead on the weekends. All meals are prepared in advanced for the upcoming week and hair and clothing changes are locked in on Sunday nights using the additional outfit slots. My Sims wake between 5-5:30am, make their beds, do the morning bathroom routine, eat breakfast and usually have a bit of time left over before they have to leave for work or school, I let them do something that will raise their fun meter with this time; then its business as usual with work, school or the self-employed/freelance schedule.

The weekends are the only times I don't hold them to a schedule, in my world Saturday is 'a free day' and I let the Sims do what they want without interfering (they deserve it). Come Sunday morning, its back to preparing for the week ahead.

Yes, waking up, check what's the store daily deal in smartphone, get up and prepare to go to work.


Oh, you wrote "sims" in title :wink: