Help...I am in a serious rut!!

Which expansions and stuff packs do you have installed? Also, do you use mods?

You could start a family with your selfsim and celebrate Halloween?

Here's something random that's been on my To Do list for years, but I never got around to working it into my main game storyline. Play a perfectly ordinary couple with 2 children -- identical twins with the same traits except one is Good and the other is Evil. Put them both into Politics and see which one wins over the hearts and votes of the rest of the town. :)

Whenever I get into a rut and get bored with the game I have a look at the badges available to me and get ideas from them.

"Karritz;c-17997601" wrote:
Whenever I get into a rut and get bored with the game I have a look at the badges available to me and get ideas from them.

I do this too!

I also go to the Challenge lists and see if there is anything I haven't tried.

rags to riches.

I have all expansions and stuff packs! I have been working on badges as well...I am stuck on that Professional Student badge!! LOL My sim keeps dying of old age! I don't use cheats! I have gotten to generation 7 of a legacy family before my 7th generation sim set the house on fire....and decided to bump off the entire family! If I could just get to 10 generations!

Have you tried the Dumpster Dive challenge? It can be very challenging!

If you have Pets, play as a dog/cat and destroy every piece of furniture you can find in your neighbours' houses.

Or play as a witch/wizard and turn every sim into a toad-head, this is fun too!

I feel exactly the same, its not the game's fault, we just have been playing it for too long, at least I have since 2009. First I was blaming my old computer, than I blamed the random saves I kept starting, then I went back to play my old family which is on the 10th or more generation and all gets me bored. So I am trying a new strategy, I keep with my 2 old families that I have been playing for years, but on one of them I can only randomize traits and get what I get, even if its the insane trait which is the one I hate more along with inconvenient. On my other family I will randomize traits 3 times and get to choose one of them. I hope that will help me, maybe you can try too. In my case I always had everything planned like how many kids they would have, their traits, sometimes I would even cheat on the sex so I could marry them to specif pre mades, so now I wont do it anymore