"bekkasan;c-16227292" wrote:
Right now I'm trying to have a long running story with connected worlds like @igazor so I can play various members of the family or their friends as the story develops.
I will point out, with apologies again to those who have heard it all too many times, that I play many different kinds of households within this ongoing game deploying Rotational Play (NRaas SP mod) and also rotating through all the worlds I have connected (Traveler mod). The story lines are all connected, or will be some day, some more tightly than others. It never really occurs to me to begin a new game, if I want to try something new then I create or work with sims in a "corner" of this game that I never had before. Or create a new "corner."
I did start a new game entirely once, sometime after installing Supernatural to begin playing a household of one each of the then new occults. Liked it so much that I just linked that instance of Moonlight Falls to the others and let the storylines crossover. One of those original occults married into my main household, the others are now doing different things in other connected worlds.
So I guess I'm "cheating," I do start over and have the same experiences and choices to ponder when sims grow up and move away from home for the first time or when I create or choose some new characters to play, sometimes with no money or possessions at all and none of the childhood developmental advantages that player-controlled sims might have, and start playing them within this game someplace. I really have around 16 ongoing games in one here, they are just all connected in some way. By the way, when your sims have absolutely nothing, not even a cardboard box to sleep in on their empty home lot, and are living on the streets saving up to build or buy their first real home, the Firehouse can be a very comfy place to stay for a while. :)