@Springfairy556, I can mostly relate to this play style, when the students are at school and come back dead tired with homework to do. Unfortunately, too many nights are spent getting them back into a good mood, so I spend the majority of the time working on their needs. If they come back home so exhausted, they could either be done for the night and wake up in the wee hours of the morning and do their homework then or I might just slide that needs bar over just a little if I have something else in mind. >:) Usually, there's at least one parent that is either outside a rabbit hole job/unemployed, so I can have fun playing with them in the meantime.
@Keiomestre, I micro manage a little bit more. I like to have free will on, but never on max. Like you, I think the most you gotta keep an eye out for is whenever your sims get social. I try my best to have each family member have a good relationship, but, sometimes, it's kinda hard, especially when you're trying to get around the grounding system for kids and teens, getting in trouble for going to class and such. As long as my sim isn't already taken, I don't get too upset over social interactions with total strangers that don't go well. Sometimes I even go out of my way to make the sims have a bad relationship if they have to constantly apologize to a sim that just doesn't get "it." I'll also rotate to see what's queued up for each sim to see if they're still busy or just standing there.
@TreyNutz, Wow! That's a lot of sims, but I knew that there are lots of people that play similarly. The way I put it just sounded way funnier in the poll, suggesting that some sims just could never be let go, even after they died. :lol: I definitely fit in more than one box, but picked the one that fit my play style most. I definitely find myself doing 2, 3 and 4. I did do 6, when I first started playing sims 3. Since, I've found it harder and harder to take that next step of moving out. I think I get attached to the houses, so moving is like brand new and starting over. By that point, I think I usually like to start a new game completely with a new setting. However, right now, I'm trying to get over that a bit. I have a family of five and so many directions that I still want to take each sim. Even the parents got a lot of life left in them. I just don't know how to tell their stories living in just one house. Eventually, I think, I'll have to switch around.
@suzses, your play style sounds so similar to mine except I've never played with the grandparents before. Admittedly, I usually move to another save by that point. I'm trying to break the cycle!
@Sindocat, I think one of the most irritating things with the game is how the curfew and grounding system has come packaged in Generations. Students should be able to go to school without getting grounded for leaving and then grounded on top of that because they didn't go to school. *Facepalm* The fastest you can get your kids off the hook the better! It's too bad whenever that first wag of the finger is right before the school bus arrives, though. :s
@LunBeauty, you got that right about university. I recently took two of my eldest children there. One of which has earned his degree and the other one has a bit more work to do, if I remember correctly. I think the only reason why I might take the youngest there is for the experience, but I've decided she'd just blow off her classes if she does. That, I thought, might be an interesting story to tell. At this point, I'm still too attached to the parents to move any one of them out, but I have upgraded to a much larger house I made to make it a little bit easier.
