What do you spend your time on?

I play a variety of ways.  My favorite thing to do is make Sims in CAS!❤️  But I also like to play large families! 🥳 I get most involved with a large family.  When I play single Sims or just a couple or 2 roommates, it is because I am trying out some new feature that the game offers, or a feature that I have not previously explored. Large families aren't the best for exploring game features, unless those features have to do with family life (like the ones that came in the Parenthood GP). 😉

I also micromanage my Sims, but I always play with free will on.  I am amused by their own choices, but I also don't want them to collapse in exhaustion after peeing themselves! 🤒😃

Some households I do pay more attention to goals.  I focus on different things depending on my mood. Other households I use to tell a story (That is one style you didn't mention: Storytelling! ❤️) But storytelling was best with TS2! ❤️

Finally I really love to test things in the game.  Part of that comes from trying to help people here on this forum... I will test something to see if I get the same result. Experimenting in this way can help to figure out what is going on in another person's game.:eahigh_file:  But I also like to test things just to see them for myself.  It challenges me to try to recreate some scenarios. 🥳

One thing I rarely do that many other players usually do is I rarely play rotationally.  I have almost all my households in their own Save Games.  I don't like when things happen to my families when I'm playing other families! 😞  I do have a few saves where I play rotationally, but I hardly ever play them.  😳