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thefirsttemplar
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10 months ago

Am I the only one who never cared to play families or with ageing on?

While it's neat there is the option, I honestly have played with ageing off ever sims 2 introduced ageing. Only briefly did I play with it on and it's just not for me. Neither is controlling families. By the time children are in an age group they get more options, they have to waste most of their time on school and homework. With adults you can just do whatever if you use a money cheat. 

Must say though I'm someone who has zero interest in ever having children. 

I just prefer to play with a bunch of different adults, see how they interact with each other, set them on career tracks, maybe try some social experiments like put them in a prison, explore them being a supernatural, a mad scientist or otherwise having a pretty interesting life since I really don't care much for the mundane. I am already living that. 

I also like the chaos, the unpredictable things. And that's something I do miss most in sims 4. It plays it safe too much, it always gives a way out. And that just takes away some much needed excitement. I made a whole survival house and all, put eight sims in the deepest basement and let each sim advance a level up if they accomplished something specific, each level granting some more access to privileges and objects. 

All eight survived. Even after each of them made a wish at the wishing well while the hooded face showed. In a cursed haunted house. With a werewolf and a vampire among the group. 

 

 

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  • I play rotationally with aging off, but I turn it on every New Years Eve to add one year to everyone's life. This happens only 2-3 times every RL year, so my over all progress is rather slow...

  • I play in a similar fashion. I've only played two actual families in my entirety of the Sims and that was a single parent with a kid in college (neither of them ever aged) and recently a single parent raising a single child from birth and up... and the only reason I am doing this is to try to do a save that has my Sim do everything... well almost. I might make a second save where things branch off so one follows the path of a "good Sim" and another for a "bad Sim".  Either way, the only aging in this so far is the kid via blowing out some candles. Nobody else has aged meanwhile.

    Typically, family game play isn't my thing. Dating and weddings aren't my thing either. Having to manage romantic relationships all the time is too much of a pain. Give me "The Dating Game". Once they have gotten gold dates and full romance... There. Done. They will be together happily forevermore and I will have them whoo-hoo in interesting places when I want something silly. Otherwise, they are working jobs, doing hobbies, gaining skills and collecting stuff - which is my main game play. I want "all the things".

    On the side, when following tracks has gotten a bit boring, I have had a tendency to kill Tragic Clowns for the good of Sim-kind... despite my Sim was the reason it was summoned in the first place... and torture Sims that become too aggravating to me. They tend to live, though. The Tragic Clown is fine since I consider it supernatural... you kill it (unfortunately you often have to add it to your household for an interesting kill), but another one can be summoned soon after. It is a shame they aren't the way they were in the OG Sims: a shmuck named Sonny who bothers your Sim until your Sim becomes happy enough that he cannot stand it and escapes through a magic hole in the ground, your Sim banishes him through flames or you call the clown catchers to wrangle him.

  • Kushina9999's avatar
    Kushina9999
    Seasoned Veteran
    10 months ago

    I turned off aging from the beginning of my Sims playthrough and personally only play Young Adult They are really for romance

  • I play with aging off because I love playing with families and having time to really get to know my sims. Or I should say one family that I've been playing for the last 6-7 years. I love the infant, toddler, child, and teen stages.

    My Super Sims Family Challenge 2.0 | EA Forums - 4959503

    One of my toddlers remained a toddler for almost two years and one of my teens, Juliette, was a teen for four years. 

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  • LaurieH01's avatar
    LaurieH01
    Seasoned Newcomer
    10 months ago

    OMG--I just got into the Sims again and forgot you could do that! I am SO going to turn aging off ! Also, I don't understand why my Sims in two games got big in the hips. I didn't build them that way! Probably because of the aging thing.

  • I like to play single sims mostly, who have self employed type careers. I play with families too, but I have to say that I find the children a bit tedious because of the requirement for them to go to school everyday. I don't like the regular careers and the school is too much like a career for the kids, so I don't enjoy that either. 

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