Are You a Restart Game Addict or...
Are you the kind of Simmer who sticks with one game for years and years or are you like me and struggling to stick with one game for any amount of time? How long do you stick with the same game? Wh...
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Recovering restarter here 😄
My current game is the longest I've stuck with one EVER. I am rotating around 16 quite different households, which helps, and am half way through my third sim year (4 week seasons). Normally I don't make it through one sim year, so this is a big achievement for me. I took all my favourite sims from all my favourite past games, aged them down and gave them parents and am seeing how they now turn out. I'm really enjoying it.
My main restart reason used to be new content coming out and I would think of new ideas I wanted to implement which didn't fit with my current game. Or just new ideas popping into my head randomly.
Wow! That's great! I also play on 28 day seasons. I like gardening and cooking in game, so I like the seasons to be long. Sounds like you found your secret to success.
Same here, WisdomBuilders. In fact, I honestly wouldn't mind if they gave us a week or two more for each season. (I know, I know, it's not like that in real life. lol) I would also love it if Maxis/EA updated the calendar so that it can be personalized for each household separately; that way the main holidays you want all your sims to share in, they can, but then you could also add your own special holidays for a household without making all your sim households have to experience that holiday as well. (I know you can always cancel any holiday early, but that also makes the sims sad when you do.)
I envy people who can do rotational play. I get bored even sooner than I normally do whenever I try because I can't connect to a sim/sim family and their story when I'm constantly switching to a different one every few days.
It helps if you only play two households on rotation for starters because then you get more time with each of them. Also, I'd recommend adding a second household only once you've played with the first one long enough to have a connection. Otherwise, it might be difficult to get into rotational play.
Well, I play each household for a whole sim week and write up their story with pictures to remind me what happened. I feel connected with them all and can't wait to continue each story!
Same. When I added the third household or rather, when the oldest daughter of my main couple moved out and got her own place, I started to make rather extensive notes - where do they live, what are their aspirations, what's their career... stuff like that. I thought about adding the main traits, too, but that would have been a bit much. I've started to take more screenshots, too, once I added more new households. Otherwise, I might lose track of their stories. And since each household is rather unique, it is fun to play each and every one of them. Also, most of my Sims know each other or are friends or in the same group, so I get to see what they are up to even when I'm not playing them.
