Are you mainly a Realistic player, Fantasy Player, or both???

More like both. It depends on what I want to do.

I would play with fantasy sims if we had witches. I don't play with vampires a lot but if we had witches i'd be 90% a fantasy/occult player. As for the poll itself I usually start out with no money and then work my way up.

I've been playing since Sims 2, so I've done both. I always make sure I can survive without cheats first, but I don't want every save to be the same grind. I get enough reality in real life. Sometimes I just want to live in the Pinnacles, be the leader of a club Nancy Landgraab wishes she was cool enough to get into, and drag my dirty dishes into the trash on pause to keep the party mood high.

We only have a couple occult states so far, so that's another question. In Sims 3, I almost always had a witch or a fairy in the house. Sometimes I played an entire household of every occult I could manage! I can and do play realism, but I fantasy has a special place in my heart. <3

Realistic with fantasy like influences? I do a little of both. Cause whew! The economy in the Sims is everything lol. But depending on the storyline I've got going on, sometimes I start the family off with money, other times I do a "bottom up" type of deal.

I feel like I'm half and half.

My sins earn their money, but they spend every hour they're not working or taking care of needs on hobbies. Their garden currently boasts six completely full planter beds as well as apple, pear, cherry, pomegranate, avocado, plasma and plaintain trees. One planter bed is devoted entirely to Bird of Paradise. That alone gives them over 2k simoleons per day. As soon as the garden has harvestables and is profitable, I hire a gardener. What's 150 simoleons a day when your garden alone rakes in 6k?

I also tend to give a sim Painting skill, focusing on Small and Medium paintings until they get decent.

So they have their jobs but also money making hobbies.

I also tend to play with their aging off. This game, now that they have one son as a young adult (that one has aging disabled too) and one teen I finally decided it was ok to age them to Adult. I might age them to Elder and turn aging on once they both reach the pinnacle of their careers and aspirations then move them in with their elder son as he has more room, while I play the younger son and his family. I don't like managing too many sims at once and the older son is frankly boring so while he's in a "played" household I basically only check up on them if I want another baby in the household.

Almost purely realistic, save for sometimes changing the gender/pregnancy options and reviving the odd ghost.

I was surprised by the results. Playing a game to simulate totally normal life seems odd. I thought that's what real life is for. I really believed that most simmers threw at least a little fantasy or quirkiness into the game. Learn something new everyday.

I would say both depending on my sim and what I want to do with them

A mix of both for me. It really all depends on what kind of story I have in mind for the particular sim.

I think I fall more into fantasy category since most of the time I do start my game with at least one motherlode
because let's just be honest here I don't like ready made houses and I want to start with a good house on a big lot
with good kitchen and good bathroom, 2 bedrooms and dining + living room
possibly 10 tiles of basement just to place down the stairs so I don't need to worry about layout problems later in case of expanding

will I get all the basic needs furniture in it at once without using cheats? not really :confused:

like I don't go mad advanced like placing pools or putting down luxury items
( I don't think I ever do tbh it is just not what i imagine ideal house to be)

I just make it to a point where I can fill my sims needs
and have good kitchen items because I don't want to die making spaghetti

lowkey wish they'd add loans to the game tbh