Calling Non-Rotational Players!

I dont really rotate games, I just play what I feel like playing. And only mods I use are genetic mods thus far.

And yes, I tend to put different sims in their own save, and save a copy of the family to bin.

Alot of it is attachment. Sim in my avatar has been around ever since Supernatural came out basically, 530 days old or so, 19 children, etc...

Another save, the sim is over 200 days old, and has fathered 115 or so children in total.

The save I'm mostly playing right now is my legacy challenge. I'm not playing rotationally on this one except occasional build-mode adjustments. I have aging on, so my sims are always changing. And yes I do play other saves sometimes too.

I don’t play rotationally in the sense that all my families don’t inhabit the same “universe”. They each have their own saves and I might bounce around between them depending on what story I feel like telling. But this way I know when I get around to them again, it will be exactly where I left off.

I've never really played rotationally. I mostly create a new save for new families.

I enjoy that most because it's "new". The relationships develop with new people and I don't feel like I need to make sure something doesn't happen to "upset" my story line because this is a "new story" .... so if Bob & Eliza suddenly decide to become an extremely happy boho hippy commune loving couple, they can! I don't have to worry about them veering off the "we hate each other" story line.

I just really enjoy starting fresh, I guess. Maybe I want my current sim to fall in love with Don Lothario, but in another save he's already happily involved with someone else, and I don't ever play intentional cheating sims (had a few instances of infidelity happen to me in RL so that's not my jam, regardless of what sim I'm playing.)

I've also never played rotationally (at least not to a point where I can consider it rotational). I struggle with having multiple stories going on, so I think that's part of why I like to not play rotationally. I get invested in one family!

I also tend not to stick with one legacy for too long, which is something I want to fix. Maybe playing rotationally would improve my desire to stick with one save? But I definitely have a preference for playing one set of Sims, because I usually have one storyline or legacy challenge I'm trying to fulfill.

Sometimes I like to use the Legacy Challenge randomizer for what to do that week if I get bored and want to spice up a plain, non-challenge legacy save, or any variety of "Spin the wheel!" things that Simmers have come up with to decide what they wanna do. Gives it a lil injection of something fun.

"elanorbreton;d-1007716" wrote:
As a rotational player, I am adjusting my gameplay style due to my decision to play without mods (if you rotate without mods to a lot of households your sims sadly lose relationships and I don't want this to happen).

You can try add (you said you play without mods, but not sure about cheats) the Beloved trait (reward for completing Friend of the World aspiration) that halts any relationship decay of the Sim. :smiley:

I don't really play rotationally I'm just neurospicy. I spend hours on sims building them up in CAS, giving them traits. Making them truly amazing. Sometimes their backstories are more their own, and other times reflect things I'm working through in my mind/thinking about lately.

And then I get bored. Whether it's of the sims, or of The Sims in general and then don't play for a period of time. The problem with that is I forget everything about my sims. I'm trying to type up info in the household tab now to combat that a bit. But I'll literally make sims and then forget why I made them the way I did and then I can't play them anymore. So then I have to just start over with a new save.

I don't even know the last time I had a multigenerational family, that wasn't made that way from the beginning, or like the parents were added in after. Mostly my sims might get married, maybe have kids, and I'm gone before the kids get to college. And since I don't let my person sims become elders, I end up hoping around a lot. And my sims are still alive in other saves. I've got saves that didn't even have toddlers yet. I've got a save from when toddlers first came.

I do use all the mods though. It helps me set up the stories I want without too much stress and then I can play what I want. Especially since I'm constantly starting over.

I make each family member I take over unique. So that helps me stick to the save. For me all the intrest is build up.tp having a kid. Then I switch focus to the kid and build up again. And what that kid likes and dislikes. I love to roll likes and dislikes each birthday and see how things change. I make a list of the old ones. Roll. And combine the two lists. If there was no change for an item then it stays the same. I once had a sim start our loving gardening....get a job in the career. Age up and then rolled a dislike for it. Which changed how ai played that Sim. And made them feel fresh and intresting.

In my PC version of the game I am making myself play only one family. I have multiple saves, but each one is a single family that I play.
The only time it may turn rotational is when the children of my families move out.

I mostly rotate but when I don’t it is because of a challenge even something easy to keep track of like play on short, normal or long and play one in game year see what happens.