What I mean by "test" is that the Sim's existence is solely based on being used as a guinea pig of sorts--it's not a household you play regularly, their only purpose is to either test things or set things up in advance. I guess you could call them "worker Sims". I always have one in every save. His only job is to test out new establishments I've created, or in some cases to prepare things. For example, I always send him to any location I have bee boxes to "enrage" the bees. I'll take care of his needs, but I don't care about his fun or social--he's there to work! lol When he's served his purpose, I don't play him again until I need more testing done. Do you do anything similar to that?

I used to make Sims to see how the Grimm reaper worked. I used to like to set the houses on fire. I've evolved from there, I now make Sims and lock them in a very small room with about 4 or 5 toddlers. Muahh haa haa!!!

No, I like to live dangerously, lol.

Yup, I created an spellcaster adult sim to see if it’s possible for her to outlive her kids and have her raise her grandchildren but stay immortal using spells...it’s possible. I got tired of waiting for the kids to die though and just drowned them ?♀️

Sure. I get a quick random one from the gallery and dump them into a lot when I want to focus on world building. When I’m happy with my worlds I ‘release’ the sim from their duty (cheers & goodbye) and move in my main characters. Let the game begin.

I make a test save with one or two test Sims whenever I install a new expansion or game pack. I have a lot of old saves on an external drive that I occassionally go back to with a test Sim to find out what went wrong. Some of the old saves were affected by glitches that popped up after a patch or update. I've managed to fix most of them. I have a one save from April 2017 that I go back to now and then because I like the Sims in it but the save itself is terribly broken.

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Nielsern75
5 years ago
I actually created a Test Sim earlier today, to see if it's possible to stash 9.999.999 simoleons in a vault and still make money. It was. Me happy.
wrenstales2212
5 years ago
I test sims when I create buildings, it enables me to spot and fix flaws before hosting it online.
It also comes handy if your trying to make mods, I have made a few mods, especially using the portal, in which I intend to use for the build I am doing at the moment.
babajayne
5 years ago
I find it really annoying when starting a “new game”, we are forced to create a sim before doing anything. So I have some throwaway sims I’ve made because of that.
whubble1817
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I do absolutely make test sims. Most recently, I wanted to see how the cow plant can eat sims (hoping to woo the paparazzi into its clutches somehow), so I created a sim named "Cowplant Food" and made him a really nasty individual. It took on two attempts for him to live up to his name. :D Sometimes I make experimental sims in new saves too so I can test out how things will work in builds and with other sims. I also add the sims I have to make for new saves to my library so they can be townies in my main save. I have lots of those guys.
whubble1817
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Stutum;c-17673686" wrote:
I actually created a Test Sim earlier today, to see if it's possible to stash 9.999.999 simoleons in a vault and still make money. It was. Me happy.

I found this out too recently. I was sooooo HAPPY.
Admiral8Q
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I used to create "Test Sims", or grab a random Townie as "a guinea pig". :D But I often ended up liking the Sim so kept them either as an NPC or even a semi-played.

Most of the time now to test things, I use existing sims I have. I'll make a "Test" save of course first. Or several as a I'm testing. Then when done delete those save files.
Kittybass
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I use sims I've created but rarely play as my testers. I mostly use tester sims after a patch or a new pack comes out. Sometimes a test save evolves into a real save and I continue to play it on.
Nielsern75
5 years ago
"SimsLady2000;c-17674130" wrote:
"Stutum;c-17673686" wrote:
I actually created a Test Sim earlier today, to see if it's possible to stash 9.999.999 simoleons in a vault and still make money. It was. Me happy.

I found this out too recently. I was sooooo HAPPY.

It's good to know that it doesn't have to stop there. ;)

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