HELP: Tips For Rotational Play
Hello my favourite Sim Community! 👋🏻 I’m looking at ways to spice up my game-play and revolutionise the way I play Sims and I’ve been considering the notion of rotational play on a large scale li...
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When I end up playing rotationally, it's usually just the result of playing one household for a long time and it expanding over the world. Like, I almost always start with one sim, but then maybe they get married, have kids, some of the kids grow up and move out, so then I'll start playing their households as well, and so on and so forth. Pretty soon I've got 20, 30, 40 households, all descended for that one sim! Most recently, I ended up popping over to another already in game household when they interacted with my played household enough that I got interested in them. So, it's always kind of an organic evolution and not something I necessarily set out to do, if that makes sense.
As for tips...I have to admit, at a certain point I usually end up pausing or turning off aging for non-active households, just to make it less stressful and makes sure I get to spend the time I want with each sim. You can't really send a sim to university for instance, and then expect them to do well in school while playing another household. Generally, I tend to focus on whatever household is active at the time, giving them all my attention until I feel like I've gotten to a good "pause" point, and then switch to another one.
One thing I've found kinda nice--since most of my households are related, and I have the Seasons pack, I'll end up switching up what household I'm playing for different holidays, I'll invite the rest of the fam over for Harvestfest, for instance, and so different households will end up "hosting" the big family holiday on different "years". I find it quite cute anyway :D
As for tips...I have to admit, at a certain point I usually end up pausing or turning off aging for non-active households, just to make it less stressful and makes sure I get to spend the time I want with each sim. You can't really send a sim to university for instance, and then expect them to do well in school while playing another household. Generally, I tend to focus on whatever household is active at the time, giving them all my attention until I feel like I've gotten to a good "pause" point, and then switch to another one.
One thing I've found kinda nice--since most of my households are related, and I have the Seasons pack, I'll end up switching up what household I'm playing for different holidays, I'll invite the rest of the fam over for Harvestfest, for instance, and so different households will end up "hosting" the big family holiday on different "years". I find it quite cute anyway :D
