Help with gameplay ideas.
I’ve been playing a lot recently, but am losing interest easily. Any suggestions? I can’t use mods because I’m on Console. Thank you.
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- Try a Random Legacy. Each gen has randomised goals and family size/structure. It gets you out of your comfort zone and playing in ways you might not have considered, and it's different every gen and play through.
Here's the randomiser. Link to the challenge rules are at the bottom of the page.
https://www.simsrandom.com/ - I look for inspiration in the books, tv shows and movies I read/watch. If I really enjoy certain characters I want them in my sims. I make them in CAS with the traits that match their personalities, descriptions of hair, eyes etc, and jobs. I put them in my game and use gameplay to tell their story. I have a game with Mulder and Scully from X-Files with them in Strangerville solving the quest there. Then will introduce aliens to the game to save the mother plant. I recently found out that the scientist career has alot to offer, and you can actually clone yourself! So that inspired me to add a mad scientist who will clone himself or others, and make a robotic army as well. I also love family stories without supernaturals and plan a game with a farming community with characters from 1940-50's shows, the characters from Bones, and from Castle (especially excited to try Get Famous with Castle's mom, who plays an actress in the show. Just let your imagination go wild!
- It's hard to know what to recommend without knowing what you've already tried, and what you're into.
Your name suggests that you're into sci-fi. So I am guessing you probably have the Star Wars pack, City Living, Get to Work, and Strangerville. Am I wrong? Are you interested in some sci-fi roleplay, or something different? - I enjoy creating new Sims, even before I started using cc. It's amazing what you can do with a sim's face even without cc. The cc just gives you a wider variety of options.
Before I started using cc, I was making spellcaster for a variety of different ethnicities and cultures. I actually spent a lot of time trying to mold the faces of my sims after genetic traits common to the ethnicity of the sim. I think the first characters I did that on where the voodoo characters I made, Baron Samedi and his wife, plus the love loa. I also spent a lot of time molding a Norwegian wannabe warlock and a Native American wendigo.
My masterpiece, though, was a mummy princess, that I modeled after Nefertiti. I actually did her after I started using cc, but the cc was only for her clothing and jewelry. Her face was all careful manipulation of the features that are available in the game. I just found a photo of what Nefertiti would look like with modern cosmetics and fashions, and studied it while stretching her facial features to match the photo. You don't need cc to do that. - Spoiler
"musteni;c-18111435" wrote:
I have my main save where I play rotationally 30+ households. I have no schedule, I just play who I want for how long I want (I pay attention to aging though). My aging settings are long lifespan, active household only, and townies aging when needed. I try to think of a story for each sim and play in a way which suits it. I take a lot of screenies and publish some of the stories in my blog.
I also started a legacy to play more goal oriented. The aging is on normal, for everybody. Neighbourhood strories are on, NAPs are on. I love the challenge of first starting with a household, so I created legacy rules where each generation unlocks a new world (they can visit the previously unlocked worlds, but have to spend a night there). Each gen gets 20k from the household funds when they move to the new world and they must provide that amount to their own child. I remake the world when they move in to suit their needs, for example my next heir is a foodie so there are two restaurants. It's like a legacy that gets reseted each gen.
Edit: Forgot to say that in the legacy I randomise all their traits and aspirations. I try to play as the game tells me to play.
@musteni Thank you for the ideas. I have started to remodel some of the games existing venues to fit with my sims. "simgirl1010;c-18111436" wrote:
1. Start with a new sim and try one of the Scenarios.
2. Try a new challenge.
3. Pick a career and aspiration you've never done.
@simgirl1010 I tried a challenge, but it ended early and I can’t figure out why.- Spoiler
"BoergeAarg61;c-18111472" wrote:
I only play on pc, but my sims are very social active visiting each other or visiting community lots together.
Sometimes they are not even at home when I enter their household, and I have no idea what they are doing where they are. :)
@BoergeAarg61 Load screens are the problem for me. I have started to make my sims go places more and it is definitely more enjoyable.Spoiler"wahini2024;c-18111504" wrote:
Depending on how many packs and extensions you have
Try a challenge
Include more occult sims
Pick traits you've never or rarely used
Try a new career or aspiration
Give your sim your own milestones or life events
Do the not so berry challenge, it seems to shake up game play for many and expands the game play by doing things some of us don't even know about or tend to consider
Have a terrible sim that seeks redemption after getting the atrocious reputation. Aim for pristine. Have a pristine sim that becomes terrible after some life changing event like a divorce.
Challenges tend to help me the most
@wahini2024 I tried an alien for the super rich supervillain challenge with all the negative traits, but the challenge ended early because apparently I didn’t have a sim to complete it. - @Simmerville I had an alien doing a challenge and I wanted to add more households, but I can’t play the save because it lags.
@mightysprite I just can’t seem to think of a story for my saves, which isn’t helping when it comes to playing.
@ItsMeThatGuy I had a farm without cheats, which I had built up, but I lost the save and my legacy save. I haven’t been able to actually play a story because of it.
@cyncie I read your Sim Story and I love it. I started to play with a younger Morgan discovering they had Magic and trying to find the Magic Realm. - I find it's easier to play a character once I've figured out what they are like, what are their likes, dislikes, their hobbies, how they are earning their money. I also like to incorporate different elements from different packs, so if you like farming, you could get robots to help, or if you play a doctor, he could have herbalism as a side interest and guitar singing and camping as a hobby. Or take an interest in vampires, because he met a certain lady. Also, interesting community lots are important, if you have several of the same type, they should be somewhat different from one another, like an internet cafe vs. a book cafe, or an experimental food restaurant vs. an Italian restaurant or a fast food place.
"DramaticJedi5;c-18113868" wrote:
@cyncie I read your Sim Story and I love it. I started to play with a younger Morgan discovering they had Magic and trying to find the Magic Realm.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. That story went from Morgyn discovering his magic, going to the Magic Realm to becoming the Sage of Untamed Magic, to the development of a whole magical world that is now populated with such wide variety of beings that I have all kinds of story possibilities. If we’re getting werewolves next month, that could spin the story in a whole new direction.
