How do y'all play Sims 4

I play rotationally with a lot of different households keep aging off most of the time and have all the packs so far except business and hobbies.  I don’t use mods or CC and play on a PC.  I don’t normally play many Occults, but have the packs.  How do you play?

I generally play normal neighborhoods with no occults, and a high degree of soap opera antics.   I do a lot of storytelling, and often political dramas will rise.  I was a builder when I was younger, but these days I'm more prone to just using premades or stuff from the gallery.   I'm prone to constant restarts, a habit from The Sims 2:  I would frequently replace my Pleasantview neighborhood with the default template to start anew.  On that note,  I grew up when Maxis games were very integrated  -- Sims from The Sims 1 could be ported into SimCity 4, SimCity 4 maps could create The Sims 2 neighborhoods, that kind of thing -- and I like doing that with characters.   So, I  often create the petitioners and advisors from SimCity 3000 and use them to populate my TS2/4 games (haven't tried it in TS1 legacy editio nyet),   or bring in Sims from different games. For instance,   in The Sims 3 I made a version of the Pleasant twins, in The Sims 2 I made Claire charming, in The Sims 4 I remade all of the base The Sims 1 sims, that sort of things.   I always have a self-sim in the game: sometimes I let them have a family,  but generally they're just there.

I create my own Sim families and go from there. I also enjoy building, so I generally build homes for said families and move them in. I also use mods. MCCC is one of my favorites. It allows me to cheat up skills for this newly created family, because it bugs me that a set of parents with maybe 5-6 kids have no skills whatsoever.  I'm also one to create possible mates for some of the kids. 

I play with 175 Sims. I remove jealousy and make all Sims love each other, but only lesbians

I'm on generation #12, The heir, the youngest child, is required to complete the scouting badges, go to university, get married and have many children. My generation #2 won the lottery (yes, you can actually win), so the heir inherits the fortune. One heir had 20 children (she got married twice). One heir had only 8 children, depends on my mood. My heirs have twins and triplets. It can get chaotic taking care of so many children, but I enjoy it. I take a lot of pictures, all the kids eventually move out, I give them spouses in CAS and they get pregnant. I have two cemeteries full of urns and pictures. Yeah, I'm too invested. 😆 

I have my Sims learn and skill up as much as possible while creating and collecting everything possible on the side. I like to find all the nooks and crannies of environments. When the game is being a pain and I cannot progress on a goal, however, I'll find out other things via build mode. 

While the old builds of game are not "designer" quality, there are fun little things I've found hidden. One of the builders had a tendency to paint their buildings with two different wallpapers that are the same color. Usually it was a stucco with something else. The two builds that come to mind at the moment are the Von Haunt Estate from Get Together and the Deadgrass Discoveries museum in Brindleton Bay. There is also the infamous builder that liked to stick toilet paper rolls behind toilet seats. Bob Pancakes' bathroom and I think it was the one I consider to be Alice Kim-Spencer-Lewis' bathroom has those calling cards. If any of you have Strangerville and Spooky Stuff, have any of you figured out how and where the Dreamweavers Way house has that Spooky Stuff flooring? It took me quite a long time!

I play challenges like the decades challenge or legacy challenge. 

Never seriously. For me it's all about creating strange sims and having them do strange things

I play rotationally, but all within the same family. I started with a Sim modeled after myself and then branched out through the generations. Each member of the family has four children each (when space allows), so the family gets pretty big. I don't really control my Sims too much and prefer to let them wander around and do as they please. I do control them for things they won't do things autonomously, such as getting married, having children, repairing items, gardening, etc. For the most part, though, I just like to watch them. A lot of people who play the Sims 4 get bored with the repetition of the game, but I rather like it. It's calming to know exactly what's going to happen (in most cases), as real life is often chaotic.

BUILDING

With the occasional making of a cas family for the houses I make