TS4 was easy to play multiple Sims in one household. I stopped playing one or two Sims years ago. First, unlike TS3, if you are playing multiple Sims in a household in TS4, you will have to pick a favorite or it can become overwhelming. But it was easier to play many Sims in one house in TS4 because you can take them along with your Sim, leave them on one community lot and continue to play a fav Sim and take them somewhere else or back home. Leaving anyone else on a community lot somewhere. I don't know if this is still true but it was for the first three or four years of this game. The Sim or Sims left on a different community lot would eventually come home on their own.
This was an easy way to play several at a time since yes, you wanted one or two to go with your Sim but not necessarily return home at the same time for whatever privacy reason your Sim wants to do things somewhere else and or at home. It was an easy way to get them out of the house and stay gone for awhile. And we could always click the panel to make them come back home or switch to them easily. The only thing is TS4 isn't as detailed as TS3 or even TS2 and so the Sims we could 'drop off' somewhere else may not continue to do whatever you left doing (if on a community lot) and therefore on their own to do or meet anyone without your control. This is true in Ts3, too, however if you left one somewhere to switch to another they usually were still doing whatever you commanded them to do when you went back to them. Or grabbed them to send them home..or in TS3 they may run back home without your consent. In TS4, they don't but would return home eventually.
In TS4, it was easy to play multiple households but I never stuck to a week or a season or a time line of when to rotate, like others, it was like a book or movie in my head. I jumped around to see what was happening or what a Sim was thinking in a different household like scenes in a play or movie and or whatever tickled my fancy to go do with other Sims. I did not like the time continuing though, because I didn't like that in TS3, either. SP is not my thing, I like to witness what happens to my Sims like babies born in game and not getting named before I have a chance to get back to them. Things like that really bothered me in TS4 with it's type of story progression. Or giving my Sims a romantic partner I had actually never seen in the game....no.
