How Do You Create Your Sims?

Most of my CAS sims are edited townies—I'll take some random slappy off the street and give them a completely new look. New face, new hair, new body type, new name, whole nine yards. The ones with good traits often get married off to my born-in-game sims; the kleptos and meanies and assorted other undesirables get either killed by some suitably awful means or just left in permanent limbo in the world, never to be known or loved. Under the circumstances, the dead ones probably met the less depressing fate.

I literally pick the first one that comes up in CAS, because I know I'll be changing everything about them anyways

I randomise a sim until I get a face I like, then I tweak features, dress and style them. I would give them a build appropriate to their lifestyle/traits (Lazy sims would be a bit plumper/less toned vs Active sims for example).

Their clothes and hair I also base on their personality and hobbies (band shirts for Music Lovers, athleisure for Active sims, high fashion for Materialistic sims or Snobs etc).

I generally give them one outfit per category and make them buy additional ones via retail.

Whatever sim comes up in CAS, I twitch lightly, skin colour, some preset features that would look better, some nice hair and clothes, and they are good to go. I don't spend ages designing sims.

I learned up front that in order to maximize your success in creating a Sim in CAS, it was advised we select a head that mostly had the shape of the face we desired and go from there. This is what I do, so it's mostly from scratch, so to speak, but it does depend on the already created heads they give us to choose from.

So, a little of Column A and a little of Column B, if you will.

Neither. I randomize a few times until I find one that's sort of close, then tweak from there.
I used to start from the first sim that came up in CAS until I figured out that the first one isn't random, it's one of a small group of Maxis models.

I will usually select one of the model faces and then change things on it. Lately, I've been randomizing the Sim though and taking whatever the generator gives me.

In this save, I’m playing more premades than usual. But in previous games I have started with a character already in mind. I randomize in CAS until I get a Sim that’s close, then tweak until it matches my vision. For the main characters, I fill up their clothing tabs with their personal style, and try to keep it exclusive to them. Secondary characters get 3 outfits in each major category.

It varies. Sometimes I make entirely new sims from scratch, or at least as much "from scratch" as one can within the limits of the game. :tongue: Other times I use one of several favorites I've made and saved in the past as a starting point, and then alter them in some way(s) while I'm still in CAS. The only times I ever use a completely random or otherwise unaltered sim are for test purposes.

Well I don't often make sims in cas
(usually they're children of pre existing sims that i dont edit other than fashion + I play premades a lot)

but when I do make sim i usually randomize until i get somewhere close to overall face shape I'm thinking about and then adjust via the templates and dragging and such