How do you handle the rotational play hydra?
I'm trying rotational play for the first time and I'm foreseeing a problem.
My typical play style is to start with a single Sim, have them fall in love with a townie, get married, have 1-3 kids, and then I get bored and move on to a new save.
I have set the challenge to myself to work through all of the careers and aspirations (possibly collections too...) in a single save with lots of different families. My concern is that if my Sims marry townies and have more than one child, there is a net gain in the overall number of Sims to keep track of. I don't mind some intermarrying among my families, but even if I went up to 100 Sims that I rotated through, that's still a really small community to have families overlap too much.
I have a spreadsheet (I love Excel!) for keeping track of things, including which Sims are roughly the same age/generation so I can keep the timeline consistent. Already I'm seeing the total number of Sims I control grow very quickly. How do others handle it? Do you eventually choose children to age up, move out, and mark as unplayed?
My typical play style is to start with a single Sim, have them fall in love with a townie, get married, have 1-3 kids, and then I get bored and move on to a new save.
I have set the challenge to myself to work through all of the careers and aspirations (possibly collections too...) in a single save with lots of different families. My concern is that if my Sims marry townies and have more than one child, there is a net gain in the overall number of Sims to keep track of. I don't mind some intermarrying among my families, but even if I went up to 100 Sims that I rotated through, that's still a really small community to have families overlap too much.
I have a spreadsheet (I love Excel!) for keeping track of things, including which Sims are roughly the same age/generation so I can keep the timeline consistent. Already I'm seeing the total number of Sims I control grow very quickly. How do others handle it? Do you eventually choose children to age up, move out, and mark as unplayed?
