How do you keep it interesting?

I am a rotational legacy player. This way I can never lose my interest. There is always something happening in my families. Some have toddlers, some have teenagers. Some are childless and like to party a lot. Some are adventurers. Some are wealthy and some are struggling with paying their bills. There is always something happening if you play rotationally. Don't be afraid to add drama to your game. Also it is good to set some goals and have a scenario, script on your mind, in your head.

Why not to have your sim divorce and let the kids visit the other parent on weekends via manage households?

I used to be a family player only and I would get to gen 3 and get bored but the past couple of saves I've built Newcrest from scratch and I create my main sim then add other sims in it who I want them to have relationships with (friends, lovers, enemies etc). I always have a main legacy sim but when I fancy a change I just play another household in the save. I've also experimented with play styles that I've not done before so I'm finding that I'm really enjoying my sims atm. I also sometimes nip in to premade sims saves, give them new looks and manipulate their lives ie. Make them have affairs, get them pregnant etc. I do like it when they have children because when my main legacy sim is ready to have babies then I know theres other children for them to make friends with.

usually switch another household but it's hard nowadays because lack of gameplays, I dont like playing challenge.

1. Play in age groups. Have a group of kids, group of teens, group of elders, etc. Use clubs to have those groups do things age appropriate together, including your elders. Age everyone up together, so they always have their friend group throughout life (except for elders who will die off at their own rate). If you're using premades to start, choose a neighborhood and go in and age all the non-grownups to the same age (toddler, child, or teen) so that they all grow up together as a group (siblings can be twins).

2. Make places that the game doesn't have a setup for. Be creative. Like make a teen center or after-school center for kids and have the group go there, or just set it so it's off limits to everyone but the group and maybe an "employee" like the cool kids counselor or something. If you have more teens than will fit in a group, you can make 2 teen groups and give them both access. Or make offices for your adults to go work at. You can even set up cubicles with half walls. I guarantee you that if you bring a group of people to a place full of computers, they will all immediately "get to work," haha. Or at least it will look like they're working while they play games or whatever. Have a manager's office that is locked to everyone but the manager. It's especially fun to have an office in a highrise because it makes for some great screenshots. You can also do this with residential lots. Right now, I'm playing a Victorian era game and I have a factory where everyone works (using woodworking tables), but it's actually a residence, so they also all sleep there in dorm-style rooms. Use your imagination to set up different venues and use groups and door locks to control it.

3. Set up entire worlds based on a theme. Delete all the premade sims and any buildings that don't match your theme. You can play an era, like the 70s, or the 1800s, or even the future. It's challenging but also fun to try to find all the right cc and to populate your world with the right types of buildings, clutter, people, hairstyles, etc. Just make sure you don't try to build the entire world first before playing any sims because it will take forever. Do it in stages and build a little more on with each generation.

4. Use reward trait cheats and also additional traits that you can download. The sims' personalities are lacking, so I pad them out as much as I can to make things more realistic and choose reward traits that I think would fit their personality.

5. Don't make your sims perfect. If every sim is beautiful and nice, that gets boring. For personality, go to one of the sites that let you randomly role personality traits and then just put in whatever you rolled. Or pick your own traits but always do 2 positive and 1 negative. For looks, I like to generate 2 random sims, then use them to create a teen child (so I can see what he/she will look like), then delete the random sims and change the age of the teen to whatever I need. While I'm randomly generating the teen, I stop at the one who looks the most realistic, rather than the one who looks the most beautiful (unless I happen to roll a raving beauty or something, which is rare).

I can't watch Let's Plays. I get bored and fall asleep.

I have a legacy in Sims 3. When I get bored of it, I take a break from it for a few days or weeks and play with another family in either 3 or 4. Sometimes, I'll take a break from the game entirely.

Sometimes, I like trying to reach a certain goal, like getting to the top of a career or achieving a certain lifetime wish.

6. Oh and I forgot to mention hierarchies. So in my Victorian game, I have lower, middle, and upper class. They're not supposed to marry outside of class, and there are consequences if they do. Also, I restrict access to different parts of the house (only servants can go in the kitchen or laundry room, things like that) and to different commercial venues. For instance, upper and middle class women can't be seen hanging out at the pub (it would ruin their reputation!), but lower class women can. In addition to past eras, you could also set up a fantasy world or future world where there are hierarchies of your making with rules of your choosing.

Like some have already said, rotational play is what keeps it interesting for me.

I am constantly creating new characters. There are some I have never actually played but enjoy having in my world. It's also fun to challenge yourself to create a house or a Sim who looks just like a real-life counterpart. For example, I created Spock, Uhura, and Kirk, then created rooms for Spock and Uhura that look like their rooms on the show. Then I made their house look sort of like the Enterprise but still with easy routing and fun playability. Then I decided that Kirk went insane and wandered off alone into the jungles of Selvadora, with McCoy and Chapel following to keep him safe. Things like this are very engrossing for me and take many, many hours. Then the next day I get bored of this and played Jem from the 80s cartoon show as a mermaid. Now I want her to run a daycare because Jem cared for foster children on the show. Then I got obsessed with creating children who look nothing like any Sim children I've ever seen before.

Allowing myself to be weird and accepting my short attention span keeps it exciting for me everyday. ?

>>>Becca28 said: I rotationally play saves rather >than within a game. That way I slowly finish the >challenges I start (a lot of them can be quite a >grind so you need a break). I also have happy >family saves and everything goes wrong drama >saves and play what I need to suit my mood on >the day. I never erase saves because I never >know when inspiration will strike for those >particular sims.

I do this as well! Right now, I have 5 saves that I play rotationally. In my main save, I’m playing about 30 different households rotationally. I play each family for about a sim week and then switch families. When I’m bored in my main save, I switch over to one of my other saves which include different themed families I play on rotation and one save that is only for building and play testing my builds (for when I’m just in a building/world development mood).

Also, I usually don’t play challenges because I don’t like following the rules, but instead set my own long term story goals for my sims. For example, with my Caliente family my first goal in story was to have Katrina madly in love with Don and naive to the fact that he is only after her money and is cheating on her with both daughters. I wanted her to get engaged to him and then catch him cheating on her with Nina, kicking them both out. It was so much fun to play through that (I would share photos of it if I wasn’t still in new member status) and then when that was finished I started on my next round of story/drama goals for each character (Katrina, Nina, Dina, don, etc.). When I started getting bored in the down time of playing them through before I was ready to complete/start the next story arc, I switched over to a different save and worked on my stories there. Playing this way makes me feel like I’m a writer on day time dramas or soap operas lol and I can come back to each story when I’m ready to so I never feel stuck or disengaged.

Also, @QueenofMyshuno I love your ideas and might create a couple new saves to try some of them! Thanks for sharing :)