How do YOU keep track of your Sims?
Simple question (or maybe not). How do you keep track of your Sims, their achievements, their goals, their memories, their relationships, their stories? Do you have spreadsheets? Is your scree...
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I built my own online registry in addition to a spreadsheet and a huge directory of photos sorted by family and in-game year. In main spreadsheet each sim has one line, sorted by household and hood. I use it for many purposes, but one important thing is to plan what houses need my attention on my next rotation. I have columns for the next 4-5 yeas so I can easily plot when something might need my attention.
The registry and spreadsheet(s) cover both individual facts like simology, family trees and life lines +++, AND the community aspect of my game, including community overviews, political system, the large peerage and a huuge history book going all the way back to the Medieval era (TSM), heirlooms overview, and a newspaper that partly auto-updates based on the registry scripts. And tons more.
I know it's nerdy :) I like to say that if I'm offline, I can still play my game for weeks by updating and planning by looking around the registry and notes, and not actually running the game. Those notes have become a separate game, actually. I scripted it all by myself, so I add new features as needed.
The registry and spreadsheet(s) cover both individual facts like simology, family trees and life lines +++, AND the community aspect of my game, including community overviews, political system, the large peerage and a huuge history book going all the way back to the Medieval era (TSM), heirlooms overview, and a newspaper that partly auto-updates based on the registry scripts. And tons more.
I know it's nerdy :) I like to say that if I'm offline, I can still play my game for weeks by updating and planning by looking around the registry and notes, and not actually running the game. Those notes have become a separate game, actually. I scripted it all by myself, so I add new features as needed.
