How do you keep your game play entertaining?
For me I like to create mean sims sometimes, throw in some cheating and divorces, and just add chaos lol. Most importantly...I take breaks when needed. Sometimes I won't play for days or weeks just...
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I do a few things I guess to keep myself interested. I have anywhere between 4 to 8 families that I rotate between so if I get bored with one I can go check in on another. I also prefer larger families with a bit of a range in ages to keep things interesting. I guess that makes me a bit of a family oriented player. I also have stories going on between the households for drama haha.
I also frequently am building new community lots for my sims to visit. I'll keep rebuilding and rearranging lots until I'm too happy with it to bulldoze and start over (I'm pretty satisfied with my Brindleton Bay). I also make a lot of my community lots multi functional so there's more for my sims to do (like a restaurant/cafe with a little music stage, a cafe with a roller rink (that I change to an ice rink in the winter), a rooftop nightclub with a pool and hot tubs, a mall with food stalls and movie theater, or even just dual restaurants on the same lot).
I also like to make creative lots like turning a bar into a movie theater since it takes advantage of the TV and bar food (that I pretend is a concession stand) requirements, and I've made my restaurants specific so like I have a little pizza place, an ice cream place, seafood, italian, etc. that are either casual or formal. I have a nice romantic rooftop restaurant in San Myshuno that I rebuilt like 20 times until I got it right.
And sometimes just to make the townies less painful to look at I'll go in and edit the ones I see around town the most. It makes the worlds so much more tolerable and even exciting when I see NPCs walking by that I actually made myself and like and might actually want my sims to go talk to them. I started doing this for University because I couldn't take it with the townies anymore and it honestly kinda changed the game for me. It's annoying to go in and do a bunch of make overs but for me at least in the end it was worth it.
I also frequently am building new community lots for my sims to visit. I'll keep rebuilding and rearranging lots until I'm too happy with it to bulldoze and start over (I'm pretty satisfied with my Brindleton Bay). I also make a lot of my community lots multi functional so there's more for my sims to do (like a restaurant/cafe with a little music stage, a cafe with a roller rink (that I change to an ice rink in the winter), a rooftop nightclub with a pool and hot tubs, a mall with food stalls and movie theater, or even just dual restaurants on the same lot).
I also like to make creative lots like turning a bar into a movie theater since it takes advantage of the TV and bar food (that I pretend is a concession stand) requirements, and I've made my restaurants specific so like I have a little pizza place, an ice cream place, seafood, italian, etc. that are either casual or formal. I have a nice romantic rooftop restaurant in San Myshuno that I rebuilt like 20 times until I got it right.
And sometimes just to make the townies less painful to look at I'll go in and edit the ones I see around town the most. It makes the worlds so much more tolerable and even exciting when I see NPCs walking by that I actually made myself and like and might actually want my sims to go talk to them. I started doing this for University because I couldn't take it with the townies anymore and it honestly kinda changed the game for me. It's annoying to go in and do a bunch of make overs but for me at least in the end it was worth it.
