How do you keep your game play entertaining?

"kostasmpi;c-17738982" wrote:

"Ellupelluellu;c-17737356" wrote:
I am a very slow player, I bought ROM at release.. and only now have my first spell caster, Mona.

This is so interesting. I'm the exact opposite. I always dive in the new content immediately and I try to rush through everything in the new pack. I'm curious how you haven't created a spellcaster all this time? Maybe you are not into occults?

Many players play slow. I haven't made a spellcaster either and I do like occults. Why would we want to rush through new content? Many people like to explore the game at their own pace, implementing new content when they feel it's time or it fits in with their story.

"kostasmpi;c-17738982" wrote:

"Ellupelluellu;c-17737356" wrote:
I am a very slow player, I bought ROM at release.. and only now have my first spell caster, Mona.

This is so interesting. I'm the exact opposite. I always dive in the new content immediately and I try to rush through everything in the new pack. I'm curious how you haven't created a spellcaster all this time? Maybe you are not into occults?

Pretty much what @Duvelina said above :) My main sim is a vampire, so it is not the occult part. Just that I haven't got any real need/interest to have any spellcasters before, or a sim who I would like to be one :)

Mods. I use mods that affect reactions and autonomy and the drama that can happen still surprise me. Sometimes I do a challenge but add a twist to make it tougher, like placing it on a short lifespan.

"telmarina;c-17738570" wrote:
I have to thank you for sharing your playstyle. I've tried to play in rotation because some time ago i read your experience about playing the game more centered in a community than in a family or a sim. I was blocked, playing legacies and getting bored too often. It has changed the game for me. I now honestly think that we get the most out of sims 4 playing in rotation.

Yay, thanks! So good to contribute in a way :)

"Ellupelluellu;c-17737356" wrote:
I am a very slow player, I bought ROM at release.. and only now have my first spell caster, Mona.

I'm a slow player, too. My population grows only 3-4 sim years during a full RL year, and I have yet not visited Sixam, as I wanted very much to do ever since the GTW release :) New skills takes forever to build as I play most houses for just a couple days at a time, meaning I have no well skilled ECO sims, and not a single sim is skilled enough to knit a toy yet :) Good thing is that the list of things to look forward to is growing :)

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.

Honestly though I would probably go out more often on the game if I didn't have loading screens between lots. I miss the open maps

I create my OCs in the game and... just play... watching what my characters are doing is somehow engaging for me. lol It's pretty nice when I play my sim and then I see my OC who fulfilled their dreams and started a family. Then I'm reminding myself of each roleplay with these OCs. It works for me somehow. :>

"Isari;c-17739608" wrote:
I create my OCs in the game and... just play... watching what my characters are doing is somehow engaging for me. lol It's pretty nice when I play my sim and then I see my OC who fulfilled their dreams and started a family. Then I'm reminding myself of each roleplay with these OCs. It works for me somehow. :>

This is pretty much how I play as well. Sometimes something that happens in the game will spark an idea, and I'll guide the Sims from their to play out a certain storyline, but most of the time I just play and let things unfold as they will.

"Ellupelluellu;c-17739399" wrote:

"kostasmpi;c-17738982" wrote:

"Ellupelluellu;c-17737356" wrote:
I am a very slow player, I bought ROM at release.. and only now have my first spell caster, Mona.

This is so interesting. I'm the exact opposite. I always dive in the new content immediately and I try to rush through everything in the new pack. I'm curious how you haven't created a spellcaster all this time? Maybe you are not into occults?

Pretty much what @Duvelina said above :) My main sim is a vampire, so it is not the occult part. Just that I haven't got any real need/interest to have any spellcasters before, or a sim who I would like to be one :)

I wish I could do the same. I would enjoy the game more:). Well, I play rotational I will add a new sim into the mix or a community lot.

My game is just a massive soap opera ?, scandals, deaths, cheats, vampires, witches and aliens, I created a serial killer sim that killed rich old men for their mansion and riches lol