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BettyNewbie1's avatar
3 years ago

How do you make your game more fun/engaging?

What play style, storylines, and anything else you think makes your game more engaging do you do? Looking for some ideas, fell into making new saves and playing for only thirty minutes.

Some ideas from my gameplay;
My sims are divided into generations, determined by when they go to/are university age (the day they age to young adult), I like my sims to stay dating and friends with close or the same generation, and teens nearing adulthood get a new wardrobe. I do set likes and dislikes, the first color to be set is their "favorite color" (the one they age into a child in). The second I spin a wheel for, and is the hair color they like most in other sims. I also spin a wheel for dating preference, which I track on a notepad. My sims have two likes set for hobbies, one is normally trait/aspiration based, while the other spins a wheel and is for their fun. I do follow aspirations, but not always completing them, I use them as a guideline for what a sim wants in life, like a writer will be more into books and literature. I let my sims care for their basic needs and mainly only make them interact manually for hobbies, skills, aspirations, or taking a new step in a relationship. For relationships I actually like the whims, there are some good ones I pin. Edit; mention for PleasantSims, who gave me most of these ideas.
  • I'm not sure how to answer your question so I'll just list some things that I think add to the game, make it more interesting or deep and are moderately fun. Get seasons if you haven't already, weather and seasons (makes the different clothing sets make more sense) adds to the game as well as holidays, and you can create your own holiday and edit it. It does rain a lot though. Get together adds clubs which are fairly deep in how you can edit them, they add something new you can get involved in for fun, but you can also make a club that works on skill building or gardening. I like having the new worlds because they add new sims/families and new destinations to visit. If you like to build, then there are new opportunities to build. Take a vacation once in a while with your family, rent a home and explore. Parenthood adds depth to the whole having a family, and training your kids, teens. That adds to the gameplay and is very important if you're the type that plays as families with multi generations etc. Cats and dogs not only adds well, cats and dogs but you can run a vet clinic, even build your own, it has a few bugs but usually it works properly. It's not really a lot of fun though to stay at the clinic for a day examining pets. but you can choose to have your hired employees run it and you earn the profits, you can train them and advertise for more people to come in. Work on building your dream home, with a great outdoor area, cottage living adds chicken coups, cow sheds and produce that you have to use to cook your meals. Sometimes the way the relationship between your sim and wife/husband goes through ups and downs and that adds to the game, gives you a reason to go on a date and stuff, and a reason to be very smart and careful about what you choose to say to one another. I heard stranger Ville offers a nice story to play through, but I don't own it. City living is pretty good all around, good clothes and cas stuff, build mode items, new jobs. Spa day was a great addition for me because i like meditation, and I built a club around going to a spa and doing spa things, yoga, meditation groups, guide a meditation group for money, edit the spa in build mode. I avoid money cheats that just don't feel right, but i use the move objects cheat, and find hidden objects. The paranormal pack allows you to build, or download from the gallery a haunted house, and stay the night, and deal with ghosts, and other strange things, as well as hold saunces to ward off the spirits, I own the pack but haven't used it yet, I've only read about it, I'm saving it for a rainy day, I guess. I enjoy naming my pets/chickens, books I wrote, songs i wrote, and also pics that you take. Hope you enjoy your gaming.
  • I got to say, that I haven't returned long enough to the Sims community to get bored with the game already.

    I used to play the Sims 2 on the PC, but now I am playing Sims 4 on the PS4, so I am still figuring out how the whole thing works.

    Although I found that it helped that the Sims 2 had these wishes, and the Sims would get older, compaired to to the Sims 1, it started to feel repeatative after a while. So I ended up building a lot. But lost interest in the end because of other things happening in life and did not have inspiration anymore.

    Back in those days I did not have easy access to internet and/or wasn't aware that you could look these things up on the internet. Looking into the Sims 4 I saw that people have really nice ideas for Storytelling and building.

    I really draw a lot of inspiration out of that, and I am really eager to try these things out. I think it would also be fun to try some of these random generators for the Sims to do some things out of the box.

    Recently, I acquired the Eco lifestyle package. When I get the hang of this PS4 controller, I would like to do a rags to riches challenge. With a rule that everything my Sim owns, should be collected/ made by him/her self and/or must be purchased in live mode. I.e. I can only use build mode for putting up the shell of the house. But not use buy mode. I am very curious what kind of house I would end up with.