How do you play rotationally?

"VampireSapphire;c-18123771" wrote:

That chart looks so confusing but does make me intrigued on "Michelle (angry girl)" ?

Don't do it, Angry Girl.


"It must be awful to always be surrounded by death and despair and never really get to live in pure joy and happiness."

Michelle!
Leave Grim alone!

I play my main house, the one I started the save on, with aging on for inactive households. I turn it off when I go to the other houses so they don't age up without me. I switch houses every sim Monday at 1 am.

I just go with the flow - my flow - not always the sims, tho they are allowed as well sometimes. Like when I put my game into screensaver mode:

Rotate to a household, put some existing sims into it and let it roll while I work on another monitor

Sometimes I micromanage, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I age some up, sometimes I don't. All depends on the mood. I don't even respect the household as a sim's unit. Kids go on weekend sleepovers. So do the adults :heart: My sims are moving in out of households all the time.

I like my emergent gameplay. If a an interesting situation pops up, I might think..Ooo, going to play that out. I move in the sims I want to an appropriate lot and play them.

I only play one save which is the one I started the game for the first time on release in 2014. If I want some new sims to play. I just add 'em to the save.

Surprisingly, apart from some mod tweaks I don't cheat much and the existing game mechanics accommodate my style very well.

I have to add - one of the tweaks I have done is to slow game time using MCCC. Makes the game much more chilled to play, IMO

I typically play with aging off. I have two saves, and in one I don't typically play with aging off; I did once a few months back now, because I wanted an elder to die by old age. And since then it's bee off. While in the second save, I've also played with aging on for a bit, but currently I'm playing with aging off. So, answer? I do sometimes. And when I do it's normal or long lifespan, active household only. Aging for unplayed sims is on then.

I have neighborhood stories mostly on. I have deaths off right now, but I'll probably turn this back on sooner rather then later. Maybe (Keeping it off for select unplayed households) Oh, find job is off too. Other then that, it's on for all unplayed household. (There are select unplayed households it's off completely for)

I play with my sims! All other sims are background. They're friends, co-workers, romantic interests. Oh, wait. I do have some sims that started out as townies, and my sim became friends with them and then I started playing with the household. So I play more with my own sims, but there are sims that became mine.

I play two saves, and both have a fair few different sim families of different sizes that I play.

And how I do it basically, I play the household I feel like playing. I do try and stay in the same household for a couple of sim days at a minimum, though. I think in most cases I stay in a household for a minimum of a sim week.

"VampireSapphire;c-18123771" wrote:


That chart looks so confusing but does make me intrigued on "Michelle (angry girl)" ?

I had to come back because I've finally rotated to Michelle and I am playing out how angry girl became angry girl.
At first it was just her and her mom, until her mother met Ramundo Vega. He works odd jobs, fixes and upgrades the appliances, and makes her mother happy.


He hates children and the only thing preventing him from going into child hater mode is all the romantic moodlets he is getting from Michelle's mom. Michelle and Ramundo have incompatible likes and dislikes. While her mom thinks his mischievous teasing is funny, Michelle hates it.
And she knows there is something not right about this guy, but her mom can't see it. Her mom works nights and he will often hire a nanny to take care of her while he goes out to party.


He is starting to bring in women after she goes to bed and and they leave before her mother comes home.
She has never seen it, but senses something is right. They are living better, but the man infuriates Michelle and she will get the Hot Headed trait when she ages up to a teen.

I suspect one of these days this is going to all blow up when one of these women drop by when Michelle's mother is home.
Her mom has the jealous trait.

I play one family until I get bored and then move on to another until I get bored and then move on to the next, until I run out of playable families and then I start over with the first one again.