How do you stay motivated to play the game?
I'm having a hard time staying motivated to play the game because no matter what you do you end up doing the same actions for different sims that have the same result all the way around. Even challeng...
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I do several things:
The main one is taking many breaks. I'll play for a few days then put that save on hold for a while and go off to other activities, either other games or non computer related things entirely. Usually when I come back I'm excited to see what they'll do next.
Another thing I do is actively do the activities that I tend to shy away from for one reason or another. Some of them I don't do because I've convinced myself I'll hate them and often find that its either not as bad as I thought, or that I really enjoy them. (like the social butterfly aspiration. I'd based my dislike of it on previous sims games like sims 1 where making friends was difficult and frustrating.)
Also, I dig through the stories and legacies forum here for the small/short challenges (the ones that don't last 5-10 generations) And add them into my normal legacy style play. Sometimes they fit quite well into my normal rule-set legacies and it spices them up a lot.
I also tend to make my poor little sims lives a little more difficult by throttling back how much money they make. If I feel they're getting too rich and their lives are becoming too easy or too comfy too quickly, I'll ctrl/shift/c testingcheats on and use the money cheat to remove simoleons from their lives. Can't tell ya how many times I've (probably evilly) used 'money 0' on my third or fourth generation legacy houses :D
As I've noted in other threads, I also play on short life span because I tend to get bored and impatient to see the next generation so that staves off much of the boredom too trying to finish aspirations before the sim kicks the bucket.
The main one is taking many breaks. I'll play for a few days then put that save on hold for a while and go off to other activities, either other games or non computer related things entirely. Usually when I come back I'm excited to see what they'll do next.
Another thing I do is actively do the activities that I tend to shy away from for one reason or another. Some of them I don't do because I've convinced myself I'll hate them and often find that its either not as bad as I thought, or that I really enjoy them. (like the social butterfly aspiration. I'd based my dislike of it on previous sims games like sims 1 where making friends was difficult and frustrating.)
Also, I dig through the stories and legacies forum here for the small/short challenges (the ones that don't last 5-10 generations) And add them into my normal legacy style play. Sometimes they fit quite well into my normal rule-set legacies and it spices them up a lot.
I also tend to make my poor little sims lives a little more difficult by throttling back how much money they make. If I feel they're getting too rich and their lives are becoming too easy or too comfy too quickly, I'll ctrl/shift/c testingcheats on and use the money cheat to remove simoleons from their lives. Can't tell ya how many times I've (probably evilly) used 'money 0' on my third or fourth generation legacy houses :D
As I've noted in other threads, I also play on short life span because I tend to get bored and impatient to see the next generation so that staves off much of the boredom too trying to finish aspirations before the sim kicks the bucket.
