How is your simming lately?

I'm struggling with immersion breaking glitches and animations that causes me to lose interest in my story-line... and then... I create new saves over and over again?

Lately, when time permits, have been experimenting with TS 3 and playing TS 2.

Honestly i've been on and off with it because they just aren't giving us what we need for the game to be exceptional and useful in SO many ways and because it's limiting our creative freedom i feel that's why so many other people and on and off with it too, there's more they can do with it that WE can do with it but it's just all the same color palettes and still limitations on how we can use the tools and where we can place objects, The Sims 2 had a lot more stuff than all the packs combined but it's not just about the stuff in it. If they removed those limitations and gave us the flexibility we'd be SO much more happier with it. If they make The Sims 5 i'm probably not going to buy even the base game when they'd still add limitations to what we can do.

I finally updated from patch 1.89 to the current 1.93. (So I could take advantage of the Black Friday sale for High School Years, and be ready for the Infants delivery, early next year)

With it, came a whole host of bugs and issues, which I had to download more Mods to address.

I also had to update all my broken Mods. I have started to keep a typed and alphabetized listing of all my Script and Non-script Mods. It numbers in the 300's. XD

With all my Mods, you would think I would be perfectly happy with my game right? Nope. I am a generational family style Simmer. I play with my Sims with aging off for 1 or more Sim years per life stage. I flesh out my entire calendar, with vacations, breaks, birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, summers off school, parties... and recently lost that ability with High School Years, and am pretty upset about it. As High School Years, has made the High School "events" like Football rally, Cheer Rally, Career Day, and Prom.. FESTIVALS, and you cannot change, reschedule, cancel or remove them. They oftentimes are on inconvenient days and I want to change them, but cannot, such as Career Day being during Summer Vacation... And Prom being on New Years.

As soon as I got the expansion, I worked for 3 days to fix all the bugs, broken mods, and general issues before playing, and since then, I've just been more and more annoyed. I restarted an old family in a new save file so I could play with them as Teens in high school, but I'm not sure how long I'll continue to play with that expansion. Tbh I regret buying it.

It took over a year, RL kind, but have finally gotten a toddler to max all toddler skills and be aged up to child. Even the cake thing worked fine. No time to rest, though. Mama had another baby girl a couple of days ago. So far, there are 4 daughters and papa-san still wants a son. This is not looking good.

Still enjoying my game, but it's modded to the moon & back. Any time I encounter a new annoyance, I just install a mod to deal with it. My mod count (not including CC or modded items, just mods that alter gameplay) is up to over 100 by now & it takes me a couple of days to update my game when they roll new packs out, but playing is fun.

I haven't been "playing" Sims 4 because I'm waiting for some issues to really be fixed. I don't want my Sims all fighting and being mean for no reason and the fears need some tuning. I've been going back and forth between playing a family in Sims 2 and building a house in Sims 4. I didn't actually play at all for several weeks because the holidays are busy for me, so I'm glad to be playing at all again.

I haven't played TS4 in about a month, but I'm currently playing a new TS3 save. Their kid is off to university soon and the parents are saving up to own a resort.

I'm loving it, but feeling a bit overwhelmed to be honest. There is so much that I seem to have not got around to experiencing in the game, and I'm just worried I'll never get to do it all!

I used to just renovate builds, decorate and furnish etc, make a Sim, play for all of 20 minutes and then get bored (I have NO idea why!), and it's only in the last maybe two years that I have totally gone the opposite way, and now it's all a bit much! What with that and the fact that I am a real micro manager and keep restarting stories that haven't gone my way, I have so much left to explore! Very exciting though. :smile:

Slightly better now that the wants and fears toggle issue has been resolved. Some of the other bugs that were bothering me (couples becoming siblings randomly and parents having romantic interactions with their kids) haven't been so prevalent recently either (hoping there was a fix for that in the recent update) so that's also been a good thing. And of course a thank you to the Sims Team for fixing some of the bugs in the game, and continuing to work on others.

In terms of the amount of time I'm currently playing the game, it's been a bit sporadic but that's mainly because I haven't been well of late & my concentration levels for playing have been way down. But I am now at the point where I will consider buying a new pack next sale, just to make sure the folks at the Sims know their work in hunting down and fixing game breaking bugs is appreciated.