How Many Households?

I focus on just one, which is why I voted that way, but if I have my main household "settled" and can let them go on autopilot for a sim week or two (everyone's achieved the job level I want, the kids have their aspirations settled, the toddler's maxed out) I'll sometimes pop around to another household to set things up for the next story I want to tell. Especially if it involves getting what are intended to be NPC's to certain levels without cheats because said cheats are buggy. (University, Realm of Magic)

1-5 per save. I usually have about 3 story saves. I usually play 1 household. I usually play 1 sim.
I create the other households as part of my sim’s narrative...but occasionally I hop over to see how the rest is doing.

One household per save because I'm too controlling to leave my sims alone. I have at least 40 different saves though

I think my current plan will put me at about 28 eventually, but I just hit 18 and it will be months before that goes up because I'm waiting for the spares to grow up and it takes a while for anyone to age when you're playing 18 households with aging on only for the active one. So at this point I haven't played more than 20 households at a time in Sims 4 yet, but I've been in the teens for at least a year.

"Sepia;c-17799554" wrote:
When you play rotationally, do you play one household for a Sim day? How do you get them to level up skills?

I tend to play a couple of days per household, depending on what I'm doing with them at the time. But this can vary between 1 sim day and about 1 sim week. They just level up on skills as I play them, I'm not in any great hurry to do that.

I love playing rotational, because it gives so much variety instead of having to stick to one storyline for a long time.

I'm pretty impressed that a few people voted for over 100!

I'm at 13 right now, I think. 20 family members don't have their own homes yet, so at some point I'll have 33 households.

The most in the one Save so far but many more over all my Saves. The trouble is I want to build and keep making new Saves and starting all over again when new packs come out.

I play 123 households, ageing off, and with the number always growing. Of course some households I play way more than others. This includes premades, sims I got from the gallery, sims I made, and sims born in the game. One of the reasons why I started jumping households was because the game would randomly assign unplayed sims to fill jobs like bartender and waiter and personally I didn't like seeing Nancy Landgraab working as a bartender when I knew she already had a job. So I went in, gave premades who lost back their original jobs, and left them as played households so the game would instead grab from the pool of endless townies to fill these roles.

I just love world building. It keeps me immersed in the story that I am trying to play out. Everyone has a place, a role, family, drama, basically a story to their name. The moment something happens that I don't like or that doesn't fit in with my save's world vision I have to fix it or get a mod that will fix it. Yes, I am a perfectionist.

I've started a few new saves for challenge purposes, but never from scratch. I'll used saves from other people where the world (lots included) around my sims have already been established. As for my main save, which I started in 2015, that has been mostly built up by me.

Everyone, even the townies, have connections. Be it as friends, family, co-workers, lovers, enemies, etc. Recently, I used a mod to check my total sim count and the total amount was sitting at 1133. And pretty much everyone who spawns receives a makeover too.

I honestly don't know. It might be over 100 but I'm not sure so I chose this answer. I'm always creating and adding more Sims to my game so I don't keep track. I tend to just jump in and play whoever I feel like at the moment. It's hard to keep relationships and Lifestyles and Sentiments so I miss the way Sims 2 operated where it froze the household stats until you return to it, but I can't play just one or even just a few households (with any Sims game) because I get bored. Some households I don't really play, I just put in for colonization purposes for other Sims to interact with or just to see wandering around the neighborhood. Like my Four Horsemen of the Simpocalypse. I put them in that grungy Eco Lifestyle neighborhood (can't remember the name) in a great trashy lot I got from the Gallery, so they fit in perfectly.

I also just love to create Sims, so I do have others that aren't in my game or who just work as random townies.

"Sepia;c-17799554" wrote:
When you play rotationally, do you play one household for a Sim day? How do you get them to level up skills?

I play one family exclusively. I plan on eventually adding their kids’ households to my play once they age up and branch off.

When i play in rotation i don't have schedulles or order. I don't play each household for the same amount of time. I play a household until i set what i want for that household at that moment. It doesn't matter if it takes one sim day, two days or a week or even more... when i have that household how i want it (or before, if i get bored) i jump to another one...