How Many 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.

I generally just build. When I do play, it's a single household, usually with a full house. I don't like moving family members out, I don't like leaving my Sims alone without me, so I keep everyone I'm playing together.

I had to go with just the one because that's what I prefer. I will play 2 or 3 for a while if need be but I usually get annoyed with that and either stop playing the others to focus on one or consolidate them together. I'm having a problem now because I have 2 households and I only want to play one but I don't know who to not play or what. *sigh*

"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...

I use to play rotational with few families, now I play challenges like 100 baby and legacy, thus only one family per save.

"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.

I choose my families at random and when I do, I stick with that family for several real days.

I currently have 9 saves I actively play with between 5-9 played households in each. There are more households with my Sims in each save, but if I don't feel like playing a household anymore I 'retire' it, that's what I call it. I mark it as unplayed and keep it in my faves to keep an eye on it. Sometimes I will go back and start playing it again and sometimes it's just to give the kids proper outfits when they age up. I will also move out the offspring that aged up and have them start a family of their own to keep the saves populated. I really enjoy playing this way because it keeps the game interesting for me.

I usually play just one household per save, but I have about 60 saves and I rotate between them.
However, I do have few saves in which I play several households rotationally. I don't really like it, but I try not to start too many saves anymore.