How often do you create families and households that have multiple sims?

I mostly play games that span generations so I have not created very many new games. I think in the thousands of hours I have played since the game was released I've only done that like 3 times. In those games though, I've played a variety of households from 1 sim to large families as I generally end up playing more than one household in the save game.

For the first two new game saves that I started, I did start with just one sim. For my current save game, I started with the "Surviving the Holidays" scenario, so I started with two sims...who hated each other. They are now married and have a kid.

One of my favorite things to do once I have a game going is to add households created by other people whom I follow on the gallery and play those in between playing my own sim household in the same game. It gets me to do types of Sims that I might not create myself with styles that I might not pick myself, and for those gallery downloads I pretty much only download households with at least 2 adults and 1 kid, not individual sims.

I’ve started saves with single sims and families. I have three main saves that I play out of. The first I started with a pair of siblings and two potential spouses to kick off a storyline (it went a totally different direction but I ended up creating tons of additional sims). I have another save that’s all families with a bunch of teens, with the intent to give the teens backstories and really play their generation onward. My current save started with one sim, but I’m playing a career legacy so she didn’t stay single for very long. My sims usually end up married pretty quickly (or at least pregnant pretty quickly).

I rarely make partners for my sims in CAS. I have mccc set up to import townies from the gallery; I like the randomness of my sim hitting it off with someone they like and forming a family from that.

"HavenRose;c-18032763" wrote:


I rarely make partners for my sims in CAS. I have mccc set up to import townies from the gallery; I like the randomness of my sim hitting it off with someone they like and forming a family from that.

That has to be one my favorite features from MCCC! I love seeing sims about town that I recognize from my gallery. I download a lot of households from people I follow though, so I don't always even recognize them. :lol:

I switch up dynamics for my families, so not every family is the same.
I have some families where I have a single Sim that marries, and start a family of their own. Other single Sims I have end up staying single, but adopting children, and may have a couple pets.
One of my families I have two sisters living together, and one sister has a kid. Another family I have is a mother living with her five kids, and now her new husband joined the family. They share a son together, so the family is mixed.
Some families I already have the parents, and sometimes I give them four kids, or six kids.
One family has one set of grandparents, parents, an aunt, and kids.
It depends on how I want to play each family.

I almost invariably start a new household with a single sim. Sometimes they stay that way for as long as I play them, but sometimes they eventually build a family of their own. Except for a few story-reason exceptions, though, most take their own sweet time in moving anyone else in, if they ever do. That's partly because I don't particularly enjoy family-style play in more than smallish doses at a time. :lol:

That's pretty much all I do. I can't even remember the last time I actually played with just one Sim.

I always start a new save with one Sim Rags to Riches style unless I'm playing a challenge that requires more. I like to keep my households small, so those single Sims might find love and get married. If they have children, it's two max, or three if the second 'try for baby' ends up twins. I've only had triplets once in all the years I've played Sims and that was my very first babies when I did the 100 Baby Challenge. Talk about starting out on a high note! hehe Or low, depending on how you feel about raising multiples. :D

I usually play single sims with a large supporting cast. Some of those might be families if it suits the story, but I’m certainly not a family player. A lot of my large households are roommates put together for story reasons.

Sometimes, but usually I start with just one Sim.
Occasionally I start with roommates and very rarely with full families. Sometimes I start with one Sim but I place the other Sim that I plan my starting Sim to marry in the world, but it doesn't always go as I planned; maybe my Sim falls in love with some townie or a premade afterall.

My main game is rotational and all my households are different, and most interact and are friends with others in the save. I play with age usually turned off. I have some nuclear families, generational families, single parents, households with siblings only, some single households, some households with friends. A household with a grandmother and granddaughter. Some sims are married, some live with partners. I have households of all sizes.

I started a new scenario save too, that is pretty new. I will put all my scenarios in the same save. I like rotational play.