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

The only multiple Sim households that I put together are made up of townies that the game generates. When the game generates orphan teens and children I look through the adult townie population to find a suitable set of parents. I set them up as a family household in CAS. From there they go into the game where I play them long enough to get them set up with basic skills and careers. Teens and kids became Scouts.

The only other multiple Sim households that I've put together are roommates which consist of 4 to 6 Sims from various age groups and both genders. I spend enough time with each household to get them set up with careers and several basic skills so I see them at venues and social events.

Do I start any of my new saves with multiple Sim households? Nope. Putting these households together and playing them is how I found out that I am not a "family player." On the plus side, I learned about traits that I never used before but started to use with my own Sims later.

I mostly create my households by different themes. For example:
Timelines
Legacies
TV Shows/Movies
Fantasies
SiFi
Superheroes
Cultures
Scenarios

Basically, a lot. I actually have 6 Game Saves at once. I love playing variety in my Sims 4.

Sometimes. This past save I added Johnny Zest back in with the family and then married him off and moved him out when I didn't want to balance so many sims anymore. Coincidentally, his new wife was an alien and the night they conceived, he was abducted and also conceived. So I raised them to children and then moved on.

Most of the time I play either with premades or I play Random Legacy style (either with one household or several following their own rolls).

If I'm playing premades, I don't create any sims in CAS, I just makeover them.

If I'm playing Random Legacy style, then I create the founder in CAS. I might also create the helper(s) as sibling(s).

I rarely create the spouse as I like to find them in game. I might bypass spouse-hunting in the first gen if they have to have a lot of kids because it gives upto an extra week of baby making time. In this instance, I would make the spouse in CAS.

I never normally create kids or pets in CAS. Except for "alien" pets, perhaps.

About 90% of the time, I only want one Sim in the house, because more than one becomes stressful. At some point, I might add a spouse if I want a baby in the household; otherwise, I'll take my Sim into CAS and play with genetics to create her toddler.

Normally I create single Sims in CAS and then move them into a neighbourhood and play their lives out from there. Sometimes there's plans for them, other times there isn't. Some of the best saves that I have are Sims that haven't had their lives set out for them, I did end up with one main family that had generation's from a save similar to that. Unfortunately I ended up losing that save though.

If I am planning to play with the household I'm making, I usually start with 1 to 4 sims. If I only start with 1 or 2, I often will add a couple more later. I've only moved in a sim that I didn't create in one game I think.

But if I am making households to just be in the world, but not a household I play with, it can be any number up to 8.

If I am going to be actively playing a household, I tend to start with a single sim... maybe a pet with them. This is mainly because, if I'm actually creating a sim to play, it is 99% of the time going to be a rags to riches gameplay.

I mainly play in my legacy save though, so the families have been making themselves over the generations. If I do add a household to that world, then I will typically create a couple or parent(s) with kid(s) and/or pet(s).

Depending on the save and I only have two that interest me at the moment. I create the family as a unit in CAS. My Cantrell family, for instance. After I used Erik for my Founder in the Pinstar Legacy Challenge in which you are required to play on Normal, I managed to complete the challenge, but felt as if I just didn't have enough time with Erik. So, I created his parents from the single Erik I made. From there I allowed the parents to have their children born in-game. After Erik became a Toddler, I took the family into cas.fulleditmode, aged him up a bit to make certain he looked like himself, with the notion I would delete the in-game born for the one I created originally and simply age him down to Toddler.

I played this game all the way to Get Famous and beyond. I even used the Road to Fame Professional Singer Career version until suddenly Erik couldn't perform a concert where once he could. I took my woes to Discord and learned after creating a new save and a new Sim that the mod was functioning just fine. In the long run, Erik was corrupted. So much for showing his musical genius was a part of him from the beginning. Now, I have created the family anew (and have used it for several restarts) as a complete family. I make the first four kids Teens and the youngest a Child.

Same with my Ancestral game save. I create both the Sevier and the Hawkins families so that the eldest from each household are Teens. Best way to tell a story is start as close to the end, as possible.

Ever since getting on my new PC switching to other houses is faster! Andrew and Elizabeth raised their six children with firm but gentle hands and love, and now they have six grandchildren and four kids are married! Sadly, I'll be saying goodbye to the matriarch and patriarch, but this is the longest I've had my founders around for, which is new to me, as I've never played on a long lifespan and have been since November 2021. :)

I switch to the other households from time to time, so that's a new thing for me. On my old PC switching to map view took 20 minutes, now it takes seconds!

Here is Andrew and Beth's eldest son Ryan and his family. Ryan and Katherine are now adults!


<3 Ryan, Katherine, Adeline, and Benjamin Cole <3

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