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

It completely varies. I have a main save that I add to and I switch between different types of households to change the playstyle.

My last four started saves were: a married couple, a single sim for a challenge, a couple and their teen, and two roommates.

I have to make a minimum of 4 sims where more can be added later. If I play household that has less than 4, I move in others from the menu lol

It is something I done since Sims 2 days. =D

"Mareah;d-996545" wrote:
Whenever i start a new game with a new household, i mostly start with one single sim. I almost never create families in CAS, and i rarely start with couples or households with more than one sim. I do find/create them partners and make them start families later though. How about you?

I usually start with two young adults in one household, but the sims in this photo were neighbors even when they started dating. Now they have six kids and their third son just became a teenager. Hubby is an elder now(10 days older, because the fourth pregnancy didn't allow her to age up five days after him to adult) Soon she'll be an elder and all their kids are still in school, though the eldest, Cyrus, will be a young adult soon! He also has a girlfriend(see second photo)
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I haven't created any new sims in my world (one save stretching back to February 2020) in ages—it's gotta be close to a year now. I think Super Dave Lembeck was the last one, maybe Steve Garamonde, the former the patriarch of one of the big-deal families, the latter the tortured bartender whose customers sing their problems like Steve's Ryan Stiles.

In every case where I created someone in CAS, it was as one sim whose story I wanted to see unfold in the context of whatever they got up to.

I usually start with a single sim and play through them finding a partner and so on, or a couple and have them have their kids through gameplay.

Very rarely. With my current family I created a female and male sim in separate households. Played the female sim for a bit then had them meet and marry after a while. They've had three daughters. Triplets who have aged up at different times.

I subsequently created the mom and dad's parents, siblings and their children, to provide relatives for my sim family.

It's been a few years since I created the extended family so the last time I was in CAS to make a new sim was for a few if the scenarios.

I always create just one sim and play them on their own for a bit. Then I look to extend the family with a partner, children, etc.

Although having said that, I created a family of two young adult sisters a while ago with completely different personalities and they actually became one of my favourite sim families to date.

Sometimes I'll create larger families when I try to make a backstory for my Sims. I actually prefer to start with a single Sim and expand the family through gameplay.

I jump through some hoops when introducing a new sim to my game. I am in the middle of doing this now for my spellcaster sim having just got RoM.

I start by creating the YA version of the primary sim (or sims if I want siblings) to get the appearance I want for what will be the bulk of my playtime. I then age the sim down to a teen (or a child in some cases) and set traits/clothes etc. I then use genetics to create the parents (sometimes even grandparents).

Where I go from here can differ depending on what I am wanting to do. For my first look at Eco Lifestyle, I moved the teen into the lot on their lonesome and put the parents into Not In World and then commenced playing the teen.

Doing this just gives me a bit of back story should I want it.