I play a vanilla game and have a rotational main save I have had sims 2014 ( I have done ‘save as’ plenty of times with it for back up ). Every once in awhile I will add a new sim or household. I like my households all different.
Some are friends that I pretend grew up together. They splinter off when they get married or choose to live with a romantic partner.
One household was a set of brothers (2) and sisters (2) all with very different looks and traits. One brother ( my criminal sim ) who is now a boss sim was evil and mean, he looks like s rough character with a broken nose, I haven’t given him scars yet, but think I will. He is the oldest and married a beautiful jealous wife that he cheats on. His brother ( a gamer ) is good, and is living with his girlfriend in the city. They will marry and have several children and he will be a faithful husband. One sister is non committal and has changed jobs a couple of times ( she is a clothes designer now, it suits her ) and changes partners often, she lives in that partihaus household now with another girl, and 2 guys ( only 2 original partihaus sims ). The other sister is more consistent, has become a top level scientist, and now lives with her longtime boyfriend who she will marry before having a couple of children. I’m trying to decide whether she will quit her job for awhile while she raises her toddler(s) or not. I might just make some holidays for the family, when toddlers come along and have her make and sell potions and science equipment in a maybe little store occasionally. The 4 brothers and sisters all started as a family of young adults in a not too large trailer, but now have moved on to other households, but still have a connection to each other, celebrate holidays etc., in their family club, it has been such a fun family to play.
I have a Grandmother and Granddaughter in a small apartment, a painter ( with a baby son ) who has the angry trait and has an ex girlfriend, and, a musician who is working on fame, a business sim who has become a CEO, a family of journalists ( Father, adult daughter with a teenage son and a YA son). A Military sim ( my hero of strangerville). A couple of fathers and sons. And I also play some original sims like the Goths who moved to forgotten hollow and Mortimer is a politician.
I have a Generational family 4 Grandparents ( a doctor and his wife a violinist, and the other set is a handyman/ fisherman, his wife gardens, and knits ). Their son ( a computer programmer ) and daughter ( housewife) who married and have a teenage daughter and child son. The daughters parents ( handyman/fisherman & wife ) moved out and lived in Brindleton Bay and got a hunting dog, they have recently moved to Henford on Bagley ( where I pretended they were originally from ), and will add farming to the gardening and fishing. The generational family was another of my favorite families to play.
I have several other families too like my original collector sim, a couple who is active and loves vacationing in their off time ( a baseball player and media girlfriend seeking fame ). I have a couple ( he’s an astronaut ) who have a toddler. Another couple with a toddler who I haven’t played much yet, and some other households.
I keep aging off most of the time and all of my families are so different that I can rotate if I get bored. The only thing that keeps me from playing lately is frustrating bugs ( like the plant reverting one ). Most of my sims I don’t cheat with so some bugs really frustrate me. Variety of sims for me is the spice of life when it comes to playing sims. Each household has a backstory in my mind. And, my sims in this save are interconnected, which I really love.
