I loved your post @TheLibrarySim I got some ideas from it. I really want to make the bear pass out now. Little private blood doll.
Anyway, despite all the flack and .. well hate this pack got for so long it's been my favorite GP. I haven't even explored JA long enough for it to top it (yet). I'll just tell you a few ways I play.. doubt it's exciting though.
I really love to start off a sim and move them into an empty lot in game. Then I go to build in Granite Falls and flatten the cheapest lot there and rent it for I think about 11 bucks a day.. might be a few bucks more.
Then I just take my brand new sim on vacation. They don't have a house to bring in bills for. I just skill them herbalism, fishing, gardening, collections ect... if I set up lots before I go and add the traits then I can skill them in many other things also.. whatever I want the sim to become they can get a good start. You can set up free general or community lots for them to live in. My sim normally makes their home base in the National Forest. I almost always start a massive garden there also. Splicing it down as I go (this can take a few trips and even different sims) . I try not to evolve the plants to high so that other sims in that save can eventually make use of them.
I have used it as was mentioned also for romantic aspirations... you get caught a lot less because the sims rarely wander into the national forest build unless invited.. You can have dates there also.
I stay there as long as I want or until I get tired of doing it. I've usually gotten deep into the collectors aspiration, herbalism, gardening and fishing. My sims usually have a really good base of skills to start their lives off this way too. When they get home I keep what I want to keep and sell the excess and always have much more money then the start of the game.
