20yrs+ Micromanaging this sandbox
Kind of feel the same way you do now. Forced myself to keep the same file regardless of updates, bugs, deaths, etc. It's been a year. The result, it's a more entertaining way of challenging yourself & surprisingly less stressful not overhauling everything.
My 'super-sim' matriarch was supposed to wait til adulthood before kids but she just adopted one of the 3 from Too Many Toddlers, because I fell in love with her & wanted more gameplay.
Oh, forgot to take pictures of that amazing night out? Guess I'll snap one of her stumbling home & faceplanting right by the bed.
Oops, forgot to turn aging off and lost Dennis Kim & the Elderberry's before I played with them? I'm still grieving over that, but now it's part of their history.
I'm bored. Rng, who gets deleted? I mean, dies or moves away. Matriarch & family excluded.
Ughh, here comes that eyesore again at every bar & cafe my sim frequents! Only change a pair of pants or makeup, but leave the rest. The ugliest thing, I select as their favorite color preference.
Over the year, I've started humanizing them. They slouch, get adult acne, start balding & get flat butts now. Especially if it matches their traits. Some of them have noticeable under/overbites, crooked teeth, big noses, thin lips & bad/dated hairstyles.
In a nutshell (haha), after your post, I'm encouraged to keep up with my wacky way of gameplay.
Someone's getting a make-under today...
