Do you keep notes on them all? Or do you limit it to one family or a group of families? What kind of info do you keep track on? Just skills and relations, or DNA, dreams and hobbies etc, too?I used a speadsheet to keep track on everything, basically one line per sim, and sims grouped per household, and households grouped by hood and world. It's good for my rotational gaming, so I keep notes on every individual. But - I had a hard time keeping track on the community stats, such as which career is not take by anyone, or what aspiration or traits do I hardly ever use? With nearly 200 sims it should be a goal trying out all aspirations, traits and careers. I wish the game would give is some community stats like this, minimum how carerrs spread, maybe even how aspirations spread.So, I recently scripted my own system, a full fletched Sims Residents Registry :) It will of course only work if I keep updating it, but I think it will be worth doing that extra effort. I can finally check what options are most popular, which are hardly used. I can look up single males or females, and a lot more.If you want to check it out, I just posted about it on my blog, Simmerville's Sims. Would you like the game to add a similar built-in system in a future pack/patch?

I'm trying to keep a record of my families in their various Saves and Worlds in Saves. I wish Maxis could do this for us and put their names in alphabetical order too. I've got about 50 families I use again and again.I've just put one of my oldest families in CAS preliminary to adding them to a new game and found that one of them has had a sex change for some reason. I had a mum and dad, granny and two girls, now I have two mums which is annoying. This is the second time this has happened and makes my records a waste of time.

I tend to play either one household or one family per save with ageing off, which means it's fairly easy to keep track on my sims, at least at first. I have a simple Word document that I use to note down my sims traits, skills, and the story/plans (e.g. careers, aspirations, relationships, children, grandchildren etc.) I have for them which I cross out and add to as I go along. I would love a built in system though.

I use a physical book.One Sim and One week/season per page.I track Skills, Career progress, Major relationships, Club membership, and Aspiration progress.It reminds me where I am at with their varied goals.I only use it for my active Sim household/s. Until very recently, that meant only one active household with a maximum of four Sims. Now it’s Four active households being kept track of in a four subject lecture book with dividers built in.

"Kniga_Sitara;c-17047777" wrote:"Simmerville;d-958788" wrote:Do you keep notes on them all? Or do you limit it to one family or a group of families? What kind of info do you keep track on? Just skills and relations, or DNA, dreams and hobbies etc, too?I used a speadsheet to keep track on everything, basically one line per sim, and sims grouped per household, and households grouped by hood and world. It's good for my rotational gaming, so I keep notes on every individual. But - I had a hard time keeping track on the community stats, such as which career is not take by anyone, or what aspiration or traits do I hardly ever use? With nearly 200 sims it should be a goal trying out all aspirations, traits and careers. I wish the game would give is some community stats like this, minimum how carerrs spread, maybe even how aspirations spread.So, I recently scripted my own system, a full fletched Sims Residents Registry :) It will of course only work if I keep updating it, but I think it will be worth doing that extra effort. I can finally check what options are most popular, which are hardly used. I can look up single males or females, and a lot more.If you want to check it out, I just posted about it on my blog, Simmerville's Sims. Would you like the game to add a similar built-in system in a future pack/patch?You have some automatic system or you must change all manualy? It is look great.I start new game now, So maybe I Will make some as this. But I search for some automatic... Thanks. I will need to update manually, that's the big catch. So, I'll not try to update every single skill progress etc, but only major events. Basically, I will probably only update the registry on birthdays. It would be so cool if the game would generate a similar registry automatically.

"Simmerville;c-17047789" wrote:"Simburian;c-17047607" wrote:I'm trying to keep a record of my families in their various Saves and Worlds in Saves. I wish Maxis could do this for us and put their names in alphabetical order too. I've got about 50 families I use again and again.I've just put one of my oldest families in CAS preliminary to adding them to a new game and found that one of them has had a sex change for some reason. I had a mum and dad, granny and two girls, now I have two mums which is annoying. This is the second time this has happened and makes my records a waste of time.How is that even possible? I've played the same save since 2014, and never saw anyone change gender. Do you have mods that might have trigged it?No. I play without added CC or Mods and I have never played with same sex couples except the ones in game. The changed ones were also rather ugly too. They were early families I made though and I wonder if later games like Seasons had this effect on them or if I had made them originally to use both female and masculine clothing and that muddled things. I can't remember now but I certainly know that I wouldn't have given them those looks. :#

Keeping notes on all sims in your game

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Simmerville
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7 years ago
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17052415" wrote:
"Simpatsyann;c-17052407" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17052215" wrote:
I tend to just "play the game." What this thread is suggesting is what feels like too much effort for a simple video game. I guess some people have more time to waste. The only "details" I might give are if I save a sim family to the gallery.

For "some people," keeping notes or records IS part of playing the game. If it's not your thing that's fine, but there's no need to denigrate people who do it.

When playing a game, most people do it to waste away free time. I just said that others had more time to waste than I do. Interestingly, I do write my own books. I send them off to be published in small quantities to share with family and friends, but those have no relation to a video game.

I'm definitely not playing this game to waste my freetime. When being dedicated to a game concept for 19 years, it becomes more like a hobby than a game. I always did lots of notes on the side, playing community aspects rather than watching my sims eat and use the toilet. This hobby allows me to develop my creativity in a very inspiring way, by telling stories, making movies, programming and much more. I too write novels and had lots of short stories published in magazines etc, and I'm also doing some acting. Being on film set might give me ideas for my game, and I might find characters and plots in my game for my writing. Sometimes I actually create all main characters in game to develop them before I start writing. It's a hobby and a tool, not a waste :)

PS: I love that there are so many ways to play Sims! Being a short break every now and then, or a time consuming hobby. I guess we all see different activity as wasted freetime, so your input is just as good as mine. In my view watching TV-shows would be a number one waste of freetime, so I hardly ever do that.
Simmerville
Legend
7 years ago
"jimmysnan;c-17052482" wrote:
Love this idea. I hope you do not mind if I try it. I don't like to use others' things without asking......So I ask. I have been looking for a way to keep track of all my sims as I play by rotation. I too have had my sims change gender and also have affairs when I was not playing that family. Seems they do their own thing if not constantly watched.

Of course you can do something similar. I wish my routine was a software that I could share, but it's only done in my "home made" JavaScript, and the script would be pretty hard for others to maintain.

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