Lack of Long-term gameplay in TS4

"@SimAlexandria;c-17558890" wrote:

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-17558886" wrote:

"@SimAlexandria;c-17558844" wrote:
I obviously play it differently.

I've played the same family (with aging alternating between long and off) for 3.5 years, over 1000 hours. I watched it start as a couple when I created them to becoming a family with 9 children (some which have grown up and moved out, 5 of those are adopted). The youngest kids have become young adult recently but still playing the same generation. Haven't gotten bored yet.

I write stories and then recreate them. They live in Sulani and attend festivals 3-4x a week, the dad is a stay at home father, the mum writes books, the mum and oldest daughter go on trips to the jungle as both are very interested in archaeology, they enjoy the day-to-day island life.
I keep needs/money cheated up as I have no interest in a "Grinding" game, I play more to tell stories and simulate life.

I think this is brilliant! It seems like a very relaxing game play style. Fair play for playing the same family for 3.5 years.

I'm unable to do that but not because I'm bored. I build a lot and when I'm not building, I'm constantly inspired to tell a different story and to create new sims. My stories are very much character driven, so when I play out a story, sometimes things turn out differently than intended. At times that's great, sometimes it's not, because of how the environment reacts to that situation.

For me personally it's important that the sim reacts based on their personality and how they learn from the environment, but it doesn't always work that way, because that system is not really in place.

I'm quite nitpicky about sim personalities, and much less about other aspects of the game.

I would definitely agree I play it as a relaxing game. And that totally makes sense about building a lot, I can't build at all. I have tried several times and the house looks sooo messed up and unliveable haha! Roofs go through ceilings, the house is massive with tiny rooms and then miles of "nothing". I gave up haha! Very much in love with the gallery for adding in lots haha! I really admire people who can build and have it turn out decent! I like to decorate, but not build lol!!!

I don't think I'd want Sims to react from personality, I like it how it is now, but I would like if diff personality types gave more different interactions you could select if you want to. Like Lazy sims now can "Nap Lazily" if you choose it type thing. If they all had 3-10 more things that coudl only be done with that specific trait, I think that'd be cool.

The thing I want most in this game though is non-mutual relationships.

The gallery is indeed a great feature for those who do not want to build!

I agree that it would be more interesting if personality types had more interactions, but they would have to be specific animations unique to that trait, not just buffs or moodlets. The lazy sim needs to lie down lazily on the couch. I do like it when a sim is angry, they smash the fridge door, although I’m not particularly gone on the walking style. I would like to See more subtle interaction animations based on emotion and traits.

How would you like to see non-mutual relationships Represented in game? Right now the relation ship bar for both Sims Is mutual. Would you like to see them both different? As in Sim A regards Sim B as a friend, whereas Sim B regards Sim A as an enemy? One bar is green, the other is red?