"Simmerville;c-17444930" wrote:
Learn how sims age and how you want to play - start with one household, but check out if rotational play is for you. A rotation brings more variety, and it might also trig your stories in many ways. Understanding how sims ageing, career promotions, bills etc are affected by moving about vs staying on one lot is essential to plan a good routine.
Take your time to enjoy each addition. Getting many new packs added at once might be twice the fun, as some packs even get better when mixed. But the content might also be overwhelming, resulting in getting the feeling of not staying on top of it all. It takes a while to get familiar with new features, ie most packs offer objects with new functionality, more social interactions and some adjusted UI. Careers often bring new stuff at the higher levels, not taking the time to get there means you'll miss some of the fun.
Check out the buyable extra traits! Some might look pretty useless with the base game only, but with a few packs added, you'll see them in a new light.
Some packs might not add a lot of obvious content, you might think Seasons is just about weather. But it's not. It changes how you'll see each of your worlds and lots - it brings tons of visual variety to the game, and also challenges you to plan your events differently (who wants their garden wedding in Winter anyway?). Same with clubs system in Get Together, it can be used as a plain club system, but it's also very in handy for bringing sims together - like gathering relatives! Throwing a wedding allows your sim to only invite sims s/he already met, but with a club packed with relatives old Auntie will no longer be left out :)
Use the gallery if you don't want to build everything yourself, or create all sims. Anything you grab there can be modified by you now or later.
That's a thing??? Are they available on Xbox One and if so, where can I get them?
"BlackjackWidow;c-17445097" wrote:
A couple of things I wish I had known when I started out:
1. The Pause Button is your friend! You can pause the game and then choose what you want your sims to do & in what order to do them. Use Pause often!
2. Some actions will multi-task, saving time in filling needs. For instance, they can eat and watch tv at the same time, filling the hunger & fun bars at the same time.
3. The game will only save your sim to the library when you create them. If you have any sims born in-game or you wish to use your skilled sim in a different save, be sure to save them to My Library in Your Gallery.
4. Save early - save often - use "save as" to make a backup of a particular time. You can make backups of all of your games by copying the folder "Saves" from your "The Sims 4" folder in Documents to a safe place like an external drive
5. Sims can die! If you only have one sim in your household and they die, the game will end. You cannot save a game while a sim is dying. You CAN exit without saving, which will mean you restart the game from the point you last saved. If that was 4 hours ago, you will be sad for a number of reasons. See Tip #4 :smile:
6. Try lots of things! For sure make your sim-self (doesn't everyone start out by making themselves in sim-form?), but once you've explored a few possibilities with your first sim, feel free to branch out. Some people really like creating stories around their sims, others like setting their own goals or playing towards in-game achievements, some like building, some like creating households and still others like doing challenges written by other people. The Sims is such an open-ended type of game the possibilities are almost limitless.
Have fun! That's really the most important part
My sims skills reset in a new game, at least, I think they do. I make them all with story mode quiz and I know for sure that the library copy of them does not keep their job in a new game.
"Simoleon_Kachinnnng;c-17445956" wrote:
Instead of motherlode I think using the: money 10000000 cheat may be easier than motherlode because you can just add the amount you want up to 99999999 or somewhere near that amount you can also use it to take away money. Not that I use it because the game would be too easy with all that money. It's a better reward to struggle at first then get a job and work up the ladder and become financially safe enough to live comfortably. I like to give my Sims the bookworm trait and this way I can read skill books and get some decent jobs.
100% agree with that point!
"Karimac;c-17446154" wrote:
I've just recently downloaded TS4 (like 5/6 days ago), I played TS3 many many moons ago.
I'm finding that I spend most of my time building as I just love being creative (I've been watching a lot of youtube vids and have picked up some amazing tips).
My problem is, I don't know how to be more inspired to live play as I end up getting overwhelmed with the amount of actions required, especially with more than one sim.
Easy, start with just the one. Keep that one at home and focus on needs. Neighbors will wander past your house so you can run outside and meet many people. Focus on needs first, wants later. And last but not least search
PenguinFoop in the gallery and download
Downward Living and
The Modern III They'll save your life!!! Okay, so that's a shameless advertisement but truly, I think you may be inspired by the depth you can go when building. Especially when you see the creative way I made the "Eco-Pool." Pools are awesome again!!!! And just how far down you can go with a garden near the center of the planet!!!
As for things I wish I knew, I think the thing I wish I knew first and foremost was that this forum existed. But the newcomers obviously know that now. So I would say that the next thing I wish I knew was which packs to buy first. There are so many. I would definitely agree that Seasons is a must. I can't imagine playing without it now. Finally, there's a reason to create a summer and winter outfit!!! Downside, plants grow only during certain seasons (different types for different seasons) unless you plant them indoors. ;) Also, with Seasons, the thermostat will only work in a house properly if every room has a ceiling,
including the patios and porches!And finally, search "The Vazquez Family Needs Your Help" and become a mentor in the story. Okay, so that's another shameless advertisement. But hey, if I don't advertise them, who will? Right?
