Poll of Play Styles

My Sims have their own stories but I don't create videos or machinimas.

I guess I should be clear, I am a rotational player. All of them have a story and are connected to the worlds.

I'm not sure if I picked the right one. I usually start with a married couple and they will work on skills for a little while before they have children. I never age my sims though, except I'll age babies and sometimes toddlers. I like to play large families with lots of toddlers and children.

Always been a generational player. Never been into challenges, but I do like Supernaturals. I typically make generational play out of them as well, though.
And I enjoy screenshots and videos, but I don't go all out on editing them and I don't take them to really share my stories with others; just for my own use.

I play with a lot of households in the same save. In fact, that's my only save since the launch of the game in 2014.... i don't know... i love seeing my sims around the neighborhood even if i'm not playing with them and i looove update the lots with content from the new packs. <3 <3

Used to be generational but now I'm a storyteller. I never realised how much fun I was missing out on before. I don't do videos though, I write my stories on WordPress, currently have two going.

I think you forgot rotational play. I have about twenty families that I play in turns. It is actually a bit of generational style combined with rotational.

All of my Sims have ages and I defined an age range for every life stage. I count 140 simdays (20 simweeks) as one year and my Sims' ages are recorded on a 140-day calendar, so all of my Sims have a birthday. Keeping track of how many days/weeks I have played is very important. When a Sim has their birthday on day 55, I just wait until that day passes and when their age enters a new age range belonging to the next life stage, I age them up. When my Sims grow old I just throw a digital dice to determine how old they will get and on which day they will die. When that day comes I will just cheat them to death.
Playing like this, also means that certain events happen more slowly. My Sims won't marry three days after meeting, but instead will slowly attempt to date, have some romantic nights together and after a while they might move in together. They will only marry after about one or two years, and getting children will follow about one year after that. This way I can take some time to get to know my Sims and play out their lives. For the record, I haven't finished one of their lives yet. They are all still young adults, some having families already.

I am a family player but not a generation/legacy kind of player. I play mostly rotational, alternating between small and big households. I also build a lot.

I play all play styles, because it's boring to just stick to one. :)

"Klthf;c-16292628" wrote:
I think you forgot rotational play. I have about twenty families that I play in turns. It is actually a bit of generational style combined with rotational.

All of my Sims have ages and I defined an age range for every life stage. I count 140 simdays (20 simweeks) as one year and my Sims' ages are recorded on a 140-day calendar, so all of my Sims have a birthday. Keeping track of how many days/weeks I have played is very important. When a Sim has their birthday on day 55, I just wait until that day passes and when their age enters a new age range belonging to the next life stage, I age them up. When my Sims grow old I just throw a digital dice to determine how old they will get and on which day they will die. When that day comes I will just cheat them to death.
Playing like this, also means that certain events happen more slowly. My Sims won't marry three days after meeting, but instead will slowly attempt to date, have some romantic nights together and after a while they might move in together. They will only marry after about one or two years, and getting children will follow about one year after that. This way I can take some time to get to know my Sims and play out their lives. For the record, I haven't finished one of their lives yet. They are all still young adults, some having families already.

You're right, I did. I apologize for that.

Thank you for sharing your input everyone! So interesting to read about how different players use the tools of this game.

I voted other because I can't fit rotational play style in the options available, which is my main play style.
But I have to agree with @crazycat_135, I like differing playstyles from time to time.