Remind me NO big projects.

Awww, big projects are fun, even if you ditch them afterwards. Been there, done that ?

I do have households of 8, but I'm usually pulling my hair out by the end of the session. I don't know why it's harder in this version, but I love a challenge.

I guess my favourite amount of sims to control would be 3 or 4.

Yeah I set myself big project of finally getting bella goth abducted this spring and yet its been months and she is still there just vibing :lol:

I feel like I bite cake too big

I am all the time coming with these overly ambitious stories that I can't realistically play out. In the last days before the release of Werewolves I came up with this outrageous idea for a multi-occult versus the humans storyline. It was elaborate, epic, and when I sat down to start, it was this instantaneous: "What was I thinking? This is insane, there is no way I can pull this off!". That wasn't the first time I've had that, just the most recent.

My limit for comfortable household size is 3 or 4. Beyond that it gets...the best way to describe it is this. When the household gets beyond 4 I'm like an 8 year old girl trying to walk a very large, excitable dog. It begs the question who's walking who? Who's really in charge in that situation her, or the dog? Me, or that house full of sims? In both cases, the ones who are supposed to be in charge are frantically trying to maintain some semblance of control and failing miserably.

I'm comfortable playing 4-5 sims. No autonomy helps.

What happened to Bonnie?

I'm running into this in my story - big ideas but I can't realistically control a household of more than 3-4 sims at once. Right now I've got several households running, rotating between them and/or moving sims between them as needed. I keep running into problems where, narratively, I want members of three households together in one scene but it's impossible to coordinate.

Edit - one trick I did figure out, with my teenage werewolves... I'm using LittleMsSam's Choose your Roommate mod and I have the teens as the sims and the adults (in this case Kristopher and Lily) as "roommates." That way they're in the household but I don't have to deal with controlling them.

@luciusstorm That was the problem I was having getting the scene shot where Londyn revealed her proposal plans prior to news of Leonardo keeling over dead. It was taking forever to get Summer, Liberty, and Matteo to stay put while she revealed her news. The second the last person sat down someone else would get up and walk off. I wanted to yank my hair out. When I go back tonight to shoot it I'll probably give up and just do the reveal as a series of one on ones instead of a group thing.

"DaniRose2143;c-18146399" wrote:
@luciusstorm That was the problem I was having getting the scene shot where Londyn revealed her proposal plans prior to news of Leonardo keeling over dead. It was taking forever to get Summer, Liberty, and Matteo to stay put while she revealed her news. The second the last person sat down someone else would get up and walk off. I wanted to yank my hair out. When I go back tonight to shoot it I'll probably give up and just do the reveal as a series of one on ones instead of a group thing.

oh how I can relate so much to this hahahahahah

Hmm…. I like my sims to have people they know at work or school. I like them to have hobbies and friends to share them with as well. Then I start to log into the friend's households to touch them up and it just balloons from there.

I can have a household of four sims, a pet maybe, but after that it starts to become micro-managing.

Still like to pack in eight sims but that is more for special occasions, not everyday gameplay.

No help here. :#
I have been on a big project for the past five five years.

My two main households were full-house.
I have an orphanage with 8 sims. I also have Uni prep-school with 6 teen sims, a student counselor and an administrator, rotating teens in and out in groups of three. 21 toddlers and their CAS made parents. I avoided playing the parents deeply because playing the toddlers as young adults was the true goal and I didn't want to be tired of any game play features before playing them.

But having so many sims, I couldn't play everyone as deeply as I wanted.
I had Cassandra Goth who was sneaking off to Forgotten Hollow, trying to get Caleb Vatore to turn her into a vampire.
Bella found out and threaten Caleb with death by giant sunlamp, so he nor Lilith wanted nothing to do with Cassandra, but Lilith did suggest a teen vampire that was living at an orphanage. All she had to do was seduce him into biting her.

I did enjoy this story line, following Cassandra experimenting with vampirism, before deciding it was "icky" and cured herself to become a spellcaster, but I skipped over playing out Cassandra's and the teen vampire's relationship.

I also had Cat-sim occults living in the orphanage, but I didn't get to play one of my cat sim's being always up to some mischief with her best human-friend. Nor did I get to play out the story line (In my stories thread) of the cat sims discovering they were sterile when they became teens. My cat sims are illegal genetic experiments, given over to the orphanage because it was isolated on Windenburg's island. The government kept tabs on them and examined them periodically. Once they were discovered to be sterile, they were no longer considered to be a problem. However, the story as head-canon was good enough.

It wasn't until half my original sims were through Uni that I realized what my true project was.
It was to build a master save with my favorite sims, lots, and game play loops all set up and ready to go whenever I want to start a new save. One of my game play loops is the interplay of Style Influencers, Fashion Photographers, and Fashion Models. The game does not have fashion models as a career, so I created my own career and new trait to support having fashion models in the game. I played two models in order to test the career and the new trait. Playing only two sims was very relaxing because I am used to playing 3-8 sims at a time.

And now comes along High School Years to add to all of this.
I played through half my teens, but I have 9 more to go, perfect timing for HSY.
I have enjoyed my massive projects, playing out a few key storylines, but it was a broad, but shallow pool.
Once I have my master save set up, I will only play a few sims and rotate between a few households per save.

I can’t play large households. Two or three are enough. However, I can play a large world and rotate between them. The way I handle my story telling is to not dictate or micromanage it. I set up situations, allow the game to play them out, then incorporate that into my story. If I didn’t do it that way, I’d just get frustrated and quit. Besides, it can lead to some fun, happy accidents.