rotational play-- tips?

Well, you can do a week each household, but I find that doing a rotation on aging helps. I turn on aging for played household and the townies with the first rotation household, then just do aging for played household, not townies, on the second, works best for me. That way everyone in the game is the same age.

Hmm...

There are so many things to fiddle with. When households age or not, when you rotate, how many households you rotate between. I would suggest that you experiment and see what suits you :)

I play a main family and then I rotate away on specific days. When I play with other households I like to turn ageing off.

The days I play the town I jump around several households and set up clubs, set skills or relationships. Since I do not want every sim to be late for work or school when I log into a new household I set these days as holidays without work or school.

So that is my way:
3-4 days main family
2 NPC-days without ageing

Anything goes during NPC-days. I just logg into any household I want to see and just go for it. It is a fun contrast to my main story. One day little old ladies playing chess in the park, next days vampires wrecking havoc in a nightclub and then after two days it is back to my main sims.

You can always do it in a testsave first :smile:

Edit: one of the things I love with this haphazard way of playing is that I truly don’t remember all the clubs and things I set up during these 12 sim-weeks I have been playing. Like going to the nightclub and seeing the vampires being a tad bit bitey. “ Did I make a vamp-club that feeds at one of the clubs? Yes, yes I did”. I play with headline effects off when I play my main household so I didn’t notice it at first because I was so into a cute sim my girl was flirting with. It went from romantic comedy to horror-flick. Fun night, got the guy at least.