Seeking suggestions in gameplay
💡 I am seeking suggestions for my gameplay. 💡 I always play positive meaning all my sims live 'happily ever after' lives. 👿 I desire to play more negative and/or 'unhappily ever lives.' 👿 I've...
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Playing rotationally is good for this. Evil sims can fall in love and have their own happily ever after, but the misery they cause those outside of their circle means that not everyone's life is smooth sailing simultaneously. The sims that have horrid things happen to them then have the option of working through their problems with the evil sim, distancing themselves with change of scenery, plotting some kind of one-off revenge to ruin the evil sim's happy ever after, or turning to the dark side and becoming the next villain of the story.
When you say 'playing rotationally,' are you talking about switching households every now and then? If that's what you mean, how often would you recommend switching?
I mean playing with every household I want to play with in one save simultaneously. Normally I like to do this with all the premades, plus Gallery premades added in to boost/refresh the population occasionally. E.G. all the new YA sims they added to CAS have fleshed out versions on the Gallery, and they have backstories indicating university, so I like to make them into uni students.
If you play with aging on and want everyone aging at the same rate, then pick a set number of days and stick to it. I have been trying to a week before switching, but with so many premade households to play with now I think I'm going to try with only 3 or 4 days when I restart my premade rotation, just so I can get through a rotation cycle faster. When choosing how many days to use look at the number of households you want to play, your calendar settings (days in the year) and if you'll get to play every household in every season at some point in their lives (if you want to, that is).You've also got to factor in new households as sims move out to go to uni, move in with partners not currently in the rotation or senior/accident-prone households die out.
If you play with aging off, you can play whoever, whenever and just age individuals/everyone up when you are ready to progress to the next stage of life for them all. You may end up with sim ages out of sync like this though.
