Sims 4 Confessions

Well... one time, I let a sim die on purpose. My mom was watching me play and she still thinks it was an accident. That was almost 3 years ago.

In my main save all my sims born in game have stopped at teenagers, because I'm waiting for a Uni pack one of these days.

"stilljustme2;c-16781805" wrote:
Hi — my name is stilljustme2 and I’m a saveaholic. I have on save where I’m trying to finish all the collections, but I typically start a new save when we get new content. Currently re-imagining Oasis Springs as sort of a Palm Springs type world annex to Del Sol Valley where Sims can commute.

Me too. I start saves all the tme for no reason. I think I have almost 30 now. oops.

"Chelseadude182;c-16787306" wrote:
@Sha2520032003 wow, I can tell why your so attach to this specific sim. She’s beautiful! Loving her story too :)
Just wondering, as I would like to do it myself. May sound daft asking this question, but how do you involve that detail story into the game?

@Chelseadude182 - Thanks so much. I really appreciate the compliment. Well, I don't really involve the detail into the story as it relates to her parents or adoptive parents, as far as creating them. I just wanted to create a background for her that gave an idea of who she is, & might explain some of the things about her. For example, Kamila always knowing she wasn't a Sherwood & finding out she's Selvadoradan....it really created a drive for her to know more about her ancestry....for her to know where she came from. That was important to her. She practically lived in Selvadorada when I first started playing her....really getting into the exploring, meeting the locals, etc. At some point, one of the elder locals she met, I pretended knew her birth parents...so she was able to learn more about them. She started out very poor....living in San Myshuno with her pup Peanut. & her story just kind of evolved as I played her. She met Reid, a fellow explorer....they fell in love, got married, and together have 5 kids.

I usually create a backstory for any new Sim I create or challenge I play (unless the challenge has the background)....it helps me stay focused on the character.

I have the same confession as most of you. I’m a huge control freak in my games. And i’ve never gotten past the first generation either. No shame in that. We all play differently! Everyone in this thread just seems to be into micromanaging

(and I have nothing but respect for people who can do legacies. I’ve never been able to do them unfortunately)

"CharlieGoth;c-16786214" wrote:
ew, don't trivialize OCD. Use other terms if it isn't clinically diagnosed and you just have quirks with certain patterns.

Honestly, I was quite curious whether a post like this would crop up in the thread and lo and behold, here it is. I was certain that I would see this comment from the moment I read the thread. I will respond to you, as best I can, and then I will post my own gruelling confessions.

The world is currently intent on using labels for everything. People enjoy trivialising everything to make themselves feel… better, I think. It is like when people claim depression or, more recently (which has annoyed me greatly) autism. The issue at hand is that the OP only believes and was never diagnosed, which instantly makes it unlikely. As you have said, it is a few quirks, which everyone has. My mother claims she has OCD due to the fact she likes the coffee cups to be hanging a certain direction. Yes, I agree, that is* an OCD trigger, but not enough to claim OCD. She simply likes her cups to be the correct way.

Call me horrid, but I spent weeks moving them around and she never noticed. Instantly disregarded her self-diagnosis. I have ties to OCD due to me being autistic. I simply require a daily routine go undisturbed. Even typing that out makes me cringe. However, people will use labels because it makes them feel better. To me, opening a thread with, “I believe I have OCD because I want the letters in alphabetical order”, which would make it Compulsive Disorder Obsessive is a tad silly. Anyway, not trying to bash on people. Not my intention. Most people with OCD do not throw it around like they want it broadcasted. This, to me, is the way to tell whether people are lying or not. Even what I posted above makes me annoyed, but it needs to be there to state that I have the traits, but not full-blown OCD, which is vastly more complicated than a few quirks. I remember when I was at the hospital seeing someone get livid because the receptionists’ desk had a piece of paper not in line. The woman could not function right until it was shifted half an inch.

I am a passionate person when it comes to mental conditions. They are so underappreciated and made a joke of on a daily basis. I apologise.

As for my confession…

I like to just kill random Sims. I will put them in scenarios that make them angry and then will kill them, plain and simple. I will either force someone to cheat on their wife, ruining their lives, or set fire to their house with some creative use of game mechanics. I have never been fond of using pools or fire traps, it has to be creative.

In one of my houses, I made a killing room where my Sim could watch and paint the picture behind glass. :D

I don’t mean to offend anybody by stating an ‘OCD’ I just use it as a term of phrase. I struggle to understand and use correct terms due with dyslexia. But I promise to anybody that I mean no harm, and without sounding big headed, I’m a polite and friendly person :blush:

I am constantly creating new saves and never playing much with already existing ones. Just because I constantly get more ideas about different strorylines, but recently I try to add the new ideas to the sabe I am playing. So far, so good.

My confession is that I am a " scatter-brained" player. I have a big save that I have played for a long time by adding sims to it and playing them. I will play a particular sim and think....yeah, they need this person or this thing or this group in their lives to add to their story.....so off I go to add that and build and create new sims and place them in the world. I then play them to get them established a bit and then I lose track because THEY need someone or something for THEIR story and I forget all about why they were created in the first place!

I'll create a teen, and then think, well I need more teens in the world for them! And off I go to make and place more teens....all the while forgetting the original teens story line!

So I have this big old world with so many different sims that were meant to be additions to other sim stories in the world. lol.

I admit I may benefit from writing about each sim BEFORE I make more. And then maybe I will be able to intertwine the sims better and play it from all the different angles.....so long as I can get the story straight!

I have never let an elder Sim die due to aging. I get them to the Elder age and then save and stop playing that household. I go to CAS and create a new YA Sim and start all over.