Suggest me a story pls?

Atm i'm playing some kind of colonizing game. I have started a legacy at a completelly empty save. I added a starter home for my legacy. I started adding community lots on the go as i need them. For example, when i wanted my sim to get married i added a church and when my sim's daughter wanted to make friends i added a park with a lot of activities. My new heir dreams of visiting mt. Komorebi but she still can't afford the trip but i've already added a rental cabin in the mountain. This isn't a story but some kind of a goal, to colonize the whole worlds.

Here's some ideas off the top of my head:

- An alien trying to get by and understanding the strange Sim world and its inhabitants around them
- A shared flat type situation with one human among various occults...
- ... or the other way around: one occult living among humans in a shared flat, trying to not be discovered as non-human
- a human family and various occult families (e.g. vampire clan, alien family, etc), and their stories and lives end up intertwining
- a human whose family merges with various occults (e.g. founder marries an alien, their daughter becomes a vampire, their grandson becomes a merman, etc)

Some of these could get longer than others, but it's all up to you and they can shortened in some way imo.

I dislike: unnecessarily dramatic stories

^ pretty much sums up anything i would come up with :joy: i like me some soap opera

I play on rotation so I have a lot of different 'stories' going on. Here's a few:

Loner guy in astronaut career, who is obsessed with finding proof of alien life. He's gonna build his own rocket ship and visit the aliens and will eventually bring one home to marry and have little alien babies.

Orphanage run by a mean criminal lady who hates kids. All the kids have to do all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, fixing. They are banding together to become a family in spite of their carer and will one day exact revenge on her. Possibly a bit too dramatic for you though.

Two couples living next door to each other, both with twin toddler girls. They are gonna grow up to be best friends for life.

An off-the-grid couple who live in Glimmerbrook, they are trying to make their own furniture, grow their own food etc. Starting out with next to nothing, so kind of rags to riches.

I have a couple, one in the military, who are doing the Strangerville mystery.

A female sim who left her horrid husband and had nowhere to go, she got a job as a live-in nanny to look after a family's baby and toddler. When they aged up, she moved in with another family to be their nanny. Then she discovered that this family were vampires and, after letting the dad feed on her, she started falling in love with him. Maybe miss out the drama bit from that story lol.

An older sim goes back to university. I did this with an adult, but an elder might be interesting too. My sim kept her job and attended school. She wanted to further her career. This works well with the work from home jobs.

My favourite "story" game in the Sims 3 involved a young witch who was the illegitimate daughter of a powerful wizard and his mistress. He didn't let her in the house, made her sleep in the shed and fed her scraps. I set some rules for myself such as:
She had to unlock the fireball spell to escape the shed at night
After she escaped she lived off the grid in the mountains near the town
She had to level up her handiness before she was allowed more than a campfire and a hay bale to sleep on
There were consequences if her father or one of his cronies caught her in town after she escaped
I created a new lot in the same town to be a prison and locked her in it at one point when she was caught
Whenever her teleportation booth went on the fritz, it was "her father trying to track her down", and she couldn't use it for a while
To win, she had to defeat her father in a duel

I had to use a lot of cc and cheats to make everything work though. I cheated to give the father 10 magic skill for example. I'm thinking of trying this again in the Sims 4 although I think it would be harder to set up.

I guess mine probably falls under the category of "too dramatic" XD

Given your interests how about two households that live next door to each other and have some sort of difference related to occults? like...

- One household is aliens or mermaids and the other is normies
- Two siblings or childhood best friends grow up and settle down next door to each other with their families, except one has become a spellcaster or turned into a vampire since the time they were kids together
- The town is primarily made up of one type of occult and a normie household moves in and tries to adjust

"SimTrippy;d-988444" wrote:
I should finally have some time to play again soon (enough time to actually get into a story), although only for a few days - but I'm at a loss for what story I'd like to tell. I had started a few a while back but I'm not in the mood to return to any of them.

I like: family play, occults, rotational play, rags to riches, multiple adult sims with a specific purpose (had a military base in Strangerville and I loved it - but I tried to do the same with an occult orphanage and the fact that children can't do magic pains me), mundane stuff like doing laundry lol

I dislike: unnecessarily dramatic stories (no gossipping girl squads, no affairs, etc), too much setup time (just bc I don't have the time and I will run out of interest to actually play it- BUT if you happen to know of a good starting save for certain types of stories, I would be open to that).

Thanks in advance to anyone taking the time to reply :blush:

Do you want us to share our households on the gallery for you? I have a go-to spellcaster family. I use them when I don't want to create a household but want to play spellcasters. I also have my go-to sim, Victoria Van Helsing. Right now I'm doing gameplay with the Sages as kids. I'm also playing 2 other saved games. One with my go-to spellcaster family and the other is where Simeon and Morgyn are married and have kids. I'm going back and forth between these 3 games.

I did a scenario, where I made most of the worlds dark and it was Vampire oriented. The objective was to turn as many people into vampires as possible with about a 2% population being non occults since vampires can feed off of other occults but they can't turn them into a vampire which they can feed off of.

You can always save your game as "Save As" at any point in your game when you want to make choices and not sure which choice is best for your game you want to play

So I tried this challenge except I play it super casual and don't roll the dice. https://hollie155.wixsite.com/upgrowth-challenge It is very Rags to Riches friendly.

You can spice it up with adding occults in it in disguise kind of like WandaVision living each decade. Let the story take you where it will and if you have some surprises along the way, makes the story even more fun.