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EnkiSchmidt's avatar
3 years ago

The hardest decision

According to the Sims 4 main menu, "the hardest decision is Resume Game or New Game".

For me the hardest decision is which sim to pick when starting a new game. I have 97 households in my library plus close to 200 premades in the actual game (missing 2 packs). So yesterday I wanted to play a short living off the land/simple living challenge with an unskilled starter household. Of my three saves atm that new househould would fit best into the cottagecore one. That was the easy part.

But which sims to use... I sat and stared, sat and stared, unable to decide on my protagonists. I had almost decided on a household, when the urge to also include my picks' friends stuck, what would have resulted in at least three households getting added. So back to square one it was. In the end I chose George Cahill, Erwin Pries and the BFF. (George in my gameverse is Erwin's father and he also mentored the BFF in a Star Wars save, so now they form a unit in my mind.)

What is the hardest decision for you?
  • JaiSea's avatar
    JaiSea
    New Traveler
    I can never decide if I want to build, or play.
  • Honestly, I find it difficult to decide to go with a save that is a many times over restart. What would I benefit from yet another restart? Do I just stick it out with the save in progress? Do I ever go back to my Main Save? Or, as someone suggested with this latest restart, that I stick with it and make it my Main Save. So, after much gnashing of teeth, I finally made the determination to restart once more. I set the season in the previous restart to fall, since I was carrying forth the family I began with, ready for high school to commence. Problem is, things were dropped in the process IE albums released, but more importantly sixteen songs he had written. Since they were written via instruments, there are no hard copies of them. No sheet music, not cd, no nothing. The time will be hard to recapture once high school starts. I had no real choice but to restart, One. More. Time. However, I did decide this one would be my NEW Main Save. This freed me up a bit on the order of songs to have him license. However, I'm still married to the order of suits worn at the Accolades. Face/palm. I change out the clothing to help me keep track.

    Sometimes, it's difficult to be me.
  • "EgonVM;c-18179201" wrote:
    My hardest decision.

    Today for drama, there's going to be a break up/job change/falling out/cheating/death/etc!

    But to who? I don't want my sims to have bad times, so who do choose. Ah, it's so difficult! Someone has to have bad time!


    Roll the dice. Give each Sim or Sim/couple, either odds or even. Or a range of numbers and then roll the dice and see who gets it! Personally, I'm not finding it necessary, lately, to conjure up some drama. The game seems to do it for me. :open_mouth:
  • EgonVM's avatar
    EgonVM
    Seasoned Ace
    "GalacticGal;c-18180311" wrote:
    "EgonVM;c-18179201" wrote:
    My hardest decision.

    Today for drama, there's going to be a break up/job change/falling out/cheating/death/etc!

    But to who? I don't want my sims to have bad times, so who do choose. Ah, it's so difficult! Someone has to have bad time!


    Roll the dice. Give each Sim or Sim/couple, either odds or even. Or a range of numbers and then roll the dice and see who gets it! Personally, I'm not finding it necessary, lately, to conjure up some drama. The game seems to do it for me. :open_mouth:


    Yes, but I'd either need a lot of dices or a random number generator program for my 100+ households.
  • Do I play Sims or content myself with the forums? or... Which do I do first, homework or that aircraft carrier on the workbench?