two families at the same time

"aaronrulz;d-958827" wrote:
Has anyone ever played two families/households at the same time? I'm not talking about rotational play. I'm referring to if you had two houses on one lot or a created an apartment complex with different living spaces for multiple families?

In Sims 2 Apartment life you could have up to 4 apts to play at the same time and each one could take a full household not have to have just 8 sims you played on the lot but up to 8 in each apartment. I used to like making retirement homes where the Sims in the block had grown up together and once they grew older and retired from their jobs they moved into a retirement home where they shared a back yard together. Played cards and had cook outs every week-end night. You did not have to worry about door locks or sims going into other sims apartments and such. It was fun - and the elder Sims enjoyed the company of their lifelong friends. Also I gave each couple a two bedroom apartment and sometimes their grandkids would visit for some week- ends and stay in the spare bedroom. That way these old former best friends grandkids got to know each other as well. I always put the retirement homes on the beach so the visiting kids could enjoy swimming and sand castle building and such.

I remember when my elder Sims were teens they had all went to college together (in Sims 2 you could send 8 teens to college together from the neighborhood), in college they had bands together etc. They got to end their lives in the same company with Sims they were best life long friends with. It was so much fun - for playing with elders. It was the only one of the Sims games that truly let us play a sims from birth to death and it was fun to do even - instead of sims elders being all but forgotten. Also in Sims 2 elders could teach their grandkids skills faster so it was fun to send the grandkids to visit for that as well.