I like to see how other people play the game and what are the tendencies and weirder stuff you tend to do in your game.What I mean by this is odd choices you make for your sims or the way you set up your households and what strange patterns you repeat over and over almost without noticing.I start with one myself:I realised that when I feel like playing a little bit more dramatic or "soap opery" I often create two YA heterosexual couples that live in different houses and become good friends, then for one reason or another they end up all living together and I make both female pregnant at the same time by their partners. While the two female sims are pregnant they become very very close until they get romantic, I make them fall in love and I either kill their husbands in an "accident" or if I feel less deviant I make the husbands find out and seek for divorce.Then the two female sims become a proper couple and raise their kids together. Then, I usually end up hooking the kids up when they are teens.I did this once a couple of years ago, and since then, I have done it more often than I would like to admit :D What are your weird choices or stuff you keep repeating in your game?

I have a few I do ... mostly it's to entertain me between doing other stuff, mostly. This is one.For some reason I love to create a single male sim. The story goes one of three ways usually. He can be goodlooking, alien, or mutant.. mutant meaning not just ugly but stretched weird. Then he goes out and haves his way with anyone that can be impregnated in the sim world regardless of marital or other relationship status. He OWNS the place. If it continues to hold my interest he usually leaves when the baby bump forms and continues to make the rounds. He comes back later to age up the babies.. at this point I usually start adjusting the baby mommas homes and lose interest. Sometimes I age the children up to teen to at least see the genetics.I do tend to give them stories and usually if it's an alien they have a higher purpose.. world domination. If it's a good looker it also goes on diff paths.. he could just be a sleazy type, he could also be a gold digger and depending on the mods I have installed he could be a serial killer. If it's a mutant it's just to giggle over it. Lately I've been giving them all the evil trait though. Usually because drama unfolds with angry spouses, and often encouraged divorce or worse. When that baby bump shows up though he's outta there and on to the next victim. If I keep playing that save he goes back to age them up... sometimes I age them to a teen so I can see the genetics.I also throw in a variety of mods now and then and change up the stories some....I'm not sure why I go back and play this way frequently. This is just one of my paths. I use to do something like this in Sims 2 on a much smaller scale so I guess it's just an expansion of that.

Over the past year-year and a half or so, I keep starting new saves every few months (give or take) just to recreate the same main sims and play out their lives in virtually the same way. Nine times out of ten, I’ve restarted due to glitches and what not, but I’m currently restarting because I now have a new computer capable of running this game the way it’s meant to be run. I’m really excited about finally getting to play on it, but I wish I had realized beforehand how long saving lots from the old save to transfer to the new computer would take...:lol: Anyway, I’ve come to the conclusion that I must be a hopeless romantic. Whenever my sims become involved with someone, they always marry them and stay with them for their entire lives. I play “player” sims occasionally, but not nearly as often as I play faithful ones. In the saves I’ve been playing over the past year or so, the main sim I play marries the same townie, has two children, has the same career, lives in the same world, etc. Her younger sister grows up playing with the League of Adventurers, where she befriends all three children and becomes BFFs with Elsa Bjergsen. There’s some tension within the family due to the older sister not wanting her younger sister getting mixed up with local “bad boy” Max Villareal, but the younger sister’s not the type to obey authority, even if her older sister is her guardian. Once the children grow up, the younger sister ends up dating Max behind her sister’s back. He’s actually a very sweet character once you get used to his Evil trait, and I like fleshing out his character. As many times as I’ve played as him, I feel that he’s not genuinely evil; just damaged from his unstable upbringing and loss of his mother. He makes a really good father and wonderful partner to my sim, and I adore a childhood sweetheart storyline. I love it so much that as many times as I’ve played it with my sims, I go back to it repeatedly. I find it so interesting that many players do cause a lot of drama and break-ups in their games, and I’m over here planning wedding after wedding and happily-ever-after after happily-ever-after. :joy: Maybe I’m just too “good”.

I don't know it it is weird, but a repeating pattern in my games is my sims forming factions and acting out rivalries with other factions. Often I set it up like that in the beginning, but even if I don't, it usually ends up this way. Also regardless of what social class my sims start in, sooner or later they all end up in positions of power (what in turn can lift their rivalries to some pretty dangerous level). I think the reason for this is that I'm more interested in advancing my worlds' overall story than in the individual households.

I really like making graveyards in The Sims, but how do you make enough dead sims to fill one? Why, you make a death game of course. Sometimes I won't do anything special and will just lock them in a room to burn or fence them in a pool, but sometime it just needs a bit of a spice to it. So I make two rooms, both with four beds, as well as a building with various death hazards (depending on the game) and one with various games and challenges (also depending on the game). First, I put them into two teams of four, (Which is why there's two four bed rooms, the max household is only8) and then put them up to a game or challenge. So for the first one I might do something like have four chess tables, and each one would have a member of A team and B team against each other. There's two ways I'll handle this. Rather the first one to win's team gets the win, or I see how many win and base it on that. So when one wins a challenge their team will rather get a reward or not have to face the next Death Challenge, sometimes both. So next I would have the losers, go do something that would lead to their death. Such as fence them into a pool. I then wait for the first one to die before letting them out. If more than one dies at once, it just makes things easier for me. I call this "One Who Endures", and I do it way to often.

I do the 100 baby challenge but I make my own rules. I just like seeing how many generations does it take to reach it, what the benefits are, and so on. Last daughter born before the mom becomes an elder is the one who continues the journey. It's very... entertaining. I dunno why

Weird things you tend to do in your game more often than you want to admit

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ladysweettart
7 years ago
My last few saves have involved a single mom playing the field with several men at once and having children with all of them (many times more than once) - sort of like a baby challenge but with following my own rules. Anyway, inevitably as the kids grow up I have to find them a partner to marry and have their own family with (I always marry them off before shipping them out, I don't want MCCC to pair them with someone unsuitable....I'm a control freak that way). With having so many kids, some of them inevitably marry into the same families, and then their kids end up being doubly related (related through the father and the mother). I guess that's a pattern there.

I sort of play that the mom is kind of a hot mess romantically speaking, but is a good mom, and her kids turn out normal (for the most part....there was the one daughter who had the insane trait, but I blame that on the Villareal genes she got from her father).
Glikopikrameni
7 years ago
- Foregoing all the gameplay to build skills obsessively, then get uncomfortable that I spend all the time in the game on building skills and force myself to do something different;
- Building slums. Too bad Sims 4 apartment mechanics don't allow you to build little slumtown in one lot unlike in the 2. Have a lot of tattered houses full of squalor in general;
- Dressing some of my male sims in obviously female clothing, dresses, hairstyles and all that. I don't usually play them as drag queens or people doing this for kink, just make them have this as ordinary clothes because I find most male clothes ugly.
Karababy52
Legend
7 years ago
All my Sim couples, married or not, have never cheated, with one recent exception. They always are completely in love and devoted exclusively to each other. My single Sims on the other hand can have many love interests at once. But, once they've agreed to be boyfriend/girlfriend or get married, that's it, no more playing around for you. The married couples never divorce either. I've had a few unmarried couples break up though for various reasons. But never because they cheated (until recently).

I know that's unrealistic and probably considered weird to a lot of Simmers, but that's just how it always goes in my game play. Hubby and I have been together for over 40 years, we're soulmates and best friends. I guess I've unconsciously tried to emulate that for the couples in my game. We've always been totally devoted to each other before and after we got married so it seems I want to give my Sims that kind of love and joy as well. :)

The one exception was for a really, really dumb reason.

Spoiler
My Sim was Salim Banali's girlfriend. She gave him a key to her apartment and he would come over often. The problem was, once she gave him the key, he never asked her out on dates anymore and when he visited, all he ever did was read books, leave empty plates, water & milk glasses all over the apartment, play video games, watch the World Culture channel on TV and ignore her. Unless he got flirty, then they'd woohoo once and he'd immediately leave, "Thanks for hanging out with me." Pfft... I love Salim in other saves, but in that save he's a dill-hole.

I was so fed up with him I made an ill-advised rash decision. For the first time ever in over four years of playing TS4, I had my Sim meet another guy at the Spice Festival and she had a one-night stand with him. I felt so bad about it though, I had her break-up with Salim. She ignored/avoided the other guy too. Afterward, she met yet another guy (my gorgeous Super Sim Josh) busking with a guitar in the Spice District community square, they clicked right from the beginning, fell in love and he eventually moved in. They're engaged now too. One BIG problem though. The one night stand? He's her new fiancé's brother... o.O Opps!

Happy Simming Y'all! <3
Bearpal64
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
@Karababy52 I also do this! I don't let my Sims cheat but I also don't let them play the field either it's very weird hahaha. I tend to find someone they click with and then that becomes their spouse.
Tiffym020806
7 years ago
I always have my sims have as many children as possible with aging on and without removing anyone from the house hold until they are a young adult. I also always try to have the fertility boosters either on the lot or in the aspiration rewards. I regularly have like 6 toddlers in a house.Then after raising them I always start a new family or the new generation and have a ton of kids too.
Fluteline24
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
"ParmaViolet87;c-16861151" wrote:
I occupy all Sims if one is cooking breakfast or dinner. Sims are incapable of acknowledging the fact that someone is already cooking for them and beeline for the fridge all the time.

I do this all the time!

I'll also force abductions since they're pretty impossible to get once the gurus nerfed them.
bvisocsky
7 years ago
> @VanPelt81 said:
> I create way too many teenage and child orphans.

This is a VERY common story line for me too!!

My biggest "quirk" I suppose would be in-depth story lines. I lose interest so fast if I try to play without having some kind of soap opera-y direction I want things to go. Stemming from this concept, and generally being a big softy, I also can't kill sims unless it is absolutely necessary for a story line... and even then I still usually feel guilty :D.
Bearpal64
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I tend to colour match Sims to their "favorite colours" I'm trying to break out of that habit lol
belpita
7 years ago
LOL at the pausing. I do that quite a lot too, especially if I need my Sim to complete a specific task/goal.

Occasionally, I like to play a casanova (usually a man, sometimes a woman). They might start out with one steady partner and then just start romancing anyone and everyone (including same gender). Other times I will start with a heterosexual couple where one or both partners find new partners of the same gender instead.

There's usually not a lot of drama, though. I don't care much for making jealous or mean Sims. Except that one time, when I wanted to kill off a Sim through anger. She had the jealous trait and I had her partner romance someone in front of her. >:)

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