What am I still doing wrong? (Serial Restarting in New Saves)

Seasoned Ace

2 years ago

I am your twin when it comes to this!

I too am notorious for:

Having a storyline pop up in my head
Getting excited for it and can't wait to play
Create my sim(s) and the world
Go on a downloading spree for what I feel are necessary mods to enhance the story
Start playing and then get bored and then another storyline pops into my head and I am "Ohhh yeah! That'll be fun!" and then I start the process all over again!

Rinse
Repeat

I'm actually working on a new story to play too. I'm really hoping that it actually keeps me entertained because it is 100% NOT how I typically play, at all!

Spoiler

I'm really super shy and not outgoing in RL .... and I'm not flirty either so my RL personality has a tendency to take over when I play the sims and I tend to keep my sims to their selves.

So even when they are out and about I don't deliberately have them go up to random NPCs and start conversations.

I normally just let it play out without my input (because that's how I am in RL and my RL self feels weirded out doing these things, even though it's in a game).

So I think that's part of the reason I start over, because I can't enjoy playing when I feel like I'm forced to make my sim(s) behave/do things that are uncomfortable for me to do and that don't come naturally to me

I'm really super shy and not outgoing in RL .... and I'm not flirty either so my RL personality has a tendency to take over when I play the sims and I tend to keep my sims to their selves. So even when they are out and about I don't deliberately have them go up to random NPCs and start conversations. I normally just let it play out without my input (because that's how I am in RL and my RL self feels weirded out doing these things, even though it's in a game). So I think that's part of the reason I start over, because I can't enjoy playing when I feel like I'm forced to make my sim(s) behave/do things that are uncomfortable for me to do and that don't come naturally to me

One thing I always do is play with aging off, I typically always play a single young adult looking for her mate, I always think I'll let them have kids ... but that never happens because I start over all the time.

One thing I haven't done (in any version of The Sims) is ...... I have NEVER, EVER played with an elder! Not once! I play with aging off ..... always, so my sims are eternal and never age, let alone die.

But I was reading over a lot of challenges on various sites and I combined some of their ideas to come up with my own personal challenge. I'm still setting up that save right now. Which is taking a lot of time because it's not how I normally play so I had to, once again, go on a downloading spree for mods/cc to immerse myself in it.

Here's a short synopsis of my story line for anybody else who might be interested

Spoiler

Short backstory:

Only one single sim, who is young and beautiful
She was raised by beautiful, snobbish, and wealthy parents (dad is a plastic surgeon and constantly keeps his wife looking young and beautiful)
She was raised to believe that growing old/having wrinkles and gray hair is horrible and so she grew up looking down upon older people/elders
She gets into an accident and is about to die, but an angel appears and says that if she changes her ways and learns to appreciate ALL people regardless of their age, then they will save her.
She wakes up in a house she's never seen before ....... with 7 other people
All of them are older sims and almost elders or are elders
The angel appears again and tells her she has to work on helping to fulfill every one of these stranger's Bucket List wishes

So here's my challenge for myself:

I aged up all of the normal NPCs who I don't mind in my game and made them elders and saved them to my library
I downloaded a 100% empty world and placed a bunch of nursing homes, retirement homes, large homes to house all of new sims
I put in just community venues in Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade, these will be the only areas they can go to until they go on a vacation (which they will, in order to fulfill one of the elder's bucket list items)
I found out that in MCCC you can not only have it set to pull just your sims, you can also set the % of what kind of sims so I have it set to 100% ONLY USE ELDERS in all worlds
I downloaded a ton, I mean a TON of elders, probably 300 or more so I'd have a variety
I even aged up all of my NPC JOB sims to elders and saved them too, so that way even those people who tend bar, restaurant workers, or the spa, the gym, every venue are only elders (in case I didn't have anybody qualified)
I can only control my single young adult sim and no other household members

So because I'm not focusing on a young adult sim to find love or anything, I won't be feeling forced to behave in a way that I wouldn't in RL. I don't need to worry about being flirty. If flirty stuff happens organically between the elders, that's great! It just won't be my played character having to do it!

Short backstory: Only one single sim, who is young and beautiful She was raised by beautiful, snobbish, and wealthy parents (dad is a plastic surgeon and constantly keeps his wife looking young and beautiful) She was raised to believe that growing old/having wrinkles and gray hair is horrible and so she grew up looking down upon older people/elders She gets into an accident and is about to die, but an angel appears and says that if she changes her ways and learns to appreciate ALL people regardless of their age, then they will save her. She wakes up in a house she's never seen before ....... with 7 other people All of them are older sims and almost elders or are elders The angel appears again and tells her she has to work on helping to fulfill every one of these stranger's Bucket List wishesSo here's my challenge for myself: I aged up all of the normal NPCs who I don't mind in my game and made them elders and saved them to my library I downloaded a 100% empty world and placed a bunch of nursing homes, retirement homes, large homes to house all of new sims I put in just community venues in Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade, these will be the only areas they can go to until they go on a vacation (which they will, in order to fulfill one of the elder's bucket list items) I found out that in MCCC you can not only have it set to pull just your sims, you can also set the % of what kind of sims so I have it set to 100% ONLY USE ELDERS in all worlds I downloaded a ton, I mean a TON of elders, probably 300 or more so I'd have a variety I even aged up all of my NPC JOB sims to elders and saved them too, so that way even those people who tend bar, restaurant workers, or the spa, the gym, every venue are only elders (in case I didn't have anybody qualified) I can only control my single young adult sim and no other household membersSo because I'm not focusing on a young adult sim to find love or anything, I won't be feeling forced to behave in a way that I wouldn't in RL. I don't need to worry about being flirty. If flirty stuff happens organically between the elders, that's great! It just won't be my played character having to do it!

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