With "bad simming behaviors", I mean things that you do in your games that hinder you in getting out the best of the game's content. For me, it's the fact that I always, since TS3, think up the story of my sims before I even created them, thus leading to my playstyle to only follow this particular story. It can be fun when you finally get to that story, but the time in between can be really boring and dull. The problem with this playstyle is that it has no real surprises that just happen to let the game stay fresh, so I am really often bored when I don't play out a story-line. What are your bad habits which can make the game boring to you, even though you have much content to choose from?

I think one of my bad simming habits is that I have trouble marking families in my legacy as not-played so that I can focus on the families I actually want to play.I just seem to want to manage them all, but honestly, I give up playing a lot of games because there's too many households in my rotation to manage. If I just set a few of them to not-played then I may stick with it for longer. But I struggle with it.

I use live mode more for testing builds and game things than actually playing out Sims lives for their own sake, lol.

"kemisz;c-16396342" wrote:I think one of my bad simming habits is that I have trouble marking families in my legacy as not-played so that I can focus on the families I actually want to play.I just seem to want to manage them all, but honestly, I give up playing a lot of games because there's too many households in my rotation to manage. If I just set a few of them to not-played then I may stick with it for longer. But I struggle with it. Yeah that's something I also know too well. In one of my saves, I have like 15 played households. I also thought about just marking them as unplayed but I have plans for all of them xD

Sounds weird, but I try and leave things untouched in the neighbourhoods/worlds. By that, I mean that if I play a pre-made family, I try not to drastically change anything. The reason is that I feel like I might do something, not be happy with it later on and then not know how to reset the neighbourhood/world. So, by and large, I create my own families and play in a bizarrely insular way.

I always want my sims to have lots of children and when they do, it becomes so overwhelming or stressful I give up playing. It isn't fun just playing a couple or a couple with one or two kids, but I definitely got to try to stop my sims from having so many kids. I have a family now who has 1 kid, 6 toddlers and 5 dogs. That is not a lot for how many I usually have.

What Are Your "Bad Simming Behaviors"?

OEII1001
New Spectator
7 years ago
I chronically and compulsively restart my households. This means that more often or not I don't get to those late-stage life goals.
VampiresRule135
7 years ago
I spend more time in CAS than actually playing the game haha. I also have a terrible habit of starting too many new households and never playing as them, mainly because I hate building my own houses and editing houses built by other simmers.
kaeyresky
7 years ago
I'm too goal-oriented, if that makes sense. I can never last very long playing casually, before I get right into skill building, career grinding, and aspiration completions. I effectively turn every sim I play into a "super sim" after not too long... and I really wish I could stop doing it but I can't help it :D
TheGoodOldGamer
7 years ago
"CyrusTheLoser;c-16396585" wrote:
I'm too goal-oriented, if that makes sense. I can never last very long playing casually, before I get right into skill building, career grinding, and aspiration completions. I effectively turn every sim I play into a "super sim" after not too long... and I really wish I could stop doing it but I can't help it :D

Same. If I'm not testing a build, this is generally what I'm doing. I like maxing out everything, lol.
JurassicKing87
7 years ago
I make every action for my Sims for them, so they have no free will. Then again when they do, all they ever do is read books...
AfterMidnight13
New Spectator
7 years ago
I'm a massive micromanager. I strive to have my sims complete their aspirations, top their careers, and bring in the next generation of sims so the cycle can begin all over again. The only leisure time my sims get is between goals or after they've completed everything I've set out for them to do. My sims generally don't have social lives as a result and I miss out on a more relaxed style of gameplay due to my controlling tendencies.
BeJaWa
7 years ago
I get angry when my sims don't do stuff exactly as I say, but I refuse to turn free-will off because I don't want to worry about one of them starving in a corner forgotten somewhere (I always worry that they will accidentally kill themselves on me). It can lead to some frustration on my end.
jprp83
7 years ago
I can't stand randomly generated townies so I spend easily more than half of my playtime editing their appearance with the Cas.fulleditmode cheat. Even though sometimes I feel proud of the makeovers I do, I often run out of ideas and it starts to feel like a chore. But I just can't deal with random townies with ugly clothing roaming around my neighborhoods.
PsychoSimXX
7 years ago
I spend more time in build mode but I do play TS4 more than I have the other three of the series all together.
vanpelt81
New Spectator
7 years ago
I create way too many sims in the beginning and have to kill off a good chunk of them because I want my sims that I care about to have parents & grandparents in their family trees. It creates a lot of ghosts and tombstones everywhere. Luckily creating a specific Cemetery lot keeps the rest of the Sim Neighborhoods from looking like one large cemetery...

...for the most part.