What are your best gameplay tips?
I saw a thread on Twitter for gameplay tips and a lot of them I thought were really great. For example, tucking in a toddler gives you a sweet moodlet. Or parents can give their teens "the woohoo talk...
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Get Parenthood, then stick with it. Raise a sim from birth, however you want. Raise them well, raise them poorly, you will find you unlock a bunch of unique interactions your sim can perform with other sims based on the character traits they develop through their childhood that really brings them to life.
Also get Seasons if you can, it really adds a lot to your game. It brings a sense of time passing, the calendar was a genius addition in my view. I love to schedule events ahead like weddings, birthdays, anniversaries etc. then have my sims party plan. Will we have it the house? Will we have it at a public venue, if so which best suits? Then I love to have them travel to the venue for set up. I enter build mode at the venue and do a narrative in my head as though they’re choosing decor, and table arrangements and so on. Then take them home to await the big day. If it’s at their house I do basically the same, running a narrative in my head about decorating and furniture rearranging and the like.
My biggest tip is let your imagination free. 90% of this game takes place in your imagination, you have to set it loose if you’re going to enjoy playing. I think as you get older that gets harder because so many times real adult life manages to intrude upon our ability to just suspend reality for awhile. I actually think that’s the root of a lot of the complaints about this iteration of The Sims by long time Sims players. Your imagination at say 8 isn’t the same at 28, 38, 48, and I think they were able to let their imagination run more free on earlier iterations because they were kids, but it’s harder as an adult. They can still do so on the older games because their mind is trained to relax into imagination with the familiarity of those versions.
Also get Seasons if you can, it really adds a lot to your game. It brings a sense of time passing, the calendar was a genius addition in my view. I love to schedule events ahead like weddings, birthdays, anniversaries etc. then have my sims party plan. Will we have it the house? Will we have it at a public venue, if so which best suits? Then I love to have them travel to the venue for set up. I enter build mode at the venue and do a narrative in my head as though they’re choosing decor, and table arrangements and so on. Then take them home to await the big day. If it’s at their house I do basically the same, running a narrative in my head about decorating and furniture rearranging and the like.
My biggest tip is let your imagination free. 90% of this game takes place in your imagination, you have to set it loose if you’re going to enjoy playing. I think as you get older that gets harder because so many times real adult life manages to intrude upon our ability to just suspend reality for awhile. I actually think that’s the root of a lot of the complaints about this iteration of The Sims by long time Sims players. Your imagination at say 8 isn’t the same at 28, 38, 48, and I think they were able to let their imagination run more free on earlier iterations because they were kids, but it’s harder as an adult. They can still do so on the older games because their mind is trained to relax into imagination with the familiarity of those versions.
