What era/century does your sim(s) live in?

I strive for a mid-century aesthetic for my sims, but suspension of disbelief is pretty much impossible with the game's reliance on mobile phones for gameplay.

I have a few different saved games. Most of them live in the contemporary era. But two of my saves where my main Sims are vampires are set in the Middle Ages. I don't really enjoy the idea of playing with "modern vampires" for some reason, and plus I like to create my own "origin stories" of the vampire culture, which means my vampires are usually among the "original vampires" of my Sim world. :blush: That basically determines that the story needs to be set in an earlier time if I want to play them as young vampires and let them grow into older and more powerful beings. But yes because Sims 4 doesn't let us customize the worlds, and that the worlds are all contemporary, you would need to seriously suspend your disbelief. Nowadays I mostly just avoid going to Willow Creek, and pretend not to see it when my Sims compulsively take out their phones to snap a selfie. But you should definitely try it! It's pretty fun if you can get into it.

One save is theoretically 1950's
One is early 2000's

I really wish there was more 70's, 80's and 90's clothing, I feel a Saturday night fever coming on.

I guess my current Sims are living in the very end of the 20th or very beginning of the 21st.
Pretty blocky computer and not much video gaming or phone use really.

I play rotationally. So I start by doing two sims and I marry them, when the time is the 60s and the 70s. They have children, have their children married and have grandchildren, and the time is advancing to the 80's and 90's and so on. Until they have great-grandchildren or great-grandchildren, and then when I'm fed up with the family, I start a new one. It's an interesting style that I developed over time

It would be interesting if we could start the first Sims generation in a specific chosen era (say, 17th, 18th, 19th and so on) and the next generations are continuing the legacy into a different era.. which could be up to probably into the future?

On the rare occasion I play a household, they pretty much only ever exist in Victorian times (mid-late 1800's), because I love the style and 99% of houses I build are gothic victorian inspired

21st century. The sims' addiction to cell phones makes it impossible for me to play in any earlier centuries lol.

For a time I went full on 18th century for my ancestral game save. I have since stopped using the cc clothing, et al, as it went wonky after patches and such. I even had two styles of spinning wheels for looks and a loom (which also substituted for a computer). Now, it's still the same family, but I let them wear the clothes from the game. Not quite the same feel, I admit, but more like a 'what if' scenario. My seventh great-grandfather lived from 1702-1803, born 1 Feb, and dying 30 Dec., so he was just shy of 101. Don't let people say we didn't live that long back then or that we weren't tall, either. This man was a huge, bear of a man and very strong, too. He lifted a donkey over the fence of his front yard, to make a point to a guy who came to 'challenge' his authority. The guy fled shortly after that, guess it worked. ;)

My other save is 23rd century — talk about extremes!

My game is essentially a present-day setting. As others have said, it's definitely how the game is made. You can choose the style of architecture if you bulldoze and rebuild all the houses, pick and choose furniture and clothing, but the cell phone use is really interwoven throughout the game. And if you have/use City Living, well, San Myshuno is very 20th-21st century. Not much for that.

It works for me. I do have an ancient vampire who was born at the end of the 12th century and lives in an old (reconstructed) mansion, but she's getting to know some modern conveniences.