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

I play the present day. I don't want a ton of mods to disable cell phones and so on, if they even excist. I remember fondly the days of TS2 where you actually had to BUY a cell phone to use it. Nothing was "forced" on you, and you could create the game you wanted, in any time period you wanted.

Don't get me wrong, I love TS4, as much as I loved TS1, 2 and 3. I just wish it was OUR game, not the devs, like it used to be. I don't feel like "we rule" as much as we did. They created the frame work, and we painted the picture, as it should be.

I've been playing a lot of royal families and I like to play them around the Tudor period or Elizabethan era. So between the late 1400s to early 1600s. I play mostly on the sims 3 though, since it's hard to do in the sims 4 with no cc. The clothing options in the sims 3 are not perfect, and kinda limited, but I don't go for complete accuracy. Plus they have a few options in the store that are pretty good.

I'd love to play a historical-themed game but it's just not possible with the way the game is set up.

Most of my saves takes place in today's world aka 2018, but there's one that takes place back in the late 1980s.

I just play present day - like others have said, it's immersion breaking to play otherwise. I'll just leave that stuff to Sims 2 lol.

Most of mine I have not fixed the whole world since I had not been able to have more than maybe 2 families on the saved families screen, but if I am playing a family they live as older times including not having any real lamps on lighting by candles and fireplaces. My families wont have a television either and only the gramophone type music player too. I do this more so if playing a vampire family but most of mine usually end up being a vampire family, thanks to Vatore always stalking my sims lol.

"Rorosims;c-16645972" wrote:
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.

I do the same thing with my vampires! I don't like the idea of having powerful and knowledgeable vampires who haven't seen the passage of time haha!

I was playing a historical legacy family for a little bit. I started in the late 19th century and kept track of what "year" it was based on what year I determined each person was born based on the storyline. I tried to change the hairstyles and clothing subtly as time went by. I have no CC, so it got really hard by the 1920s since the silhouette is a certain way. I thought it was going to be really fun, but I got frustrated because the look wasn't right. I got seasons right as the 20s were ending, so they had one last New Years bash before the Stock Market crashed. They were a rich family living in a Victorian Mansion but lost all their money. The way I originally started the family was with two sisters. One sister got turned into a vampire. I intended for her to take back the family home because she "inherited it" (aka after the family lost the house, she secretly bought it) and then live through the decades paralleling her sisters descendants.

I also tried to play it like world events were happening. Like during the late 1910s, the oldest son "went to war" and a couple of the family members died from the Spanish Flu.


Anyways, I stopped playing a couple months ago but now I want to play that family again!

All of my (more or less 90) sims live in current time. I would like to play older era, but there is no available pack and clothing for that.
I even can't play 80's 90's to simulate my life in my country, because there is no possibility to play apartment buildings.

My sims currently live in a slightly futuristic time place for my story save. Holograms and other futuristic tech is out there for the government and very rich, but not easily accessed by the public.

Many of my sims have been around since before electricity and are still alive. Few are still alive from the rennessaince days, and a couple are still alive from the medieval days.

My story has its own time periods that do not necessarily reflect ours. Technology is discovered at a much slower rate. Medeival days are the first recorded days of men, but there is time before that.

Only two central characters still alive from the medieval days in my story are the first Vampire and the first Genie.