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

Present day for me. There are just not enough options for previous periods without a load of cc.

Mid-century on up. Really though it's timeless sort of Sim time. If cell phones weren't attached and we didn't have roads with cars or walkbys I'd probably try to set up more past era or fantasy type worlds.

Before my game cacked itself, I had a 19th Century save where I half rebuilt Sutton Scarsdale Hall:
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/20/57/205739_f56fe51e.jpg
I used old floor plans, old photo's that are kept in the church next door (IRL) my own photos and actually visiting the place to recreate it back to its former glory.

It took months I started in March then stopped once Seasons came out and I have only just finished the ground floor.
I built it once in The Sims 3 too.

I love history xD

I usually play an aesthetic rather than an era - I suppose it's set in modern times. If my Sims are more techie or business-focused, they generally get more trendy clothes and an ultra-modern house. If they're more creative, I tend to build more retro houses and dress them in comfortable clothes.

If I have a particular story in mind, however, I can suspend disbelief, ignore the cell phones and build a non-modern house (as best I can, given the choices in furnishings), and dress my Sims (as much as possible) in a style appropriate to their time or the story. I just ignore the townies and the modern houses in the neighbourhood, but that's not really so difficult when I'm focused on one family that rarely interacts with other Sims.

I don't really play any storylines in my game, just families going about their business so my sims and lots tend to be quite eclectic. Still, if I do ocassionally build a specific style it tends to be a futuristic lot for astronaut sims. :smile:

"bombtori;c-16679383" wrote:
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!

That is what happened to the hall in my post, in 1919 they sold all of the interior of the house, some of it is in the Philladelphia Museum of Art https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/results.html?searchTxt=sutton+scarsdale&keySearch=+Search+&searchNameID=&searchClassID=&searchOrigin=&searchDeptID=&accessionID=&page=1 and there is some in a library in California.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/sutton-scarsdale-hall/history/

It is so interesting :smiley:

Present day or future.

Today more or less.

Little bit difficult to hid the darn phone - so I just go with the flow.

In past games I did play all sorts of eras though - but with Sims 4 I stick with today, but a gentler, kinder today.

I agree with most posters that the cell phone really destroys whatever atavistic inclinations you might have. I made a house for one of my sim's grandmother's and I didn't put a computer in the house and instead used the cheap tv and the gramaphone for entertainment to make it look sort of like 1950s-ish?? But the whole experience got ruined once the grandmother got sick (the only way to buy medicine being through the computer iirc) and getting texts from her grandchildren. >_<

My sims live in our time, constantly using their phones etc would make it hard to send them a couple centuries back, no?

In TS3 I did play 18th (or was that 17th?) century, building a big town from scratch, playing the families and developing the community through a period of 300 years! It was great fun, and actually a spontaneous project.