What is you favorite type of family to play?

I mostly play blended families. I guess I like drama lol

I love the idea of having a bigger family than the norm. I want a lot of kids, in all honesty haha :)

I make a large family, usually with a mom, dad, teen, child, and toddler. Then I always add a twist. One household I played with had the maternal grandmother living with the family. The only issue was, while all the children were very mature and neat, the grandmother was insane and a slob. She constantly left the house a mess and made the kids feel uncomfortable sometimes but they still loved her when she gave them presents and told them stories at bedtime.

Another family I made I nicknamed Uncle Bob. A newlywed couple moved in and the husband brought along his brother, Bob, who was an alien. The husband and wife had a child named Skylar. They got so excited over having the child they grew hysterical and died from hysteria. Bob was left to care for the child all on his own. As Skylar grew, she taught Uncle Bob how to use disguises (he never left the house before then) so he could get a job as an astronaut. He ended up marrying Jade Rosa and having a baby (his name was Tommy). Jade ended up dying in a house fire so Uncle Bob kept Tommy. Anyway, Uncle Bob ended up dying from old age after meeting the love of his life Cyndi (who was also an alien) and Skylar became a young adult. Skylar adopted Tommy to keep him safe and tell him stories of Uncle Bob as Tommy grew (even though he was quite blue). Tommy grew and ended up meeting a girl and having children. He named his daughter Skylar and his son Bobby.

In the past, I have always started with a single YA sim, I eventually have them marry and either because of having a blended family, adoption, or the old fashioned way, end up with 4 or more children.

However, in my current save, I decided to try and do something different, so I started with an orphanage. I am basically playing the orphanage as my main household, and adding each of the adoptive families to my rotation as they happen.

It's turned out pretty well, I had the BB Hecking's adopt the first little boy, then two gallery and library childless couples adopt the next two. Finally, I had married Diego Logo and Gunther Munch, and had them adopt the 4th child. I love that you can actually set a sim as sterile in CAS now, and the set as care dependant option is a big help for my couple who are running the orphanage.

Now that the adopted kids are starting to age up to teens, I have decided to cut off the adoptions and just focus on playing the adoptive families. But, I can always go back to it later on, by perhaps having the original adopted kids become adoptive parents themselves and re-populate the orphanage again.

"ldmarko;c-16224001" wrote:
I'm very liberal in real life, but a boring traditionalist in the game. I'm playing the way I was brought up-70's small midwestern town, families all had a mom & dad & 3.5 kids, everything was perfect on the surface, and what was under the surface, well, it just wasn't polite to talk about it. :p

how do you have 3.5 kids?

"InfinitexSims;c-16269772" wrote:

"ldmarko;c-16224001" wrote:
I'm very liberal in real life, but a boring traditionalist in the game. I'm playing the way I was brought up-70's small midwestern town, families all had a mom & dad & 3.5 kids, everything was perfect on the surface, and what was under the surface, well, it just wasn't polite to talk about it. :p

how do you have 3.5 kids?

Thru the magic of statistics.

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-16218302" wrote:
I play legacy files. So I usually have 3 to 4 children. I also play matching my own faith values, so no kids beforec marriage.

I don't play legacy files, but like yourself I do tend to play based on my faith values, so for me no kids before marriage in my played families. Now for the sake of realism in my game, I do have families in my worlds that are single parents. But if I am playing the family, it's usually a married couple with one or two kids.

"Writin_Reg;c-16223382" wrote:
I enjoy playing married couple that have 2 kids or more but I am often playing single sims who will eventually marry to get up their skills and careers before they do marry - so that way they can spend more family time without skilling or doing much job work from home. So I probably play more single sims until I get enough families to keep me busy. LOL. I like a lot of households eventually.

Before I reset my game when C&D came out I had 35 families I was rotating. But I wanted a reset of the game after all the recoding - so I saved that folder safely away and right now I am working between two single households and hoping they become more than just friends. Sometimes it works but I never steer their direction - I like them to sort of chose - so who knows if this is a match or not.

I keep meaning to try this, where I place two roommates(opposite sex) and see if they match up. I must admit, but, I am such a control freak with my sims, that even for my single sims that I play, I'll create a sim with the intention of my sims meeting that sim and dating/marrying them. This backfired on me one time. I created a single female to play, and then I downloaded a "Michael Ealey" sim off of the gallery for her. He was supposed to be for my sim lady, but he was always flirting and hanging with another sims female in my town. Finally, I gave up. My sims are not desperate! I decided Mr. Michael Ealey wasn't good enough for my sim (even though I do like me some Michael Ealey, lol)

Married with one child is typically my favourite to play!

Usually married with one child, but right 2 families living in a big house with 3 toddlers. It's been quite a challenge.