What is your favorite thing to do in the game? and what packs help that?

It sounds like my play style is " similar" to all of yours. Haha. I guess I just love doing it all, and maybe I would benefit from getting all packs eventually. I just thought it was an interesting question to ask rather than asking what is your favorite packs. It's great insight and helps me to decide which ones I should get next, plus I love hearing the stories. I do love story telling but I get side tracked fast in this game. :)

I think I would enjoy Get Famous, but I'm always worried the famous people will take over my game like in sims 3.

I love off the grid, living off the land type of gameplay. Foraging, fishing, mining for collectibles. I really enjoy having the whole day with my Sim just trying to get by, as opposed to having them have jobs where they are gone half the day.

One of my favorite saves focuses on two Sims who live on the Crumbling Isle in Windenburg and they fish everyday for their food and they go out to harvest the surrounding land and dig for stuff. They do wellness activities and woodworking and sometimes they go to the pool at the ruined areas and they do laundry by hand, and that’s basically it. They do not even have a house; they sleep in a tent. I am trying to build up the island as little villages for them as the population grows. One day it will be a full civilization if only they could master the technology of agriculture.?I’ve made up a bunch of rules for it like I can’t build a full structure unless a certain number of Sims have a certain Handiness skill, or they can’t establish a farm until a certain number of Sims have a certain Gardening skill, etc. It’s a very slow paced gameplay but it’s one I enjoy. Although one time, one of the Sims was bitten from the Creepy Crawlies lot trait and she was poisoned and I’ve never had that happen before so I thought she was going to die. So, I had to find them a bunch of money to travel to Selvadorada so they could find the antidote deep in the ruins. It was a race against time and it was so fun.

In another save, I’m sort of playing rags to riches as my Sim is trying to build a grape farm. She has a lot more freedom to travel to other lots than my other save, so she mostly spends her day going to the park to fish, going to the gym to workout and shower, searching around for stuff.

Some of the packs that I’ve bought have been to help support this kind of gameplay. I bought ROM, OR and JA for the fact that they are more natural world settings and they help add to my OTG aesthetic. The build/buy from OR and JA help too. And the fish, harvestables, and recipes add more variety. I could not play this kind of style without Seasons definitely. The world of Windenburg is a nice world to have for this as well, so Get Together is nice to have. Laundry Day and Spa Day which provide more for my Sims to do OTG. Oddly enough Eco Lifestyle which I would think would add to my game, is one I’ve purposefully avoided buying.

I play rotational and everyone is involved in a soap opera. Romance triangles, murders, etc. I use Get Together for the club system.

Get Famous has a toggle for fame, in game settings. I have this turned off, and plan to later on let individual sims get famous by 'stepping out into the light', in their personal menu. The premades from the pack I will remove from the world by gameplay.

I mostly build and plan my worlds, and use all packs I have, which is almost all of the ones available. I like them all, for the worlds and items in build/buy mode and all the small interactions added; and some of them for their added features useful in a large way across the save, for example Get Together with its club feature, Eco Lifestyles for NAP's and Footprint, Parenthood for generational play. I like City Living very much for the apartments in the accompanied world.

"Lilacsky22;c-17857068" wrote:
It sounds like my play style is " similar" to all of yours. Haha. I guess I just love doing it all, and maybe I would benefit from getting all packs eventually. I just thought it was an interesting question to ask rather than asking what is your favorite packs. It's great insight and helps me to decide which ones I should get next, plus I love hearing the stories. I do love story telling but I get side tracked fast in this game. :)

I think I would enjoy Get Famous, but I'm always worried the famous people will take over my game like in sims 3.

I enjoy Get Famous. I deleted Baby Ariel right away because I don't want real people in my game. I am only annoyed by Brytani Cho. I would delete her, but my scoundrel is trying to get her attention. If you use mods, there are some that stop celebrities from showing up on certain lots. They do love the festivals though. I am not sure what would happen if you delete them all. Someone else may know.

I let my style influencer get a little bit famous, it adds a bit of flavor since she does spend a lot of time on social media. The fame system can be toggled off when you don't want to use it. There are several CAS options that I use regularly. And I think the buy/build objects are fantastic. In my opinion, it is absolutely worth getting when it's on sale.

"NationalPokedex;c-17857082" wrote:
I love off the grid, living off the land type of gameplay. Foraging, fishing, mining for collectibles. I really enjoy having the whole day with my Sim just trying to get by, as opposed to having them have jobs where they are gone half the day.

One of my favorite saves focuses on two Sims who live on the Crumbling Isle in Windenburg and they fish everyday for their food and they go out to harvest the surrounding land and dig for stuff. They do wellness activities and woodworking and sometimes they go to the pool at the ruined areas and they do laundry by hand, and that’s basically it. They do not even have a house; they sleep in a tent. I am trying to build up the island as little villages for them as the population grows. One day it will be a full civilization if only they could master the technology of agriculture.?I’ve made up a bunch of rules for it like I can’t build a full structure unless a certain number of Sims have a certain Handiness skill, or they can’t establish a farm until a certain number of Sims have a certain Gardening skill, etc. It’s a very slow paced gameplay but it’s one I enjoy. Although one time, one of the Sims was bitten from the Creepy Crawlies lot trait and she was poisoned and I’ve never had that happen before so I thought she was going to die. So, I had to find them a bunch of money to travel to Selvadorada so they could find the antidote deep in the ruins. It was a race against time and it was so fun.

In another save, I’m sort of playing rags to riches as my Sim is trying to build a grape farm. She has a lot more freedom to travel to other lots than my other save, so she mostly spends her day going to the park to fish, going to the gym to workout and shower, searching around for stuff.

Some of the packs that I’ve bought have been to help support this kind of gameplay. I bought ROM, OR and JA for the fact that they are more natural world settings and they help add to my OTG aesthetic. The build/buy from OR and JA help too. And the fish, harvestables, and recipes add more variety. I could not play this kind of style without Seasons definitely. The world of Windenburg is a nice world to have for this as well, so Get Together is nice to have. Laundry Day and Spa Day which provide more for my Sims to do OTG. Oddly enough Eco Lifestyle which I would think would add to my game, is one I’ve purposefully avoided buying.

Yes I love this as well!!! I created my boyfriend in real life as a living off grid person and it was a challenge for sure, I had him in Oasis springs first but, omg it was hard to keep up with the water supply so I moved him to the island , the volcano lot and he can now take showers in the waterfalls, and fish all kinds of things. I love your input on a very unique style of playing the game, thank you. Also love the stories, keep them coming guys! I have yet to buy eco lifestyle too and I think it would make it a bit interesting for living off grid but also a bit easier, I love the challenge of living off grid. very cool.

Also the grape farm idea sounds really cool, I never thought of creating a farm of some type, that would be cool to try.I have yet to buy laundry day and I have spa day but yes I get how those packs would be helpful in OTG gameplay, something to think about for sure. Thanks again for the insight.

"Monet11;c-17857656" wrote:

"Lilacsky22;c-17857068" wrote:
It sounds like my play style is " similar" to all of yours. Haha. I guess I just love doing it all, and maybe I would benefit from getting all packs eventually. I just thought it was an interesting question to ask rather than asking what is your favorite packs. It's great insight and helps me to decide which ones I should get next, plus I love hearing the stories. I do love story telling but I get side tracked fast in this game. :)

I think I would enjoy Get Famous, but I'm always worried the famous people will take over my game like in sims 3.

I enjoy Get Famous. I deleted Baby Ariel right away because I don't want real people in my game. I am only annoyed by Brytani Cho. I would delete her, but my scoundrel is trying to get her attention. If you use mods, there are some that stop celebrities from showing up on certain lots. They do love the festivals though. I am not sure what would happen if you delete them all. Someone else may know.

I let my style influencer get a little bit famous, it adds a bit of flavor since she does spend a lot of time on social media. The fame system can be toggled off when you don't want to use it. There are several CAS options that I use regularly. And I think the buy/build objects are fantastic. In my opinion, it is absolutely worth getting when it's on sale.

Do you mean toggled off like the weather system , like having thunderstorms etc? Well that would be cool then because if the fame gets out of control, that would make it worth while I think. I hate how in sims 3, they just take over your game also the vampires too, but I also love it because random people are becoming vampires. hahaha! I think I seen you can have a coy pond *spelling* with get famous? That is really cool, and I love the idea of actor career and maybe even building your own sets???? I just would like more details if you guys can tell me the little details that makes the packs stand out.

With Get together, I feel it is the best pack ever because you can control a group of sims and make them do things, it is A MASSIVE GAME CHANGER, imo. I think it is number one with packs, it is so cool and I am so happy I bought the pack sooner than later. I mean you can make clubs that go out and do things and that creates chaos in the game. for example. I made a vampire club that go's to any bar and they just want to blood suck, hahahaha!!!! I feel like people are not experiencing the depth in this game because they don't have the right packs and are not really playing the game to it's full potential...is it is just me??? I am starting to see that this game has everything we need to create our own worlds, and It's just all there but what are the major things that comes with a pack that helps change the game...?

Thank you all for your insight, It is really cool to learn about things in the game that I may be missing.

for me it changes from time to time. at first my favorite thing was gardening (I guess using features from seasons) and I used to play legacy style. and I liked making my legacy family do impressive things, like maxing careers and reach particular milestones. but that bored me quite quickly...

then, I got more into gameplay centered around a storyline that I made up as I went, more or less. I believe I managed time poorly, my sims barely aged and I kept getting bored of the same group of sims. I still play that save but I do get bored of it sometimes.

however, my new favorite thing to do is playing entire nbhs. by that I mean playing all the 4-5 households in one particular nbh (while the rest of the save is managed by mccc - rather chaotically but I don't mind that). I play 1 week per family and with aging on for everybody (long life span) - this for me has been a game changer, since managing aging has been a problem for me before. I feared my sims aging and dying, but in turn it caused me to get bored of them at some point.

Having all those households interact with each other, forming a variety of groups (get together), focusing more on experiences with those families (with the holidays in seasons and vacations to different destinations and going to restaurants) and less on reaching some arbitrary milestones in terms of their performance or money, having sims have casual hobbies (from any pack, really). Something I also enjoyed was taking things slow and not rushing relationships of any kind, promotions or skill improvement... I also play with the mod wonderful whims, which has an attraction system, which can create some potential mess, because sometimes sims are more attracted to some nbr than to their spouse, so that's a fun thing to keep in mind.

I plan on playing this way throughout another generation or two, keeping my favourite sims from those families and moving them to a different nbh once I get bored of this particular one, fill the rest of the homes with some new sims and starting this process again in that new nbh. I have to say I still have a lot of exploring to do, as I haven't tried out some features of some packs, like the actor career, or off the grid life in sulani. I'm also excited to recreate this gameplay style in some nbh of san myshuno and mt. komorebi.

something I guess is important too is having very different households, I wouldn't enjoy this play style with 4-5 functional, conventional families, I enjoy some variety. as an illustration, right now I'm playing a single dad with his toddler, the bff household, a single lady in a haunted house and a lesbian couple who adopted a toddler who all live in Foundry Cove, Willow Creek. the 5th lot there is a community park filled with activities for toddlers and children, stands with food and the voting thing from Eco Lifestyle.

one last thing. I used to not like toddlers and kids, but I found it's more enjoyable for me to not really control them directly, rather have the parents or siblings take care of all their needs (which is how it happens irl). the parenthood pack is amazing for this, imo. you can encourage kids to do things, punish or encourage different behaviours with a variety of reactions depending on the kid.

My favorite thing lately has been Rags to Riches challenges, and Eco Living has been an absolute godsend for those. Doing a Dumpster R2R is so much fun, and the Community Spaces are great ways to help out your Sims who can't afford to buy crafting items yet. Nifty Knitting and Paranormal also help out a lot too - not only with the knitting and the treats the spectres leave, but also with Plopsy.

I don't build very much, so most of what I do has to do with gameplay. I usually tend to use the singing skill a lot because I find the bad singing to be hilarious, so City Living is definitely a favorite of mine. Of course, I also love the good singing, but it's just really funny when they sing terribly. I also love the dancing skill from Get Together since you can have a group of Sims all doing a dance at the same time. I find it fun to make a club dedicated to dancing and then having them all dance. I did just get the Vampires pack, so maybe I'll find something fun from that pack too!

Other than that, I mostly use romance interactions with Sims because I like to play as a matchmaker in my games. I like to pair as many Sims together as possible because I just find the romance to be so cute! That's why I really want more romance interactions in the game.