What is your game style?

And I also add some wild things in my gameplay as well :D

@Cynna True, I guess. Though watching people, (I guess passive observation), most people do tend to lean on something or sit down when in a long conversation. Even people not in actual physical contact over the internet. Like a call on video-phone while in the park. Unless in a hurry, generally I noticed will look for somewhere to sit down to continue the video conversation.

It's different I suppose if it's not real face-to-face or virtual face-to-face. People (myself included) will tend to walk around, do things, even use the toilet lol, if it's only voice or texting communication.

"Admiral8Q;c-17596817" wrote:
@Cynna True, I guess. Though watching people, (I guess passive observation), most people do tend to lean on something or sit down when in a long conversation. Even people not in actual physical contact over the internet. Like a call on video-phone while in the park. Unless in a hurry, generally I noticed will look for somewhere to sit down to continue the video conversation.

It's different I suppose if it's not real face-to-face or virtual face-to-face. People (myself included) will tend to walk around, do things, even use the toilet lol, if it's only voice or texting communication.

You're correct. In those examples, taking a seat makes sense. However, my Sims were in the aisle of a convention hall between two half walls. The only seats were the stools behind those walls. To me, it's not realistic at all that two Sims would seek seats in the booths in order to shout at each other from across two half walls. The walls themselves should have been a deterrent, IMO. The walls should have told the Sims, 'that's not an appropriate place to sit during the middle of a conversation'. On the other hand, I would not have minded in the least if they had leaned on the walls, that would have been believable. That would have been incredible, actually.

The sitting thing is a relatively recent development in TS4, it didn't exist at launch. I wish that the devs would put it back to how it used to be.

Anyway, I didn't mean to take the thread off-topic. I was only trying to explain why TS4 frustrates me and how that has led to me using poses and storytelling instead of actually playing the game.

I play with autonomy on and usually let my sims make their own choices, the only part I tend to micromanage is filling their basic needs. However, I do delete all the hideous random townies the game generates in dozens if left to its own devices and delete relationships between sims who have no reason to know each other (Happens on rotational play. I rotate back and discover that my loner sim, who hates strangers and never leaves the house is suddenly friends with people she has never interracted with. How "nice". How about let me decide if she wants to make any friends or not?)
Generally, it's many different stories going on at the same time, some of them new and some dating back centuries.

My game is a mixture of serious realistic play and wacky/fun play; love the occult and magic systems, enjoy the quirky aspects of the game.

The Sims has been an escape for me since I was a kid. It's never been that serious.

It really depends on what family I'm playing. I have a legacies challenge where my sims family live in different time periods, so the stoneage up to now. I'm pretty serious with that but still have fun. Sometimes I just create families for the drama and I'm not serious with those

I don’t take this game seriously at all, I kill sims, I torture sims, I neglect sim children and babies at times not to mention teens and adults. I will grind a sim to the point of collapse in a challenge. I don’t mind wacky pear shaped townies dressed in crazy outfits (please let the forbidden sweater be set to random and tagged for hot weather)??. If the toilet catches on fire and burns my sim to death right as I am about to complete a challenge while the fire department does a stripper dance in the front yard so be it!

... even though I don't really like admitting this. :lol:

I try to keep it realistic but when most of my SIMs aren't human it gets into the realms of silliness at times ?
I like to let them live their lives and throw an occasional idea or burning branch their way and see what they do.