What makes gameplay enjoyable to you?

For me it is making up a story line in my head and then playing it out. I usually have level of career, hobbies, style and personality chosen when I first start playing. Then once they meet someone who fits the criteria I come up with how I want the family to be. I usually use Pinstar's Sims 4 legacy trait roller to come up with the traits on the kids....

Sometimes I follow through with all the kids, sometimes I put all kids to a vote on this site to see who I should continue playing with.

• I have one game save where my sim has completed all her skills, and aspiration task. I play her when I'm just don't want to bother with all that stuff, and when I'm checking out a new pack. Or when I feel like I just want to play a super power sim.
  
• There are other times when I just feel like setting up the world (which I'm at the moment doing).
  
• Creating homes or community lots.
  
• Playing a "good" girl.
  
• Playing a "bad" girl

And the list can go on and on.

I guess it all depends on the mood I'm in. :)

I’m a writer in general and have always had an active imagination, so I enjoy playing out stories or making up stories as I go along. That’s what initially drew me to the game- it reminded me of when I would play with legos and barbies as a kid.

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As for the sims I love my screenshots and little stories so I like to share them or just play by myself, sometimes I don't have anything in mind and just like to watch a family grow, then there is building and creating random sims. Whatever I'm in the mood for I guess.

I love rotating around a few different families, when there kids move out, I add them to the rotation. I ve lots of little stories going on, I just love playing this way.

> @brackencat31 said:
> I love rotating around a few different families, when there kids move out, I add them to the rotation. I ve lots of little stories going on, I just love playing this way.

I'm similar! I don't have many families with kids, but when they do and they age up, I build and build on further new stories etc.

So many things. I especially like to create backstories for characters I've made or add to them if I'm using some other fictional source of inspiration. I like to set up their living space to reflect the sims I'm playing. Then I like to manipulate the game to achieve what I have decided they will do with their life, choosing their skills and aspirations and relationships and somewhere along the way they come to life for me. The tools in this game are great also for the most part in doing all that.
With certain options that are available like the gender patch and clubs and group systems and the variety we have so far I can make pretty intricate stories. I'm always looking forward to new content though to expand with since I really don't like to use CC.
I don't always play with mods but they can open it up to other situations that I am pretty positive the game won't go in especially due to rating. They seem to have made it easy in my opinion for these mods to be made and often they work very well depending on I suppose the talent of the modder. I don't want the game to end but on some level I can't wait until it's finished so the mods can be polished more.
Sometimes though I just play without thinking about it too much and that can be enjoyable and refreshing too... just a nice way to spend some time.

Generational play. It's been my only play style ever.

In the original The Sims my sims always ended up married and with children. When I had played the family with kids for a while, I would delete them and make a new version with the kids now as adults and the parents looking older - and repeat. The Sims 2 was my perfect dream, of course that was the game I had actually wanted to play the whole time! Sims growing, aging, dying - new generations!

With TS4 I started with a YA couple, and now I'm playing generation 14 of their legacy. I don't have a good answer to why I enjoy this type of game play so much, I'm not incredibly family oriented in real life. I guess it gives me variation and continuity at the same time, I get attached enough to my sims to keep up interest in them but never bored because there are always new characters that I get to do something different with. The new generation will make small changes to the family house to fit their needs, or they'll move - and take all the family photos with them. Each generation will have different jobs, slightly different lifestyles, different drama. Not as a challenge, just - anything that I feel like exploring.

I play rotational, sort of generational and I have a very long life span to be able to properly develop storylines for my sims.

I currently rotate between 3 sisters, ages 26, 23 and 19. The oldest wanted to start a family quite young, so she’s married and she and her husband adopted their foster son (I used the normal adoption, but I pretend it took a while for them to legally be parents) and have another baby on the way. The two youngest live in San Myshuno. Middle sister is focusing on her career and just met her future husband and youngest is in college and shares an apartment with two roommates. I intentionally let them be in very different stages in life to make my gameplay more varied, the youngest is going to be single and carefree until she’s 30-ish and by then the oldest’s kids will be teens. That way, I have three stories that I’m excited about, but I don’t get tired of any of them since I rotate.

For me, it depends on how I feel. When I am more inspired, I will build houses or create sims. When I am not very inspired, I will play out my sims. I am currently trying to get a few people out of those starter homes and into nicer houses. The Alto apartments and Landgraab apartments are pretty expensive.