What play speed do you use most often?

I turn on ultra speed when my sims are doing boring tasks (showering, cooking, that kind of stuff) and walking, and use normal speed when my sims are socializing, going on dates, partying, dining out etc.

I usually play on fast, pausing whenever I have to direct my Sims (autonomy off). I only use ultra for long-term tasks, like painting or reading.

I agree, however, that I miss some of the little stuff playing on fast speed, but I get too impatient, and Sims are so slow sometimes.

i only use normal speed and pause alot

The normal speed, I'd imagine. I do fast forward through the boring stuff but it'd be extreme to say I spend most of my time fast forwarding.

I do 1 speed/ normal 99% of the time.
I use 2 or 3 with a single sim or if just one sim is home.
I do 3 speed at nights but started doing 1 sometimes.
I also pause most of the time to que up interactions or in the mornings and nights to get sims ready for the day/night.

I mostly play on normal speed. I think I would find it quite boring otherwise? I'm very attached to my sims and I love watching them go about their lives. Wow, that doesn't sound creepy at all does it? :D I pause a lot too for screenshots or queuing up actions and sometimes speed things up if there's not much happening, such as when my sims are sleeping or at work for example.

you can't really actually play if it's anything but normal mostly.
Sometimes when my sims is walking to something far away, I'll speed it up a little so I don't have to wait too long or I fast forward when all the family is alseep. But when I'm actually playing I play at normal. I pause too a lot, mostly to take pics, but normal speed is the default.

"annaliese39;c-17018382" wrote:
I mostly play on normal speed. I think I would find it quite boring otherwise? I'm very attached to my sims and I love watching them go about their lives. Wow, that doesn't sound creepy at all does it? :D I pause a lot too for screenshots or queuing up actions and sometimes speed things up if there's not much happening, such as when my sims are sleeping or at work for example.

Well I do get bored of households quite quickly, sometimes before anyone has even aged up, but hearing on here about how many people have ageing off or spending a lot of time with one family I wonder if I've been playing too fast this whole time.

Normal speed for me. I enjoy watching their reactions and all of the things they do. Once in a blue moon I'll turn it to faster.. second speed... like if I'm having them write a book and that's all that's going on for hours. The only time I do the fastest is when they are asleep or at work.
I also use pause often even when playing on normal speed.
The bigger the household the more the pauses.
You miss the finer points of their reactions and gameplay if you play on fast.

"LindsaySeddon1;c-17018439" wrote:

"annaliese39;c-17018382" wrote:
I mostly play on normal speed. I think I would find it quite boring otherwise? I'm very attached to my sims and I love watching them go about their lives. Wow, that doesn't sound creepy at all does it? :D I pause a lot too for screenshots or queuing up actions and sometimes speed things up if there's not much happening, such as when my sims are sleeping or at work for example.

Well I do get bored of households quite quickly, sometimes before anyone has even aged up, but hearing on here about how many people have ageing off or spending a lot of time with one family I wonder if I've been playing too fast this whole time.

Well, there's no wrong way to play as we're all different, but yeah, you might want to give it a go and see what you think. :) I feel if you speed through your sims lives, then there's no challenge or surprises or opportunity to grow attached or tell their story. I also play with ageing off and have been playing one household since I started playing TS4. I do have other households in other saves, but always come back to my main one.