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Tcee11
Seasoned Traveler
2 years ago

What's Something You Always Do In Your Sims Games?

What's Something You Always Do In Your Sims Games? I'll start: 1) If they are an occult sim, I cheat their occult powers and skills 2) Always give them Waterproof, Storm Chaser, Heatproof, Ice P...
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ThriorTheSecond
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago

  • I always start a new Sims game with a family of one male sim. Also, the sim I started TS4 with was kinda paying homage to my TS3 one while the TS3 one was paying homage to my TS2 one. If I ever get to TS5 I’m pretty sure the cycle will continue. (Btw I played TS1 too but I can't remember what was my first family, though my most memorable one was again a single male. I guess he's the one who kickstarted this.)
  • Whenever I create new sims, they are always single. I just prefer them to form relationships through actual gameplay. I have never created couples in CAS.
  • I seem to be incapable of having a “traditional happy family”, i.e. a mother and a father with their kids all happily ever after. This has been something that’s been going on since my TS2 days. Some might have had the proper setup but then there always seems to happen something that don’t make them quite “normal”. Like a bunch of occults get mixed in or there’s some drama going on like the family members hating each other or someone having an affair or whatever. That’s not to say I don’t have happy families but for some reason I just seem to gravitate away from “traditional families”. I guess I just get bored with them. Like, I got interested in this townie family with 6 kids ONLY after NS decided to kill off the mother. I was like “this makes for a good story/challenge” and actually started playing them.
  • I seem to always deliberately give my sims flaws so that there’s some “negative” aspect to their character, either via traits or gameplay. I have intentionally sabotaged the character values too because I don’t want every single sim to be responsible and good mannered. Some of the first mods I utilized were ones making things like skill gains more difficult. Grew tired how, if you play with long life span or aging off, basically all sims can become masters of the same things. Like, I need to eat so I'll cook the same simple dishes every day and, voilà, making those sandwiches for the 200th time now means I'm a master chef. Like... bruh! Now I’m even using MCCC to freeze skills which IMO don’t fit. With my vampires I choose weaknesses that fit the character or are otherwise interesting, never meta-gaming it by choosing the "best" (i.e. least intrusive) ones. Spellcasters intentionally don't take some perks, ignore certain magic schools, or deliberately leave curses to be in order to actually differ from each other. Werewolves too ignore some perks depending on the character.

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