What's your play style?

I play mostly single female sims. I usually download their home from the gallery. I do have a couple a families but rarely play them. I'm a rotational player and have every town populated with my sims. I delete all the families that come with the game. Most of my sims are self employed and into gardening and crafting like needlepoint and knitting. I do cheat by giving them money but that and move objects on are the only cheats I use.

For the most part, I'm a family player. I like legacy-style gameplay, and I usually have some sort of short backstory. I usually let the game decide where my sims' lives go.

Young adults for me, and skewed towards males. My sims do have children, but raising those properly isn't important to me. The kids run wild and have fun (admittedly for some "fun" means excelling, but those are rare). I enjoy keeping my sims around for a long time, playing with aging off and re-using the characters in side saves. They are all connected by friendships, mentorships, debts, rivalries and shared experiences going back to as far as 2016 - lots of drama potential. Only relationship/infidelity drama doesn't interest me.

But I also play with a strict backstory and a changing political landscape in mind, that locks many options for some or even for all households. It can get annoying when I look up solutions for problems and all of the internet is "just use x", when using x isn't allowed (or doesn't exist) in my setting.

I have one household per world and I play them in a rotation although they each have their own save. I try to make them so that they make the most of the world they live in, so that they’re all a bit different from each other. So I have some single career-oriented sims, some families with very young kids, some families with teenage kids, some sims who are really all about their pets and animals, some who do farming/gardening, some who are into all the eco lifestyle stuff, and some vampires. I really like this variety - and also having realistic gameplay alongside some fantasy elements. I tend to play premades, so I’ve chosen one household from each world that looks the most interesting or that I think I can use to explore all that their particular world has to offer.

"FreddyFox1234;c-18306893" wrote:
I have one household per world and I play them in a rotation although they each have their own save. I try to make them so that they make the most of the world they live in, so that they’re all a bit different from each other. So I have some single career-oriented sims, some families with very young kids, some families with teenage kids, some sims who are really all about their pets and animals, some who do farming/gardening, some who are into all the eco lifestyle stuff, and some vampires. I really like this variety - and also having realistic gameplay alongside some fantasy elements. I tend to play premades, so I’ve chosen one household from each world that looks the most interesting or that I think I can use to explore all that their particular world has to offer.

I have found that I'm adding some pre-made sims to my poly households. There were three adult couples that I liked, so I aged them down to young adults and added them. And some similar other things. (I always have young adult sims, and I rarely stick with families with kids for very long.)

Mainly I play families with a lot of toddlers and kids. I have the same few families I've played for many years.

I let them age using MCCC but I have it set to something like 90 days as an newborn, 150 as infant, 350 as a tot, 550 as a child and same with teen and then 4000 for young adult and again for adult, so so far none of my sims are elders. I may stop them from becoming them, not sure yet.

I have all deaths turned off and use cheats to keep the families needs full at all times, or else it just feels like a grinding game to me. I don't care about bladder issues and sleep, that's boring to me. I want family time, holidays, making memories etc.

I do use a foster family mod to bring foster kids in when the households are full. Sometimes when older kids age up we'll adopt a foster child.

Nearly all my sims live in Sulani full time but not all.

My fav careers are detective and conservationist and writer, but I also have several sims become archaelogists and spend a lot of time in the jungle and I really enjoy having them own a store.

I turn occults all off except mermaids (but I've never played with them) and the only ones I've actually played with are plant sims which I rather enjoy haha.

When I sometimes take breaks from my main save it'll be to do a rags to riches, 100 baby, or strangerville mystery save... (I do like the challenges but after completing 100 baby once the next time I did it with a couple as the finding different dads for each kid was boring for me, I just wanted to raise the kids and this is how i normally do it now.... )

I am not a huge fan of building or CAS play but since I keep my sims for so long I do make sure that they have the perfect house/ and 5 outfits per category (sometimes switching it up when I feel they want a new wardrobe or depending on the stage of life). I usually download houses from the gallery but then I tweak them to fit the family.

I never play premades except one exception and I fill the world with sims I've created. (The one exception is Erwin from Strangerville, who now lives on Sulani in my save because after completing the strangerville mystery he heard rumours of the existance of mermaids and conspiracy theorist that he is he had to come check it out. He's never found any and he's now happily married to his childhood best friend and has 4 kids but he's still keeping his eyes open while he works as a life guard and one day I may let him discover one haha)

"SimAlexandria;c-18306911" wrote:
I have all deaths turned off and use cheats to keep the families needs full at all times, or else it just feels like a grinding game to me. I don't care about bladder issues and sleep, that's boring to me. I want family time, holidays, making memories etc.

I'm exactly the same with that. 1,000%

From Day 1, I've never taken the game seriously--it's all about creating comedic situations

I play out stories, usually with characters I’ve dreamed up. The story might be about the adventures of a 1960’s surf band, a wealthy singer going incognito as a beach bum, a guy in the witness protection program living with his FBI agents or, for two years now, a world of mystic beings at odds with the humans in their world. I generally have a main character and supporting cast in played households, and then I create a world of additional characters for them to interact with, and utilize premades to fill out the rest of their world. My “stories” result from a combination of game input and my own storytelling. I rarely play families, I never play ancestral lineages, and I only play careers that help tell my story. A save ends when I’ve explored all I want with that set of characters. My current save is the biggest one I’ve done, with a vast world to explore. I don’t expect it to end anytime soon. But, if they give us a band/music pack, I will definitely start a second save to revisit my TS3 surf band.

As far as gameplay choices go, I like to take my time with my characters, so I play with aging off and only age up when it suits a character’s story. I cheat as much money into a household as would be appropriate for that character. They also start the game with basic life skills cheated in. An adult shouldn’t need to be told how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Usually I don’t play premades, but in my current save, I decided to mostly play the supernatural premades and stick close to the lore, because it suited the story, and the game was basically inspired by an idea I had for Morgyn Ember. If I’m not playing a fantasy story, occults aren’t usually featured, at all.

I usually have a personal “style” in mind for my main characters and I try to dress them accordingly, sometimes with the help of CC. I also have a general aesthetic in mind for my game, and spend a lot of time in the gallery looking for the right homes, since I don’t build worth squat. I use mods that give me more control over my story, but try not to go overboard with modding every little aspect of the game.

Rotational, 3 or 4 households in a game save, households are either solo sims or a pair - usually either siblings or good friends. Having families are reserved for times of insanity. All sims are made by me and building is a major piece of the pie. Am an incurable story teller. Forgot, thank you LJK for the reminder, aging is off. I wish my sims long and happy lives.