When do you start playing a new sim?

I would like to make stories too, but it's not that easy with the options we're given. Or I lack the imagination. That's why I enjoyed Strangerville so much. I think they should release more content like that, even if they're really small chain quests like a proper mmo would do. So far stories in my game are all about becoming a respectful member of society. It gets boring. I remember I had the opportunity to steal a contestant's pie at the fair, that would have steered the story somewhere interesting, especially if I had been caught. But I don't want anything bad to happen to my sims! They don't die, they don't get demoted, they help their roommates with their needs, they stay young, they become successful, the end. Then I create a new sim.