When do you start playing a new sim?

I tend to play multiple households in the same save file.
Which family I play depends on my mood, and how their household is going. For example, if I have a pregnant Sim, I will play the family until the baby is born.
Other times I may bounce around with what my goal is that day. If I want to have a Sim advance in a certain career, get enough money to buy a house, etc.
Otherwise, I may play them, because I just want to.
Also, I feel that having multiple families in a save file makes the world more alive to me.

"BlueOvale;d-996860" wrote:
After playing a sim for a few days or weeks, what makes you say "That's enough of you" ?!?!?

I play rotational. Trouble is I play more, I make more Sims so each cycle gets bigger and some Sims I never get back to.

Whenever I want. Whenever I have a new idea. You know, whenever lol.

For my main sim, I will only stop playing her if she's going to die at the elderly stage. She's still a young adult, and I only age them when I feel like it's the time. She's going to marry soon and have kids.

In the future, after she'll die, I'm going to play one of her kids (planning for her to have at least 10 kids or more).

I do switch to other saves for a while if I get bored. I have 2 other saves, one of which is where I'm having contests for sims like Survivor or Big Brother challenges lol

I'm in the rotational camp too. Often I will create a family, and jumping from sim to sim is quite a fun process. I like to see where they lead me. It's emergent gameplay which is a fancy industry buzzword.

When I have an interesting idea for a new sim or story to play. For me the inspiration for the new sim is just as important as the situation of the last sim I was playing. I mostly finished a certain step with a current sim like an aspiration, a promotion or raising their children to adulthood and then I move on to the next one. The old ones are still in my save in case I want to go back to them.

Heh heh, yeah.

I bounce around all over the place. Sometimes I'll take an NPC and raise them up to the highest career level or take them on a Granite Falls/Selvadorada vacation or I'll take the kids of my prior-generation sims and follow their adult lives. Other times, sims I've played briefly in stories that went nowhere get brought out to feature in some story I'm telling on the forum (I've done two "musical theater" bits, setting a bunch of screenshots to song lyrics, and have plans to do more. The hard part's finding classic songs that have words that fit well with the game's theming.) I've even nicknamed such sims the "Background Players".

My simworld's coming up on its 2-year anniversary (Feb. 20) on this computer. One save and over a thousand hours.

I rotate between a lot of different save files. I also have few saves in which I rotate between households.

I have a bad habit of starting new saves and I've tried not to do it too often. I haven't succeeded yet, but last year I was able to cut it down a lot. I'm trying to do better this year, so far I haven't started any new ones or created any new Sims. :)