"Stormkeep;c-16851778" wrote:
@Evie0602, That is such an original gameplay style. Are you allowed to cancel whims you don't like, or do you HAVE to work from the ones available at any given time? Just curious how you structure it.
I only cancel whims if I can't complete them, or sometimes if I get annoyed at a whim that keeps repeating I will just not pin it and wait for it to disappear. It's kind of cheating, but I made the rules :p
@treece01
I choose a lot that's near public grills so my sim will have food that random townies cook. I start with a completely empty house and wait for my sim to get whims to buy basic things. The second time I did it, I was in Magnolia Promenade so my sim was near public toilets, and grills, and park benches for sleeping. It took her a long time to get a whim to buy a toilet, so that was really helpful. It also can take a while to get whims to buy a shower and a bed, so my sim has to sleep on a bench and she's really stinky. It's never gotten to the point where my sim might starve to death, but if it did I would "cheat" and let her cook something herself instead of waiting for another sim to cook. Otherwise I try not to let my sim gain skills without whims either, so she can't cook unless she has a whim to cook a meal. With Seasons, she wanted a bee box, and she constantly wants to collect honey from it, so she mainly eats that. Also once your sim owns a fridge, they can get quick meals from it and not gain cooking skill.
The first time I did it, my sim's aspiration was the romance one so she always wanted to flirt and ask someone on a date. I chose who she would ask out since the whim wasn't specific to one sim, so that's how she eventually got a boyfriend and then got married. The second time, my sim had a different aspiration and never wanted to flirt with anyone. She had a wishing well in her backyard and she constantly rolled whims to make a wish. I made her wish for romance and she got her soulmate that way.
A helpful tip is to make one of your sim's traits materialistic, or make their aspiration Manson Baron so they will get whims to buy something that costs a certain amount of money so you can choose what to buy instead of waiting for them to get a whim to buy the item. Also if they get a whim that needs a certain object to complete like research vampire lore and they don't own a computer yet, I will usually buy the item that they need to complete it. I hope all of this actually makes sense. :)
