I'm really curious if it's just me. I'm a 23 year old Black female simmer. And I've been mostly making and playing families of color with focus on black males. For example, I'm currently playing with ThePleasantSims' Pleasantview world/save file. I rotated through the families and added a few of my own created ones to add to the town. However, I'm mostly playing as the Dreamer family with focus on Dirk Dreamer and his life as my "founder" sim. I broke him up with Lilith Pleasant and paired him with a created sim, Leia, who is of the same race as Dirk. I have made sims of different races/cultural backgrounds before, but I tend to default to making families that are similar to my own, be it their race or family structure. And I noticed that I often gravitate to playing as a male sim. What I'm curious about is if other simmers have noticed if they do something similar to this, playing their own race or opposite gender more often. I'm really curious especially after listening to a black simmer say she mostly makes black sims because she is herself black and often females because, well, she's a female. And while I love the sims 2 and 3, I have to give props to the sims 4 for having more Textured hair options, making POC CAS a lot easier. I've been on a kick recently of downloading S4 to S2/S3 conversations and that's when I noticed how hard it is to find good textured hair for the older sims games. These are my thoughts and I want to hear yours.(Please keep the discussion peaceful and reflective ✌🏾)

I'm a white woman and I tend to create white female Sims. Sometimes I make other races but that's what I default to. I rarely make men; usually I only make them if a story I have in mind involves my sim already being married.

@Krueger Since you make females more often, have you noticed that you spend more time making them vs their male counterparts? I know some players complain that the female sims tend to get the majority of new CAS content while male sims get far less or just conversions of female content.

Im black but i play with a lot of races. I think incidentally I play with black sims the least. They are majority female that I make.

Yes theyve also added a lot of black hairstyles because basegame was godawful. Now for basegame its a lot more balanced but could use a few more black hairstyles

"MorinGlory23;c-17583045" wrote:@Krueger Since you make females more often, have you noticed that you spend more time making them vs their male counterparts? I know some players complain that the female sims tend to get the majority of new CAS content while male sims get far less or just conversions of female content.Yeah, I definitely put more time into making the women. With females I take a lot of time in exploring all the clothes, hairstyle, and makeup options, trying to decide what best fits the personality I have for them and what details to add. With men I tend to just pick out some quick clothes that look good and move on. I honestly couldn't tell you whether that's a result of lack of CAS or just how I do it though.

Who do you play as?? (Race and Gender wise)

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dovahkiinishere
6 years ago
I'm a white woman and I tend to create white female Sims. Sometimes I make other races but that's what I default to. I rarely make men; usually I only make them if a story I have in mind involves my sim already being married.
bellagoth23
6 years ago
@Krueger Since you make females more often, have you noticed that you spend more time making them vs their male counterparts? I know some players complain that the female sims tend to get the majority of new CAS content while male sims get far less or just conversions of female content.
Bmm209
6 years ago
Im black but i play with a lot of races. I think incidentally I play with black sims the least. They are majority female that I make.
Bmm209
6 years ago
Yes theyve also added a lot of black hairstyles because basegame was godawful. Now for basegame its a lot more balanced but could use a few more black hairstyles
dovahkiinishere
6 years ago
"MorinGlory23;c-17583045" wrote:
@Krueger Since you make females more often, have you noticed that you spend more time making them vs their male counterparts? I know some players complain that the female sims tend to get the majority of new CAS content while male sims get far less or just conversions of female content.

Yeah, I definitely put more time into making the women. With females I take a lot of time in exploring all the clothes, hairstyle, and makeup options, trying to decide what best fits the personality I have for them and what details to add. With men I tend to just pick out some quick clothes that look good and move on. I honestly couldn't tell you whether that's a result of lack of CAS or just how I do it though.
fruitsbasket100
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17583157" wrote:
Im black but i play with a lot of races. I think incidentally I play with black sims the least. They are majority female that I make.

"StrawberryYogurt;c-17583159" wrote:
Yes theyve also added a lot of black hairstyles because basegame was godawful. Now for basegame its a lot more balanced but could use a few more black hairstyles

Same thing for me. I'm also black(female) and play mostly female sims of different races with black being the race I play the least. I still play ts3 and the hair choices for black sims aren't the best. Slowly getting back in to cc so haven't really looked around for any hair yet but will have to soon. When i'm not playing out a story idea I do tend to gravitate more toward my simself (the one in my picture) if I just want to play normal generational play.
king_of_simcity
6 years ago
I must admit that a lot of my Sims are 'white' with a very large amount with brown hair.

I have played other Sims before though:

https://i.imgur.com/qjp9TSj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/hDpM8iA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/G1hD7AO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/0EetfOB.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/3NI5bGd.jpg
Babykittyjade
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I'm quite the opposite. I am female south asian. More specifically Tamil. And although I make a variety of black,white indian etc my main sims are usually east asian. Korean japanese or from one of those countries.

Another interesting thing is I enjoy male sims more. I probably have 20 males vs 4 females. And I can spend an equally amount of time on both in CAS which is a loooooong time lol. I have tons of male cc so the options are endless.

I have to agree the textured hair is really nice in this game.

This is a very interesting thread though. As I set here and deeply thought about why I don't mainly make sims of my own race. I believe I just never really thought of race the way most people do and I don't feel more comfortable being around my own race or anything. I've always interacted with and got along so well with other races, especially east asians. And I've never felt any distinction between us. Some people are a bit darker, and some a bit lighter. That's it.
So I'm thinking maybe that's why...

And a lot of times when I'm making sims I don't even have a specific race in mind. I go with the flow. Only time I make a specific race is when I feel like I need more diversity in my town. And I base the sims skin color on which color looks better with that specific sim.
king_of_simcity
6 years ago
"@Krueger;c-17583168" wrote:
"MorinGlory23;c-17583045" wrote:
@Krueger Since you make females more often, have you noticed that you spend more time making them vs their male counterparts? I know some players complain that the female sims tend to get the majority of new CAS content while male sims get far less or just conversions of female content.

Yeah, I definitely put more time into making the women. With females I take a lot of time in exploring all the clothes, hairstyle, and makeup options, trying to decide what best fits the personality I have for them and what details to add. With men I tend to just pick out some quick clothes that look good and move on. I honestly couldn't tell you whether that's a result of lack of CAS or just how I do it though.

I spend more time on females as well. I have half a dozen male Simsselves and when picking an eventual girlfriend for them I design them like how I would like them to be. I have more than likely more than 5 times pictures of female Sims that male Sims.

For instance in photobucket there is a stronger focus on the females:

https://i.imgur.com/pZAaYGl.jpg

They get more CAS pics as well:

https://i.imgur.com/PhyRJeI.jpg
Schmoloop
6 years ago
I’m a mixed female but I usually make more white or mixed female Sims. I use cc and the swatches usually look bad on black Sims so it’s easier to make lighter Sims. When I play Sims 3, though, I make more black Sims because the color wheel allows me to get better colors for my Sims.