Your Sims In 2024

I wasn't expecting to play for a while on account of the 2 new games I bought at the end of last year, but today I am randomly seized with the urge to play with a dark academia kind of theme, so I might create some characters tonight, even if I do nothing else.

And yes, I know, I should change my avatar now.

My only goal is to try and let go of my micromanaging and let my sim do as she pleases.
So far the things she's been doing is:
-Write gossip blog
- Sip on drink
- back to writing gossip blog
- make another drink
- back to laptop and write another gossip blog
- another drink
- pee
- write gossip blog
- sparring with training bot
- write gossip blog
- sleep
- wake up starving

So far, I have visited my other saves, and the families in them.
I tend to make a lot of families, and don't really go back to them, I still play in the save though, but tend to favor one family.
I aged up some children to teens, and gave them a bit of a wardrobe update as well.
With my scenario, I aged one child to a teen, and plan to have her help her mom finish it.

To make my ultimate save file with my lore and stories.


No cc ,and have it amiable to download.

So I had some sort of plan to expand y game this year but I do not think it's possible. I wanted to set up a new install with more packs so my sims have more to do. And after turning off every unwanted feature I should move my two main saves into this install - townies and all. But that would not work as there will be too many townies and getting a 2:nd Windows 10 install just for a game will be quite some work. So I guess I better leave it... for better or for worse. So I carry on and play my limited game.
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My plans and resolutions are centered around my SimLit and how the game fits into it. I want to spend more time with gameplay to help drive my stories rather than using gameplay only to create screenshots to support the stories. I'm using the next month or so to build up a few chapters of both stories so that I can get back to releasing new chapters every week, alternating between the two. I want to use more of the animations that come with the game and not rely so much on using poses for every single screenshot. I still want to use poses, but only for special occasions.

@cody6268 It does feel like tech took a huge leap somewhere in the last few years. More than normal. I've been building my own for years now but considered ordering a pre build just to save the hassle this time. I ended up canceling my order as soon as I put it in. I don't like the routes pre builds take to lower prices (generic parts, limited space) Upgraded my 6 yr old system. New CPU, motherboard, GPU, and grabbed a 2TB NVME SSD. Baldurs Gate 3 on console couldn't handle multiplayer very well.

Continue exploring occults and other gameplay features I don't normally bother with.

However, the competition (and Rene) will be making a bunch of changes to my gameplay and how I view TS4.

Life By You and the various potential competitors prove that my hardware is aging quicker than expected. I will have to upgrade RAM to be able to get Life by You when it enters Early Access in March (all my hardware is the recommended spec, but my RAM is only 12 GB). I will also likely replace the 1 TB hard drive with an SSD while my desktop is apart, and I think upgrading the RAM and storage will give me a little more time.

However, I normally replace PCs every 5 years; this one's four years old. I've noticed the Lenovo IdeaCentre 5i, which was the replacement for the Creator 5i (what I've got), is a massive upgrade, despite upgrading like-for-like. The 12th-gen i5 is much more powerful than the 10th-gen, the 3050 is much better than the 1660 SUPER, and it's got 16GB of RAM. Plus it is a larger case that makes upgrading and future-proofing easier. The only problem is it has a 500GB SSD ONLY. The Creator 5i I've got came with a 200GB SSD and a 1TB hard drive--and I have about 600GB of stuff on it.

However, upgrading my current machine seems to be the best route.

Return to play TS4. I had a 1,5 year break.

Today I played my teen werewolf who has a llama and chickens and it went quite smoothly. He knit some sweaters and sold them on plopsy and grew some aubergines, pumpkins and watermelons with the help of some rabbits. He even befriended a fox who promised not to steal from him. It was quite fun :)

Not sure if this counts, but I plan to do a little CC spring cleaning since the folder is getting a little too big for my liking. I want to get at least one of my 2 saves to Gen 10 (I'm on 7/8 now with one of them so it seems feasible) and get more into the gameplay for Home Chef Hustle and For Rent.