Started in TS4 the middle of last year. created several sims (Tobias Lancaster, Ryan Jacklin, Sanders Family, Sandra Matthews, Garza-Schwindt, Harlow and others) then settled on a first lot, that lot built in Newcrest in comfy cubby was a starting point down a path of 2.3k hours ingame time. first sim i had to make use of the house lot; Sandra Matthews (sim in my avatar). She originally started as an adult originally but i pushed her age to teenager after realising she didn't have much time to do anything of note and too late to have children of her own.
I remember first playing it, watching sims wonder past, usually Alex Moyer, Zoe Patel and Summer Holiday wondering around in the base game.
Several of my sims have become successful in their own right but Sandra as a sim is one i enjoy playing.
As far as mistakes are concerned? i didn't have that many at all, the game tutorial didn't teach me much at all, and it was trial and error from there on, more trial than error.
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