Was it always this hard?

"auroraael14;d-924907" wrote:
So today I installed the sims 1 on my laptop and it installed fine but because I have windows 10 it wouldn't load. No biggie, I found a youtube video that helped me and it worked! I had my three daughters help me create our sims family. They're all 10 and younger. Anyhow we buy a house and I remember the cheat rosebud; from my sims 1 days when I was a little older than my oldest daughter. In the first five minutes, our house is in flames because of the genie. It burns everything in the whole room because we forgot a fire detector. Silly me. I hardly use them in the sims 4. Anyhow one of our sims dies. We exit the game without saving and try again, but it just feels like we're trying to keep them happy 24/7. It's so hard for our sims to do anything besides eating, sleeping, and going to the bathroom because their needs drop so fast. Was it always this hard? I don't remember because it's been years since I've played. I like the random phone calls though and the house fires. I like that you never know what's going to happen, and all the sims are really interesting.

Well I have The Sims 1 on my laptop and yes it can be pretty hard, when you compare to TS3 and TS4. TS1 focused very heavily on the sim's needs it can be a struggle especially at first because games nowadays are so easy to handle.

Sims 1 sims are like the pregnant woman on TS2, their needs drop faaaast. You have to come up with strategies to make them happy, use the objects on community lots that can help your sims build fun and other things, make them wash their hands for a while etc.

After a while I got used to it and have been able to manage my sim's household pretty well. Although so far it's just my sim and her pet dog.

Also, keep an eye on your fund income (click on the funds), there's a panel that shows how much your household makes and how much they spend.