When Did You Become Active On The Official Forum?

I played a little Sims 3 in 2011 or 2012 (I think?) but it didn't interest me much, and I never looked at any Sims fan sites or forums at that time. I started playing Sims 4 in mid-2019, and occasionally looked at the Sims site for news or info about updates/patches. I also checked the forums to keep up with the broken mods threads once I started modding my game. But I didn't create a forum account until December 2020. I've been active ever since, though I don't post every day (though sometimes it might seem like I do, lol). I usually do look in at least once a day, though.

June 2019 my profile informs me :lol:
though I think I got more active around 2020
when i changed computer and started new save and posting about it

my oldest posts are really just about vladdy daddy i think
cause i had Vladdy daddy save back then
which then broke in some patch so i started the new one

and well i also wanted new save
cause i didn't want to keep looking at my sims i had made with bad graphics
and hence shrunk down quite a bit to see any detail in them
they look freaky to me now :lol:

My profile says June 2020 and I didn't believe it at first because it felt like much longer. I played the games basically my whole life, but rarely ever engaged in any sort of online chat; so I knew it couldn't have been that long. Still 2 years seemed pretty short. Therefore, I actually scrolled back all the way to my first comment on the forums and it jogged my memory.

2020 definitely was when I became properly active on the forums, but I browsed for news and updates prior which is why it felt like I had been here longer. It takes a lot for me to make an account for anything and this forum was no different.

I remembered the reason I finally did was because something was broken with the game and I couldn't find any information on it. My history informed me it was because the gallery went down then. I hardly ever even enable the gallery/online connection for the game. It was quite the coincidence that the one day I did it was down, and I might not be have an account today if it had not happened.

I signed up in October 2015 according to my profile page. I didn't start getting really involved and posting until February of this year. I didn't lose the new member tag until then. I wouldn't call myself a lurker during that time I wasn't posting, I checked now and then. I did make a couple of posts during those years, but only like three or four maybe. And I might go months without checking in. Then I came in here one day made a few posts, met a new friend, and I've hung around since.

Looking at my post count I certainly made up for lost time. This week really padded the post count. Being on vacation and trapped indoors because the weather picked this week to rain, and I mean biblical amounts of rain, and turn cold by May standards. Looking through the comments I must have posted something like 500 times this week alone.? Some might say get a life. I say to them I'm having loads of fun with this one thank you.

Officially, on official forums back in 2005.

I joined in 2013 with Sims 3. I didn’t really participate much due to work time and a sporadic play schedule, but looked in to get news on bug fixes, updates, and to monitor TS4s progress. When I retired and had more time for the game and forum activity, I became more of an active participant. That’s been about a year and a half. Even now, when I work to cover other therapists, my game time and forum activity will drop.

I used to help moderate a large Sims FreePlay tips and tricks Facebook group. I quit participating there when I quit playing FreePlay.

In 2018. That was a very good year, because that's when the Canadian "Red Tape" was finally lifted & I was able to get the Gameplay & Stuff Packs. All I & my daughter was able to look forward to up until then was only the next Expansion pack & this was way back to even before Island Living.
So, when I was able to finally start getting other types of packs, I based them by theme & what I wanted 1st. It was so wonderful. ;)

> @simgirl1010 said:
> I joined the forum in 2009 but didn't start to post regularly until 2014, when TS4 released.
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> For The Sims, TS2, and TS3 I spent most of my time at Neighborhood 99, a Sims fan site, where I was a moderator. Some of the other sites I frequented were The Sims Daily, Sims Crossing, MATY and Black Pearl Sims.
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> Edited to add: Also were you a regular at any other fan sites back in the day?


I've been playing sims for almost 8 years. It definitely different now but I love it. I've always read the forums for info and such but just actually joined today! Still figuring out navigation on here but it's cool. BTW An issue I'm having today- Can anyone tell me why I can't place fences Inside of others? My lot has an enclosed fence. Trying to put a fenced garden in a section and it's not allowing me? This has never happened to me before? Is there an update idk about?

Thanks!

I think I joined in 2015? I'm lazy to check my profile lol but I know it was around the time I heard ts4 was out or going to come out.
I had a crappy laptop from my uncle and couldn't really play ts3 from all the glitches bugs and crashes so I had stopped playing it all together when I spent hours building a house from scratch by the beach, then went running with my dog towards the ocean for the first time in awe. I was so desperate and excited to reach the water and it crashed right before I got there?
I don't know why that memory haunts me ???

So I was excited after I learned about ts4 and decided even before I brought it that it was going to be my dream game. But I never used the forums in any way. Totally forgot about it. Not sure when I started reading stuff and posting but I know it was sometime after strangerville. And I became active because I didn't know anything about any packs coming out or info about the packs I had so it was all a guessing game lol

I know a lot of people are disappointed with ts4 compared to older versions and I do think some aspects are missing but ts4 has never really disappointed me.
Never gave me major bugs or crashes that wasn't cc induced and continues to perform well and make me happy. It did after all, turn out to be my dream game.?

From the Sims BBS? I think thats what it was called back then. Was that 2000? Then every forum since. No memory problems here. Ha ha
I remember Neighbourhood 99! Not sure if i was a member though.

Hmmm Maty , I can't remember the first Pescado forum but was there. MTS, Sims Resource and the list goes on. How I ever found time to go to work is a mystery.