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How do you keep track of your sims?
jimmysnan
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I also enjoy doing genealogy of my family and I notice that they use a lot of census records to keep track of the population. I did the same sort of thing with my sims so I can keep track of them and who marries who, who got divorced, etc. So I made in my word program a modified census sheet I made a table in word and labeled it with the different towns, and then I made 5 columns and put in Name, Residence, Status, Career, and Family (who lives with them). I then put all the names in and the other information. I am thinking of modifying a Family Group Sheet where I will list traits and aspirations and skills, so that I have a running record of those, I can update them in Word as needed, I can print out what I need also this way. I will keep the information in a spiral notebook and see how much I use it. Otherwise I have a hard time keeping track of who is who, as I play in rotation. Tell me how you keep your game organized. I would love to hear what you do. Here is a link to my census https://1drv.ms/w/s!Agx9suO_Y0CUg3ubLWSy7HfJV8u6
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If I'm playing a rotation style game, I make a sheet that lists the families with the letters of the days of a week at the top and blank squares beneath each day, about four to six weeks in all. I then fill in a square using a highlighter, color of my choosing to indicate a 'round'. I generally try to play each household three Sim days, stopping as closely as possible around midnight. Then I move on to the next household on the list. Once all households have been played, I choose a new color. That way, if I have to stop gaming, in the middle of a 'round, I know just where to pick up the next time. This saved me from being stuck in neutral when I couldn't choose which household to play. Lose lots of gaming time stuck like that.
I like you're idea of keeping track of your Sims (since I'm also a Genealogist) but I'm usually so full up with that stuff when I finally decide it's time to 'relax' and power up my game, I think that were I to 'follow' them that closely, I'd go nuts.
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Yes, I am worried about not keeping up with this system after I play with the game for awhile. It takes time, and I will most likely want to play instead of using the time to record. But I am hoping that I can keep up. The genealogy papers for my real-life family are piling up and I am playing a game instead of recording, this may be what happens here. We shall see. I like the highlighter idea.
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Thanks I will go and check that out. I do like mine as I am used to it through doing genealogy for my real life family. But thanks I will give it a try!
Can you tell me what you do like how do you keep track do you have charts and things for everything?
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That's interesting. I might just leave out the points, all I am interested in is the traits, skills, and aspirations. I would not care if they got all the skills even.
I also have a spreadsheet which I list my sims and their children. I keep track here of how much money each household has, which town they live in, age of the sim and the other milestones of interest to me such as portrait painted, violin/piano skills, A in school etc.
That is another thing I think I will keep track of how much money they have as I do not want my sims to get too wealthy too fast. I have to use the freerealestate cheat to get them bigger houses for the families, as I am re-making all the towns.
I guess I am just 🐸🐸🐸🐸 like that. I have to have everything so I can see it.
The TS2 one has so much info due to things like hobbies, turn ons/offs, talents, businesses etc. It's huge. I am doing a Megahood Rotation with original sims, adding in bin and new sims every so often. I chose the order by putting household name list into a randomiser.
This is just 11/82 and the number is getting higher as teens move to uni (their info gets moved to bottom when they move to uni, or deleted when they die. (I added Talent and Orientation columns later so top ones are empty)
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It's actually not censoring anything, it really is called Plum Tree the link is here http://theplumtreeapp.com/
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I did start a database for one save, but that was mostly for an excuse to learn how to use my new software. And I have a genealogy started on Plumtree, replacing the genealogy tracking I'd used before, but I'm a Very Slow Simmer, so it's tiny.
Yeah, it's an actual plum. Like the fruit.
So it's a pun, because it's a family tree site.
Since I play with ageing off, I do write down all of my Sims' names in order of when they were born (as well as what generation they're a part of), so when I feel that it's time to start ageing them up, I'll know who goes first.
(And just for fun, here's what you can see of my family tree
Really like this! Can I use some of it?
I looked at the plum tree site, I find it confusing. I have to look into it more. I also have to join, I do not like joining too many things, as then I get too much spam e-mails all the time, as the e-mails either get taken from those sites or they get sold. I will check into it more.
I too use a baby book for sims names, and a Building plans book for building houses, if I can get the houses to look like the book I am happy, I also have a garden design book and a decorating book, so I try to make the garden and furniture placements like the books. I purchase these at thrift stores and used book places most are fifty cents to a dollar, so not a bad price. I also have a notebook but that is not just a gaming notebook I use it as a computer notebook and put all my computer problems or new sites in I then transfer the problems to another notebook that I give to my computer guy when I take the computer in to be checked.