I had recently opened my first save which I had not touched since March 2016 & had a good laugh & cringe at how I had made my sims back then. The sims I make now in comparison to then, the changes surprised me so much, the leap in between is actually huge.
Back then I mainly made tan, dirty blonde sims. Something along the lines of Miami beach babes. My ideal sims now are more diverse & ethereal especially since I have grown so fond of Alien hybrids & fallen in love with my Vampires. I rarely played with occult sims in past iterations. I would create them but never played them but now I rarely play with normal sims
I also noticed that I use big bambi eyes with deep eyelids a lot & I always use the same type of pointy ears. In the past I always had small ears & thought big eyes were gross. I'm starting to make sims with dreads which I used to find so unappealing in the past. I seem to be making my sims more darker as time goes on & I'm playing with tattoos & body piercings more. I cannot wait for more occult states as I want even more diverse hybrids.
What are your cas preferences & has it changed much from past iterations?
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I want them to be like grains of sand in my game of simulated life.
Fast forward to now, I'm using dreads, bright clothes, different skins and lots of tattoos. They all still have big eyes but not as big as they were.
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Oh! Here is one of my hybrids. I'm trying out for one with more melanin atm. (Apologies I know I have posted this in multiple threads but I'm just so fond of him) I recently read a post which explains how to get a vampire/alien hybrid but it looked risky & requires a mod to do so
It's pretty much whatever you deem it to be
Pasty pale, loads of eyeliner, lots of black clothing, black hair, blue, green or purple eyes.
Nothing has changed. My sims are almost always goth/punk looking, and/or are vampires.
Use these cheats "traits.equip_trait trait_OccultVampire" and "traits.equip_trait trait_OccultAlien", without quotation marks.
And for CAS Sims, I don't have many of them, because I the Premades too much. Since I'm a bit of a geek\weeb\Pokéfan (Cycl0n3 Sw0rd and Harry Marks are two of my spirit animals...) I tend to have colorful hair\eyes and Japanesized names and stuff like that. If I did'nt already worship Anvilshipping, I'd worship the Helix Fossil.
I edit my townies as well which has led to me liking them a lot more. One of my street entertainers is Central Asian and I used a Tajik name generator to pick her name. (Yes, there is a site for picking out fictional Tajik names). I'm enjoying having more variety in the game. I also have a variety of body types and personalities. It is also fun coming up with varied back stories for all of them.
I remember that most of my old families were English and had very Anglo-Saxon names like James and Lucy Sandsley. Now, I have a mix of people from different backgrounds including some Europeans and a lot of others.
All my other females do fit VERY different themes and outfit styles though most I play that aren't premades I encounter are: Shang-Sim La (Sim China) Japanese or quite late Victorian Britain in terms of general face and skin. Outfits are wild cards such as the fact I use Touhou characters mostly now.
Males are odd one to discuss, probably because I rarely make them and instead insist on recycling. That and for naming. Culture tend to be British or American. They often fit different outfits, some casual, one mulleted and almost always shirtless... And dare I forget the one who runs around always dressed in bright green camouflage because of how it was an on running joke. In terms of their face they often get tough looking faces than they used too. Some gaining beards...
2009-2017
And here is the great grand 2010-2017 that appears in 9/10 households
Trait wise, where can I start? Most versions of me used to be very cruel on myself, one point having loser and coward. Overtime (2014 onward) I felt like I've been too harsh and toned it down so the worst it can get is unlucky or neurotic. Now a days it feels like its' more of a representation of when I built confidence and hardened myself.
Other sims trait wise are brave, genius or computer whiz for ones who I play in my household, one random negative unless based off another character in which they have fitting traits to their counterpart.
However, my Sims are usually occult, totally over powered hybrids with pale skin and brightly coloured hair, and a really insane storyline that sounds like it came straight out of a bad fanfiction. I wouldn't say that they were emo or scene (though I've definitely done that by accident before) but they definitely usually er on the side of being darker i.e. into metal music and wearing darker hues of clothing. They usually have really cheerful personalities though, and are generally skilled in whatever I feel like at the time.
If I'm not making a dark occult sim, they're usually a hipster-artist! xD My 120 year old vampire sim has even turned hipster-artist recently and opened her own Art shop! xD
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This is the male Sim I spent the most time designing. I have a shakier grasp on what features would be considered attractive on men, but I think he looks alright.
I do try to make diverse Sims, but invariably they all end up having some East Asian features (my race might have something to do with it, crazy yes). Generally I go for realism, although I like to make the eyes relatively larger than normal since I think Sims look more expressive that way.
When I first started playing, I would change the skin color, hair color, and clothing. I didn't know I could alter their faces, so they looked like whatever random Sim appeared in CAS. Then I saw the numbered tabs, and I began creating Sims that all had one thing in common - their looks. Big eyes, thick lashes, curvy lips. But all these Sims had ugly babies. In 2015 or so, I began to wonder if it was because I would change the earliest Sims' faces, raising them to create a smaller forehead. When I stopped altering the faces, they had normal-looking kids. So now, all you can find me doing is thinning their brows, decreasing the width of their mouths, and changing their hair, eyes and clothes. But I don't stick to a certain look anymore; I make all kinds. White, tan, black, fit, fat, red hair, black hair, blond - it doesn't matter. All I care about now is making a huge family tree, with both Sims...and pets. (But I do have a thing for red hair.)