Or where you will get to use Growing Together.
I had a game scenario where Growing Together would have come in handy.
Michelle Brooks (AKA, Angry Girl) was finally having her back story played out.
Her mom moved in her boyfriend with them.
He didn't have a "job". He mainly worked odd jobs so his schedule was flexible.
Michelle did not like him at all, and she really hated his mischief pranks.
I certainly would have set their relationship to difficult.
It would have helped a lot and I might not have had to
make things difficult as much as I had to.
He would hire a nanny for Michelle while her mother was at work and then go hang out at the local bar.
I would have set the mom's and the boyfriends relationship to Jokesters, because he was making life fun for her.
Which only infuriated Michelle even more because she hated his pranks.
She was also disgusted that her mother was totally blind to his nature.
He was too slick for her to have prove it, but she knew in her core that he was no good. Living with this made her become
Angry Girl.
Growing Together would have made this much easier and I wouldn't have had to force the drama as much.
Out of all my sims, these were the ones with the drama, so I may have missed the drama boat for using Growing Together. I will have to look over my remaining sims and make new plans.
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Boyfriends are not relatives though. Family Dynamics only work between relatives. The mom should marry the boyfriend.
Just for the record, I'm NOT starting all over for this one. At least that wasn't the intent, anyway. I took aging off and continued to play while the existing children remained their same age, to keep the distance between children the same as I wanted. I had no choice, once again but to start over. Lost my previous save in a silly, move I did to myself. I had no save! (Lord, save me from me.) In this new save, I also got to the finish line (IE the point where the couple only needed to wed) still near the top of February, making some other errors in doing so. To fill the time from there to the patch date, I restarted and am taking a much slower pace, as a result, sans the errors, thus far. However, with the probability mods will be busted with the upcoming Patch, Erik won't have a career, should I start all over again at that time.
But, yeah, sometimes restarting a family has its benefits. But, do be careful, it's also a HUGE trap.
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She did.
The scenario is much longer than what is shown.
Been there, done that.
I have 24 sims in this world to rotate among, not to mention all their friends they will meet in Uni.
New drama opps should pop up from them. Maybe Michelle will have drama with her daughter trying to raise her not to be as blind to manipulation as her mother had been.
I have restarted sims before and playing was better the second time.
But I have delayed my sims so many times I have been playing the same sims since the first EP.
I want to move on to the next generation.
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I would consider starting over instead of basically retconning my rotation, but for whatever reason, I have never been able to make a new rotation stick. I set them up and plan them out and then I get bored after the first sim-week or so and forget about them. There's just the one that I keep coming back to again and again. I also have a legacy family that will benefit as well. One of the third-gen kids randomly grew up as as an evil, erratic snob, so hopefully GT will help add in some of the flavor that such a situation implies.
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If anything, I mildly regret proceeding with a few engagements for some of my favorite couples, because it would have been nice for them to have the milestone for that. But, at least they will have the milestones for their weddings!
There are other families I can us ethe dynamics with, but I make a lot of happy families with no drama. It will be nice to see my the drama I do imagine actually be supported by the game.
So I kinda wish I always had growing together. I honestly think this pack looks and sounds great and would have made every sims family I had better.
But the past is the past. I am starting over a brand new game especially for this pack and restarting my sims entirely from infants. But even then I wish I had it for their parents and grandparents story too! 😁
With my main save, there aren’t going to be any babies for a while.
Around the time of HSY, right before actually, I had made a sim. They weren't actually looking for a relationship in any way, shape, or form; and ended up in 3. Married all of them, and had kids with 2 of them. They all raised the kids together in Sulani. Everyone had various relationships with each other. Very kitchen table. Not everyone was romantically linked. But there were multiple situations happening with the parents. And they were all parents to the children, and all cared deeply for each other.
It was nice. But it would've been great to be able to define that better. I know that this pack won't fix anything with that family really until/unless polyamory gets updated into the game at some point. Rather than just having sims react to cheating, or having a "Player" trait. It would be cool to see how everything works if they updated things.
But we'd need the family tree update. Both for more mundane reasons, and these. Better representation of sexual attraction, romantic attraction, romantic propensity/style, and gender. And then this pack could deepen those relationships better.
Like obliviously it could deepen your two-parent household suburban 2.5 kid white picket fence type sim family as well. But when the prompt was what family of mine do I think this could really help, I thought of that one. I've done one where it ended up very Old woman that lives in a shoe. Tons of kids running around with one parent in the house, and their other parents in their own homes so I don't have to manage them too. And this pack could adjust those relationships. But this family, this one would be really good. But I doubt the game would even recognize them as family