It depends. I have made spouses specifically for a certain sim, pursued a special townie, or let them travel to find a partner in another country. Mostly, I let them decide for themselves, which sometimes is as early as childhood, and sometimes is never.
Sometimes wishes like "kiss "X" for the first time" pop up, with me asking, "who the frick is "X"??", sometimes my sims meet someone and have a whirlwind romance without me even doing anything, which is the best way.
My sims often end up with partners, I never would have chosen for them (once my teenage sim met another teen at a party and began rolling wishes for her, like there was no tomorrow. They ended up as a couple in the span of about a sims hour, with me only taking control once, to ask the "going steady" question. It was so cute! She was hot-headed, evil, excentric, excitable and a vegetarian. Evil and hot-headed? Nope, not my choice. Despite that, one of the best couples I ever had.) Makes the game interesting.
If the chosen one is a pudding face, I edit them in CAS, no problem. And I like a lot of the townies.
I have kind of a love-hate relationship with the romantic interests they get at prom. Sometimes it´s the right one, and sometimes it´s just... not, and than I have to break them up.
It's my sims choice no matter how good, bad or ugly if they want to get hitched to them I'll try and make sure they do however once they are hitched they are stuck with them (as am I). I don't go in for divorces in my game, marriage vows should mean something if you are determined enough to go through that palaver, For me in rl marriage is a huge NOOooooooo (I don't know if there is a word for wedding phobia but if there is I have it!) however if a friend or family member gets shackled I will stand and throw confetti like a good little citizen even if I am mystified as to why they would do such a thing.
Before my Sim reaches adulthood, I choose a particular townie for them to marry.
With my founding sim I usually look for a townie or create someone to marry them to but for the second generation onward it's always a townie they met in school, university, or in one of the travel destinations. I've never gotten far enough into the game where I've had to make new sims because everyone is related but I'm sure I'll have to do that some day!
I'm usually playing the town TS2 rotationally with a very heavily Modded game and it can be a little of everything though the rules are that they should be good friends with their future partner before starting romance.I do stray from that for some for story purposes when having bad relationships is a part of that sim's story though.
Before my Sim reaches adulthood, I choose one of my other Sims for them to marry, or I make a Sim specially to be their future spouse.
I let all of them do whatever they please - except Taïga, who's the heroine of my story and has got a thing going with Derek. No discussion possible. When I leave them on free will, they're unable to stay away from each other anyway, which I find kinda cute!
After my Sim reaches adulthood, I choose one of my other Sims for them to marry, or I make a Sim specially to be their spouse.
I have nothing against townies but experience has taught me they come with unacceptable traits or are unemployed. Having spent considerable time and effort upskilling my sim the last thing I and the sim needs is a partner who is not working or has commitment issues, or hates children. If I am playing a generational game I will introduce my child sim to future partners while they are teenagers. Or if I am starting a new game I will probably create a new partner for them. Once of my latest creations was Tristan, a vampire I created for Melody my witch.
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I've occasionally created Sims as spouses, usually during Create a Household, but mostly my Sims hook up with NPCs. There are a couple of them where I have played a specific world to get a specific NPC into my household, but mostly it's just kind of random and depends on what seems to click at the time and what doesn't. Got one of those working in my current game, as a matter of fact. Hope my Sim won't need the services of a divorce lawyer at some point in the future, but it doesn't seem likely at the moment.
Before my Sim reaches adulthood, I choose one of my other Sims for them to marry, or I make a Sim specially to be their future spouse.
If high school doesn't have a good potential partner (and most towns, TBH, it doesn't), I will add Sims to my town including another teen with compatible traits.
For starting as a YA, I'll often have them learn enough Social Networking to use the Sim Finder app and pull in a suitable partner that way.
I let all of them do whatever they please - except Taïga, who's the heroine of my story and has got a thing going with Derek. No discussion possible. When I leave them on free will, they're unable to stay away from each other anyway, which I find kinda cute!
@jillbg Ahem, speaking of which, we need new chapters of their story. *tapping foot in anticipation*
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I'm all over the map in my choices. In my main legacy game, Laurel Grisby was hit on by Don Lothario because she was the boss's daughter, and we know he's a schmoozer. However, she tamed his wild eye and they have been together ever since. However, Laurel's sister Victoria just can't find a man (or woman) that she is happy with.
In some of my other games, I'll choose sims from the EA bin, or sims I have downloaded from you wonderful people here.
In other games, I'll let the sims choose themselves, either they will flirt with someone or someone will flirt with them. In that case, I have to lock down that sim right away because we know they will flirt and hook up all over town if left alone.
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There were a few occasions where I picked. Like with my second gen Barone heir, I made a fairy family that I intended on adding in as a spouse. So the very moment they were both children, I kept inviting him over and went straight to romance when they were teenagers so no one else could snatch him up. I normally go with whoever they connect with. I don't have the patience to keep making new Sims just as spouses, it's easier just to let the game do it for me with the attraction system.
Excluding founders. I've only once in my five families made a single Sim and married a townie.
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I let all of them do whatever they please - except Taïga, who's the heroine of my story and has got a thing going with Derek. No discussion possible. When I leave them on free will, they're unable to stay away from each other anyway, which I find kinda cute!
@jillbg Ahem, speaking of which, we need new chapters of their story. *tapping foot in anticipation*
Who my Sim ends up with depends entirely on what particular story i’m Telling for a particular generation and what Story Progression chooses to do ( while the mod makes the ability available , I consider it cheating to set a particular sim to not hook-up or whatever) .
One of my favorite memories of letting things happen is the first time I had an NPC call my teenage sim and ask them to prom. I wasn’t sure who I was gonna marry my heir to and then a female classmate called my female teenage sim. They went to prom and of course fell in love.After they grew up they went on several World Adventures together before finally settling down and I used mods to allow them to have kids. It was definitely one of my favorite couples I ever played.
Before my Sim reaches adulthood, I choose one of my other Sims for them to marry, or I make a Sim specially to be their future spouse.
Can someone please explain exactly what y'all mean by "letting your sim choose"? Maybe I just haven't played around enough but I've never had another sim to start flirting with one of my sims first.
Can someone please explain exactly what y'all mean by "letting your sim choose"? Maybe I just haven't played around enough but I've never had another sim to start flirting with one of my sims first.
@jessthesimmer What I meant by "letting the Sim choose" was something like letting your Sim socialise and flirt around with a few others (be they EA premades or Sims made by you) and seeing which one they click with the most. It could also mean leaving NRaas StoryProgression to give your Sim a partner when you're not playing his/her household (which has happened to me before) and just rolling with whichever Sim s/he gets paired with.
Before my Sim reaches adulthood, I choose a particular townie for them to marry.
It depends, but when the 2nd generation becomes a teen, I choose one of their childhood friends of the opposite gender. If that doesn't work, I pick a teenage townie. They usually meet all of the town's teens by joining an afterschool club.
I have kind of a love-hate relationship with the romantic interests they get at prom. Sometimes it´s the right one, and sometimes it´s just... not, and than I have to break them up.
I had my sim ask his good friend to prom. They started a relationship AND had their first kiss in the first half of prom! They eventually got married and had 2 kids.
Before my Sim reaches adulthood, I choose one of my other Sims for them to marry, or I make a Sim specially to be their future spouse.
When I first began my current save, about three and a half years ago now, I created every sim resident. Those sims mostly had been created in predetermined relationships or else I probably had future spouses in mind when creating the founding population in CAS. So in the beginning, it was entirely my call.
Now that some time has passed, those founder sims bore offspring, many of whom have reached YA and begun to start their own families. While the younger sims were growing up, I paid attention to who they formed relationships with in school. Who invited them to play growing up? Who did I always find them bringing home on the school bus, were any of those potential futures for my sim? If not, when they attended University did they seem attracted to anyone in particular? I send a dorm of 8 unrelated local freshly graduated from high school sims at a time. They live in a legacy house on campus. There's plenty of opportunity to see if there are any sparks flying, it's usually quite evident by the time University graduation rolls around if there are any current sims in my save who belong together.
If not, I will create a new household for the save and see how that pans out. Not every sim is meant to marry and have children, it just doesn't suit their story.
But for those whom it does, I have loosened the reigns of my control to let relationships happen as naturally as possible. Or at least I try.
One of my founder families I struggle with. I hate to admit that it is coming to divorce as I adore them together but when I am on another family, she just gets up to things and it can be a lot of work to undo the hurt she causes. She may be better off single, or at least Becker would be happier in the long run without her.
It depends. Usually I find a nice looking townie after my sim reaches adulthood. My sims' eldest daughter moved out from her family house and found a boyfriend independently (he is her childhood friend). I often do a makeover of the chosen sim, especially when I don't like his clothes or when he/she is a pudding face townie. I also used to create a sim, move him into the neighborhood and make him marry a sim from my active household
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Sometimes wishes like "kiss "X" for the first time" pop up, with me asking, "who the frick is "X"??", sometimes my sims meet someone and have a whirlwind romance without me even doing anything, which is the best way.
My sims often end up with partners, I never would have chosen for them (once my teenage sim met another teen at a party and began rolling wishes for her, like there was no tomorrow. They ended up as a couple in the span of about a sims hour, with me only taking control once, to ask the "going steady" question. It was so cute! She was hot-headed, evil, excentric, excitable and a vegetarian. Evil and hot-headed? Nope, not my choice. Despite that, one of the best couples I ever had.) Makes the game interesting.
If the chosen one is a pudding face, I edit them in CAS, no problem. And I like a lot of the townies.
I have kind of a love-hate relationship with the romantic interests they get at prom. Sometimes it´s the right one, and sometimes it´s just... not, and than I have to break them up.
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For starting as a YA, I'll often have them learn enough Social Networking to use the Sim Finder app and pull in a suitable partner that way.
@jillbg Ahem, speaking of which, we need new chapters of their story.
In some of my other games, I'll choose sims from the EA bin, or sims I have downloaded from you wonderful people here.
In other games, I'll let the sims choose themselves, either they will flirt with someone or someone will flirt with them. In that case, I have to lock down that sim right away because we know they will flirt and hook up all over town if left alone.
Excluding founders. I've only once in my five families made a single Sim and married a townie.
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I wish I could change my answer to Other because yeah, it depends on which story I am telling.
I was just super tired last night when I voted.
One of my favorite memories of letting things happen is the first time I had an NPC call my teenage sim and ask them to prom. I wasn’t sure who I was gonna marry my heir to and then a female classmate called my female teenage sim. They went to prom and of course fell in love.After they grew up they went on several World Adventures together before finally settling down and I used mods to allow them to have kids. It was definitely one of my favorite couples I ever played.
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@jessthesimmer What I meant by "letting the Sim choose" was something like letting your Sim socialise and flirt around with a few others (be they EA premades or Sims made by you) and seeing which one they click with the most. It could also mean leaving NRaas StoryProgression to give your Sim a partner when you're not playing his/her household (which has happened to me before) and just rolling with whichever Sim s/he gets paired with.
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Now that some time has passed, those founder sims bore offspring, many of whom have reached YA and begun to start their own families. While the younger sims were growing up, I paid attention to who they formed relationships with in school. Who invited them to play growing up? Who did I always find them bringing home on the school bus, were any of those potential futures for my sim? If not, when they attended University did they seem attracted to anyone in particular? I send a dorm of 8 unrelated local freshly graduated from high school sims at a time. They live in a legacy house on campus. There's plenty of opportunity to see if there are any sparks flying, it's usually quite evident by the time University graduation rolls around if there are any current sims in my save who belong together.
If not, I will create a new household for the save and see how that pans out. Not every sim is meant to marry and have children, it just doesn't suit their story.
But for those whom it does, I have loosened the reigns of my control to let relationships happen as naturally as possible. Or at least I try.
One of my founder families I struggle with. I hate to admit that it is coming to divorce as I adore them together but when I am on another family, she just gets up to things and it can be a lot of work to undo the hurt she causes. She may be better off single, or at least Becker would be happier in the long run without her.