Don't miss the For Rent Developer Deep Dive Stream this Friday, December 1st! We've got a watch along thread here, so come on over, neighbor!
November 24th - It's time for our Friday Highlights! You can check them out here!
I STUCK and I need your advice PLEASE
HopeCrash
Posts: 119 Member
I've been playing Sims for a long time. Since the first game in the series.
I always loved it, I bought every expansion pack, I always followed the development of the game.
After more than 10 years I first encountered a problem - I get stuck. where? CAS.
I create a sim, design it, choose traits, choose make-up ... and then I get tired of it so I create a new sim, choose clothes, hair, skin and then it looks dull so I delete it and create a new sim and continue the same thing.
I can pass four hours in front of CAS without ever reaching the game itself.
I have a confession: I have all the packs and most of them I did not play at all. Why? Because I do not get into the game itself. I always get stuck in CAS.
Is anyone else stuck there? Does anyone have any advice on how to move on?
I always loved it, I bought every expansion pack, I always followed the development of the game.
After more than 10 years I first encountered a problem - I get stuck. where? CAS.
I create a sim, design it, choose traits, choose make-up ... and then I get tired of it so I create a new sim, choose clothes, hair, skin and then it looks dull so I delete it and create a new sim and continue the same thing.
I can pass four hours in front of CAS without ever reaching the game itself.
I have a confession: I have all the packs and most of them I did not play at all. Why? Because I do not get into the game itself. I always get stuck in CAS.
Is anyone else stuck there? Does anyone have any advice on how to move on?
2
Comments
There are some simmers who only want to build.
You might want to check out the Creator's Corner. Maybe you can continue creating sims and share them with the community.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-4-sims-and-modeling
TS Forever 💚
I don't play TS4, I play in TS3, but your situation need not be iteraton-specific. I don't stay in CAS for very long because I'm more of a live game player than anything else. I think you're staying too long in CAS because maybe you're demanding too much of yourself when you create sims? To me, as long as the sims looks decent, I'm basically done and I'm ready to go with live play. Why not post some pics of your sims? They're probably not as dull as you think!
Maybe do that.
Create a sim you know is going to be a Police officer.
Happy Simming
You've been stuck in CAS for 9 years? Maybe you are just a CAS player. Sims has players of all styles. Builders, Sim Creators (CAS players), storytellers, challenge players, deviant players.... Maybe you just are a Sim creator and not really a player. I mean, if you've been doing this for 9 years, it might just be your happy place.
I have every pack too, so this doesn't help me create quickly. I need to try every combination of clothes and objects lol.
This is me 😂
I'm trying to play with premade face and bodies, and also generator for the rest. I also find very good generators for traits, aspirations, careers and skills. Even for a walk style LOL
After that I just shaping and changing a little bit of everything to give it my vibe...
Thanks for the advice!
I always try to came up with a story for my Sims. I get very excited for GF because I dreaming since Superstar to make my Sims and famous actor (LN was pretty suck in the game part). But everything can change my mind, like a traits or a short can make me change my all story .
I'm now trying to play with any kind of generators. Try to do the "one click generator" challenge 😉
You living the dream 😍
I tend to do that a lot with TS4 because I'm personally never satisfied with the look of a sim or their ensemble. So I start again.
Or maybe like someone else suggested, just deside enough is enough and play with what you got.
When it comes to preemades you can play households like the Goths or Pancakes. That way you don't have to go though CAS to start at all.
I tried using random Sims from the Gallery & then made minor changes so clothing was more to my taste or changed hairstyle or whatever. However, once I started to actually play the Sim that they had extra traits that didn't show up in CAS - like "never sleeps" or something that I wouldn't want a Sim to have when I was starting a game with them from scratch. That isn't made clear when you select a Sim from the Gallery & I found that quite frustrating.
Check out my 1920s homes on the gallery: Vanderhoot13
I also find male Sims easier to create. The female.... IDK girl... Something about their clothes, and standing...
If the sim had the never sleep trait the sim was played before upload. It might help to check the description of the sim. For example some write #cas or #played etc.for other simmers to know if the sim is played or not. But that isn't always the case (as you might have noticed). The way you can work around that is to create a twin of the sim you downloaded from the gallery in cas. That way the sim is fresh while still looking like the original.
Other than that I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.
Are you sure you don't just enjoy the cas part more or is it a case of feeling uninspired and thus unhappy with your CAS creation that prevents you from playing?
Sometimes sims look different in CAS then in Live Mode...I'll be like "ugh, don't know" but once I see them in game I make up my mind to keep them. Perhaps try to play each sim for a moment before you decide to keep them or create another? You could also create a couple of sims at a time, and then just keep the one you like best in live mode.
Join Me For Speed Build Sundays!
MLady Azzera - Sims 4 Speed Build Collection
City Living Foreign Food Guide with Descriptions **NEW** Selvadoradian Culture Recipes
I pretty much do the same for homes. I drop a home down from the gallery, delete all of those clutter objects, make sure there's a laundry somewhere and a bathroom on the first floor and get back into the gameplay.
That being said, I did edit one of the default homes from Willow Creek the other day and it looks pretty good if I do say so myself. I took a lot of time even choosing the proper color for the foundation which I never do. It was kinda nice. I was going to add it onto the gallery but it keeps saying the house contains CC when it doesn't, so...
Giant houses, mansions that I build for joy of building are usually tedious for normal game play. When I play, I use a more practical and compact house for my active family. Because it shouldn't take my sim 2 simhours to walk from their bedroom to the kitchen.
Sometimes I cheat the heck out of the game, do silly stuff, like making one guy have babies from all the ladies in town, making a girl have babies from all the awkward fathers like father winter, flower bunny, tragic clown..etc, making one sim imprison and torture his neighbours feeding them only spoiled food etc. and sometimes I play extremely vanilla like eat, sleep, go to work, get promoted, buy a better tv, kind of gameplay that I even avoid using any custom content.
Shortly I play in all ways depending on how I feel like playing, what I have in mind on that day.
What I can suggest you to break your CAS cycle would be; try to create a plan in your mind. You obviously like creating sims visually, next time try to create a sim visually according to a made up back story for that sim, according to their traits. Plan a game about that sim. Imagine what kind of a house will that sim live in, what job would suit them, how they would proceed in life. So when you are done in CAS, you have a reason to put that sim in a house and start their life and see what happens. Just play the game!