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When you first started playing the sims...what took you a while to figure out?
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sims 3 didn't take me long to adjust to it was pretty straight forward but i think what took me the longest to figure out was building and learning all the build cheats.
I spent years before I figured out how to use groups for outing in The Sims 2. Turned out they come in handy for all sorts of social events.
Managing needs was also challenging especially environment and comfort. I hope they'll return one day.
Probably something more, but that what I remember.
In Sims 2 it was roofs. I think I never learned how to properly build a roof in all the years.
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I'm still figuring TS3 CAS out. And I'm pretty much useless in that.
Still clueless with most of TS2's stuff.
My Sim was miserable, of course. I felt so bad watching her, lip quivering, pointing to her mouth, crying in the shower, etc., and all I could do is say out loud, "I know Honey, but it won't be much longer. You'll be okay." I sent her to bed thinking that would speed things up and I wouldn't have to watch her suffer. A few hours later, she got out of bed and I thought, "Yay! Finally, this is it!" Uh, it wasn't. Imagine my horror when she keeled over and died of starvation instead.
Next thing I know, here comes Grim and then I got the dreaded 'Game Over' pop up with the tombstone. She lived alone so I couldn't have anyone plead for her life. Plus, she was the very first vampire I'd ever created. I couldn't just let her die. I didn't save and started all over again. Thankfully, I'd had the presence of mind to do a save just after she'd had Caleb turn her so the do over wasn't too long at least.
I felt like such a noob at that point. Those threads actually meant that yes, she would get sick if she ate anything, but let them eat anyway. D'oh! o.O
TS2: I lost like twenty Sims to the cowplant until I understood that the way you keep it from "cake"-ing is to feed it /normally/
TS3: So much of Island Paradise. Just all of Island Paradise.
TS4: Some day I will be able to figure out how to design a room that a snobby sim actually tolerates. Some day...
TS2 - I didn't find much of it hard to play but I've always had a hard time staying with a neighborhood for more then a generation.
TS3 - I still haven't figured out how to modify CAW as much as I want to do. It might be more like I don't want to spend the time learning but still~
Played Sims 1 pretty much from when the first expansion pack hit through all of the numerous patches. Sims 2 was the first Sims game I patched and it was well into Sims 3 before I discovered that Sims 1 had patches at all...
I couldnt figure out how to get a money, I played the all women household with only 2000 simoleons, I used those simoleon to buy arcade system and gaming station etc, with no simoleons left all of those sims repeatedly passed out because of the hunger and i was unable to make them some food (no money)
And i put toilet and shower in a bedroom, not separated by another room but literally put toilet beside the bed lol
Oh, and the fixed camera angel tool that came with the sims 3, and the ability to rotate camera in tab mode, too.
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One notable thing is in like 2014 I made a post titled "HELP!!" on this forum asking how to buy a house in the ITF world in s3, so I guess that's the earliest example I can think of of something that took me a while to get in the sims.
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TS3: Maybe CAS? I can't really remember what took me to figure out.
TS4: Once again, probably CAS because unlike TS3, you have to push and pull. The previous iteration has sliders.
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Add to that the fact that I was a child playing one of my first few PC games, and certainly the most complex of them, and I completely ignored relationships. If it was not in my household, I did not care and nothing could make me. Not romance (child me found it disgusting anyway), nor career promotions (I sort of tried for these, but friendships just weren't worth it), nor even the social need/visiting community lots (I visited for my purpose and ignored all the randos).
I am fairly certain this has impacted me throughout all the Sims games at this point, though I have grown more tolerant of the NPCs. I know for sure that even to this day that I still do not find friends worth it in 1. I went back, conquered it, and agreed to never do it again.