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One not really talked about way to improve your gameplay!
Bookworm2009189
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So, we all get bored of the sims, whether we admit it or not. But, one way that I've found that keeps me interested, is actually having them move and get house extensions. This can add gameplay, and you can add things that previously, you would've never had to space for, like a home theater, an office, heck, even a dungeon! Moving my sims around the world also can help add, as your sim will have to make friends with their new neighbors, and will have to (If you want to add the story) travel even further to see relatives.
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I don't. Good suggestion though for those who do.
But sure it can keep gameplay interesting! Some sims I give multiple houses. (The rich ones)
The homeless ones live from place to place.
Sims 4 was there when I was ready to come back to it, and I found a project in-game, my "next generation" raising up of a bunch of sim kids using my "rapid super sim" method that only takes 15-20 in-universe days to complete. No need to force it.
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I'm about to put the game aside for a while to watch Witcher season 2 this week, haven't played the game though but I like the show
Same for me with Animal Crossing. Probably why I don't get bored. I play a couple of other games regularly. And I know my daughter-in-law is getting me Big Brain Academy for Christmas so that'll be taking up some of my time. Yeah I peeked. 😄
I love that whole game series as well as the books they were based on, and I was pleasantly surprised by how well the show was adapted (not perfectly, but better than many such shows have done). But to the thread topic, I do get bored at times, but not terribly often. Maybe because I don't play it in such a way that some would call "the right way."
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
I do this.
I also don't put everything in their homes, so that they have a reason to visit community lots. I always include at least one office and a gym in my house builds though if my Sims can afford it.
I recently tried to start up the Sims 4 for the first time in almost a year and I just can't seem to get started. I know I haven't done everything, but I tend to fall into the same habits.
Moving and adding on definitely helps, but even that's something I've sort of ran into a wall with. I don't have a lot of options so I've basically already used all the lots and met all the neighbors at some point, so it just feels repetitive when I start a new family.
Incidentally, a feature I wish existed was a quicker and smoother way to edit worlds. One of the base worlds is empty which is great for customization in theory, but manually filling lots is a slog, and when I try to use the Gallery I often can't find very many options that are limited to the packs I have.
I think I'd be able to enjoy mixing it up more if there was some way to just randomize all the lots in a world with the touch of a button (I know that wouldn't be an easy feature to make), or at least quickly randomize families so I don't see the same neighbors every time I make a new family.
Oh excuse me, haha. 😅
I do not get bored of the sims. Happy to admit if I was. It’s not like I’m in a state of denial either…
“Admit that you’re bored of this game, Captain!”
“No…I’m not bo…”
“ADMIT IT! STOP LYING TO YOURSELF DUDE!”
“But…I’m happ…”
“NO! YOU’RE BORED! LOOK AT YOURSELF! YOU’RE A MESS! For heaven’s sake CLEAN yourself up!”
“But…I just had a lovely showe…”
“YOU NEED HELP CAPTAIN! GET HELP! This boredom will KILL you! Stop PRETENDING!”
I’m really invested in my sim stories. One of the reasons I’m not bored is due to my sims being of the adventurous sort and so they seek action and adventure anywhere beyond their own “homes”.
For each story I almost rebuild entire neighborhoods and create new characters. I have many saves with many customized worlds and many stories. That’s how utterly bored I am.
Your suggestions are good for those who indeed find themselves a little on the bored side. I pity the fools.
That last one was a joke. 😇
It makes it even more interesting to see all your different sims lives intertwining.
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I'm bored with the game right now... I have an old save with aging turned off, the game have done relationship culling again (the game will clear unplayed sims relationships to free up space in your save) so sims don't know each other anymore and the game does not offer enough variation for me to play these households or play new households and create relationships in my save and my worlds are full...
So right now only new packs are kinda keeping me interested because they offer some variation and since they have not released any packs since summer I have played other games like Snowrunner more instead these last few months. It's an an off-roading open world simulation video game where the player's job is to deliver cargo to different locations while driving over rough terrain. It's a difficult, but fun game.
@logion do you think you'll stop playing completely once the final pack is released and you've explored that?
That said, moving with sims can be fun! Especially if you do not pre-furnish the new home, but take all your furniture with you, like one would in real life. Johnny Zest and Miko Ojo moved to an apartment in Myshuno, and it was both exciting with all the new career opportunities, but also a bit sad, seeing that they had lost their large outdoor space. The watering can just doesn't look the same on a window sill.
The Millers to the contrary left downtown and bought a house in Newcrest. It's near empty at the moment, what they brought with them doesn't even begin to fill the space out. One of these days I'll need to make the Goths lose their property and have them try finding space for all their objects in an apartment (one of the larger ones probably).
@simgirl1010 I don't know, I don't really believe in being "done" with a game. I will probably still play it sometime. I still hang around on the forums and I am still interested in the sims.
I have the books I am just debating if I want to read them before season 2 but I heard they more closely follow the books.
I don't think there is a right way to play the Sims lol, this forum introduced me to so many different ways of playing.
My current game saves:
- Very Vanilla (no cc or mods allowed)
- Supernatural (everywhere and everyone is some kind of fantasy/occult)
- Cosmic Chaos (Journey to Batuu and all things sci-fi/futuristic)
- Apocalypse Now (grungy, desolate, off-grid, survival of the fittest - even the townies are struggling to survive!)
- Winter Wonderland (all winter, all the time - not as easy as you think!)
- Townies Takeover (where I play out the lives of premade Townies only - just the way Maxis made them)
- Standard Gameplay (regular sims with regular families living out their regular lives in regular worlds)
And last, but not least:
- Gillisim Island (castaways living in Sulani - an awesome lot and household I downloaded from the gallery based off of the tv show Gilligan's Island, which then got me started on this whole theme throughout the island world)....
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship
The mate was a mighty sailing man, the skipper brave and sure
Five passengers set sail that day, on a three-hour tour
A three-hour tour....."
And of course I usually end up going down the rabbithole and getting lost in my gameplay with all the different households that I create.... I figure it's going to take me a couple of years to fully complete all of these different saves with their rebuilt worlds and households.
Boredom? No time for boredom!
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." ~ Mark Twain
I love making over worlds and filling them with my sims, I can spend ages doing that. I just re-did my base starter save that I will play from, took me weeks of fun to do and now I'm ready for my big rotation. Well, almost lol. I just need to finish setting up a few clubs and give some of the sims likes and dislikes. Then I'm off!
My sims started off in a home for the millionaire challenge. With all that money coming in, I added an upper level and made the interior of the house really nice, but I wasn't crazy about the house itself from the exterior.
I was going to have them start having a couple of children before moving, but found I was getting bored with the place, so I had them move.
I really did enjoy their old home and the process of building their fortune, but it was time to move on.
I actually enjoyed bringing over their old furniture and adding to it.
I wanted to bring what I liked about their last home to this one.
This second living space between the bedrooms was one of those features.
They can't really enjoy this now as it is fall and winter is coming.
But this time, they will change things up by wintering in Sulani.
This is a retail lot, being used as a vacation home. I want my sims to own it, not rent it so they can spend some of that millionaire money.
Plus they can keep their stuff here.
My game has long, 28 day seasons.
Winters can get brutal, so my sims will spend half the winter in Sulani.
They will get seven initial days of winter, 14 days of Sulani, hopefully it won't be wet the whole time, and then the will return for the final 7 days of winter and the holiday seasons. And then they will cross over to spring.