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How to spice up my game and make it more entertaining?
morgandaniellexo
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Hey! So, I am getting bored with making the same perfect looking female Sim over and over. I make a perfect house, get a job, date, find a man, get married, have kids... and then I'm bored to death.
So, any ideas on how to spice up the game and/or get more attached to the Sims that I make?
Any ideas are appreciated!
If you have any stories from your games, feel free to post them! :oops:
So, any ideas on how to spice up the game and/or get more attached to the Sims that I make?
Any ideas are appreciated!
If you have any stories from your games, feel free to post them! :oops:
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It's called the "Deal with it Dumpster Game". I highly recommend.
Play a randomized sim with very minimal adjustments, if any.
Choose to live in a dumpy little shack and only expand on it as you make money, no cheating.
Play some challenges, like Legacy or Cast Away.
Use traits you've never used before.
Don't interfere with gameplay too much, just start taking a viewer's perspective. This is especially fun if you have a house with two or more sims and they have conflicting traits. [My favourite sim family was one with a Dramatic, Natural Born Performer, Excitable, and Childish sim living with a Grumpy, Cat Lover, Loner, Good, and Hot Headed sim.]
Take on jobs you've never finished, or max out skills you've never been interested in.
In addition to that one, check out TwitchXK90 on youtube. He has a farming challenge LP that is absolutely wonderful and entertaining. I started my own after that. I am having so much fun!
Hop on over to my YouTube Channel if you'd like!
- give them an interesting trait that you dont usually use (like kleptomaniac)
- try out a career you havnt tried before ( i ALWAYS used to play the culinary career when i started playing)
- when your sims in a relationship make them cheat on their partner ( or have commitment issues so they have lots of different partners)
- try getting your sim a skill that you havnt or dont usually use
- visit or build a fun lot in town for your sim to go to
- try making up a backstory for your sim ( i always do this as i feel like it gives a sim alot of personality)
- make your sim look different to your usual sims ( doesnt have to be ugly, but change up their look so if you always give your sims blonde hair, try red hair)
- start off the game with more sims than usual (like two, three or four sims) all connected with each other in some way but with different personalities
- if your still bored and feel like your gameplay is limited, try buying an expansion pack or some store content
Step one: STOP CHEATING if you do. "Motherlode" and "TestingCheats" have it's side effect to suck all the fun out of your game.
- Make a male sim and try playing it that way, or make your sim different. Not ugly, but don't make'er too perfect. She don't have to look like a super model.
- Don't just settle down! Let her have some fun and meet some guys. It's normal for a girl to have a few boyfriends before she get married. Maybe she's not monogrammed either, she can't be too perfect, you know!
- Expiriment: Try some other lifestyles, here are some ideas for that:
- Be a badguy, try cheating, joining a criminal career track, steeling and so on.
- Make your sim romantically interested in sims of it's own gender {Guy/guy or Girl/Girl Relationships} If you just flirt a little with sims of your own gender your sim will automatically take interest in them and you will automatically get romantic attention from them.
- Be a celebrity, who needs a quiet family life when you can have the love and attention of everyone around you? {Requires Late night}
- Be Single. {For once} focus on something else...
- If you do want a family: Make it complicated. Your kids don't need to have the same dad {Your man don't HAVE to know if he's the dad} Have multiple spouses over time and of course: Get some step kids!
And of course my favorite: Multitask like H***! Make her:
- Start a HARD career {Science, Journalism, Law Enforcement, Movie}
- Get a time stealing hobby {Photo, writing, GARDENING!}
- Get a baby. { Freeze the age and keep it as a baby}
- Get in a relationship or two.
- Do as many side activities as you possibly could. {Join a band for example}
- Travel a lot {World Adventures}
- Get a looong education {University life}
- Be a witch/Fairy etc. {Supernatural}
- Have a pet {Pets. Try horses.}
Trust me, Do Multitasking like that and you won't have time to get bored. If you lack some expansions that's no problem. But I get mine at origin for rarely more than 20 Dollars. Just Sayin', They're super fun and worth the money. Do some reesearch and find one that fits you!
Sometimes I make a sim teach the dog or cat a hunting skill so they can hunt. Other than that, I get to choose how bad or good the pet behaves, haha. It's very freeing!
Is your sim a disowned rich kid who's desperately trying to rise to elite status again?
Is your sim a formerly abused child or spouse who's having trouble moving on and trusting people again?
Is your sim a city person who's trying and failing to live in the country? Or vice versa?
Does your sim have amnesia and is trying to put their memory of their past back together, and maybe they discover that they had a family, or they were targeted by the mafia and got into an "accident", or they were given an experimental drug that wiped their memory....
Try playing a cast a way sim, start out playing a world such as Isola by RFlong, and pretend your sim washed up there, they then have to wait for rescue or reach certain goals to save them selves and when they do you can move them to a different world where they can fascinate all the sims there with their heroic survival tale.
* Create a homeless sim and only make money off of things you find - rocks, flowers etc. I love doing either that or living off of others with a kleptomaniac sim who steals everything.
* The pregnant challenge, which is my favorite challenge. Never have more than one child with a man. Or the opposite; be a male and impregnant the ladies.
* Don't always make a beautiful sim - try making different kind of sims with different background stories. This is especially fun if you have the Supernatural EP. With that EP I love to be a vampire and make the entire town vampires.
* Complete all the life goals.
* When having children, play with the random traits you get. That way, you'll get some pretty interesting characters, and it's a great way to explore all the traits you usually wouldn't choose.
That's what I get for multiple forum tabs open. :P
I'll come back with some suggestions, but click on my siggy and browse my simming threads, maybe it might inspire a little.
To the OP, I have probably 10 different games going on and the sims are in all different situations. If I get bored playing my "normal" family I switch to my lesbian family who are about to have a baby. After playing them for awhile, I switch to my party girl/lifeguard who has several romantic interests and busy juggling them. The list goes on...don't get stuck in a rut by playing same scenerios all the time. Change up can be fun. (I don't do no cheat games or legacies because I can't stick to the rules.) :P
Then I thought that he should also know pretty much everything. This got me started working on every skill he could get his hands on. I honestly didn't even think about how long that would take to accomplish. He still has quite a ways to go, but knows so many things.
I allow his other family members to age, while he does not. He has to see everyone pass away as he lives on. It's hard being The Doctor after all. I eventually want him to have a family member of each occult life state.
He will eventually know all the recipes that are available and will grow every plant to the level of perfect. I will have him travel and do as many of the world opportunities as he can. He will fish until he has 10 perfect fish of each kind, so that he can stock his lake with every fish. He will also eventually collect every item that can be collected.
So, as you can see, this game takes a lot of time and effort, but it makes for excellent gameplay.
I've tried this so many times because I love the whole achieving gameplay. But every time it gets interesting, the game get bugged. On one sim, random books started spawning everywhere on the lot and couldn't be sold, another one automatically sold everything he moved or used. The weirdest one, however, started reading sims and woohooing with books. Seriously, I clicked on a sim and it said: "Read Bella Goth" then he picked up the sim and went to read it like a book. When I clicked books "WooHoo" was the only option, then he grabbed the book, went to the closest elevator, did it, then came out and the book were gone... weird.
There are plenty up on the forums. I found some youtube videos that got me interested in the challenges.
Hope you find something that works for you
Play the homeless challenge.
Play the baby challenge.
Have a zombie apocalypse!!!
I also like to reenact historic events, like I have a civil war themed save.
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