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Switching Families
Tiffany6569
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How do you switch families, I know you go into edit town, but when I go to switch it says I will lose all wishes for that family. Im in a new town and have no one to be friends with so I was gonna make some but Im not sure how to without losing my original couple. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
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Adding Families or Sims to a Town (downloaded, saved, or game-generated):
Creating A Sim or Using a Downloaded Sim:
When you download a sim they are placed into a pre-made section of Create-A-Sim. You need to save as a household (even if single sim) to get them to the move-in stage. Feel free to make any changes to clothing, coloring, traits, likes, and ambitions while you are in this screen. Skills and relationships will be set to zero, as will age for that stage.
This looks kind of scary.
Sims has options for the computer to control the town's story telling (makes them get jobs, meet people, live lives) or you can shut it off in degrees (free-will, aging) so that you are able to play household to household. You can use the birthday cake to age up (grocery store or party objects in buy mode).
the game is set up to play other households for you and to age up within a medium timeframe. the computer is not aggressive in playing the town, i like to think it is so that you can step in and make the relationships you want but i try to be generous.
there are people who love to micro-manage and play every sim in a town. you invest a lot of time and care with this playstyle. you are also able to make the town exactly the way you want it, from decorating to romance.
other people (like me) don't have that type of patience and hop from house to house but let the town go organic outside that house.
still others will devote to just one family from generation to generation and watch the town grow.
there is no right or wrong way to play but there is a learning curve and degree of adjustment to it because there are so many options. if you worry, make a few different saved games and just toggle between them so nothing is permanent.
1a. in Edit Town you have the option to Change Active Household, this will allow you to play other families but it will delete the current saved wants of any sim you are playing.
1b. when you are playing a household and click other houses or sims you have the option to interact with them yet not to control them nor make changes.
1c. using Edit Town Mode you can reach Edit World to place lots and change the landscape.
2a. i have NRaas mods for my game which allow for much greater control in the story telling. a mod is a program that modifies the game code so you do take risks with installation. CC is another thing you will see (and sometimes gets referred to as a mod) and it means Custom Content, i remember the difference as the C stands for cosmetic and gets applied to clothing, hair, furniture, and paintings rather than how a sim will act.
2b. Master Controller, Story Progression, Overwatch: these are the basics from NRaas for greater control and these will over-ride the way that EA designed the game. These are complex interactions and I am, by no means, a master of these mods (but others on here are so feel free to ask questions).
3a. Cheating in the Sims 3 isn't always cheating, it is a way to enter different command codes and edit your world.
3b. I'm going to direct you to some tutorials that you may want to bookmark just for reference and exploration:
Hover over the link to see the site before you click--
Edit Town and World
Traits will affect social interactions and wishes
Skills will affect job performance, hobbies, who wins in a fight with a burglar, and other incidentals
Building an attached garage to help familiarize you with some of the more common building tools with a useful end result
Cheat Codes per Expansion Pack
NRaas mods maker
Mod the Sims you do have to make an account with them but it is to prevent trolls and impose quality control
Building Tutorial List goes to the old forum. The Exchange likes to delete content so not all of the links within the posting are functional, sadly.
Households
Carls Sims 3 Guide is a truly wonderful resource, especially if you are new to the game. There are other tutorials out there, and a vast store of minutiae knowledge (such as how to praise a child) that is most often found on the forums here (eventually