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If not legacy, what is your play style?
CrunchyDreamer
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I've probably got the wrong impression but it seems to me that a lot of Simmers (perhaps the majority?) enjoy the legacy challenge. Since the game is a life simulation one, I guess it's only "natural" to play through generations upon generations of different families. But, if you're not a legacy player, then how do you play? Or maybe there are Simmers who don't actually play the game but spend almost all of their time creating custom content or building houses because that's how they enjoy it?
Has TS4 actually changed the way you play (compared to TS2 or TS3)?
My own playing style hasn't changed. I'm not a legacy player as I don't like playing through different generations. I have a population of young adult and adult Sims and I simply enjoy having them interact. I used to spend a vast amount of time creating custom content and making machinima with TS2 but, with TS4, I only play a few hours a week. I have other games I'm enjoying a lot more, so I spend more time on them. ;)
Has TS4 actually changed the way you play (compared to TS2 or TS3)?
My own playing style hasn't changed. I'm not a legacy player as I don't like playing through different generations. I have a population of young adult and adult Sims and I simply enjoy having them interact. I used to spend a vast amount of time creating custom content and making machinima with TS2 but, with TS4, I only play a few hours a week. I have other games I'm enjoying a lot more, so I spend more time on them. ;)
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I love generational play don't get me wrong, and I have nothing against challenges, but I don't need to make my sims super extra poor just because someone else thinks its a fun idea.
After that, things get funky and usually dark.
I'm not particularly interested in creating houses and stuff (because I suck at it :P ) and although I'm a completionist in every other game, I'm not bothered by that aspect of Sims either. I know the thread was about 'non-legacy style', but I felt like putting in my 2 cents anyway, haha.
TS4 has changed my play style a little. I'm actually playing 6 different households right now, slowly working on having several of them meet, a couple of them get married, etc. Still playing the storylines but this is the first time I've played rotations for my Sims.
I'm not a psychopath. I'm a high-functioning psychopath. Reaper
I do make some of them have children, make them grow up to child and play with them like that for a few days, then make them teens and keep them like that, with their parents being always Young Adults...
The very few times I've played legacy I don't play it for too long...
I will start doing it in TS4, tho... It really makes the game more fun (but then again, my main Sims getting old and dying is just awful!).
I guess I just enjoy doing a lot of stuff with my eternal Sims...
I don't mind legacy play but it's just not my cup of tea, that being said I do follow some legacies because I find them interesting.
I totally get that. When I use the term "legacy" I use it loosely. Very loosely. As in to reference that I'm playing one family throughout several generations - but not necessarily the challenge itself. I don't start them off super poor. I don't score anything or randomize traits and aspirations. I use the normal starting funds and go from there, and I always start a family off with a particular story in mind. I used to do proper legacies during TS2. By the time I reached TS3, it was more or less an impetus for me to stick with one family, but I would always give them some quality unique to whatever story I created for them. My Rachmaninoff family always had to have one kid max out musical skills, and they were always named after other composers. (Ah, Wagner Rachmaninoff was one heck of a wacky sim. Good times.)
I guess in that sense legacy to me came to represent my sims family own personal legacy, e.g. what they leave to their world at large. Right now, I've got five generations of geeks, and I love the magnificent little bastids.
Build a house, get inspired thinking about the sort of Sim that would live in it.
Pick a career, make a single Sim, stick them in this super nice house but change everything in it the cheapest possible item. The house usually requires a money cheat though because the structure alone is well over their starting amount.
Plant a tree so they can be crazy Sims and talk to it rather than have to interact with the stalker townie Sims when they need to socialize. (This is different than Sims 3, in that game I would just have them chat with someone on the computer to fill the social need).
Work on getting all skills to at least level 3 before starting a career, sell everything they make and find.
Get a career, work towards getting to the top.
Spend every penny they make by replacing all the cheap items with top of the line item, decorate the house, upgrade everything.
Move in a future spouse, have them become best friends.
Work on the new spouses skills and career while the old Sim quits their job and putters around the house and takes care of the children.
Spouse reaches top of career, children become teens, get bored with their story.
Abandon them and start over (exact same process) with a new house and Sim.
Edit: The whole process usually takes 8-10 Sim weeks and about a week in real life.
I don't use TV shows as the story line in my sims. I usually create my own story based on other games that I played or anime that I watched.
Normally I start a new game on the 4th generation using different story. So if I am playing using "one piece" characters, after 3rd generation, I will create a new save and start a different story using "Dragon Age" characters. In the end of 3rd generation, I will stop playing it and move to a new save file based on "Mass Effect" characters, for example
Sometimes I play the premade sims.
Anime = tv show, except in the rare occasion it = movie.
Speaking of ME is there any way we can convert the alien space suit from 3 to 4? Or the astronomer/explorer costume?
Hahahahaha, I have never thought anime as TV shows. My mind keep telling me that TV shows involve real human.
From ME3 to ME4 ? I don't think we have ME4 yet
lol, no, from sims 3, to 4, the alien suit from seasons, other space suit (shiny!) from into the future. I mean if we own both games it should be legal at least right?
Reminds me of the Asylum Challenge but with more freedom lol
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Like Dynasty dynasties? Fantabulous!!
But since you asked the question on gmae play other than legacy, I also have another saved file of Mirco-Managed Sims, I currently have three families in Willow Creek and once they are set up I'll and two or three to Oasis Springs