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    How Do You Play?

    JasonSim16JasonSim16 Posts: 466 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    Just wondering how you play The Sims 4? Idk if my schedules busier, if I'm getting older or if TS4 just isn't as addictive as TS3 but I can't really play it for an extended amount of time without getting bored so I created a way to play daily that adds fun back to the game.

    One thing I love about TS4 is the attention to detail so I play it in real time. For example, Sunday in real life, I'll just play Sunday in my game. So then Monday the next day I'll play Monday in the game which is usually Bill Day. I never fast forward and playing a day is roughly around 40 minutes (more minutes added with decorating, adding Sims, etc.). I reserve Sundays to add a new family to the world as well as a new location. Saturday's are days my Sim can renovate their house. And Wednesdays are reserved for renovating their work site or working to further their career.

    I know everyone can't play like this but it's made me get more connected to my Sims and it's made it more fun because I can fine tune everything in their life (my OCD) and pay attention to detail myself. If you want some more information on how to playblike this, let me know as well as letting me know how you play and any suggestions or recommendations!

    Happy Simming!
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    • LiseyLisey Posts: 195 Member
      That's an interesting approach! I'm more of a play-when-I-can kind of gal, but also more regimented like yourself. Because I have a lot of work at home to do, I tend to reward myself with 5 minutes of game time for finishing a task - so I usually play in half-hour chunks. Do 6 tasks, reward yourself with a half-hour of Sims. Right now I'm rotating with Harvest Moon: Skytree Village, though, so sometimes my reward time goes to that.
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    • LunaNovaLunaNova Posts: 1,239 Member
      Oh god your approach would kill me XD I fast forward allot!

      I keep my game interesting by trying different challenges! More than half the time my new families start with no money and have to gather their way to sucess! The more of a challenge the game is the more time I pump into it.

      MC command center has a good time tuning section you may find interesting! I believe once you install the mod you can find it under MCCC settings when you click on the sims PC. I use it to tune my difficulty level!

      I'm in the process of doing the Sims 4 drifter challenge and a Legacy challenge that started off as a runaway teen challenge.

      Honestly i've played hours and hours this weekend. I think with toddlers being added and vampires a couple of days away my enthusiasm has peaked.
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    • LivstmeLivstme Posts: 47 Member
      When I play the sims I like having a large chunk of time I can dedicated to playing so I can achieve a lot (e.g. A birthday or two) and I typically start with 1 sim and play generationally from that 1 sim until I get bored (usually 4/5 gens in when they get loaded)
    • v12creatorv12creator Posts: 3,626 Member
      edited January 2017
      .I am a deviant player (I like chaos)
      .I like rotational gameplay (Hoping from one household to another)
      .I like developing careers and romantic relationships
      . I Love occults, fantasy themes and overall crazy stuff.
      .Sometimes i do family play but it is not very often.
      .Most of time i let the A.I take over and just come in if i need to avoid complications..some times i cause the complications.

      So...to summ up :

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    • snarklessnarkles Posts: 244 Member
      I always do family play. I just find it a lot more fun that way to start a sim and see his or her family grow and grow throughout the generations. I might create my own head canon, but it's usually pretty bare and I often let my sims "tell me" what they want, rather than thinking, "This is the future Don Lothario heartbreaker" the moment he's born. People might find my day-to-day life approach boring, but I love it!
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    • Callum2000Callum2000 Posts: 802 Member
      I really like the idea of the way you play sims and I'd love to try it, but I put the game on x2 speed when they're just walking from the sofa to the fridge so I doubt I'd stick at it for long :")

      When I play, I usually do family oriented gameplay and the inclusion of toddlers helped a ton with that. Similar to a lot of other simmers I like to see families grow and have multiple generations :) I love big families in The Sims, but not big households...I have been known to bin off a family I'm playing if they unexpectedly have too many children at once lol. I'm also a fan of story telling and whenever I start a new save I like to replace a lot of the pre-made community lots with ones that are more to my liking but still fit with the surroundings and the worlds aesthetics.

      If I'm not doing family play I will be doing a challenge (which some of them do sometimes include family play). Ones I have done before are the Runaway Teen Challenge and the Rags To Riches Get To Work edition. I've attempted others like the 100 Baby Challenge and the Perfect Genetics challenge but never finished them.
    • calaprfycalaprfy Posts: 3,927 Member
      I created my original sim then stuck to it for generations. I like to get them up-and-running, plenty of money, have 'em join clubs to skill up and socialise.
    • duhboy2u2duhboy2u2 Posts: 3,290 Member
      Apparently I have a short attention span :blush: so I play on short life span and have as many kids per generation as I can so that there's always lots to watch/do/play with and I get a cycling of different faces to look at on a regular basis. Makes me sound 4 years old huh? Its not quite as bad as I make it sound though, I also have many save files that I swap in including my rotational play save where I play the whole Neighborhood of Newcrest on rotation to one of the 8 families I've moved in there.

      On a side note, I do have one family that is now at generation 7 on normal life span and I love them enough that I don't want them to age and die when they do. No idea what the difference is. I've just had a difficult time in Sims 4 until recently 'attaching' to my sims. They just didn't feel special. Dont know what changed but for me its clear something has and it was before toddlers went live so it really can't be that. (though I must say toddlers didn't hurt any :D)
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    • Sasquatch7Sasquatch7 Posts: 240 Member
      JasonSim16 wrote: »
      I play it in real time. For example, Sunday in real life, I'll just play Sunday in my game. So then Monday the next day I'll play Monday in the game which is usually Bill Day. I never fast forward and playing a day is roughly around 40 minutes

      I like this idea! Playing just a little bit each day sounds like a really good way to keep yourself from getting burned out, but also keep you interested in the game still. I may have to try that someday if I find myself starting to get bored with the game.

      I usually play when I get the chance, which isn't as often as I'd like. Sometimes I have a hard time getting into the game, while other times I get more obsessed and play it for a really long time. It varies a lot! Usually I play my legacy save.
    • tinaestelletinaestelle Posts: 201 Member
      I play rotationally. I usually start with one family, and I'll play for maybe 2 sim weeks, sometimes more or less depending on how I'm feeling. Then I'll either create a new family or play an existing or pre-made one. I rarely delete pre-mades. I feel like most of them are made pretty well, and I like the variety in them. Then from there on, I'll switch between each household. I usually have 15 of them. Some I play more than others and I'll just age them up when I feel they should.

      I love the idea of playing in real time, but I would probably go crazy. I fast forward quite a lot.
    • jessienebulousjessienebulous Posts: 108 Member
      That's an interesting approach, but I could never adhere to it myself. I'm quite obsessive/addictive by nature, so "moderation" is something I have to consciously commit to, and then only when completely necessary :) If I'm into a show or a game, I'll devote hours to it, sometimes for months, and then suddenly drop it and move onto something else for a while. This is mostly just my nature, but my living situation has intensified it; I'm fairly newly disabled (about 3 years now), unable to work, and so have a vast amount of free time I must fill in order to keep from going crazy. The Sims is good for that ;)
    • NotLoudonWainwrightNotLoudonWainwright Posts: 863 Member
      I play with Young Adults only and my play is centered around woohooing and getting juiced.
    • jessienebulousjessienebulous Posts: 108 Member
      Oh, and to elaborate on my specific play style: I basically do the Legacy thing with multiple families, though I don't follow the challenge rules or anything. I just love seeing how genetics are passed down through generations. The way genetics have progressed through the Sims series is one of my favorite developments :)
    • AfterMidnightAfterMidnight Posts: 1,020 Member
      I play when I have the time and interest to boot up TS4. I usually do challenges—the legacy challenge, for example—but lately I've been playing rotationally.
    • Kilov17Kilov17 Posts: 1,795 Member
      Currently I am using the Achievement roaster to keep myself interested. I run a male- female couple, at the adult stage (of the female) at a differing point at times, I breed them for a child, that will be my sim for the next generation. Usually it's only one child, however for those points sims build up for stuff; when get the wish for trying for a baby I tend to have my sims try and unfortunately for me, when they wish to try, they never fail... So, I have had multi generational off-spring... But only a pre-chosen one is my next gen sim.

      I spend a lot of time building skills for their careers as I need to get to the TOP in all the base game careers, capped 4 so far... All but the Violin Skill I have capped so far-- Yay lol.
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    • auroraael14auroraael14 Posts: 988 Member
      I usually play on and off. I work most of the day and have four daughters that keep me pretty busy. So I usually play on the weekends or after 8 on the weekends. When I do play I usually have different saves that I rotate. Right now I have the Blooms and my seven toddler challenge.
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    • sassytxbratsassytxbrat Posts: 225 Member
      jessienebulous wrote: »
      That's an interesting approach, but I could never adhere to it myself. I'm quite obsessive/addictive by nature, so "moderation" is something I have to consciously commit to, and then only when completely necessary :) If I'm into a show or a game, I'll devote hours to it, sometimes for months, and then suddenly drop it and move onto something else for a while...


      This is how I play. The first day I don't log into the game generally means I am about to drop it for awhile. I love to play challenges and legacies and will play through as obsessively as possible with the goal to get at least to generation 5, or halfway depending on the challenge. After that point, I will go back and complete it - before that point and I will probably just start over the next time I play.
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    • SimaniteSimanite Posts: 4,833 Member
      edited January 2017
      I play families - raising them, watching them grow, just enjoying their day to day life. I play in fits and spurts - i.e. play nonstop for days on end then don't touch the game for months. I've done that since TS3 days.

      I really want to play right now but I'm getting my computer fixed on Thursday. When it's fixed I might try and find a healthier schedule, e.g. playing a few hours each weekend or something.
    • JasonSim16JasonSim16 Posts: 466 Member
      Loudon_Wainwright wrote: »
      I play with Young Adults only and my play is centered around woohooing and getting juiced.

      Lmao! Awesome!
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    • SimpleSimingSimmerSimpleSimingSimmer Posts: 22 Member
      I use to be more of a messy player, making multiple families and jumping from household to household but recently I've been keeping it traditional and trying to start a generation or so. As you said I'm not too addicted to the Sims 4 like I was for the previous games but I like it play it every now and then for an hour or so at a time.
    • Sc3niXSc3niX Posts: 2,468 Member
      Thats an interesting and very unique way to play. My fingers would be itching on the fast forward buttons haha.
      My current challenge is to infest my town with aliens so eventually human sims will be the odd ones out, but I'm also doing the legacy challenge I'm also doing a challenge where I create a portrait painting of everyone in my successor families and that gets carried on to the next gen.
    • ItzTina_ItzTina_ Posts: 164 Member
      I definitely feel you on that. I think part of the problem is that there was so much more to do on sims 3, for sims 4 they made a market move so that EVERYTHING that you could originally do on sims 3, you now have to buy an expansion pack and pay money in order to be able to do these things. Does anyone else agree with me? I miss being able to drive my car around the block instead of these load travel screens and It feels more detached and less human than sims 3 did. I mean in sims, sims 2 and sims 3 they all came with cars, hot tubs and such and now in sims 4 you have to buy an expansion pack just to get access to a hot tub!
    • nastyjmannastyjman Posts: 1,218 Member
      I've been roleplaying as a Time Lord. Basically whenever my main Sim is about to age up, I let them drink a Youth Potion and scramble their personality traits.

      And pretending to time travel is easy since you press "M" and just go about anywhere in a snap. I download era-specific lots for scenery.
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    • tinahjalmartinahjalmar Posts: 1,595 Member
      I'll either play a single Sim that I made, or a family that I made and move them into an already built home.
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