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What tips would you give a new simmer?
Brody9962
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Ok, I am just curious, if someone is new to The Sims, what tips or advice would you give them?
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Brody9962
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- Don't have your teens get jobs just yet. Trying to manage a job, school, and needs is fairly difficult, and it's unlikely that you'll need the money.
- Don't fret over the daily work tasks. Keeping your sims happy should be a priority, and being in a good mood will help work performance even if the daily task hasn't been completed.
- Replace your appliances with better ones when you can afford to. This is especially important when it comes to stoves, since low-quality stoves carry a higher risk of causing a fire.
- Some skills can be used to make money from home, to the point where a proper job is unnecessary. Painting is a good example of this, since you can sell paintings at any skill level, and writing can earn you TONS of money - even more than most jobs will get you - once you've submitted enough books to be published.
- Finally, if you're interested, take a look at the various mods that exist. MC Command Center is the most well-known; it adds story progression with customizable settings, as well as various other features, and many simmers consider it to be a must-have for TS4.
Other than that just get into the game and play it anyway they choose. I remember the first few times I played The Sims, it took me over an hour just to figure out what things did, but at the time I did not have access to the forum, because I didn't know it even existed. Also here are some other really good web sites that deal with all things sims.
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/
https://simsvip.com
http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sims_Wiki
In terms of building because someone mentioned it above, I am totally new to building too. I've been playing sims for years and years, almost a decade, but rarely have I built something and never have I built anything at all decent. I stumbled across some build tutorials by lilsimsie on youtube earlier that taught me a lot. I didn't even know you could lower roofs so yeah if you're new to building I recommend video tutorials.
the original: http://www.simslegacychallenge.com/the-sims-4-legacy-challenge-rules/
not so berry (will help you use different game mechanics): http://lilsimsie.tumblr.com/post/157671494755/not-so-berry-legacy-challenge
build newcrest (will help you improve building if you're interested in that): https://buildnewcrestchallenge.wordpress.com/about/
and i don't recommend you install any mods yet.
- All you really need to watch is your hunger need as sims can starve. All other dangers are deadly at the second occurence only AND you get a warning. Even fires take ages to kill you.
- If their needs are really low, send one of your sims to a community lot. Those left behind will regenerate their need bars while you are away. For this reason, and to earn more money, you'll probably want to start with 2 or 3 sims.
- In a pinch you can move in sims from other households via the household management feature and toss them out after you don't need them anymore.
- Don't be afraid to try out things. Even if everything that can go wrong does, the game has saved a copy of your household that you can use to start over.
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If that means being a social butterfly and having loads of friends, but no family, have friends!
If that means searching the world for your soulmate, go search!
If that means settling down and raising a few tykes, give them cute names!
If that means pursuing a successful career, pursue it!
Don't be afraid to do what you want and don't over complicate things. If you aren't the best builder at first, don't sweat it, it takes practice! If you have a few flop dates, it's ok townies can be mean! If your first sim ends up looking really weird in a few months, don't be hard on yourself. Take everything you experience and learn from it! We all started out as new simmers at some point, so anythings possible!
Find your fun, and do that, and sims will always be enjoyable!
But anyways, here are my tips:
1. Maybe spend a day on live mode just to get used to how controlling your sims will be like. I would suggest making 2 Young adult room mates living together (rather than just starting with an already married couple). This will give you more room to experience forming bonds and friendships with non-related sims. Also, on Day 1, you would want to get used to the UI.
2. Play at speed 1 for most of the sim day and maybe only go to Speed 2 when you're making them learn skills such as reading. Speed 3 should only be used when they're sleeping or when they are all at work.
3. Maybe on your second day of playing, try out buy and build mode. It's much easier to build in TS4, so you should find it to be really fun.
4. Try to avoid all cheats including kaching and motherlode. If you really need to cheat your sim's needs, try to get them to get Satisfaction points so they can afford to buy some potions from the 'reward' store to fulfill their needs. However, avoid buying reward traits like Steel Bladder or other traits that make your sim's needs decay slower. This kinda just takes away the fun, in my opinion. Trust me, your sim's needs do not decay that quickly to begin with. XD I have 4 sims and they are almost never in the red even without these traits.
Turns out if you save your game to the cloud, you can retrieve no matter where you are
I don't think The Sims games save to the Origin cloud, if that's what you're talking about. Unless you save ot to One Drive or something but I don't recommend that cuz One Drive is kinda wonky.
I upload all the stuff I love to onedrive.com I go as far as taking a picture of a couple, making a folder for them, putting their sim file in the folder, and then doing the same for all their children just because I'm sick of losing all my families to computer failures just when the game gets interesting.
Keep your CC as organized and manageable as possible.
Don't micro manage your sims, it's fun to see how they use their freewill.
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EA actually told me that. I called them up one day to ask them if there was a way to retrieve my sims to my husband's laptop, they said Only if I saved my sims games to the origin cloud, so TYhey do. You just have to check the option in Origin to turn on Cloud Storage for Saves.
It didn't have it last time. I really don't know if they have changed it since the recent change they have with Origin. I doubt it tho. It's better to just back up your save files manually.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/782788/the-sims-4-cloud-save
Maybe I'll try it today and see if it works.
EDIT: Turns out I already have it on, so obviously it doesn't work. When you launch the game on a different computer, it will open the last game you've played on that computer and the save game is tied to the one you have on your folder. The cloud just doesn't work for The Sims.
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