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    What Are Your "Bad Simming Behaviors"?

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    Huiiie_07Huiiie_07 Posts: 1,200 Member
    in The Sims 4 General Discussion
    With "bad simming behaviors", I mean things that you do in your games that hinder you in getting out the best of the game's content. For me, it's the fact that I always, since TS3, think up the story of my sims before I even created them, thus leading to my playstyle to only follow this particular story. It can be fun when you finally get to that story, but the time in between can be really boring and dull. The problem with this playstyle is that it has no real surprises that just happen to let the game stay fresh, so I am really often bored when I don't play out a story-line.

    What are your bad habits which can make the game boring to you, even though you have much content to choose from?
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      kemiszkemisz Posts: 602 Member
      I think one of my bad simming habits is that I have trouble marking families in my legacy as not-played so that I can focus on the families I actually want to play.

      I just seem to want to manage them all, but honestly, I give up playing a lot of games because there's too many households in my rotation to manage. If I just set a few of them to not-played then I may stick with it for longer. But I struggle with it.
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      TheGoodOldGamerTheGoodOldGamer Posts: 3,559 Member
      I use live mode more for testing builds and game things than actually playing out Sims lives for their own sake, lol.
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      Huiiie_07Huiiie_07 Posts: 1,200 Member
      edited March 2018
      kemisz wrote: »
      I think one of my bad simming habits is that I have trouble marking families in my legacy as not-played so that I can focus on the families I actually want to play.

      I just seem to want to manage them all, but honestly, I give up playing a lot of games because there's too many households in my rotation to manage. If I just set a few of them to not-played then I may stick with it for longer. But I struggle with it.

      Yeah that's something I also know too well. In one of my saves, I have like 15 played households. I also thought about just marking them as unplayed but I have plans for all of them xD
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      KottonKrownKottonKrown Posts: 259 Member
      Sounds weird, but I try and leave things untouched in the neighbourhoods/worlds. By that, I mean that if I play a pre-made family, I try not to drastically change anything. The reason is that I feel like I might do something, not be happy with it later on and then not know how to reset the neighbourhood/world. So, by and large, I create my own families and play in a bizarrely insular way.
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      Colorist40Colorist40 Posts: 7,103 Member
      I always want my sims to have lots of children and when they do, it becomes so overwhelming or stressful I give up playing. It isn't fun just playing a couple or a couple with one or two kids, but I definitely got to try to stop my sims from having so many kids. I have a family now who has 1 kid, 6 toddlers and 5 dogs. That is not a lot for how many I usually have.
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      TiaDogTiaDog Posts: 79 Member
      For me, I will have just a happy couple (maybe with kids/pets) then I will make them cheat on some random person, and ruin the couple. It happens about 98% to my families.
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      Huiiie_07Huiiie_07 Posts: 1,200 Member
      TiaDog wrote: »
      For me, I will have just a happy couple (maybe with kids/pets) then I will make them cheat on some random person, and ruin the couple. It happens about 98% to my families.

      Well your game seems to be much more interesting than mine then :D
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      RevenwynRevenwyn Posts: 317 Member
      For me, without fail, every time I try to add kids into a family (even just one) it just kills the game for me. But I don't like kids IRL either.
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      pepperjax1230pepperjax1230 Posts: 7,953 Member
      I have a rich family and their teenage daughter doesn't live with them but they gave her money to live off of.
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      honeywitchhoneywitch Posts: 321 Member
      Routinely refusing social invitations and just barely ever going out socially, always doing things at home, and ignoring self-care beyond basic necessities. In the two saves I'm playing now I'm avoiding those habits :smile: In one of them self-care activities and weekly outings are requirements for the challenge. I'm sure I have other bad simming habits but those are the ones that come to mind atm.
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      OEII1001OEII1001 Posts: 3,682 Member
      I chronically and compulsively restart my households. This means that more often or not I don't get to those late-stage life goals.
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      Bad_AppleBad_Apple Posts: 16 Member
      I spend more time in CAS than actually playing the game haha. I also have a terrible habit of starting too many new households and never playing as them, mainly because I hate building my own houses and editing houses built by other simmers.
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      CupidCupid Posts: 3,623 Member
      I'm too goal-oriented, if that makes sense. I can never last very long playing casually, before I get right into skill building, career grinding, and aspiration completions. I effectively turn every sim I play into a "super sim" after not too long... and I really wish I could stop doing it but I can't help it :D
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      TheGoodOldGamerTheGoodOldGamer Posts: 3,559 Member
      CyrusTheLoser wrote: »
      I'm too goal-oriented, if that makes sense. I can never last very long playing casually, before I get right into skill building, career grinding, and aspiration completions. I effectively turn every sim I play into a "super sim" after not too long... and I really wish I could stop doing it but I can't help it :D

      Same. If I'm not testing a build, this is generally what I'm doing. I like maxing out everything, lol.
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      JurassicKingJurassicKing Posts: 63 Member
      I make every action for my Sims for them, so they have no free will. Then again when they do, all they ever do is read books...
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      Huiiie_07Huiiie_07 Posts: 1,200 Member
      JurassicKing wrote: »
      I make every action for my Sims for them, so they have no free will. Then again when they do, all they ever do is read books...

      I did the same until now, now I have free will but it's disabled for the active sim. However, I'm thinking about completely disabling it again because the autonomous choices of these sims are just terrible :D
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      AfterMidnightAfterMidnight Posts: 1,020 Member
      I'm a massive micromanager. I strive to have my sims complete their aspirations, top their careers, and bring in the next generation of sims so the cycle can begin all over again. The only leisure time my sims get is between goals or after they've completed everything I've set out for them to do. My sims generally don't have social lives as a result and I miss out on a more relaxed style of gameplay due to my controlling tendencies.
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      ShadowmarkedShadowmarked Posts: 1,054 Member
      edited March 2018
      I get angry when my sims don't do stuff exactly as I say, but I refuse to turn free-will off because I don't want to worry about one of them starving in a corner forgotten somewhere (I always worry that they will accidentally kill themselves on me). It can lead to some frustration on my end.
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      HillyBethHillyBeth Posts: 3,505 Member
      My newly-weds had a baby out of wedlock. They were neighbors in the same apartment complex and one thing lead to another, and two dates later, they ended up having a son! Her boyfriend- now husband- moved in with her when she was almost in her third-trimester. Their son is now a toddler!
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      Jprp83Jprp83 Posts: 400 Member
      I can't stand randomly generated townies so I spend easily more than half of my playtime editing their appearance with the Cas.fulleditmode cheat. Even though sometimes I feel proud of the makeovers I do, I often run out of ideas and it starts to feel like a chore. But I just can't deal with random townies with ugly clothing roaming around my neighborhoods.
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      I_Wanted_To_Be_EdgyI_Wanted_To_Be_Edgy Posts: 186 Member
      I end up building houses, taking organizing and editing pose sets, writing stories, making more sims for stories and doing everything else but....actually playing the game, which is why I made another save in hopes that I'd just play that one mostly and leave the creative stuff to my main babies. Nope.....poses for the second save for days and days. I can't help it. I need to document my sim's lives in some way I guess,
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      PsychoSimXXPsychoSimXX Posts: 4,403 Member
      I spend more time in build mode but I do play TS4 more than I have the other three of the series all together.


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      TheHarbinger_51TheHarbinger_51 Posts: 1,702 Member
      I have dropped all my bad habits but mine were

      -preferring my own lots , but being too lazy , uninspired to build.
      now ive started building again and gotten my 2nd maxis fave. Yay!

      -starting over and not investing in my sims. now I have sims that i love
      and im gonna play them throughout their whole life

      -not stepping out of my comfort zone. being uninspired. ..
      so now I am doing all of the things i have been wanting to do, without
      making excuses!
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      VanPelt81VanPelt81 Posts: 2,990 Member
      I create way too many sims in the beginning and have to kill off a good chunk of them because I want my sims that I care about to have parents & grandparents in their family trees. It creates a lot of ghosts and tombstones everywhere. Luckily creating a specific Cemetery lot keeps the rest of the Sim Neighborhoods from looking like one large cemetery...


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      SomeBratInAMaskSomeBratInAMask Posts: 50 Member
      I get ultra attached to a set of parents, refuse to age them up so they remain as they were when they first fell in love, and then get bored because the rest of the family is stagnated with them....
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