Yes it's a made up word. But I am the kind of person that keeps restarting everything 1000 times.
This time...
I can't decide if I am going to continue with my main gameplay and just make my vampire family famous, on top of everything else OR
If I am to start over.
And then if I start over, should I start with a single sim or a family or friends or... I find starting a truly Single sim is usually quite boring at first. BUT if I give her a friend or a roommate or a lover or a spouse, or a kid... There will be too many sims very soon (I rarely enjoy playing more than 3 or maybe four sims at once, too much to keep track of) and I have to throw out some of my starter sims to make room...
No I am not really asking for advice, I just want to vent!
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There should be a support group for these type of Simmers
Heh. I hear you.
The thing is that WHEN I really find a character I like (no matter what game) I get really attached.
But I don't want to play the Voght family in Get Famous just yet, after all they are all already extremely successful, rich, and have 8+ in all meaningful skills.
I am thinking of creating a young trio of friends, but I am not sure how to split it. Actor? Influencer? SOmething else? Part of me wants one of the friends to just be a normal Joe (or Joanne) and have a normal boring job...
A reality life streamer who will film her way from being very out of shape to Body Builder stardom (not so crass in her mind, at this point she just wants to Simtube her diet and workout to motivate herself. Might lead to fame, but it's not what she has in mind right now).
I just can't decide if I should pair her up with someone else or not.
Yeah I am leaning towards that for now. Or at least half way: Put in enough good venues, and fiddle with a few relationships (make the Caliente household... "fun").
Yeah in fact my newest vampire family is the household I have played with the longest. Admittedly 1. they are immortal and 2. I restarted it by exporting and importing them when i turned them into vampires. But yes, for me the breaking point tend to be where the children of the premade's children become adults. That's how long I usually last.
Actually this time is the opposite: I want to continue my vampire save BUT I also feel that having really really rich full skill Sims ALSO become world famous celebs seems... overkill.
In wishing to instill the Values given us by the Parenthood GP, I realized pretty quickly that it's way harder to start with teens. So, ultimately, I restarted that game save once again (for the umpteenth time) aging the teens down to Child and the Children down to toddlers.
With the other save, I had my singer Sim I'd recreated for Sims4 and created his parents from him, instead of what I did in Sims3, where I just selected the parents I thought I wanted and then placed the Sim I thought looked the most like what I had in mind for my singer and went from there. This time around, all of the children (5) were born in game. When it came to my Singer Sim, baby number 2, I aged him up in CAS to see if he looked like himself. If he didn't, I quickly exchanged him for the single Sim I made of him, prior out of my library. Then aged him back down to toddler.
I have to say, the only 'restarting' I have done since then, was to simply roll back two game saves, as I experienced my very first emotional deaths. Yes, I wrote deaths, as in plural. I can't ever have just a singular event. LOL I have to be the over-achiever and have two for the price of one. Well, needless to say, despite how it wrecked the overall story arc, I tried to carry on in the face of such loss. But, something very odd happened. My singer lost his Hit Beat standing and was no longer receiving autonomous concert bookings. (Yes, I use a mod made to compliment GF.) This was unacceptable. He's a Global Superstar and no gigs? Having to work his way back to 100/100 when he only had 5/100 wasn't acceptable. To even say playing this way was in any way acceptable. He had custody of his identical twin nephews! And little to no income?
I didn't have fun playing that scenario. The next morning when I awoke, it occurred to me to go back a game save. That was all well and good, but for the fact he still only had the 5/100 on his Hit Beat. So, I went back one more save and the twins were still infants, but he was back at 100/100 and getting booked left, right and sideways. I started having fun again.
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This is a big part of it for me also ... it's just part of the way I play. I've done it since the beginning.. since the first Sims title. My ideas just take me places and I want to try new things, sometimes in the middle of starting an idea I just had... and I hate trying to build legacies personally. I'm just glad at this time that I can save the base sims/families with their skills intact at least and I enjoy the ability to label my longer term save games so I know what's going on there when I do revisit them.
I wish they had "roommates" like before. I don't want to control them as a single sim is about all I can handle
Now I am bad for playing a game and then starting a "new game", then I have 3 or 5 games I could load at any time. But I look at the older saved games later and think -"Do I want to play that game?" and end up just deleting them
Maybe you should start out as a single, and as soon as you feel like you are getting bored, then kick it up a notch and add another sim to the household?
I find I mostly restart when things either go drastically wrong, or as in my above post, a new pack has come out that I can't really apply to the household as it stands at that moment in time. I love to play full households. I'm not challenged enough with just a Sim or two. In fact the only time I play a single Sim is when I take up Pinstar's Legacy Challenge, as that's how you must begin.
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But I am probably going to make a separate save in an attempt to start the world from scratch.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
I do like starting out with single Sims, then have them find a partner while they're trying to grow their career. For active careers like GTW or the Acting career in GF, I prefer a single Sim for those because it's hard to balance sending your Sim to work and still take care of the rest of the family. So when I finally do my Actor/Actress, I'll likely start with a single Sim, move up in the career then I'll settle him/her down once they hit the top level.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)
One thing I've started doing is when I feel like I've got my household at a good stopping point (usually when all the kids have aged up to YA and moved out), I'll retire that household by taking off the Played tag and let them age normally with the other townies and switch my attention to one of the offspring. I'll move them either into a small house or maybe a San Myshuno apartment and start them off with a different career than either of their parents. For example in my main save I have my Creatives -- Rob Boss and his wife Allyson (nee Raymond). Rob is an artist, while his wife is a stylist who also paints and writes books. They have three children, oldest brother Albert and the twins Harrison (boy) and Bryanna (girl); they got named by the game when I was playing with another household but I actually liked the names. I'm thinking Bryanna might end up as my actress, so when she ages up she'll move out and start pursuing Fame. I might make her infertile so I don't have to worry about random pregnancies, and she can adopt like Angelina Jolie. That could be an interesting twist on family life.
Fun must be always -- Tomas Hertl (San Jose Sharks hockey player)