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How many sims do you prefer to manage at once?
hunniboo1
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When i made this a little over a year ago I used to think I wanted a full house, but that is slowing turning into 4 at most. 2 adults and 2 kids. I don't think I can manage too many toddlers at one neither lol
How many sims do you prefer to manage at once? 87 votes
1 sim only
18%
16 votes
2-4 sims
52%
46 votes
5-6 sims
14%
13 votes
7-8 sims
9%
8 votes
Other:
4%
4 votes
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Only when I play my main sim with roommates, I open autonomy and let them do their own thing while I only control my own sim.
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I had one of my sims take a vacation away from his room mates and while on vacation I noticed all the room mates were all miserable. They weren't eating, sleeping or using the bathroom. If they ever fix this I'd love to play more than one sim, but right now it seems kind of pointless. If you have a sim go to a 5 hour event the other sims in your house hold will get out of bed even you made them go to sleep before you left. Soooo.. by the time you return everyone is hungry & tired and they have to work/go to school in a few hours.
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I think it is because I enjoy "role-playing" a bit and feeling like I am the one sim. Then, I build the story and game around that sim's life specifically. Any jobs, skills, purchases, partners, or children will likely be the legacy of that sim.
I have a huge variety of households, from 1 to 8 Sims and I usually just play whichever household I feel like at the time, since I also play with aging off. I would say my ideal comfort zone is three or four sims, although the household I play the most has 7 Sims plus a cat. I'm not sure how you're counting pets in this, since they are not technically controllable.
Mainly if you add more sims to me it feels more like a micro-manager with their needs than anything else (unless you have cheats, mods, or lots of whim points that reduce their needs).
Smaller households tend to bore me more quickly. Larger ones cause too much duplicate-clicking when the queued actions won't activate (invisible queues), get cancelled out by the game (not by me), or when I try to cancel a queued action because the inactivated ones timed out & I don't want the next one to activate...my cancellation won't work.
Lets make this a reality!
After that, I too kept my HHs limited to 7 sims!
That’s cool. I never played ts3 but it seems pretty fun
But as for households that are families with kids, rather than just a bunch of adults who are roommates, I usually play 4~5, though the one I'm playing now is 6 (and almost 7).
Autonomy is helpful, though it's still up to me to set Sims on tasks that autonomy won't, like improving specific skills or performing work from home tasks, freelancer work, or some holiday/daily tasks.