I recently realized I don't use any particular pack very often. The exception is Seasons, but that's because you can't not use it since it brings weather. Besides that, the only things I really use from the other packs are their CAS items and some build mode ones.
This isn't out of any dislike. The only pack I had zero interest in StrangerVille (though I bought it anyway, hoping I'd find some interest in it; that town is funny). I just noticed after playing through once just to explore, I don't really use the pack again unless it's for the purpose of storytelling, which isn't often.
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I use the club system extensively (I usually create a club for each family to aid in inviting them all round at once and having family night).
And I technically use a lot of aliens as I play ts2 recreations.
I also use the globe bar a lot
Get together clubs
Parenthood traits
Outdoor "stargazing /cloud gaze"
Luxury party buffet table
Fitness stuff earbuds
Cats and dogs vet career
Get to work "have baby at hospital"
Jungle adventure just to go on holiday
Get to Work: I have tons of alien sims and many sims who are cops or scientists
Vampires: Many vampire sims, as well as humans and now mersims with Vampire skin details for variety
Outdoor Retreat: Stargazing / cloudgazing
Parenthood: Traits
Cats & Dogs: I have a some veterinary sims and some custom NPC animal adoption agent sims
Jungle Adventure: I got a lot of use out of this when I was playing my Lara Croft parody sim, not so much these days
Island Living: I made too many mermaids 👀
and I barely use their in-game functions but the CAS items in Spooky Stuff and Movie Hangout Stuff are cute, lol
Seasons
Island Living
Cats and Dogs
Dine Out (when my sims eat out)
Perfect Patio for the hot tubs
Backyard Stuff for the CAS, pitcher, and lawn water slide
As for Get Together, my multi-sim families don't have time to pursue their own clubs, but my unmarried sims are part of a few.
Race Against the Clock: Can your elder sim turn back the clock before their time runs out?
Vlad The Dad: A 100 Baby Challenge, Vlad as ‘matriarch’ *COMPLETE*
Breed Out The Weird *COMPLETE*
But I picked up a few packs in a bundle that I felt would add real-life-like features to the game.
Get to Work is the pack I probably use the most with Seasons being a close second as they enhance work and home life a lot. But I've barely touched the surface with the interactive careers and have not actively used Seasons features. Might consider another pack as the game feels a bit on the emptier side but we'll see. :)
Scientist Career (the cloning machine is super useful, especially for restocking your retail stores)
Retail stores (I don’t think people realize how OP they are, you can unlock something super useful like the easel with the inspired bonus, or fungal infusion fertilizer, ambrosia, money seeds, etc, then have your other sims go buy them with $ instead of having to do all the work to unlock them)
GTG & CL:
They have the 2 biggest worlds, super useful four placing more households. GTG clubs are great for leveling skills fast on multiple sims. “Night clubs are great to build multiple friendships at once, just form a group of multiple sims and dance at a DJ booth, the whole groups’s friendship will grow.
Vintage Glamour:
Butlers are super great for keeping your social need high, especially for single sim households.
Parenthood:
If you are able to unlock the polite introduction (I think from maxing manners), it seems to be the largest friendship builder in the game.
Clubs - Get Together
Character Values/Traits - Parenthood
Fame/Reputation - Get Famous
Music/Video Stations - Get Famous
All Skills - All Packs With Skills
Aliens - Get To Work
Vampires - Vampires
Gardening - Seasons (overhaul)
Fishing - pre-IL patch (overhaul)
Butlers - Vintage Glamour
Hmm, I'm sure there is a ton more. But this is a good start. I don't have IL quite yet, but hopefully soon!
My Families Via PlumTree App
I love vampires and aliens. If there isn't one in the household there will be in the extended family (I play one household per save).
Spa Day, to give my adults long-lasting massage buffs, and for Yoga.
I am new to TS4 and am waiting to see which EPs I want before I splurge.
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But I do love the Parenthood actions, the toddler and children content, and all of the Seasons and Vampires content, especially. I’m a supernatural family player and romance player, so anything dealing with all that is going to be used a lot.
Oh! And I also often use Dine Out restaurants occasionally for romantic couple outings, too. ^_^
With Island Living, I can definitely see myself using mermaids a lot, lol. I just love merpeople that much.
Cats & Dogs is the one pack I rarely use. (None of my created sims has any dogs/cats in my game.)
(She/her)
It depends which rotational household I play with, but I play a lot with apartments and key giving from City Living, family interactions from Parenthood, the calendar from Seasons, restaurants from Dine Out and open/active careers.