I have all of the packs and I NEVER send my Sims on vacation, out to eat at the restaurants, or to be pampered at the spas.
They don't go out to the bars, dancing at the lounges, or visit the festivals and events around the cities. They don't go to their neighbors house to hang out. They don't even jog around the neighborhood! They don't go bowling either, or to the gym. What's a museum? That word is not in their vocabulary.
Just thinking about it, and idk if it's just my disgust for the loading screens that I never truly got over or what's the deal but I never send them anywhere. (I hate those active careers that make you travel with your Sim, like Detective too because I don't wanna be involved, I don't wanna see them work, just go disappear at the rabbit hole and return in 8 hours.
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Whatever it is I want them to do, I'll put on their home lot. I'm quick to throw down a basement or a 3rd floor to give them a proper workout area.
I have a habit of wanting to experience something once, and then never do it again or it's a long time before I do it again. Like, I just got Island Living and sent a Sim to the beach. While there, I also had him woohoo in the waterfall and I saw the volcano. Now that I've done that, dassit, no more beaches! I plopped down a beach towel and a lounge chair in their backyard and called it a day!
Anybody else realize they do this as well or do your Sims travel everywhere?
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Never considered that, that’s a good idea!
I feel like it would be kind of annoying a little bit to have to sit through those loading screens going from the library to the art gallery to the gym. I could try it though.
Time off? He’s got 4 jobs.
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I don't use MCCC.
Also? When you've seen a sim tanning once, that's really enough. I find tanning boring in RL, watching my sims sunbathe is equally boring.
I avoid joining the premade clubs, because there is constant nag about having gatherings or just meeting up to "hang out" aka party all night. Especially if they call at like 10am and ask to hang out tonight, because we all know "tonight" means RIGHT NOW! NO, leave me alone! I have more important things to do, than dance and drink with you guys. I can do that also at home. If I wanted a gathering, I'd start one
Most of my houses are chock full of everything any sim needs for skills, including the big ones like the observatory or even space rockets. Also, basements featuring full home gyms and spa/wellness stuff, I'll even fit a pool down there. Also, usually a party room with bar, dj booth, dance floor etc. I can never build small or live very long in small houses. I need the space!
So yeah, my sims are just as reclusive as myself. I'm very much home-bound and I transfer that to my little people as well
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No wonder he doesn't go anywhere!
Talk about immersion breaking when you take one sim to the gym to work out in the morning, you get back in the afternoon and all your other sims are still in sleepwear and standing exactly where you left them.
I like that Maxis have added more options so you can work from home lately with laptops etc, makes the game more fun.
A) because of loading screens
because of the state sims get into who you leave behind
I do try to make an effort though. I make sure my libraries have skill books in them to save buying, I rarely get workout equipment so there is the gym to visit. I like to make family visits to the park/pool/beach etc at weekends. I also go out if I want my sims to make new friends or find a partner.
I would maybe like them to go out a bit more but can't stand how badly the sims handle being left on their own and it's not convenient to always bring the whole household. The biggest problem was toddlers since daycare was completely broken and other sims left at home (including nanny) don't really work either so I had to plan their lives so that the toddlers are never ever left alone. Now it still isn't perfect but at least daycare was fixed so that's something. But since my sims already own everything they need... no reason to really go out now is there?
If I sent my sim traveling it was inevitable that the dog would want out, there was a package at the door I needed to sign for, then elderly kitty was making vomit noises (and would throw up on something hard to clean) or nature would call loudly in a don't ignore way. That and the culling policy at the time are what led me to use MC command Center (which I still love for many reasons). Now my game pauses on zone and I don't have to worry my game playing on if the dog wants out or there is a package at the door etc.
My sims don't normally have kids until they are adults and have completed some aspirations and are high in their career if they have one or are freelance or self employed. When they have kids the kids are their main focus while they are infants/toddlers and parent(s) have things to do at home or are at work while kids are in school. They generally don't leave the lot unless everyone goes.
I have more trouble with my sims being social hermits. I am often so busy having them get ahead with a career, develop skills, collecting making things or their family that I forget to have them invite friends over or have them go to public lots to socialize (going to public lots is hard unless you take the kids) . Yes, sometimes I do make them loners, but I often don't originally intend for most of them to be . I (mostly) like how socialization works in game and it can be a lot of fun and good story telling, but I am not personally very social and have to work at not getting too focused on other things in game and have them enjoy being social.
I often forget vacations, though. I go to Selvadorada a lot with my archaeologist Sim, but for some reason I seem to forget that Granite Falls exists.
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Whenever someone gets an invite from a friend to go out I have to think really hard on whether or not I can let them go... I feel like an overbearing guardian
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