I wish there was an option in the poll for "Mixed" instead of just Single Family or Rotational.
I have three active saves in the game (well, 4, but I need to redo one of them from scratch for nitpicky reasons lol) one of which is rotational and the other two are single families. Despite only having a few packs, there's so much I find to do all the time, both in the rotation and in the other two saves. On top of that, I have several build saves because I love challenges and generally building.
I like to focus on one household for awhile and when I am happy with their progress, I move onto another family for awhile. I tend to get invested with the lives of sims that I created, so it is hard for me to let go or get bored as I want to see what they would get up to next; but without a proper story progression, it means I have to play another household in order to them to where I want their lives to go; but that is also part of the fun instead of just letting the game do all the work for you. I only want story progression for the townies I don't play so it feels that they have lives in the game as well.
I'm not quite sure how to answer. I play rotational, but I'm not really interesting in playing lately. Not out of boredness, but because maintaining my mods takes too much time, and my game still hasn't recovered from Island Living.
I have some ongoing projects so I can't say I'm bored. But I'm also not playing so who knows.
I used to play with only one household before. I always played generations and then I just choose my favorite household and carried on with them. I didnt know the world of options with the aging buttons and rotation play ideas in games previous from the sims 4.
Since some months I found out that I could actually have multiple households in one save and stop aging until I came back to my first household again. Its a great solution and it opened up so many possibilities for me. Whenever I want to play with any other household from my generations family, i now can without losing anything.
Since a week, I even started thinking to finish all my worlds with new organized buildings, community lots, clubs and selfmade/gallery household and then even rotate between ALL households in the world if i feel like playing with a million different stories. I would just choose any household and their story to explore features i would not be able to connect to my main household of generations. I think in this way the world will feel more alive then ever cause they all have a moving story going on.
If I find a Sim that bores me no matter how I play them - I remove them from my game. Sometimes moving them to a new town - giving them a different job though is all it takes to make them more interesting again.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
If I find a Sim that bores me no matter how I play them - I remove them from my game. Sometimes moving them to a new town - giving them a different job though is all it takes to make them more interesting again.
I often play a family for a week straight, get bored, stop playing, make a new family, repeat. It's an awful habit, but maybe if I actually tried to do a challenge or make a story... For some reason, that never occurred to me until recently!
I started a new save and family for RoM, but mostly, I wanted to play it a bit to decide whether to marry my YA in my legacy save to a spellcaster. (Yes.) I have a rather interesting kid in my RoM save, so I'm going to play her through to YA.
Every once in a while, I start a new save to try out an idea, or build a particular house. And sometimes, just building and decorating is less stressful than managing my Sims. (I could never play on rotation - I want to control every Sim second of their little Sim lives.)
I play on rotation but I rotate saves. I have several I rotate among because I hate running out of npc's to marry and/or befriend and I'm too lazy to download new "npc's" from the gallery.
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It may surprise you but it depends on my mood if i play either . I can't say if i'd go rotationally or single, with that said however you can get pretty busy with a single family and 8 family members, especially if they are young and need to learn, toddlers, children and teenagers, so generally i could go for a single family, but then i could add a second family in there as well at another point.
Bored and single family. I've played this household for so long that whenever I go to a new one, I wanna go back to the one I'm used to, cuz the new ones just do not resonate with me and will take some time.
When I originally answered this I wasn’t so bored. I play rotational and usually not bored, but lately I’ve been becoming bored. I even created a whole new save which is just a world of mostly occults, but I’ve been mostly sticking to building which that is now becoming boring, and I love building!
You don't have an other option. I have single family saves and rotational saves. I flip through them a lot. I also switch games frequently too. Sometimes doing a thing in one save or game will give me an idea for something else.
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I have three active saves in the game (well, 4, but I need to redo one of them from scratch for nitpicky reasons lol) one of which is rotational and the other two are single families. Despite only having a few packs, there's so much I find to do all the time, both in the rotation and in the other two saves. On top of that, I have several build saves because I love challenges and generally building.
Lets make this a reality!
Edit: It might help that I also pay a lot of attention to the community aspect, wioth a working council, elections, laws and a lot more.
I have some ongoing projects so I can't say I'm bored. But I'm also not playing so who knows.
Since some months I found out that I could actually have multiple households in one save and stop aging until I came back to my first household again. Its a great solution and it opened up so many possibilities for me. Whenever I want to play with any other household from my generations family, i now can without losing anything.
Since a week, I even started thinking to finish all my worlds with new organized buildings, community lots, clubs and selfmade/gallery household and then even rotate between ALL households in the world if i feel like playing with a million different stories. I would just choose any household and their story to explore features i would not be able to connect to my main household of generations. I think in this way the world will feel more alive then ever cause they all have a moving story going on.
"Games Are Not The Place To Tell Stories, Games Are Meant To Let People Tell Their Own Stories"...Will Wright.
In dreams - I LIVE!
In REALITY, I simply exist.....
Or having him divorce his wife!
Just me? Okay.
Every once in a while, I start a new save to try out an idea, or build a particular house. And sometimes, just building and decorating is less stressful than managing my Sims. (I could never play on rotation - I want to control every Sim second of their little Sim lives.)
It may surprise you but it depends on my mood if i play either