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What's your main sim's relationships like with family members?
QueenofMyshuno
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What is your main sim's relationship like with family? Do they see relatives that live outside of the house very often? Do they have a love/hate or even a hate/hate relationship with any of their relatives? What kind of activities do they do together with extended family? Leave a comment and let us know.
I'll start. The following are from my Vintage Newcrest game (1930s-1960s) that I double post on Tumblr and on the Stories and Legacies board here on the forums.
I have 2 main sims, Manny and Vivian, who are newlyweds and live in their own house. They have a very loving and physically intimate relationship.
Vivian has a close relationship with her mom. Sometimes she goes over and watches her mom's soap opera, Remembered Hollow, with her.
Her dad is kind of grumpy (I didn't make him like that, he's just always grumpy for no apparent reason), but they still have a good and loving relationship.
Vivian's and Manny's parents were good friends before Vivian and Manny even started dating, so Vivian knew her mother-in-law from an early age, and they get along very well.
Sometimes Vivian's older sister, Comfort, gets on her nerves, but they are like peas in a pod and often hang out together, go ice skating, and things like that.
Manny has a teenage brother, Kyle, who he feels protective of and helps with advice. He also does activities with his brother, like going to the boxing gym together.
Manny has a good relationship with his parents and with his in-laws. At family gatherings, Manny, his dad, his brother, and his father-in-law will play songs on their guitars while the family gathers around. Manny also works for his father-in-law at a retail store.
(They do have conflict with other sims in their lives, just not with their family members.)
Manny has some more extended family in Sulani, but I haven't brought them into the picture yet. How do your sims get along with their relatives and what activities do they do with them?
I'll start. The following are from my Vintage Newcrest game (1930s-1960s) that I double post on Tumblr and on the Stories and Legacies board here on the forums.
I have 2 main sims, Manny and Vivian, who are newlyweds and live in their own house. They have a very loving and physically intimate relationship.
Vivian has a close relationship with her mom. Sometimes she goes over and watches her mom's soap opera, Remembered Hollow, with her.
Her dad is kind of grumpy (I didn't make him like that, he's just always grumpy for no apparent reason), but they still have a good and loving relationship.
Vivian's and Manny's parents were good friends before Vivian and Manny even started dating, so Vivian knew her mother-in-law from an early age, and they get along very well.
Sometimes Vivian's older sister, Comfort, gets on her nerves, but they are like peas in a pod and often hang out together, go ice skating, and things like that.
Manny has a teenage brother, Kyle, who he feels protective of and helps with advice. He also does activities with his brother, like going to the boxing gym together.
Manny has a good relationship with his parents and with his in-laws. At family gatherings, Manny, his dad, his brother, and his father-in-law will play songs on their guitars while the family gathers around. Manny also works for his father-in-law at a retail store.
(They do have conflict with other sims in their lives, just not with their family members.)
Manny has some more extended family in Sulani, but I haven't brought them into the picture yet. How do your sims get along with their relatives and what activities do they do with them?
On EA forum Stories and Legacies board and on QueenOfMyshuno.tumblr.com
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But it could just be they stop by because they have the highest relationships of people she knows.
Let's see... My main sim is Daniel Reed. Both Daniel and his husband, Gavin, have ex-girlfriends they are still good friends with. Gavin also has a son with his ex. I swap the boy back and forth between the two families, since he gets raised equally by his dad, mom, mom's new boyfriend and dad's new husband.
Gavin's parents are very welcoming and often visit. I hardly ever play them in their house in Willow Creek, they do not even have a job. But I regularly move them in for major holidays or vacations (keeping a placeholder sim in their house in the meantime).
So much for the love part, now for the hatred:
Daniel hates Gavin's half-brother with all the passion of a hot-headed sim. I cannot hold this against him, seeing that this half-brother is allied with the aliens and faciliates the abductions - among the victims so far were both Daniel and his ex. The half-brother, however, doesn't exist as a sim in my save. I want him to stay a phantom in the background, not walk by the house or play violin at the town square.
Daniel also has a god-daughter, Emma, with whom he has a surprisingly good relationship, despite her mother hating Daniel. He has shot her husband... after that husband betrayed and nearly killed him... Uh, yes, nice family. Anyway, Daniel is forbidden from coming close to Emma, her mother and step-father, but when the game spawns Emma nearby, I often have them interact in secret.
@QueenofMyshuno the Daniel Phillips I currently blog about is an alternate version of the real Daniel. In this universe he never shot John, so the family dynmaics are different from those in my main save.
@EnkiSchmidt Your game sounds really involved with intricate relationships between the characters. So cool!
Edit: EnkiSchmidt: Wait...Is this the same Daniel that's an android? I've read your tumblr, and I'm getting confused now.
On EA forum Stories and Legacies board and on QueenOfMyshuno.tumblr.com
I only play with one Sim at a time. They eventually marry and have kids, and the kids tend to be close at first because that just happens. But as soon as I decide which of the children is my next main Sim, they move out into the matriarch's house and I focus on them and ignore (or occasionally kill) any other family members.
I've always played this way.
Just stopping by to say I love this all so much, @QueenofMyshuno! I 😍 making up fun relationships for my Sims and their extended families. Everyone always has their own fun things they like to do together. The two sisters like to bike around Sulani to the wine bar on weekends. All of the boys in the extended family go for a camping trip every summer. It’s fun to make up little relationships, I wish they had more of a lasting impact on Sims’ lives and memories!
Yes, the very same. The save I'm blogging from on tumblr is a What-if version of my rotational save, condensed to just the two families, Phillips and Reed (of the latter we have met only Gavin so far). In the rotational save Daniel shot John, but in the tumblr version he held back, so John is still alive here.
Yeah, she's the late king's oldest daughter and my favourite sim in that save.
Too Good at Goodbyes forum thread
Too Good at Goodbyes blog
By the way, I love the picture of Manny and his family playing guitar!
The family is pretty close with the mothers extended family and they often visit and spend time with her mother & grandmother (the kids great-grandmother) who is the de facto matriarch of the family. However, she has a husband (the only great-grandfather the kids know despite him not being related biologically) that hates children and always gripes whenever they come over. So the kids don't really hang around him much but the mother has a decent relationship with him and he's otherwise harmless so long as he can fish and garden in peace. The mother also has a younger brother that is newlywed to Nina Caliente. The two live in San Myshuno so they are a ways a way but they often visit my sims and they and their two young kids are frequent guests during the holidays.
The father is also close to his in-laws. His mother died when the eldest and my simself was really young so he's grown very attached to the great-grandmother and is always sure to check in on her when he's not working. He has a pretty large family but they've grown distant since their mothers passing and barely make time to see each other (really I just haven't made them yet😅). As a result, the kids don't have any ties to that side of their family whatsoever.
@EnkiSchmidt Thank you so much for your comment on the Christmas picture. Also, thanks for the explanation about the alternative timelines. That will help me understand what's going on. I really love your whole deviant android concept so much!
@Rouenpucelle Thank you for your compliment on the guitar-playing pic.
@Bobisbae I love the great grandfather sim you described -- what with the griping, the dislike of kids, the fishing, and the gardening, plus having a good relationship with his spouse despite his crankiness, he seems like he has a lot of personality. Maybe not the most pleasant personality, LOL, but personality nonetheless. He seems like a guy you could run into in real life.
On EA forum Stories and Legacies board and on QueenOfMyshuno.tumblr.com
He has great Parenthood pack traits relating to family and upbringing, but even where I don't hit all those notes, my family members visit each other frequently, if not regularly. I do need to work a bit to introduce cousins who were raised separately.
Maybe it's because I don't really have a good relation with my own family that I don't really care about it in my game. I see most of my family only a few times a year. Now it's been longer due to the pandemic and me not having been to the last few get togethers because college life is really busy.
Though more currently ehhh most of them could work on it depending on where their stories are lol.
All the sims err'day
I do too, it starts to feel chaotic. But, I don't unintentionally favor one Sim, I do it on purpose. Lol.
Even if my Sim has 10 kids, I'll pick just one to focus on and ignore everyone else.