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Do you sometimes just feel...rushed
shanls96
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So recently I had a big break from sims and I now I have a family of 5 (3 kids)
I just feel like maybe sometimes the day is just so rushed trying to maintain all of my sims needs and homework etc that I haven’t really got time for the ‘free time’ stuff if you get what I mean.
Does anyone else kind of get me or do I just suck at looking after my sims hahah
I just feel like maybe sometimes the day is just so rushed trying to maintain all of my sims needs and homework etc that I haven’t really got time for the ‘free time’ stuff if you get what I mean.
Does anyone else kind of get me or do I just suck at looking after my sims hahah
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Pretty much, I think that's why I play solo, with a single Sim in a household.
The few times I have bigger households (4 sims), I have at least one rabbithole career to make one sim go away for a large part of the time.
Too Good at Goodbyes forum thread
Too Good at Goodbyes blog
And I micromanage, but also try to set up my households in my rotational save the way I want them to be and act accordingly to; so I never choose the mean traits, since I have full autonomy on.
The erratic trait I really like, but cannot use it to the extent I want, because of the autonomous mean social the sims use, even on their family members and friends.
My plan is to, with lot traits, sim traits, reward traits and my builds have a set up that will make sims not completely ruin my vision, the few times I let them go on with their lives without me directing them to Go Here and There.
My small households usually supplement by having friends over or even having roommates I can feel like there are more there but I'm not micromanaging them too.
But, yes, I did feel rushed in the past and for this reason switched to aging off for my main save. Now I don't feel bad anymore for "wasting" precious time for things like a restaurant visit or a family bbq at the park.
I do kind of feel overwhelmed sometimes and not so much due to shortness of time, but I feel that there are things I want to discover or play with in the game, but I never seem to have time or courage for that and I keep playing it safe and steady instead of exploring new features or new ways to play with certain systems and such. I tend to want to much all at once though.
Like, I have this family of 5 + a cat. Two parents, one baby, one toddler and gramps. I want gramps to be able to do all the game has to offer to live his life as a grandparent to the fullest which means taking the kid to the park, walking around in the fresh air, maybe do some gardening in the public garden. Play card with other elders or even chess in the park.
Meanwhile, I want the father of the family to give Archeology classes to his students which I made a club for, but that alone is a job on itself and pretty hard to put together and maintain... Besides that he already has a 9-5 job and wants to go to Selvadorada every now and then to explore the jungle further and take home artifacts he then wins money with. He also gets them by mail btw. He has a very busy life with two jobs that expand in different directions as well.
THEN.. the mom is kind of lazy, so no job for her, however I want her to befriend other moms in their neighborhood, so she visits them a few times a week with some fresh baked goods and meets new neighbors (this is one of the the things I came up with for more expanded gameplay). I also want her to take her kids to the park, have meetings at the daycare with other mommies from her club and catch up or knit together. This is all beside the household/cleaning she has to run and yes I use the laundry pack as well
The children all have a certain personality, so I need to make sure their behavior, lessons and skills are on point as well. The toddler is a goofy one with blonde curls and I want him to become an environmentalist and spend most of his years in Sulani at the shores.
I just don't want to play only general. I want to host parties, have calendar events, club meetings and social activities all blend in with their regular lives like jobs, friends, needs and house chores.
Sorry, didn't meant to write that much, got carried away
Sometimes when I’m managing a household of 5 or more, I get a few of them occupied with skill building so I can focus on the rest of them. But that can feel like a grind if that’s all they do, and I think it’s nicer when they can waste a bit of time together as a family just watching endless movies or sitting down to a dinner together even if they’re not all hungry at the same time.
I don’t know, I used to feel rushed when I played on normal lifespan but ever since I switched to long lifespan, I never feel rushed. Not every day needs to be productive.
There's a major flaw in Sims 4 where you can only micromanage whatever sims you have on the active lot, so if you want a large household to have an active social life, they'd best have staggered schedules or the whole family needs to be able to do everything on whatever lot you're playing on. I've taken kids along to the Starlight Accolades before just to make sure that they've done their homework...
I use mccomand mod to slow down the clock and slow sims needs. I balance it out so it's still a bit challenging but I have a good amount of fun/leisure time I'm satisfied with. Makes it way more fun. Otherwise it just turns into a choir of survival
Once you're deeper in the family tree - and especially if you have grandparents to help still in your household - then three kids aren't that hard to manage if you micromanage the game and cycle vacation days so that you have at least two adults at home.
In my main save, the household is at 7 sims - G9 pair (maxed careers working 3 days/week), G10 pair (heir working M-F, his wife unemployed stay-at-home mom), and their three kids (all toddlers now - twin girls and a younger boy). The G9 pairs has only one day when they both work and quite a surplus of vacation days, so I can make any of them stay home and help anytime (and I could pretty much just grab all their vacation days to stay until aging up to elders and then just have them retire). Though this may be affected by me playing on modded lifespan (roughly normal x2,5).
I also like wandering the hills.
I agree ageing off is a players best friend