A while ago I wanted to make an average Joe to play with. I wanted him to be "no one special", put the lifespan on normal, and got him to join the business career. The plan was to let him live in a cheap apartment and work as an office assistant (level 2) until he drew his last breath, and leave no legacy. He wouldn't earn any simoleons from anywhere else but work. It was fun for a good while, then it eventually got boring. xD
Have anyone else tried this, and did you make it to his/her final day?
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Sounds like my earliest games. I have a couple of "Average Joe" types that I play and I put them in the business career but I do let them marry and have kids.
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I play them like they don't care too much about work. They don't have huge amounts of ambition, they're more interested in their daily lives and hanging out with friends. They go to festivals and basically work to have fun after work. I actually love playing these types of sims better because they have very social lives and don't spend all of their time skilling. They have more free time to engage in lots of fun activities and they have much better relationships with their friends and sometimes family.
I also have economic statuses in my game. Some of my average joe sims just work work work because they don't make enough to live comfortably. They may not be good parents because they lack the time. Their kids may grow up with poor manners and lack responsibility. I like playing them, too. It's a whole different dynamic outside of the rainbows and everything is perfect life.
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where do you get your custom careers from? which mods?
This is the careers, I'll have to find out when I'm home where the other mods come from.
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In rotational play I don't even have to go out of my way to give the average faces in the crowd nice lifes. After all, when I don't play them they appear on their own at venues and do their thing in the background.
The Average Joes and Janes are usually in the Athletic, Business, or Doctor careers because I never use those for my playable Sims. I found that when I left them unemployed the game had a tendency to place them in whatever career my playable Sims were in. To me, there's nothing as boring as seeing the same adult Sims on every lot, in every world, and at work too. The Teens all have part-time jobs too.
No way, the day I play with an average Joe will be my final day.
Can't say I tolerate plain Joes/Janes for too long. Gotta spice it up somehow or else things get veryyy stale.
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Another plain Joe i have is Roy Weston, i advanced his storyline and he married Jamie Kylee and is now the step father to three children. Roy loves his older cowboy style, especially his shades and cowboy hat since he is one of the last of a dying breed of cowboy.
i have a few more in there, but the majority of my sims stand out in one fashion or another compared to these sims.
Both their children are artistic, but both of them will also not "excel in life" in the typical manner. The son will be a good painter but also an airhead athletic jock, never achieving his master painting LTW bc of spending most of his time in the gym and getting juiced with his high school friends instead of truly mastering his craft. He will, like his parents, only ever have a part-time job. He won't ever marry because of commitment issues, but he will be family-oriented, being more than happy to help raise his sister's child. His sister will be self-employed but keep most of her sculptures and paintings so she honestly won't bring a lot of income- she is thus a bit of a freeloader on her parents, spending her days on her two hobbies. I plan on letting her complete her LTW, but she will have an unplanned pregnancy and not know who the father is, as previously mentioned. Her parents and brother will have to do most of the parenting since she'll be more interested in her art than her kid.
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