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Which premade families do you keep?
ncisGibbs02
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I have purchased Snowy Escapes and because my computer can only handle 80 Saved Sims max. I had to be tough choosing which premade households I keep. I’m only including Expansion Packs as Game Packs have fewer townies anyway.
I save only one household per new world. This is who I kept but who would keep if you could save one household?
Eco Lifestyle: Harris family.
Cats & Dogs: Brant & Brent Hecking. Moving in Jamie Delgato.
Get Together: Joaquin and Sergio Romeo. Moving in Mila Munch.
Snowy Escapes: Akiyama family.
I save only one household per new world. This is who I kept but who would keep if you could save one household?
Eco Lifestyle: Harris family.
Cats & Dogs: Brant & Brent Hecking. Moving in Jamie Delgato.
Get Together: Joaquin and Sergio Romeo. Moving in Mila Munch.
Snowy Escapes: Akiyama family.
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Yes that’s right. Sorry I meant played Sims. I’ll edit.
Other Sims are there but they don’t retain skills or relationships. I go through the unplayed Sims once a month and delete who I don’t like.
Of those, I have the Heckings from C&D (gave them an English Bulldog and a child). The Hoapili family from IL (added two grandkids and a cat). And several from GPs, which you were not so interested in.
I personally like Yuki and Candy from GT, so I would have saved them. The Goth family from Willow Creek. Probably Caliente from Oasis springs. I am completely neutral to the SE families, but if I had to pick it would be the older couple with their granddaughter. In CL... I don't know. I like both the Karaoke household and the art critic. I occasionally marry them off to played Sims. In GF I like bits of all three landed families, but I would probably choose Ward. Probably the Pleasant twins in DU, but I also like the best friend roommates. In EL, I'd probably try to preserve all the master NPC types, so you picked the one family I deemed nonessential, but I have played with them, too.
So here is a list of ones I use most:
The Goths…… they are iconic and remind me of when I first started playing way back in the sims 1 and 2.
The Landgrabbs, another iconic family that brings back memories.
The Callientes. They and the Landgrabbs I cheat with because they own businesses.
Candy Bher
Paulo Rocco
Vanessa Jong
The Beheeda’s.
Morgan Frys
The Pleasant sisters. Another iconic family.
The Charm Family I haven’t really played them but the family interests me.
The two older women and their son in Eco lifestyle interest me too, but I haven’t really played them yet,
The Valtores. I haven’t really played vampires, but I’m interested in those two.
The Jangs. ( I haven’t played them much but I love their apartment and the story I can see behind them. I want to explore them more.
I haven’t played many households in the newer packs, or really explored many of the families.
I have more favorited, but many of these I have listed I seemed to really make my own, or want them attached to sims I made., or want to explore them more.
I may have some my Sims marry them if they hit it off, and I am only in the first couple generations with rotational play so far.
edit: wait i lied i deleted the get famous premades that have same name as someone from ts2 cause i added the ts2 ones and i didnt need the fakes for anything
edit 2:i did also delete baby ariel I don't need real people in my game thank
to play along with this game though these are my favourites per world:
Del Sol Valley - Judith Ward
Brindleton Bay - Hecking
Windenburg - Munch
San Myshuno - Feng
Willow Creek - Pancakes
*shocked gasp*
I really couldn't delete goths though but like i could add better goths u kno
Oasis Springs - Landgraab
*gasp 2*
I wouldn't delete caliente + don either though that just be lot of work to add them back in
Sulani: okay this is a struggle cause i honestly couldn't come up with better sulani sims can i just not delete
*puppy eyes*
MT.K:
I'll delete sims from here instead of sulani cause only sim i really know is theres cute teen dude in one of the households so id probably keep that sim
Glimmerbrook:
um just kinda meh so i dont really care
morgyn? perhaps?
Strangerville:
erm uh um i kinda like all but i guess erwin?
evergreen harbor: Harris for the bag guy
britechester: pleasant
...i guess in the end its just list of who i would invite to my dinner party
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I've once populated the save with my own Sims and deleted the premades and that was a big mistake. I missed the premades and the game felt empty. I deleted the whole save eventually because I didn't like it. I like my own Sims but I like the premades too. I don't need to play with them, I just want to see them and maybe interact with them sometimes. I can't imagine Sims 4 without them.
The only family I ocassionally leave are the Goths.
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I tend to think of the Goths, Landgraab and Pancakes as part of the world so I don’t see them as premades or townies. They only die through accidents. 😭
It’s great we all like different Sims. I’m glad most like the Goths too. 😊
@Simmingal I love the idea of thinking which Sims I’d like to invite to a dinner party. 🎉
If I could only have a limited amount of premades it would probably be The Goths, The Calientes, BFF, Parti Haus, Fyres, Karaoke Household, Bheeda, Pizzazz, Best Friends, Greenburg, Tinker, Akiyama and also Flemming, Broke, Jeong, Fletcher and Mahi'ai if possible. It would be difficult for me to get rid of any of those.
Cats & Dogs: Delgatos? Would probably skip
Get Together: Villareal family
Snowy Escapes: Ito family
I quite often remove the premades from their houses because I want those for another use and then either rehome them or mark them unplayed and unfavourited so that they still walk around the town.
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I just started playing with the Akiyama family last night and really liked them. I think I’ll have a lot of fun with the winter sports with them.
With the BBF house, when Travis gets a new girlfriend I always think she wouldn’t like him living with two other girls, so I usually get her to invite those two girls over for a pool party ...where they go missing. 😈
Goths 😎🥳.
Oh yes and the Calientes but I do give Nina and Dina makeovers ASAP!
Jeremy - Knight, Elderberry, McManus.
Jim - Landgraab.
Cornelius - chapter closed.
Jessica - Veleta, Gregory, Westbrook.
Willow Creek: BFF
Oasis Springs: Zest
Johnny is usually on good standing with the Renegades, so he will shelter Ulrike Faust, Wolfgang Munch, Morgan Fyres, Carlos Patel, Neal Peterson and Mia McNally.
Windenburg: Villareal
Will move in Portia and Brandon Colch. They will be so happy that their rivals (Feng and Landgraab) are gone, lol.
Forgotten Hollow: None
San Myshuno: Lobo
Diego will take in Amber Stein and Armand Di Aggro – a snobby, fancy household.
Brindleton Bay: Lynx
Kate will rescue the Delgatos’ cat and Mayor Whiskers.
Del Sol Valley: Jeong
Strangerville: Sigworth
Will take in Erwin Pries, George Cahill and Captain Whitaker (who is often George’s dog in my saves) and they might live in the crashed plane lot.
Sulani: Hoapili
Will take in Duane Talla and Tane Ngata.
Britechester: Julia Wright (Becca can go)
Will be joined by new students Danny Shino-Miller, Rohan Elderberry and Jordan Mayer and also move out of the dorm into a residential.
Evergreen Harbour: Betty and Rico
June Kay will move in with them, because I feel the town’s crafting theme would fit her.
Mt. Komorebi: Whichever is the smallest household will move in Yuki and Candy Behr. Then the original sims will get deleted, leaving only the Behr sisters.
So this isn't looking much different from the survivors of my usual premade purges. I'm going to save this list and maybe play this constellation sometime.
(There’s a couple of unfamiliar names in my list, they are all Maxis gallery sims that I love.)
Okay but seriously, I don't usually delete townies. I let them live and use them to further the needs of my families when the needs arise. Then I simply ignore them again. who knows, maybe one day one of my sims will become a Landgraab or a Goth or maybe a Zest??? The locals add flavor to the game so I think they're worth messing around with.
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Willow Creek: Summer Holiday married into my original household. I have a "new" Goth family that I said are distant cousins of the originals. Of my own households, notable sims include a "Seasons family". I added a family with that pack that is still in my game. There's also a large family called Lopez with several branches. They're descended from a Spa Day yoga instructor who turned into a wealthy fitness guru and had a bunch of kids. He has the long life trait so he is still around two generations later.
Oasis Springs: I actually didn't play with any of these but filled up the world with new sims that I play.
Windenburg: Bjergsens - they were all over my game. The daughters are adults now. Sofia is a hippie in Oasis Springs while Elsa is a doctor who kept the house and married an Italian stay-at-home dad. Villareals - all of them. Siobhan Fyres - she married someone else, not Sergio. She's now a successful businesswoman and still lives in that house. Her kids are grown up.
Forgotten Hollow: All of them but rarely.
San Myshuno: I actually played the Rasoyas. Raj had a traditional marriage and 5 kids who all went in different directions. One of his sons lives in Umbrage Villa, I think, in Willow Creek with a snobby wife and is a successful businessman. His daughter is an activist in San Myshuno who married her next door neighbor and is kind of a feminist with two daughters. A third son is really traditional. Two younger sons are around university age and they are techie. As I played it, nothing weird went on between Raj and his mother, she was just pressuring him to get married. I removed the unflirty trait and had him marry someone his mother approved of.
I should add that I play Salim Benali though it has been a while. He married his best friend, a beautiful bartender. He's a writer and she is a restaurant critic. They have three sons. They moved into the nicer place next door, obviously. No real drama there. They are a happy family.
Brindleton Bay: The Heckings adopted a son. One of the Heckings is male-to-female transgendered, Brent, I think. I moved the Delgatos to a large house in Oasis Springs because they hated the weather in Brindleton Bay. As I played them, they are Brazilian & Trinidadian and the weather just wasn't working for them. They love their new neighborhood in Oasis Springs on the green side of town across from a pool I added.
Sulani: I play this as a largely indigenous island with ownership restrictions so I've played all of the households sometimes. I added a shipwrecked character who married a woman who was living in the research station. The shipwrecked guy had a shaggy beard and only one worn out beachy outfit. Randomly, they won the lottery right around their wedding day so they had a million simoleons. As a result, I downloaded a posh beach mansion for them that they moved into. That's actually one of my favorite households.
Del Sol Valley: Judith Ward - I kind of love her as well because she has a lot of character and creates a lot of drama but always comes out on top. After marrying her butler-turned-star, the marriage failed when she rehearsed with a bit too much enthusiasm with one of her co-stars. She is remarried to the second husband for now. I kind of want to age her down and give her more time to get into shenanigans. I think she'll have a child at some point and be very jealous.
StrangerVille: Oddly, I play the Roswell house because Ted Roswell amuses me a little bit. I think he's another funny character. He was rejected by my main character for the story who married a military guy who helped her solve the situation. Ted and Meredith divorced and Meredith has actually moved across the street. Ted married Leslie Holland who is a hippie. They are opposites attracting. Meredith lives with the other roommates and is going to radically change from uptight to a happier person.
Britechester: I've only played these households a few times. I like the Elderberries a lot. Angela recently married Salim Benali's son and has a new baby. Lilith will probably move out but I don't know entirely what she will do.
Evergreen Harbor: I've played Knox a bit and I like him a lot. Currently, he's a dreamer in that tiny bedroom. He has not fallen in love. I do plan to send him skiing/snowboarding in Mt. Komorebi. I have played the Harrises a little bit, they had a third son. They're kind of "blue collar". Jed has not moved out yet. I have a family that are the Grims. I added them as descendants of the founder of Grim's Quarry. They are aging parents and a less traditional teenage daughter.
Mt. Komorebi: I have only checked in, not deeply played but I run into the Akiyama house quite a bit. I've played the family household in the lowest town. I've sent vacationers several times. I plan to go back and play this world more sometime.
In the past however, I have always played with the Pleasant family.