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Is it best to start a family or be a single sim?
I get a little bored with a single sim after awhile. But I get bored with raising children too. I can't remember the last time I raised a child until it's parents died and left the child as the inheritor of their property. But when I play a single sim I get attached to some pretty simette and end up moving her in and marrying her and having children only to get tired of that and create a new sim to play with. Which way do you think is the best way to play this game? Hmmm!!!
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It all depends on what you enjoy. Do you want to play dating and falling in love, do you mind 'waiting' during the pregnancy, do you enjoy raising children,...? By the way you can age up Sims early with a birthday cake if raising children takes too long.
Personally I enjoy starting with a single sim, mostly rags to riches style, and build up their life. This includes starting a family but also furnishing a nice house and getting promoted in a career. This is what I do most. Recently I created a sim with story book mode (or whatever it is called) so I have a little direction and two skills to start. That is be a fun alternative when I get bored.
If you get bored with raising families, perhaps you can deliberately play a sim without kids and focus on something else like completing collections, finishing aspirations, maxing skills,... I did that once and enjoyed it more than I expected.
My only advice for players new to the sims game would be to start with a small family, one or two sims to get to know the game mechanics and learn to take care of sims. Once a simmer knows how the game works, they should play what they enjoy most.
I also like having multiples in my game. Sometimes I have them be really similar to one another, sometimes I have them be quite different. I also like seeing how genetics play out. The girls in my avatar look really similar aside from eye colour; one has their dad's brown eyes and the other has their mum's blue eyes.
If I had to pick a play style it would be as a single sim. As I said before, I don't like raising children, so playing family man is out. Maybe if I allow my sim to age until he dies and start over with a new sim will do the trick. Hmmm!!!
That is the beauty of the sims, you can play however you like.
Yeah Atreya33. I'm going to start playing a single sim until he dies to see how that feels. I hate to see a sim die, but maybe that's what it will take to put some finality to a very open ended game.
just remember that all sims and families stories do not have to be the same
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Have you ever thought about switching up your household setup? Perhaps you could have a household with roommates, and pursue each of their individual lifepaths? That way, it will take your focus off of playing a single sim all the time.
For more fun, I often have the sims visit community lots or other households to meet more sims.
I'm kinda hooked on "being" the sim. I tend to start off single, meet a girl, get married, have a couple of children, and then I get bored bc of raising the children. It's actually funny teaching the child how to potty and helping with the homework, but the game tends to be more focused on the children than on the sim I'm portraying.
I think you should go ahead and open a few new saves. In each save create a different set of circumstances. IE Save 1 The Single Sim, allowing you to explore the life of a single sim. Save 2 The Couple; Save 3 The family. That way when you get bored with one particular lifestyle, you can switch saves to explore another.
At any rate, have FUN.
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It just sounds like you need more adventure in your sims lives. A single sim is boring to me too. But I don't like raising children or playing traditional families either so I don't do that. I started out playing that way with a 9 to 5 job and wondered why I was so darn bored lol.
Then I thought to myself one day, why do I have to follow the same old boring routine? This is the kind of game you play however YOU want.
So my sim quit his job, divorced his wife and got rid of the kids (sorry kids😆)
And ever since then I go out of my way to create my own fun storylines of apocalypse, fantasy words, alien invasions or just whatever I'm in the mood for that day. Sure it takes some imagination too because this game doesn't give us enough wild fantasy things. But with the help of a few mods,cc and my imagination I make it work. And most importantly make it FUN!
My sim hasn't worked in real life years lol. I very rarely play romance and don't raise kids traditionally. Though I do enjoy playing with kids so I always have some in my sims lives one way or another.
Playing strangerville is a good way to break out the traditional mold too and do something adventurous.
Or have your sim(s) explore the temple in the jungle pack. I took three vampire brothers there recently for the first time! It was fun!
Maybe give your sim a close sibling or best friend? To be with. So he's not lonely but doesn't end up in a traditional wife and kid role?
Maybe give them a little child sibling if you would like a kid?
It's why I mainly end up playing siblings and friends.
But, I have custom aging and story progression with mods. That makes the world more alive for me.
Really, however you play is fine. Some people like starting over a lot, while I prefer to play a save for a long time.
Then in the later stages, putting a single sim into that save and experiencing your world through their eyes can be extremely satisfying.
Nothing wrong with starting over all the time, though. In addition to my main save I have many short lived side saves with narrow, quickly attainable gols. Its definitely a fun way to play.
I've started to branch out and play more rotationally. That usually consists of rotating between households that have some sort of connection between them. That came from my Westbrook family legacy, the above mentioned 4 generation save. I haven't played that save in months.
Currently, I'm playing the premade families. I've had a lot of fun with it. I've tried a few premades in the past but got bored of the rotation. This time around, I've made it all the way through Willow Creek, and halfway through Oasis Springs.
I mostly let the game do what it does, but I have pushed a few of my own boundaries, such as Geoffrey and Nancy Landgraab both having affairs--Geoffrey with their butter and Nancy with J Huntington. Bob and Eliza have gotten divorced. This may seem mild to many other simmers, but I usually play happy families. I didn't want to this time, and that's probably why I'm enjoying it so much.
But recently I have been playing random gallery sims til I get bored and then move to another one.
I'm just starting a family with my sim, and he and Morgan Fryes just had their 1st child. I say 1st because the 1st child is a girl. I didn't cheat with MCCC to make sure it was a boy, but if the next one is a girl I'll cheat and make it a boy. I intend to have at least 1 male child to carry on the family name. I think I'll play this legacy thing through until I get tired of it.
I start off with aging off. But when I want a real challenge, I leave it on and hunt for a mate to have kids with.