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Premade Rotation: What should I do?
SweetieWright_84
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As some of you may know, I've been rotating through the premade households. I've really enjoyed this new (for me) way of playing. But I have reached a point where I can't make a decision.
I feel like rotating through every household in all of the worlds is a really slow process but I want to see my original plan through. I've only made it to San Myshuno, playing in order of the way the worlds appear in the world selection screen.
I also want to lessen the amount of households I play so the rotation will move a bit quicker. By doing this, I can focus on the households I'm most interested in playing and (hopefully) have a less chance of getting bored. But with not being too familiar with premades, I feel like I would miss out on some really fun households.
I can't decide. Help me fellow simmers. What should I do?
I feel like rotating through every household in all of the worlds is a really slow process but I want to see my original plan through. I've only made it to San Myshuno, playing in order of the way the worlds appear in the world selection screen.
I also want to lessen the amount of households I play so the rotation will move a bit quicker. By doing this, I can focus on the households I'm most interested in playing and (hopefully) have a less chance of getting bored. But with not being too familiar with premades, I feel like I would miss out on some really fun households.
I can't decide. Help me fellow simmers. What should I do?
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Premade Rotation: What should I do? 41 votes
Continue playing as you originally planned
17%
7 votes
Continue playing as you originally planned, then decide which households to cut
39%
16 votes
Choose a few worlds or households and continue
24%
10 votes
Choose one world and rotate between those households
9%
4 votes
Other
9%
4 votes
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On my main playsave I rotate households both custom and premades. Since I love big families this became a problem once we got the sim limit and honestly some premades are just sitting in the other households section like in a immortality limbo waiting to be eventually selected.
It's fun though. A lot of households surprised me how much I liked them (the Heckings, George Cahill, etc). As someone who doesn't really build and doesn't really go searching for specific kind of houses/lots, its interesting to play in a lot of the variety of premade households. The celebrity house lots are really cool design wise and give a lot of character to the household they come with. How else would you find out that the Bailey-Moons must either voluntarily just go to the bathroom whenever or wherever they please or like go on their lawn or something. (Sarcasm/joke)
It might also be more complicated to track the aging, but you could also consider shortening the time spent with each family through the end of this rotation. Just enough to get a taste of whether you would enjoy playing them again on future rotations.
As @HavenRose suggested, you could always try just a sim-day or two in each household and then see who you think you'll have the most fun playing.
I was off to a great start. Bob and Eliza got divorced and are living separately. Geoffrey Landgraab was having an affair with the butler, while Nancy was having an affair with J Huntington. Don accepted a proposal from Katrina, but on the same night, he got Dina pregnant.
As for aging, I have it for only active households so I'm not too worried about that.
1. Deathful incidents are lovely way to include sims without actually playing them for long times
2. You can always include sims from household A to the story of household B without playing the families separately
3. not all sims have to "exist" simultaneously its okay to leave some of them to different time periods in your save
4. what time is it? up to the watcher we can roll forwards backwards to the side...
5. sims stories looks and houses can always be changed to something more fun
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Welcome to the world of premades! I play the premades on rotation too along with a small number of Sims I created and some I found on the gallery. I have too many in my game now. I have to play on unlimited because there are so many great ones in the Maxis gallery that I added to my game. It's a lot of fun especially once you get to know all the premade households and what traits, hobbies and careers they have. It really does feel like the Sims around town become familiar. I don't really play by any rules anymore and usually just choose based on the pack I want to play or the career or hobby the Sim has. Some of my Sims get more play then others, but I have played them all by now and try to make sure there is a Sim with every career in the game and every hobby. Some of my Sims are doctors, police, writers, some knit as a hobby, some are farmers/gardeners, some are families with toddlers, so I pick based on the activity I want to do in the game or based on the location I want to go or if I want to play with families ie. toddlers, kids if I want to play as a Vampire I rotate through the vampire households, etc. If I want to go to Batuu then I have some Sims I always send there, and I have my Jungle explorers etc. I have my University students I like to play etc. If I can't decide I usually just pick something I haven't done in a while.
Maybe you should pick one household per world and play for a short time, then switch to another world and household? You will cycle through the worlds quicker then if you try to play all the households in one world first before switching worlds.
Can you elaborate a bit more on #4? As for #5, I'm not playing in the default houses. I moved all of the premades to my non-populated save. As I rotate between the households, I redecorate their houses to fit the household.
That's a really good idea. I may do that. I started playing all households in each world so I wouldn't get confused of what households I've played. Also, so I wouldn't go directly to the more interesting households, and get bored with the less interesting ones.
Thank you both for the suggestions.
Play each sim as an individual, not a group defined by the household in the context of the game mechanic. The Household is simply the current residence that the played sim may or may not own.
I have just shy of 200 played sims in my game including the pre-mades. Most of my game generated townies have had their outfits (and sometimes traits) edited and customised in some way to get rid of the silliest ones. I also never use fast speed except when the entire played household is asleep or at work/school.
I do have a handful of my own sims that I deem my primary characters alongside the pre-mades.
I have also set the following max sims allowed on lot and max sims in household at 35 using MCCC.
I toggle autonomy/aging on/off depending on context. - Devs, please, please put these options on the main UI
I pick one sim and start playing. When I get to a situation where I think I would like to control the current sims I am interacting with to evolve an interesting situation - Ask to Join the Household. Move that sim in and away I go. I keep playing that story thread, joining and removing sims from the current household as the story, whims, etc dictate.
As an example, I will start with the Candy Behr on a weekday morn, say about 10.00am to put in a wrinkle. Load up household, I don't even look at Yuki's needs, off to school she goes.
I may then set Candy doing practice. Shortly, thereafter, Dominic knocks on the door. I may get Candy to ask to join Dominic's household and travel to his place in the countryside with them both. Now, I can play Candy and parts of the Fyres household at the same time send Morgan to school if needed and so on.
Later in the day, I could get Morgan to ask Candy to join the household and during that remove Candy from the Fyres, add Morgan and all travel to Candy's place back in town giving me a chance to control the interactions between Morgan and Yuki after school. Yuki could then have a sleepover where i can control and set some desired objectives for Morgan.
Following day, Morgan travels back home says hello to her mum asks to join the household and she is back and then I can follow a story thread from the Fyres POV.
The main thing the game demands is that you leave one sim at an owned property so the Behr's house is always the Behr's house. In the scenario above I could have got Yuki and Morgan to invite Sofia over as well and Dominic and Candy go off and join the Bergsen household. Now you can play all the adults hanging out on the island or the three teens in town.
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
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The day's divinity....
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I cut households that aren’t:
Different saves are always varied as some premades flourish in one save but end up in the pool in another 😢 😂.
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@musteni, to answer your question, I was playing a week in each household. Except for households that I split, they would have half a week. For example, the Pancakes divorced and Eliza moved out. She now lives in the same neighborhood as the Goths. I played half the week with her and the other half with Bob.
As it stands now, I think I may continue playing the way I intended, and cut the households that I don't like. I may also shorten the days of rotation to half a week for each household. Thanks everyone for the advice. I knew you'd all come through for me. Please feel free to continue offering ideas and suggestions.
I used to be really strict with my rotations, not so much anymore. If I get fed up of a household after 2 days I'm happy to move onto someone else. But mostly I end up playing each for half a week.
I think it's nice to play through all the different worlds as it adds variety but I tend to stick to my favourite sims.