Play Characters in the same town?

LeaWells · August 2009

Is there a way for me to play with all the characters I created in the same town? I have to play with each individual family in it own little town. So I'd move in 8 people and then kick them out. :?

Emmeh · August 2009

If you open up the options menu when playing a family and then press 'edit town' you can add other households into the same neighbourhood. This does get rid of the current family's wishes, but it's so fun to see your other sims running around town. XD

SimGuru_Auroras · August 2009

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sims2fanticc · August 2009

thanks, this helped my problem too. I thought it was a real shame you couldnt play with more than one household in the same town, but now i guess you can

mia2603 · August 2009

Just be careful when you move to play another sim: your original sim might lose all they have in the inventory. That's happened to some people, myself included.

SarahPumkin · August 2009

so does that mean i can have my sim play as usual and my BF can create a sim in the same game so we can be friends when we play our games? we have tried doing this but failed... couldn't work out how?

Cinnamonbite · August 2009

Emmeh wrote:

This does get rid of the current family's wishes, but it's so fun to see your other sims running around town. XD

It also gets rid of all their money and everything they had in their storage. :evil:

Emmeh · August 2009

Cinnamonbite wrote:

Emmeh wrote:

This does get rid of the current family's wishes, but it's so fun to see your other sims running around town. XD

It also gets rid of all their money and everything they had in their storage. :evil:

Their money? I've never had that happen. I did lose their inventory though, which wasn't good as I now have a ghost that can't return to the netherworld...

IdaNoReally · August 2009

You should always store important items (like tomb stones) in the family inventory. They should fix this problem in a patch.

Emmeh · August 2009

IdaNoReally wrote:

You should always store important items (like tomb stones) in the family inventory. They should fix this problem in a patch.

I've learned from my misakes... XD

EDIT: That typo was not an intentional pun.

duck74 · August 2009

Cinnamonbite wrote:

Emmeh wrote:

This does get rid of the current family's wishes, but it's so fun to see your other sims running around town. XD

It also gets rid of all their money and everything they had in their storage. :evil:

and if they are almost really really old like 89 days old they will die without you even knowing (but i think they do furnarals)

whatpersona · August 2009

In the edit town option, there's the "change active household" button. It leads you back to the beginning screen where you first install the game. And you can choose any current household to play with. Basically you get to play with any other Sim you want. Hope this helps

SarahPumkin · August 2009

yah i did this! the only unfortunate thing is you do lose wises etcc but the biggest bummer is that you lose things out of your inventory! I had the moodlet manager, hospital shares, death flower, laptop, guitar, collection helper and a few more things in my inventory and when i returned to play my sim after creating and playing another I had lost all but the laptop and guitar

Yiggle · August 2009

So in the edit town option will i be able to go back to create a sim and make another person and then move them in or do they have to be in my already made sim area? I have been playing this game since it came out and couldnt understand how to play multiple sims at once! I will try this edit thing out!

AvaCadavra · August 2009

I'm pretty sure you can do that. I think I did it once, totally by accident, of course. When you're playing try to look on the options menu. Edit Town, I believe. You can add families and houses at will, I'm pretty sure.

Sims3girl1 · August 2009

GREAT!

Sims3girl1 · August 2009

NO you can't play other families in the same town but you can go to edit town and create a family put them in a house go out of edit town and see the sims you made run around town!!

Gramcrackers · August 2009

Playing my game I've found a difference between 'Save' and 'Save As'. When I use 'Save As' before 'Edit Town' the lot freezes in the time where I left everyone and they don't progress when I play another family in the town. When I use 'Save' ( it can get confusing because any new lot I play will have the name of the first lot played and shows up in the Main Menu that way the next time I play or edit town) but changing houses this way keeps story progression going for the previously played houses. Has it's drawbacks though. There seems to be an accelleration process in a town played with 'Save'. I was playing Brandi(Newbie) and she was getting a relationship with Skip Broke and then the Broke family just disappeared from the town.

YavinB · September 2009

Actually, you can. I did it before. First go to edit town. On the bottom left corner there is a panel. At the top left corner there is a icon that has 2 houses. Click it. This will change the active household, so you can pick a new household.

GalacticGal · September 2009

Yiggle wrote:

So in the edit town option will i be able to go back to create a sim and make another person and then move them in or do they have to be in my already made sim area? I have been playing this game since it came out and couldnt understand how to play multiple sims at once! I will try this edit thing out!

You can go right into CAS if you desire and create away! Then place that Sim(s) into a lot or other household. Fromt here you can choose which household to play.

I started doing a little rotation play myself. I made three families and put them in lots on the same block, three houses in a row. It's fun to play a household and pan the camera around to see what's going on with the neighbors! And running into my other Sims downtown is cool, too.

Try setting your lifespan on Epic, however, if things move too quickly before you can get to the other families.

GalacticGal · September 2009

duck74 wrote:

Cinnamonbite wrote:

Emmeh wrote:

This does get rid of the current family's wishes, but it's so fun to see your other sims running around town. XD

It also gets rid of all their money and everything they had in their storage. :evil:

and if they are almost really really old like 89 days old they will die without you even knowing (but i think they do furnarals)

Have one of your Sims regularly read the newspaper! That's where births, deaths, moves, etc. are reported. And, if your Sims has a relationship with other Sims you get a pop-up warning that a Sim is getting old and you should probably visit them soon. Then, you'll get a notice, too, of when they pass away.

YavinB · September 2009

It also gets rid of all their money and everything they had in their storage.

That didn't Happen to me......just the wishes where gone.

And cause all that happened, well I'm sorry.

sirona66 · September 2009

when i have many in one town that I wish to play, i just make sure they have little to nothing in their inventory's. this keeps me from all that worry about what might happen. I also found that doing one day cycles, seem'd to not interfer with what was in their inventory, it stayed. But then again maybe its just my game, because many others say they loose way to much and it agravates them.

I am trying a cycle of one of the towns, trying to find out if you can even do it. I wanted to do a cronical story of the families that live, move and die there, by going to each home in the town. First time i tried this the game didn't actually crash, but the save was rediculsly long. takeing me into actually turning off the computer so the save never worked. I am thinking to many families in the same neighborhood played causes the game to scream in agony. So I only stick to a few now.

But I guess the answer is yes you can play more than one family per neighborhood save, just cautiously.

YavinB · September 2009

Yeah i guess you could say.

Sims3girl1 · September 2009

Yeah well.....NO you can't play with different sims in the same town..ITS NOT LIKE THE SIMS2 AT ALL!!....But there is one thing you can do..First go to edit town then there is a button that has a house on it and if you run your mouse over it it say CHANGE HOUSE HOLD and you can play with a different houshold and...This tool makes thing so much easier PLUS If you built a awsome house and you don't want your current household to live in it then VWALA That is what you do!!!! Thankyou and i hope this helped a bunchessssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

angelaanna2007 · October 2009

Yes, life goes on for the inactive households. I had an interesting (and somewhat disturbing) experience with that. I got a great new and fantastically fast computer this past weekend (HOORAH!!), and I loaded SIMS3 on it. (I had played it previously on my old laptop, but it was soooo slow.) Anyway, now that it was newly loaded on my computer, I decided to create a single father and his teenaged daughter. When the daughter aged to a young adult, I moved her out of the house and began playing her as the active household in her new home across the street from dear ol' Dad.

She went to visit her father awhile later and discovered that she now had a half-brother. I checked the relationship tree, and discovered that after she moved out, her father had got engaged to HER high school best friend and had a child with her. I was floored.

Wow!

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