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Habits of a Simmer
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Whenever I play a Sims game I always have the habit of remaking at least one of my Sims in most of my Households, I also have the habit of making Sims fall in love in one day and get married that same day(I'm trying to do it slowly but I fail most times xD). I also have the habit of making plain houses or ones that are identical to the houses I made before, and I almost always put the kitchen near the front of the first room. I also have the bad habit of feeling like I want to buy the most expensive stuff and every gameplay object available even though I enjoy playing as poorer Sims more 
Oh, and I almost forgot, I have the habit of downloading a bunch of Custom Content and Mods I almost never use x.x
So as a Simmer, what are your habits when playing the game or in real life?
Oh, and I almost forgot, I have the habit of downloading a bunch of Custom Content and Mods I almost never use x.xSo as a Simmer, what are your habits when playing the game or in real life?
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I don't put the kitchens in the same place, but I do build lots/scenes from other games. Always have and always will. It's rare I play cookie cutter so in that vein of thought you can see why I don't really know how to build an actual home..but I build stuff like land fills, caves, or from descriptions from books of a home from a story etc. That's why my 'normal' lots I share get very few downloads in the past in any of these games, because they show I don't really understand 'normal' structure of someone's home. But I have a very big pet peeve with the roof in all the games. If a roof is added to a building it has to be structurally sound.
I'm silly like that. Because I imagine which way rain would run off that roof and if it looks like water would stand on the connecting roof, then I'm going to tear down Maxis' roof and redo it. Because water will just stand there and to me that's not sound architecture. I wonder sometimes if I am the only one that looks a Maxis roof and thinks that? I mean one connecting with the other and nowhere a gutter could go..so nope, that isn't structurally sound roof and would rot in a few years. lol so, yeah I rip them off and redo them to make sense for rain, but may not be as pretty as the one before.
_/\/\_..... <That roof there, would rot.
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I've also been fond of recreating houses I have lived in, for Sims2. I have a particular floor plan I'm very fond of. To learn that house has since been torn down (thank you city of Los Angeles, [snarkiness intended]) is offensive to me since my grand uncle and his wife owned it. My eldest son took his very first steps in that living room! Oh, well.
I have continued to have this house in my game. It belongs now to my singer Sim, (who is now my Founder) from the same Cantrell family mentioned above. I tend to play large families. I'm given to the number five for children. Wishing they would increase the number of Sims per lot. My ancestors had ten children, later after his first wife passed away, he married a second time and had eight more!
I try to have my Sims succeed at their careers, earn enough money to be comfortable, but in some cases, as with the Cantrell's who are very wealthy up front, I will use money cheats. I also am fond of using the characters from the original Star Trek in my game, especially Spock, which thanks to the 'only aliens can have pointy ears', this go-around, he looks far more human in Sims4 to my chagrin.
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My other biggest habit is starting new saves and rarely going back to old ones.
I usually don't play sims to elders. If they get too old, by that time I've lost interest in them and started a new family already. My sims live forever *u*
I always take preset families and screw them up. Affairs, breaking up, multiple babies, etc. Especially the goth family. They're all dead now.
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And i tend to spend more time on the storyline then i do the playing, once the story has ended i start a new family but thats because i dont get much play time, with work and kids so when I start up again i beginning the game again.
I would these are habits i definitely need to break though
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(Sorry, don't mean to derail)
We don't yet have mansard roofs in Sims 4. (However, there are YouTube tutorials where you can "fake-form" the look of a mansard-type roof in Sims 4.) But do you mean hipped roofs? If so, yes you can extend the roof out so it overhangs. Just pull on the arrows.
Before:
After:
You can get creative with shaping it:
And make nice combinations:
Thanks for this xD I'm bad with Roofs and need all the advice I can find
Sometimes your creativity is limited where you use it most, but you can use those limitations to inspire new forms of creativity you may never have thought of beforehand.
I also tend to wipe out maxis pre-made sims and homes and make it all my own.
I tend to use a lot of the same traits for my sims. (we really do need more!)
It's either an instrument or an easel for my sims
Sometimes your creativity is limited where you use it most, but you can use those limitations to inspire new forms of creativity you may never have thought of beforehand.
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I always start new worlds/neighborhoods with new stories in mind because I like doing something different at each start.... and I never go back even when I tell myself I'll finish something.
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I almost always use my own builds for my Sims. To date, I've only used one lot from the community gallery for one of my Sims. Not because I don't like other Simmers lots, I do! Some of y'all make my jaw drop in admiration with your creations. It's only because I play 99.9% of the time offline due to my toaster of a computer and because my gameplay lags horribly with large, elaborate lots.
I have downloaded quite a few though that I hope to use one day! Consequently, most of my gameplay builds are on the smallish side, one story with or without a basement that morph into maybe two stories and a basement max overtime. I also have a completely vanilla game, no mods or cc. Again, I DO love both of those things, have a TON in my TS2 game. I just don't dare because of my old laptop.
For traits, I lean towards the more positive ones; Loves Outdoors, Art Lover, Good, Cheerful, Creative, Romantic, Music Lover, Genius, etc. I have not played any Mischeif, Mean, Snob, Slob, etc. traits yet. I will be trying them for the first time soon though as part of the Time Lord Challenge. Should be interesting... o.O
I always start out with a single YA Sim, and almost never, ever cheat to build their home unless it's allowed as part of a challenge. I love doing the 'Rags to Riches' type of gameplay with most of my Sims. It's just so satisfying watching/helping them earn their way through life from nothing to eventual prosperity! I tend to give most of them the Nature aspirations; painters, gardeners, anglers or curator type Sims too. Sometimes they're writers or Tech Gurus. Unless it's required they age for a challenge, I always play with aging and autonomy off as well.
Sidenote: In fact, I just had my first Sim death tonight. Second Artist, my Time Lady in the Time Lord Challenge, accidentally woo hooed her elder boyfriend to death. I tried to wake her up to plead for his life, but the game wouldn't let me.
Very few of my Sims have jobs outside of the home. Although I do love the Scientist career. But to be fair, it's the only active one I've tried so far and it could just be because I love my alien Scientist Sim so much.
I usually don't do anything with the Premade Sims/Families or their homes. I might have my Sim talk to them if they see them out and about, but that's it. One exception would be the 'blank template' save I created that has a clean slate in all the worlds/neighborhoods. I kicked out everybody from their homes and then bulldozed them and all the venues. I intended to use that to build my own completely custom (as much as allowed anyway) gameplay with all my own builds and Sims. I haven't gotten very far with it yet though. lol
When I played TS1 & TS2, I would start out with a single Sim and then have them meet someone, fall in love, marry and start a family, live out their lives until they were elders and their children had moved out. Then I'd play with the children... lather, rince repeat. lol But, I haven't played any families in TS4... yet! I do have high hopes for the future.