So I'm definitely more of CAS/build mode player. My main goal is to fully customize my world with both Sims and the perfect homes/lots. I really like making sims with complex family structures and relationships to other sims/families. I often even edit the pre-existing sims to have siblings/parents/cousins/etc just to make them feel more realistic. I've even turned off aging for my main game play and manually age my sims up when I feel like it, but mainly I leave aging static. I guess since I spend so much time making custom families with nuanced relationships to other families and sims in all my worlds, I don't like all that work I put into them to feel wasted if they just end up aging up quickly. Sometimes I do think I've made gameplay a little stagnant without aging. Of course, to make all that work I do in CAS/build mode feel worth it, I do like to play my households to give them careers, relationships, and skills, but I am constantly using cheats to get them to the levels I want them to be.
How about you? What are you main goals when playing the sims?
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if we had the create a world tool i'd probably try to build more. but as i tend to start lots of new saves i'm usually rearranging the households and deleting townies, so i guess one of my main game styles is manage worlds? lol
oh another play style is downloading mods & cc, 15 gb worth of them on the game i'm insane
When I do end up playing, I can't really say I go for "realistic", I just do whatever I feel like at the time. Sometimes I'll build up each skill one-by-one or send my sim(s) to college. Other times I just use cheats to get where I want.
And I tend to stick to one generation since I don't really enjoy children or elderly sims. It's rare for me to age my sims at all.
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I totally edit all the random townies too. They always have the worst fashion lol
I used to only edit pre-made lots too but I've recently gotten into building and getting creative with the move objects cheats/debugs and I'm obsessed.
Every now and then I’ll personalize a Sim’s all 5 outfits but majority of the time I won’t. As far as building goes, I tweak a house so that it functions the way I want it to but I don’t go overboard. I don’t use decor or MOO. So I often have to delete a bunch of unnecessary stuff from the house.
I hear the the Sims 2 was so much better with gameplay. I never played, but I wish that the Sims 4 could be more like the Sims 2 from what I hear!
It's funny, I would have said I'm a gameplay player, but your description of yourself sounds an awful lot like me. But after I've done all that, I like to play them too.
I definitely do enjoy gameplay to an extent - I just find that most of my time in CAS or build mode
I tend to like to make Sims based on fandoms I like, which are ones like Harry Potter, and also make my own, and just go crazy. I have four save files so far, one dedicated to a fandom, which may turn into another fandom through generations. Two save files are a mixture of fandom Sims and my own sims. Finally, my last current save file is dedicated to my Sims 2 sims that I am recreating for Sims 4.
As for going crazy in the CAS, I tend to take a fandom I like, which would be something like Harry Potter. Follow canon as much as I can, so canon pairings, canon families, even though the Weasleys are too big for the game, so Ginny being born is up to chance. Then I will create a family where some characters like Lily and James are still alive, sometimes I may gender bend some characters. Then after I am done creating them in CAS, I move them into houses where most of them are neighbors. It makes gameplay interesting, and pretty funny too.
I like making sims with skills and jobs, so I can lately use them as townies. Seeing familiar faces in the world while playing is one of the most pleasant things for me haha.
Right now I'm also really into gameplay, but usually I get bored with one save game quite fast.
That's why I'm also making my own save, so it won't be so painful to start a new game. I'm not building everything, lots are mostly from the gallery. But I enjoy building occasionally, when I have ideas.
Edit: oh, and I always build a house for my current family myself.
I also enjoy CAS mode, especially giving my sims "unique" faces with cc skin details and chosing their hair. I don't always go on CAS though, just when my sims age up and I want to fix the hot mess.
I very rarely go on build mode, only when necessary for the household. However sometimes, if I'm bored with one specific household I have them save up a bunch of money for a home remodel.
CAS is just there, it works, but I mainly use it to decide which outfits my sims should wear. I don't really like making new sims. Most of the sims I play are born in the game and I normally don't edit their faces/body.
Build mode is a different story, I can get really into building sometimes. I don't build very often, but I love how easy it is compared to former games. There's nothing quite like playing a family in a house you built yourself or visiting a community lot you made. Makes me happy and proud.
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I go in and out of advanced CAS whenever I want. The pre-mades are just optional characters for me because I'm very comfortable making my own or editing townies. I like editing townies because I end up with quirky characters. With CAS characters, I generally start with a concept and then use the randomizer to find a base for a sim that I then edit until I'm ready to add them to the game. Sometimes I'll go back and add more outfits, etc, later. When townies go into CAS, I'll do advanced editing. More recently, I play with a lot of born-in-game sims but I add new characters to change the dynamics.
I spend most of my time playing but I also update houses whenever I need to. For gameplay, as I mentioned, I'm flipping between a lot of households in a lot of worlds so each theme is different. I do like having suggested optional gameplay goals so that I can decide whether a household will pursue those but I also come up with my own themes for any given household. I use the various packs that I have. I also go through a lot of hair and clothes so that sims do not all look the same.