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Difficulty playing more than 1 sim?
Blairwaldorfsimsfan
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I have four sims soon to be 5 in my game play. It's being very overwhelming and not fun to play sometimes. The sims needs get low really fast. Although I love having milestones to reach it really hard for the kids to get good grades in school because of all they have to complete. That's the most difficult task playing multiple sims. They all have these task to complete in order to progress in school and work.
Anyone else feel this way?
Anyone else feel this way?
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It is a challenge sometimes, but for me that is part of the fun.
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With a new game I work my way up from easy to more challenging gameplay. Multi-sim households are always the most challenging. If you start out with a single sim household it is easier to learn the game mechanics and find your way around the game. Once you know where everything is and have mastered the UI multi-sim households become easier to play.
I have never been able to manage my sim's base needs without cheats. I sucked at it in TS3, and I suck at it in TS4. I totally turn off need decay when I'm working on their careers and don't turn it back on until they are finished and have at least the sleeping and eating buffs from aspiration rewards.
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One thing I noticed after days of playing that made managing sims easier (people probably know this) - the motives menu actually has buttons you can click. So instead of pausing the game (like I normally do), clicking the fridge, checking to see if there's leftovers to eat... or assigning them something to cook... Just click the Hunger button on the motives menu and off they go, doing all that automatically!
That's a big help for micro-managing. Don't know why I didn't find it sooner!
Of course it'll be hard to micromanage everything since many things are different from previous games.
I suggest saving that game to bring it back later and "training" yourself with 2-3 sims household first.
Let's assume,for example, you have a legacy, and you've got two parents, maybe one grandparent Sim, and three children/ teenagers and a baby.
The parents need constant watching because you need to
a) fulfil their whims
b) attend to the tedious minute tasks needed to meet their aspiration goal and
c) attend to the tedious minute tasks needed to meet their promotion goals
The kids need watching because
a) you have to travel around searching out kids to make friends with
b) you've got to fulfil their annoying requirements to move up grade or they stay stuck at C or B forever
c) they have their own annoying little aspiration goal on top of that
And teens are the same, only you feel obligated to try and find them a partner - and relationships take so long to build up, that needs constant working on as well.
Add in babies, who cry constantly for seemingly no reason and need monitoring at all times or you'll get a warning from social services, as well as needs that decay too quickly (Sims keep waking up in the night for the bathroom, disrupting their sleep, and they don't go back to bed) and normal tasks like eating (my Sims never finish a meal because they talk too much!) and showering taking several decades, and it's so much hassle it stops being fun altogether.
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