[ SECRET POST #2041 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2041 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/rj75D.png

[elaminator]

This is why my Sims live forever. I recently had to move some of mine back into town after they disappeared and it's killing me having to relearn their skills, reform their relationships, etc. Baaaaah.

[(Anonymous)]

Sim players: What's the best way to get into The Sims as a game? In all honesty, I can't play it for very long when I treat it as my toybox. It's just gets boring quickly. What should I do to keep playing it?

[kitkatlittlebat]

I kind of view sims as an elaborate, ongoing, visual fic. For me, I make characters I love and establish stories for them; it's what keeps me playing. My advice is make a few characters you like and just play around. And definitely take breaks from playing. Sim marathons can get tedious (and this is coming from someone who's played it since the first lol).

[fingalsanteater]

Yeah. This. I like maintaining my neighborhood, watching my Sims grow up and have families (and helping them along when I need too), etc. I'll play pretty intensely for a month or so, then take a few months off, then I'll miss my Sims and play intensely again for while, repeat. Lately I've only been playing on weekends, maintaining the town and such, so that helps with getting too bored. ("Maintaining the town" means dressing my Sims in cute clothes, scrambling townie face 1 genetics, having babies, skilling up certain Sims, etc.) I switch households a lot.

I've been playing the same neighborhood through a several of generations and I like seeing the great-great grandchildren of some of my favorite Sims walking around town. It's fun for me to see throwback genetics.

I have a couple of mods that help give me awesome god powers and fix errors/bugs, and that helps add to the fun.

I guess it just depends on what kind of games you like too. I've been playing Sims games since Sim Town in the '90's, so I've been hooked on Sims games since then.

[(Anonymous)]

Challenges like build-a-city or legacies with actual rules, imo.

[(Anonymous)]

I love challenges. It can be a ton of fun to do them, and there's one for practically every aspect of the game on a forum somewhere.

[(Anonymous)]

Hm...legacies? Build-a-city? Can you link me to some good options? Also, I own The Sims 3.

[novembermond]

nett's mega list of mini challenges
date or icinerate more challenge links at the end

build a city challenge rules in the sticky post links to awesimsauce challenge, legacy challenge, isbi and xenophilia in the sidebar.
diff set of bacc rules

most of those are for sims2 sorry. you simply adjust the rules to your game and gameplay.

[silverau]

For me it's trying to make Sims of my favorite characters from other franchises and having them do things that are amusing to picture those characters doing.

That, and playing with friends. Doing goofy stuff in video games is always much more amusing with friends.

[ooh_mrdarcy]

I download user-made content and sometimes I enact historical events for fun. I tried to do the JFK assassination once, but it didn't work. Still bitter about that.
I also love doing challenges from time to time.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh...how would you go about trying to get something to happen? Can you describe a successful experience? Also, challenges?

[(Anonymous)]

Legacy challenges. Whenever I get bored of my Sims I look for new challenges, like you can only pick certain traits or some other restrictive factor. It can make for some interesting games. The official forum is full of them.

[(Anonymous)]

I really love building the houses and letting my sims loose to run wild. I especially like setting up games that would totally be a no-no in real life.

Such as mazes, where if they want food they have to traverse the maze, pass things they dislike i.e. hydrophobe, hates the outdoors - just for a packet of chips


Or lock a bunch of kids in a room with firecrackers and see how long they last before burning things down

Or two sims who are opposites locked in a room - wait and see if they become friends or enemies



I rarely stick to a family. I keep coming back to the game, but I won't play it for long. Just as long as my experiments/ideas carry out.

Genetic/breeding experiments tend to last the longest. Took forever for a family of imaginary friends.

[citrinesunset]

Sometimes I'll come up with stories to have my sims act out. I've made some really wacky soap opera-ish scenarios.

I also try to minimize the aspects of the game I find boring or frustrating. For me, that's mainly building and decorating. I like the idea of creating cool houses, but I'm never happy with the houses I build, and I find building frustrating. So I use pre-built houses.

But other people love building and focus almost entirely on that.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, this is something that I've done: I took a race that I created for a space opera that I SWEAR I'M GOING TO WRITE SOMEDAY SERIOUSLY IT'LL HAPPEN and decided to build one of their historical cities. On one side of the city are the regular folks; on the other side are the Tanihle, who are the descendants of the old aristocratic families. They don't really have any true power in society anymore, but they're still rather wealthy and are eccentrically holding onto the old ways. They practice a very rigid form of arranged marriage that involves cycling through each of the families in a very specific way over a very specific length of time. This is supposed to ensure that the bloodlines don't get too homogeneous, but of course since there are far fewer families than there used to be, that's kind of a lost cause at this point.

So, of course, you've got the patriarch who suggests that it might be best for them to start pairing with important non-Tanihle families, and there's drama and argument and resistance (particularly since it would be rather difficult to convince such a family of the benefit of arranged marriage, something the larger society no longer practices). And of course one of the children falls for a non-Tanihle. And there's forbidden romance and hijinks and CRIME!

Anyway, the point is: make up a story and create its characters. Have a "right side" and "wrong side" of the tracks, with mansions on one side and capes on the other. And make sure someone's a loose cannon.

I've also made crazy hermits before, which is pretty fun, particularly if you have Pets. Build a small cabin in the woods, surround it with a ridiculous amount of trees, and give your Sim a panoply of cats and dogs and a room filled with birds. Then, try to keep up!

There's also Sim Survivor: give your Sims just a few amenities, build a moat around them, and see who outlives everyone else. Reward that person with a lovely house. After a while, you'll have enough Survivors that you can start to breed them.

[silverau]

Awww. That's so sad. ;.;

I never let my Sims die...

[ooh_mrdarcy]

Now I feel kind of bad.

I get really bored easily of the sims I already have, and even though I love them, I'm always like "haa, fresh meat" when I get to make new sims.
It's really fun watching them die, and I always make these fictional biographies after they do.

I guess I miss some of them, but it's more fun to see new lives destroyed and exploited.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the same way. No matter if I start off any character, whether in Sims or fic, with the best intentions I will end up destroying them and putting them through tough times just to make things interesting. I get bored if everything is sunshine and rainbows all the time.

[hornpile]

oh man, I have these sims that have been around for several years (mostly because the computer i was playing sims on got wiped so I backed up the data for the neighborhood and only just reinstalled the game and added the neighborhood ahh run on sentence) and I don't want any of them to die! I might let a few of them age up and go on with life but for a lot of them I will probably be using hacks to keep them alive forever. FOREVER.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't let many of my Sims get old, let alone die.

I wonder what this says about me. I wonder what your secret says about you. Move over dream analysis, How People Play Sims coming through.