Lot Sync Timer: how do YOU use it?
AuKestrel:
This isn't a question about how to install it; rather, it's a question about game play. I found two interesting threads (here and here) on how people planned to use the LST and how to get one's neighbourhood back in sync but... I still feel like I'm missing something, because all I seem to use it for is to keep track of how much time has passed on a lot, and to grow up babies. Don't get me wrong: if all it did was grow up babies, it would still be worth its pixellated weight in gold.
So. If you use the LST, how do you use it? When you add a new family to the neighbourhood (if a child grew up and moved out) what do you set the LST on? Why? Do you set the LST to match the original family timer (that the adult child came from) or do you reset the original family timer to match the new household? Or do you do something else entirely? This is an open-ended, information-gathering question!
J. M. Pescado:
The LST is intended to keep ages synchronized in non-immortal families so people retain their correct relative ages. If a child moves out of the lot, you should set his timer to be the same as the originating family's timer, obviously. Anything else is Doing It Wrong.
pamysue:
I play all houses for 4 days each in rotation. The LST is what keeps me on track with that. If I start a new family and everyone is playing to 24 days, I would start their timer at 20 days and then play them for 4.
Kyna:
I play on a 3 day rotation. When a sim goes off to college, I return them to the main hood 4 days after they left. I have paperwork to tell me which day they are due to return on. I send my sims off to college at 6 days to adulthood, rather than send them off a batch of sims at once, so in my college lot I might have 4 sims, one in their first year, two in their second year and one in their last year.
Most of my families only have one child per family, and I like to play multi-generational lots rather than setting up new households. In those few families where there are more than one offspring, when the non-heir returns from college I set them up in their own lot on the day they would have returned to their parents' lot.
I also use the "skip day" function for those lots where nothing is happening - e.g. maxed out elders waiting to die or maxed out almost-elders waiting for their offspring to return from college. In those cases, I'll skip two of the three days in my rotation, rather than watch my sims power idle for 3 days.
Simergy:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 February 22, 07:57:47
I also use the "skip day" function for those lots where nothing is happening - e.g. maxed out elders waiting to die or maxed out almost-elders waiting for their offspring to return from college. In those cases, I'll skip two of the three days in my rotation, rather than watch my sims power idle for 3 days.
Brilliant! I've got lots I avoid because they're just waiting to die and it's booooooring.
Thanx, I'm going to use it today.
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