Lot Sync Timer: how do YOU use it?
gethane:
Quote from: Sivany on 2008 March 07, 18:00:51
I can't play my lots on a one day rotation, loading times are too long for me and also I couldn't bring myself to leave a family after just one day, I like to give time for interesting things to happen so I get used to their personalities and can rememebr what I was intending for them to do. When I leave a household at the end of a season I've often forgotten by the time I get back round to it!
I keep explicit notes in the info box. Helps a TON!
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muridae:
Quote from: gethane on 2008 March 08, 03:41:06
I keep explicit notes in the info box. Helps a TON!
It'd never occurred to me to use the info box as a notepad, but it's a great idea. Much more useful than the potted biography that's already out of date by the time you finish a session playing the household.
gethane:
It works great. Plus, anytime you've been away from playing you can just click on each house from the neighborhood without playing the house and "catch up." Or, as long as I remember to put down who's going to college when, and who's coming back, I can plan my next uni session. I play each year like a sim day. So students are gone for 4 days from the neighborhood. Right now I wait until the teen is 1TDL before sending them, but I think I'm changing that this generation to 7TDL. And every Saturday in my neighorhood, if there's teens, I have a "prom" though it doesn't always work the best.
The numbers are shorthand for things like AdultDaysLeft, or DaysOld (for elders)/ ADL, TDL, CDL, ToDL.
Emma:
Quote from: gethane on 2008 March 08, 03:41:06
Quote from: Sivany on 2008 March 07, 18:00:51
I can't play my lots on a one day rotation, loading times are too long for me and also I couldn't bring myself to leave a family after just one day, I like to give time for interesting things to happen so I get used to their personalities and can rememebr what I was intending for them to do. When I leave a household at the end of a season I've often forgotten by the time I get back round to it!
I keep explicit notes in the info box. Helps a TON!
http://gethanesims.prismbaby.com/images/miscpics/info01.jpg
http://gethanesims.prismbaby.com/images/miscpics/info02.jpg
http://gethanesims.prismbaby.com/images/miscpics/info03.jpg
Gethane-I do that too!
I don't use the Lot Sync Timer although I think I might try it in my nice new 'hood. I usually play 7 days rotation for each family.
Swiftgold:
Once I finally got my monster 'hood synched with the furthest-played family (79 Days with my favorites, sigh,) I figured out by everyone's memories roughly where everyone should be and manually adjusted some Sims' ages to match. Then I took on the task of synching all the families to 79 Days, with the furthest behind at 59. It took a while, since I also have 30-odd houses, but it's not too bad. I have a big ol' plot going so most of the time it's pretty fun, and I try to consolidate some households when it's possible. Got everyone to 79, made sure everyone was on the same day of the week, etc, and it was all good. I love the synch timer :P
Now I play in chunks... I find that three days over the Sim weekend and five on weekdays gives me the most to do with being the least boring. Currently synching everyone up to 85 Days before I go ahead again, heh. I equate each day to a Sim year, so if I want to sneak more time in now with BV I send my favorites on vacation for a few days. Since they come back on the correct day and don't age, it works well. I also use the bio to remind myself what day everyone's on, and currently the season.
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