Game Play Questions, How do YOU play?
Jelenedra:
So I was kinda curious about something. I have this ADD problem with the sims at times. I'll spend a great deal of time and energy creating families and households and neighborhoods from scratch. Then, when the kiddies of all these thoughtful families go to college...pfft. Nothing. I give up on the whole thing. Part of the problem is that I want my simmies to pair up in college, get their future life planned out.
Question is: How do you choose which sprog ends up with what spawn? How do you decide what sex they're going to be interested in?
I ask because I currently have one male young adult who is OBSESSED with the girl I consider to be his sibling. They were raised in a multi-family lot, his parents were two lesbian women and her parents were two male partners. They were born around the same time, and poor little Hector has been farting hearts over Pandora since he was old enough to realize that farting hearts weren't just a weird thing his parents did at each other. I keep trying to adjust their turn ons/offs in an attempt to lessen the two bolt attraction, I even shoved another playable female onto Hector, but he doesn't seem to be having it.
He's a sweet kid, but Pandora is a romance sim (I thought it was fitting, considering her name) and I don't seem him being happy with her for long once the ACR settings wear off. =p
ditzie:
I like to pair them up as teens. I use TJ's crystal ball to find out who might be a likely candidate. I like it because you can set it for only playables or by age groups. You could use the crystal ball to find out who they would be attracted to while they are still teens. Let them meet and build the relationship first and if all goes well, start the romance in college. If I can't find someone while they are still teens, I will wait until they are in college, but I still find that crystal ball very useful.
buddha pest:
Whoever they seem most obsessed with as teens is usually who they end up with. Otherwise, I let them pick a dormie.
On very rare occasions, I will make a CAS sim special for somebody.
DrNerd:
I'm doing a Legacy (two, actually, concurrent Uglacy and Prettacy with identical Founders), so I tend to micromanage the relationships as best I can. That said, the best laid plans of mice and men et cetera.
This generation (the fifth), I have five Sims in college from my main households--Indy and Chad, Prettacy spares; Rocky, Uglacy spare; Coco, Uglacy heir; and Dora, Prettacy heir. Plus three extra Sims--Cam and Jordan, first cousins of the Prettacy crew, and a SimSelf who's been dating Chad since they were teenagers.
I know which genes I want to breed into the main households this generation. Therefore, I know which male Sims I want to hook Coco and Dora up with (although there's a bit of a pit stop for Dora due to plot reasons). Should be simple enough to avoid trouble, right?
So what happens when I get to college? Indy and his ten outgoing points autonomously flirt with Coco, with whom he was best friends, causing them to fall in love. Not part of the plan. 5 of the 8 are Knowledge Sims, so they throw bolts for each other just on general principle, and most of them are Outgoing enough to stalk and flirt autonomously. Dora started stalking Rocky, also not part of the plan. Then Cam showed up and started throwing massive Swoon/Heart-Farts for Rocky despite his gender preference being female (and I don't mean a gossip heart-fart "Someone said Rocky is hot", I mean, "Ooooh Rocky is hot" fanning himself weak-in-the-knees SWOON heart-fart), and he and his three outgoing points start following Rocky around like a little lost puppy.
The only long-term couple I have, Chad and his SimSelf girlfriend, are actually loyal to each other, despite having bolts for other Sims, but Chad is so shy (one outgoing point) that, despite the three bolts he has for his girlfriend, rarely does anything on free will with her other than tell (non-Dirty) jokes and Play Catch.
I had a plan. It was a nice plan. I liked my plan. And it went down in flames approximately two days after moving them all to Uni. For everyone BUT the heirs at this point, I am totally winging it and hoping something good comes out of it. I mean, Cam and Rocky are sort of cute together, except for Cam's Stabby Death Nose and the fact that Rocky is Gen 5 Uglacy and his mother is Loki Beaker turned into a woman.
nekonoai:
Well, as you can tell from Matytown, I generally let them decide who they want. Whoever they roll the "get engaged/married to..." want with is who they get. All else be damned!
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