Game Play Questions, How do YOU play?
aussieone:
Unless I have pre determined from childhood for storyline purposes, to determine what sexual orientation a teenage sim will be, I use TJ's crystal ball and click on the "I'm desperate and I don't care" option. I gives IIRC, 5, maybe 6 sims that your sim is compatible with. If my active sim seems to be more compatible with sims of their sex, then gay they will be, OTOH, if they roll more opposite sex sims, then I choose the straight option.
As far as who they end up with, it's usually the first sim in line on the crystal ball pop up who gets chosen. If they happen to be mega fugly, then I tweak them just a little with the makeover option on TJ's blender and make it stick in SimPe.
Jelenedra:
Oooh that's a good idea. I may just have to download that now...
pixiejuice:
Quote from: Jelenedra on 2008 July 23, 19:07:45
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 use ACR for sexual orientation, balanced 80% straight, 10% bi, 10% gay.
Who they end up with is based on their attraction score in ACR. I usually have my playables date around long enough to see who they're most compatible with, and the one they like best they settle down with, that is, if they're the settling type.
Faizah:
I set everyone bi and use the crystal ball to meet their five 'desperate' matches. Romance sims get to remain bi, and everyone else gets set to prefer the gender of their best match, typically set at or shortly after the marriage to said match. Exceptions can be made where needed, to make things more interesting, and not everyone gets a partner. I have one single Sim who is turned on by servos, but the only servo in the hood is the one he initialised. (Which I've set in SimPe as his 'son'.) He has several two bolt matches, but none that interest me enough to pursue. He's had two alien spawn, and he's on track to age to elder next session. He's had a good life.
I have another single Sim, born in game, and randomly selected to be a romance sim. One of the grand vampires came up as a match for him while he was at uni, and I just couldn't resist. I affectionately refer to this romance sim as 'Potato face' as his head resembles a sack of them, and the vampire in question has such a different face, though alike in its extremeness: he has a very pointy nose. But I didn't want to marry the vamp in, so the romance sim has remained unattached, spawning with the vampire almost immediately on returning to the family home. (And, just because, I made him a plant sim, so he's had a plant-baby as well.) I'm thinking I'll leave it at that for him, another happily single sim.
My play style seems to be constantly evolving, my born in game sims have been in play long enough to have children of their own, which is new for me. But, as to the question, I typically use TwoJeffs' crystal ball for matches. It can be set to ignore playables/NPCs/Townies and so on, as well as age groups, so you get just what you're looking for, if you want to set them up with, say, a playable adult.
SnootCB:
I'll also recommend TJ's spiffy crystal ball. I don't always hook up the playable sim with whichever sim the crystal ball picks out for them, though- only if I have trouble finding him/her a mate through more conventional methods (hanging out on comm lots, throwing parties, calling the gypsy, etc). I usually use it just to get an idea of who to look for; it just feels too "cheaty".
I don't use ACR or anything to randomize gender pref, but I do a pretty good job of keeping the gay/bi population at 10-25% of the total population, depending on the neighborhood and how crowded it is.
Which neighborhood I'm in also determines who playables are allowed to marry; each neighborhood has slightly different rules for various things. In most neighborhoods anyone is fair game, but in the ones that are getting crowded (Pleasantview & Desiderata) other playables are given preference for population control. In Veronaville, I'm playing "family feud"-style; no playable sim of any one of the 4 families (Monty, Capp, Summerdream, Tricou) are allowed to marry a playable from any of the other 4 families- and inbreeding is encouraged, royalty-like. I'm only just now starting the 3rd generation, though.
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