Game Play Questions, How do YOU play?
DrNerd:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 July 26, 20:12:37
Well, outgoingness works against Knowledge because outgoing sims have high social decay, and most knowledge-based pursuits are primarily solitary in nature. Outgoing knowledge sims thus tend to wind up a bit crackers.
I haven't found that at all, and I've had six Sims in the last 5 generations who have 7-10 Outgoing and rolled Knowledge, and they've been perfectly happy. They easily max Charisma as toddlers; they'll sit at the rabbit head until they're ready to drop. Across the board, they autonomously max Logic on the chessboard, and family meals tend to be enough to keep their Social high enough that they're willing to skill non-social skills. Of course, my Sims are also overwhelmingly Serious, which helps. I have a reasonably Playful Knowledge Sim at college right now, and he Maxed 7 Skills mainly by draining Dormies and Mascots for the Level 9-10 skills, because his Fun tanked so quickly.
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 26, 23:16:42
Popularity teens with one or no nice points. They want desperately to make friends but are incredibly socially inept.
I haven't had any mean Pop Sims (only 3 Pop Sims total, and they've all had 6 or more Nice points), but I HAVE had 2 Romance Sims with 1 and 2 nice points, and they were fun. "Flirt with me!" *rejection* *flamey thought balloon* *angryface* *noogie* "Kiss?"
BastDawn:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 26, 23:16:42
Quote from: DrNerd on 2008 July 26, 18:53:31
For me, that would get boring fairly early on, having all the Sims from the same Aspiration having the same general personality. I never rolled for Aspiration before I started my Legacy, and since I've had to roll, combinations have come up that are unexpected but that totally work.
Popularity teens with one or no nice points. They want desperately to make friends but are incredibly socially inept.
I have a strange affection for that combination. It doesn't matter as much as it should, though, because it's so easy to make friends in the game.
Quote from: DrNerd on 2008 July 27, 00:02:59
Quote from: Zazazu on 2008 July 26, 23:16:42
Popularity teens with one or no nice points. They want desperately to make friends but are incredibly socially inept.
I haven't had any mean Pop Sims (only 3 Pop Sims total, and they've all had 6 or more Nice points), but I HAVE had 2 Romance Sims with 1 and 2 nice points, and they were fun. "Flirt with me!" *rejection* *flamey thought balloon* *angryface* *noogie* "Kiss?"
Heh, my favorite romance sim is the same way. I love her angry ways. ;D
Zaleth:
I do not worry about whether they are compatible but rather on what they are like when they around each other, I tend to pair the most unlikely couple just to see if it will work. I do have 2 families in the 5th gen.
I do find that while in college if you do not actively try and fail in things for a short period it can get boring unless I use the extra time to get into a frat/fraternity. However, in college I have made a person to be "owner" and use Paladins check book to give that person the tuition and make it higher than they get in scholarships so they have to work or their parents send them money to make the payment. ( I believe it was Darcee that gave me this idea in a past post. Each university has been renamed and has an "owner".) I also use Monique's computer undated to FT (by Charvaik) for giving some children money for college when thier parents have it. But this only works as children when they turn to teens the option is not available.
I also made one of my sims as a teen fall in love with Marsha Mellow (TSR Challenge) and get her knocked up as a teen so while he is in college he has to make a "child support" Payment each semester until hes out and they get married for they are engaged. I have put them on hold till APT comes out so Marsha can be in an apt while waiting on him to get back. He has twins with her one girl and one boy. He is also in college in the same dorm as his twin sister. So this pair has next to no money between tuition and child support to spend on anything extra.
I do watch my sims to see what their personalities are like so I can use insim or paladin's items to fix their wants/life time/aspirations and hobby to match. I use Inteen so the teens have to actually spend time as a teen before they can go to college and for knocking some up which happens. That way some dreams of college may not happen. I have even left the child with the teens parents while she was in school then resumed her duty as mom when she got back. It was almost heartbreaking to watch them not want to leave grandma/pa :P
I come up with all kinds of things like this to make their lives more interesting.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Zaleth on 2008 July 29, 19:59:43
I also made one of my sims as a teen fall in love with Marsha Mellow (TSR Challenge) and get her knocked up as a teen so while he is in college he has to make a "child support" Payment each semester until hes out and they get married for they are engaged.
Lum:
Wow, most of the people here seem to love being very hands-on with their sims...
I'm so shallow. In my neighborhood, only the pretties get to breed with other pretties. When it comes to Uni, I generally pool all the sim teens of a generation in a dorm and more or less see what happens. Sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised when three bolters that met five seconds ago retreat to a bedroom and whoo-hoo, other times I change a sim's personality so that it fits with the spouse I have chosen for them in my infinite wisdom. Sims who annoy me ---dormies most of the time, but sometimes playables too--- have a close encounter with a cow plant. Uni is very useful for me, as it allows me a time to cull the sheep.
Maybe the only special feature is that all my sims are related to each other somehow. I've had aunts marry their nephews because they were of the same age and their families got unlinked back in the beginning of the game 3 years ago. Then there's all the infidelity and bastard children of several sims to mix up the family tree. My favorite sims are a pair of twins conceived during a one-night stand with a townie. I ended up moving the townie in, then I had her picking up a newspaper to start a new life as a full-fledge playable elsewhere, since the male sim was already married.
Another favorite is the elder knowledge sim that lost his whole family in his old age. According to the plot in my head, that's when he went crazy, made himself a plantsim and had a spore child. Spore child turned himself into a human teenager with strange voodoo powers he picked up through the special doll, and he's currently wooing the daughter of one of the twins from before.
Currently, some households are in a fourth, and others in a fifth generation. I try to keep both gens in sych, but I don't worry about it too much.
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