Game Play Questions, How do YOU play?
Jelenedra:
I'm currently debating the wisdom letting one of my family spawn fall for a Tiki village local, considering when he's not around she tries to steal her sister's fiance. And she's supposed to be the GOOD sister. Stupid family sims in Uni... they're so LOOSE.
HeyYeah:
I have the same ADD issue with playing the sims as you do. The second generation rarely makes it to college before I get bored and delete the whole thing. I've vowed not to let myself do that with my shiny new MATY hood (Gen 2 is still all toddlers/babies/unborn except for the very first babies born, who have just aged up to child, so I don't know if I'm going to keep my vow or not).
For gender preference, I randomize with the ACR adjuster (I adjust the gay/bi percentages according to the gender balance of the 'hood). I plan let them pretty much choose partners for themselves. Like nekonoai, if a sim rolls the get engaged/get married to want, they get engaged/married, unless a couple gets pregnant, then it's a shotgun wedding for them.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Jelenedra on 2008 July 23, 19:07:45
I ask because I currently have one male young adult who is OBSESSED with the girl I consider to be his sibling.
In my attempt at an Alphabet legacy (original rules, merged with psuedo-apoc at one point) that got to Gen K, at Gen D the heir married a girl who was, for story purposes, sort of his sister. She had been adopted in by accident by the avatar of the Oversoul, the all-knowing mime. Well, I had the mime move in the lot with her, then move out and leave the child. So according to the game, she wasn't related. She was a lot younger, but sparks flew. Then, after she and the hubby had passed, their children died in a lightning-meets-pool incident with all the other family members save the toddler heir and her great-grand aunt. Great-grand aunt proceeded to drink the 'hood as part of her quest for immortality and the Oversoul took revenge. Hence, the apocalypse. Urban Paradise was extremely odd.
College bores me to tears. For those that roll college, I only actually play two semesters. Freshman first semester to get the GPA (which I don't make them study for unless they are low on ASP and have the wants), then Senior second semester to get to graduate. This also works because college is 3 days in normal 'hood equivalent, so the whole time is extremely imbalanced. 2 semesters isn't as far off.
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?
For their sexual orientation, ACR takes care of that (now automagically!). I get about 20% gay and bi. Romance sims seem to be more inclined to be bi, but that could be an odd quirk of the dice roll or something I didn't notice was added as a feature. And unfortunately I keep getting gay Family sims, which sucks as I don't use adoption (yet).
As the 'hood started from one sim, intermarriage has just become a possibility. I was hoping to avoid it for another generation, but the sims seem to have something else in mind. If anything but Pleasure or Romance, they are going to get married when they find their three-bolt, across the board. If they don't have a three-bolt, then I pick the best two-bolt and wait for them to want to get married. If Pleasure or Romance, they need a three-bolt (Pleasure can settle on a two-bolt) plus the want has to be mutual. I have a GC-Fortune couple that is a two-bolter and rolled the want to get engaged, moved in together, and never did have the want to get married.
Most of my sims find their match at college, or realize that they have a thing for daddy's work buddy while at college. Sometimes they don't, and I have them visit the fishing hole, Atomic Arcade and Vrooom! Autos as adults until they meet someone. And sometimes I start screaming at them while they are teenagers because they won't get off their damned cousin!
I'm really hoping that Gen 5 consists mostly of girls, because my 'hood is very boy heavy at the moment and the current townie teens are 90% boys. YAs are mostly girls, and adults are about 70% male.
Jelenedra:
I just feel bad for poor Hector, Pandora has no interest him at all, but he keeps following her about. Hopefully his sister Aurora will have better luck.
Lorelei:
When my game was working, I spent most of my time designing houses / lots and Sims, then winding them up at letting them do stupid things (within the realms of stupidity allowed after Pes hacks nip the worst of it in the bud). Then I take pix of the mayhem. That tends to be more fun for me than breeding or killing them, but, again, my game has a bad habit of not working long enough to allow extended gameplay even when my schedule is free enough to have time to play.
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