Game Play Questions, How do YOU play?
lefty:
Quote from: marjchaos on 2008 August 24, 15:56:30
That sounds like a pretty cool program. Know where I can get one like that? I keep track of my playables too, badly. My desk is covered with scraps of paper - but only because the notebooks weren't working out.
http://notebook.wjduquette.com/svntrac.cgi/index
Just a warning, the program is pretty limited and sometimes gets on my nerves, but I've been using it so long I've gotten used to it. you could probably google something like "personal wiki" to get something better. To give you an idea here are some screenshots of how I have mine set up for my current hood, though I'm constantly revamping it as I play since the hood is so young:
though of course you can set it up however you like. For ease of editing the family tree I save the image as a psd to the main folder so I can easily manipulate the images in case I need to move them as the children marry have kids etc.
I wish I had access to my old stuff, it was crazy detailed.
Zazazu:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2008 August 24, 02:23:29
I do play on a rotation, but not a strict one. For example, if Child A grows to a teen, then Children B, C, and D must do the same. Otherwise, I don't care that much about synchronisation.
Ugh, I'm anal about relative age. I write in my notes the exact day that college students have to come back to keep on sync and adjust their number of days in their first independent rotation (Aaron Vitelli keeps showing up at his cousin's house when he's supposed to be in college still, the naughty boy) just to make sure that no one is the slightest bit off.
Quote from: lefty on 2008 August 24, 05:07:49
Started off last time with empty templates, and one sim. In the end before I had to leave that hood I was about in the 7th or 8th gen with over 50 playables, all directly linked to that first sim.
Other than one attempt at a true prosperity challenge (which died in the second generation), I've always started with just one sim. 90% of the time, that one sim is female.
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When my last hood got pretty substantial I started moving the elders all together in a group home type setting to make room for babies since I used the twikki island lot for the hood (I like small hoods) and was running out of space for houses.
I love group homes for elders! I think that Apartment Life is really going to make that work, since you could just make apartments that are a bedroom and bathroom and have everything else be community space. If I have a group of elder townies, I throw them in the home and they proceed to have a near-orgy since they've had their entire lives to create relationships.
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I tend to let them choose their spouses, though I have been known to intervene when I want to merge two particular households together for whatever reason.
My current 'hood is aimed at absorbing the 28 townies I started with (including dormies) so I do guide a little bit more than before. I ended up changing a gay townie girl to straight because she's my favorite, Manishka something-or-other, and I needed more eligible women to marry to my typical plague of boys.
I'm trying to keep the number of offspring lower than I had in Teardrop Isle, because that 'hood got way too busy too fast. I had fourteen sims in the third generation in TI. I have seven in the third generation in Coggeshall Village, and one is decidedly gay (with three yet to decide which way they lean). Much better.
My main problem right now is that the 'hood is so huge as far as playable terrain is. My map is out of control. But the terrain is really different than anything I've done before as I designed it from a bitmap in Photoshop just making brushstrokes and filtering to death, importing to SC4, and sculpting a bit to make the paved areas nearly all flat. It made for some really cool mountain ranges:
blackcat:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/
This program seems to be interesting. It has many options like pictures, events, nice family trees and even to-do list.
http://genealogy-software-review.toptenreviews.com/
This is where I found it, it's a review list of similar programs.
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