How often do you 'reboot'?
Zazazu:
Quote from: Lum on 2008 August 15, 01:40:38
Does anyone ever play Veronaville? I've always stuck around Pleasantville, but most of my time is spent on its Downtown lot and Bluewater subhoods (Bluewater is getting a lot of play lately). I also added its university and all three vacation lots. No need to ever leave Pleasantville, really, but I first started playing on Strangetown, so I occasionally visit as well.
I haven't played the original 'hoods since 2004. I played the Tests (custom) through the beginning of the third generation in Pleasantview, but after Chuck died I had issues letting elders happen for awhile, and flitted for a bit before trashing all EAxis 'hoods.
My longest family line was 11 generations in Urban Paradise. That terrain was out of control. I was doing some Alphabet-Apocalypse-whatever hybrid and only following the heir line. Other than that, I've gotten to generation 4 twice prosperity-style, currently on generation 5 in Teardrop Isle.
Assmitten:
Quote from: rampancy on 2008 August 14, 20:52:03
I think about going back to the Sims I created previously, but by then I've lost most of my (for lack of a better term) emotional connection to those characters. So I start over with a new expansion, play until I get bored, and abandon the game until the new expansion comes out... and wipe those characters out.
EXACTLY! Me too. I wander off after a while into an EP and then push the oldies off a cliff. I have one sim that I keep from first playing in 2004, because she was the first one born in game and I just liked her so much. Sometimes I put her in, and sometimes I don't.
I do like a populated neighborhood, though, and I am lazy, so I dread the point when I have to take all the sims in the bin and chuck them into houses. I am impatient.
Solowren:
I had the same neighborhood going for three years. Imagine my heartbreak when I FUBAR'd it! :(
A big draw of the Sims for me is the genetics. I love to watch families grow and genes get passed down, so, I started the neighborhood I have now about a year ago(?) and I've been playing it ever since.
maxon:
I would say never but it's not quite true. I have been playing the same neighbourhood since the game came out (Sept 2004) but when the empty templates first became available. I remade the hood with the same custom terrain I'd made in SC4 (tidied up a bit and made smaller) and completely empty. I then cloned all my old sims into the new Little Carping and rebuilt everything - relationships, memories etc and used copies of the lots and so on. Much better now. No Goopy. God, I hate Maxis sims - I opened Pleasantview and Strangetown when the game first came out and that's it. The only Maxis sims I ever liked were the Curious brothers and Nervous, Loki and Circe so their clones moved into Little Carping. I have a second hood I play sometimes called Rummilly which is my medieval/fantasy hood but that somehow doesn't hold my attention like Little Carping does. The family stories in LC are so complex now even though I play V-E-R-Y s-l-o-w-l-y.
Nepheris:
I've reset Pleasantview (the only hood I play) so often I've lost count. I tend to lose interest in the game, uninstall it, then get back to it after a couple of months and reinstall.
Every time I play Pleasantview I tend to take a different route than I did the last time. Cassandra has been married to Don, to Dirk Dreamer, to some random townie and has remained a spinster... I like playing out different scenarios :)
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