How often do you 'reboot'?
Lord Darcy:
When TS2 first came out, I sort of re-created my favourite TS1 polyarmory family in TS2, but quickly lost interest due to the telepathic Woohoo Sense. (That's before I found out about no-jealousy hacks.) That 'hood went down when I lost the entire backup. I eventually scrapped my second 'hood too, in which I committed all kinds of mortal BVTVFSes including binning occupied lots and putting in another 'hood.
I'm on my third 'hood that was going on since Seasons, the first time I ever used clean templates and also the first time that I ever reached over Gen 4 in any given 'hood. I tend to play several 'hoods in rotation, so it takes me quite a long time to reach the next generation.
pixiejuice:
I've never played any Maxis hoods. I've had three custom hoods in my TS2 playing experience. The first hood lasted about a year, six generations, and then it got too big and I got bored with it.
My second hood I built on a terrain I didn't like (before I knew about terrain surgery and all that), and that lasted a year before I scrapped it. I cloned my favorite characters though, and moved them to my current hood, which I've been playing over two years now, and am on the fourth generation (sixth if you count that the clones were third generation from the previous hood).
I'm quite attached to my Simmies and their little dramas.
Roux:
I guess I reboot rarely for actual game play. The first six months or so that I played, I played Pleasantview and Veronaville heavily. Then the new merged 'hood tute came out, which then occupied my game for about a year before it crashed and burned. So then I decided to create a custom one, which is very loosely based on the Royal Kingdom Challenge. I've been playing it for 1.5 years now, and I'm very attached to the families. I have no intention to abandon it in the foreseeable future. My only other 'hood is one to house all my lots (Eaxis/mine/downloaded), which I prefer over keeping them in the lot bin.
I have occasionally started new neighborhoods with the intention of playing other challenges, but they never last and I always delete them. If the challenge takes more than a few days for me to complete, I get bored and want to get back to my regular 'hood.
Now I only play the Eaxis neighborhoods when I need to test something, or when a new expansion comes out and I'm waiting for updated hacks/bug squashing. They're in a separate 'The Sims 2' folder so I only load them when they're needed. I try to protect my precious sims from the potential destruction inherent in new EPs. :)
Alex:
I tend to play the Eaxis hoods quite often, and only use the premade sims in those hoods (there's enough crap in there already without me going in and CASsing the place up). It's quite nteresting this way. I only ever restart those hoods if absolutely necessary. I tend to do some things differently, like Cassandra married Don one time, but the other time she got left at the altar and married Darren.
I have a "Legacy" hood, the Riverside one. It's probably fucked to pieces internally, but oh well, it's really entertaining. I also have my main custom hood, Vinewood, which I am always starting again, because I usually hate the terrain and can't seem to make one I really like. I also have some test hoods.
jolrei:
I am often more attached to the neighbourhood than the actual sims in it. If I get bored with a sim or family, I townify them. If I want them back, I can recall them to playable status. I never delete a hood (except my very first BFBVFS). All my hoods are custom, with custom downtowns - I get a little invested in their design and it hurts to lose them.
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