Gameplay: How do YOU keep track of sim lifes?
Grugly:
Quote from: Gelina on 2008 August 25, 23:27:54
I keep track of my sims in an Access database with about 7 tables in it and various forms/reports. I'm constantly tweaking it depending on my current style of play (I have built in rules that run based on certain fields for the family/sim/neighborhood).
I play in Windowed mode so I have the database and Sims up at the same time and record pertinent things as I play.
Access?
MICROSOFT Access?
You must be a masochist.
Lorelei:
I don't.
When my game was working properly, I would just choose a family that hadn't been played in a while, mouse over each one's head to make sure i remembered their named properly, and let them do their things. Sometimes I'd just take over each family member consecutively to let them have a chance to be micromanaged.
Then again, I'm not long-term-goal-oriented with my style of play. I've had one death, one vamp, one plantsim, and three births (two alien). I'm more into decorating and building and making Sim likenesses of real folks, and being OCD about organizing my CC.
Assmitten:
Yeah, I'm pretty much on the "fuck it" school of thought. "Who are these people? Why are they so ugly? I made them? BLURGH." Now they're a houseful of beloved romance sims that I have played for weeks, tomorrow they will be all smited to death as visitors on someone else's lot. So yeah, no long term goals. Just kind of banging them together like Barbies until a head pops off. "Oops."
Faizah:
I pretty much just play, I've hardly ever done anything that needed records. Lately, I've been planning things a little more, like, "Boronia will have endless pregnancies." or "Potato-face Brae will spawn with Count Pointy-nose once he graduates college." Even then, I'll only 'keep track' as long as it interests me. I made no note of potato-face Brae's 'plan', and was lucky to remember it when he finally graduated.
Although, I suppose I am keeping track of the generations. I started with a single CAS Sim, Aden Elin. Between him and his wife, they had Baras, Brae and Boronia. Baras had Corona and Chrysopoeia, Brae had Cabbage and Another-C-Name, and I don't have Boronia's list handy, but they all also started with C. (And, by the 10th name -- 14th if you count Baras' and Brae's kids -- I was running low. The final pair got Cadman and Caldwell.)
Boronia's lot did get photos taken, for each birth and age transition, as well as a text file indicating birth order, with names and genders of her children. And that's about the extent of it. I'll probably only play them through uni, ship them off to the holding pen another lot when they graduate, to be friend and romance fodder for future playables. I haven't even decided yet whether to keep up with the spawn photos now that the spawners are elders. I may well continue, if for no other reason than completeness.
Boronia is an elder with 12 kids from 8 pregnancies, potato-face Brae has a pointy-nosed little girl whose name I forget, missions accomplished. Moving on.
Nepheris:
I have a list of familynames and put a tick beside them for every week I've played them, to keep em on the same timeline. That's pretty much it :p
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