Gameplay: How do YOU keep track of sim lifes?
BrokenRobot:
The picture is turnable with just the normal mirror for me.
sleep:
Yes, I've found out how to do it now. I just never made the right mouse movement before, I suppose. But thanks for the hints, I've got it working.
maxon:
Quote from: ingeli on 2008 September 06, 08:39:13
To take pics, I use the old program SimCamera. It was made for Sims1, but is still downloadable here:
http://www.june3rd.com/Downloads/
Its very simple and you can set up a hot key, I for example use F1. And the pics are saved to a folder you choose. I am sure there are plenty of other similar software out there, but this one suits me, and I always run the program in the background while playing. The quality is so much better than the ingame camera.
Actually, any decent graphics programme will do this.
TimeStop:
I started with a simple excel spreadsheet just to keep track of which families needed to be played because the scribbling on paper method failed when I kept losing the paper or forgetting to write it down. So actually, i started with a note pad. The note pad got a chart, and then the chart moved to excel when I realized that I could only make so many columns across the six inch page.
And then I wanted to keep track of Uni sims as well, but not mess up my neighborhood chart. So that became a second sheet on my excel workbook.
Then I needed a way to make sure that the sims who graduated Uni broke stayed broke and that I could tell the difference between Sally's cash and Susy's at Uni. So came the spreadsheet for cash spent and earned at Uni (which, granted, is often behind and I end up dividing cash evenly)
And then came several other spreadsheets, and now I'm up to six in my always-growing-less-simple Excel workbook.
the only important stuff to me really is knowing what I plan to do with the sim (which is still on paper) and who I'm playing
kemowery:
Usually I just rotate houses based on generation. I'll typically play one house until a kid reaches an age transition, then play the next house until the kids in that generation have caught up to the first house, and so on. I keep track of it from memory, and if I go long enough without playing and the neighborhood is so involved that I don't want to re-learn the family tree, I just wipe and restart.
The last neighborhood I wiped would have benefitted most from AL (since I created a retirement home pre-AL to house all of my senior citizens), but after half a dozen generations, there was way too much going on.
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