The World's Slowest Sims Player
ZephyrZodiac:
I couldn't just play one house! I eventually get bored with one family and have to move on to another, then later down the line I'll play that house again!
linolino:
actually it runs very acceptable in small lots with 10 or less sims on it, with all graphic options on low. the problem is when the lot starts to have to many floors and objects.
Oh and the load process of the lots. thats really a pain!
sadiebutterfly:
I play slowly because I get hung up on micromanaging my sims. If there are more than about four in the house I'm forever hitting pause to check that they're all ok. I also have a lot of houses and like to distribute my time evenly between them so the ages don't get out of synch. The only Maxis sims I've had die of old age are Mortimer Goth and Daniel Pleasant. My sister's Beau Broke is an adult with a teenage daughter, mine is a college sophomore. But then, she plays more than me.
syberspunk:
Hehe, I play fairly slowly as well. Probably more painfully slowly than most. I've taken to creating sims based on real people (friends, family, and acquaintances) and I've mostly been tryin to duplicate what has happened to them in real life. For the longest time, I had been playing with aging off, and I had no idea about aspiration and career rewards. And even after I got Uni, I never played it until I felt ready enough to send my own simself to college. Then, I started creating all these CAS YAs based on my friends and acquaintances I've known through high school, college, and grad school. I've alternated a bit playing through some of the diff dorms, but now I got a bit bored with that and I've been playing this one house in the regular neighborhood lately, so I've had a chance to check out some of the latest hacks I've downloaded but weren't really functional in Uni. I'm also partly holding off and playing any Uni lots any further as I want my YAs to enjoy the upcoming features of the NL EP before they have to grow up and become adults and enter the "real world" so to speak that is sim adulthood.
Anyways, for my friends and acquaintances that I don't know a lot about, I just made them YAs if I don't know like their family configuration or like know enough to make what their parents or sibs are like. So I just start them off as single YAs in Uni. Other than that, I only really have 3 main families in the regular neighborhood, with three additional families that I acquired from my sister's game. Unfortunately, two of them were added before we knew that installing packaged lots would lead to bfbvfs syndrome. ::) The last one, I fortunately was able to install without those extra files issues. I play those lots when I'm a bit bored of my main ones. And I hardly ever play any of the Maxis-made lots. I did play the Goth one for a while: I saved Mortimer from an early death by old age and aged Alexander to a teen, but that was it so far. I really can't stand some of these other lots, like the Pleasants or Don Lothario. I've pretty much neglected them, but perhaps out of boredom, I might play them and build upon their stories. So far, they are just the background players and neighbors who occassionally show up in my regular families lives. :P
Right now, I'm desperately just trying to resist the urge to play my Uni dorm lots until the NL EP comes and all my hacks have been updated. ;D Before I played with aging off because I didn't know about the Elixir of Life and other aspiration rewards, and that having too many memories could cause jump bugs :o but who would have thought that would happen anyways? It's a shame that the game was so poorly thought out considering how easily these problems would pop up just by how many different playing styles people have. They really should have had REAL game players actually beta test the game rather than whatever method they used. It seems painfully obvious that they didn't think of different situations that might come up gameplay wise that would cause the game to break so badly. :P They even Tell you in the game guide how to turn off aging! Something seemingly benign as that could easily result in a bfbvfs and they didn't even bother to test out the long term ramifications of gameplay. ::) Anyways, as it stands, I cannot play my game without my hacks, and I guess I'll just keep trucking along with my current game, keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't explode too soon, forcing me to start over. For now, I'll just have to constantly backup my game and hacks, and in the very least, keep extracted copies of my favorite sims, so that I could start all over from the beginning if that ever does happen. At least I won't have to spend so much time rebuilding and tweaking my sims in BS or CAS. ;)
Ste
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: linolino on 2005 September 05, 17:20:32
My idea of a good-flowing game = more things happening in less time of playing, not necessarily with full control of the sims.
and Hey! it's not only 8 houses. its a lot of houses!
My poor computer is only a Athlon XP 1.6 , 256MB RAM , GeForce4 440 MX
I have to play with everything on low, and dorms and community lots runs sloooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww......
its extremely unsettling have to wait for the lots to load. the less lots, the better
I feel the same way. I have more houses, but I am running out of houses to put my sims in, so I am combining families when it makes sense. I had too many kids on my second generation because I wanted to fulfill Brandi and Cassandra's 10 children wants, plus having 2-4 kids in each of the other families and a CAS family I started of my own!
My computer is about the same as yours, only I have 1 GB RAM and my video card is a GeForce2 440 MX 400. I run my settings between low and medium. If the lot is too big or I have a party, sometimes I have to turn down the settings. I agree, waiting for lots to load is a major pain. That's why I rarely ever go to community lots. I miss how you could pop in and out of houses in Sims 1 without having to wait at all. I am concerned about that aspect of Nightlife.
I have been trying to catch some of the other families up that I don't play as much. Some of the premade families I just couldn't get into, like Dina and Nina. I let them die of old age, and so are Daniel and Mary-Sue. Mortimer finally died for the second time after one of his several grandsons resurrected him after Uni came out. He and Bella had another son, and after achieving several LTWs (thanks to JMP's career hack for elders), he died again. I am having trouble letting Cassandra and her husband become elders because they just aren't the same anymore. I hate how Maxis did elders. But they have to become elders to die of old age, and Cassandra has been around forever so she really should start looking her age I suppose. Her youngest is a teen and almost ready for college. He is waiting for his girlfriend to get ready. :-\
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