The World's Slowest Sims Player
windy_moon:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 September 06, 12:46:25
What a shame though for Dustin Broke! He'd have lost not only his fathr and mother, but both his brothers too! And he is really good at raising them, although of course he does have to have the nanny! But by the time he's sold the double bed and the pinball machine he's got enough until he leaves school (this was before uni) and gets a job. And since it was before uni, but after the patch, no nanny problems!
Oh my Lord! What have I done? :-[
I feel so guilty now.... I stuck Dustin in a house with Don Lothario and have barely played him at all. Just enough to age him to adult in line with Lilith, but not with any sense of purpose or story.
I had no idea he was such a good egg, teenage criminal thing and all.
Well, Beau hasn't forgotten him, even though he has done so well in his new family. (The relationship is there but not the Sims memories....) Perhaps I can reunite them and make some good things happen for Dustin.
One measly death, just one, and I'm racked with guilt.... ;)
Andrea
J. M. Pescado:
I used to pause and go all the time, too. Otherwise nothing would ever get done.
Then we made Macrotastics. No more having to pause to give orders to everyone in a family of 8 and make sure they're all productively employed. Macrotastics is like having me breathe down the neck of sims all the time! And you know I'm awesome!
Diala:
I tend not to play Maxis neighborhoods, mostly because I perfer to make neighborhoods myself. However, I do like making neighborhoods based off of shows and games that I like. (in fact, the neighborhood I play the most is based off a cartoon) However, I tend to be lax as far as following every single bit of canon about the show. I follow the important stuff and personalities of the characters, but with minor details, I just simply say "screw it."
Anyway, my speed tends to depend on what my goal is. If I want to age them, I play quickly, with aging on (apparently). I tend to take shortcuts and tend to socialize only when the social is low. However, if I want them to get established in their jobs, to work on relationships, or anything of that sort, I turn off aging and work on that aspect until it is settled enough for me to turn aging on.
I use the fast forward and pause a lot. I fast forward when they're skilling, or doing something which they won't autonomiously pull away from it. However, I pause to make sure they won't do something stupid.
vcline:
Am I the only one playing in Veronaville? Anyway, I'm playing all the Maxis-made characters, including the resurrected dead ones there. I only made one CAS and married him to a townie. All teens have gone to college - right now there are 5 aliens there and 3 normals. I had my first deaths last weekend, of 2 who started out as elders. Fortunately they died platinum so I got the fancy tombstones. I have 18 occupied houses in the neighborhood so I'm running out of places to put the graduates (and resurrectees).
I am definitely not getting bored - I keep coming up with new ideas for playing, like putting the alien graduates in a lab where they can experiment on the ugly townies. I'm really looking forward to that!
Vicki
witch:
Since my new custom n'hood 2 months ago I have just managed to get the first bunch of uni teenagers all at the right age. I made a couple per house to give some breeding options for generation 2.
None of my new sims have yet died, though a couple of CAS made elders are not far off. There are no 2nd generation births as yet - I'm looking forward to the variety now I know custom skins and genetics overide Maxis ones, I just made sure all my new sims were custom, so I'll get some random variety.
I don't play the lots really well in turn, I'll stay with a lot until an objective is completed usually, although I have made these three families stay in sync for the oldest teens to go to uni.
In my first n'hood, that got corrupted, I had only managed to see one sim die of old age.
Slow? Yup! I do play with aging on and macrotastics have certainly speeded my game up but I'm still slow. I like having time to make decisions and plot objectives, I play with big families and they do take a lot more management. I don't like games where I cannot pause and think, I get flustered so the sims suits me fine. :)
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