The World's Slowest Sims Player
windy_moon:
Interesting responses. I love this board. :D
linolino, I can really relate to your post. I'm not altogether unhappy with being slow, and I love most of my storylines...but I do get frustrated that I'm not close to getting anywhere on generations. I've experienced exactly that "2 days of play and where did it get me" feeling!
Renatus, I think it is reading other people's legacy stories that makes me feel I'm missing a big part of the game by being so slow. Legacy stories are so much more interesting than pausing the game to take five pictures of a Sim who just burned the chilli!
(I'm big on the chance cards, by the way, and love them even more when they have a negative effect...about the only negative thing I let happen to my Sims!)
As far as custom goes, I've barely gotten there yet, Lord help me when I do. I spent an entire Saturday rearranging my existing neighborhood into better defined areas (with $ houses grouped together like you would have in a real town)...and that was with OPH (other people's houses). If I start building from scratch, I'm sunk. :D
Inge, you are cracking me up with your self discipline in the way you age your Sims. I can't imagine breaking off at midnight to switch through all my houses....I get so wrapped up. I really should try that though...it might force me to move along a little more quickly!
Shivani, lol! Guilt is a big part of it for me. I wonder sometimes if the Sims is a government sponsored experiment in psychological manipulation...if so, I consider myself manipulated.
Thanks for all the responses.....
Andrea
Ancient Sim:
I've been playing since TS2 first came out (which was almost a year ago?) and although I've had a fair number of deaths, apart from accidental ones, they've all been first generation, mainly the Maxis-made Sims. My eldest born-in-game Sim (excluding Brandi Broke's third) is an elder now, but still has 17 of her 27 days left. Up until this weekend, she had a lot more as I hadn't played her lot in ages. The next batch to die in my game (within a few days) are Dustin & Angela Broke and Dirk & Lilith Pleasant, and they've been in the game since the start! Even the afore-mentioned elder has been in it almost since the beginning, as she is Cassandra & Don's eldest. In fact, Cassandra only finally met the Reaper over the weekend, mainly due to all the elixir she'd been knocking back on the sly.
I have no idea how many game hours I've put in, but I'm suire it's nearer 3000 than 300 and probably a lot more. My main problem is trying to keep everyone in synch. I can't play this Sim because that Sim needs playing first, that sort of thing, which means some lots don't get played for weeks on end, even months, because they're too far ahead. This has been even more difficult since Uni. I have now taken to putting siblings in the same house whenever I can, to reduce the number of houses I need to play and keep them in synch chronologically, hence I have Dustin, Angela, Dirk & Lilith all together in the Pleasant house.
Of course, in my case it would help if my Pleasantview wasn't so large. I currently have around 450 character files (including dead Sims and all the NCP's) and so many lots it often takes me 5 minutes or more to find the one I want to play.
ZephyrZodiac:
Decisions, decisions! I sometimes take a while making up my mind who I want to interact with today!
So far, none of my sims have died of old age, but I just might let Mary-Sue and Daniel meet the Grim Reaper before long!
lauraglenn:
Reading this post made me realize that I'm playing very, very slowly. All of the Maxis made families are intact in Pleasantview, the only neighborhood that I play. Daniel is still an elder, and because I rarely play them, Mary Sue is still an adult! I restarted my game when Uni came out, and I am still in first generation. Boy, I really have to let someone die soon... How can I move graves to the cemetary in NL if I have none to move? ::)
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, there are some at the Goth house, and an urn in the Caliente house. You could also kill a few townies!
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