tunnel vision parenting
rohina:
Sounds like you should try playing a legacy, just to get you past Gen 2.
witch:
That's what I've decided to do, I've never made it past Gen 2. This time I have ONE family. I usually start with an assortment of lots, by the time the kids move out I have 10 lots to play and it starts becoming a task to play them all equally.
Also starting that way, I tend to have boring nuclear families, instead of the more interesting storylines that happen during play.
rohina:
Yes, you need to get a family to Gen 4 or 5 before you get interesting fake wife twists, and people with 3 bolts for their great-aunts.
Weaver:
I typically restart neighbourhoods frequently, and are always usually themed. At the moment, I started eight families off with the prior hood first generation characters as toddlers. The smart milk bug is awesome. No townies at the moment, though a few generations on I'll have to generate to keep a legacy going. My best experience was doing the Asylum challenge and in the end retaining the hood long after completion. Planning new hoods appears to be my specialty, just not keeping interest in continuing a concept.
Squinge made an Encourage Anyone hack which can allow friends of the family to help out.
http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=15986
slurpeefiend:
Quote from: Weaver on 2007 March 09, 12:16:39
Squinge made an Encourage Anyone hack which can allow friends of the family to help out.
http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=15986
Thanks for the lead. I was dreading having to dig through his whole catalog to find something like this. I'd still rather have parents able to encourage all traits (on both sides of the meters), but this will have to do until I can actually learn modding and figure out how to make my daily affirmation mirror.
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