How many Sims are you playing?
DrBeast:
Maxis 'hoods...hmm...I vaguely remember starting out my Sims 2 endeavors in Strangetown. I then moved on to Pleasantview (or is it ville?). Then I found myself a nice pirate outfit and took to the high seas for a couple of months (aka got hooked on Pirates!). When I had quenched my thirst for loot and women, the University expansion pack had been out for some time, meaning that most mods and hacks had been retrofitted for it. So I got a copy and started a custom neighborhood with everything (except the Uni area) built from scratch. For some weird reason I was spared of the townies (sure enough, notownieregen was there, but I don't remember nuking the 'hood before beginning, as I didn't want to lose the pre-made playable sims at Uni), so I began the tedious task of manning the neighborhood. Which means graduating sims from Uni. Now, dormies were plentiful, as were ss members, so by black wind, fire and steel (uh, sort of!) they dropped dead, one by one...only to discovered in horror that after a point they came back under the evil disguise of ss members! Luckily, JM had worked out a nosshack by then, so I promptly installed and went on a new killing spree, creating some custom dormies along the way with the help of Inge's teleporter painting (these dormies promptly became ss members as well). Right now I'm almost done with the population of the hood. Five families, all four-member, are ready to graduate, and three more await them in the core neighborhood. I never played with the pre-made playable sims (i.e. the greek house members and the Peanut Street inhabitants) though I let them live, as well as four maxis-made ss members I kinda liked. It'll be interesting to see what will become of them now that the Uni years are coming to an end.
SciBirg:
One question: Do people with OCD naturally gravitate towards The Sims or do people playing the Sims naturally develop OCD? ;D
DrBeast:
Quote from: SciBirg on 2005 October 10, 11:41:01
One question: Do people with OCD naturally gravitate towards The Sims or do people playing the Sims naturally develop OCD? ;D
Call me stupid but what the heck is OCD?
SciBirg:
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. I guess you can call it "control freakism"...
And oh yeah, I have more than a tad of it myself.
Gus Smedstad:
When I first started playing, I played Pleasantville, but generally preferred to play my own Sims to the premade ones. I eventually did play a few of the premade households, like Brandi Broke and the Pleasants. I never played Strangetown or Veronaville because I disliked all the households I saw there without exception. After a while I started getting too confused by the number of active households and what they wanted, so I started over with a custom neighborhood.
With the new neighborhood, I started with a single Sim and followed his descendants. In general I tried to keep them time-synced, in that I'd generally play a household until a kid transitioned to teenager or a teenager went to college, and then I'd rotate to the next one. Generation 2 (the original Sim's kids with one of the townies) had 3 Sims, and Generation 3 had 14. Generation 4 is something like 40+ Sims. A couple of the Generation 4 Sims have moved in together and had children, since inbreeding is now an option, but I've pretty much lost track of what's going on and haven't been playing them. Generation 2 is all dead from old age, as is the original Sim's wife, though the original Sim is still around because he's the only one allowed to drink the Elixer of Life. I think that may have been a mistake, he's not at all interesting to play, he's just kind of there as the immortal that just about everyone knows. I did pair him off with one of the generation 4 Sims (incest is best!) but I just don't feel like playing that household at all.
I'm experiencing the same problem I had before. Even though time sync isn't completely screwed up like it was in Pleasantville, 16 or so households is really more than I'm comfortable tracking, and playing that many has kind of killed the attachment I get when I'm just playing a couple of households. I'm somewhat tempted to nuke it and start again, except that I don't want to deal with the same set of townies again. I sort of want to take all my existing Sims and change them into townies for a new neighborhood or something.
- Gus
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