How many Sims are you playing?
Oddysey:
My main neighborhood is a custom one called Ariya, with about 36 playable sims in 9 base neighborhood houses and 2 uni houses. I also have a variety of goofing off type neighborhoods where I experiment with various things. Haven't messed with the game made families, since I'm paranoid.
I keep all the information I need about sims in their character files. For example, I keep all my families in sync, timewise, by noting in the household description how many days (marked off at 6 o'clock, sim time) I played with them. In Ariya, I've been playing the whole neighborhood (and keeping track) for nearly 37 sim days, although many of the households split off from the original four sometime after I started recording. I keep track of that by recording the day when the household split, then any subsequent days that have been played. For example, 25+11 means that when I split off that household, it was day 25, and I've played 11 days since then.
pamysue:
"I keep index cards, flagged by age and paperclipped together by household. Helps keep track of vital statistics and play-order. It's nice to see that other people are obsessively keeping track of their sims too. Or maybe just worrying."
;) So glad to know I'm not alone. I put each household, dorm, frat etc on a card in a rolodex. I play 4 Sim days in each house, 2 semesters in each college lot with aging left on. New households get a new card and dead ones go to the shredder. I'm playing about 40 households and go in order to keep them aging together. Dear God... I think I need stronger meds. :-\
Vesca:
I've been playing the same family in Pleasantview, going on the third generation now. Some YA's are in college, some are married in different homes and a couple of YA's just graduated and moved back into the "original" family home to care for their elder parents and younger sister. So, I have a variety of different families (and places) to play, yet they are all related - that's how I like to play my game.
ZiggyDoodle:
As of today:
Eight houses in Pleasantview, one downtown.
Elders: 6
Adults: 16
YAs (in Uni) 16
Teens: 8
Kids: 10
Toddlers: 2
Infants: one set of twins
Plus one nanny who gets moved around as needed.
Am thinking of enforcing birth control until the patch comes out and we're assured that our software won't erupt into an explosion of Sims pixels zooming off to cyberheaven (or hell) when we hit the magic character file number.
jenflower:
I have never really played the pre-made towns. The only one I kept was Pleasantville, but I don't use it. I just keep it so there isn't an empty spot on the start-up neighborhood screen.
Right now I have two towns I actually play. One town is for a more 'normal' Sims atmostphere (called Bay City) and one for the weird/odd storylines (Sunnydale). In each town I usually have about 8 active families. Everyone has met each other, but only certain families will actually hang out with other families.
I try to age them together the best I can, so that childhood friends can go to college together, but it doesn't always happen that way - especially when I find myself spending more time with one family than another. I actually have a little sims notebook with the family names and details so that I can keep a summary of things. ::)
I do wish that they would tweak the photo album feature...in Sims 1 (if I remember correctly) a text box would automatically appear after you take a picture so that you can write a description of the picture right then and there. In Sims 2, I take a lot of pictures and they start to pile up and I don't always get around to working on the album.
One thing I would like to see in the future is to have a feature where you can put together a tiny photo album of your favorite photos when your sim becomes an elder...and after they die, those pictures would appear as sort of a tribute slideshow of their life. (Awww!)
LOL - I get a little attached to some of my Sims and have a hard time watching them get old and die.
I play with aging off mostly until everyone in their age group is ready to move on to the next life stage together. Some households I have specific plans for them and with others, I just let them do as they please. I try to add variety to the gameplay, so that I don't get bored too quickly.
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