How many Sims are you playing?
Andygal:
I play sereral diffrent neighbourhoods, and I always like to keep the generations intact. I don't like seeing nieces and nephews end up older then their aunts and uncles and that stuff. Mind it still happens because I get sloppy.
bluecatvon:
i play the whole neighbourhood, Strangetown. every family. every person. except for poor Ajay Loner, i've played EVERYONE. but i'll incorporate him soon. let him marry someone i hate, maybe..
i do keep a to-do list, because every family has its own story. i do rounds, and make sure that every thing i want to achieve is achieved, and everyone grows at the same pace. no elixirs are allowed on my lots :D
i usually let my sims marry townies and npcs, cuz i wanna see what other sims the game will creat, but i dun wanna mass-kill them, too much character files leading to a BFBVFS.
am having so much fun! :D
and yes, i developed major OCD since i first started the game ;)
windy_moon:
I'm really impressed with the organization, documentation and general diagnosible OCD present in this thread. It seems as if most people who are playing lots of Sims, as I do, have a system for keeping track, which I don't.
I've tried making lists but as I despise paperwork (you should see my desk at work), I fall behind quickly and then give up.
It would be a big improvement to the Sims if the game made it easier to keep track, itself, don't you think? I hate the neighborhood interface as the way for entering the Sims households. I've organized my homes according to value, so I have a general clue where to look for each family based on what I remember about their wealth...but with so many households with the same last name (and growing), I have to do a lot of mousing over to find where I want to go.
Wouldn't it be great to have a summary screen that showed all of your families and the last (real time) played date? I really like the idea a poster had, earlier in the thread, of keeping notes in the family story...hadn't thought of that!
I try to keep track of my stories progressions in the photo albums, but I also think they are awkward. I snap a lot of pictures but only caption a handful, always meaning to go back...and the set up isn't easy to keep track of a Sim's story as she/he jumps households through life. It's my plan to keep stories outside of the Sims, grabbing the pictures from the main file, but I never get aroundtuit. (I also haven't put my RL kids baby pictures in photo albums, either....)
The Sims 1 had some kind of family tracking thing, can't remember exactly what it was, but I found it very handy before I had to turn it off to stop my game from crashing. You could browse through your families.....I believe it might have been called a family browser or something.
I need a family browser! (I also need a secretary, a driver and a live in maid....)
bluecatvon:
haha, i use microsoft notepad. just had to read thru it before i start playing and add stuff in after i've done playing. oh i and forgot to mention i normally play 6 hrs per family before switching to another family
Brynne:
I play my Bayfield family almost exclusively. I'm less interested in creating generation after generation than I am seeing this one family through whatever I can throw at it. So my main sims, brothers Joe and Gary Bayfield, have been in play for over a year, now. Real time.
Funny new twist, though; Joe and Bella Goth have 3 kids together, one adult and 2 teens. They are so purdy that I recently decided that Joe and Bella should have more. I wanted a son, since they have 2 daughters and only one son. Bella kept having girls. I got frustrated with repeatedly quitting without saving, so I took drastic measures. I decided Joe and Bella needed to move into a smaller household, so they could have multiple births. That way I could pick the baby I wanted. I didn't want to worry about setting up a new household, though, so I thought it would be quicker to just move them in with an existing family. A very small one. And Don Lothario fit the bill. Joe and Bella invaded the Lothario household and had a few sets if multiple births, as girls far outnumbered the boys. Out of 11 children, I chose 2 boys. I didn't really know what to do with the others, I couldn't bear to kill them and I didn't want to send them off to the adoption pool, so I had Don adopt them. I almost peed my pants from laughing at this situation! Poor Don was just sitting on his couch watching tv, and didn't even know what hit him. Bam! Romeo Don now has 6 daughters and 3 sons! I had to laugh at how all the kids would line up in his queue, and how he was reading to the children one story after another after another. Don't know when he'll be able to fit in any romance in this household!
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