Play Style: The Nitty Gritty
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Trepie on 2007 July 18, 10:19:44
I think everyone knows I have an alien fetish by now. ;D I like vamps as well. Servos are cool. Haven't played around with werewolves too much yet. I rarely if ever do zombies since they're kinda irreversible. Not sure how I feel about a plant sim since they skip two whole age groups.
PlantBABIES skip the age groups, including the ever-critical uni phase, permanently landing them with the incredibly craptastic 4 want slots. At least they tend to max out all skills early on, seeing as they inherit all parent skills. Plantsims themselves can also be made rather than born, however, and those get the full 6/2 + Degree.
Arina:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
I like all aspects of the game. I love to build and decorate houses, and remodel them as the family who lives there changes. And I love to play the families I make. In this present hood I just started and my previous one I've gone back to not letting anyone die, as opposed to merely making them 'die of old age' as old adults (sim elders make me want to cry. Their animations, their whining voices... bleh x_X) I might keep the previous generations in their own homes, in new houses built for them and friends, or I might turn them into townies. I've not decided yet. I love creating sims, too - that's why I create all my townies from scratch.
- lots: do you play highly decorated, with walls up/cutaway, with a focus on 'whoever has the most toys wins"? Or do you play barely decorated, walls down, with a focus on interractions/spawning?
Um... neither? I play with walls down because it's less laggy and I can actually see what I'm doing! But I decorate my houses as much as I can before they become unplayable. :)
- is genetics your thing? Do you like watching spawns, and spawns of spawns for how they turn out? Or do you barely get through one generation before you're off to the next family?
I cycle through the families, generally when the first sim gets married, when the first kid is born, and after that it depends how many kids the family has. But I do like having very long family trees. It's interesting :)
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I normally only have 2 hoods at a time - the testing hood and the main hood. The testing one has been there for ages now, because, well... it's a testing hood! I'll ditch it only when it becomes unplayable. It's not there for real gameplay. Prior to my cleanouts and discovering of empty templates and replacement face templates I had only had Pleasantview and one custom hood, both of which I played for at least a year. I've been through about 5 for one or two generations after that, and I think I've finally got my game perfect so I can stick with this one. :)
- in terms of what your sims do: are you into relationships and interractions, or are you more into how they skill and climb the corporate ladders?
Both! I can't really understand playing in just one way. The relationships are important to me, and many of my sims are knowledge so they need to skill. Jobs are important too because I start with one CAS sim and no money cheats, and play in a vaguely Legacy-like style (but I'm not fussed about the rules so much, and some sims can marry playables...)
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
I only play community lots when I need to find a partner for a sim, or the rare occasions I just feel like it. Otherwise, they stay at home. They generally have home businesses and such.
-city/country/suburban?
It's most like a country village. There's a main square with the shop, the church, the park, the café and then about 5 houses (more as the neighbourhood gets older, but never more than 20). There's normally a lake somewhere, too. I love lakes! Especially lakes with bridges :)
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
I find themes like that far too restrictive. I normally have a few medieval lots, an alien family or two, some elf-fairy-people who normally have treehouses, some big (well, 2x2, which is big for me) fancy Victorian manor... I believe variety is the spice of life XD
- do you play with pets?
I do, but only cats and birds. The guinea pig-things (I don't remember what they really are) are very boring, and sim dogs are even more annoying than rl ones! I'm really, really not a dog person. But the sim cats are cute. I like the way they sit on pretty much anything, and pounce people. The birds are pretty, and I like watching them fly about (even the weird turning XD), and they're useful for charisma. Not every family has a pet, though. I used to properly breed pets, but now I have one woman somewhere living as the owner of a 'cattery', and anyone who wants a pet uses the christianlov statue and spawns a kitten from some of those cats. I especially like amjoie's cat breeds in Peasantry :)
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
Aliens, yes. I have an alien father replacement for abductions and I make some townies with alien skin.
In my old hood I made a townie with the zombie skin tone... it was quite funny, I made her as the mother of a toddler that I wanted to put in the adoption pool. Later, when this toddler was adopted and an adult, I decided she would have an affair to get back at her husband for doing the same. I forgot that the zombie was her biological mother until they'd already fallen in love... they got married and had a kid through the tombstone, who was very pretty until she aged to teen and turned blue and started to decompose! I made her some special zombie concealer to wear... she was a popularity sim! XD
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I don't use insim or inteen. I can do pretty much all of that with just testingcheats and some select hacks - the rest I'm not interested in. I like to make things simpler with hacks like macrotastics, but I also have things like no20khandouts. I don't use any mood hacks or cheats, though - even snapdragons feel a bit too cheaty for me!
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
2580 files, 240mb... :x I went on a downloading spree the other night. *smacks own wrist* Anyway, this is a wonderful excuse to open JDiskReport. Yay graphs!!! Apparently, the thing I have most of is hacks - 300 files. Then comes Piggi's Sims furniture recolours, then my face replacements, Avenida Sims build/buy stuff, then ATS build/buy stuff, a generic folder called buildandbuy, then 128 Life Stories walls and floors, 121 Windkeeper doors and windows... I'm seeing a pattern. Doing a pretty rough estimate (I group by creator apart from my hacks folder and my buildandbuy and cas folders for people who I only have one or two files from), 1500+ of my cc files are build or buy mode stuff. So... yeah. If another 500 is hacks and faces, that means I only have about 500 appearance/genetics-related files. I would now continue with facts about my folders based on size, but I think most people don't even care about this stuff with their own downloads folder, let alone someone else's. XD
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
My sister and I are making a site for our stuff. It's mostly clothes, and generally maxis recolours, or recolours of very useful custom meshes. Down with redundant custom meshes! XD There's also a lot of other people's nice textures put onto almost-the-same maxis meshes.
pixiejuice:
Quote from: Kyna on 2007 July 18, 04:56:00
I use Hook's randomiser to shake things up a bit, introducing random death, and Denimjo posted JadeElliott's list of random events in Hook's randomiser topic, which I also use when I think the pot needs to be stirred.
Kyna, what is Hook's randomiser? And JadeElliott's list of random events? It sounds like a lot of fun.
SnootCB:
Quote from: Orikes on 2007 July 18, 01:15:43
For me, the big draw is the 'Legacy' factor. I like going through their life spans with one generation taking over after another. That's probably what's kept me playing where the older game bored me to tears after a while. Built into that whole shebang is the genetics issue. I get insanely and unnaturally happy whenever I end up with a dark haired sim giving birth to a baby with recessive genetics displayed. It's rather silly, but it's something I've come to enjoy in the game. That and the whole mixing of facial features.
Neat topic, by the way.
Agreed, on both counts.
I tend to download lots of custom content, but often end up modifying it myself for my own needs (knocking down the walls of a house, or recoloring bad textures on a nice mesh). I enjoy all of the aspects of the game, and try to play the sims according to their aspiration. If they want to reach the top of their career, that's what I shoot for; if they want to pop out lots of spawn, that's what they get. But my favorite part of the game is playing with genetics. When I'm bored and short on time I like to open up CAS and see how many different combinations I can make. All of my sims (even Romance) will end up having at least one kid, just because I like to see how their genetics mix.
Hecubus:
So I realize I fell asleep before I actually posted my own answers! Here we go:
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
I am mostly a builder/decorator. I'm not terribly girly, but I grew up with a mother who had a great eye for decorating, so i learned by example. I love building homes based on RL architecture - once the online sites started to bore me, I started getting books from the library. Fun! I'm working on a true-to-the-plans version of Fallingwater..it's the long-term project in the midst of other smaller ones (like the yankee barn which I PROMISE I'll rebuild sans curse!). I honestly have only gotten into playing families since I moved MATY sims into the game.
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- lots: do you play highly decorated, with walls up/cutaway, with a focus on 'whoever has the most toys wins"? Or do you play barely decorated, walls down, with a focus on interractions/spawning?
I do major decoration/buildling. I use the cutaway walls mostly, with the hack to choose visable paintings. I also use some of the custom non-cutaway walls, especially when I wish to maintain the look of a room or hide a garage. Whoever has the most toys wins is DEFINITELY my motto for my sims. Again, I have only recently gotten into playing sim families.
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- is genetics your thing? Do you like watching spawns, and spawns of spawns for how they turn out? Or do you barely get through one generation before you're off to the next family?
I've yet to get through two generations....previously, once i got a couple to spawn, that was about it. This time...well...I am DYING to know what MATY spawn will grow up to be like, so we might see a few generations.
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I have blown up more hoods than I can count.
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- in terms of what your sims do: are you into relationships and interractions, or are you more into how they skill and climb the corporate ladders?
My sims tend to be overachievers....doing the relationship/interraction thing is not my style (odd, since I'm a director IRL)....but I'm learning. Maybe it's because I know my actors this time? <muahahaha!>
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
My sims tend to stay at home, but I LOVE building community lots. I find comm. lots best for meeting new people rather than meaningful story movement.
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-city/country/suburban?
I LOVE city scapes, but I always include some more suburban looks...and a country house or two.
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Nope. And yes, Pescado, "MOAR FIGHT" is a theme.
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- do you play with pets?
No. I tried in the beginning, but they annoyed me. I use Ste's visitor controller to ban pets. (Exception: Lorelei asked me to give her a tuxedo cat, so I will. I also am allowing cats on the Bast Moon Cafe lot....well, it's a natural, isn't it?)
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
I will be trying my first vamp WITH hacks as soon as I get a friend's self-sim. Otherwise, I don't do the supernatural stuff.
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I generally like to make life harder...although I use jfade's career choosing flamingo, as I like to dictate the path of a sim...and I have used money cheats now and then (mostly to build the requisite perimeter fence)...or if I want a family to start off richer than most. I will also use the college adjuster to randomize skills if I start with adult Sims...seems stupid to be an adult and have less skills than a toddler!
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
I use a ton of CC....mostly, in fact. I go through spells of what I love...went on a kitchen spree for a while, then a clutter spree, an art spree, a garden spree. But i will drop everything for a good build set! I limit hair and clothing...so much of it sucks out loud through a straw.
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
Mostly lots - at SFV at the moment. I have done a few recolors - but I find I don't have the patience for it that I do for building.
I am really enjoying this thread...glad IG suggested it. I also think it's interesting that the game is so flexible as to accomodate so many different styles of play.
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