Play Style: The Nitty Gritty
theherbalbody:
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- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
I hate building, decorating or creating sims. I play with game generated families.
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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 only play with fully furnished houses that are in game or ones that I have downloaded, walls down, focusing on interactions.
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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 play with one family until the existing youngest member has become an elder and then I'm off to the next family.
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
In-game hoods only.
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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?
Both, I do what it takes to keep their aspiration levels good. I also help them to the top of their careers.
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
All of my sims are homebodies (just like me). Too many sims in one place makes me crazy.
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-city/country/suburban?
Wherever they already reside
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Never.
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- do you play with pets?
Only if it is one of their wants, but most of the time no.
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
No, though I did play with the plantsim family just so that I could make them normal (wanted to see what they looked like).
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I was previously playing with all of the "no autonomous" hacks I could find, but then my sims wouldn't do anything on their own (like take care of their needs) and I hate micro-managing them (I like to leave my game running while I'm sleeping and not wake up and find them dead). Now, I only use The Director's cut, Monique's computer, no bringing anyone home from school/work hacks, auto do homework and gardening.
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
A Little, though I have over 20,000 (ridiculous load time) custom objects, I tend to put only the "hacked" objects in my game.
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I don't create anything.
As you can see, the way I play is quite bland. So occasionally, I will do challenges, which I almost never submit.
jolrei:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
A bit of everything - I don't use Maxoid Sims, except for NPCs. I create everyone else individually, including townies/dormies. I generally create my own houses, which run from the "normal" to the outrageous (built one floating house with a pool under it once). Mostly I get tired of building after a bit and get back to playing so there's usually a lot under construction in my hood somewhere, waiting for a generation to grow up and need it. I also steal houses from Maxis hoods if necessary.
- lots:
Walls up to take pictures. Walls down/cutaway to play. I don't care who has the most toys. I focus on interactions, but not necessarily spawning. I decorate if I feel like it, or if a Sim wants to buy a painting, for example. Not big on cluttering the houses up with plants unless the Headmaster is visiting and I need a good enviro score.
- is genetics your thing?
I care enough about genetics to make my own sims - I don't do fuglies. If an NPC is decent material, I could consider marrying him/her into the game. Otherwise townies are Bodyshopped and imported to the game as needed for marriage or interactions, etc. Other than that, I let the sims crush/love on whoever they seem to choose/end up with. I do like watching how spawns turn out, but if a really ugly thing happens (i.e. no chin, huge nose) I have been known to call down a satellite (only if a family can make money off it though).
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
One or two custom hoods only. I use default hoods as places to plunder houses, and sometimes to clone Sims. Lots of plundering and reloading from backup. I never move in occupied lots or download lots.
- 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?
I like the relationships and interactions, but do the skill things if the aspiration or LTW of the Sim warrants it. If a Sim wants to be Captain Hero, I'll try to get them there, but not at the expense of their other immediate wants (i.e. to make friends, eat omelettes, etc.). I make sure they go to school, work etc., but don't concentrate too much on their grades. I play several families at once in rotation (not strict) and will play a family until I get bored, and then move on to the next one. I don't care about sync timing, so sometimes one sim will age to elder, while their childhood friend is still a teen. I sometimes make spawn into townies, which means they don't age until they move back in with someone else, which could be a couple of generations later. Makes things weird but interesting.
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Mostly homebodies - even my fortune sims want spawn, so they woohoo a bit. Lots of cooking, phoning, and playing piano. I had one sim who was a novel writer (very poor). I do Community Lots for shopping and meeting people, and sometimes to boost fun meters.
I don't do clothing hacks, so if they want to buy clothes, they go shopping.
-city/country/suburban?
Usually starts as wilderness/country, and evolves into suburban/village.
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
No themes, as such. I download any CC that looks interesting, including medieval/victorian furniture and clothing. Some of my sims dress in armour and go to work in helicopters. Others have computers in rooms lit by candles. One sim is mayor and dresses in pirate costumes, while his wife wears sundresses.
- do you play with pets?
No pets - why do I want to worry about the aspirations of dogs?
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
None. Might try this sometime. Have not had an alien abduction yet, after 8 months of play.
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
Hacks only to make things more sensible. Use Jenflower's woohooteens and InSim. I avoid inteen because of previous problems/conflicts. Have a lot of the Director's Cut, but am somewhat selective. I don't care if sim toddlers play in the terlet or if sims put coffee cups on desks in bedrooms. That's what maids are for. I usually run debug mode (heresy?), mainly to speed up bathroom visits (honestly, it takes these blighters forever to pee).
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Use a lot of custom clothing and some furniture. I do not download sims or lots, even though I have clean installer. Prefer to build my own.
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
Sorry, don't create things yet. Might get into that sometime. If I shared anything now it would be houses, but they tend to be a bit abnormal.
Count Four:
I like building and playing. To me, it's almost like I've got two games: Construction and Sims.
But with decorating...it depends. Poorer sims get very little decorating. Once the paint is on the walls, that's that--their furniture doesn't match, they probably won't have drapes. Rich sims get properly decorated houses, eventually.
Depends on the shape of the house what I do with the walls. If walls cut away leaves a right-angle wall blocking my view, I'll play that house walls down. And if there are a lot of sims on the lot to keep track of, I'll play walls down.
Some of my sims have big families, some have no kids. With the families that have kids, I'm happy when a kid turns out pretty but I don't sweat over it. I have been know to kill off kids I can't stand. I usually move them out and play them for awhile, but because they're there, not because I'm really obsessed with following a family line.
I decided awhile back to stop creating separate hoods and stick to one main hood. In most of my hoods I'd have one or two interesting families and a bunch of boring bastards. And I couldn't get all my interesting sims together 'cause they weren't in the same hood. At the mo' I've got Strangetown, my primary custom hood, and another hood for random crap/testing. With one primary hood, the sims I intend to play long term (i.e., till they croak) are in one place. If I want them to get together, they can. The boring bastards get murderlized. The asylum is in the random crap hood, so as not to spam my main sims with Nutbag Memories. I have no subhoods because I found I never used them.
With some sims, I focus on the career. Fortune sims have to be greedy social climbers and they have to be ruthless about their jobs. Criminals have to reach the top of their career 'cause I like criminal masterminds. And I like to make sims earn their lives. I frequently start sims out with a shack and a hundred dollars. Some sims are required to achieve permaplat before they can build a 'real' house, get married and do the kid thing, or maybe just before they're allowed to date.
But I've always got some sims that never get to reach the top of their career or have all those grandkids they want. What's a neighborhood without a childless spinster or a guy who's a total failure at life? And Pleasure sims exist to live ridiculous and pointless lives. In my hood, pleasure sims are more likely to have stupid affairs than even Romance sims.
I don't do community lots very much because of the load. My teens seem to get to go to comm lots more than other sims.
Mostly suburban in the current hood. But there's a little corner I think of as "out in the country" that only gets to have a couple houses.
No themes.
I doesn't has OMGPETZ!!!!1!!! Doesn't has Uni, either.
I've got a couple vamps. More servos than anything else. No plantsims yet, 'cause I haven't yet concentrated on getting one. Aliens all over the place; I like the green skin and black eyes.
I like to make the game less annoying. Essentials: antipeeobsession, antiwatchout, engagewantsfix, ltwvariety, Monique's changeoutfitnospin and her dohomework hack--because a kid who throws a tantrum about doing homework may not survive the night-- noeatcrap, noservochores, nounneededcoats, phonehack, stereohack, toddlerpottyfixes. Plus the important fixes. And I am deeply and fervently in love with abortbedmaking. If it were a person, I would stalk abortbedmaking.
I've also got inSim, which I keep primarily for two reasons--Wardrobe adjuster and Universal Teleport. The sim modding features come in handy some times. And I've got ACR, which makes the game a ton more interesting. That's the way EAxis should have arranged it in the first place.
I don't have as much CC as some people; I'm nowhere near the gigabyte range. And what I do have is mostly furniture and build mode stuff. I don't do a lot of skins and clothes, though I rely on custom eyes. Maxis defaults are terrible.
The only stuff I've created are a few floors and walls, which aren't good enough to share, and a couple recolors of cars and clothes.
You didn't ask, but I think it says a lot about playing style and approach to the game whether you play freewill on or off. I always play free will on. The only time I may possibly turn it off is on business lots when I've got a particularly ADHD business owner.
MistyBlue:
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- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
I build, decorate, and play families.
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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?
Highly decorated, walls cutaway, with the camera zoomed out enough that I can see the whole house (my lots are usually very small)
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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 do generations (and believe it or not, never have tried a Legacy). The whole population of my neighborhood's playable sims consisted of generations of 2 families.
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I build my own hood then play until I get the sudden urge to start over. BUT, I have been building an urban hood and it's taking forever to do and I do not want to do it again. I will probably stick with this one until it becomes a fireball, then whip out the pristine backup.
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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?
Both, but I don't care how they turn out. I like having perfect genius sims and really shitty, always in aspiration failure sims.
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Thankfully, lot load is only about a minute so I do play lots of community lots.
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-city/country/suburban?
Definitely CITY!
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Hell no! Hate themes!
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- do you play with pets?
A little, depends on how many are in the family. Most elders get a cat.
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
No, I keep my game as real as possible, not even a servo.
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
Definitely harder, but I also make things easier choice-wise using certain mods...like with ACR, I let them decide on how many kids if any. I have Insim, but maily only use it for the teleport here feature. I don't use Inteen.
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
I dunno...is 1 gig a lot or a little? I have build items the most, next would be bedroom sets.
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I build houses. More recently, I started building sets and whole neighborhoods to share.
jsalemi:
Quote from: darcee on 2007 July 18, 13:41:16
Kyna, what is Hook's randomiser? And JadeElliott's list of random events? It sounds like a lot of fun.
Hook's randomizer can be found here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8253.0.html
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