Play Style: The Nitty Gritty
Miao:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
In order of preference: playing families, creating Sims, decorating lots, building lots.
- 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?
Er...I do something in the middle, though leaning toward the barely decorated/walls down/etc. style. I hate decorating, because I can't ever seem to be satisfied with the results (people even tell me I'm good at it. Psh!) and I'm too lazy to do so. I have no patience at all to sit for an hour or two just putting clutter all over the place if my game's just going to crash anyway.
- 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?
Oh, yes. The most important reason why I keep coming back to the game is to see how my Sims' genetics fare in new generations. I do have a billion families, so I haven't ever gotten farther than gen. 4 in any family.
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I have lots of hoods. In fact, I have several saved games with ~6 neighborhoods each. As for if I play them evenly--no.
- 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?
Before I got the hang of time management, it was mostly about relationships/families/babies. Now, I like to have Sims reach at least one LTW before even starting a family (though ACR's complicated things a bit).
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
They're pretty much homebodies. I only send them to comm. lots if they go on dates.
-city/country/suburban?
Mostly suburban.
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Not really, unless you count the one neighborhood with Sims with Genensims' furry skintones. I don't write stories with those Sims.
- do you play with pets?
I used to let my Sims have a pet or two, but since they have a tendency to ignore everything else to play with their pets, I'm not keen on getting pets for them any longer.
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
I'm mostly a "real person" player, though I like aliens. There are a handful of Servos and two vampires in all my hoods.
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I like to make their lives more realistic, I guess I should say. Insim = yes, Inteen = yes, as well as 200+ other mods/hacks (incl. ACR, but mostly just anti-annoyance mods) which by some miracle all seem to work fine together.
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
6.57 GB, last I checked. I really need to do some cleaning. I download mostly clothing and hair, occasionally furniture and build mode objects, rarely makeup and accessories.
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I'd created a few things, but haven't shared anything yet. I might start sharing if I'm confident that everything I make works and doesn't have any CC that shouldn't be shared.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
Building and playing, pretty equally.
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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?
Walls down, all the way, except for photo time. I want to see what everyone is doing. A lot of times my lots are built with a great deal of windows on the rear so that I can keep half an eye on the other floors while I'm focused on one sim. I also play viewing from the back of the lot to the sidewalk so that I can catch walk-bys. I tend to forget about decorative items until I start taking photos and realize how similar shots in the same room seem.
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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 used to leave after 1-2 generations because I wasn't fulfilling my "build need", but then I figured out the best formula - move every generation, new house, new community lot. I do love the genetics. I love the annoyance that comes when I realize that at Gen 8 I still have that stupid pinnochio nose I married into the family at Gen 1 on all the guys (no boys in Gens 9 and 10, so we'll see if it comes back to haunt me yet again). I like starting with sims with dominant traits and breeding in recessives until I get an all-recessive kid.
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I'm a 'hood junkie. I started Urban Paradise and swore that this was my one 'hood forever and ever, no more making one every couple weeks. A couple/three months later I started Monopoly. Now I also have that Meadow Lawns 'hood I pop into from time to time. But I'm being good about playing both Urban Paradise and Monopoly equally, one each week. I feel bad for my simmies if I don't visit them (yes, craziness).
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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?
Mm. Well, that's always changing. In Urban Paradise, since it's more of a challenge 'hood (though I rewrite challenges and merge them until they aren't recognizable) making sure that I focus on the heir and breed them is the most important. So on one hand it's about the relationships primarily. However, I let them loose a bit and often spin their non-breeding life into different directions based on what's happening (the elevator-plummeting-caused insanity of Charisma causing the obsession with immortality and subsequent drinking of the life essence of the entire 'hood, the All-Knowing Mimetm's periodic appearances, India's obsession with the dead caused by her parents' early demise and her husband's death plus the presence of so many grilled cheese zombies, Jasmine's origins as part of Project Nanosperm due to random ACR sexual preference making the heir, Ivy, a lesbian). In Monopoly, I basically go free-play with them and let their actions show me what they want. I'll put them in a particular career if that's their LTW, and give them the requisite skill points when they want them, but I don't focus on it. Like with Klapaucius...she wanted a puppy before Flamingo left for college, so I got her one. Visitors gravitated to the puppy, and I had almost nothing for her to do as she didn't work. I have her start up a pet store to share the love she's found. Then everyone starts getting pets autonomously right and left.
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Depends on the sim and 'hood. No community lots yet available post-apoc in Urban Paradise, but they will be cropping up again soon. Typically I have a sim go out a lot while they are searching for a mate, and then on a date every sim week or so. Where they go depends on the personality. Really outgoing sims go to clubs/bars, playful sims to arcades, active sims to bowling alleys/skating rinks, lazy sims to restaurants. As for Monopoly, I'm doing it in rounds. One round they all stay home, one round I take them out.
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-city/country/suburban?
Urban Paradise is urban, but developing. So for the most part, the lots are crammed together but there is a lot of open space. Because of the story aspects (apocalypse) after the F generation got back from college, they started over on the opposite end of the 'hood which was completely undeveloped. Now there is the Apocalyptic Tower of Doom (about to be torn down and replaced with greenhouses), a small but pretty 1x1 cemetary, and a second house where India moved with her twin teen sons and newly-resurrected husband. Monopoly is, of course, a Monopoly board.
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Monopoly is my first. It's only a theme in 'hood layout, lot design, and sim last names. No special clothes or objects except the layerable letter floor tiles and token piece painting recolors I did for the 'hood.
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- do you play with pets?
Sometimes. If aspirations are low and the only want they have that will keep them out of the green and is feasible is a pet, I'll get them one. If they have a "raise 20 kittens/puppies want" I definitely do and have them pursue it. India was my first with that. Monopoly is going through a pet explosion (especially womrats!) due to Klapaucius's shop. I almost never get them jobs.
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
Alien babies happen if they happen. I don't generally like vamps or werewolves or zombies, but Urban Paradise has 11 grilled cheese zombies who were created during the apocalypse (former romance who lost the reroll option).
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I don't see a reason for insim or inteen. I don't want my teens pregnant, and almost everything else can be achieved through the testingcheats "Spawn..." menu. I started using those objects before either -killer became popular. Hacks either cut annoyances (servo chores), make things crazy (ACR, trips/quads) or harder (Uni degree hack).
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Tons. What's odd on a lot/sim is what isn't custom. My main focus is hair and objects, but I have default replacement everything as well! Polination techs, skins, eyes, pet eyes, face templates, name lists, extra geneticized skins & eyes...
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I don't really share much because everything I have to share is so bloated with custom stuff. :( I have a few lots I've put out there, my face templates, one of these days I'll fix the preview issue on my layerable tiles so that I can share those.
Lorelei:
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
Invisigoth and I were talking this evening about play style...and we realized that this discussion would make an interesting topic. Now IG suggested I start the thread, although, as she says, "since it was my idea I want you to credit me and never post it on the exchange or a paysite. And also no changing my idea, recoloring, alpha edits...And you must link back to my profile whenever you mention this idea to anyone. Including IRL."
O, ROFFLE, y'all so silly.
So with that in mind....
Yes?
How do you play? Please include details such as:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
I like to redesign houses and lots, decorate, create Sims, and I'd probably play families if I had more than two hours free a month on average to play.
- 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?
Yes to decor, collapsible walls unless taking pictures, then walls up. I liked the idea of granting alternate fear/want days, but haven't done it yet. I tend to let the family I am playing get what they want so i can get pix I need. Unless I need Woeface Simmies. Then they are DENIED. Interqactions, yes; spawn, no.
- 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?
With two babies in StrangeT and one child in PView, plus one plat death in StrangeT, I'd say breeding/killing off Sims isn't a big draw. Yet.
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
Typically play PView and occasionally PView Uni. Have played STown to test new eps. Ditto VVille.
- 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?
Relationships, kind of. Skill, yes. Jobs? Occasionally.
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
I send families to comm lots on occasion. Not often. Typically teleport desired visitors in if needed. Start on lot I need pix of, and get needed Sims to arrive. If on comm lot, will delete Townies to see familiar Sims arrive, but do not teleport while on comm lots, generally speaking. Whoever shows, shows.
-city/country/suburban?
PView has businesses and a small industrial section, but it also has a very suburban area. I like the lush green terrain best.
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
I typically like Mod furniture, but that's not specific to a theme.
- do you play with pets?
I have a handful, mostly cats. Mostly MATYean cats, actually. I want a SimFerret. :)
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
I have one vamp who vamped three or four townies plus default vamps and grand vamps, default aliens plus two halfalien babies. If there are default werewolves and zombies, then I have defaults, or none.
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
Both, depending. Insim, yes. Inteen, never.
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Lots and lots and lots. Hacked objects and bodyshop crap.
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
"Known" Sims, famous or otherwise, occasional spates of texturing clothes, a lot for MATY contest. Link in sig.
Discuss.
I think I download more than I play, I enjoy other people's stories, and I like to try and help resolve game problems I've dealt with, read about or found solutions to with others who are struggling. When I do play, I typically let the Sims do their thing and let them direct the action unless they are about to waste my time by destroying the house or dying, which would be an aggravation to repair or undo.
Typical game sesh = me redesigning layout of PView, putting more Sims into expanded hood, checking in on new or an old family, tweaking decor, watching Sims interact and be stupid, taking pix, getting bored and moving to new lot.
Batelle:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
When I first got the game, I was totally into playing families. Then I discovered custom content and became obssessive about lot building. Now I do a lot of both, but it's cyclical. My most recent challenge attempt got derailed by my own infernal meddling, so now I'm building.
- 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 keep the decor pretty straightforward inside and out- simple but not bare. Every now and again I clutter because I can, but I hate lag and useless items, so I usually keep it to needful things at 90 degree angles. I play with walls down, usually, putting them up for pictures only.
- 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?
If a family interests me, I usually get to the third or fourth generation before I get bored. I love the genetics, especially when certain features are still going strong four generations down. Noses and eye color are my favourite things to geek out about.
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I've played a lot in Maxi hoods, but I like to create my own neighborhoods. I even make my own terrains in Sims City 4 and have spent whole weekends just doing that, but I end up using downloaded terrains more often than not. Currently my big project is a main neighborhood with wolfsim's lots, a downtown with plasticbox's Backdoor Lane lots and a beachside shopping village and tiny university with my own creations.
- 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 keep a nice balance, I think. I like to keep my sims happy all around, so they get what they want. I also like to watch their crazy expressions and reactions when they interact. They're like a little television show I have all to myself.
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
I love community lots to meet new people and for dates. I think it's a lot of fun to have my sims "go out" and I usually send newly aged teens straight downtown to scope potential spouses.
-city/country/suburban?
A little of all three. Mostly suburban.
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
I've tried, but I find themes too hard to stick with across several lots.
- do you play with pets?
I have, but they have a tendency to bork my game so I only have them in lots that I don't care about.
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
I adore the supernatural, but have only played extensively with vamps and aliens. Zombies and werewolves are usually relegated to the townie sect, because the moaning and loping bug me in the long term.
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I use MATY hacks to make things run smoother, to make the tedious less so and to get the socio-political climate of Batelle Land the way I want it. I have insim to give CAS sims a boost out of the gates and to fix genetic woes. I don't use a ton of money cheats, but I do use shop at home functions for clothing. I like to have a few outfits on hand for everyone in the household.
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Tons. 1.8GB at last check (and that was before Holy Simoly released their latest donation pack). I have a lot of everything, but I have a weakness for women's casual clothing, beach-themed stuff, retro objects and industrial/grunge decor and build items. My biggest subfolders are Cyclonesue, Windkeeper, Shannanigan and Holy Simoly.
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I can barely do simple recolors, but I have shared a few basic houses that I built. If my uni turns out the way I hope, I might share it.
msalwaysright:
are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
More of the first three-I create the families, build and decorate according to who I've decided they are, then play them just long enough to see if the lot is up to spec.
- 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?
The first one-I recently upped my ram to 3gig, so I decorate pretty heavily now.
- 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?
The second one-I get bored with the families easily.
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
Lots of hoods-I do have SarahMK's merged Maxis hood that I've kept for ages-I go back to it ever so often.
- 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?
More into relationships, etc. I usually cheat like mad for skills and jobs.
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Both-I do stay interested in community lots longer.
-city/country/suburban?
All of the above.
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Love themes-famous movie monsters, Bayou, 1950's.....
- do you play with pets?
Sometimes
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
I only have supernatural sims in my monster hood. The others I keep to regular sims.
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
Hacks a'plenty-Nearly everything from MATY, most of SimWardrobe's stuff, the one tiled version of Merola's painting, -No inteen, the options never appealed to me even before I knew about the kittens.
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Lots of CC, probably more recolors than anything else, but lots of clutter & anything needed to make thems more complete, Not nearly enough clothes, though.
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I'm not awesome, so I only make things when I can't find what I need for my own game. I have a Buffy and a Spike on the Exchange that I keep up out of nostalgia-('baby's first uploads'). -And tacky 70's couch and accessories set on MTS2.
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