Play Style: The Nitty Gritty
Emma:
How do you play? Please include details such as:
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- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
All of the above.
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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?
Both, depending on family size.
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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?
Both, again depending on family size. I must admit I rush through large families :D
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I only ever have 2 hoods. One is my main playing hood where all the action happens and the other is for building.
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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 depending on the sim's aspirations.
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Again, depending on the sim families. If there are a large number of sims in the family they tend to socialise at home. If I have a small family or just a single sim I tend to send them on a lot of outings at community lots.
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-city/country/suburban?
Definitely suburban.
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Not at the moment although I did have a Simstones themed neighbourhood on my other computer. I am thinking of doing a victorian themed neighbourhood, but kinda busy with the hood I have now.
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- do you play with pets?
Yes, I love them. I am really glad I bought this expansion as Unleashed for Sims 1 really put me off the pet thing.
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
Yes, although I am still to have a werewolf or Zombie in-game.
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I am a macrotastics convert :D I love my hacks. I don't do Inteen or Insim though.
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Very few objects. I tend to have completer sets and repository items and use the maxis stuff. Mostly hair and some clothing. I am trying hard to be strict about downloading clothing as my other game on the upstairs pc has hundreds of downloaded clothes installed and I think my sims have used about 25 of them. Seriously.
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
Lots of Lots! Linkage in my sig. First one to find and pm me with the link to my 'famous bathroomless house' wins a custom made lot. ;D Oh, I have made some crappy walls and floors too. Go me.
jolrei:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 July 18, 18:21:38
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.
Funny. I tend to play with a focus on heirs as well, although I never score the challenge because I'm always playing with hacks and debug mode. I tend to like going for interesting events, interactions, occurrences, rather than sticking to the Maxis imposed timelines for eating, terlet breaks, etc. If there's something good going down, I give them a full hunger bar and green bladder condition so they can get on with it (unless the situation calls for them to be hungry or extremely uncomfortable.
I tried one "real" Asylum Challenge in May (no hacks, no debug, no cheats, no InSim) and had no fights, only one death, and lots of pillow fights and sims breaking down and crying due to aspiration failure. No visits from shrink, even when they did the chicken imitation or talked to the volleyball. I got bored. It's more funny now that I've turned all the former asylum inmates loose in the hood as townies. One of the fortune sims from the asylum is still in aspiration failure (broke down and wept on a community lot yesterday because he had no way of making money). Apparently the game has not assigned him a job yet.
Faizah:
Mostly, I create sims, in a very general sense, and play families spawned from those sims. My houses tend towards the minimalist, more a graphics concern than anything else. Walls down, all graphics set to the lowest setting, my focus tends more towards the 'plot' than the special effects, so to speak. Though there's not very much plot either, actually... I don't have many downloads, and most of the ones I do have are hacks, not clothes or objects.
The genetic aspect -- well, I'll admit, this version of the sims has held my interest for a lot longer than the first one. I routinely start various genetic 'experiments', though I jump around so much that I don't think I've even hit a second generation anywhere yet... (Also, I had an anti-aging hack in, which I have recently removed) Various experiments have included: Don Lothario + Woohoo = Baby. Don Lothario + 20 Woohoo LTW = 20 Babies... I made a couple in CAS, generated a child with a 'double jointed nose', and kept it - intending to breed from him later on, to see how long the nose sticks around. Another experiment is to see how many children one couple can have before they reach elder - begun shortly after I removed the anti-aging hack. I think at this point my best bet for seeing things through to another generation is to go for China rule. I'm not quite there yet, though. Closest I've come to multi-generational has been Don's family, some of his earlier kids have married/joined now, he has one baby grandchild and two more on the way.
I start new hoods for new experiments, things I don't want to subject my main hoods to. Like overpopulating with one generation of siblings. Obviously I can't always do that (Don Lothario, for instance) but I try. I also go through and delete hoods I haven't visited in a while, just to keep the scrolling through to a minimum.
My main focus with sims is fulfilling their LTWs, though I like to have each sim either run at least one business, or have business reward skills passed on by another. Reaching the tops of careers is always fun, though since the education career I haven't been very motivated to try for any of the other rewards. Maybe the paranormal one here, or the adventurer/journalist ones there, the occasional cowplant for fun, but the skilling ones don't quite seem as important anymore. When it comes to interactions with other sims, there's not generally much going on within the household. Parents teach their toddlers the toddler skills, teach their children to study, etc. But mostly social comes from phone calls.
The only community lots I visit are ones that are owned and run as businesses, and then only as the business owner. More of a 'takes too long to load' problem there. I'd love to be able to exploit the lack of time passing while there, I just don't have the patience to go anywhere if I don't have to.
I like to play the farming part, that hasn't changed since Unleashed (I was so disappointed that it wasn't included with Pets... In Unleashed, pets had something to /do/, not crappy jobs to unlock weird coat colours) so I suppose there's rural in that. And I don't exactly play the ultra modern, or anything. But my sims still have all the modern conveniences - flushing toilets, fully stocked kitchens, big screen TVs, expensive computers, sports cars, you know, the basics. I don't think that really fits under city, country, or suburban... They're sims, they live wherever it is that sims live.
I'm not really big on themes exactly, or pets. (Though invariably someone ends up adopting Bonkers...) But I do like the alien abductions and alien babies. Vampires, well, they can be fun. Especially when the 'designated telescope shover' is a vampire. That was hilarious. "You looked at my house, in the day, while I was in my coffin, in my windowless basement, where you could not possibly see me! I must come over and shove you, with complete disregard for my own safety! Oh, but look, the sun! I must flee!" (complete with the standard 'the sun, I must flee' message) Zombies, not so much... I have a couple of werewolves. (And played a pre-Seasons lot the other day with a crazy amount of trees... THAT was fun when Autumn rolled around) I wouldn't mind more, don't think I ever got a 'natural' werewolf transformation (or vampire, for that matter...) but things are fine the way they are. Plantsims are pretty neat, though I had to cut back on that, as I couldn't tell them apart any more.
I would say, hack-wise, I like to make my game simpler. And less stupid. Mostly the less stupid. I have a lot of MATY hacks. A fair few of Inge's. And, yes, insim. (Though not inteen) and I've already mentioned my lack of custom content. Though I am quite fond of much of Mermaid Cove. Especially the subtle make-up, and hints of lipstick. I don't create anything, but am in awe of those who do.
eevilcat:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
I have built lots since I first got the game, usually from scratch and with the emphasis on playability. I'm an obsessive decorator and tend to do revamp lots as one would do in real life. I'll create playable sims to start a game and fill the townie pool but what I really like is playing families for multiple generations.
- 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 play with cutaway walls that tend to acquire decoration over time - always useful for fortune sims wants.
- 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?
Yes, more of an addiction than a thing. I've added geneticised version of Enayla's skins to my game and it's interesting to see how these breed into the gene pool. At the moment it's the fantasy skins but I may well try some of the others in the future. I'll often pair up/breed certain sims just to see how their spawn will turn out. In fact I refer to them as my little simmie fruitflies, which hubbie finds hilarious. I've completed the 10 generation legacy and have now embarked upon the 26 generation alphabet legacy so I enjoy watching how they develop.
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I started off with Strangetown but since then tend to build hoods for specific purposes, usually a challenge. There's the legacy hood, asylum hood, black widow hood, alphabet hood etc I also have a boolprop hood for testing things. It's been such a long time since I played Strangetown it will be interesting to have a look at it again... if it still works.
- 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 and interactions are far important. Skilling and career are things that automatically happen, although I may weave career choice into a storyline.
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
I have the community cemetary but I wouldn't say I play it. I prefer home businesses and while I enjoy the features of NL, the whole getting there and coming back is annoying so I call up visitors/greet passersby instead.
-city/country/suburban?
country or suburban
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Not really though I am seriously tempted by a medieval game with all the tasty CC that's available.
- do you play with pets?
Cats yes, dogs not anymore - as in real life they require far too much attention. I might try another one with a water wiggler as suggested by Pescado.
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
Aliens yes, lots of, it's the genetics thing again. Zombies are on the whole annoying though they were lots of fun for a while with the zombie apocalypse/eat brains hack. Vamps are ok and I've yet to try a werewolf. Plantsims are useful servants, certainly much better than servos, but I haven't yet turned one of my sims despite lots of gardening/spraying.
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I like hacks to fix things and the odd one or two that add to gameplay, I certainly wouldn't be without ACR or the age duration hack. I don't macrotastics as I like to micromanage, or maybe I'm just a sim control freak. :D I have used insim but not since Seasons and I will confess to trying out the kitten killer, but as I disagree with teen pregnancies in real life I didn't see why I should use them in game.
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Lots and lots and lots and even more that I don't have in my downloads folder. Current size is ~1.6Gb evenly split between clothing, buy and build mode items as I build, decorate and play lots.
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I haven't shared very much - a couple of outfits and buy mode items, one tutorial, that's about it. I can create stuff, it's just time and effort on testing it for public release that has stopped me. I am working on a family tree utility but even that's on hold until next month when I'll have free time to start coding again.
ElviraGoth:
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
Mostly playing families, but I have one hood I use just for building lots. I made a couple of versions of the house we had that my kids grew up in and I use the smaller one for newlyweds and then move them to the bigger one when they can afford it. I also did a few for some themes I recently decided to try (my own themes, not any you mentioned).
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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?
Barely decorated, walls down so I can see what my pixel people are doing. Walls cutaway or up for pics. Most of my houses don't even have curtains unless a sim wants them.
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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 have a couple of hoods that I made specifically for the genetics. My oldest one is over two years old now, and I expect something bad to happen to it every time I play, but so far so good. It started as a Color My World challenge, which got me started making color skins, clothes, decorations, objects, etc., just to make it easier to recognize who was in what family. I then got to wondering what kind of genetics would be passed on as the colors mixed. I have charts, too.
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I originally was playing Pleasantview, a little of Strangetown, and my own hood. In the last six months I added a townie town that I am using to see what the different kinds of deaths are like (take out my frustrations on! lol) and I got a hair up my ass to make one that is just going to be a "creature feature".
I started a second user account so I could start PV and ST over again, and added another color hood and townie town (the first one gave me a bunch of odd townies, not the usual crowd) and I started an Island Paradise hood with hula girls and pirates.
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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?
Some of both. One of the "rules" of my color hoods is that they have to reach the top of their career and get the reward when it becomes available. All sim teens go to Uni the day before they will become an adult to find their mate (hopefully) if they haven't already.
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Mostly homebodies, occassionally I let them hang out at a community lot, but they usually only go to buy clothes or electronics. Yes, they have cell phones, mainly so they can each talk to their friends at the same time (for relationship building).
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-city/country/suburban?
Suburban, with the exceptions of the island hood and the creature hood.
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
The ones I mentioned - gee, I guess they're almost all themed in some way!
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- do you play with pets?
Very few, and then only if that's the only way a sim's wants will roll up something else!
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
I only have one zombie family, but have had a few alien abductions. One guy in my first color hood has been abducted 3 or 4 times! (Once as a teen, once at Uni, and once or twice as an adult.)
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
Mostly only what makes my game run better for me. I like macrotastics and every lot has a debugger box. I also have the InSiminator, mainly for checking on pregnancies, but I also use it sometimes for other things, like making a dormie playable. I also have the pregnancy for all mod so I can
allow my same-sex couples to have their own kids (Genetics, of course.) And crammyboy's cock hack. Just because. ;D
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
Quite a bit, mostly my own. Clothes and furniture, some wall and floor recolors. When a sim age transitions in my color hoods, I will go make a recolor of whatever outfit they grew up into that corresponds to their color name. And all furniture and walls have to match the color name, too, so I have done stoves, fridges, counters, beds, desks, chairs, couches, tables, robots, etc., ad nauseum to make the houses consistent.
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
Only recolors. Don't really consider anything I've done to be so great that I'd put it up anywhere, but I did put my home lot on the exchange once and had an Uncle Sam suit up there once. (Didn't announce them anywhere; I just wanted to see if there was any interest without pimpin' mah stuffs!) I've done a hula girl outfit and a pirate outfit for toddlers, but haven't offered them anywhere yet. Don't know what they look like in-game yet!
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Discuss.
Interesting idea, seeing how people play! Are you into fantasy or reality, basically. How do you escape the tedium that is life?
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