Play Style: The Nitty Gritty
notovny:
I pretty much play Pleasantview, and only Pleasantview. It is a mildly-twisted Pleasantview. The original families remain in an
almost-pristine state, with my own Sims added. I started out with the family that I created and played almost explosively when I just had the Sims,, and spread from there, seven generatirons ago.
I generally play with reasonably well-decorated walls and floors, though I find playing at Sim-Eye-Level a bit restrictive. Genetics, for the mos part, aren't really my thing. I don't use money cheats; it's ridiculously easy to make money post-Open-For Business; A skilless, badgeless, straight-out-of CAS Sim can make a million Simoleans within an hour of being plopped on his first lot under the right circumstances.
I use a reasonable number of creature Sims. There are three half-alien Sims in my neighborhood, one of which is the descendant on a n uncheated abduction (Marie Roomies), the other two weretwins from a cheated abduction (Adam and Molly Black). Adam Married Stella Terrano, and they have a pair o green-skinned children, and I'm planning to add some more custom townie aliens to sustain those lines.
I have one Playable Vampire (Nadine Housewalk), and five custom townie vampires: Count Carpathius Nocturne (Monacled Elder), Almathea Kallichore (Raver Adult), Baron Samedi Guédé (Red-suited, Top-hatted adult), Vinnie Luciano (Greaser Gang Teen), and Bobbi Sachs (Poodle-skirted Teen).
I've got One Playabl(Sandy Housewalk, formerly Sandy Bruty and living with Nadine), and five custom townie Werewolves, whose names I can't remember (Two adult Males and one Teen Male, One Adult and One Teen Female). Well, I can remember one of the Teen owlf names, "Howard Scott."
Sandy Bruty:
I have two Servos, Prime and Secunda Servo, who are married and live on their own. Their adopted son, Tom, recently became the father of twins, Tyche and Calypso. Not planning to make any more, as it's hard enough to tell the Servos I have apart, and they don't provide any benefit over my crafted-object production factories.
Prime Servo, with his Son and Daughter in Law, Tom and Coral Servo
I have three zombies, two of which are townies and one of which is a playable. I don't really like them all that much, particularly because of the huge personality shift and major skill-loss, so I tend to consider Zombification a Townie Punishment State.
Santa Klaus
I have two PlantSims, Simon Greene and Phyllis Forrest. Disliking the
I play a lot of community lots. I have dozens of owned community lots, providing a multitude of goods and services. I build most of my Community Lots from scratch, as I don't really like the Maxis ones; they often lack features I consider vital for Business-running. I've also got factories that produice Food, Toys, Robots, Flowers, and Fish for my business-owners, rather than have them prodced by the business-owner, or on the sales lot. I don't have a Plantation, since produce takes too long for my taste. Instead, I built what's been called a "notovny cheaty lot", a lot that takes advantage of one of the quirks of gameplay (in this case, Community Lot Restoration) to provide a hideous amount of produce to whoever visits.
After a brief experiment with pets, my sims no longer obtain Filthy Monsters., and most of my lots are built or hacked to keep them out.
I limit myself to custom content clothing that doesn't break the Suspension of Disbelief (nothing with real logos, or english text), and virtually no recolors or custom objects.
I don't play with Self-Sims, except for my own, who is primarily a spectator.
And Hilary Duff, who is mean and outgoing, and rigged to be in constant near-aspiration failure.
Families tend to be happy and long-lived in my Pleasantview.
My Test Neighborhoods, however, know me as a Capricious and Vengeful God.
As far as what I create, it's mostly community lots, which I'm uploading to my own webspace at a relatively glacial pace. Residential lots I either download, or update small Maxis Lots for better playability.
ZiggyDoodle:
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are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
Play, build, decorate. I build to take a break from gameplay but bulldoze more houses than I keep. I screwed up at the start by allowing one family to spawn eight kids (three sets of twins in a row) and just recently had to add three new male YAs to Uni for new opportunities. For the most part, I've avoided the playables that came with the game and EPs.
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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 like nicely designed, furnished and decorated homes. If there are more than two Sims, most of the time the walls are down primarily for control purposes. Cutaway with my senior citizens (they pretty much get to do whatever their pixels desire).
I have some smaller homes that newly graduated Sims can afford to move into, except for those who get to move back into the family home and inherit the place (which really isn't fair to any siblings).
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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 like the genetic aspect; am trying to breed out the haughty raised brows inherited by the spawn of Petra Petrovitch, a Russian princess who was granted asylum in Pleasantview after escaping the tyrannical overthrow of her princessdom.
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
Pleasantview is my hot spot, but I've been toying with starting a new hood this winter (when I have more indoor time).
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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?
All of the above.
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
My Sims shop for clothing, art, robots, snapdragons, and goodies from the local deli. I do send families out for bowling, skating and an occasional dinner. My senior citizens will don formal dress and dine out, since they don't have much else to do. My YAs do date at community lots.
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-city/country/suburban?
Country/suburban.
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Nope.
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- do you play with pets?
About half of my families have a PITA pet.
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
Within the first 20 minutes of play after installing the base game, I had an alien abduction. The scariest looking spawn I've seen. Essie Tessie is in the adoption pool. The vamps look too goofy to bother with. Don't like zombies. but am toying with turning recently widowed Dirk Dreamer into a werewolf just because I'm curious and he's having a breakdown. I do have quite a few Servos scattered about primarily because they are slave labor and can be turned off.
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I am particular about hacks and only use them to change what irritates me or what I consider really stupid. The few hacks I have installed are from MATY. Only dumb teens get pregnant. My teens are smart. [Edited to add that I use Jfade's and Paladin's talents as well. Good stuff]
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
3,422 files in 16 folders: one gig. 723 files in clothing, 145 in build, 217 curtains, 130 floors, 353 furniture, 592 hair, 179 walls, 132 objects, 138 outdoors, 66 paintings, 134 plants, 59 rugs, and who knows what else hasn't been moved into folders yet. Gads, got to do some culling. Why do I have 179 walls and 130 floors???
Bed linens are a weakness; my Sims are better dressed than I am.
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I've only fooled around with recolors for my own use, but someday (when I have more time) I'd like to get into that aspect of the game as I really admire some of the great work being done and would like to learn how.
Pyromaniac:
I've never tried Legacy families before, since my neighbourhood usually ends up in a BFBVFS before I get to 3-4 generations. I tend to just delete the hood, and start over.
I used play with testingcheats enabled, and it's come in handy more than once. However, the cheating gets a little easy after a while, and I downloaded all the "harder grades/jobs" hack to make the game a tad more realistic.
Nowadays, I play with the fight club and zombie apocalypse hacks intact. University's actually fun to play now, where your sims have to juggle their studies, social life, and stay on their toes to survive. I even created a greek house called the 'Resistance', in which their task is to train new members to defend against zombie attacks. :P
I play with all of the macros, especially during university and business hours. To be honest, I've gotten a lot more incentive to play the game ever since my zombies turned brainthirsty.
BattyCoda:
There seem to be a bunch of empty posts in this thread.
*looks all around* Is there a post thief here?
Makes me sad. I was gonna save the whole thing to keep for ideas and such.
jolrei:
Quote from: BattyCoda on 2007 July 19, 16:30:16
There seem to be a bunch of empty posts in this thread.
*looks all around* Is there a post thief here?
Makes me sad. I was gonna save the whole thing to keep for ideas and such.
Sounds like a browser problem to me. I do not get any empty threads when I access the thread - all OK. Check your browser settings or reload page.
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