Play Style: The Nitty Gritty
missangelica:
- I create sims the most. Sims 2 is just a more complex version of a paper doll to me.
- lots: If I'm in it for game play then the houses are pretty sparse and walls are almost always partially down meaning if I'm close up they're down but farther away they're not. If I am trying to recreate a story I decorate fully. :)
- genetics: I prefer being able to play the spawn game in CAS where I can decide if that's really how I want the youngings to look but I don't mind it when I'm playing a challenge. Sometimes a characteristic I wouldn't of allowed can become a feature for that sim and I can play it up/down with makeup/hair/clothing.
- I'm pretty bad at building and tend to get irritated by the inability to move walls instead of having to tear them down and build them back up. I prefer downloading other's work and making it my own. I play in bursts so I have never hung onto a neighborhood that long except for when the first came out and I was tickled to pieces by my sim-real family. When the next expansion comes I usually start over.
- relationships and interactions: With the creation of macros, dizy's improved free will mod, and ACR I am pretty hands off unless I have a goal in mind for the sim. I like them to build the initial relationship on their own so I know where the relationship should lead.
- comm versus home: With Seasons I'm staying more at home. However, I had a sim who stayed on community lots the entirety of his life and he had a blast. I would like to do that again sometime soon.
- city/country/suburban? Suburban, but I'll do city when I eventually download all those fantastic sets of lots people have been doing.
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian) nope
- do you play with pets? Nearly every family has to have a pet unless I feel it doesn't go well with how the family is.
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?: I've been told my play style is boring on more than one occasion. I have had a least one of each mentioned but really to try it out and I dump them pretty quickly.
- hacks: I used to swear by insimenator but I haven't used it since Pets came out. It's really a mixture of both harder and easier.. harder to make it semi more realistic but easier in the tediousness part of the game. Clicking, "go to bed," on a sim is much easier than having to stop everything and find the floor the bed is on, click it and hope the sim doesn't cancel it out or wanders off. The added feature of them automatically queueing to go to the bathroom after waking up is a total win.
-cc: I used to download a lot of everything but since the latest expansion packs have been such a load on my computer I mainly choose things to dress up the sim and some objects where the game is really lacking.
-my cc: I make clothing.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
DANCE, PUPPETS, DANCE.
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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?
Victory is life.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- 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?
Bit of column A, bit of column B.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
There can be only one.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- 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. With moar fight.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Not a big fan of lot load, but a sacrifice that can be made if it will produce moar fight.
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-city/country/suburban?
Bit of everything.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Is "Moar Fight" a theme?
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- do you play with pets?
Some.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
Vampires aren't real people? That's news to me.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I AM AWESOME!
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
My stuff.
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
See above.
kuronue:
Quote from: Hecubus on 2007 July 18, 01:01:49
How do you play? Please include details such as:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
Mm, I tried my hand at lot building a few times when I was bored, but mostly I 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?
I'm bad with decorating, I must have missed out on some girl-gene that makes every girl in my middle and high school graduating classes able to write in pretty loopy handwriting, draw a perfect heart, star, or other doodle, and decorate a room tastefully. In fact, the shirt and shorts I'm wearing now don't even match. I'll put decor when I feel like it, but I play walls cutaway or down.
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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'm all about the storyline, honestly I don't think a lot of sims are as fugly as people say. It's not enough to bother me.
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- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I have a couple play hoods and a couple movie-making hoods.
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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?
It's all about the storyline for me.
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- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
I get fed up with load times, but then, my sims have to meet people a lot, so I do play community lots.
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-city/country/suburban?
Depends on the hood. Downtowns tend to be more city. Most of my main hoods are more suburban. Riverblossom and subhoods are country.
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- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
one pic/movie hood is victorian-fantasy, and Riverblossom makes good use of the new country decor.
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- do you play with pets?
yup
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- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
The first zombie I made was quite on accident, the first time I used the ressurectanomitron, and it creeped me the fuck out. So I don't use them much. Aliens, a lot. Vamps, a good deal. Weres, too hard to make. Plantsims, a lot in Riverblossom
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- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
I don't like to cheat the game easier, but I don't use harderjobs or expensivenpcs either. Just make it more realistic.
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-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
A decent amount, but you'd be surprise how much I pass by to use maxis stuff instead.
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- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I don't share. Mine are THAT bad. Example: http://www.geocities.com/techwiz2000_2000/armor5.jpg
pixiejuice:
I love this topic! It's so fascinating to see how other people play.
Me - I am an absolute nerd about my Sims, LOL. I have charts! My husband laughs at me! I play with a deck of cards for variety, which decides all kinds of things... what Sim is going to die a tragic and early death... what Sims "move away" (population control!)... oops, somebody got pregnant... somebody has a midlife crisis... how much does so-and-so really want to go to college?... family lost everything in a tragic house fire... criminals draw a card for jail risk, law enforcement and military draw a card for death risk... I'm not kidding when I say I have charts :)
My custom neighborhood is Lakeside Heights. I have 71 Sims, several different family lines, who I play equally in 3 day intervals, and my fourth generation kids are just starting to be born. I've been at this neighborhood for over a year, and had another before it that I played since the beginning, and that one made it to the 6th generation before I started over. Lakeside Heights has a downtown, Lake City (the Maxis default, remodeled), and Bluewater Village has been wiped clean and turned into a farming suburb.
I mostly build my own lots, but I do download too.
Interactions - I'm pretty big on free will, and I almost never exit without saving. I keep in mind that just because they want something, doesn't mean they'll get it. I do try to keep them happy though. I guess I'm big into realism. Some of my Sims end up very successful, some lonely, some poor but happy, some miserable.
About half of my families have pets. I don't play any of the vampires/werewolves/zombies etc... Except I have one alien Sim, but I didn't really have any choice in that matter. I'm a little irritated right now actually because I can't keep my farmer from turning into a plant Sim with all the spraying he does, but that's another discussion.
Hacks - A lot of them! I like things that make their lives more realistic, harder, and more logical. I have quite a bit of CC too.
I don't share any of my creations. I'm greedy like that. Maybe I will someday though, because my houses are pretty cute :)
Good topic!
MasterDinadan:
Definitely more of a player rather than builder. I like to decorate my homes to a certain extent but I can't build large homes because it will cause too much lag... so I just build nice small homes.
I start a neighboorhood with a certain number of families (usually around 5 or so) and play each one equally.
I don't ever move in or have babies with townies or NPCs (alien pregnancy is ok). After many generations, most of the playable sims will be related and it is difficult to pair them up to make babies, I like the challenge this introduces.
No aspiration rewards since it's too easy.
Tombstones stay on the lot. After many generations, the ghosts will make things more difficult but this is also fun.
Should go without saying.. but I use a ton of Awesome hacks. Not many objects though, and no genetics or clothing.
Basic goal when I play is to try to have each sim fulfill as many LTW as possible, with aspiration randomly determined. Each time they fulfill a LTW though, they can change their aspiration (but still random) and start working on the next. Keep going until I run out of sims or I get bored with the neighboorhood (I usually start over if I download a major hack or get an expansion)
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