Play Style: The Nitty Gritty
jolrei:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2007 July 24, 02:41:32
Yay! Gen 11 of my Alphabet family, and I've finally bred the pinnochio nose that I accidentally married in first generation out of the male line.
Such patience! Very admirable. I had a pinocchio nose combined with weak chin in my first hood. This went on through gen 4 and actually got worse. Satellites fell from heaven and destroyed the family utterly, causing massive emotional stress for the last playable standing in that family (he had married in). Shortly after this the hood went foooom, but I felt sorry enough for the Sim that I cloned him and put the clone in my new hood so he could have a better chance at a happy life.
Now that I'm a bit wiser, I am less cavalier about my destructive techniques and may just try to exercise patience to let Sim genetics take their course. If I get "British royalty" again, I may just live with it.
ingeli:
- are you more into building lots, decorating lots, creating sims, or playing families?
This varies with mood.
- 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 want my lots to be themed, and to fit in the story. They must also be playable. Sometimes I put a LOT of time into decorating, and sometimes I just want the story to go on, so I give the simmies the necessary stuff, and put deco in while I am playing. I like playing OFB so I also let them buy deco stuff by themselves.
- 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 LOVE this aspect of the game. This is a natural follow up on the games I played when I was a child, creating endless family trees of royalty, or rich families, or just some story I was working on.. sims are ideal for this! I even use some family names I remember from those games, hehe. Back in the days, I used paper dolls and drawing to illustrate.
- do you build lots of hoods, or have you been playing one or two hoods forever?
I never play the maxis hoods, only if I have to test something. I have made a couple of custom hoods, my main project is my medieval hood, which I just restarted this week. Now with emptier grounds, hopefully less bugged and better! I also grew tired of the terrains. Once in a while I get tired of the old times and long for my HUGE collection of modern stuff, and then I fire up my special OTHER sims2version, with all the modern downloads. I have a Science Fiction themed hood there.
- 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?
Hmm.. one day, when my sims deveope into more modern times, they will think about careers. Now they are mostly into farmin and breeding and social stuff.
- do you play lots of community lots, or are your sims homebodies?
Since seasons, more homebound. But I like community lots, when I remember them, lol.
-city/country/suburban?
A village, and a medieval town.
- do you do themes? (aliens, medieval, Victorian)
Yes, medieval and SF.
- do you play with pets?
Yes. But I dont have patience with training, tg for christianlovs pet trainer object.
- do you do the vamp/werewolf/alien/zombie thing, or are you more a 'real person' player?
Hmm.. I dont play with the plant sims. Aliens are not in contact with my medieval sims, they will maybe turn up in the future. I have had werewolves, which I treated like a serious disease for the sim that was hit. Vamps feel more victorian, I may do that with time.
- hacks: do you like to make life simpler or harder? insim? inteen?
All hacks I feel improves the game. Maty, of course, Inteen because the teens married back in medieval times, and Insim now when I am restarting the hood, as I salvaged some old sims from the old hood and need them to be in the right age and such.
-custom content: lots or a little? what do you have the most of?
LOTS. Hair. Objects. Everything medieval I can find, and also collecting other periods stuff.
- and finally, if you share your creations...what do you create?
I wish I could. I envy the hack creators. I have tried a little tiny bit, enough to have the uttermost respect for you all and your awesomeness.
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