sims will not age
aubreylaraine:
Quote from: aubreylaraine on 2007 September 03, 00:07:08
it's just that all my sims are exactly the same because i can't bring myself to intentionally holding them back from college or the top of the career ladder or the perfect mate. i was just using it for the spice of not knowing who was going to knock who up. then i was going to stick them together, for better or worse. my young adult are sluts, i wanted some of them to pay for it.
i would never use it for my teens, no fail birth control flavor pak. i got it mainly to see what the big deal was about, but will keep it until i upgrade my hard drive then ask myself if it really was what i was looking for. i may keep it for the same reason i use harder grades, harder jobs, deadlier disease among others. to make things harder for me. i use the acr, couldn't play without it. that and the downloadable crystal ball are how i pick life partners. wow, i don't sound defensive at all do i?
unfortunately i am a perfectionist. i can't control my own so i control theirs so much so that it becomes boring and predictable. take it out of my hands and it relieves my anal ocd tendencies and i'm having fun.
anyway, i don't believe for a second that it kills kittens. proof? 13 fuzzy black walking allergens roam my halls, popping out from behind doors to hang from a pant/bare leg. chasing the dogs. climbing the wall of the fireplace. bringing in birds and mice to scare/captivate the children.
eta- invisigoth- it was the original maxis families that had junk townie syndrome. i made all my own townies this time around.
kuronue:
I don't particularly feel a need for teen pregnancy either (no-fail birth control) but now that inteen basically makes every aspect of teen life more realistic, I've decided to give it a try. It's.. alright, though it's confusing to get used to the changes.
Kyna:
Quote from: aubreylaraine on 2007 September 03, 00:07:08
it's just that all my sims are exactly the same because i can't bring myself to intentionally holding them back from college or the top of the career ladder or the perfect mate. i was just using it for the spice of not knowing who was going to knock who up. then i was going to stick them together, for better or worse. my young adult are sluts, i wanted some of them to pay for it.
Quote from: aubreylaraine on 2007 September 05, 00:39:41
unfortunately i am a perfectionist. i can't control my own so i control theirs so much so that it becomes boring and predictable. take it out of my hands and it relieves my anal ocd tendencies and i'm having fun.
I am also a perfectionist, and I was finding that most of my sims were ending up in the same "happy families" rut. Now I use Hook's Configurable Dice Rolling Program to introduce an element of randomness in my game. You can put whatever options you want in there, and the thread lists quite a few different ideas that people use.
A couple of examples: I use it when I make townies in CAS, randomising which face they get, hair colour, if they have makeup/facial hair/glasses, their personality, aspiration, turn-ons & -offs. etc. I also have the question "Is today a good sim-day to die", which I roll every day for each of my sims that are teen and older (odds dependent on the sim's age group), to introduce random death in my game since I'm tired of all my sims dying of old age.
ZephyrZodiac:
I don't think I've ever had a sim die of old age - I either get bored with a hood before that happens, or my computer fries them all by the thousand!
jolrei:
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2007 September 07, 02:58:55
I don't think I've ever had a sim die of old age - I either get bored with a hood before that happens, or my computer fries them all by the thousand!
I tend to get bored or annoyed with toddlers and kids running about bogarting things around the house. I always buy the dollhouse and EZbakeoven (or whatever it's called) and let them auto-play on that. However, they do a lot of skilling at the bookshelf, in the pool, etc. so I don't end up with a lot of house fires, electrocutions, etc. I also play with noeatcrap installed (so no food poisoning) Consequently, it gets to the point in my hoods where the only way they die is by old age, unless I kill them myself in a fit of 'divine' "you're too ugly to live" wrath.
Next time one of my sims gets the flu, I'll send it out to work out or something until it turns fatal.
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