I do a mix of those. I usually enjoy building and decorating, but sometimes it makes my brain hurt. I hadn't been playing regularly of late, until I started the MATY 'hood.


I play with cutaway walls. I rarely use any money cheats. In the MATY 'hood, I've been a bit more lax on that rule. I've given Sims just enough to start in the house I want them to live in, with bare essentials. The house gets better furnished/decorated as I go along. I decorate and landscape moderately.


I am a compulsive restarter. I'm going to try to play the MATY 'hood for numerous generations. We'll see. I get bored once Sims have more money than they know what to do with, have maxed skills, etc.


I usually play one neighborhood at a time. Sometimes, I'll play two...Strangetown and whatever custom 'hood I have going.


Depends on aspiration. Of late, I've been trying to keep some Sims from reaching the tops of careers to keep it a bit more interesting. I'm also trying to play in a more Sim-directed way. They only gain skills and such when they have a want.


My Sims are mostly homebodies. I've been forcing myself to use Community lots more, again, to add interest and variety.


Suburban


Not yet, but Marhis has gotten me tempted.


Yes. I just recently installed Pets and am slowly getting into it.


I love aliens. (Laverwinkle aliens, FTW!) I've done both vampires and zombies and had fun with both. No werewolves yet.


I use fixes and hacks that handle annoyances. I don't use cheaty hacks at all. No Insim and no Inteen. One thing that I am using is Inge's Heirloom cake so I can age Sims when I want to. For example, my new thing is that Sims will become elders when their grandchildren become adults. I feel like that is a bit more realistic.


A fair amount. Mostly building and decor stuff, clothing, hair, and genetics, ie custom skins and eyes. I used to have a lot of custom meshes, but not so much anymore.


I build houses and lots. Nothing terribly fancy, but playable. To me, if a lot is pretty but a pain in the ass to play, it isn't worth it. I don't like to do a lot of camera rotation, so my lots are usually designed so that you can view the entire floor from almost any orientation. No enormous, laggy stuff, either. I have quite a few nice Starter homes up, along with 2X2 lots, and some fancier stuff.

The game assigns random friendships to townies just like it does for skill points and jobs.

Yeah, I think so, too. 

Inge's reservable easels are a MUST in my game. (I am the one who requested them in the first place.) I almost always put the easels in bedrooms so that when Sims wake up, they have something constructive to do if I'm not paying close attention. In dorms, I either put them out front so Sims returning from class will paint, or stick them in the bedrooms.

The house is nice, too.

Thanks. I don't usually put anywhere near that amount of greenery on a lot, but with aesthetics and such in the contest....shrug. Be sure to put a door in the master bedroom, though! Otherwise, PHAIL!! 

While creating a custom neighborhood, the game paused to 'Create Pets'. Next thing I know, the game is gone and I'm on the desktop. I restarted the game and the secret Pets 'hood is in Pleasantview's spot in the Neighborhood start-up. I have Pleasantview renamed as per Jordi's tutorial, but did not install any blank templates because I'm just fooling around with Pets and don't plan on keeping any of this. I have to do some maintenence (reformatting the HD, and so forth). Anyway, will it hurt anything to play with things as they are? What caused it?

That's what I do, too. it's the easiest way for me to switch between building (totally clean), challenge (somewhat clean) and regular (chock-full-o-crap) configurations.

Some of us have had a problem with Sims getting stuck in an endless loop when delivering flowers.

I did see manual and I see nothink!

Thank-you, O Awesome One. Will this work for those of us peasant-type people who have everything up to OFB, but do not have ZOMGPetz!!!!1111one!one! or Seasons?

Excellent! Now we need an "object in use", ABORT, ABORT! hack.

That's what I have been doing, but it borks the Sim. They can't be interacted with and you cannot queue up macro-type stuff on them.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Five times you say? Hmmm. Maybe I'm being impatient and acting too soon. I'll have to check that. Thanks!

What mechanical flaws?

If I have two Sims who live on the same lot and they have a date, when the Sim goes to deposit the flowers after the date, they become stuck in an endless loop of putting down the flowers. I can delete the flowers with move_objects, but then the Sim cannot be interacted with, nor can I click on the Sim itself for Macrotastics and the like. I cannot shift-click to force an error. All I can do is delete the Sim from the lot and reload. This problem started when I got OFB, I think. I do not have Pets or Seasons. No error message is produced.

Second problem. My Sims seem suddenly to be obsessed with using objects already in use. For example, Sim A is taking a bath. Suddenly, Sims B & C want to clean the tub while Sim A is in it. No one is stargazing. I send Sim A and suddenly I notice that Sim B is heading for the telescope. Same with the piano. It's like a copy-cat syndrome or something.

What probably happened is that I was changing out doors and forgot to replace that one. I spend a lot of time dicking around with decor. When I put the Curious brothers in, I pulled out all expensive features so they could afford it and probably never noticed that that room lacked a door because I was replacing all the doors. You know, mass delete and replacement. Who knows. I had a brain fart. There is, in fact, a door to that room in my game and Pascal sleeps in there every night.

 

Just slap a fricken' door in there, Pescado. I really forgot the door?

Very, very nice.

It's a 3X3 lot. Sorry for not saying so. I've been playing this house with the Curious brothers. It plays extremely well.

Everyone, please indicate somewhere in your post which Ep's and stuff packs you have. I didn't think to ask before installing a lot and my game crashed/froze. I had a few very scary moments there. Thanks!

This is actually pretty cool. I think Sim Pescado has a new home.