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Sims 4 discussion thread

Lotus

I have seen people posting that they enjoy playing Sims, so I thought I'd start a discussion thread. 

Last year I started a project to build lots of different homes and buildings in Sims 4 - I had a few months break during the winter, and I re-started it a couple of months ago. I've finished building now and I'm doing a play through. I replaced most of the pre made homes and households and made a lot more. I built homes in various designs including Art Deco, Gothic, a 1960s bungalow, a Christmas themed cottage, a house boat, a lighthouse, and a space shuttle style home. I built restaurants including 50s style diners, a cowboy saloon one, a star wars themed one, a Chinese restaurant, a Japanese one and an Indian one in the shape of the Taj Mahal. I also built several museums, including a science & technology museum, a transport museum, a natural history museum (in the shape of an elephant), one in a castle, a space exhibition on top of an apartment block, and a sea life centre with an aquarium section.

I also created lots of new sims to populate the homes I built, and as I don't like the  "townies" the game generates I've been editing them in household management and changing their names. I like to choose names to suit characters or that have a theme, so the residents Oasis Springs are all aliens and have space related names, most residents in Sulani are mermaids and have sea related names, many city residents have City names (such as Vienna Street)  I renamed the local mail carriers Angel Messenger and Hermes Letterman, and my sim household employs a gardener called Heather Gardener.

The packs I have are:

Best: Dream home decorator (great furniture, best interactive career) Tiny Living (great lot perks) Island Living (the most beautiful, has mermaids, and the island life aspiration stops Sims getting tense) Dine Out (I love building restaurants!) City living, Journey to Batuu (just for the droids & lightsabres)

Ok: Home chef hustle, Nifty Knitting, Spa Day, Horse Ranch, Crystal Creations, Vintage Glamour, Cottage Living, Discover University (not for degrees, only like the robot building)

Least favourite: Vampires, Get to work, Cats & dogs, Snowy escape, Laundry Day, Eco Lifestyle

Parents

  • Hello. I’m a longtime fan of the Sims 4. It’s one of my fave games to play.

    Your Sims 4 project sounds so exciting!!! You must have put a lot of time and effort in to doing all of that. Do you keep journals of the Sims you make? I do this, but I may be the only one lol. I can understand why you delete the townies and make your own Sims to populate the world. I do that too. The townies are always a bit meh IMO, it’s nice to be able to create your own isn’t it? I like to make new houses for the Sims as well. I find a lot of the prebuilds are a bit rank so I like to demolish those and start from scratch. In one of my games I have a residential estate, like proper British homes.

    I like creating Sims and playing out stories, sometimes I’ll empty out the towns and go from scratch and make it my own little world. I love doing that, it makes it feel like I’ve made a TV series or movie and everyone is playing out their own little part.

    I like playing generations, creating a family and then playing through them and watching the families evolve and grow as they go through their lives. I normally play as one Sim and let the others have high free will so all the decisions are their own. In my most recent generations game save I’m on to my 3rd generation with the “Short” family. Very exciting as I’ve never played a generation this long before.

    And I like to combine my love of reading and writing with the Sims 4 where I make Sims and use them as characters in my fiction stories. I take screenshots and use them as illustrations for my writing.

    These are my fave ways of playing the Sims 4.

    My packs

    Expansion Packs

    Businesses & Hobbies, Life & Death, For Rent, Horse Ranch, High School Years, Cottage Living, Cats & Dogs, Seasons, City Living, Get To Work, Get Famous, Island Living, Discover University, Get Together, Snowy Escape, and Eco Lifestyle.

    Game Packs

    Werewolves, Vampires, Realm of Magic, Parenthood, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Strangerville, Jungle Adventure, and Star Wars: Journey To Batuu.

    Stuff Packs

    Backyard Stuff, My First Pet, Perfect Patio, Toddler Stuff, Movie Hangout, Spooky Stuff, Luxury Party, Spooky Stuff and Kids Room.

    I still have so many packs to buy. I’m hoping to get more during the next EA app sale!

Reply

  • Hello. I’m a longtime fan of the Sims 4. It’s one of my fave games to play.

    Your Sims 4 project sounds so exciting!!! You must have put a lot of time and effort in to doing all of that. Do you keep journals of the Sims you make? I do this, but I may be the only one lol. I can understand why you delete the townies and make your own Sims to populate the world. I do that too. The townies are always a bit meh IMO, it’s nice to be able to create your own isn’t it? I like to make new houses for the Sims as well. I find a lot of the prebuilds are a bit rank so I like to demolish those and start from scratch. In one of my games I have a residential estate, like proper British homes.

    I like creating Sims and playing out stories, sometimes I’ll empty out the towns and go from scratch and make it my own little world. I love doing that, it makes it feel like I’ve made a TV series or movie and everyone is playing out their own little part.

    I like playing generations, creating a family and then playing through them and watching the families evolve and grow as they go through their lives. I normally play as one Sim and let the others have high free will so all the decisions are their own. In my most recent generations game save I’m on to my 3rd generation with the “Short” family. Very exciting as I’ve never played a generation this long before.

    And I like to combine my love of reading and writing with the Sims 4 where I make Sims and use them as characters in my fiction stories. I take screenshots and use them as illustrations for my writing.

    These are my fave ways of playing the Sims 4.

    My packs

    Expansion Packs

    Businesses & Hobbies, Life & Death, For Rent, Horse Ranch, High School Years, Cottage Living, Cats & Dogs, Seasons, City Living, Get To Work, Get Famous, Island Living, Discover University, Get Together, Snowy Escape, and Eco Lifestyle.

    Game Packs

    Werewolves, Vampires, Realm of Magic, Parenthood, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Strangerville, Jungle Adventure, and Star Wars: Journey To Batuu.

    Stuff Packs

    Backyard Stuff, My First Pet, Perfect Patio, Toddler Stuff, Movie Hangout, Spooky Stuff, Luxury Party, Spooky Stuff and Kids Room.

    I still have so many packs to buy. I’m hoping to get more during the next EA app sale!

Children
  • in reply to Bookworm

    Thanks for your reply. 

    I have copious notes on my tablet to keep track of everything in my game, with the names of all the Sims I've made and notes on which aspirations I have done with my current household and what I might do next. I have a household with only 2 Sims in (a couple) as I get overwhelmed if there are too many. 

    Are businesses & hobbies, for rent and werewolves packs good? They didn't particularly appeal to me. 

    I had realm of magic, outdoor retreat, Get Famous, Strangerville and Jungle Adventure when I used to play on a PC. When I changed to playing on an Xbox I had to start again and I didn't buy them again.