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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

  • in reply to Lotus

    That’s some adventure you’ve had with your Sims. I like how Eve had a sort of rags to riches life, starting so small and then ended up a really good artist making the big bucks. I love these sorts of stories in Sims, it's fun seeing which way life takes them, and what will happen.

    I love the name you gave Ace Letts. That's a cool pun for his name too, shame he wasn't so good when it came to resolving Eve's problems though!

    Eve and Ryan sound like the perfect couple! It's so sweet how they instantly hit it off and were such a nice match for one another. I like it when Sims share similar traits, like they were truly meant to be together. I always find it crazy when a Sim meets another Sim and they have nothing in common, or don't really get on, but somehow they click and end up married...

    Lol! Laughing 

    It's sweet but a bit crazy at the same time. But that's Sims 4, unpredictable but it's cool because the craziness just makes it interesting.

    The unexpected twists and turns in Sims 4 is what makes it such a fun game for me! It’s so random but amazing, like Ryan getting pregnant after being abducted by aliens lol. I wonder if Eve and Ryan will ever travel to Sixam? He might meet his son again!

    Looking forward to hearing about your next Sims next adventure. Do you have anything specific you want to do for your next Sims adventure? Like playing an occult or moving to a different world?

  • in reply to LaurenC

    Thanks Lauren, it's interesting to find out what others do in Sims 4. Well done for uploading the pictures - I can't do that, as I play on an Xbox and post on here using my Kindle tablet.

    I've been playing a Sim couple recently. I started with a female Sim, Eve Adams, and moved her into the cheapest, shabbiest city apartment. She enjoyed learning to knit and use her food processor to prep food for meals and she tried selling pizzas she made at a stall in the city square, not very successfully unfortunately. She wasn't very happy with her apartment due to noisy neighbours and mice and cockroach infestations. She complained to her Landlord, a guy called Ace Letts (yes, I renamed him) but although he liked to spend time chatting with Eve he wasn't so Ace at getting problems resolved!

    So Eve moved to a brand new micro home just built in the town of Newcrest. Although the house was tiny, she had a big plot of land on which she grew vegetables, herbs & fruit. She felt really happy here and improved her knitting and cooking skills, and the neighbours all bought her pizzas and waffles every time she set up her stall. She also sold lots of knitted items online.

    On a return trip to the city to visit her old neighbours, she met the guy who had moved into her old apartment. His name was Ryan Fontaine and he was creative and an art lover, just like Eve, plus handsome and intelligent, and they immediately started dating. Ryan crafted an engagement ring for her and soon after they were married. They spent their honeymoon on the tropical island of Sulani, where they ate coconuts, found beautiful shells, met new friends, had a party on the beach and drank the local Cava.

    Since then Eve and Ryan have both learned to paint and sell pictures for lots of dosh. Ryan tried out the writer, painter & Culinary careers before settling on the engineer one. He also built a rocket ship in his spare time. Eve tried the decorator and culinary careers before settling into the painter one and she is now a renowned artist. Their gardener Heather has helped maintain Eve's garden so they always have fresh fruit and vegetables, and Eve makes a great Apple pie (she won first prize for one at the village fair)

    They've had lots of adventures, including a vacation at mount Korembi, where unfortunately Ryan wasn't allowed to ski or go snowboarding as he was pregnant from being abducted by aliens shortly before. The alien baby arrived just after their return home, and as they didn't feel ready to be parents he sent it to its home planet of Sixam.

    They are very wealthy now and are having a huge house built in Sulani to move to. After that I think I'll leave them to get on with their lives and start a new story with a new sim.

    Watch this space...

  • Your Sims 4 project sounds incredible! I'd love to do something like that, must take a lot of time but I imagine it's worth it. I sometimes remove premades and add in my own Sims but I've never literally rebuilt an entire world like you have. It must be a fun venture! I hope you continue enjoying your project.

    In my game lately I've been playing as Charlene and Emily, a MerSim and an alien. They're living in the sun on the tropical islands and I've really enjoyed playing as them.

    Some pics from my game:

    This is Emily's Sim disguise which she uses to make out she's a normal Sim. Lol I think she looks really funny, I gave her BIG eyes so she stands out a bit as I imagine a real alien would make a disguise like that.

    And this is Charlene

    I really enjoy playing my game as these two Sims. They have fun personalities and are making the best of life and making sure every day is a PAR-TAY day!!!!

    I’m also playing a lovely game where there are two Sims who are happily married, they are elder Sims now and I’ve basically watched them grow old together and it’s really sweet. I’ve actually written a song about them, and I am hoping to make a music video as they are the first Sims I made and played with.

    Slight smile

  • 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.

  • 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!