How do YOU play the Sims?

[Prons]

Ignore the silly thread title, but I'm curious to see how you guys play the sims.

I've known people who spend most of their time in build mode, and I've seen people who just keep creating sims but don't often play them beyond their adult hood.

I used to "grind" the game, as in I'd leave the walls down and try to grind as many skill points and relationships as possible. Now adays I take more time and try to "smell the roses," and I often try to make a single family stretch on for as many generations as possible (With the Sims 3's real time feature where the townies will age as you play, it's a lot more interesting to do this than it was in the sims 2).


Or do you just make a family, send them into the pool and delete the ladder.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I'm mean, I made a guy so lonely a Donnie Darko style rabbit fell from the sky to talk to him. So I made them fight.

 

[Hoxton]

i used to be the "builder type" but in Sims 3 i created one guy imagine that he's new in town and just try to promote him. Career and shit.

 

[antipunt]

I actually turned off the real-time feature/aging. Having an interactive neighborhood was good enough for me, and I didn't want to lose 'control' on -my- neighborhood D:

I then make 'myself', and keep him forever at -young adult-

 

[Kajt]

I create a bunch of freaks and kill em' all.

Occasionally I try to make a "good" family.

Yupp.

I don't play The Sims anymore.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

I'm mean, I made a guy so lonely a Donnie Darko style rabbit fell from the sky to talk to him. So I made them fight.

That happened to me, I was exceedingly confused by it.

Or do you just make a family, send them into the pool and delete the ladder.

I prefer to use fire.

 

[Weaver]

I actually turned off the real-time feature/aging. Having an interactive neighborhood was good enough for me, and I didn't want to lose 'control' on -my- neighborhood D:

I then make 'myself', and keep him forever at -young adult-

I turn off aging too, I just want to mess around with my dude lol.

 

[watergirl]

I make one of my people a really good painter, and then make him paint each stage of the budding relationship of another pair of sims in pseudo-artistic shots. I then line the walls of his house with these paintings.

 

[RoboWiz]

I create death houses where you can get in the pool but not out or u get trapped in a room full of toilets.

 

[bodyklok]

I don't...

 

[johnman]

I dont play the sims any more, the last family i made was in sims 2 wher ei made a family of teenage skanks, just to ruin everybody elses life. Then i found out teenagers cant have sex and it takes forever to make a relationship meaningful in any way so i gave up.

 

[stormcaller]

I make a giant box and fill it with the most expensive crap and still somehow manage to cock their lives up....

Or I do the oul' pool trick.

 

[Cuniculus]

I just ordered The Sims 3, so hopefully I can get my hands on that soon.

What I did for Sims 2 though was just.. play the game. Get all the goals finished, get married, start a family, get all of the unlockables. Then I would go to free build mode and make a house and fill it with room mates.... then the hell would begin. Building walls around people and watching them sit in the dark and cry and wet themselves, deleting the doors to a building when a fire breaks out. Truthfully... the game seems a little frantic if you have more than two or three Sims. I just can't keep up with all of their needs.

 

[skcseth]

Use the money cheat and build as many expensive houses as I can

 

[Skreeee]

When I did play, I would usually have a normal family thing going in the house, but there'd be one room with a fridge, one light, an oven, table, bed, tv, chair, and shower. I'd purposely leave out any doors, windows, and a toilet and then stick a guy in there to live a life of doing nothing but eating, sleeping, watching tv, pissing himself, and cleaning up the mess day after day.

And all the while the family moved freely about the house, blissfully unaware that another man lived within the walls who knew nothing of the outside world and accepted his circumstances as the only possible reality, like the people in the cave in Plato's 'The Republic'.

*trots off to take meds*

Of course, this was long ago. Before an expansion that allowed a Sim to go into town, in fact.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

When I did play, I would usually have a normal family thing going in the house, but there'd be one room with a fridge, one light, an oven, table, bed, tv, chair, and shower. I'd purposely leave out any doors, windows, and a toilet and then stick a guy in there to live a life of doing nothing but eating, sleeping, watching tv, pissing himself, and cleaning up the mess day after day.

And all the while the family moved freely about the house, blissfully unaware that another man lived within the walls who knew nothing of the outside world and accepted his circumstances as the only possible reality, like the people in the cave in Plato's 'The Republic'.

You. Are. A. GENIUS.

 

[BloodyOne]

I don't. But if I did, it would be quite simple: World Domination.

 

[9NineBreaker9]

On The Sims 2, I would play the story mode right up to the boat stage, where I got bored, and would then try to make a modern recreation of "The Love Boat" that was one part live-action dramatic play, and one part brothel.

Or I would simply kill everyone - whichever provided me with more entertainment for the hour or two I could stand to play the Sims D:

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Generally, I build crap. Just build, build, build, and maybe, every once in a while, drop a family in there and move on building. Check back in a few hours, oh they're all dead, never mind, just keep building.

I keep telling myself that once I've created a sizeable town, I'll populate it and try to look after as many as possible, but I never really got around to doing that.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I only really played the first Sims and all it's expansion packs (except Makin' Magic that one is just 'pants on head retarted'). I never really cared about the individual sims and their families, I just loved to design and build houses (especially without cheats, it's much more of a challenge to build something cool within a certain budget), including interior design (wallpaper, furniture, the whole deal), the most awesome vacation resorts, restaurants and shop districts (the City expansion pack was my favorite, I loved building restaurants, a LOT), spa's and all that Superstar luxury stuff. Everything, I spend way more time doing that then actually playing with a group of sims. I once had a little 'pet project' to let someone thrive without a job. Worked out pretty cool, the guy farmed his own food and earned what money he needed (for seeds and crap) with making paintings and other random crap. That is untill my little brother did something that made sure he couldn't visit the town anymore, for some reason, so he couldn't buy anymore seeds. I also made a sim in a very basic, small house so he could live off his savings for a while. Then I maxed out all his stats, made a whole lot of friends, and then maxed out every job available. When I finished that I made him a superstar, made him filthy rich and moved him to a big ass pimpin' house. Then I got bored with him and I deleted his rich ass. A yes, I had a load of fun with that game. Building all that stuff is awesome, and keeping yourself challenged with such pet projects is fun as well. Those were the days I still had childlike creativity *sigh* I miss that time.

The above, ofcourse, or torturing a group of poor little sims. Couldn't leave that one out.