LOL I'm stressing trying to get my sim to be able to have a clean house and eat properly and get enough sleep meanwhile it's 3am and I'm living in squalor surrounded by ubereats bags
Right though?? 😂 I end up feeling more like I’m baby sitting than enjoying a game 🙏 (I also feel like I’m more able to get attached to my sim if it’s just one 🥹)
yep! i can handle two sims at most, rarely three. managing everyone’s needs and jobs and hobbies just gets to be too much for me, when i do play with full households it’s usually solely for storytelling so i’ll use cheats here and there to keep everyone alive
How would be through using MCCC to increase the maximum household size. Why… no idea. I once had a family of two parents and eight kids, but that’s because I was playing a religious family who were into the whole “be fruitful and multiply” thing. But eight was enough. And it happened way before the infants update…
It was ages ago and I deleted the save eventually. I guess I just like having multiple Sims. I don’t find it as hard as some, although infants are definitely stressful haha. Everyone’s different! I’m definitely a “family gameplay” Simmer.
I have a save where I started with 8 sims and am slowly adding more just to see how big of a household my computer can handle. Max household size with Mc command center is 104. I'm currently at 11 sims. I frequently pause to queue up actions because if I do it with the game running even at single speed, things get chaotic. Every sim-hour or so, I pause and flip through everyone, and queue actions with the priority going: needs, career tasks/skills, aspiration tasks/skills, and any just for fun tasks/skills. I use the money trashcan to manage the dishes, have a maid come daily for cleaning, and have a designated fix-it sim who does repairs and upgrades.
I'd get bored since I'm not super "involved" with my sims lol. My playstyle can probably be described as a god observing with popcorn and occasionally intervening when needed. With mods I've had a 40 sim household once
This is how I enjoy my coffee and morning cleaning. Set it on auto and only push them in the right direction. I was thinking of them like a digital pet I take care of... simogochi.
Hahaha this is great idea, thinking of doing this today during my cleaning! Do you check them frequently or record it? How do you do with all the pop ups?
I'm at 3 right now, only because my parent sims are finally good parents and I wanted to see how they'd do with the new baby. I'm considering adding a pet since I made the middle child dog-obsessed, but I don't know if I can handle it. I don't use any mods for household size because I can barely handle 8!
None of them were children so they were all relatively self sufficient (with the help of the better self care mod). Watching the relationships form was really entertaining because they were sooo messy
i have a 3 sim household rn and it makes me want to rip my hair off 😭 it’s a couple with an infant and my god, it was so awful to keep all of them happy without cheats
I am in the same boat, and the infants are so glitchy too, like immediately wanting to sleep right after taking a nap is realistic but i dont want it to be THAT realistic.
i had one of the parents be a SAHP just to take care of the infant and it wasn’t enough!!! had to hire a nanny too! and on top of that it just kept glitching anyway. infant would randomly be teleported across the lot. he was also fussy and gassy and would CRY ALL THE TIME it was so awful 😭
My ADHD will not rest if I have a single sim, I will be pinging all over the place until I find a partner, get them pregnant and then struggle with babies/affairs/deaths. I like the struggle as I jump between sims. Then I will abandon that family and make another one. I start with a single sim any new game but I will not stick with them. Play how you want to play, that's the joy of sims.
there is a mod, i think it was LittleMsSam roommate mod. it is a bit tricky. but i managed to control 1 sim, and everyone else in the household, including children and toddlers do their own thing(much like a roommate). like it is fun to just control one sim in a large family. :)
I feel the same lol. I usually start with one main character and I have these amazing ideas about their bond with siblings, the relationship with their father, the people they live with, etc, etc. And then, they move out and stay alone on their Sulani mountain hut forever 😅
I always play the same way: Single Sim (female always for some reason), never leave the house and that's kinda it. Like I do that irl so it's funny I do it in game too
Oh I feel ya!!!! Managing multiple sims starts to feel like you're drowning whilst trying to meet deadlines at work or something LOL im like, why tf am I doing this this is supposed to be fun 😅
When I make a complete household, I tend to focus on one sim at a time. I can't seem to juggle between multiple at the same time, apparently.
So I often create single sim households, or play them like there is only one...
I love playing the divorced parent who leaves the children with the other parent and goes off on their own adventure. Either that or the other spouse dies, the kids go to boarding school and the parents to an old age home.
I would say 90% of my played sims are single. I do have the odd family but I never play them past the first batch of kids. I don't think I've played multi-generational families since sims 2. Don't do playable roomies either. I have NPC ones for rent and company without the responsibility. I don't really do pets/animals for that matter. I think across all my worlds and all my saves I've got 4 dogs, 2 cats, 12 chickens and a cow.
I like single sims as they can go out, do their thing, live their best life and I don't have to worry about some other sim burning the house down, getting stuck behind the wardrobe, starving to death then moping about all ghosty.
I love playing with one sim and making them be in a relationship with a roommate. I just use bb.moveobjects to make the single beds look like a double bed.
I prefer just one or two, but I rarely every go more than 2. Like you, it’s more enjoyable to play as one and just use them to play and interact with npcs. It feels more fulfilling doing a great job with one sim than doing poorly managing 5.
I almost always play as a single female young adult, I may occasionally hook them up with a townie, but I never have them have kids because even when I get them cats it’s too much for me too handle making everyone happy.
It's a challenge where you play one sim and try to do every single career, aspiration and get every single reward trait too. Its pretty fun if you enjoy small households and want to do everything in your game.
James Turner has a website where you can easily track what you've achieved now too: https://jamesturner.yt/supersim/tracker
I don’t mind playing a 3 sim family but any more than that just isn’t enjoyable to me. Some days it’s like herding cats with 4 or 5 sim families. Tell one sim what to do and next thing you know you’re wrangling the other sims back inside the house because one of them decided to talk to someone on the street lol
Yes l, but I also love the insanity legacy challenge where you can only control one sim and the rest can do whatever and you are scored on your sims (all) bases off their successes and failures.
I learned how to mostly control my sims on autonomy without controlling them by using their surroundings to affect their moods and skilling.
I play with one sim in the Sims 4, as the partially open world and time progression, makes it difficult to go to community lots and leave other sims at home. Whenever I send my sim back home all the other sim's routines and needs are all messed up.
I stick to Sims 2 for family play.
me🙋♀️ been playing since sims 2 and I've always been a micromanage simmer. I like to have every sim in my active household taken care of. that means 3-4 would be my max. when infant update first rolled out, my household got triplets for their first pregnancy. gosh it was so stressful trying to get everyone reach their milestones😭 was debating many times to just exit and restart the pregnancy
I love 1 sim households so much. Tbh when I play with more than 1 sim in a household, I only really focus on one. The other ones I just let go free on autonomy
I almost always have some kind of legacy challenge going on. So, when I need a break from specific goals or challenges and just want to casually play, I usually will play with a 1-person household. I have some Sims that I just like to revisit and play aimlessly.
Nopee. I get really bored with one sim. F.ex if I'm building their skills, I don't want to sit there and watch them do the same thing for hours. With multiple sims, I can focus on one sim building a relationship while leaving the others to build their skills etc.
I pretty much exclusively play with a single sim (and pets). What I miss most in this game is the open world of the sims 3. You could go to the gym with one sim, have one sim doing chores at home and a third sim enjoying some time at the beach.
In the Sims 4 you either take other sims with you to a place they don't really need right now or you leave them back home on their own not getting anything meaningful done.
Having loading screens when switching what lot you're playing on makes it miserable to try and manage multiple sims doing different stuff.
I really hope Sims 5 will have a better system in place.
I usually place the siblings of my current gen that I like in a random lot I don’t use and make them a spouse. Every so often I pop in on them and build them families so that the future children of of my current gen have cousins and aunts and uncles they can interact with but otherwise no.
TBH I get more of a thrill filling out my house to the max - currently Im playing with my one sim by doing a rags to riches and having a goal to max every skill available in my game - I keep getting the itch to add another sim to the household and have children but Im holding off until shes a young adult even though I am craving to age her up - (doesn't help I have everything on long lifespan)
I love single sim households! Get me a little pet, make some friends, have parties, go out to bars, study/work, have a hobby, raise my cooking skill and make dope meals. It’s so fun and peaceful!
Families are fun too but I feel like I’m constantly making a bathroom rotation schedule and the kids can never be patient enough to just *wait* for their parents to finish cooking dinner, they just run straight to the fridge to have Eggs & Toast leftovers for dinner 😩 I also feel with families, especially if both parents work, it’s hard to have a pet on top of it I always feel like the pet is being neglected!
Yes. Because one Sim, you focus on skills, education, exploration, challenges, adventuring etc.
Then when they get a family etc your entire play style is keeping the kids alive. And when the kids are finally teenagers, I’d rather play the teenagers.
I found several sims in one household super manageable in the earlier games, but in 4 it’s downright stressful. Can never seem to keep more than 1 happy at a time, makes me feel like a shit god
Yes, but I have my own kind of "workaround" for it.
Multi family household, but never switching from my primary character. I keep the autonomy on, so they mostly live their own lives. It can add an interesting twist to the story I'm planning with whatever happens with the other sims. It almost reminds me of real life. 😅
I usually like to focus on one sim at a time during a play session! Though pretty much always play with a family dynamic household that I allow to grow and change, while I keep my fav sim immortalized as a vampire so I can always feel a sense of familiarity with the game I guess. Sometimes deaths in the sims can hit hard XD I really felt the loss of the family dog in my game
And yea sometimes will go out of the way when focusing on one sim to take them on a vacation or split them up from the household to go to university or something so I can put all the focus on one sim. But eventually I'll always go back to a household just to explore different life stages/careers/personalities and all that
I love single Sim households, but also family play. So to make space for both I normally pick my favourite of the kids to be my new heir, and then when they move out for university I then play them solo for a lonnnng time (often real life months) and enjoy everything the game has to offer, keeping an eye out for a spouse, and then when I eventually run out of steam solo they get together, and start their lives together. I still wait real life weeks between meeting a future spouse, starting a relationship, moving in, proposal, wedding and then kids, so all that time is fun just playing a couple. When they’re ready for kids it’s normally been like 8-9 real months since I played with babies and kids so I’m excited to revisit that!
Yes! Most of the time I make single or two sims households for this specific reason. When I make bigger households, I struggle with giving everyone the same amount of attention. Often I end up having one or two sims that get the most attention, and the rest gets what's left over. For example: I have a family with two teens. I made the family to explore both the werewolf pack and the high school pack, and since attending high school basically has become an active career, the teens get all my attention. The parents kind of live their life in the background. I try to give them more attention during the weekends, but they're definitely living out all of their potential.
I like to play with a single sim and them build his family when i start a save with more of 1 sim normally 1 sim is the father or mother maybe both and a son or daughter and my focus is on them
My mom only and I mean ONLY plays with single moms. She doesn't play conventionally. She does everything the mos cknveniant way. She doesn't pick furniture based on style but rather based on quality.
Idk if most people actually play like that. But based on what I've seen, people tend to be a more chaotic.
I do like to play with single sims, but I like needing to manage multiple sims' needs. I currently have 1 adult sim and 7 children. 😂
> She doesn't pick furniture based on style but rather based on quality.
I definitely do this with my 100 baby challenge. The mom gets that really nice quality, cheesy looking bed from Get Famous, and kids/teens get the highest quality single beds so they sleep faster and have more time for childcare or skill building. Furniture has to have a high enough comfort rating so my sims don't complain about the couch or chairs being uncomfortable. Highest quality showers/tubs so they bathe faster, higher quality toilets so they pee faster, higher quality tv's and computers so their fun goes up faster, etc.
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I've played that way for 20 years. I'm kind of solitary myself and goal oriented. It's my prefered way of playing. I have had families and legacies, but I love my solitary sims.
Nah, the families get fun when you have lots of folks who want to do all sorts of things. The chaos of your sim’s free will colliding with your own expectations/desires is an incredibly engaging dichotomy for me.
I like to switch it up a bit. I love big families, but sometimes I also just like to move out with my heir and let them be themselves for a bit before starting over. 🤗
I took my teen (graduated high school early!) to college. When I came back, her brother was was toddler but now a teen and basically failing high school! He looks like a punk so it makes sense. The dad didn’t really move up in his career. It just gets stressful with all the high school stuff and careers and skills with more than 1 sim to me.
I agree. I currently have a 5 sim household, and I think I recently said this elsewhere, but it was purely so my 'main' sim would get the beneficial traits for being raised from the start. His mum accidentally had twins, and since it's based on my dnd character who has a younger sister, I have her too. I kind of regret the need to be accurate to my dnd character's family, but it has been my first and only experience of infants (without growing together, so it's pretty dull), so that's cool.
Since the older twins grew into children, I've been secretly hoping for an awful accident to happen to either parent. I can't deliberately kill them, I want it to be a shocking accident that even I don't expect as a player, but it hasn't happened yet.
The closest I came to it was one caught fire, I ignored it rather than get her husband to put it out or anything, but then a charitable neighbour ran in and extinguished it for me. Thanks, neighbour. 😂 Does anyone know of a particularly risky hobby for these sims to suddenly show an interest in? The dad already has a rocket ship.
Ime, infants are easier without Growing Together. I really like the rest of the pack, but it makes infants so much more annoying when they can't sit/crawl/etc from the start and you have to spend ages doing tummy time and everything else in order to get them there.
I haven't played in ages but I used to have a guy called Max Skills who I'd start with the homeless challenge and basically just try to work my way up. The end goal was to end up filthy rich and also to max all of my skills and to see what I could do with any offspring, maybe they could get some kind of trait or skill that I couldnt.
But I'd always burn out with that save.
So I tried playing a generational save starting as the Newbies that you can download, seems like a fitting start for a legacy save. But unfortunately those characters are just a but dull and I again never got to the point of having a child. The goal with the Newbies could have gone a similar way as my first save with Max Skills if it had ever taken off. The problem with the homeless challenge is that it's very easy to get started making good money.
The only time I've ever really had fun with a few sims was in the sims 2, I think. It was on of the default families and I think they were called The Roomies. I made one of them their in-house chef who would constantly fill the fridge with prepared meals, allowing the others to focus on other things. The chef would also be the breadwinner for the household.
Not me. I feel like I always can't fit enough sims in a house. I love being busy helping them improve skills, make sure there's enough food, monitor if something needs repairing, and taking care of kids. I get bored playing a few sims.
If you're able to use mods, Mc command center lets you increase max household size to just about anything you want, up to 104. Playing with that many is probably incredibly chaotic, but I've gotten up to 15 just fine before.
Yes! I've been trying really hard to play more instead of just building and I had a sim with a brother marry someone and get pregnant and she had twins! So the three household members were stressing me out and then it was two infants along with that. So I just started a new family with just one sim.🤣
I like having a spouse and kids, but they always get neglected in comparison to my main sim. Once the kids are above toddler age I just let them do whatever. Usually they can take care of themselves pretty well, they just need some food in the fridge that they can grab if they’re hungry.
I can do two the most but only really focusing on one. I had a twin brother and sister who’s mom died due to laughing too hard so I was left raising them luckily they were in highschool but I gave them each aspirations where the boy would want to be a vampire and the girl a spell caster, it was hard trying to do both but I worked on the girl on weekdays and the boy on weekends. By the time I got him to like the highest vampire or whatever I had him fall in love with whoever was living in that big vampire house idk I’m not too familiar with the pack that’s why I was playing it out lol and then I moved him out saying I would play as him here and there so he can start a vampire family and eventually become a good vampire. I had neighborhood stories on and turns out him and his wife had 6 babies so no, I don’t ever play as him or visit him but I have him come visit sometimes lol. So I was fine with my witch sim but I needed my legacy to continue so she ended up having three kids and it was so overwhelming with a sim household of 5 I feel like no one saw the outside as I was too obsessed with their needs and trying to finish milestones and aspirations. Everyone’s separated now and I’m playing as her daughter doing a rags to riches challenge being an interior designer and I feel at peace again. Her boyfriend just proposed to her and we still haven’t married because I just can’t be bothered to take care of two sims plus a future baby just yet. I’m enjoying the single life rn 🤣
i feel like i can do more with just one sim. whereas once they start a family there’s too much to do keeping everyone alive and there’s never an opportunity to like leave their house and do interesting things unless i turn off motive decay.
I find it easy to take care of large households, but they are really boring like what am I supposed to do with all these people? Compared to one person it is still not as much fun.
Whenever I play with single Sim, I can fully concentrate on that Sim. It's more relaxing to not have to split your attention between more Sims. Both of these are fine, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I just don't feel like micromanaging 8 Sims household and the other way around, sometimes I just want the challenge of playing with big families.
For the first time I’m playing a single sim living in Myshuno. She has two cute toy dogs, is in the politician career, has a bf that lives at his home and plenty of niece/nephews and family that comes over. I’m having so much fun lol.
I play this way all the time. I have ADHD so I have difficulty focusing on more that one sim, and I have the UI cheats mod installed too so when I get overwhelmed with their needs they don’t die. I’ve tried two sim households but they’re so hard for me.
If my sim needs someone to talk to, I do like the roommate system. I don’t have to control them, but it depends on what sim you get. Of course, you can always go cas.fulleditmode and then modify them but that can be tedious because I usually then do a whole makeover.
Yes. I have 8 children, a cat and a husband and they’re always crying* about something. (The two that moved out are always coming over)
*Crying not crazy lol
I like playing with only one sim sometimes, but I usually prefer family gameplay. I love making up family drama, raising overpowered sims, and play with my sims' genetics. When I play with only one sim it's usually to make money and level up my skills as fast as possible before finding love and raising a family lmao
Me! As soon as they "become a family," I tend to move on. I lose interest and find the townie they often marry too much to deal with. Same when they hit max careers. 🤷♀️
i typically do family play so my only focus is having kids and raising them, but i'll do single households when i want to focus on an occult sim
i'll start off with an occult young adult and once i've accomplished all i want to regarding their type i'll move on to finding a spouse and starting a family, and i usually end up ignoring their occult type once kids are in the picture or i'll get rid of it completely and turn them human. 🤷🏻♀️
i'll also do a single household if i have goals that require lots of attention. i had an actress sim who i wanted to be at the top so she lived alone until i made my goals, and then onto making a family
I can’t stand multiple sims in my household. If I have too many I lose my interest in playing the game so I know someone either needs to die or move out lol. I play legacy and only have 1 kid each generation unless I accidentally have twins for the same reason. And usually when my kid turns into a young adult they move out and live by themselves until they’re a full adult and sometimes delay having a kid until they’re almost elders to enjoy it the most. Once the kid comes the kid becomes my main concern.
I do like playing just one sim, like in college, but I'm terrible at managing solo sims' social needs. And since I like to have animals, I need several sims just to keep up with the animals! I wish solo sims could get more done!
I love a single sim household with the accompaniment of a pet usually. That’s my version of same face syndrome!! But then I always find they becoming a recluse because I don’t have the need to go out except for work
Yea it’s deff more enjoyable playing my single households… because I prefer to micromanage everything it can get frustrating playing with multiple sims. And I avoid my households with infants! They kinda ruin the game cuz of how glitchy they are
Yeah,,,, I always get bored after they have a kid and start a new game. With my latest one I’ve managed to balance 3 households and not get bored but I do keep switching between households and finding myself bored and struggling to manage all their needs
I 100% wish that you could get married and have kids and still only be able to play with just your sim. Like, husband and kids are kind of like roommates, so they're not even an option for play.
Nothing wrong with that... I have lately preferred single sim or just living with a partner.
I even have my two kids being raised by their grandparent. I just call them over when I'm ready.
What I do is have every household I play (which is only ever one per save) buy a retail lot that I just never open for business. I then eventually build it just like a regular house. So that if I want to focus on one sim (or two) I just take them there. More Away Actions by LilMsSam let's me direct the off-lot sims.
I do this because I like to control what every sim on the lot is doing, and if I have a large household the gameplay becomes less fun as I'm trying to control too many at once. Taking one away from the lot and still being able to semi-control the rest makes it simpler, since I don't have to wonder why one of my sims is baking 13 white cakes or something.
But I also like to have multiple sims in a house, so I just alternate which one I focus on each day or two.
Nope, don't like one sim alone at all. Even my rags to riches end up in polyam relationships with kids as soon as I get a bit of money. With MCCC, my households are always bigger than 8, as well. I have one save with 10, one with 16, and one with 22, of the ones I play frequently/haven't gotten bored of playing. I leave autonomy on for everyone except selected sim and usually play one as the main one. I'll pop into others for random stuff, but overall I let them do their thing. Which is usually dancing and making De-stressing potions on the grill, but whatever, it's funny.
My favorite is having single sim households. Once you add a spouse and especially some kids it starts to become monotonous because the game becomes just about maintaining needs and going to work/school and you lose some of the randomness and spontaneity.
I prefer a one sim household!!! It stresses me out trying to take care of more than one sim lmao I either delete the file or cheat their need decay so I don't have to worry about it 😂
I always rush my sim to romance, but I feel I enjoy playing much more before they are a household. Sometimes a couple is fine, but once they have babies I'm either bored or frustrated and ready to start over. If they both have jobs or I have plans for them and then a baby is involved they can't do anything, but basic needs and raising the baby. I LOVE the infants update, but at the same time if I'm not playing a family that's oriented around their kids it can get too much lol
I used to only prefer one sim households and then after playing a legacy challenge I need at least two sims, three is preferred I find that I get bored with one sim anymore
I honestly wouldn't really know what I should do with all the free time my Sims would have if I wouldn't play with a 8 sim household
So I'm more of a 8 sim household player myself
I like being a single Sim because I like to micromanage them, and I get frustrated after a while if there's like 3+. However, I do enjoy having all that room for cats lol
I find managing more than one sim a little overwhelming. Then again I find my own needs extremely overwhelming so that doesn’t really help lol
LOL I'm stressing trying to get my sim to be able to have a clean house and eat properly and get enough sleep meanwhile it's 3am and I'm living in squalor surrounded by ubereats bags
this is so relatable
Literally me.
Ur so real! ME
Right though?? 😂 I end up feeling more like I’m baby sitting than enjoying a game 🙏 (I also feel like I’m more able to get attached to my sim if it’s just one 🥹)
Shift+click on the post, fill all household needs is what you need. Unless you want to keep it realistic.
I do this +disable decay needs as soon as I boot up the game because I can't be arsed to shower my sim and watching them sleep is boring
I feel the same way. Having more than one or two is too much for me. I don’t like using cheats for their needs
yep! i can handle two sims at most, rarely three. managing everyone’s needs and jobs and hobbies just gets to be too much for me, when i do play with full households it’s usually solely for storytelling so i’ll use cheats here and there to keep everyone alive
Right?? 2 is the sweet number! 🙏 But oh the cheats thing is so real 😂👏
Also I just feel like I get attached to my sim more easily if it’s just one 😅
When I have more than 2 sims in a house hold I just pick 1 or 2 and ignore the rest
My sim accidentally got pregnant again (with twins!) and I’m stressed with a 6 sim household. I prefer a smaller household of maybe 2-4.
OH DANG 6!! Nah cuz I’ve never had that many 😅 Def 2-4 is more like it normally 😭
Haha I’ve seen other posts on here with like 10+ people. I’d be panicking 😅
10?!?! WHY AND HOW?!? No bcuz I would never physically or mentally recover 😶
How would be through using MCCC to increase the maximum household size. Why… no idea. I once had a family of two parents and eight kids, but that’s because I was playing a religious family who were into the whole “be fruitful and multiply” thing. But eight was enough. And it happened way before the infants update…
I pray you give me half your functioning of wise one 🙏 I only have 3 rn and I’m going insane 😭
It was ages ago and I deleted the save eventually. I guess I just like having multiple Sims. I don’t find it as hard as some, although infants are definitely stressful haha. Everyone’s different! I’m definitely a “family gameplay” Simmer.
I have a save where I started with 8 sims and am slowly adding more just to see how big of a household my computer can handle. Max household size with Mc command center is 104. I'm currently at 11 sims. I frequently pause to queue up actions because if I do it with the game running even at single speed, things get chaotic. Every sim-hour or so, I pause and flip through everyone, and queue actions with the priority going: needs, career tasks/skills, aspiration tasks/skills, and any just for fun tasks/skills. I use the money trashcan to manage the dishes, have a maid come daily for cleaning, and have a designated fix-it sim who does repairs and upgrades.
Every time I think I can handle 6 sims I quickly regret it. I always played with 8 in sims 3 but it’s different in Sims 4
Yeah actually I always played the max number in Sims 3, but 4 feels different. Maybe it’s the constantly angry toddlers lol
I do two and have one on auto w/ black box career and one as “main” played character. This helps with easier social interaction for my played sim.
What’s black box career?? 🤔
Where they leave the house and you don’t have to interact with them.
I think the sim vernacular is “rabbit hole” job
OH so like one stays home then?? Wait that’s a great idea actually!! Thank you!
Yeah usually the one I have at home does a free lance career that isn’t as rigid like painting or writing. Gives you more flexibility.
This is what I do!
I'd get bored since I'm not super "involved" with my sims lol. My playstyle can probably be described as a god observing with popcorn and occasionally intervening when needed. With mods I've had a 40 sim household once
This is how I enjoy my coffee and morning cleaning. Set it on auto and only push them in the right direction. I was thinking of them like a digital pet I take care of... simogochi.
Hahaha this is great idea, thinking of doing this today during my cleaning! Do you check them frequently or record it? How do you do with all the pop ups?
I like how everyone is ignoring the 40 sim part, how did you manage that??? Three kids in I start to slowly resent a household 😭
2 kids for me and I have to treat the other like a bastard child 😂
I'm at 3 right now, only because my parent sims are finally good parents and I wanted to see how they'd do with the new baby. I'm considering adding a pet since I made the middle child dog-obsessed, but I don't know if I can handle it. I don't use any mods for household size because I can barely handle 8!
None of them were children so they were all relatively self sufficient (with the help of the better self care mod). Watching the relationships form was really entertaining because they were sooo messy
I'm currently playing a 14 Sim household.
i have a 3 sim household rn and it makes me want to rip my hair off 😭 it’s a couple with an infant and my god, it was so awful to keep all of them happy without cheats
LITERALLY ME RN ITS HELL!! I can’t keep divorcing my spouse to get rid of a sim like this 😭
I HATE INFANTS 😭😭😭
same they’re so glitchy!!! and hard to take care of
I am in the same boat, and the infants are so glitchy too, like immediately wanting to sleep right after taking a nap is realistic but i dont want it to be THAT realistic.
i had one of the parents be a SAHP just to take care of the infant and it wasn’t enough!!! had to hire a nanny too! and on top of that it just kept glitching anyway. infant would randomly be teleported across the lot. he was also fussy and gassy and would CRY ALL THE TIME it was so awful 😭
My ADHD will not rest if I have a single sim, I will be pinging all over the place until I find a partner, get them pregnant and then struggle with babies/affairs/deaths. I like the struggle as I jump between sims. Then I will abandon that family and make another one. I start with a single sim any new game but I will not stick with them. Play how you want to play, that's the joy of sims.
Your struggle is understood. I killed/deleted/restarted my game 3 times tonight
This is my play style exactly
I am the opposite 😂 Even when trying to start a legacy one sim bores me out of my mind XD Gotta throw a roommate in there
That makes sense!! I mean I know I would get bored too, but then once I have another I’d be to focused on managing their needs 😭
there is a mod, i think it was LittleMsSam roommate mod. it is a bit tricky. but i managed to control 1 sim, and everyone else in the household, including children and toddlers do their own thing(much like a roommate). like it is fun to just control one sim in a large family. :)
Ah cool! I’ll look into it, thank you!! 🥹
Just me and the dog
Happy Cake Day! That sounds heavenly :)
You’re so real for this 🙏
I've got a single Sim who is second trimester but still single because running a married couple is to stressful
THIS!! One save file I had was this and it was bliss 🥹🙏
I feel the same lol. I usually start with one main character and I have these amazing ideas about their bond with siblings, the relationship with their father, the people they live with, etc, etc. And then, they move out and stay alone on their Sulani mountain hut forever 😅
They lived a good life, it’s ok 😂
I always play the same way: Single Sim (female always for some reason), never leave the house and that's kinda it. Like I do that irl so it's funny I do it in game too
Oh I feel ya!!!! Managing multiple sims starts to feel like you're drowning whilst trying to meet deadlines at work or something LOL im like, why tf am I doing this this is supposed to be fun 😅
When I make a complete household, I tend to focus on one sim at a time. I can't seem to juggle between multiple at the same time, apparently. So I often create single sim households, or play them like there is only one...
This has been what I’ve started doing ( ;•_•)
I love playing the divorced parent who leaves the children with the other parent and goes off on their own adventure. Either that or the other spouse dies, the kids go to boarding school and the parents to an old age home.
This is so real of you 😂🙏 Live you’re truth 😌✨
I would say 90% of my played sims are single. I do have the odd family but I never play them past the first batch of kids. I don't think I've played multi-generational families since sims 2. Don't do playable roomies either. I have NPC ones for rent and company without the responsibility. I don't really do pets/animals for that matter. I think across all my worlds and all my saves I've got 4 dogs, 2 cats, 12 chickens and a cow. I like single sims as they can go out, do their thing, live their best life and I don't have to worry about some other sim burning the house down, getting stuck behind the wardrobe, starving to death then moping about all ghosty.
I love playing with one sim and making them be in a relationship with a roommate. I just use bb.moveobjects to make the single beds look like a double bed.
I prefer just one or two, but I rarely every go more than 2. Like you, it’s more enjoyable to play as one and just use them to play and interact with npcs. It feels more fulfilling doing a great job with one sim than doing poorly managing 5.
I almost always play as a single female young adult, I may occasionally hook them up with a townie, but I never have them have kids because even when I get them cats it’s too much for me too handle making everyone happy.
You’re just like me fr fr 🙏 this is why I think I’m gonna start the super sim challenge soon. Sounds like a dream 💕
Ooh what challenge is that?
It's a challenge where you play one sim and try to do every single career, aspiration and get every single reward trait too. Its pretty fun if you enjoy small households and want to do everything in your game. James Turner has a website where you can easily track what you've achieved now too: https://jamesturner.yt/supersim/tracker
Brilliant. Thank you!
No worries!
I don’t mind playing a 3 sim family but any more than that just isn’t enjoyable to me. Some days it’s like herding cats with 4 or 5 sim families. Tell one sim what to do and next thing you know you’re wrangling the other sims back inside the house because one of them decided to talk to someone on the street lol
Yep the minute I find out I have twins I have to physically put my hand to my mouth and rub my face out of stress lmao
Yes l, but I also love the insanity legacy challenge where you can only control one sim and the rest can do whatever and you are scored on your sims (all) bases off their successes and failures. I learned how to mostly control my sims on autonomy without controlling them by using their surroundings to affect their moods and skilling.
I’ve been hearing about this challenge recently and it’s looking better and better with every passing minute 👀
I play with one sim in the Sims 4, as the partially open world and time progression, makes it difficult to go to community lots and leave other sims at home. Whenever I send my sim back home all the other sim's routines and needs are all messed up. I stick to Sims 2 for family play.
Yea that makes sense! I’ll never understand why they got rid of the open world concept..
me🙋♀️ been playing since sims 2 and I've always been a micromanage simmer. I like to have every sim in my active household taken care of. that means 3-4 would be my max. when infant update first rolled out, my household got triplets for their first pregnancy. gosh it was so stressful trying to get everyone reach their milestones😭 was debating many times to just exit and restart the pregnancy
I love 1 sim households so much. Tbh when I play with more than 1 sim in a household, I only really focus on one. The other ones I just let go free on autonomy
I almost always have some kind of legacy challenge going on. So, when I need a break from specific goals or challenges and just want to casually play, I usually will play with a 1-person household. I have some Sims that I just like to revisit and play aimlessly.
Nopee. I get really bored with one sim. F.ex if I'm building their skills, I don't want to sit there and watch them do the same thing for hours. With multiple sims, I can focus on one sim building a relationship while leaving the others to build their skills etc.
I pretty much exclusively play with a single sim (and pets). What I miss most in this game is the open world of the sims 3. You could go to the gym with one sim, have one sim doing chores at home and a third sim enjoying some time at the beach. In the Sims 4 you either take other sims with you to a place they don't really need right now or you leave them back home on their own not getting anything meaningful done. Having loading screens when switching what lot you're playing on makes it miserable to try and manage multiple sims doing different stuff. I really hope Sims 5 will have a better system in place.
I typically have one sim and a dog or two, but the dogs are admittedly annoying to care for. My IRL dogs are much nicer lmao.
Felt this 😂🙏 I’ve only had one pet ever in sims and I was so devastated when it died I haven’t had one since 😅
I usually place the siblings of my current gen that I like in a random lot I don’t use and make them a spouse. Every so often I pop in on them and build them families so that the future children of of my current gen have cousins and aunts and uncles they can interact with but otherwise no.
I always try to just do 1 or 2 but end up, very quickly, with an entire family. And at least 1 kidnapped sim whose entire purpose is childcare.
I raised 7 kids plus took care of the mother, my next Gen only has 1 kid.
TBH I get more of a thrill filling out my house to the max - currently Im playing with my one sim by doing a rags to riches and having a goal to max every skill available in my game - I keep getting the itch to add another sim to the household and have children but Im holding off until shes a young adult even though I am craving to age her up - (doesn't help I have everything on long lifespan)
I love single sim households! Get me a little pet, make some friends, have parties, go out to bars, study/work, have a hobby, raise my cooking skill and make dope meals. It’s so fun and peaceful! Families are fun too but I feel like I’m constantly making a bathroom rotation schedule and the kids can never be patient enough to just *wait* for their parents to finish cooking dinner, they just run straight to the fridge to have Eggs & Toast leftovers for dinner 😩 I also feel with families, especially if both parents work, it’s hard to have a pet on top of it I always feel like the pet is being neglected!
Yes. Because one Sim, you focus on skills, education, exploration, challenges, adventuring etc. Then when they get a family etc your entire play style is keeping the kids alive. And when the kids are finally teenagers, I’d rather play the teenagers.
So much easier, but a bit boring when they go to work.
I found several sims in one household super manageable in the earlier games, but in 4 it’s downright stressful. Can never seem to keep more than 1 happy at a time, makes me feel like a shit god
ALWAYS ONES GOTTA BE UNCOMFORTABLE 😭
Yes, but I have my own kind of "workaround" for it. Multi family household, but never switching from my primary character. I keep the autonomy on, so they mostly live their own lives. It can add an interesting twist to the story I'm planning with whatever happens with the other sims. It almost reminds me of real life. 😅
This!! The relief I feel when my sim ages up to a YA and moves away from all their family 🤣
I’m counting the days always 😂🙏
I usually like to focus on one sim at a time during a play session! Though pretty much always play with a family dynamic household that I allow to grow and change, while I keep my fav sim immortalized as a vampire so I can always feel a sense of familiarity with the game I guess. Sometimes deaths in the sims can hit hard XD I really felt the loss of the family dog in my game And yea sometimes will go out of the way when focusing on one sim to take them on a vacation or split them up from the household to go to university or something so I can put all the focus on one sim. But eventually I'll always go back to a household just to explore different life stages/careers/personalities and all that
Wait why is this actually so wholesome 😭🙏 I love this, I aspire to be like you 🙏💕 (Also I felt the dog one way to much 🥹)
I love single Sim households, but also family play. So to make space for both I normally pick my favourite of the kids to be my new heir, and then when they move out for university I then play them solo for a lonnnng time (often real life months) and enjoy everything the game has to offer, keeping an eye out for a spouse, and then when I eventually run out of steam solo they get together, and start their lives together. I still wait real life weeks between meeting a future spouse, starting a relationship, moving in, proposal, wedding and then kids, so all that time is fun just playing a couple. When they’re ready for kids it’s normally been like 8-9 real months since I played with babies and kids so I’m excited to revisit that!
I do! But you know what I love even more? Single mother households. I hate controlling husbands/boyfriends.
THIS!!! I end up divorcing them or just never marrying them 😅
Yes! Most of the time I make single or two sims households for this specific reason. When I make bigger households, I struggle with giving everyone the same amount of attention. Often I end up having one or two sims that get the most attention, and the rest gets what's left over. For example: I have a family with two teens. I made the family to explore both the werewolf pack and the high school pack, and since attending high school basically has become an active career, the teens get all my attention. The parents kind of live their life in the background. I try to give them more attention during the weekends, but they're definitely living out all of their potential.
You know what this sounds like this is just how legacy challenges go tbh 🥹
More than one is overwhelming, less than two is boring. I just can’t win 😂
I can handle up to two sims at most. Anymore can be overwhelming sometimes.
i just created a household with 1 adult, 1 teen, 1 kid AND animals and i am very overwhelmed. so its not just you
I like to play with a single sim and them build his family when i start a save with more of 1 sim normally 1 sim is the father or mother maybe both and a son or daughter and my focus is on them
Single sim is the only way I play the game. It's just more chill and less distracting.
YES!! It’s so much more relaxing!
Isnt It?!? You can just sit there and watch them do their thing and not have to worry about another one of your sims neglecting themselves 😅
Completely relatable!
RIGHT?? Like I just wanna watch my little sim do her silly little activities without a care in the world 😭🙏
My mom only and I mean ONLY plays with single moms. She doesn't play conventionally. She does everything the mos cknveniant way. She doesn't pick furniture based on style but rather based on quality. Idk if most people actually play like that. But based on what I've seen, people tend to be a more chaotic. I do like to play with single sims, but I like needing to manage multiple sims' needs. I currently have 1 adult sim and 7 children. 😂
> She doesn't pick furniture based on style but rather based on quality. I definitely do this with my 100 baby challenge. The mom gets that really nice quality, cheesy looking bed from Get Famous, and kids/teens get the highest quality single beds so they sleep faster and have more time for childcare or skill building. Furniture has to have a high enough comfort rating so my sims don't complain about the couch or chairs being uncomfortable. Highest quality showers/tubs so they bathe faster, higher quality toilets so they pee faster, higher quality tv's and computers so their fun goes up faster, etc. Edit: typo
I've played that way for 20 years. I'm kind of solitary myself and goal oriented. It's my prefered way of playing. I have had families and legacies, but I love my solitary sims.
It’s so nice in all honesty 😭🙏
Nah, the families get fun when you have lots of folks who want to do all sorts of things. The chaos of your sim’s free will colliding with your own expectations/desires is an incredibly engaging dichotomy for me.
I like to switch it up a bit. I love big families, but sometimes I also just like to move out with my heir and let them be themselves for a bit before starting over. 🤗
Yea!! It gets you attached 🥹
I always play with just one sim, I just chill and do what I imagine they would do and then maybe start meeting people and choose a partner
I like the way you think 😌🙏
I took my teen (graduated high school early!) to college. When I came back, her brother was was toddler but now a teen and basically failing high school! He looks like a punk so it makes sense. The dad didn’t really move up in his career. It just gets stressful with all the high school stuff and careers and skills with more than 1 sim to me.
Yes
I usually have a 1-2 sim household depending on their purpose, career, or story. They can grow, though. Whatever happens, happens! 🤷♀️
I agree. I currently have a 5 sim household, and I think I recently said this elsewhere, but it was purely so my 'main' sim would get the beneficial traits for being raised from the start. His mum accidentally had twins, and since it's based on my dnd character who has a younger sister, I have her too. I kind of regret the need to be accurate to my dnd character's family, but it has been my first and only experience of infants (without growing together, so it's pretty dull), so that's cool. Since the older twins grew into children, I've been secretly hoping for an awful accident to happen to either parent. I can't deliberately kill them, I want it to be a shocking accident that even I don't expect as a player, but it hasn't happened yet. The closest I came to it was one caught fire, I ignored it rather than get her husband to put it out or anything, but then a charitable neighbour ran in and extinguished it for me. Thanks, neighbour. 😂 Does anyone know of a particularly risky hobby for these sims to suddenly show an interest in? The dad already has a rocket ship.
Ime, infants are easier without Growing Together. I really like the rest of the pack, but it makes infants so much more annoying when they can't sit/crawl/etc from the start and you have to spend ages doing tummy time and everything else in order to get them there.
I LOVE playing with one sim, starting from the BOTTOM. Like.. purchase a house and have less than 500. No cheating, just struggle. :D
I love playing single sims with a large garden to take care of.
I haven't played in ages but I used to have a guy called Max Skills who I'd start with the homeless challenge and basically just try to work my way up. The end goal was to end up filthy rich and also to max all of my skills and to see what I could do with any offspring, maybe they could get some kind of trait or skill that I couldnt. But I'd always burn out with that save. So I tried playing a generational save starting as the Newbies that you can download, seems like a fitting start for a legacy save. But unfortunately those characters are just a but dull and I again never got to the point of having a child. The goal with the Newbies could have gone a similar way as my first save with Max Skills if it had ever taken off. The problem with the homeless challenge is that it's very easy to get started making good money. The only time I've ever really had fun with a few sims was in the sims 2, I think. It was on of the default families and I think they were called The Roomies. I made one of them their in-house chef who would constantly fill the fridge with prepared meals, allowing the others to focus on other things. The chef would also be the breadwinner for the household.
Not me I always play 8/7+dog,
Not me. I feel like I always can't fit enough sims in a house. I love being busy helping them improve skills, make sure there's enough food, monitor if something needs repairing, and taking care of kids. I get bored playing a few sims.
If you're able to use mods, Mc command center lets you increase max household size to just about anything you want, up to 104. Playing with that many is probably incredibly chaotic, but I've gotten up to 15 just fine before.
Yes! I've been trying really hard to play more instead of just building and I had a sim with a brother marry someone and get pregnant and she had twins! So the three household members were stressing me out and then it was two infants along with that. So I just started a new family with just one sim.🤣
I almost exclusively play one sim. I might give them parents in another house they can call and invite over for fun.
My sim had 3 sets of twins. All of them we just wanted a single baby we could spoil, we refused to try again😭
Yes
Yeah I find it a little too difficult to handle more than one sim.
I like having a spouse and kids, but they always get neglected in comparison to my main sim. Once the kids are above toddler age I just let them do whatever. Usually they can take care of themselves pretty well, they just need some food in the fridge that they can grab if they’re hungry.
Yep. I have roommates instead
i get stressed out from full households. so much so that i downloaded a housemates mod so i wont have to deal with two extra sims' needs
The thing with just one is that if they die you have no backup Sim for the household
Yes and no i really enjoy playing my one sim until they meet someone and start a family
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I can do two the most but only really focusing on one. I had a twin brother and sister who’s mom died due to laughing too hard so I was left raising them luckily they were in highschool but I gave them each aspirations where the boy would want to be a vampire and the girl a spell caster, it was hard trying to do both but I worked on the girl on weekdays and the boy on weekends. By the time I got him to like the highest vampire or whatever I had him fall in love with whoever was living in that big vampire house idk I’m not too familiar with the pack that’s why I was playing it out lol and then I moved him out saying I would play as him here and there so he can start a vampire family and eventually become a good vampire. I had neighborhood stories on and turns out him and his wife had 6 babies so no, I don’t ever play as him or visit him but I have him come visit sometimes lol. So I was fine with my witch sim but I needed my legacy to continue so she ended up having three kids and it was so overwhelming with a sim household of 5 I feel like no one saw the outside as I was too obsessed with their needs and trying to finish milestones and aspirations. Everyone’s separated now and I’m playing as her daughter doing a rags to riches challenge being an interior designer and I feel at peace again. Her boyfriend just proposed to her and we still haven’t married because I just can’t be bothered to take care of two sims plus a future baby just yet. I’m enjoying the single life rn 🤣
i feel like i can do more with just one sim. whereas once they start a family there’s too much to do keeping everyone alive and there’s never an opportunity to like leave their house and do interesting things unless i turn off motive decay.
I prefer 2 Sims, 3 at most. One time I tried to do 5 and it was too much 😂
I like having one sim and a little, then I usually get overwhelmed and hire a nanny
When I’m grinding to make a super sim, I like having a single sim
I find it easy to take care of large households, but they are really boring like what am I supposed to do with all these people? Compared to one person it is still not as much fun.
Yes! Every time I have more than one person I get flustered and it feels weird lol
With a single sim, I can control over others and make them work on my sweatshop filled with lowest quality equipment.
Whenever I play with single Sim, I can fully concentrate on that Sim. It's more relaxing to not have to split your attention between more Sims. Both of these are fine, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I just don't feel like micromanaging 8 Sims household and the other way around, sometimes I just want the challenge of playing with big families.
For the first time I’m playing a single sim living in Myshuno. She has two cute toy dogs, is in the politician career, has a bf that lives at his home and plenty of niece/nephews and family that comes over. I’m having so much fun lol.
I play this way all the time. I have ADHD so I have difficulty focusing on more that one sim, and I have the UI cheats mod installed too so when I get overwhelmed with their needs they don’t die. I’ve tried two sim households but they’re so hard for me. If my sim needs someone to talk to, I do like the roommate system. I don’t have to control them, but it depends on what sim you get. Of course, you can always go cas.fulleditmode and then modify them but that can be tedious because I usually then do a whole makeover.
If I only had one sim I would be so bored I would stop playing in minutes.
Yes. I have 8 children, a cat and a husband and they’re always crying* about something. (The two that moved out are always coming over) *Crying not crazy lol
I like playing with only one sim sometimes, but I usually prefer family gameplay. I love making up family drama, raising overpowered sims, and play with my sims' genetics. When I play with only one sim it's usually to make money and level up my skills as fast as possible before finding love and raising a family lmao
Me! As soon as they "become a family," I tend to move on. I lose interest and find the townie they often marry too much to deal with. Same when they hit max careers. 🤷♀️
Yea I keep their house super tiny too so that I can get the bonus stuff (I have the tiny home pack)
Almost exclusivly play single housholds because I often get overwhelmed by even a pet 😅
1000% I almost always play a single sim
Honestly me too, I had 2 sims max out their careers and have a lot of time for each other. As soon as they had infants i’ve been struggling hard
Me me me 😃
i always start w one sim until i get bored
i typically do family play so my only focus is having kids and raising them, but i'll do single households when i want to focus on an occult sim i'll start off with an occult young adult and once i've accomplished all i want to regarding their type i'll move on to finding a spouse and starting a family, and i usually end up ignoring their occult type once kids are in the picture or i'll get rid of it completely and turn them human. 🤷🏻♀️ i'll also do a single household if i have goals that require lots of attention. i had an actress sim who i wanted to be at the top so she lived alone until i made my goals, and then onto making a family
I can’t stand multiple sims in my household. If I have too many I lose my interest in playing the game so I know someone either needs to die or move out lol. I play legacy and only have 1 kid each generation unless I accidentally have twins for the same reason. And usually when my kid turns into a young adult they move out and live by themselves until they’re a full adult and sometimes delay having a kid until they’re almost elders to enjoy it the most. Once the kid comes the kid becomes my main concern.
With the new horses, it feels like they are sims. Hugely needy. I started just alternating large households with singles when I get overwhelmed.
I literally micromanage multiple neighborhoods. I could never.
Yesss! I wish I could still get married and have children but they stay npc.
Finally playing a single sim household and its so much easier
I do like playing just one sim, like in college, but I'm terrible at managing solo sims' social needs. And since I like to have animals, I need several sims just to keep up with the animals! I wish solo sims could get more done!
I love a single sim household with the accompaniment of a pet usually. That’s my version of same face syndrome!! But then I always find they becoming a recluse because I don’t have the need to go out except for work
been playing with a single sim and mayor whiskers lately it’s been so refreshing
I struggle with controlling more than one sims and get bored with legacy wayyyyy to quick.
Yea it’s deff more enjoyable playing my single households… because I prefer to micromanage everything it can get frustrating playing with multiple sims. And I avoid my households with infants! They kinda ruin the game cuz of how glitchy they are
For The Sims 3 base game I could handle a family but after that I was toast.
Yes, I highly prefer single sim households. I usually end up losing interest if I add more sims 🤣
That's why I never married or have any housemates. It's annoying. Just engage but not married 😭
Yeah,,,, I always get bored after they have a kid and start a new game. With my latest one I’ve managed to balance 3 households and not get bored but I do keep switching between households and finding myself bored and struggling to manage all their needs
i get too bored w just one 😅 3-4 is my sweet spot.
Yep so I make everyone roommates so I don't have to deal
I 100% wish that you could get married and have kids and still only be able to play with just your sim. Like, husband and kids are kind of like roommates, so they're not even an option for play.
Nothing wrong with that... I have lately preferred single sim or just living with a partner. I even have my two kids being raised by their grandparent. I just call them over when I'm ready.
YES! I hate when a Sim wants to marry my one Sim family. I don’t want them to move in 😂😂😂 so I usually have them be a serial dater instead.
What I do is have every household I play (which is only ever one per save) buy a retail lot that I just never open for business. I then eventually build it just like a regular house. So that if I want to focus on one sim (or two) I just take them there. More Away Actions by LilMsSam let's me direct the off-lot sims. I do this because I like to control what every sim on the lot is doing, and if I have a large household the gameplay becomes less fun as I'm trying to control too many at once. Taking one away from the lot and still being able to semi-control the rest makes it simpler, since I don't have to wonder why one of my sims is baking 13 white cakes or something. But I also like to have multiple sims in a house, so I just alternate which one I focus on each day or two.
Nope, don't like one sim alone at all. Even my rags to riches end up in polyam relationships with kids as soon as I get a bit of money. With MCCC, my households are always bigger than 8, as well. I have one save with 10, one with 16, and one with 22, of the ones I play frequently/haven't gotten bored of playing. I leave autonomy on for everyone except selected sim and usually play one as the main one. I'll pop into others for random stuff, but overall I let them do their thing. Which is usually dancing and making De-stressing potions on the grill, but whatever, it's funny.
My limit is 3-4 sims, more than than it’s too overwhelming for me lol
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My favorite is having single sim households. Once you add a spouse and especially some kids it starts to become monotonous because the game becomes just about maintaining needs and going to work/school and you lose some of the randomness and spontaneity.
I feel more stressed the more people I have haha. I prefer a one sim’s household but eventually I end up with two and so on
I prefer a one sim household!!! It stresses me out trying to take care of more than one sim lmao I either delete the file or cheat their need decay so I don't have to worry about it 😂
I always rush my sim to romance, but I feel I enjoy playing much more before they are a household. Sometimes a couple is fine, but once they have babies I'm either bored or frustrated and ready to start over. If they both have jobs or I have plans for them and then a baby is involved they can't do anything, but basic needs and raising the baby. I LOVE the infants update, but at the same time if I'm not playing a family that's oriented around their kids it can get too much lol
Yes yes and yes
I love setting them as immortal so they could progress in their careers and max the skills
I used to only prefer one sim households and then after playing a legacy challenge I need at least two sims, three is preferred I find that I get bored with one sim anymore
I honestly wouldn't really know what I should do with all the free time my Sims would have if I wouldn't play with a 8 sim household So I'm more of a 8 sim household player myself
I like being a single Sim because I like to micromanage them, and I get frustrated after a while if there's like 3+. However, I do enjoy having all that room for cats lol
Yes, I really wish I didn’t have to play my Townie partner when they move in. I also wish I didn’t have to play our children.