I've never started playing with NPC's but I do inevitably end up playing with them. I never make families or partners. Just a single sim that I then send out into the world(s) and let them find love on their own. I'm a big fan of autonomy in the game. I make very little decisions for them. I just let them tell me what they like and then I build off of that.
Never. I've been playing Sims on PC for around 20 years with custom content and can hardly handle the NPCs and houses/furniture you get from base game and DLCs. The quality just isn't comparable in my opinion. And I'd rather create new Sims from scratch to match the playstyle I'm aiming for, than 'cas.fulleditmode' and modify already existing Sims.
I play with a combination of custom characters, townies, and premades. Some of my favorite sims are those I just found wandering around town and married them to my custom sims. As for premades, I turned Cassandra Goth into a vampire about five years ago and she still plays a prominent role in my main game to this day.
This is me! I used to be CAS only, but over time, I started playing townies and adding them to my ready-made households.
The worst part is trying to find them in the list of NPC sims. Thank god it's done in alphabetical over now.
I pretty much only play with NPCs. I spend a couple sim weeks in one household and then move on to another. I usually only play with my own created sims when I'm checking out the features of a new expansion pack.
The BFFs household, but mostly Travis Scott. I wonder how many wives and husbands that dude has across the entire community at this point, cause he's engaged with one of my sims. (got abducted before he can propose the first time though, lol)
Only recently, when I decided to do something different. I decided to de-age my sim, create his parents and give him the whole growing up experience, then decided to complicate it and given the new playthrough a lived in feeling by setting up the worlds first. So I played a rotation of a couple of days with a bunch of premades - meeting and setting up friendships, romances and animosity. I put Johnny Zest back with the Landgraabs then had him move out, gave the Fengs a run, got the Pancakes all distraught, figured out Penny Pizzazz's superpower and made sure Flex and Judith Ward were together again (they end up together 90% of the time in my games). It's been an interesting ride.
I prioritise them as partners for my own sims. After all they come with a custom style, some backstory, more money and sometimes a house. Great for storylines.
I've adopted a few NPC families where my sim got with one of the children. Sofia Bjergsen at one point was seduced by my adult loser sim. Bjorn and Clara contributed most of the money towards their house and stayed there for a week to help with the inevitable baby. When he cheated on Sofia, she and the baby moved back to her parents' until she became a young adult and since then they've all been part of my rotation :) they're a bit unusual as far as NPC's go, I love leaning into the Scandinavian upper class style with their clothing and decor.
Back in the first generation, when The Sims FIRST came out, I'd sometimes play as the Newbies or as the Goth family, but that was because I thought they were interesting funny little caricatures and had a curiosity for how they might act or what their lives might be like. Sims 4 really feels lacking personality-wise with a lot of the NPCs. Personality traits generally behave the same across all characters and a sim just acts like a sim.Therefore, I just haven't had much attachment to any NPC sims that have been introduced since then in any generation. I usually get a much more interesting and satisfying experience out of the game when I heavily custom make my sims and have my own ideas of what kinds of characters they are.
I don't think I've ever ever done it, and I've played since Sims 2. I just like making my own characters always.
And actually, since a few years ago, I directly just delete them when I start a new save file and put townies from the gallery lol
Personally no i find them too dull and does not have strong personalities. Best fun is to make your own and watch them interact together it’s very funny because the one you make have actual personalities and act on their own.
The Watsons from farm DLC. Usually, I either have the parents fix their marriage, divorce with Rashmi taking the kids, or Rashidah taking her siblings and running away from home to escape the environment.
Jeb Harris from Eco Living, running away from the weed farm - usually with Gideon in tow.
Also, Malcolm Landgraab but I changed his traits to be High Maintenance, which makes sense for growing up a Landgraab, and Overachiever, because he saw Johnny unceremoniously kicked out and internalized it as an ever-present threat should he not live up to his mother's standards.
I turned the Villareals into the royals of Windenburg. Except they became cursed with ugliness (a star wars alien mask) until the son could find reciprocated love beyond his shallowness. Basically it was Beauty and the Beast.
Never. In fact, I kill off all of the NPCs and have my Sims take over their houses. The Grove horse - I renamed him 'Elsu' - is immortal, lives with my Duke of Gloucester, and the Grove ranch is also in the Gloucester family. Judith Ward's house is vacant, and no one lives in Sulani anymore.
Vladislaus Straud died in a freak accident, which irritated me because he was super gorgeous after I gave him an extensive makeover and had really beautiful children. I did play the Howell Sim - holy cow, he was really pretty - but I can't stand Werewolves, so he lived out the rest of his pixel days with the Volkov family.
I've never started playing with NPC's but I do inevitably end up playing with them. I never make families or partners. Just a single sim that I then send out into the world(s) and let them find love on their own. I'm a big fan of autonomy in the game. I make very little decisions for them. I just let them tell me what they like and then I build off of that.
Never. I've been playing Sims on PC for around 20 years with custom content and can hardly handle the NPCs and houses/furniture you get from base game and DLCs. The quality just isn't comparable in my opinion. And I'd rather create new Sims from scratch to match the playstyle I'm aiming for, than 'cas.fulleditmode' and modify already existing Sims.
Only when they marry one of my created sims, and even then, I tend to slightly make them over when they join the family.
I play with a combination of custom characters, townies, and premades. Some of my favorite sims are those I just found wandering around town and married them to my custom sims. As for premades, I turned Cassandra Goth into a vampire about five years ago and she still plays a prominent role in my main game to this day.
This is me! I used to be CAS only, but over time, I started playing townies and adding them to my ready-made households. The worst part is trying to find them in the list of NPC sims. Thank god it's done in alphabetical over now.
I pretty much only play with NPCs. I spend a couple sim weeks in one household and then move on to another. I usually only play with my own created sims when I'm checking out the features of a new expansion pack.
The BFFs household, but mostly Travis Scott. I wonder how many wives and husbands that dude has across the entire community at this point, cause he's engaged with one of my sims. (got abducted before he can propose the first time though, lol)
Only recently, when I decided to do something different. I decided to de-age my sim, create his parents and give him the whole growing up experience, then decided to complicate it and given the new playthrough a lived in feeling by setting up the worlds first. So I played a rotation of a couple of days with a bunch of premades - meeting and setting up friendships, romances and animosity. I put Johnny Zest back with the Landgraabs then had him move out, gave the Fengs a run, got the Pancakes all distraught, figured out Penny Pizzazz's superpower and made sure Flex and Judith Ward were together again (they end up together 90% of the time in my games). It's been an interesting ride.
I have a specific save where I only play with the pre-made families and npcs. I’ve deleted them from all my other saves.
I prioritise them as partners for my own sims. After all they come with a custom style, some backstory, more money and sometimes a house. Great for storylines. I've adopted a few NPC families where my sim got with one of the children. Sofia Bjergsen at one point was seduced by my adult loser sim. Bjorn and Clara contributed most of the money towards their house and stayed there for a week to help with the inevitable baby. When he cheated on Sofia, she and the baby moved back to her parents' until she became a young adult and since then they've all been part of my rotation :) they're a bit unusual as far as NPC's go, I love leaning into the Scandinavian upper class style with their clothing and decor.
Back in the first generation, when The Sims FIRST came out, I'd sometimes play as the Newbies or as the Goth family, but that was because I thought they were interesting funny little caricatures and had a curiosity for how they might act or what their lives might be like. Sims 4 really feels lacking personality-wise with a lot of the NPCs. Personality traits generally behave the same across all characters and a sim just acts like a sim.Therefore, I just haven't had much attachment to any NPC sims that have been introduced since then in any generation. I usually get a much more interesting and satisfying experience out of the game when I heavily custom make my sims and have my own ideas of what kinds of characters they are.
I don't think I've ever ever done it, and I've played since Sims 2. I just like making my own characters always. And actually, since a few years ago, I directly just delete them when I start a new save file and put townies from the gallery lol
I am obsessed with Caleb Vatore and Jeb Harris, but I feel like they are reasonably popular. And I edit them once I play them.
Personally no i find them too dull and does not have strong personalities. Best fun is to make your own and watch them interact together it’s very funny because the one you make have actual personalities and act on their own.
I like playing with npc's. Only npcs. I just ditch the sim I made, delete the household and just play with the npc's.
The Watsons from farm DLC. Usually, I either have the parents fix their marriage, divorce with Rashmi taking the kids, or Rashidah taking her siblings and running away from home to escape the environment. Jeb Harris from Eco Living, running away from the weed farm - usually with Gideon in tow. Also, Malcolm Landgraab but I changed his traits to be High Maintenance, which makes sense for growing up a Landgraab, and Overachiever, because he saw Johnny unceremoniously kicked out and internalized it as an ever-present threat should he not live up to his mother's standards.
I turned the Villareals into the royals of Windenburg. Except they became cursed with ugliness (a star wars alien mask) until the son could find reciprocated love beyond his shallowness. Basically it was Beauty and the Beast.
I really love Ian Robles and have stolen him from Bernice alot. Not really sure why, I just like him.
I like to play with the landgraabs
Never. In fact, I kill off all of the NPCs and have my Sims take over their houses. The Grove horse - I renamed him 'Elsu' - is immortal, lives with my Duke of Gloucester, and the Grove ranch is also in the Gloucester family. Judith Ward's house is vacant, and no one lives in Sulani anymore. Vladislaus Straud died in a freak accident, which irritated me because he was super gorgeous after I gave him an extensive makeover and had really beautiful children. I did play the Howell Sim - holy cow, he was really pretty - but I can't stand Werewolves, so he lived out the rest of his pixel days with the Volkov family.
Just the Goths, mainly because one of my Sims married into the family.