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Okay but the last one was soo freaking clever.. I realised that I, in fact have not put myself in my sims position and therefore the sims i played with would be all the same. Must try this method for sure!!!
another tip for family gameplay: when my sim has a toddler the trait is completely random. when they become a child i randomize the trait until it reflects one of the traits of the parents (so a potential of 6 different traits or less depending on if the parents have adult-specific traits). when they become a teen i randomize the trait until they have a trait that is *not* shared with either parent, because this is an age where a lot of people branch off and try to figure themselves out. then when they become an adult i randomize for either a new trait or a shared trait with the parents depending on how close they were. i think this makes the game a little more realistic but also makes it more interesting because you're forced to work with randomized traits
When giving a makeover I like to have a reason, like my Sim had a breakup and stopped caring about their looks or they got an f u cool new style depending on personality, or a new corporate job means a new haircut and more mature outfits, they met a cool new friend and are influenced by their style etc.
That’s a good idea but as a ps4 player, we can’t do mods so the clothes are already ugly as it is.. (well not all since thank God I have a few expansion packs)
I've always played rotationally and never get bored. I play with my seasons on 14days and play each household for a season. I've set my worlds up with unique features and if my sims want to visit, they have to go on vacation to that world. Sometimes they love the world so much they pack up and move. I try to think like my sims and often let sentiments or their emotions guide my decisions. Even the random phone calls I work into their stories - sometimes they end up being friends with sims I would never have thought of. When the pop-ups happen in game- the ones that tell you the outcome of your choice, I roll a die. My sim gets fired sometimes, or loses job performance. I really try not to focus too much on achievements - like promotions, grades and skills, unless I think my sim would think that important. Sorry for the essay, I love sharing ideas and hearing how other people like to play 😊
Hey!! I'm wondering.. wich lifespans do you play at?? Because everytime I play rotational my sims age up, and I usually don't like it when they do it without me:/ so how do you do it??
@@rayyaislam2383 I play on long lifespan and in your settings set it for aging on active household only. That way only the sims in the house you are playing age, your other households will not age until you play them.
Putting the lifetime at "long life" has really helped me woth playing one family for a long time.it helps me bring up my kids in a way that I get to figure out their personality fully and see what they will want to do and be like as an adult. When babies become todlers I randomize the trait and base their whole life off that. Except for homework. I'm obsessive that all my kids do their homework. Idk why. I could never finish my homework as a kid maybe that's why. Trying to make up for it I guess🤷🏻♀️
I completely agree with slowly building up your house, more realistically. Whenever I give my self an awesome house right off the bat, I get bored after the new wears off. Also I'm horrible at making my sim act how they actually would. I'm always keeping their moods perfect, and if I have an evil Sim I end up feeling too bad to make them actually act evil 😝
I also take a lot of photos with/of my Sims, even without the Mosccino Pack. Buy a camera where you can make bigger photos, for every Sim in your household one camera or switch one to every inventory after time if you don't have enough Simoleons. They haven't even to pose for this, when (for example) a grandma plays with their toddler grandkid, take a photo of them with another Sim, it will be a great memory. After a time you'll have a great Album of their live 😄📸🎞 Or another thing i did recently: play with divorced parents, and let the kids move every week to the other parent. Maybe they have stepsiblings and they hang out with them in San Myshuno, after a week they go back to their single mom in Brindelton Bay.
You hit on this a little bit, but I would like to expand it. Don’t ignore traits and moodlets. I think every body wishes moodlets had a bigger mechanical impact on the game, but that doesn’t mean you have to ignore them. Actively avoid negative moodlets even if they don’t carry consequences. Also if your sim hates children, actively avoid children even if there aren’t really any gameplay consequences. Treat the Sims like a role-playing game. Play a person and make the choices that person would make regardless of gameplay mechanics
Playing with roommates more often! Like literally moving a sim or two in. I think a lot of us get stuck in the finding a soulmate to move in but a roommate can add a lot of good drama or not!
Legacy and rotational play seems to complicated for me (but sounds really cool!). Anyone else get overwhelmed playing the game sometimes, and bored other times?? LOL it really is like real life 😂😂
I’ve been slowly changing every single venue and home in each world in the Sims but I’m customizing each one by hand or from scratch! It’s been taking a long time but so worth it!
My tip is to think of ways to use your packs together. This is something I always do before buying new packs, but you can do it without buying new ones. One of the scenarios I played was using Get To Work, Tiny Living, and Discover University along with the base game. I moved an alien into a tiny home and sent her to college to learn physics and rocket science. I then built a rocket and sent her to space to make friends with other aliens. There are other scenarios you can play by combining packs. Such as: A spa day in Sulani, a mermaid and spellcaster falling in love, or celebrities going on a wild adventure in the jungle. Another little thing that I love to do is take wedding photos when my sims get married. I just use base game for this, but it is so fun and I love hanging it up in the couple's home.
One thing I’ve found as I make a challenge revolving around the worlds, is that replacing usually expensive lots (like the mansions in Willow creek) with cheaper houses or parks can spice up the game quite a bit! There are parts of Willow creek that I’ve never seen because it’s just too expensive to move in, but when you add a park into the neighborhood? You can head there weekly!
To make my game more interesting, I started to write down a possible plot for my sims' story, but, instead of deciding everything that's going to happen, I roll a dice to have a random outcome. I tried to play rotationally, but I got bored of it because I used to play two days with each family and I didn't have the time to do anything I wanted. Now, I prepare a plot for each family and play with them until the plot is over, and I'm actually having a lot of fun.
That's curious that a few days ago, before watching this video, I did actually try to refresh my game using some of these tips. I rebuilt the original house, tried to follow the routine, decorated home for holidays and developed the relationship of my Sims gradually. I began to enjoy the game more than ever before, so this tricks really work!
wow i did NOT know that I could change the lot type to be rental in base game...! as someone who has none of the DLC this is amazing news to me; definitely building a rental lot soon!! thank you
I put myself and my fiance into the game and we have had a small child. Then I realized that my three adult kids would want to know their siblings. I've made an apartment lot and replicated their places there. One of my daughters has an upstairs apartment and the other lives on a ground floor. My son lives in a little backyard cottage. I was able to fit it all plus their pets. Now I've been doing play testing and made some changes for gameplay reasons I realized my daughter and my daughter's roommates need their boyfriends. I am having a blast. I'm going to do rotational gameplay. It's really fun doing things the way they would, giving them jobs they would want etc. I also used cheats to put them where they actually are in life. They are midway through careers and already have relationships with each other. When I started up the lot, my daughter and her best friend immediately started chatting. The pets love their owners but need to get to know the other people etc. I am in the process of tweaking the lot so they have more activities their like a pool and workout area. This is really fun
I think it helps to establish who your Sim when you're creating them. Some kind of brief backstory, perhaps. For instance, I made a Sim recently and decided I wanted her to have been raised in a hippie commune. From there, I made her look and personality revolve around that. I named her Sunshine Valley. She named her twin daughters Rainbow and Dandelion. She's very laid-back, interested in Wellness and environmental issues. Thinking about where she came from and who she is helped put the rest into place.
I haven't played a lot of The Sims 4 yet, but with The Sims 2, my favorite thing to do with babies. I loved having toddlers around in the house. Your tip about naming what you sims would name and not what you would name makes me think of two of my families in particular, the Thompsons and the Wilsons. These were the first two families I made in The Sims 2. With the Wilsons all of the children had a name that was also a last name. The first generation to start this were James and Lauren. Obviously their names are not last names (or hers isn't, James can be a last name), but they named their sons Stanley, Ford, and Cooper. Ford and Cooper did not follow this tradition, but Stanley did. His children with wife Jocelyn included Gary (Garrison), Dallas, May, Kendall, Rose, and more. Dallas married into the Thompson family. His wife, Devon, was named after her father, Devon Jr, who was named after his father, Devon Sr, so of course their oldest was named Devon. They also had Daile, Daelily, and Delroy. This was sort of a part of Devon's family's naming as her and her sisters all had D names like their dad, but their brothers got F names like their mother, Felicia. Lots of fun with names and each family feels different because their names do feel like something the parents would pick.
I think Sims 4 is more fun with extra drama and spice. I used to make my sims love each other constantly. They never fought with siblings, they never had enemies, and their careers went smoothly. Sometimes a breakup or a bad day at work can make everything more exciting and realistic.
I had a rotational save to start with (five families living in Newcrest), and I did enjoy that -- my current save is me focusing on two specific families that will eventually blend (it's a polyamorous threesome with the help of Wonderful Whims), but in THAT one, I've been having fun in replacing some of the more horrible Eaxis builds with better lots from the Gallery! Save file "renovation" can be great, especially when you put a little twist on the Gallery creations to make them your own. :)
I know this isn’t a super recent video but I wanted to weigh in on overhauling the worlds and making something super custom. I just started doing this and it has brought my love for the sims back. It’s made me binge the game that I hadn’t touched in years. Highly recommend
I tend to completely randomize my sim's traits so the sims figure out their personalities entirely, and then make up a whole backstory for them in my head. As more traits are randomized, I tweak the backstory accordingly. Backstories are what really makes my game fun and I love to add loads of chaos and drama into them. This really helps make my game more fun, and I start planning backstories since they're toddlers. I hope this helped! :D
Personally Legacy gameplay is my favorite type of gameplay, I just love to see my Sim family grow and the generations they carry on. And when I first even started playing the Sims 4 I did the legacy challenge with my Cousin and I (We had our own separate families, in the same household) (and still doing that legacy!) But what I usually to keep the game less dull is by (If you don’t use CC or Mods, like me even though I have a computer.) is by when you first create your Sims add freckles, moles, zits, beauty marks, weird/uniquely shaped teeth, etc. This also helps with helping pick out your personality for your Sim. Give your Sim(s) a negative so they don’t seem so dull Have a goal by each generation to have this much money or this many goals completed Adopt Children/Pets and help them shape out your Sims back story (haven’t got the pet pack yet, but it sure looks fun! :) ) Make up a backstory for your Sims, were they an orphan? Did they run away from home? Were they extremely rich before and now broke? Do they have goals of finding love before a certain age? Did they have a forbidden romance, and they move towns due to the shame?
Another idea: find a movie or book trope you like an reenact it with yous Sim. but dont stick to hard to the story, your sim might want to go a different way.
Love this! One of my favourite things is to be an absolute drama starter. Make your sims roommates or partners have conflicting personalities, start chaos with one, try to fix it with another good Sim, love but also break hearts, Build but destroy dollhouses
This was a super interesting video! I do a fair few of these, and I think I picked up those habits specifically from watching how Kelsey Impicciche plays. She's doing the Not So Berry Challenge right now, plus she frequently edits her Sims' appearances, puts herself in her Sims' perspectives, and takes things more slowly; all things I've started doing in my game. So I guess the point of this comment is to use Sims RU-vidrs to inspire your own gameplay? Pretty obvious, but I only just connected it 🤷🏾♀️
Lately i've been trying to add a pinch of drama to my Sim's lifestories and that has made a huge difference. Also, when creating a new household or getting a couple married, write a brief story about them on the description, like the ones that come with EA's NPCs. That can help a lot to not lose track about their personalities and what they "aim in life".
I know it’s one of the best-known challenges, but I can’t stop recommending the Not So Berry challenge! It really re-ignited my love for the game, and I find having goals to hit makes gameplay a lot more exciting and fresh for me. I’m only on gen 5, but I’ve already written 10 more generation rules of my own so I can continue for as long as possible.
@@Iamhannahd they’re kinda long to put in a RU-vid comment, and I haven’t play tested them yet so there might be some hitches! When I get to that point I will probably post them and I will put a link here! 😊
One thing I do more since watching your videos is switch to first person view. It really does put yourself more in the position of the sims. It helps to connect more.
I'm doing the not so berry challenge right now and with the normal lifespan. I feel like its too short to move slowly and sometimes the chaos of it moving so quickly is fun. But I agree, I like moving slow and bonding with the sims way more. Such a hard choice between chaos and bonding lol
Something that I did recently is give my Sims more realistic bank account balances. For example, I did a quick search of what the average bank account balance was depending on their age. My Sim was a young adult, and I read that the average bank account balance for people under 35 was between $3,000 and $12,000 (mean = $3,000, medium = $12,000). It made my game very interesting. I actually had to budget and watch my bank account balance. I couldn’t decorate how I wanted. My Sims had to learn how to repair things in the house. I really liked it.
Wonderful ideas, but it does kind of infuriate/amaze me that we literally have to get creative to make this game an enjoyable experience. That really tells you how much of a flop the sims 4 was. I used to play TS2 and TS3 for days and never got bored. So much more dynamic and mysterious of games.
I like to use a dice roller app on my phone to pick between choices. Evens=first choice, odds=second choice. That way it's not what I would want, it's just random what happens.
1) I love using photographs. Not the screenshots but the in game photography skill. If I have a sims wedding or childbirth or holiday celebration I usually try my very best to have photos to remember the occasion. If a child grows up or is in scouts etc. I will have photos of each life stage around the house. It helps me remember the story of the family better. Also photos take time and kind of force me to slow down my gameplay without rushing everything. 2) In addition to your 'vacation' part - since this update I placed a vacation lot in every neighbourhood I could and often my Sims are only allowed to travel to other nieghbourhoods by going on vacation there, forcing me to properly explore the neighborhood I'm currently living in better 3) (kind of goes with number 2) I have my families actively impact what community lots will appear in my current neighbourhood. If I have a Sim child/teen who loves Wellness and/or Working Out, but there is no Gym/Spa in their neighbourhood I pretend they are helping to build it, so they have a place to hang out. Start a club for working out when they are young and update the lots accordingly to who is actually living in the nieghbourhood, so their needs can be met.
I loveeeee doing the second one I am so happy I watched this video becuz now I do most of these things even tho I don’t have the best sims games and sims clothing and stuff but it is so fun so I totally recommend it!
I would also recommend playing with another person, both my sister and I have our own sims 4 game on our own laptops but we realized that it’s so much fun to play together. Back in 2020 during the pandemic we started a new game on my laptop and it is so much fun, we play with the same family, she plays with one kid and I play with one of the siblings and we currently are on the 13th generation and it really is so fun playing with another person, we just take turns controlling our sims so yeah just thought I would throw that idea out there
7:03 YESS!! So my sim was really into marvel and i thought she would like to name the kid Tony,because her favourite marvel hero is Iron man! It adds so much more detail even though it's a small change! It really helps figure out your sims personality
I've made myself a new sim a couple of days ago so I can do a couple of new things, play a legacy where I play with aspirations I've either never finished or never used and to complete different things like go to all the hidden worlds, vacation in the vacation spots etc. I'm enjoying it right now
Great video! Thanks! The only problem though with gallery lots is packs. What I mean is here in an example; I found the ultimate mansion in the gallery but they used all the packs to make the house. So those items would not be available to you and your game if you don’t have the pack. BUT there is an option to chose lots with just the packs you have OR uncheck ALL of the packs if you just have base game. Just a little thing I discovered. Also here, be sure that you check the lot size so that you purchase a lot big enough to put it on. Just a few thoughts, thanks again!
if i'm having trouble with putting myself in my sim's shoes, i try to commit to fulfilling all of their wishes (except annoyed ones that don't actually reflect their interests like buy a bee house or whatever they're called). even if it's something like "be friendly with _____" i take it as a sign that maybe my sim wants to hang out with that sim and they should go somewhere
it can be fun to be strict about this too because just say you have a noncommital sim and they want to quit their job or break up with their significant other, it can lead to plot twists
Thank you Plumbie you helped me with my legacy. Because I have a legacy and I was a bit bored with it and I looked on some of your “what to do when you are bored of the sims 4” videos and one of the tips was to go on a vacation and I did that with my gen 2 it was so fun!❤❤ Thank you soooo much Plumbie!🎉😊 I love my legacy!❤ ❤❤ Bye Plumbie!❤
It works for me to create stories and follow several generations of a family with different styles. I love your way of talking! I'm not a native English speaker but I can understand your videos very well.
I recently started committing time to build my sims story more. I have a singular sum that I give milestone to, and right now she just got married after being promoted twice and going on 4 successful dates. She lives in a large house, but many rooms are empty because I want her to slowly start furnishing them as she has kids. I’m looking forward to having a legacy house with the entire family on 1 lot, so when she becomes a grandparent, she’ll still live with the family. It’s made the game play a lot more fun because I didn’t start off by giving her everything she might want.
We need more traits for the sims 🥲 but I think the pronunse update will give a lot of character to the sims! Specially since you can hang up flags etc.
I was doing the millionaire challenge but I switched to the power couple one.. I had a tiny maximist decor house the woman who resided inside was a serial romantic and her plot was to have all her boyfriends live in her basement to both wood work, paint, garden, and find collectibles.. lol they would then all 10 of them have to play cards for her hand in marriage
I tend to always do things with them. Like a holiday but also especially with the parents I make sure they sometimes go on dates. And there they just talk and walk around looking at the place. I think it makes it more realistic to let them live rather than going at it fast
My favorite thing to do is if I build a new house that house is obviously new and most times in real like you might get rid of some stuff you have when packing so I’ll decorate the rooms sort of empty and very minimal but over time I add so many different objects that fit the sun in their room to make it seem like they’ve actually been living in that room for some time
I just started a legacy, and yes it is fun! My sim married Johnny Zest. They have a daughter, and they moved to Del Sol Valley where Johnny is still pursuing his dream. He's doing great! My sim is a teacher. Their story is unfolding so beautifully! 💚
i use a lot of mods and they can be rly fun and make the gameplay more interesting!! however, i do find they make the game less realistic sometimes. i have a mod where i can change relationships with a click, and just accomplish any aspiration and fill all their needs in. while that can be helpful, it makes the gameplay less fun in the long run. im going to try to use that less! and thank you for your tips
For me: 1. I created a fat, lazy sim. Ok? Then I was sending her to the gym, I was making her eat salade, I had a gym routine for her so she could lose weight (something like a challenge) Without cheating or giving up. Then, I would give her a make-over. I would change her name, her hair, her makeup and her clothes (traits too) 2. So, a sim is evil and she has a basement full of rooms. Her "mission" is to capture innocent sims (lol) and put them in these room, once the rooms are full. She is gonna unlock the doors and free them. 3. I created a sim that is creative, a genius, and a loner. Basically, I will be sending this sim to collage and make them do a very serious job. Basically, I will be making a really smart sim like reading books and everything without cheats. edit: I have a new idea, I will make 5 sims and I will have them locked in a room (like human testing) and I would see how long it takes for them to starve to death, Burn to death, laugh to death and yeah. I love my sims 💅😂
lol im a huge fan of this type of britsh accent so enjoyabl to listent to OH lady you so kind and considering to those without seaons expansion really cool! i love this type of video's where peopl share their playstyle and ideas. Play slow is also key for me i play soOo slow i litterally Prinscreen capture every thing they do and make my own photo gallery progression album on my pc then i name it showing its progression i get so much enjoyment TRUST me its not for everyone lol. Wish sims team could add an ingame COIN FLIPPER/ number randomizer because i play sims as if im playing DUNGEON AND DRAGONS using imagination and random system to make decisions i hate going out of game doing this though but i dont mind the satisfaction is worth it lol. thanks for nice video CHEERS cutie
I am a family simmer so this may not be fun to you but this is So fun for me right now! So basically I make a family and then basically try to do as many gens as possible BUT each gen has a different challenge, for example 1st gen it was a super unfunctional family so basically the mom was materialistic a snob And was famous, the dad was more chill outdoorsy loved rustic style and was basically the opposite of the mom, the oldest daughter was Super self absorbed an over achiever but liked Retro and mid-centry vibes and hated the thought of big fancy minimalist mansions, sure she wanted to be famous but she wanted to be famous to share her life and what she likes not like for money, the oldest son was very geeky loved videogames hated the outdoors very messy blah blah, The youngest daughter was very Introverted didn't like following instructions or school at all she wanted to learn stuff on her own time liked outdoors and indoors equally but disliked her family blah blah, the youngest son was just very calm didn't particularly have preferences and disliked everyone except the youngest daughter, Then the 2nd gen (oldest daughter) married a high-school crush, BUT they lived in a tiny home she fought with her wife a ton because of grudges and stuff they got along but had fights often, And she was living in a super small home with her 3 siblings her wife and her child, and I basically built up the house no money cheats and turned it into her dream home, her daughter is currently the one I'm on but she is doing the 100 baby challenge (I'm at 53/100😭) and I haven't gotten bored at all! She had a highschool gf that she broke up with but is still in touch with So it'll be interesting seeing what happens between them later on!
I literally adooore your tips. one other I saw is to create in a new save the family and the others on the same world for rotational, like you did, or use the new gameplay of IA choices (vies de quartier in French, I don't know the name in English). Thank you very much !!
Best tips i have for making this game more interesting is; 1. creating an elaborate story for a sim you're creating. Why just start on a empty lot without purpose. Maybe your sims house burned down or they run away from home? 2. Making every save unique. If you play in one world i recommend deleting all of the other sims that creators made in other worlds. I hate seeing bella goth and Nancy Landgrab all the time for example especially in my cottage living or sulani gameplay. I just delete them all or give them makeovers to fit my gameplay.
The last one I do a bunch actually. I have a save that has a family with two kids and two parents and i have to pay attention when they ask for advice, bc I answer as that certain parent instead of myself
This video was relaxing and entertaining and I'm gonna re watch it just because it makes me feel good. Very lovely video, subscribed. Love your accent and how you speak and the soft music, good job!! Edit: and you jump right in!
this is such a huge help, thank you so much! i struggle so much with trying to stick to one household, so this really helps me out so much, and i'm sure to many others watching!
Often do makeovers but there are not a lot of good clothes in the game, so you have to use cc If you want a legacy you have to play for a long time and the game itself is so boring i end up with one toddler and get bored cus there's nothing to do
I play with a a family, the children grow up and I make their family so I end up with all these branches (Also lots of drama cause one if them was abused) but the family arent all happy
I had a World where i tried to have a huge Vampire Family to fill up every world. In that world one of my sims randomly started flirting with a random woman and they almost instantly started trying to be in a relationship. Sadly, the sims glitched out with the latest update and deleted all my progress. That world had like 5 or 6 generations in it.
okay so...you can switch out the in game houses and community lots for ones from the galery? i never knew this. what i do instead, since a few days ago: i downloaded empty willow creek and now i'm BUILDING everything in this town myself 😂 i think it'll take me until one day i drop dead in front of my computer
i try to do a routine but nearly every time i try to make them do the things i want them to do they decline to do it and like what i find so annoying is when the sim wants to go to the bathroom and you try to send them there they decline and im like GOSH im trying to help
