How old is your neighborhood before you start to get bored of these sims?

[Kristalrose]

Well, I achieved what I wanted to do: raised 3 generations of sims. I'm starting to get bored with them. By the third generation, they are all starting to look alike, and they are all starting to be related. I'll notice a sim having a long conversation with another sim at a party, and think, "Oh, they'd be cute together" and then when I notice that "flirt" isn't in the social menu, I'll remember they're cousins! LOL

I'm thinking about making a new neighborhood, but I don't know. I hate to abandon my Simmies. I've been playing the same neighborhood for about a year now. I hate to leave them and start over again. I made 10 sims last night in CAS: 5 of each gender. Thought I'd do what I did before: use the delete all characters cheat to clean out the townies and then move in my sims. But, I don't know. Like I said, I've come so far. I know these sims, they're my "babies".

Anyone else go though this? What do you do?

[caduto]

just create a few new households and let some of the other generations die out. this is what i would do unless the neighbourhood is full already.

creating a new neighbourhood is also an option, but you dont have to delete the old one! dont think of it as abandonment, your just creating another city, your old city will still be there to play with whenever you miss them :)

happy simming!

[person123]

Sometimes marrying your sims to the townies can make for some very interesting new sims...you could also throw in some new sims just to shake things up a bit. A Romance sim can always add some much-needed drama to an overplayed neighborhood.

[surprised_by_witches]

What do you mean "a" romance sim? MOST of my sims are romance sims ... :D OK, about a third. But yes, I agree. Make a "bad boy" or "bad girl" without a conscience and let 'em shake things up.

Here are some thoughts:

Do you have OFB? Try concentrating on building a business empire rather than just focusing on the romances.

Pick your favorite family and just play them. Create a sim to marry into the family (there's an attraction table on MTS2 somewhere that says which signs are likely to like which, so you can stack the deck). That way you can have "new blood." Let all of your other sims become NPCs and start a new dynasty.

Or, start fresh with a brand new family or sim and have everyone else be NPCs.

Turn someone into or back from a vampire or zombie. Try to get abducted by aliens. Build a Servo and have someone fall in love with it.

Bored with a family? Combine two smaller households into one.

Or, make an apartment building! Mine added a lot of interest to the sims that lived there. They'd still be there if the main couple hadn't wanted a baby.

Try a challenge, like Legacy or email, or make up your own.

[Mirelly]

I'm getting my 4th gen just coming out of diapers at the moment.

I started Pennfield with two couples at uni. The married after graduating and Pennfield was off the mark with Gen Zero.

I added a couple of static families straight off to help populate the hood with more than just townies ... and I started off the neighbourhood churchyard with a few <ahem> townie mishaps (to get rid of the most annoying ones). When the Gen 0's kids were at college I added some more students to their campus (one pair was Pretty Hayleigh's maternal grandparents ... her paternal grandparents were trailer sims added at Gen 0. So although, technically speaking Hayleigh's family tree only goes back to GP's, some of her contemporaries have GGP's and some are already married with children at school ... All told I have 24 families in play and I play each house for 7 days from Mon 6am so I am theoretically able to withstand installing an EP without losing my place.

I always send Teens to college on a Sunday night and move them back the hood one week later (it's not ideal but anything more complex and I get confused. Any sims sent to college are played immediately to get them esconced and therefore fulfill the wants of any other sims relating to the college-kid but the actual college 'years' are played en bloc after the main neighbourhood rotation.

It's getting quite exciting at the moment. Edwin and Cadence, dedicated vampires have bought the Abelard's old beauty parlor and have converted it into a night club. Somewhat cynically, Edwin bought some Vamprocillin and induced his mother to drink it ... so he could get the insurance money to buy some decent entertainment equipment for the club. Mama immediately bought some more and induced her hubby to quaff some as well ... but Cadence, realising that even with the twins, Ralph and Kane, who are shortly to become teenagers they would still need the old man's help in running the club, so she bit him again as soon as his wife's funeral was over. Yikes! It'll be half-past June before I get back to that house :eek:

[surprised_by_witches]

I feel better, Mirelly! I've "only" got 21 households in play right now, but that's because I combined some.

I'm on gen 5 and it's not boring yet, however I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment by the sheer number of babies who are now children through young adult. Yikes!

Gen 2 had 2 kids, Gen had 6, Gen 4 had 11 and Gen 5 is up to 25.

What was I thinking? :confused:

[person123]

Yes, Legacy challenges are fun...but once you start, you just get sucked in and can't stop until you finish. Starting a Legacy is a big commitment, in my opinion. It could take up to a year to finish one, depending on how often you play. I only play TS2 two or three times a week, so this will definitely be taking a while.

[Chee-Z]

I made the mistake(?) of making several families at once, and now generation 2 has up to 28 kids in it. Ouch. >_< Some will be NPCs of course, but what a way to start things off. :rolleyes:

[Mirelly]

LOL, Cheezy. I keep planning to take some families out of the game by binning them and then deleting them ... you know, like they emigrated or something. It's no use even sticking them into a spare sub neighborhood (eg a NL downtown) cos they'll still do unlikely walk-bys of their former friends and neighbors.

I had a nightmare sim: Guvva Mint to whome all my sims have to pay taxes (cos I'm fed up of them having too much money). Trouble is to pay him they have to know him and he kept phoning people up ... such a pain. Then I suddenly thought: "hang on, a sec. The bozo doesn't need a phone!" So I cut his phone off ... well he gets all the money; he'll have to be content with that. I suppose eventually I'll have to load him up again and use the debug mode to make him know everyone again otherwise the new babies won't know where to send their taxes when they're old enough ... and that would be terrible :p

[Kristalrose]

Well, I played my new hood long enough to set it up and move in my 10 CAS sims. YAWN! I missed the old 'hood, and went right back to playing with them. They're the familiar, the ones I know.

A few weeks ago, the "plague" visited River Valley and murdered off a goodly number of excess sims. I still have 87 playable sims, according to JMP's census tool. That doesn't even count the 300-odd NPC's and Townies. Many of those are also CAS made sims who I turned into townies because I was bored with them. LOL

I have been playing only 4 main families: The Simpsons, the Yokels, the Hicks, and the Dawsons. Problem is, there are about 2-4 households of each! :(

I like your ideas about vampires and Servo. I have two servos, Hal Dawson and Data Hicks. :) And two of my Sims, granddaughters of Vampire Queen Tina, have "darker" tendencies. Brianna Simpson even has her Grandma's old coffin.

Thanks y'all. :)

[Sacharissa]

I have three neighborhoods that I routinely play. I started out with Pleasantview - just to get the feel of the game before risking my own creations...then added Couer D'Arc - created from scratch as a test site to try ideas out...and finally my main neighborhood, Dunvegan Bay - the culmination of all my simming skills!

What I have discovered was when I start getting bored with one neighborhood, I go and start playing with one of the others that I haven't played in several months...and suddenly, it all seems new and interesting! New plotlines and relationships seem to introduce themselves, and the once boring neighborhood becomes exciting once more!

So my advice is not to ditch the old 'hood, but go and visit another neighborhood for a while...after all, just as in real life, we all need a vacation once in a while!

[ineedhelpPlay]

you've been playing for A YEAR?!!WOW!THAT IS SUPER LONG!..ive been playing for a couple of weeks and im so bored already.but of coursei still am very attached to my characters..my whole neighbourhood is full...and my favourite sim is friends with all of em and deeply in love with the whole male population...:D

plus,her aspiration lvl is always full and she has tons of aspirations points..which i use mainly to get the elixir of life since i dont know any cheats to prevent her from aging SO FAST.

ok.i sound like im bragging...which i am..but i always hv the tendency to babble on and on about the sims 2:knockedout:

sacharissa....you are so right:D

ok..this is my third post in one thread..lol;)..but im trying to make a neighbourhood filled with aliens and vampires:Dthatll be soo cool

[Mirelly]

you've been playing for A YEAR?!!WOW!THAT IS SUPER LONG!..ive been playing for a couple of weeks and im so bored already.

Surely you mean a couple on months considering that you once said you installed it on April 1 :rolleyes:

Also please use the edit button when you want to add something to your last message within a few minutes. Just adding further messages is what is called "Spamming the forum" and it is thought to be bad manners.

The cheat code to stop aging is [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[C] aging off
;)

[SolidSnake_19]

So far I've only made it to the third generation of sims. I haven't really played one family enough on TS2 to get more than several generations from it.

I find that constantly getting up their stats is a bit of a pain since they die pretty fast some times. (;)) ... Not to mention all of the neglect the toddlers go through with one parent at a job and the other trying to get its own needs up. Heh. I've lost a couple of babies to the social worker because my adults are selfish.

[Chee-Z]

you've been playing for A YEAR?!!WOW!THAT IS SUPER LONG!..

Hehe I've been playing since October 2004. ;) And I had a neighborhood last for about a year until I got sick of it. :rolleyes:

[ineedhelpPlay]

Surely you mean a couple on months considering that you once said you installed it on April 1 :rolleyes:

Also please use the edit button when you want to add something to your last message within a few minutes. Just adding further messages is what is called "Spamming the forum" and it is thought to be bad manners.

The cheat code to stop aging is [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[C] aging off
;)

..i did install it on the 1st of april on another computer but it conked out=,='.
i installed it AGAIN on my desktop and now it works..and ive been playing for a couple of weeks onli:shocked:.im sorry bout the merged posts but i don't know how to edit.

[surprised_by_witches]

You should see a little blue "edit" button the lower right of the panel after you post.

[garyalexza]

What also helps is if you are overseas for some 6 months and don't have access to your PC with Sims on it.

Just got back a few weeks ago and couldn't help installing Nightlife and OFB and busy enjoying all the new stuff :)

[KatAnubis]

I'm just getting ready to send my 3rd generation to college. I've had this neighborhood since Nightlife came out and am still finding new things to do with them. I do have to keep track of "relationships" but I add a bit of new blood if I'm having trouble finding potential mates for the kiddies.

Fern Anderson just had her first kiss with Forrest Jacobs last night. They've been friends since childhood and she just reached out and kissed him. Good thing Cachet Winston, her best friend and *his* girlfriend, didn't see them, even though they were all on the lot together and Fern was on an outing with Cachet. Just good luck I guess. Unfortunately, all the "availables" were related to Fern (or were gothic types which Fern, fairhaired darling that she is, just isn't into.) But waiting for her at University is handsome Timothy Davis. And she already knows him, as her mom Anne met him when he was "newly made" in University. He went to a Kat City community lot and got to meet Fern's mom. And mom invited him to her brother's "grow to teen" party as well as her "grow to teen" party, so she's already had a chance to meet him. (Too bad college men can't be kissed by forward highschool girls! It might have avoided the accidental Cachet/Forrest/Fern triangle.)

It's a good thing they often forget their high school crushes when they go to University!

[Kristalrose]

What also helps is if you are overseas for some 6 months and don't have access to your PC with Sims on it.

Just got back a few weeks ago and couldn't help installing Nightlife and OFB and busy enjoying all the new stuff :)

Well, welcome back, Gary! :)

[Kristalrose]

Well, I kept playing the old neighborhood, and decided that I would take someone's advice (Lynet's maybe? Can't rightly remember, sorry) and let the main familes keep going on, let the unwanted sims die out/become townies, and let some of the main family members marry townies so they could bring some new blood to the neighborhood. Plus, Hubby is now on day shift, so it has cut into my playtime considerably. Less time to sim means more time to think about new things to do with them. hehehe

[suziesim]

I've played either the Pleasant 'hood or Veronaville for the past year. I think it would get old playing the same family all the time, but I always try to play a different family each night. I started a legacy family in Veronaville & they don't get played any more than the other 20+ houses & 8 (aack!) univ. properties.
I'm looking forward to starting a Ugly Maid legacy next & maybe take a shot at the 7 toddler household, but for now there's just not enough time in my RL for all the simmies I need to play.

[surprised_by_witches]

I play in rotation to at least attempt to keep everyone on the same timeline, which helps keep up interest because I'm not always playing the same family. I am working on the next batch to send to college and some of my gen 3 sims are about to become elders (sniff! so hard to do).

However, playing that way makes it hard to build a business empire. I'm starting to realize that's really a generational thing, anyway. I'm going to have sims pass down their business skills, and businesses, to the next gen and then build it up little by little. Adds some interest to do that, as well.

My biggest challenge is not building new sims all the time. I get these ideas and I want to try them out, and before I know it my hood is overpopulated.

I've got no self-discipline, LOL.

[AlisonSBurke]

I'm always really impatient with my sims. I don't have enough time to play them for a long time, and my computer is sooo slow... Sometimes I be naughty and use the Sinsimenator to help them grow up :p Then again, I tend to have more fun if I don't use cheats. I haven't even got to generation two, suprise suprise.

Hmmm. I was wondering, does anyone have any ideas, like for inspiration? For example, make a... family of elves with a huge property and a 4 storey tower, and a forest with the evil teenage sorcerer living in, who, coincidently, is unknowingly brothers with one of the guards at the tower, who is a family sim in love with the Queen, and she's a romance sim. That was just an example. I would love to hear some ideas...?

Oh yeah, I remember LOL, I actually made the above, I just haven't played it yet... The tower's really cool, it goes underground to a dungeon :D

[surprised_by_witches]

LOL, Alison, sounds like you've got quite an imagination without any help from us.

You could try having a teenager raise their toddler younger sib (in other words, kill off the parent) or have an elder try to raise some adopted kiddies on no money and an elder job.

Have a pair of romance sims get married and then have them cheat and try not to get caught.

Open a business selling only one thing.

Have a family of faeries who can't use technology (you decide what that entails). Or a family of mermaids who have to stay in the water, LOL.

Or Rapunzel. Keep her in the tower without having her suffer death by flies or a permanent social bunny.

I don't know. I'm not very creative today. I think you're doing just fine on your own. ;)

[Lynet]

I don't know. I'm not very creative today.;)You're kidding, right! All those suggestions. Wish I weren't too busy now with something else. Think I'll come back to this later. :bandit: