Better figure out who you pissed off! Did you leave a puddle for them? Beat them in a game? Cheat on them with their sister? Watch them through the telescope? XD

At least you didn't get roaches. XD



I was puzzled because you said that you started with sims at the beginning of the adult stage and they would just be becoming elders as their kids hit adult, but that Uni messed that up. But when Uni sims graduate they start at the beginning of the adult stage and their parents are the same age as they would be had their kids skipped Uni.

I need something motivating to get back into the game. I'm thisclose to uninstalling it, honestly. I guess after nearly 20 years, the tank is finally empty. I have done everything you could do with Sims 2 (expect CC making -- not interested) and now I don't even want to play anymore.

Last night, I did a quick asylum challenge. It was fun, but afterwards I was like, 'meh'.

I was thinking about using another video game as inspiration, but even thinking about building all those lots exhausts me. I can see myself doing all that work, just to abandon the game again.

Maybe, I need a long-extended break from everything named The Sims.

I wouldn't uninstall it or delete CC (there are people who post WCIFs looking for stuff they had ages ago that they deleted because they thought that they were finished with the game, but came back). But maybe you do need a break. Play something else; have fun. Maybe after a while you'll miss your sims and feel like playing again.

We all need a break from time to time from our favorite activities. Be it playing the game, playing with the kids, spending time with family, cooking, going to the gym every day, knitting, reading, you name it! Once it starts feeling like a chore, and you're able to step away from it without causing any trouble, do that! Try out different games or just search the web for some inspiration.

After the away-from-game vacation, you'll get back to it eventually. To some, that vacation lasts for a few hours. Some, weeks. And for some, the long-awaited return to the game will have happened sometime in the infinity. Surely, once you start feeling the need for that sweet ol' dopamine hit, you'll know it - and it's for the better to keep all the CC in place for that matter! And if you're having a hard time managing space on your hard drive - move the CC and your saved games to a USB or a CD if you still have the hardware to burn one, ditch it into a drawer and forget about it for the time being.

I honestly feel I'll never get bored with The Sims. I find it such good life simulation, that I would feel it would be like getting bored with life. And, if and when I ever get bored with life, I think it will be time for the Grim Reaper to come and take me. I get so emotionally involved with the lives of many of my Sims, that they become almost real to me. It seems to me that the better I get to know a Sim, the more complex their character becomes. My imagination takes over where the game mechanics leave off, and I find I just can't help caring about them. I really do enjoy spending time with my Sims. I like to see them happy and enjoying their lives. I like to feel that I'm helping them to make the right choices for themselves, and to do it without messing up other Sims, because I like to think I care about the whole community, and not just one or two individuals in it. Where there is discord or conflict, I always try to bring resolution and reconciliation. Probably because I like to think of myself as a peacemaker. If I can't do much about the problems of the Real World, at least I can help to make my Sims' world a place of relative harmony. In that respect, I have to admit that my game is rather utopian. And I also have to admit that, as in other attempts at utopia, my Sims have quite a lot of sexual licence.

There is another thing that keeps my so involved in my game -- I fear I'm more than a bit in love with some of my Sims. I can be playing some Sims on a community lot in or around Veronaville, and I spot that Andrew has arrived on the lot, and my heart will quicken a little. I'll pause the game and make him controllable, to see what he's thinking. And I'll probably even speak to him: "Hi Andrew! What brings you here today? What are you doing today?" I won't keep him selectable, but I'll keep an eye on him, and intervene if I think he needs help. Because that's what friends are for.

Andrew is the most extreme case, but there are other Sims who will bring a spark of joy to my heart, just by appearing on the lot. Gloria (Andrew's mum) is certainly one, as his Julian (his long-term boyfriend, and now his husband). Other Sims who I will specially note are Jack Gill, Ravi Bertino, Mallory Mace, Jihoon LeTourneau, Ralph Enriquez and quite a few others. Ralph it should be noted is still a townie, but, as Jihoon LeTourneau's long term steady boyfriend, I still see him as one of my special friends.

So, maybe I'm suggesting that the best way to make your Sims game really indispensable to you, is to fall in love with one or more of your Sims. Though I fear that falling in love is probably something you can do to order; it just happened to me.

Of course you may say that it's not love, merely infatuation, and you could be right. But I have to say that Andrew has been a special friend of mine for well over eleven years now, and that does seem a long time for infatuation to last!

Not if you play in rotations and go back to the main family during Uni time

You're puzzling me. I'm not sure we understand each other. If you don't send teens to uni, they will age those 14 days at home before becoming adults and the parents will age those 14 days as well, becoming elders at the same time as their firstborn becomes an adult. If you send teens to uni, for example right when they become teens, and only play them while they're at uni, when they graduate and you move them in to the parents' household again, the parents will be 14 days younger than they would've been had you skipped the uni part.

That's what I mean when I say uni messed up that perfect ratio, because you either have to choose between not going to uni, or playing the parents' household in addition to the uni household (which is just a waste of time in my playstyle). Or wait until the end of the Teen stage to send them to uni, but who waits that long to send teens to college anyway?

I proved myself stupid again today-I'd downloaded a whole bunch of custom majors and a mod to change them in-game and was disappointed to find they don't work.

Reason? They have to be used in the proper Uni neighborhoods and they do not work in college from the neighborhood (Squinge's hack)

They're not recognized.

Sad.

Just got my first servo and I am not sure do I like it. It is too human with wants and fears. I supposed it would be npc, not sim. So playing it in regural grandparent household is weird. But nice to have something new and get challenge. I already tried to recharge it on night I am not sure do I want to get rid of it or see what I can do.

Me lol. I don't see why anyone would send them to Uni at the start of the teen stage and miss the teen years. So there's the confusion, because I'm imagining the teens sent to Uni just before they're about to age up. I mean, who goes to Uni at 13, unless you're some sort of prodigy? It's more like to be at 17 or 18.

Yes I hate the way they recharge too, thankfully SimWardrobe made a recharging station:

Old site here:
https://web.archive.org/web/2008041...175.73/main.htm
Downloads saved here:
https://simfileshare.net/folder/87868/

I am still quite surprised you don't play with more than the first 3 expansion packs. Ambience-wise, Seasons is a must; while getting off to vacation every once in a while is only possible by having Bon Voyage. And I reckon any apartments your Sims may find themselves living in with Apartment Life may get real, real busy, real quick.

I really want to see some of his sims get pets, too!

Ahh now I get it! We were talking past each other I tend to send teens as fast as possible, I don't mind losing the teen years. They're too long compared to the ratio in real life anyway and I want to get to the next generation as quickly as possible in my playstyle. And I see uni as an in game exploit to grow them up quicker. (We still hear the teen voice longer than the adult voice if you play the teen for more than 5 days and the full 24 days of college.) I even send teens to college and drop them out right away just to grow them up (and get the scholarship money)

However when I play my rotations in City, I always want the families to sync up before I send the teens, and all of them tend to have 2-3 kids which means about 2 ½ sim weeks for the youngest kid to become a teen if they're 3. I send all kids to college at the same time so that there's only one university period per generation. So the oldest teen will be way into their teen years while the youngest will be a new teen. When I play with families with only 1 kid, I send the teen right away. I only wait for the youngest of several kids or if they're really close to earning a scholarship.

Doesn't that mean that all the kids will be the same age after Uni? Or do you keep track of how many days younger/older they were and adjust them?

Totally opposite to my playstyle. I keep aging off until I feel like aging sims up. There's too much I have to rush through otherwise and I can't just enjoy the game.

Yes they will be the same age. That used to bother me, and I did adjust it before, but now I don't and I justify it with that it's just the way things work in the sims world. There are a lot of things in the sims world that is not like our world. It's just subjective which things you'll accept and which ones you feel the need to adjust.
But it's always interesting to hear others' playstyles! You never find someone with exactly the same playstyle as you.

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to do one last try before uninstalling. I decided to create a hood using some inspiration from my real life . To decrease the chance of burn-out, I'm going to start enforcing some time restrictions when playing. I just have to remember to set a alarm every time i play. I think being timed will add some challenge and thrill as well.

If you can get lost in the game enough to need an alarm to stop it doesn't sound as if it's that boring. XD

My Sims' ages are completely out of wack. In my current Strangetown, Lola has been an elder for some days and Chloe has yet to age up. I don't know how they got so much out of sync, except that Chloe moved house a lot more than Lola, but I thought I was keeping the days right. *shrug* The elder lifespan is variable, so I guess it doesn't really matter in the end. Lola spent her life working hard and Chloe spent hers having fun and goofing off, and now we know which lifestyle ages you faster. ;-)

I also thought that the adult lifestage being shorter was to do with that feeling when you're a kid of time being endless and then when you're an adult it all seems to go by so fast. I made a modded age span which I played with for some years, with 2 days-per-year in the baby-teen stages, and 1 day per year thereafter.

But honestly, it was too short. I didn't like how my sims were never alive to see their grandchildren grow up. I changed it - it now has 2 days per year and babies are 0-1 year old, toddlers 1-4 years, children 5-12 years, teenagers 13-20, and adults begin at 21. Both the adult and elder stage are variable, which gives me more variability in ageing and old age deaths. They start to look "old" at any time from around 55 to 75, and then they live anything from another 10-30 years. I do have a roughly designated "middle age" which happens when their adult age bar is about halfway through, but nothing really happens except that I roll to see if they start needing glasses, I might give them wrinkles, I might thin out males' hair. To me middle aged isn't time to retire! But if they aren't doing well with their aspiration then they might start to feel the pull of time and want to make a drastic change.

I send my teens to uni when they have 4 or 5 days left in their age stage (always on an even day, to keep more of them together) and I use the Lot Sync Timer to keep all households in sync. The LST does not advance automatically on uni lots, but I use Cyjon's mod to reduce them down to 4 semesters, each semester is 48 hours (plus nofinalsatnight can extend it slightly) and I treat each semester as one day on the lot sync timer. It's tight, but not so tight they can't party if they want to. But if they want to get top grades they won't have time to party.

I have never sent a sim on vacation!