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21st Feb 2012, 07:36 PM
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 Most Boring Pre-made Families
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andre8
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Join Date: Dec 2011 |
Everybody has a pre-made family that they think is boring. (Well, most people.) What is yours? I hate the Bell and Aspir families, they're dull and don't interest me as much as the other families. |
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21st Feb 2012, 07:54 PM
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Gcgb53191
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Honestly all of them bore me to some extent and thats where I come in to make them more interesting. Just depends on who it is but Ill flip their life around  The ones who I have no interest in, I just turn them into townies. :D
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21st Feb 2012, 08:20 PM
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Bwinney43
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Join Date: Feb 2007 |
For some reason I hate all of the Bluewater Village families. Now I'm a big pre-made fan and I love playing all the neighborhood and Uni sims but for some unknown reason I cannot get into Bluewater Village. And to torture myself I just keep attaching Bluewater to my hoods. Then I remember how crappy all the families are. I don't want to ignore them since I go by rotations but I dread playing them. I guess I'm just not into businesses so I end up selling all the businesses and just playing how I like. Then I start feeling guilty like I'm not playing them the way they're supposed to be played. I stopped adding the shopping district to my hoods because I just can't stand it. |
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21st Feb 2012, 09:00 PM
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A.G.Doren
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Join Date: Jun 2010 |
I find all of the pre-made families boring. |
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21st Feb 2012, 09:13 PM
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Sunbee
Inventor
Join Date: Apr 2009 |
I find the Larson twins from Bluewater to be a bit difficult to get into. For whatever reason, I have trouble finding them dates with good chemistry, so they become workaholics. Which, unfortunately, has no effect on their relationships with any other sim because they don't have family other than each other, and I can just sorta see Jodie saying "Keep up the good work talking on the phone, Jason--there's no promotion potential in talking to each other! I'm off to skill." If you've got ideas what to do with them, I'd love to hear them. I find the Jaquets to be a lot of fun--whose house was it anyway? and they always have conflicting wants/fears, plus they get sucked into the Pleasant family drama--Gilbert hires Lillith to work at the bakery, and I can just see Denise thinking "Well, she's in her senior year of high school, let me just straighten her out and when she finishes college she'll be fine daughter-in-law material." Denise rolls a want to be best friends with Lil every time, and Gil usually does as well. |
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21st Feb 2012, 10:10 PM
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PaulaMestre
Test Subject
Join Date: Sep 2007 |
I find them all boring. The only pre-family I kept in my hood was the one with the 6 orphan kids from Belladonna, I think... I play in portuguese, so I don't know their names in english. I actually decided to make the oldest one (a teen girl) a good witch (therefore immortal, according to my own rules!) as a reward for a lifetime of sacrifice in behalf of the younger kids! 
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21st Feb 2012, 10:22 PM
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GEGNER
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Jan 2012 |
I haven't gone through all of the premades hoods with apocalypses (it's on my list) but so far the Burbs in Pleasantview are SO boring. So spice things up I killed Lucy's parents. She must now fend for herself as a teenager that sells flowers. |
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I wonder if I'll actually start posting here. Ha. |
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21st Feb 2012, 10:37 PM
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dieKristina
Instructor
Join Date: Nov 2010 |
I find most of the sims and families in Desiderate Valley and Riverblossom Hill pretty boring. I have tried to play those two ´hoods and lose interest almost immediately, but since I have played them for such a short time I can´t mention exactly which families that bores me the most. And I don´t know at all about Belladonna Cove - I have probably only played that ´hood for 1-2 hours in total. Can´t say I have given the shopping neighborhood much of a chance either. The three base ´hoods however are so much more appealing to me. If I would have to mention the least interesting families in those neighborhoods it would probably be Regan and Cornwall Capp (Veronaville), Loner (Strangetown) and Oldies (Pleasantview) - but neither of them are that boring. I like to play with maxis made sims, but right now I definitely prefer my own little sims. |
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21st Feb 2012, 11:24 PM
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AlexandraSpears
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Rundown by neighborhood (just my opinion) Veronaville--All of them. Strangetown--Smiths and to a lesser extent the Curious brothers (sometimes I delete them all [safely] except Vidcund). Pleasantview--Dreamers, Burbs, Oldies Riverblossom Hills--Roths, Viejos (I delete them except for Andrew and Jacob), Wan (I make Patricia and Cleo into townies). Desiderata Valley--All except for John Mole Belladonna Cove--Carlos Contender, Baldwin, Rutherford, Cleveland, Cordial, Cho |
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My Riverblossom Hills blog! Alexandra's Riverblossom Hills |
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21st Feb 2012, 11:46 PM
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ginrouken
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Dec 2009 |
I like all the Maxis families. *shrug* Specially when you play mega/uberhoods, it's really fun to interweave thier stories. If one family gets boring, I just spice their story up a bit or take a break from their house - but boredom can also happen to custom families if you play long enough to burn out, so it's hardly unique to Maxis families that some sim personalities don't appeal to some players, or that the gameplay sometimes gets repetitive and uninspiring. |
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22nd Feb 2012, 01:34 AM
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minpinz
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Dec 2011 |
I've never played a premade family or any premade sims, I've always made my own. |
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22nd Feb 2012, 01:41 AM
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Rarr
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Join Date: Jul 2011 |
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22nd Feb 2012, 02:53 AM
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revit
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Mar 2011 |
Boring Pre-made Families Pleasantview: Oldie and Burb (no drama) Strangetown: Singles, Loner, Curious, Grunt Veronavile: all of them Bluewater Village: Tinker, Ramirez Riverblossom Hill: all of them, expect Greenman Desidertia Valley: only play una and mole. Belladona Cove: Cho and Riley |
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22nd Feb 2012, 03:31 AM
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Clashfan
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I only ever played Pleasantview with the pre-mades and only really enjoyed playing Don Lothorio and the Broke household. I despised both the Caliente sisters and ended up killing them off I also disliked the Pleasants and hated playing them. Everyone else I found boring and generally only played my own Sims even before I ended up creating a custom hood. |
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22nd Feb 2012, 04:11 AM
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sierrakusterbeck
Field Researcher
Join Date: Sep 2011 |
All of the Riverblossom Hills pre-mades are so boring. I always switch to Pleasantview or Belladonna Cove within 30 minutes cause there's no drama in Riverblossom. All the families are so unoriginal and just weird. |
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tv taught me how to feel, now real life has no appeal
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22nd Feb 2012, 04:20 AM
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Bwinney43
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Join Date: Feb 2007 |
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The daughter is cool but I HATE the wife. She is one of the ugliest sims I've ever seen. I also cannot stand the Ramirez family. Or whoever it is who owns the furniture store. Too much makeup on the wife. | |
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22nd Feb 2012, 05:26 AM
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AlexandraSpears
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I have plenty of drama in Riverblossom Hills when Alexandra asks Gabe out on a date (and subsequently remarries him)...and Patricia happens to be at that lot. LOL If I actually bother to play the Roths, I typically have Jules win Jacob back for more drama (and once they had a third child). And if I play Leod McGreggor...well, Cleo has a crush on him, but he's with another Sim.... I always ditch Rose and Daisy Greenman via Theo's deleter and marry Jason off to another Sim. I can't stand Plantsims. I've tried to play the Veronaville Sims. I personally can't stand the Sims OR the houses (wouldn't have been so bad if there were no seasons). For Strangetown I make it so Pascal never got knocked up by an alien, and in fact, I have a no alien pregnancy mod. |
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My Riverblossom Hills blog! Alexandra's Riverblossom Hills |
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22nd Feb 2012, 06:50 AM
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Babahara
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I only like Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Bluewater sims, for some reason I could never get into playing other hoods' pre-mades at all. So they're all like strangers to me. But in my pseudo-megahood game all pre-mades were turned into townies, because I can't imagine playing so many households, it would take months to finish a single rotation. Quote:
If my memory serves me right, their bios hint that they want to become businessmen, so I'd make them own their own business. To make it a cheaper start it would be a home business. This way your problem with having no friends would be solved quicker, too, they'd keep slowly building relationships with many other sims from selling interactions in addition. |
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22nd Feb 2012, 01:39 PM
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Firelira78
Lab Assistant
Join Date: Jul 2008 |
I only dislike all those families/ sims which I feel have been dumped on the player, that is toward the later EPs when players were already worried about too many sims making the neighbordood unplayable. What was the point of them? I find the whole Bluewater Village itself quite redundant including the families. I hated the Ottomas family so much, I killed them immediately before the twins were born. The toddler and the girl got taken away by the social worker. I didn't even know at that times that the twins had corrupt genetics. Thankfully no harm was done. What was the point of dumping the Goodie family on us, not to mention a boatload of AL townies. Did EA really think the players will need more playable sims at that point. Also what was the point of the two most ill behaved dogs Danny and Sarah Crittur. Not to mention that Sarah's pregnancy got bugged. Generally I always try to give my sims healthy happy lives. The "forced families" are the one I use to play in the complete opposite way, breaking them up, having the kids taken or killing them. That is a way of rejecting them, since of course they can't be deleted the normal way without messing up everything. I don't hate any family in the premade neighborhoods, as in choosing to play a pre created neighborhood, I'm choosing the families that live in them. |
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22nd Feb 2012, 02:09 PM
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Gcgb53191
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How were their genes corrupted? |
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22nd Feb 2012, 02:14 PM
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M.M.A.A.
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Just so that you know, there is a glitch with Ottomas unborn twins where they would have father other than Peter, like a dog or another famela sim, quite randomly. As for their genetics, read this: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Unborn_Ottomas_babies | |
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Please, call me 'mmaa', saves time. | My (Mini-) Website: http://eaxislostandfound.weebly.com/ My livestream! Learn how to use your neighborhood (terrains) efficiently! Avoid neighborhood corruption! Playing NPCs and Adding them to Households |
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22nd Feb 2012, 02:15 PM
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ForeverCamp
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The Ottomas twins' genes aren't properly set. They don't recognize Peter as the father, but Samantha as the mother with some random other character (mine always seems to be a stray dog...) O.o However, the article also says that the Seasons patch has fixed this glitch. | |
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The Pleasantview Files, an online information site for my Pleasantview legacy. |
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22nd Feb 2012, 03:49 PM
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shoo_flee
Field Researcher
Join Date: Aug 2011 |
I cannot stand the Pleasants or the Goths for some reason, whenever i try and play them i get bored in like 5 minutes and exit. |
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22nd Feb 2012, 04:07 PM
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vhanster
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All the pre-made families that's rotting in the Sim Bin who doesn't affect any relationship panels or storytelling whether or not you play them. When even the creators don't bother to locate them to houses, why should I? |
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Last edited by vhanster : 23rd Feb 2012 at 02:39 AM.
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22nd Feb 2012, 07:23 PM
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AlexandraSpears
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Out of Bluewater Village I find only the Landgraab and Jacquet families interesting. The rest go bye-bye. I also find the Kim family (Pets) abysmally boring. (I like Cyd Roseland, and he's a great match for Tara Kat--after I get rid of her ill-behaved kitties. Since you can only put her lot down once and that's it, in order to play her again I just exported her in SimPE and took note of her personality points.) |
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My Riverblossom Hills blog! Alexandra's Riverblossom Hills |
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