Hi folks,
I know, most people like to create their own sims, but also play with some premades. What EA sims do you find interesting enough to play with? Do you give them makeovers, or leave them almost untouched? If EA has obviously made a scenario for them (or if those sims, like many in SV, were in Sims 2 or sims 1, and we know what would happen to them in future) do you follow thaese scenarios or make things go the way YOU choose? Or just leave it to story progression?

I usualy move some "old friends" from SV to my main world, and play the EA scenarios till the moment when we meet them in Sims 2. However, there can be minor tweaks. I like the Goths, so I made Mortimer and Bella marry and have 2 kids like in Sims 2; however, I just HATE Simis Bachelor, he seems to strict and harsh for me, poor kids and wife. So, I made it the following way: Jocasto kicked Simis's ass out of the house, lost weight, and changed her housewife style to one of a businesswoman, She also had successful career. Michael Bachelor was married to Dina Caliente (I created the Calientes, as I don't have Barnacle Bay to get them there). I also moved Don Lothario from Riverview. Other premades I like are Jamie Jolina from SV, the Godde and Badd (do I spell their lastnames correctly?) from Twinbrook, Bianca Rubble from Bridgeport (though I made her a journalist, I think the career in police doesn't suit her at all), and her outfit (I HATE bright pink!), and... CyClon3 Sw0rd (he's funny).
Haven't really looked into Appalooza Plains and Starlight Shores families close enough to decide who is interesting and who is not, but I think that the "competing singers" (or whatever they're called, the 3 young singers living in a Spanish-style villa up on the hills) are fun.

And whom do you like to play?

The Goths! That's about it really :-) I would get Mortimer married to Bella, but I've never played them long enough for them to grow up.... I prefer making my own sims really, and doing challenges with them.

I also played the royal family (Vanderburgs?) in Hidden Springs once, they were kind of fun but I don't think I'd replay them....

I never play premades unless through marriage, but if I did, it would be the ears...I mean Bayless family in Twinbrook. Breed those wings right off their heads after a few generations, spread those genes around and let the towns folk absorb some of that mutated ear candy...yeah

I really adored playing all of Pleasantview. Veronaville interested me very little except for the Summerdreams - and for Strangetown I usually ended up playing the Grunts, Specters and the Smiths because I just love Ripp that damn much. I was surprisingly put off by all of the premades in TS3. I don't know why. In TS1 I always started off with a new family or with the Oldies.

I like playing with the Simovitchs in Riverview and the Langeraks in Sunset Valley. I'm not sure why I like these families, but they're the ones I turn to when I feel like playing premades.

I actually like all the premade bin family's a lot, enough that I've given them all a makeover (and fixed some stuff that might have needed fixing) and re-binned them as their 2.0 version to use in a new world or save.

I really miss Strangetown too, with all its weirdness, mysteries, and interesting residents, so I even started creating my own Sims 3 version of it (though I'm not planning to make it prepopulated, maybe I'll make a savegame with original characters though). I remember getting bored with Pleasantview and abandoning it for mycustom 'hood, but it was so nice to see the familiar characters coming back in Sims 3 that I started playing them and found it fun again. And as for Veronaville, I never really liked this NH, with its unnatural river, English and Italian parts just aross that narrow river, only 3 families in the whole NH, a huge amount of dead sims... I know they wanted to make a "Shakespearean" world, but it was not interesting.

None for both Sims 2 & Sims 3. Boring, insane, uncontrollable and they drive me freaking nuts!! I only ever play my own created sims.

I like playing all the premades; but I always give them a makeover. I'm not particularly good at making Sims, they all tend to look alike. The premades all have a lot of character, more than I can give them anyway.

If by "play with" you mean delete, then I like to play with all of them.

None of them! I can't stand the pre-made sims. I use Twallan's MC and total annihilation and create all new sims.

I find most of them too boring and ordinary and delete them to replace with my own sims, but there are a few I'm rather fond of because they're cute, funny or 'different' in some way, so I do play with them sometimes - probably my favourite is Cycl0n3 Sw0rd for 'cute and funny' factor, plus the Goth family, Agnes Crumplebottom, Hunter Cottoneye, the Grisby family, the Mixture of Good and Bad family. Also like the family in the new world that comes with Showtime that consists of the ageing blonde bombshell elder who lives with her toyboy boyfriend, having kicked her husband out to live in the poolhouse (can't remember the family's name at the moment) - seems rather inspired by the old movie 'Sunset Boulevard', ha ha.

Am currently playing Lunar Lakes and was disappointed to find the inhabitants all very ordinary (except for the Landgraabs and the mad scientist guy), so I turned them all into a load of freaks with different fantasy coloured skins and a slider range hack to give them all huge ears, long noses and/or chins, etc, plus the addition of alien eyes, cyborg eyes, glowing eyes and so on, and it's actually fun to play them now - a shame EA didn't think of that! (A shame they couldn't have made the inhabitants more Strangetown-ish, which was my favourite world in TS2 - I loved the premade sims it came with and played with them a lot at the time!)

I don't have that mod but I usually move the EA sims out of their homes, bulldoze the house and replace them with mine. I don't mind EA sims as townies/npc's but they can find another home to live in... somewhere out there.