How do you play The Sims 3?

[ViKtoricus]

People play this game in many different ways!

For example, I'm a legacy type of guy with a strict emphasis in maintaining a father, mother, and child presence in the household. Although I don't mind fourth or fifth parties, I avoid them as much as possible so that I can focus on taking care of my Sims' needs with ease.



What about you??

[thesimslover828]

I play the game mostly with my main Sim, Agnes. She is rich and has all skills maxed, so I can do anything with her I want, since she isn't at the bottom of a skill. I like having rich Sims and huge beautiful houses, but I also love playing Sims with no money, I only have one game so far, but it is fun to play a Sim that is trying to survive with no house. The reason I play with Agnes so much, is I hate having to level skills, as there is no cheat to level them.

[bubbles]

If I create two young adults in create a sim, I give them children and attempt to complete their lifetime wishes. If I create them with with kids, I usually end up only having a week of gameplay before I get bored. I am terrible at playing long, multi-generational stories - I usually get bored after the third generation and start cheating. Really, I am more of a builder.

[Seabody]

I mainly play the Immortal Dynasty Challenge, meaning I get a variety of play in. I never normally SuperMax skills, but in the Dynasty, that's a requirement. Just looking at my plan, I can see at least 5 careers I don't normally play including one of my current heirs, Journalism.

[Wai]

I'm a cronic re-starter.  I usually play with a single sim and enjoy seeing how many skills I can max and supermax and how many careers I can complete in a set period of time (usually 3 sim weeks).  I then continue to play my sim through careers I don't normally do, or start a family, but then I get bored with either a career not progressing well or trying to manage multiple sims, so I restart.  I rather like the challenge of getting my dirt poor sim, living on a vacant lot, living in a luxury home and rolling in money.  Trouble is making money and skilling up has become easier and easier with each new patch or EP. 

[Pam]

I mainly play the Immortal Dynasty Challenge, meaning I get a variety of play in. I never normally SuperMax skills, but in the Dynasty, that's a requirement. Just looking at my plan, I can see at least 5 careers I don't normally play including one of my current heirs, Journalism.

Have you tried the other two Dynasties?

[Seabody]

Have you tried the other two Dynasties?

I gave the DecaDynasty a shot once, but I think I failed on timing the heir correctly. It was an early failure, at least. I haven't tried the Life States Dynasty yet. I want to finish my ID first.

[Louise56]

I usually create two young adults and move them in a starter home. I don't play townies much, but lately I itch to play them. I don't know any of them really and play sims3 since day one!
I'm kind of excited to start the learning process.

[jestina]

I also restart constantly. It gets a little too boring once your sim reaches the top and completes her LTW. I wish you could get another LTW if you complete the initial one. The nightmare of family micro-managing is not much fun to me.

[Wai]

I wish you could get another LTW if you complete the initial one.

Wouldn't that be great, and so much more like real life.  Can you imagine how desperately unfulfilled our lives would be if we got only one life-time wish.  In reality, we all jump through a series of lifetime wishes.  It is what keeps us all alive and striving.

[NearlyWitches]

Before I used to build a lot more and only play sims for a generation or two. Now though, my laptop refuses to stay on build/buy mode for more han five minutes without crashing so I've been trying new things with my sims like practicing a life states dynasty.

[Cheezey]

I don't have a set play style.  I get on a kick with a certain game and then play it until I get bored with it or real life interrupts my simming.  It took me almost two years to complete a legacy, because I'd take a break and play in another town or another game after I burned out on it before going back to it.  I've started a couple of immortal dynasty games, and the latest of those is what I was playing most recently.

I have one save file with a super-me sim that has all of the skills maxed, working on supermaxed, that I tinker with every so often.

Then there are just games I play for fun without much goals; I have a household based on a group of cartoon villains that I will sometimes toss in a new neighborhood for laughs because they have such unstable personality traits that the drama amuses me.  Nothing like seeing the evil, mean-spirited, hot-headed main villain go in and slap his inappropriate henchman for taking a sponge bath in the kitchen sink to make you giggle.

[Laurencius]

I create a married couple of sims and then try to play them for as many generations as I can. I let them age normally and avoid taking the easy money rewards to keep it challenging. I like to make their starter home evolve as the family grows and they have more simoleons.

[Ricalynn]

When I'm not finding new ways to make my Sim Artie embarassed, I'm playing a dynasty or legacy.   I like challenge files.  I just finished my Immortal Dynasty and now I'm doing three games at once for my Life States Dynasty story.  Two of which are actually Life States Dynasties.

I used to enjoy making my parents in Sims and seeing what their kids would look like to see if any looked like my sister and I.  There were a lot of times when they never had my sister!  I had lots and lots of brothers though.

[TheTripWasInfraGreen]

I really like the goal-oriented nature of dynasties, and finding creative ways to have unique-looking spouses since the dynasty format almost seems to actively work against that (to Metro and company: I mean that in the best of ways, just so you know ).

Though I'm currently just relaxing with a casual legacy, and I'm finding myself spoiled by Twallan's Story Progression and generally doing things my way. It's a lot less stressful than actively pushing townies to have kids and getting dynasty goals done at the same time. Just ask a Grave.