What are your Sims 3 habits?

[smaurine82]

I used to make all my Sims beautiful, skinny, talented, and nice. I've experiemented with several jobs, but I will never play the hair dresser or the
architect because I hate building houses and I get impatient while in CAS. However, I have started to branch out more. I still make pretty Sims, but I will make their weight fluctuate and also give them more unique facial features.

Once I started playing my random legacy challenge (I call it my Nomad Legacy since they move each generation), I  learned how enjoyable the game is with the Sims being more "real." It's real to have families filled with people with conflicting and/or odd traits. It makes the game and the story a lot more fun. I would suggest this type of game play to anyone who feels stuck in a rut.

As far as how I actually play, I usually micromanage and take a lot of screenshots, but again, if you let go of the reigns just a bit, you might discover your Sims telling you a very interesting story.

[Luna]

Once upon a time, when the first time that I play The Sims 3. I created my family and myself in the Sims version. I always kill my Simself and the family live happily ever after without me. So, since that day I rarely and almost never create my Simself that included in my game.

Usually that's related with what’s beneath from you. If you’re always try to kill yourself there something that wrong with you or you might dislike some aspects from yourself. I've read it from some book related with psychology, but that not always 100% accurate. So, even don’t bother for what I said

Another theory that I have, maybe that what you want to do in reality but you couldn't because in The Sims you could do everything that you couldn't do in reality. Just don’t do stupid thing! Life is precious and life is wonderful even we know that reality is not like a fantasy, Eld.

But, that was once upon a time you said. So, I wouldn't even bother

Usually I use my Simself to do something that I never could do in real world. Like party crashing, fighting and do evil related things and most of it I did to release myself from real world stress. Because we lived in world with norms so… I think it wouldn't be appropriate if that truly happen in real world

[Playalot]

I have to agree with Teacup Chuhuahua because I always choose the YA sim from cas with the pigtails and purple eyes and then make whatever changes I want to her traits, clothes and looks.

I've only played an evil sim once and by the time I had killed off her boss (Claire Urwin from SV) I was completely bored with the whole concept. I did get to her LTW which was be the leader of evil or whatever it was called but then her red glow depleted her relationship with her husband and children so I deleted the save file and went to back to my gardening, artist, charismatic goody-two-shoes 

I always spend a lot of time in CAS and get fixated building houses and rushing around feeding all the other townie nooboos!

I nearly always end up cheating by sliding the energy bar to max so I can fish all night or garden all night when I'm half way through level 9.

When I play townies I usually play according to their bios and have such terrible guilt attacks if I try to break up marriages etc that by the time I've made up my mind to do it the townies in question have usually aged up. 

Whenever I play Sunset Valley I always spend the first half of my game restyling the Single Mom's house so that poor wee Sandi French has a half decent childhood.

I always get the 'Inappropriate In A Good Way' reward so I can cook for townies in their own homes.

I really like starting new games and maxing out on the sims skills and quite often get bored once thats done, so I start a new game... and do it all again 

I always get so engrossed in the game play that I forget to save... and my game then crashes 

[simaholic^]

I like to create a single sim and let them find true love with one of the townies. I love to play Christopher Steele, so he is usually my choice as spouse. The sim don't really have a say

[Cathair1]

• I always try to continue a family through the generations in the same house until they can't fit any more people
• I almost always have only two children per set of parents
• My sims will marry the sim they become romantically involved with at prom 99% of the time
• Even though I start out creating one person and marrying them and their further generations to the random townies in my game, they ALWAYS turn out looking the same
• I refuse to have more kids once the parents reach adult age because I hate when the parents die before meeting their grandchildren, which is also why I only have two kids per set of parents - less kids, less family, easier chance of everybody meeting everybody.

ONCE I had five kids because I was trying to follow the random wishes spawned as much as possible and I almost had a panic attack because I like to micromanage. 

[TheClassyMW]

I always make the exact same Sim, but I am about to try to break the habit.
He always gets married to the same person, always an artist, and always friends with the same people.
I also always start in Sunset Valley, because in the other towns I have no idea what I am doing or where anything is.

[CPericardium]

It's funny but when I first started playing Sims two years ago I made a lot of weird or ugly sims. Now I only ever make conventionally attractive ones. High cheekbones and big vibrant eyes.

Additionally, when I started out, I did everything the hard and poor way you all no doubt still do. Then after I discovered cheats, I always used them to get money and buy the best furniture(+++ everything) and build really nice houses with the accents and the sculptures. I'd also cheat to get lifetime happiness points and purchase the rewards I deemed indispensable: Steel Bladder, Never Dull, No Bills Ever. And I'd abuse CAS cheats. And Needs Static. Logic being I don't have a lot of time to play so it...saved time? It also makes the game arguably less fun but I can't seem to stop doing it!

I make most of my sims' sleepwear and athletic attire conservative because it bothers me when they don't change outfits from bras and booty shorts when they greet guests or talk to strangers. Nobody wants to see your cleavage or rock-solid abs, Sim! (Or maybe they do.)

[OldRiverBear]

Whenever I make a Sim or my Sim has a kid, I decide on a tragic or dramatic backstory to make things more interesting. Like, for instance, my sim gives birth to twins and there a boy and a girl. I like to make one evil and one good or morally ambiguous and then over their lives they battle each other out and try to beat the other. Maybe someone in the household dies and the person close to them either A)Goes insane with grief or B)Make them disappear and never return. Either way creating drama in a household makes me want to play with them longer and see how the story progress.

[linmayu]

I have 4 main sim households; they all go in every town I play as NPCs and I usually focus on one household per town.  Sometimes I age people up or down, or set things back in time so the mother and father of the family haven't met yet.

Unless I'm doing an arranged marriage for story purposes, I only let sims marry if they have a really good relationship--not just having the bar full, but they have to find each other attractive, and when they go on dates they have to get along well.

I ruin my simself's love life (or let her ruin it on her own with Story Progression, she's good at that) 100% of the time when she's not the main character in the story I'm creating.  She just started dating Christopher Steel and I'm about to make her leave him and marry Iqbal Alvi

My simself doesn't look anything like me, her traits don't resemble mine, and her family is completely different too; she just has the same name and skin color and looks like she's from the same country (but not the same part of India).  I created an accurate simself once; she really creeped me out since she looked too much like me.  I wouldn't want sims that look like anyone else I know either, unless they're EA townies.

I like to breed sims together who look very different, for maximum nooboo surprises.  It's very hard to resist letting sims have babies nonstop.

I track down and photograph *every* nooboo that gets born in any of my towns, whether it's a townie or related to one of my sims.

I find a 4-5 sim household is ideal, but sometimes I stuff houses full of 8 sims whether they fit or not, then wonder why I can't keep the house clean or fulfill anyone's wishes, and why the game lags so bad that my sims pee themselves 4 times in a row at parties.

[maegansusie]

I always make female sims, skinny, light skin, with traits that help game play (loves outdoors, hates outdoors, etc.)

[Sherry]

Pausing the game a lot and be a 'controlling freak' watcher.
Seriously. I am.
I usually getting so paranoid to letting the sims doing just whatever they wanted to. I felt more safe to assign them to do something. That's why when I have 6 or more sims I would be stressed out too much... 

[Janna]

My habits are sims who are slender, not skinny, but the nice looking girl who isn't a sex kitten but cute.  She will have high cheekbones, and eye color and hair color differ on my moods, same with styles and clothes.  I get bored with the same ones all the time.
Males who are their mates have the hunk body, but not over the top.  Eye candy, no muscles on muscles, but a six pack aspect.  Almost square face, strong jaw and deep voice.

Houses are fancy, lots of rooms, dinning, study/library, formal front room, living room, nursery downstairs, fireplaces in lots of rooms, master bedroom with fireplace and large master bath, all bedrooms have attached baths.
Bedrooms are med size, bath are small, 2 by 4 is all that is needed for other bathrooms. 

Have due to the project story learned to accept some traits I would not normally have, and give up that all traits have to have some use, no silly traits.  But will not, no way shape or form have the mean trait, evil I can handle, mean I can't.  Nor will I have the color pink.  I will cheat to get rid of that color.  HATE it. 

I micro manage too much. There just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to do what is needed and for the family to have fun.  Get up, go to work, come home and fix dinner, eat and clean up, play some chess, read a skill book and then it is time to go to bed.  Kids have very little play time, come home from school and do homework, get something to eat, shower and then just a few minutes to play before bedtime. 
Try to take the children somewhere and it is a madhouse, someone will leave one of the kids behind, go as a group and if one leaves then they all leave and try to get one to go back for the kid and it can be three hours before the kid is finally home and he or she is in the red from tiredness or hunger.  Not worth it.
Tell the kid to stop riding the bike home so the parent or older sibling can pick them up and it doesn't work. 
I like to have families, and go with the wish for the gender most of the time.  Never more than two kids, and generally try, for personal games, personal dynasties to have just one child.  Get more than five in the family and it becomes too hectic to keep track and all I seem to do is spend more time paused than I do playing.

Worst habit is the inability to move a sim out from their nice home to a new home and it not be as nice and fancy. Raise a kid to YA and have them leave, they deserve as nice a home, so I have to remodel if I can't place one that I already have remodeled.   Spent two hours today remodeling a house for a sim that was being moved out.  Will never see her again, but still couldn't move her out into a plain normal starter home.  Not after living in a fancy home.  Live in a house worth $300,000 to a new home worth $20,000 !  Horrors. 

If wishes were horses then the programing would have the sun not going down until  7:00 so the kids could play outside later.  The time would go slower, instead of a second being a minute and a minute an hour it would be longer, not sure how much, but the day needs to be longer.

Faithfulness, a must, no cheating at all is tolerated.  No flirting with anyone beside your mate.  Find the new relationship created to be a big pain in the rear that has me wanting to smack the side of someone's head at EA.

[Mahmeya]

I give my CAS females (and most females that are born or wed to my sims) dark long hair. Yep, personal preference.
When making fresh family in CAS I never adjust details like head, ear or whatever shape. I very rarely zoom in enough to see the details.
I avoid chrasima-based jobs, as knowing being friends with half the town to advance feels weird to me. And also my disgust with many politicians.
If I make dog in CAS, it's either Dalmatian or German Shepherd - I like those 2 breeds
My first generation is maximised utility, with female usually being self employed gardener with cooking skill, and male something with handiness and/or athletics (firefighter, army, sports).
Medium level of control-freakism. Pausing with bigger families when it gets chaotic, and pausing a lot if I play WA content.
Sims eat the same time every day (around 7:00 and 18:30) unless they have job interfering with this.
High level of usefullnes anywhere in the house, not wasting space. Most decorations self-made (painting) or self-found (cut gems, tomb loot eventually).
Plumbing upgrading to self-cleaning, stove to improve food quality.
Default lifespan is too short for my taste, usually setting it between 250 and 350 for human.

[Snufflesxx]

- I like to colour coordinate my Sims wardrobes, usually with their favourite colour.

- I take a LOT of screenshots. I suppose it's because I love photography and taking screenshots is just Sims photography.

- Sometimes I save the game and then think I haven't saved it and will save it again, just to make sure. And unless I have saved a couple of times just using the 'Save' button, I will save once and then use 'Save and Quit' as well. It just makes me feel safe.

- I am terrible at focusing on one thing at a time. Sometimes I will have the game open and then I'll open up the internet and go on something else, like the forum or Facebook, then come back to my game. It's not really a good idea because it makes my laptop very hot.

- I rarely play with sounds on. I often like to listen to music on my laptop instead. The only time I turn the sounds on is to listen out for chimes when my Sims are trying for a baby.

[Mahmeya]

Also, I consider Imaginary friend very annoying feature, and dislike the fact you can do nothing with it - even moveobjects cheat is not allowing me to delete him.
Since gaining enough experience with mods, another habit I have is to place the doll to some empty place on my garden and using Nraas Debug Enabler Purge radius command as this is the only way to get rid of them I know.

Also, never using "save and quit" - for some reasons this seems to be taking more time than separate save and just exiting the game.