What are your Sims 3 habits?

[Justin2108]

I make skinny sims and make them eat until they die!!

[geekgirl101]

Just lately I've been running a test world with plant sims to examine values and qualities of nectars and homegrown fruits.  My garden sims just won't leave the sprinklers alone and every now and then I'll find they've got DNA samples in their inventories.  Sometimes they pop into the ground during daytime or staring at a bird in the garden but they prefer to jump from sprinkler to sprinkler.

My other sims in the normal game prefer to flip out their drawing pad or start playing the drums or guitar.  They sometimes whip out the bass and piano but they prefer the drums or guitar.  They also have an annoying habit of switching on every single radio in the house.   I've caught them a couple of times spraying graffiti in China too.

[ajm242]

I always use the same eyes, noses and face shapes when creating sims. Also, I prefer to play girl sims, mostly because they have nicer clothes (in my opinion) and because I can think of better names for them. Also, none of my sims ever have bad relationships with another family member, because that really bothers me. Finally, I cheat a lot. I tell myself that I'm only adding this money temporarily, as I try to fix some problem, then ending up 'forgetting' to remove it later.

[ToniSimbot]

I was going through my saves and trying to organize them, and I just noticed something. I play a family to the third generation and then switch to a previously played file and repeat. It's actually bothering me that I do this, now that I've realized it so the current family I'm playing (haha also currently in the third generation) I'm determined to stick with them. It's kinda hard because I've got two more files I'm itching to play again and a new one that I've been pick at for half a year. I think it may be a burnout thing since the timestamps seem to indicate that I play them for a month straight before I switch.

[Cheezey]

First of all, if I play in a town, I have to edit it first. I can not play in any town as it is in its default state without going nuts, as I have all the expansions and a ton of store content, and I dislike the inefficient layouts.  Every time I redesign my acceptable version of Sunset Valley, it takes so long that my husband picks on me for spending so much "play time" getting ready to play the game.  Between that and my need to have my NRaas stuff set up just so, means I pretty much stopped bothering with challenges some time ago, because I find the game too un-fun without my favorite mods.

There are certain sims that always get makeovers, especially in Sunset Valley, at 8:00 AM on starting day right after I select my household, because I can't bear to see them in their default outfits even if my played sim will never interact with them. I'm trying to break that habit, as a save file where I made over a ton of SV townies prior to starting grew to a huge size of 498 MB before I even played it.  So now I try to narrow it to the worst offenders, my favorites, or ones my sims end up interacting with a lot.

Every time an original townie has a child with another, I load it into CAS when it turns into a toddler so I can see what the genetics did.  If it's a "just for the fun of it" file where I am play testing a lot or trying out a new feature or skill I'm unfamiliar with, I will troll my own town by using Master Controller's pollinate command just to watch the "red haired baby" messages fly in when the children are born, and then I will age them with cheats and pop them into CAS to see how the genes combined.

About 75% of the time I have a sim at University, he or she is in the science and medicine career and ends up a big nerd with a few rebel points.  The other times I have played technology or art, and business once or twice for certain sims.  I have never once sent a sim through the physical education career or gotten a jock higher than level 4 because I lose interest.

There are certain couples amongst townies that I ship and will get irritated if story progression breaks up, no matter who I am actually playing in the game.

[VioletG]

I almost always start with clones of myself and my husband as sims and then see what kind of kids, grandkids, etc. we have. I also want to try out everything in the game so I typically use different sims to try out all the different game features, but I almost always start out with gardening and cooking as my focus, because that's what I like to do in real life.

Just recently, to get out of my normal habit, I got Dragon Valley and I've just been playing with all the townies there. It's the first time I've ever played with townies that aren't just spouses of my original sims, so it's kind of fun to do something different.