New simmer curious about playstyles

[QuietusReaper]

Hi everyone love the site. Just got sims 3 and bunch of eps on the xmas sale liking it a lot. But I'm use to having a goal set before me. After finishing lifetime wish, which I can do in mere hours I'm left wondering what now? I want to keep my medals and such but sims don't live very long. Wondering how most people play or the different play styles are

Now I think I will go after the skill challenges and achievements get money saved get a nice house but this seems impossible on one sim. So do you create a new sim for each mini goal and add him to your household so all your previous accomplishments aren't void?

Let me know yours and or the popular play styles thanks
I should note I have been playing one sim at a time as I hate when they act on their own. I could handle 2 I guess
Making money is super easy too best way I found so far is klepto and steal 3 expensive cars a night easy 10 grand a day from that one trait

[JudesSims]

I mostly play generational games and build the Sim house during the game. My games can go on ten generations or more.

[MarianT]

If you like goals, you might be interested in the 2014 Tournament. This is the link to the current challenge, the deadline for which is January 15 -- The Royal Flush. The Challenge section has several generational challenges, and you can also look in the Projects part of the Stories section.

And welcome to the Forum!

[Schipperke]

This topic is a little broader than just careers and moneymaking, so I'm going to move it to the General Discussion Board.

[saltpastillen]

When I first started out with sims I used to only play single family sims because they were easy. But, as time wore on I got bored and that was when I started playing more generational games. I love to have large families, and watch my sims change through the generations.

If you don't feel comfortable with starting out with a dynasty (many rules that can confuse a new player) I would suggest something like the Random Town Jump Project found in the project stories sub-forum. It will let you explore all the towns you own as well as challenge yourself to fulfill different goals as the generations move.

There are a lot of challenges, dynasties and legacies out there for a player to try.

Is there some specific aspect of gameplay you are interested in?

[QuietusReaper]

Well I am really likin firefighter profession even with the bugs :p just got the collection helper and I enjoy trying to collect everything, cut a pink diamond sold it for 6k

Oh and world adventures is awesome love the tomb raiding. Curious if I got into the future can you use the hoverboard instead of walking everywhere like world adventures areas? Lots of running on foot there takes a lot of sim mins to get anywhere lol

[saltpastillen]

I have never used the hover board in a WA location, but it works just fine in the "regular time" so I don't see why not

[pugster101]

Try out dynasty; it sets requirements, or goals, for each generation, and they all depend on which one you try. Life States is good for a first one, but I also like the Immortal Dynasty

[QuietusReaper]

I read a few of the dynasty challenges, will try those when I am more familiar with the game barely touched the surface of world adventures and ambitions and still got gen, uni(7 traits!) couple others.

Guess I'll stick with one super sim and try out everything that interests me

Also got sims midieval, the questing play style is much more my way of playing than sandbox create your own goals stuff.

Oh one question anyone consider it cheating to save before you eat at the bistro and reload til you get divine food moodlet? :p

Also love achievement hunting on my xbox and ps3, wish they patched achievements for earlier eps like WA... Would be great hunting super hard nectar making achieves

[saltpastillen]

The only time you have to worry about cheating is when you play a dynasty or a challenge, they have rules about when you can reload or not. When you are just exploring the game you are free to do whatever you like

[QuietusReaper]

Yeah I know, was just curious if people consider that cheating in general, I personally don't

Reloading for financial gain or to avoid a natural occurance you dislike, cheating for sure. But for a moodlet that has a super low chance to trigger... Ehh gray area imo. After trying to get it legit for half a sims lifetime, I said screw it I'm reloading :p

I would like to say I got all the badges and achieves etc without ever cheating so I like to know peoples opinions on stuff like that.

When diablo 3 first released(and it was actually hard) I solod normal-inferno without ever grouping once never did find another player with that achieve, until the game got nerfed into the ground a bazillion times anyway heh

[Stormi71]

I'm a serial cheater lol, but I don't play dynasties etc yet. Although my cheating is mostly refined to the needs bars. I haven't been playing Sims for too long on PC. Played sims 1 many moons ago, completely missed Sims 2, got Sims and Pets for ps3. Was always worried my pc wouldn't handle the sins, but so far it's doing fine. I've recently got some more expansions...seasons, generations and ambitions, due to the origin sales, so I'm still plodding along with all they have I offer. So my gameplay is still pretty basic. I basically get an idea in my head of what I want the family to be like, and then base my gameplay around that. My current game is a hippy couple who are self employed artists. Other families I have might be very ambitious and a high paying career is all important. I just have fun with it, there's no right or wrong way to play.

[QuietusReaper]

Good to know there are others that are new like me after it's been out for so long 

I'm still trying to push myself to play multiple sims, I am a control freak I guess, because I have to govern every little decision they make lol

If they que up an action on their own I immediately cancel it, when I did play multiple sims messing around, I would que up a few actions I wanted one to do, pause, go to the next sim que some up, so everything they were doing, was my choice. I need to get over that and let the game organically flow since that is what makes sims so great I guess =p

I guess I just hate the whole autonomous thing, it reminds me of bots, playing the game for you, and I always hated bots, especially in Asherons Call, man everyone botted that game(lifetank I think it was called). I must of been the only legit level 100+ dude back then

[saltpastillen]

You do know you can turn of the autonomous actions right? Just put free will at zero and they will mostly just stand around waiting for you to give them orders.

[QuietusReaper]

Yep, also the 'disable autonomy for selected sim' is the option I use,since turning off autonomy does it for the whole household, taking away the challenge,  but I play games as the devs intended, and don't cheat, so disabling default settings like story progression, autonomy, etc, is right up there with cheating to me. I have read all the expansion manuals, ones that have em, so I know all the options, etc. Read nearly every mini guide on this site as well I am new, but not ignorant

Pretty much any cheats, or modifying the game in any way to make it easier is a no no to me, I enjoy challenging myself. I have messed around with testingcheatsenabled, tested out different cars and how much time they save, stuff like that, but I always save first and discard when I am done messing around, or make it a different save all together, as my 'mess around and test things game'

For instance if this game had difficulty levels, having autonomy off and aging turned up more than the default, would be one of the 'easier' modes. I beat games on the highest settings, feels great afterwards like yeah I did it! When I beat a game on easy....meh doesn't feel so great =p

Lol reminded myself of ninja gaiden black, on xbox, that was a brutal game. Especially on the highest setting. I literally cried at times in anger and frustration, but when I beat it, oh man Victory!