Just curious! Do men and women play Sims 3 differently?

[Seabody]

I'm a man and prefer to raise (small!!!) families. Especially after my disastrous attempt at Baby Boomers. (I wasn't a member then, but still gave it a shot.)

[Pam]

I'm a man and prefer to raise (small!!!) families. Especially after my disastrous attempt at Baby Boomers. (I wasn't a member then, but still gave it a shot.)

We'll be having a Baby Boomer III challenge this year. 

[Seabody]

We'll be having a Baby Boomer III challenge this year. 

I know. I'm going to do it. And probably fail. But, I'll try.

[LolaLovesYou]

I'm a girl and i usually play to experiment,
usually gene pools and sims personal development.
I also spend hours making sims and houses and having crazy details on everything.

But i know several males that would play like this too.
Probably because of my line of work lol.

I do know one male who has a very bad habit with the sims 3 and his girl friend.
Every now and then he go's into her game, makes a flirty ect men and go's on a mission to get every women in the valley with child..
spreading his demon spawn.
Completely messing up her families and game.
She was annoyed the first two times but later she thought it was a good change to her sims perfect lives...
and her boy friend is much better at making male sims as she is so.. good genes streaming in lol.

[she's one of the reasons i decided to try this game, her stories amuse me so much]

[jeanamariex3]

I am a female, and haven't played with families lately. I'm kind of getting bored with the toddlers, so I prefer to play with YA or older Roommate type of households.

[thesweetestpea]

I'm a female and I play every way possible. I have single sims, roommates, small families and giant families. It really depends which side of my bed I roll out of on any given day as to how I play.

[Phyre]

I'm female, and like the poster above: I play it all.

It all depends on what I want out of a game I'm playing. When I want to test something out, or figure out new gameplay (e.g. with each expansion), I'll usually roll only one sim (sometimes two if I want to speed things up and am confident I can keep track of it all). When I got what I wanted they sometimes evolve into a family, but not always. Then I also play games with just roommates, it's a lot of fun (and craziness) to have 2+ sims under one roof who're all trying to find their way out of that house. When I play families I tend to start with one sim, but I'll usually make a sim of the opposite sex myself and move them into town, so I get just the looks, traits, and LTW I want. That way I can play from one sim to a lot (I love toddlers!), and sometimes even multiple generations. Elders are what I play least with, not entirely sure why, but I tend to switch to a new YA (kid, townie, or otherwise) when all the raising is complete.

[xFezIsAFreakx]

I'm female and I like to start with one sim and build up a whole (massive) family. I also like the thought of building a massively creative house but I haven't actually tried that yet..

[Audren]

I am a male, and I like either making one sim and making a big family, or having him stay a bachelor forever and do a whole bunch of stuff by himself (traveling, clubbing, etc.)
I've tried starting families with a couple and 1-2 children, but for some reason, I just can't get into them.

[CSquared2]

I'm male and play the genders pretty evenly.  I do tend to keep families small and wait for later in life for sims to have children; that stems from a desire to keep things under control.  Some chaos is good, but too much chaos can make a family unenjoyable.  I also tend to let kids have free reign until they turn into teens, just so I have one less person to watch out for.  The one gender-specific thing I do like is matrilineal families where a single female sim never marries, though she often has a single partner, he just doesn't reside with her and they don't marry.  She has children until she produces a daughter to inherit the home and family.  Any brothers move out when they become adults.  This also keeps the family smaller, the number of sims in need of control as few as possible and allows for a little more difficulty as a sim raises children alone.  If men could have children easily in TS3 (at least, as easily as they could in TS2), I would probably not be gender-specific with this type of family, but since the scenario favors female sims, I play them more.

[flootiebeauty]

I'm a single female, and I usually play single female sims. Sometimes they'll get married, but only after they've gone far in their career or they've reached their lifetime wish. Somehow, I get bored with sims once they have a kid, and I've never played a family (or single sim) long enough to see the adults die a natural death (or even age to Elder!) I guess I like having my sims stuck in a youthful stage forever.