Hahahah this should not have made me laugh as hard as it had but thank you

Lol

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Same. I'll either play 12 hrs a day for 3 months straight or not touch it for 6 months akdmcam.

True that. The sims 4 has been so lackluster lately. I watch others play it because I can't have fun in the game myself anymore

Same, I play for a while then I drop it. I don't know how people play the sims 2 for hours on end. In fact, I can't even get into that game I love the sims 3 though now that I can play for hours.

Especially with the lag and bugs.

Yeah so true. And esp. when Sims 4 creators nowadays only do build challenges. Thats why I misses Life Simmer. She actually play the game and I saw her streaming a couple of times but I just camt get into streaming coz I loved her storyline for her sims and missing a stream could mean I'll miss those

Same! Storytelling used to be so fun! I also love how sims would remember stuff and even cry from time to time when remembering something sad. Sucks to see this feature gone in ts4

I have the same problem except these days I just haven't bothered making a new family either because that takes a lot of time too (enjoyable, arguably but still.) I keep telling myself I should go back to the Sims I vaguely recall enjoying, mostly the one or two I can kind of remember having a plan for, and then go "nah." And then I see youtubers doing a new scenario or remember a scenario that I was thinking about... and go "nah." lol I only play on Normal Lifespan and had the most fun doing proper rags to riches situations and some of the scenarios I have completed but then I just kind of fall off because yeah, I gotta convince myself there was something else to do. And there is, I absolutely haven't done everything in the game, the question is how fun is it going to really be to do that thing? Even with the scenarios it's more so "can I beat this youtuber's time?" or "no one has done this one yet and I kinda wanna do it." I think legacies like Not So Berry which are scripted or just general Rags to Riches where you have an obvious end goal might help the most but the thing is I get sucked in for hours at a time and then once I close the game it no longer has a grip on me. I used to play Sims 3 and Sims 2 for days at a time and now I'm playing Sims 4 for a day at best.

Yes I have to take tons of pictures and screenshots in Sims 3 and 4 so I can go through the timeline that way but I definitely prefer having a linear memory system like Sims 2 had.

How are you completely forgetting everything about your sims? I create new families like every time I play but that’s just because i get bored and can’t commit to one storyline. I always remember what I’m doing with the sims though. I still remember the sim I created when discover university came out who I played with for a couple months and everything I was planning on doing with her. I go like months in between playing and I still remember the sims I was last playing with and what I was planning on doing. Maybe I forget what I was doing at the exact time when I logged off but that only takes a minute to work out again.

@@rachelcookie321 I'm not OP but they said remember/care so my guess is 1) they played the fam for a day or two and came back months later, which probably isn't enough to remember if they don't open the save file, certainly not with any detail or 2) they played the fam for longer but can't generate any motivation to continue, IE boredom or couldn't commit to the storyline. This problem would be tenfold if they have very few packs or CC to differentiate them visually and mods to maintain gameplay interest. We've had some free stuff added in updates and sim express or whatever it's called (genuinely can't remember rn) but it hasn't been a lot overall if you're limited already.

Party scores reflect the collective relationship gain during it! So if all the sims are interacting and building relationship the score will be better. Thats also means relationship loss will make for a worse party, like if a fight breaks out or someone is caught cheating. So interacting with guests is important but so is using influence points to have your sim influence guests to interact with each other.

you can also just spam the make out interaction the whole time to get the best rating

I think someone on MTS checked it out and it’s really all about the amount of positive interactions. Wanna know the easiest way to have a successful party? Serve them dinner. Sims are taking forever in this game to eat, too and if you call everyone to meal, they’ll sit there and keep babbling forever. Even enemies have positive interactions when they dine together. Kicky bag is also pretty much a cheating device for a successful party, as long as your sims’ fun isn’t maxed out and you have enough space in the house. Hide the radio though, dancing doesn’t give relationship gain and sims would keep smustling and never interact with each other, just no.

@@carmenwinstead693 I once had a couple spend the entire time making out to save a huge bust up between some others early on in the party. I find that having everyone hang out is a good way to get the interactions up as well. It's also a good way to get a group of sims collectively befriend each other. Introduce different sims to others as well, and influence them to chat to each other.

Or if it's an online exam

The professors and proctors wouldn't want to be giving a test at 4 am!

Yeah, it's more like the way it's done in TS4 - the exam is at the usual time that the class is. Or at least that's how it was for me. It's been a while. Also, American uni life also involves a lot of drinking. I guess the Sims wanted to keep it family friendly?

I've had classes with separate exam times, one notably being at 9 PM on Wednesdays (in between the Tuesday and Thursday classes). The professor said they used to hold it on Fridays until they realized their students were showing up drunk to pregame for on-campus parties.

@@VoxyPop518 i mean, technically drinking during university in the US is illegal unless you're 21, so maybe the sims didn't want to promote illegal stuff like that? also i would imagine that night school classes have exams late at night, but of course most college classes are during the day

YES

I'm a huge fan of Sims 3 too, but with very different playstyles, and they have different quirks that I love. I played Sims 2 religiously all through middle and high school though so I have the most attachment and memories for Sims 2 (and 1 but it takes a very certain mood for me to really get into Sims 1.)

@@jacwest7406 cool 4 u, bro, i played it when i was little right after playing TS2, and i didn't liked it, i remember. The playstyle, design choices, and gameplay in general was too affected by those changes to be for my liking, also it felt lacking the charming of the previous game. And just by seeing people here on youtube playing the 4th game of this franchise i can see i will get bored, just with base game, in 2 full sim days, and that's saying something.

Sims 3 would take the spot for me if it didn't run like shit lol

My thoughts EXACTLY

Yes, please!

Same!!! I feel like I focus on my sim being perfect that I simply forget and/or don’t have time to do anything else 😭

The fun thing about sims 2 uni is that there's more than one way to get good grades. I had a group of sims who established a Greek house, so they spent almost the entire time partying. They'd go to class, and build their skills, and to get the rest of their grades, they'd invite their professors over and party with them, maybe woohoo the profs, and get your pledges to do your assignments. The next group of sims who took over the house when the initial group graduated were relatively straight laced fortune and family sims. Less partying from them. Until for various reasons, I changed one to a pleasure sim, and he discovered he was no longer attracted to his family sim fiance, so I had to orchestrate this huge affair and vicious fight to be able to have the option to break up with her. Drama!

I think it happens if they get stopped when they're in the midde of going into their dorm room, since they turn invisible in their rooms.

Cool how many sims are in your neighborhood?

Yasss!! I've been playing TS2 lately as well! Best decision I've ever made :,D

Same and having so much fun!!

Where did you download it? I downloaded it but it didn't work, I wish I could play it :(

@@creativecutieprincessd I'm at 43 right now! I started with 20 and by the next round some of my originals will become elders!! 😭😭

Wait, so in the sims 2 of you leave your sims house for however amount of time, the time doesn’t change when you get back? You could be gone for a day but when you come back to the house it’s the same time you left at so it’s like you never left at all? That seems like a huge oversight because that is obviously not realistic since it’s literal time travel.

@@rachelcookie321 Sims 2 didn't have a system to control sims that were left at home so it just froze them in time. If it skipped forward in time, sims would have missed work/school and lost out on time to work on skills. There is a mod that works around it by keeping home lot "frozen" but when you return to home lot, your sim that left is still gone until time catches up, then they come home. So if they left for a day, you could still play with the rest of your family for the day while that sim was out. I think it's called Community Time or something, it;s been a while

@@rachelcookie321 The way Sims 2 did it is actually way better because if you are in a community lot and are having fun, you could lose track of time and by the time where you're set to leave for work your sim's needs could be so low that it would be bad to send them. But if when you return home it's the same time you left then you have time to do so much more stuff like taking care of your sim and even skill-building for your sim's job

@@shawn.spencer but it makes no sense. It’s not realistic at all, it’s time traveling. That would annoy me so much if I tried to play the sims 2.

@@rachelcookie321 It's more convenient. Cheats are also not realistic but they make the game more convenient and more fun. Like I don't wanna struggle to get my sim to get to work and then rush to get all of their need up while also trying to skill-build. That's too much work for a game that's supposed to be fun. Same way cheating money into your household funds, for example, isn't realistic but it's more fun to buy the things you like quicker rather than struggling

It's how I would like to be in real life, productive, consistent, hard-working so my Sim has to do it all so I can have a career through her :')

I used to play this game like that until I got better at it, at that point it’s extremely repetitive and starts getting boring. My first families in the current playthrough had their LTWs fulfilled (some of them had 2 LTWs fulfilled), LTAs maxed out, were just sh💩💩ting from happiness, their motives would drop extremely slowly due to aspiration benefits and it really was getting mundane. The last living sim I was pushing so much has 50+ friends, 2 LTWs fulfilled, is on the top of show business career, owns a rank 10 store and has around 300 000 in cash - and it’s a freaking Brandi Broke’s unborn baby, so it’s not like she started with anything. At that point you get a feeling like it’s all meaningless (even fires are not exciting once you learn that the environment motive is what makes them react to fire and if you make them run upstairs they just won’t react to it), so now I let my sims fail if they don’t roll wants that could make them succeed in life. Otherwise, I can’t keep playing essentially the same sim for the 75th time.

@@yzma9959 I completely, 100%, undoubtedly understand you and sympathise with everything you said. It's like you took the words right out of my mouth. But I can't let my Sims down and make them sad. I NEED to provide the absolute best for them and I always had. Some times, I wish I could do it though

@@_bebeboudeur_ For me is a little bit different. My sims NEED to be perfect because I'm the one controlling them and I can't deal with letting them down and making them sad

I thought you were talking about literal houses in Greece at first but then I realised you were talking about fraternities lol

I mean I did have a final for an 8 am class at 5 pm once, because it was a Tuesday-Thursday class and the 8 am slot was booked by the Monday-Wednesday class and APPARENTLY we couldn't just have the final on Tuesday or at literally any other time. Another time I had a 4 pm final in a building I had never been in because they combined all the units of the class together for one mega final. So like, I get what they're making fun of at least.

if you play TS4 the computer you can get the UI Cheats mod allows you do change them individually!

@@tearsfordears oh yes I know it’s possible with mods! I just preferred when it was built right into the game and more accessible for all players. :) probably should have said this in my original comment