I finally managed to get ts2 ultimate collection, thanks to ea support, and I’m so happy! I haven’t done much besides downloading cc and reading your story, and im so in love with all your sims <3 I wanted to ask you, if you could explain and/or give some tips on how you play. Do you switch between all your families etc.. Sorry if this is a odd ask, but I've havent played this game in years, and i really love the way your game looks :) lots of love <3

Ahhhhh awesome! I’m happy you were able to get the UC 🙂 and I’m happy you’ve been enjoying my story, even though it’s more random commentary than a story (and sometimes even less than that). 😀

I don’t have a set style of playing, the only thing I really follow when I play is that I play in “rounds” that follow the seasons (although the seasons in my neighborhood are all completely out of sync but ANYWAY). Five days to a season, so five days per household, then I move on to the next. 🙂 Other than that, no set way of doing things. If you’d like more structure in your gameplay, you can always try a BaCC. It’s pretty similar to how I play, except you follow a basic rule set (there are many different kinds out there, pick one that suits your gameplay style or just make up your own!) and you play to “unlock” certain careers, or community lots, or adding new townies/households based on the productivity and achievements of your founding sims. I’ve never officially played one, but it always seemed like a lot of fun and a bit more challenging and goal-oriented than regular gameplay. If I had more time to devote to TS2, I’d like to attempt it. 🙂 

But yeah! To answer your question, I pretty much just started with a bunch of random sims at college, played with them a bit before introducing new sims, they eventually started pairing off and getting married or having kids, so now I have about seven?? households in the main hood (plus two university households) that I play through in rounds. 🙂 

However, I am VERY slow at playing through rounds. Like, painfully slow. Lack of time, spending too much time on screenshots (trying to get better at just playing and not documenting so much), and organizing cc instead of playing. To put it in perspective, I am currently (as of April 2018) playing the Caron household. I last played that household in JANUARY 2017 lmao. It’s basically taking me over a year to get through the entire hood. (To be fair, 2017 was a bad year for me in terms of TS2 time, but the point remains.)

Now that I’ve completely derailed from the original question, I hope you have fun with TS2 again after all these years, no matter how you decide to play! And thank you again for your kind words ❤