I love your pictures. I’ve lost motivation for my game, can I ask what do you do? Do you jump between families and just post whatever :)?

Hi hi! Thank you so much. 😀 I play my families in loosely-organized rotations consisting of five days (one season). It gets a little tricky with uni – I have to decide how quickly I want to play uni to have certain playables age to adulthood at certain times. Previously, I was playing one “year” as a round, but I want to close the age gap a bit so I’m going to be playing the current round for two years. I know a lot of people use the Lot Sync Timer to keep meticulous track of exactly how many days each family has been played, but I haven’t been able to get used to it. 😦 If/when Sycamore Cove gets corrupted, or I decide to start a completely new hood, I want to be a lot more thorough with record-keeping, and do more of a BaCC with actual rules to spice things up. 🙂

Sometimes I hit a bit of a lull – I try not to do too much building or decorating all at once, because that can be overwhelming and I start to feel uninspired. And vice versa – sometimes when I’ve been playing families for awhile, I’ll feel the urge to build a new lot just to have something different to do. I tend to find families a bit boring until they start having kids – mostly because I just love seeing how different genetics play out, so just about all of my Sims wind up having kids. XD Poor Chase was having a really uninteresting round, so I decided to add a bunch of other people’s sims to the neighborhood to shake things up a bit. 😉 I’m thinking of introducing ROS events at the start of the next round!

I fall into the same habits when I play, and it’s something I’ve been trying to break since I started this (not-so-) new neighborhood. For example, I have almost zero experience with Sim-owned businesses, and I’ve never really played a supernatural Sim (Sheila is a witch, but I don’t really do anything witchy with her :|). There’s still so much left to explore in TS2, even though I’ve had the game for nearly ten years!

When I’m feeling uninspired, I usually look at other people’s BaCCs/legacies. Looking at building and decorating screenshots is always nice, but to really get the urge to play, I need to look at deedee-sims, permaplat, lilithpleasant, and zebrafagsims posts (among other Simmers!). They all post regularly and you can see the progression of the challenge/storyline/etc. It’s what really motivates to get my own neighborhood going!

I hope you’re feeling a bit more inspired soon!! ❤

And now we’re back at Windham University! It’s sophomore year for Audrey and Xavier, and it’s time to introduce two new playables – Evelyn and Clara. 🙂

Luca (by starlla) stops by, no doubt because he smelled the pizza. But he’s kind enough to stay and hang out with Chase even after he finishes a slice. 😉

why does pizza in TS2 look SO GOOD

I had pizza for lunch and I would give anything to have another slice right now

Thank goodness for secondary aspirations – it’s like a second chance for me to give a Sim the aspiration they embody most without actually changing it. I finally assigned Chase a Knowledge secondary after he invited Nate over and sat down at the table to read instead. :3

Simultaneous hot dog-sniffing! (Chase was nice enough to grill hot dogs for everyone, aww.)

This lot still looks pretty, even in the rain. 🙂

Of course, a massive thunderstorm starts during my playtesting session, as Sunny and Alexander point out. Sunny was having terrible luck with axe-throwing, but we’ll chalk that up to the pouring rain. ^^;

No, Chase, you cannot have your married best friend.

After an anon asked if I would ever upload this lot, I realized I never actually playtested it. XD So, of course, Chase got to be the guinea pig.

Look at those axe-throwing skills!