Burned out? Aging hacks? Advice?

[meetme2theriver]

Meh... I'm struggling to figure out what, exactly, I want to do with my game at the moment. I don't really feel like playing RBH (I'm like 6 months behind on updating it here, anyway), and I've started fiddling around with organizing my downloads again, because I have some sort of Sims OCD... and ADHD

Comments

[katween]

I altered an age hack to add 7 days to adulthood, since I was planning to do some type of community/base hood college; not sure if that's long enough yet. And I think having college being somewhat expensive will help to let some sims go and some who can't.

[meetme2theriver]

I'd like to have some sort of system for deciding who gets to go to college, but then I'd be back at micromanaging again. :P But it is a nice idea.

[ryndom]

Maybe you could base it on aspiration and personality... like Knowledge/Fortune Sims are more likely to go, and lazy Romance/Popularity Sims are less likely to go.

[meetme2theriver]

Yeah... or on whether or not they have the want for it at a certain time (which probably would favour Knowledge and Fortune sims), and/or how much money their family has?

[jyllandrea]

I just flip a coin to decide who stays home or goes to college. Since I play an uberhood, I divide them all up by age, trying not to have more than five controllable Sims in each dorm (otherwise, I'd lose my mind). Then I roll a three side (online) to see which school they'll head to then group them together and throw them into a dorm.

I have considered only playing one Sim in each dorm and letting the other four go free range and fail/die at will. This would make the Influence power far more useful. And, I can only imagine the hilarity and horror of going this route.

I have CJs shorter teen age span hack and love it!

[meetme2theriver]

I play up to eight sims in a dorm and would've probably done more if I'd had a 'moar sims on lot' variety hack when I built my dorms. :P College with only one or two sims is boring! But yeah, more than 5-6 can get kinda chaotic. I like chaotic. ;)

Uh oh, free range sims. I think there'd be a lot of failing college that way... especially those with missing skill points. But it would probably be quite funny, yes. ;)