Big Family-Tree Boredom

[frakusv2]

I once was a Sims 2 Fanatic and would always play the sims til my stomach growled. My family is only into the 5th Generation but the family tree is kinda big. My family occupies like 4+ different houses and is made up of 13+ different sims. I've played so much, I'm like totally bored and it, and whenever I load the game up and make it to the neighbourhood screen, I leave, cause I don't know which family to choose and play. Even if I choose one, it's so repetitive, I get bored quickly.

I haven't played the game since July or August and I'm now regaining interest in it, but am yet to play it (Sims is @ Dad's house, I live @ Moms).

I do intend to get a notebook this Xmas that's Sims Friendly and I have a feeling that I wouldn't mind starting over from scratch (the 1gig + downloads and all).

Has anyone else ever gotten bored from a family that got way too big?

[ConradThe2nd]

Im easily bored of my own families also, but doesn't stop me from playing, I could spend days and hours creating up a new family, then building a great house to house them, and making CC to fit it, but the family is boring as hell went I get down to play them.

[beeps]

I like playing with families for many generations - as long as they stay good looking that is. I know, mean right? I just HATE looking at uglyass townies, so if my own simmies start looking oogly I stop playing with 'em. :shrug:

[higgins534_SC]

I think it's good to try a challenge (like the ones find on this site in the contest section) for boring families, or even make a character gay/lesbian and have them adopt, etc. There are lotrs of things you can do to make your sim families be interesting.

[beeps]

Definitely, higgins... I had this one family back in the day that was FULL of scandal. Extra marital affairs, illigitimate children, bad relationships, teens running away from home, young adults dropping out of college - anything you could think of. It was really fun for a time :)

[joeySimzee]

:lol: I've never made it that far. I play a particular family for awhile and when I get tired of it, I stop. I've never made like 5 generations :D So I don't know how it feels. Maybe I should try that sometime :p

[kashinthegreen]

I play a whole neighbourhood on rotation (one week per household) I started out with 6 couples (about 8 months ago), added a few more singles in at the uni stages when there wern't enough potential spouses to go around (we have a problem with everyone being related, I now keep a grid for every generation so I can keep track of which teens can date and which can't). There are about 12 households now, and I am on the 6th generation - and that's the *whole* neighbourhood, not just one family!
I got fed up with the uni stage first (too long) so I fast forward through that (hacked object). I started to get bored with it just a little, but I've just installed Pets and my gameplay has just got *manic*!
The great thing about playing a whole neighbourhood is that there are a load of storylines going on, some are completely independent, some interweave.

[jingxia]

Nope. I'm playing generation 12 now, and I've been playing them since.. March or so.

Sometimes I do grow bored with the sims in general, but that's only temporarily so I always return to that one family.

I think it's way more fun to only play one big family. :/ I used to make hundreds of families but in the end I never played with them anyway. So now I just focus on my main one. :bunny:

And since I don't have hacks, it's a great way to test my patience and kill boredom. ;]

[Peace]

I have been playing the sims since May and so far i havent made it past the 1st gen! I get bored with them then delete them. The only family i still have since I started, i turned into my Legacy family. They are so boring!!! The adults just became elders and once the oldest becomes an adult i know it will be fun again. I am down to about 6 families now, I did have abou 20. I made a few families with Enayla's pixie skin tones. Adding a little spark! So now im excited about playing!

[happycowlover]

Well, I never really lose interest in The Sims just playing it but now I've regained my interest in playing it and I've created my own neighborhood (I might make a story out of it too) that's going to be full of scandals and problems and everyone's going to be connected somehow like in Pleasantview. :moo:

[leighthesim_SC]

i am bored of not playing sims 2 i have only been with out it since yesterday and i am craving sims 2 but my disk 3 doesn't work so i can't install it (my borhter reinstalled my pc yesterday) i did manage to find my sims(original) and eps so i am loooking aorund for custom content but i started a sim yesterday and shes already 3rd in her career path and has a boy friend (the thing i love about the origianal sims is the eps and its not as slow to load) but sims/sims 2 never get boring i oncel played an original sims house for 100 sim days but it did get a bit repetitive till i moved someone else in

[Ghost sdoj]

My sims seem to come up with soap operas (all on their own) that I have to keep playing to see how things work out. I just try to keep giving them what they want and see what happens unless I have a reason not to. (My favorite Criminal Mastermind is NOT going to become a vampire, become a zombie, or be kidnapped by aliens. He is also not going to ever become an Elder. I like the way he looks, and they have enough kids now.)

[sarahdiscoballs]

I'm going through the same thing....boredom. My computer died last week so I had to completely wipe it, and as much as I loved the Sims, I'm just not sure if I can be bothered to start again. I had 12 families, and got bored of them all really fast, so I never played anyone. And because my computer is so slow, I cant get Pets yet, till I get a new computer! I think next time though, I'm going to have one family, and play them properly, without using the speed 3 button in the hope i can inject some fun into their lives!

[lemonboleyn]

I like playing with families for many generations - as long as they stay good looking that is. I know, mean right? I just HATE looking at uglyass townies, so if my own simmies start looking oogly I stop playing with 'em. :shrug:
I'm the same; I stopped playing my favourite fam just because their two kids were hidious. They have a pretty daughter coming through the mail- I mean adoption. >_> But still, I can't stand playing to that point.

I routinely get fed up with Sims, which is why I've only opened it to build stuff right now. Although I have the worst want to get to the next gen' of my favourite family (See above; it'll be the daughter doing it. xD).

[FuryFanFiction]

I haven't had a very big family on Sims 2 yet... but I want to soon. I want to have many generations. I been trying to make my Sim get abducted so I can start a half-alien family, but I can't get abducted. *sigh*

The best one I could use for a generation thing would be my Reaper Family. It is a mother and her son. The son's father was the Grim Reaper (obviously done by cheating). And the mother is now married to another created character of mine. I could get the mother pregnant again...

[jingxia]

I'm the same; I stopped playing my favourite fam just because their two kids were hidious. They have a pretty daughter coming through the mail- I mean adoption. >_> But still, I can't stand playing to that point.


lol xD but that's where plan B comes in! When my sims have ugly children.. And believe me, Gilbert Jacquet gave two children a HUGE chin and April Tellerman gave the boys a pinoccio nose...

...I instantly grew those children up and sent them away. Sim-bin, byebye. In Gilbert's case, he had.. five children or so, so there were a few ok ones which I kept. April I electrocuted however and tried with a different townie. I just keep trying until there's a pretty kid, and make sure to stay away from townies that have that one nose, or a bit of a big chin. It's a real challenge.. but worthwhile. xD

I started my legacy with a sim who looked like a female Michael Jackson. >< But now my sims are so gorgeous, it truly blew me away. :D

[venomous_SC]

I'm trying to keep myself from getting too many families in one hood. Because I want one family to make it to at least 10 generations. I'm on 4th generation now which is about the best I've done. I always want to have at least one male child in each generation to carry on the father's last name lol So in my third generation there were 4 kids. The first was a girl, then twin girls, and finally a boy.

[leaftheweed]

I have something like 26 households in my neighborhood (around 50 Sims), all first and second generation because I've turned off aging for the time being. Sometimes I have trouble deciding which lot to work with but it's never due to boredom -- just have too many too choose from!

[exactduckwoman]

I have a family called the Breakfast family which totally dominates my neighborhood... I'm on the 5th generation, and there are... lemme count... 31 of them? Counting spouses. In 8 houses. Geez. And they're all gorgeous, and getting more so every generation (except 1 of them, a 2nd generation one who's still around because I don't like him or his wife...).

My problem is this: they're all pretty, nice, successful... I don't know what to do with them! I am getting kind of tired of just fulfilling wants and lifetime wants (one more "become captain hero" and I swear they're all going into the pool without a ladder.). I am so bored! I have gay sims, adoptions, alien babies, lots of people at the tops of their careers, all that good stuff... but I can't make them interesting because I don't like ruining their tiny little pixelated lives.

What do I do? Help!

[fadedt0uch]

My problem is that I had a family I made about 2 months ago and I've been playing them for a while and now the two starters of the family are elders and I don't feel like playing them since they are so boring. They had 4 children and I married off 2 of them, one got left at the alter and the other got pregant as a teen - hopefully this will spice up my playing but it's so difficult for me to switch between houses, I never know where to play!

[ConradThe2nd]

Its a good idea to actually some time and crack down on families and you don't like, and get them into the family bin, as they hog up your sims wants, relationships, portals, and make your own interesting sims boring.

I had to remove about 25 females to help even out the sex ratio, some playables, townies, YA's, etc.

After organising it certainly breaths new life into your game, and no more of those annoying visitors anymore.

[Ghost sdoj]

My problem is this: they're all pretty, nice, successful... I don't know what to do with them! I am getting kind of tired of just fulfilling wants and lifetime wants (one more "become captain hero" and I swear they're all going into the pool without a ladder.). I am so bored! I have gay sims, adoptions, alien babies, lots of people at the tops of their careers, all that good stuff... but I can't make them interesting because I don't like ruining their tiny little pixelated lives.

What do I do? Help!
It sounds like too many of them are too much alike. Maybe you could create a couple of real jerks to mix things up a bit. (knowledge based sims with playful way up, nice at 0, and enough outgoing to ensure that they will turn up almost everywhere should liven things up a bit. Playful, grouchy, and outgoing tends to create people who think an argument and a joy buzzer are good ways to say hello to a stranger, can get wants to see ghosts and make zombies from people who are still alive, and often get half the neighborhood into an uproar. And knowledge sims take it even further with wanting to become a vampire and bite everybody they know. Sooner or later you will get a Romeo and Juliet situation out of that, if nothing else.

[KismetRose]

I have gay sims, adoptions, alien babies, lots of people at the tops of their careers, all that good stuff... but I can't make them interesting because I don't like ruining their tiny little pixelated lives.
Just remember, what doesn't kill them only makes them stronger. They can always live through the drama you throw at them and make it to brighter days but sometimes you need to shake things up to keep the story interesting. I think of it rather like a soap opera. The folks on soaps are almost like fancy rubber balls - you hardly ever see them at work, they go through all sorts of emotional trauma every week, and yet by the end of the week they're lustfully eating caviar in bed with that special someone. The next week, it basically starts all over again. While I don't watch them anymore and haven't for years, soaps can be quite addictive, in part because of this formula of constant drama.

[lemonboleyn]

lol xD but that's where plan B comes in! When my sims have ugly children.. And believe me, Gilbert Jacquet gave two children a HUGE chin and April Tellerman gave the boys a pinoccio nose...

...I instantly grew those children up and sent them away. Sim-bin, byebye. In Gilbert's case, he had.. five children or so, so there were a few ok ones which I kept. April I electrocuted however and tried with a different townie. I just keep trying until there's a pretty kid, and make sure to stay away from townies that have that one nose, or a bit of a big chin. It's a real challenge.. but worthwhile. xD

I started my legacy with a sim who looked like a female Michael Jackson. >< But now my sims are so gorgeous, it truly blew me away. :D
Heh. xD
*Runs off to make James and Lupin grow up*
No teenhood for you!

knowledge based sims with playful way up, nice at 0, and enough outgoing to ensure that they will turn up almost everywhere should liven things up a bit. Playful, grouchy, and outgoing tends to create people who think an argument and a joy buzzer are good ways to say hello to a stranger, can get wants to see ghosts and make zombies from people who are still alive, and often get half the neighborhood into an uproar. And knowledge sims take it even further with wanting to become a vampire and bite everybody they know. Sooner or later you will get a Romeo and Juliet situation out of that, if nothing else.
Ooooh, sounds neat. *Runs off to do that as well*

[frakusv2]

I use to always keep my family on the straight and narrow. No cheating, A+ Student, getting to work on time...blah blah blah.

I think I need to dive of the deep end the next time

(Gonna be so much fun downloading like a wild child again - NOT!)

[QueenScorpio_SC]

Heh, I don't get bored of them...I only get bored of big families if I over-cheat with aging ect and they expand too quiclky.
I can never simply delet a family so when I get bored of them what I do is run the household with freewill on and go do other stuff and after about an hour if not less all the sim are dead and I can go ahead and do other stuff with that house...Almost all my sims and 2nd-7th generation sims in my favorite neighbourhood so no, I'm not yet bored :)

[Cheeseisgood]

I get bored easily. Far too easily. Hell, generation two is boring me...

[Black_Barook!]

I age them up faster so I can have an 'older bloodline' family and what not.

Try writing bios for the Sims and get their personality points, turn-ons/offs to match it.

[photo]

my origional install (i've had to reinstall a few times) had a legacy that was 8 generations..... it was my family (the name was Hussey) and each generation except for the first one had like 8 or 9 kids... i had just discovered the youth potion.... ;) but that annoys me now, most of the time now i only allow 3 maybe for 4 children in a family though most of my families are Family sims!

[andytw710]

Well my biggest family is the one I created when I first started and usually the one I first play with when I get a new expansion. I used to keep them very straight and on path but soon found that boring. I think the initial thing is we want for our sims to strive and to see how the genealogy works and what not. However as of lately or well the last few times I played with them I started to sort of bring some drama in their lives. Eventually I split them off into two different families still living in the same household so I sometimes get the extremely awkward Uncle once removed having a crush on his once removed niece. I had this extremely ugly sim move in and everyone was really supportive of her and she became the family friend and was about to marry Remington, but I thought their relationship was higher so he ran off at the ceremony and it was just a spiral of events from there.

If a family gets to big I usually try to get rid of one of them somehow, like the long lost brother at college or something...just keep it interesting.

[kvsims2]

I tend to get bored of families, if I create them in CAS. For example, if I make a husband, wife and kids, move them into a big house with nice furniture, I get bored very quickly, because they have everything.

I prefer starting with one sim, or a couple, and making them start in a small starter house, with little money, and raise some children from birth, rather than have ready-made kids.

At the moment, in my neighbourhood, I started with a couple. They had 3 girls who all grew up, one had twin boys with Benjamin Long (then Benjamin mysteriously died hehe..) and now shes married to a guy from college, Mark Tellerman, and has another baby boy with him.
The second girl adopted a little boy, and still lives with her parents, and her pet dog. Once the parents pass away, she will move out with her son and dog, and start a business. If I move her out now and leave the parents living alone as elders, I get bored of them..
The third girl got married to a guy from college, adopted two cats and now has a baby boy.

So I guess Im on generation 3 with the entire neighbourhood. I keep them all going at the same speed by playing each house for 4 sim days, and rotating.

And no, Im not at all bored :] But I do plan on having some alien abductions (using boolprop, ofcourse), gay couples and affairs to keep things interesting.

[danishani2_SC]

hmmm i sometimes get bored with them i do the same thing make a family a big house and everything sometimes i don't have a house for them HAHAHA! but i make them do crazy stuff for instance making them go insane with the Asylum wheel hahah! lol

[lindsay92]

yes, i have, and it was because they are all alike! the next time i made a big family, i had lots of variety: one of the kids married an investment banker and becomes super-rich w/ snotty kids. another has a "perfect" quaint home with two kids. the youngest married when they were older, lives in a cool downtown apartment, and never had children. another lives alone and visits the parents(founders) frequently. its really cool because all of the cousins come home w/ eachother after school and the whole family has frequent get togethers. the only problem is that i love the 3rd genertion kiddies so much i cant bear to grow them up! :)

[Loco]

The main family I play on Sims is really big - 23 kids in one generation (3rd generation), all from only three 2nd generation couples (the first two couples had 10 kids each, the third had three). And about eight of them are adopted all together. I do get bored, but I'm really determined to see them all through uni and have them grow up and get married, so I keep playing. The good thing is, I've got to the point where I can have sims playing on one computer, and I can leave it and go on the internet on the other computer (but I check up every 30 seconds or so, I get paranoid!).

[Willow's Tara]

Well, I have this neighbourhood called Pleasantview Relovution and I started with these day sims (A red head woman and a guy), and noow gnerations later, like maybe the 4th or more generation, they all looke like thier mothers, the boys look like the first father/grandad etc, and the mothers look the same with the same hair.

Plus lots of Aunties, cousins, sisters, brothers etc as well.. But it can get boring thought..But I like playing big families like that, because my fami;ly is big (My RL family I mean).

Althought in PR the first sims to start it all are still alive I believe;)

[Faithlove13xxx_SC]

Woo my Family is the Shard family.


It;s like, 4th generation, but it's HUGE.

It got so big, when i tried to have my newest male Shard teen date, all the available teen girls were somehow related to him.
Ick!
Sooo, I had to make 15 families just for breeding purposes, and then went right on back to the Shard family.

But the new families were fun, because they are so pretty and unique and my Shard people will love them.
Course, I make them love whomever I like. MWaha.

[Psy10]

I got bored with my old legacy once they went over the 500,000 mark. By Gen 8 they were practically millionaires. Once your Sims have that much money what else is there to do, really?

[::Giggles::]

I've actually fallen into the same trap of letting their lives get too perfect, and then getting bored with them. Of course, I've found when that happens an affair or a sudden death with a particularly ugly or boring Sim can shake things up a little. :D My problem is that my Sims keep having kids, so I'm getting sick of taking care of them all.

[LadySwig]

I have a legacy right now and I dont like the whole 'one one heir' thing so I letall heirs carry on the legacies on different lots and things. The family is getting big and I'm only on gen 2 but its a lot more interesting not playing the same lot over and over

[angelthatishonest]

I got so bored of it once that I didnt play for 6 mos. I just play it every now and then. I am on 5th generation legacy family and omgosh it is getting so boring. Don't know if I can get through with it.

[Tigress_SC]

I love playing up to the big families, but I get bored easily with them. My biggest family was up to six generations, and then I got the Pets expansion pack, decided to start anew and deleted them. It's fun while they are having children and I enjoy watching each child grow to see what they look like and what lives I can give them, but the elders are what kill me. I like playing them until death, but the elders are so darn boring. I usually end up adopting kids to keep me interested with them, but I can never bear growing the adopted children up and giving them families because they don't feel like they're mine, and they are usually ugly Maxis-made children. :P

[PunkyBreester]

I usually get bored once gen 2 hits. I guess I find the whole 'finding a mate' thing the most interesting part, at least of actual game play. I really like decorating homes and making sims better than actually playing.

Anyway, with the family I'm doing now, I'm trying to rid myself of the habit of making and playing a new family every time the last one has babies. I made a self sim and a sim of my boyfriend, and I'm trying to do like an unofficial legacy, lol. I'm only on generation two so far, but my "founders" are almost elders and I've got six "heirs" to choose from, so I've got my hands full.

There are times when I get a little bored of them, though, which is when I do something dramatic like cause relationship problems with one of the teens, etc. It doesn't always have to be so drastic, though, I've found that something as simple as changing one of the sims' aspirations can mix things up just enough to spark new interest.

[deagh93]

I'm on Gen 6 in my legacy. 37 living sims, all related (http://sims2fan93.googlepages.com/tree.jpg). Well, mostly. Some just by marriage. I have some sub-family breeding stock, too.

I ran into the money problem, but I built a custom university, named all the buildings after gen 1 and gen 2 people, and told my living family members they'd have to pay for it. Through familyfunds I took about two million simoleans away from them. I figure it doesn't count against the spirit of the challenge if you're taking the money away. I figure every so often I'll add on a few more Uni buildings to that custom uni, then take away more money.

[p$ycho$immer]

I have a legacy, but only 3 gen deep. The parents were attractive enough, but all of the children have big cheekbones *ill* *cough*father's fault*cough* I have two married children at the moment, and 3 still live with the parents. I forgot the names, I haven't played them in so long! I usually get bored with their houses-they get too small! There's another house with 2 gen, they have twins, an alien child, and a daughter in college. That was hell, getting that family through the seven days of babies and toddlers. :D Otherwise, I play my single sims in my other custom neighborhood. I only play Pleasantview, Miniopolis, and River Heights (last two custom). Pleasantview has a friend's family, which could be considered a legacy in itself. They have 6 kids, 4 of which are in college at the moment. That family was another hellish experience, what with 3 kids being a child or younger at a time! ;) That's all for me at the moment.

Ciao,
~M~

[missaaliyah]

I have a family I am really proud of, they were my legacy family. I am past the 10th generation now, and have thought about bringing the founder back briefly to father the offspring of the 14th generation.

[frakusv2]

I haven't played the Sims 2 in like +6 months and I'm not even going through any withdrawal symptoms. However, I recently ordered a notebook off ebay, with specs of

1.6 GHz
120 GB Hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200
2048MB Memory

More than sufficient for running the sims 2. I'm not 'that' excited about getting to play the sims again but am happy. I can't wait to start from scratch with my families and my downloads. I think that's going to be the best part.

[FuryFanFiction]

Well, I started a new family, and I am in generation 2. The original family had three kids: One Alien, and Twins (Boy and Girl).

To see the funny story about them, go here... http://forums.sims2community.com/showthread.php?t=32631

Anyway, so now I am on generation 2. The twins are adults now, and the girl is pregnant, so I am starting the generation nicely. I will play it more and update ya later!

[jingxia]

I never thought I would say this but.. I've totally grown bored with my legacy family! ):

After the fourteenth generation or so, I started finding everything annoying. The sims were annoying, the kids were annoying, the house was annoying! I made a new house a couple of times to try to get back into the fun.. but to no avail.

So now I've started a new legacy.. with the self-sims of my boyfriend and I. I doubt I'll get far since I don't want to let us die! lol. But it's good so far.

[DourSim]

I had a huge family tree before my game died. I had trouble finding spouses for sims because they were all basically related. Everyone started looking the same.. all the children (the teens grew out of it) had what I called "the Leo eyegap" Which was dominant in the Leo family, but eventually became domniant in all the families since they were all related...
I always tried to age all my generations at the same time... but it was getting too repetitive. I only liked to play families that had sims with personality.. which are few and far between. So I was actually kind of glad that my game crashed. Even though I'd played it for over a year, I don't miss any of those sims.

[Shvana6]

I have a family called the Breakfast family which totally dominates my neighborhood... I'm on the 5th generation, and there are... lemme count... 31 of them? Counting spouses. In 8 houses. Geez. And they're all gorgeous, and getting more so every generation (except 1 of them, a 2nd generation one who's still around because I don't like him or his wife...).

My problem is this: they're all pretty, nice, successful... I don't know what to do with them! I am getting kind of tired of just fulfilling wants and lifetime wants (one more "become captain hero" and I swear they're all going into the pool without a ladder.). I am so bored! I have gay sims, adoptions, alien babies, lots of people at the tops of their careers, all that good stuff... but I can't make them interesting because I don't like ruining their tiny little pixelated lives.

What do I do? Help! :faceslap:


I saw this AWESOME challenge when you put a couple of sims in a small room, and then increase there hunger bar with boolprop so they wont die and then leaving them (not kill them) for a simtime (2 days, 2 weeks watever) and then try to pull therelife back together

[Shvana6]

I never thought I would say this but.. I've totally grown bored with my legacy family! ):

After the fourteenth generation or so, I started finding everything annoying. The sims were annoying, the kids were annoying, the house was annoying! I made a new house a couple of times to try to get back into the fun.. but to no avail.

So now I've started a new legacy.. with the self-sims of my boyfriend and I. I doubt I'll get far since I don't want to let us die! lol. But it's good so far.

What I did when I was the founder of my legacy I named a girl child after my founder (me) every other generation. :duck:

[Darby]

:faceslap:

Shvana6, this thread is six years old, for goodness' sake. Please read this:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=289713 .

Specifically, these two:
11. No Double Posting: Use the edit button - if someone has not replied since you and you have something to add or change in your original post after you've hit reply, use edit.

12. Do Not Bump Threads/No Threadcromancy: Do not post to an old thread just to bump it up to the top of the forum if you have nothing new to add, or to get it more visible (especially if it's your thread!) Don't resurrect old threads unless your comments are relevant and would be seen as a important addition to a thread. Continuing on a conversation dropped months ago is not a good idea - check dates.

[Simsica]

All of a sudden, it's not so old of a thread, is it? :D

Cause I have something *very* relevant to add to it, and I have that to add precisely because I saw this thread 6 years after it was made. And was stumped by the initial posts: everyone is so bored with TS2, did you notice?

I sort of prefer it the way we are now in this forum: all still so excited with the game, we old (and new ;)) TS2 Simmers.

Did all those people claiming to be bored simply go away or did they move to TS3 and got bored with it pretty quickly too and then went away?

Oh, this is not a question- just musings of an TS2 addict waiting for the game to load. You know those lazy moments? - the music plays, the cursor spins, you seek out things to do to pass the time.

Was a nice passtime, this one. Game loaded - gotta go! Cheers! :beer:

[RowenaLupin]

I find when starting a legacy or some sort of generational family to breed them in CAS with different Sims, and look for something unique that catches your eye. For instance, I had Puck Summerdream in CAS breed with several Pleasantview and other interestingly genetic Sims until I not only inherited the ears, but a very interesting personality along with it. I didn't change that CAS' personality, I kept it like it is, and it has been a lot of fun.

Also, if I am playing a big family, and get a little tired I send one or two on a vacation to sort of 'get away' from the same ol' same ol' or I'll stop playing for a while, build around the neighborhood until I feel the spark to play again. Sometimes, I'll be decorating a home, and think, 'Hey my third generation Windham would like this place,' and then I start getting into the vibe again. I know sometimes if I start to get burned out I'll actually look up legacy, prosperity, and other stories related to the SIms 2 or watch livestreaming videos of others building things (which I have improved drastically by doing), and then I get the sudden urge to want to play again.