What do you do with your spares?

[dancehallsim]

For those of you who play a legacy or even just play one family.. what do you do with the extra children?

I can never decide what to do with the siblings. I want the heir to live in the family house or buy his own house, but then I don't know if I should continue playing the rest of the next generation individually with SP off or if I should let SP take them and just keep an eye on them to see what they do..

So.. what do you do? How do you deal with the rest of the family when you start moving onto the next generation?

[el_flel]

It depends on whether I find the children interesting or not. If I find them interesting then I'll play them and abandon the parents because I find elders really boring, but if not I'll switch to a different family. If there's more than one kid I don't really have a particular routine, sometimes they all get played, sometimes I pick one and totally ignore the others.

[sharkloverplayer]

Same here. If I'm not interested in them I will leave them to story progression and play another family. Sometimes I do play them thou.

[lazzybum]

I play with twallan's story progression mod on and move the rest of the siblings out to houses I chose for them (Ive only done it when they've found a spouse ;o). I then turn off the move option so they dont disappear on me. I let SP do its thing and If I feel they have too many kids, I'll also turn off pregnancy. I dont play them as much as the main sibling, but I take my main one to visit their houses sometimes or take them out to dinner as a huge family :D

[Marie.M]

Either move them out or kill them.

[ani_]

I always play them, which is why my legacy goes on quite slowly. I'm still only at generation 7 and have been there for about a month now, because I just have not had the time to get back to her house, because I have been playing other people. It also keeps the game interesting when you play other sims and not only one family.

[Exyll]

I always play them, which is why my legacy goes on quite slowly. I'm still only at generation 7 and have been there for about a month now, because I just have not had the time to get back to her house, because I have been playing other people. It also keeps the game interesting when you play other sims and not only one family.

Dont you guys find that having families turns a sim leading an exciting lifestyle into a 9-5, same ole same ole kinda sim?

Once the kids come in you have to go to bed at normal hrs, be awake/around to feed them, read to them, etc etc...
I wanted to see how hard it would be to have triplets (turns out not to be hard at all) and wow, I never had a game do a 180 and turn into rl so fast lol.

[ani_]

Dont you guys find that having families turns a sim leading an exciting lifestyle into a 9-5, same ole same ole kinda sim?

Once the kids come in you have to go to bed at normal hrs, be awake/around to feed them, read to them, etc etc...
I wanted to see how hard it would be to have triplets (turns out not to be hard at all) and wow, I never had a game do a 180 and turn into rl so fast lol.

It doesn't necessarily turn life to RL and when it does, it's not automatically boring. It all depends on the parents.
My good parents, will do all they can to teach their toddlers all the skills so they will have a good start to childhood. They will also schedule their life so their kids will get help with homework, dinner, breakfast, as well as quality time with the parents. I find it fun and challenging trying to keep up a happy home.

Then there are also the other kind of parents. Like my local Paris Hilton (aka Paris Mather). She had her accident, but it didn't stop her at all. She still partied, worked on her career, and stayed out late, while her kid got taken cared by the babysitter. There are three adults in that household, but none really cared for the poor child. They were all busy working, (womanizing/mannizing) their fellow sims. The only thing the kid learned, was using the potty.

[Greenlea]

I have one household where I started out with a single female. She's my adventurer sim who does a lot of traveling. She's got 2 children and I'd have her stay home with them for a few days in between her traveling. Right now her oldest is a teen and the youngest just aged up to a child. I wound up deleting her husband from the game cause he got the invisible glitch.

Found her a new man in Egypt and moved him in with her. She's finally gotten Visa level 3 in Egypt so bought a vacation home there. Will definitely start taking the kidlets along when she goes there. She's close to level 3 in France. Haven't done anything in China yet.

[LoonehWannabe]

When I *do* play legacies, I usually throw them into an empty lot and let story progression take over.

[ani_]

When I *do* play legacies, I usually throw them into an empty lot and let story progression take over.

But don't you feel that all the energy you put into those sims when they where babies through teens, gets wasted? Are you not interested in what their story might be?

I always had a hard time understanding how people could abandon their sims and just throw them into the Sim bin and then forgot about them. I think seeing the different paths siblings take in life, and having the kids have cousins is part of the charm of the game.

[McNum]

I usually run my games "main character" style. I pick a Sim, this is the main character. I devote most of my time and effort on this Sim, trying to turn its life interesting. His or her friends and family are secondary characters, although Sims living with this character get the same benefits as the main character, as in Lifetime Rewards and player intervention.

When the current main character dies, gets stale, or a new character just seems more interesting, I switch. Usually it means one of the children when they grow up to YA, but I'll happily abandon the family line completely if another Sim in the neighborhood looks interesting.

The rest, I leave to the whims of the Story Progression. It's kind of fun to run into another branch of the family tree a couple of generations later.

[Sim-brother]

I usually drop the babies at some elder couple and forget about them. I only play with the sims for which I already have set out their fate, and if having twins disrupts my storyline, I send them off to another household. Or I make an orphanage lot and send them there until they are young adults or teens.

[HarlequinnRomance]

For my legacy I play the parents mostly,and sometimes pick a favorite parent(probably the one that was the heir from the previous generation). When they have kids,I wait until they're done having kids to pick another heir,or I might just have a favorite and choose for them to stop having kids. I then move any older siblings out when they become YA and just plain kick them out. If they were interesting, I'll check in to see where they are in life,but I mostly do that from the family tree. Once I've picked a heir,I'll either move them outta the house and into one with a simbot as a teenager, or keep them with their parents and move the to be spouse in. It's mostly been the simbot one though.I normally just bored of the parents once the heir is a YA,but this generation I can't stop loving their parents and the YA.So it's make babies,pick one and move the rest out.,

[Elanorea]

I usually let them live on the legacy lot until they achieved their LTWs, then found them a partner and moved them into another house (picked out and redecorated beforehand).

[LifesLover]

I usually make a single sim or a pair of grown up twins, one married (or engaged now that I can) and living together. And then I play it that the whole family stays together. I've never gotten far enough along that I had a ton of family members to keep track of, so for now it works to just keep them together. That way, I can control the whole family's destiny, and not just the one or two I started out with.

[spotlight-shure]

It depends on whether I find the children interesting or not. If I find them interesting then I'll play them and abandon the parents because I find elders really boring, but if not I'll switch to a different family.
I feel and do the same. Elders suck, lol.

[taizhu]

I keep my legacy family in their ancestral house. So the parents stay until they die. I only play the siblings that have the genetic features I want to propagate in the family tree (ie. I only play the good looking ones). The rest I have move out when they become young adults. Mostly I release them into the town or marry them off. Sometimes they become homeless. They usually eventually find a home due to Twallan's neat mod and almost always get married on their own.

I tend to invite the extended family back for birthday parties. That way I can check up on the rest of the family and see all the cousins, in-laws, aunts and uncles. Tends to be fun--especially when you see the family features pop up in cousins you didn't really know about.

[ChristinaCrino]

I never move Sims out of the house. Right now, I have 14 Sims and another on the way. It's probably due to my laziness; it's just too much effort to have to click move out -- or even just split the household -- select who I want to kick out of the house, find a home for them, perhaps even build a home for them... Ugh. I'm in the fourth (fifth when Alaeria has her child) generation with $200k and my Sims are still living on quick meals with beds lined up in the front yard. When my little simmies are millionaires, I might build them a mansion... well, I have well over $4 million in rocks, gems, metals, fish, harvestables, etc., but I'd rather have them only gain money through jobs and use the rocks/gems/metals to decorate the epic mansion they'll eventually have and the harvestables to stock the fridge they'll eventually be able to cook stuff with once I buy counters.

Also, not moving the kids out has one benefit: not having to go out into town to look for fugs to mate with, but rather, marrying your second-cousin, or great-aunt, or whomever is distant enough. Oh, and cheap labor.

[Beer76]

I keep 'em around for the extra income or as a personal maid/nanny. Once they turn old, I ship 'em off to a lot I made for a retirement home of sorts. Old people go there to die.

[piko]

I keep 'em around for the extra income or as a personal maid/nanny. Once they turn old, I ship 'em off to a lot I made for a retirement home of sorts. Old people go there to die.

I lol'd at that.

[refox_14]

I'm playing a custom hood of mine, where I play each family to their wants and LTW, but about three or four of the 'Main' families are legacies.

I play each spare, letting them have their own story, and they'll usually have their own kids in time.

[piko]

I just kind of let them live their own lives. I usually get them married or a boyfriend so they at least have that decided.

Otherwise I'm afraid that EA will pair them up with some weird person. For example, the father of one guy ended up marrying his daughter-in-law's niece. In other words, his grandkids' cousin. Gross much?

[sharkloverplayer]

A lot of times I'll upload my spare families I don't play much to the exchange and people download them. I love that we can upload families now. I hope we can in the console versions.

[J. M. Pescado]

Otherwise I'm afraid that EA will pair them up with some weird person. For example, the father of one guy ended up marrying his daughter-in-law's niece. In other words, his grandkids' cousin. Gross much?Not really. It's not like they're actually related. They probably don't even know each other otherwise.

[piko]

Not really. It's not like they're actually related. They probably don't even know each other otherwise.

But she was a young adult, and he's been an elder for a very long time. It had "midlife crisis" written all over it.

[Sim-brother]

Use them as forced labour, ship them to other households or burn them (but only if they are either very ugly or have very anooying personalities). And if I feel like doing something dramatic, I lock them up in towers and see how they cope with social isolation. It becomes even more fun when I pick two old enemies and lock them up in a tiny tower with only a fridge, bed, sink & toilet, and as there is no ''fun'' item, they'll have to interact >:)

[Beer76]

Use them as forced labour, ship them to other households or burn them (but only if they are either very ugly or have very anooying personalities). And if I feel like doing something dramatic, I lock them up in towers and see how they cope with social isolation. It becomes even more fun when I pick two old enemies and lock them up in a tiny tower with only a fridge, bed, sink & toilet, and as there is no ''fun'' item, they'll have to interact >:)

You just inspired me to make a prison.

[CinderEmma]

It really depends. If they are okay looking/I can think up a story for them, I'll move them into a different house and work on them. However, the ugly ones get a nice, gruesome death ;)

[Robodl95]

Am I the only one that keeps them all? I keep them all until they complete their LTW and then they move out and I watch how they progress. I have pretty big families too, about 5-6 kids (I use a household enlargement hack obviously)

[VoiceIHear]

Being the morbid person I am, there are two options for me:

Option 1 - death. By whatever method I see convenient.

And, Option 2 - my house has a cellar/prison located in the basement for... "storage" purposes, and I leave them there until they die. Occasionally they're allowed to leave, if I want them to do my Sims' bidding, but otherwise.

On occasions I can be nice, but I NEVER let the other sibblings living in the same house as the eldest. I'll either marry em up quick, or just kick em out and see where the story progression takes them. Sometimes, weeks later, I'll go find them and see how they're doing.

I must say though, Option 2 is much more entertaining. xD

[Ive]

I always move them out and build houses for them and find a spouse. Usually I just get too involved in my 'new spare' and end up just abandoning my old family to play them instead.

Only kill a few sims every now and then, as it looks odd having everyone dead as adults in my family tree :blink:

[severedsolo]

I generally just kick mine out.... unless they annoy me.

I have an Indoor Swimming Pool for Sims that annoy me. Interesting fact. build an indoor swimming pool with a 1 square wide and 2 square long corridor leading to it. Place a door at the end of the corridor (the entrance end, not the swimming pool end) then lock the door. Even when drowning, Sims won't get out of the pool even though there is a space for them to stand.

This is the fate of all Sims who annoy me. Weirdly, one of my Sims has a habit of boasting about the pool to the neighbours. Waiting for a knock on the door from the Police....

[Purity4]

Wouldn't it just be easier and more to the point to simple delete the sim from the game if you have no interest in playing them? Then you don't have to worry about gravestones and all that.

[VoiceIHear]

^I don't think you quite get the amusement of watching Sims suffer.. :lol:

[CamiiMania]

I either kept it to one kid, killed them or just married them off.
But with Sims 3 and SP I started to move them out and let them live their lives. x3