Most Boring Pre-made Families

[andre8]

Everybody has a pre-made family that they think is boring. (Well, most people.) What is yours?

I hate the Bell and Aspir families, they're dull and don't interest me as much as the other families.

[Gcgb53191]

Honestly all of them bore me to some extent and thats where I come in to make them more interesting. Just depends on who it is but Ill flip their life around :rofl: The ones who I have no interest in, I just turn them into townies. :D

[Bwinney43]

For some reason I hate all of the Bluewater Village families. Now I'm a big pre-made fan and I love playing all the neighborhood and Uni sims but for some unknown reason I cannot get into Bluewater Village. And to torture myself I just keep attaching Bluewater to my hoods. Then I remember how crappy all the families are. I don't want to ignore them since I go by rotations but I dread playing them. I guess I'm just not into businesses so I end up selling all the businesses and just playing how I like. Then I start feeling guilty like I'm not playing them the way they're supposed to be played. I stopped adding the shopping district to my hoods because I just can't stand it.

[A.G.Doren]

I find all of the pre-made families boring.

[Sunbee]

I find the Larson twins from Bluewater to be a bit difficult to get into. For whatever reason, I have trouble finding them dates with good chemistry, so they become workaholics. Which, unfortunately, has no effect on their relationships with any other sim because they don't have family other than each other, and I can just sorta see Jodie saying "Keep up the good work talking on the phone, Jason--there's no promotion potential in talking to each other! I'm off to skill." If you've got ideas what to do with them, I'd love to hear them.
I find the Jaquets to be a lot of fun--whose house was it anyway? and they always have conflicting wants/fears, plus they get sucked into the Pleasant family drama--Gilbert hires Lillith to work at the bakery, and I can just see Denise thinking "Well, she's in her senior year of high school, let me just straighten her out and when she finishes college she'll be fine daughter-in-law material." Denise rolls a want to be best friends with Lil every time, and Gil usually does as well.

[PaulaMestre]

I find them all boring. The only pre-family I kept in my hood was the one with the 6 orphan kids from Belladonna, I think... I play in portuguese, so I don't know their names in english.

I actually decided to make the oldest one (a teen girl) a good witch (therefore immortal, according to my own rules!) as a reward for a lifetime of sacrifice in behalf of the younger kids! :)

[GEGNER]

I haven't gone through all of the premades hoods with apocalypses (it's on my list) but so far the Burbs in Pleasantview are SO boring.

So spice things up I killed Lucy's parents. She must now fend for herself as a teenager that sells flowers.

[dieKristina]

I find most of the sims and families in Desiderate Valley and Riverblossom Hill pretty boring. I have tried to play those two ´hoods and lose interest almost immediately, but since I have played them for such a short time I can´t mention exactly which families that bores me the most. And I don´t know at all about Belladonna Cove - I have probably only played that ´hood for 1-2 hours in total. Can´t say I have given the shopping neighborhood much of a chance either. The three base ´hoods however are so much more appealing to me. If I would have to mention the least interesting families in those neighborhoods it would probably be Regan and Cornwall Capp (Veronaville), Loner (Strangetown) and Oldies (Pleasantview) - but neither of them are that boring. I like to play with maxis made sims, but right now I definitely prefer my own little sims.

[AlexandraSpears]

Rundown by neighborhood (just my opinion)

Veronaville--All of them.
Strangetown--Smiths and to a lesser extent the Curious brothers (sometimes I delete them all [safely] except Vidcund).
Pleasantview--Dreamers, Burbs, Oldies
Riverblossom Hills--Roths, Viejos (I delete them except for Andrew and Jacob), Wan (I make Patricia and Cleo into townies).
Desiderata Valley--All except for John Mole
Belladonna Cove--Carlos Contender, Baldwin, Rutherford, Cleveland, Cordial, Cho

[ginrouken]

I like all the Maxis families. *shrug* Specially when you play mega/uberhoods, it's really fun to interweave thier stories. If one family gets boring, I just spice their story up a bit or take a break from their house - but boredom can also happen to custom families if you play long enough to burn out, so it's hardly unique to Maxis families that some sim personalities don't appeal to some players, or that the gameplay sometimes gets repetitive and uninspiring.

[minpinz]

I've never played a premade family or any premade sims, I've always made my own.

[Rarr]

For some reason I hate all of the Bluewater Village families. Personally, I like to break up that one family, is it the Tinkers? I don't know, the wife's name is Wanda. The daughter is actually sort of prettyish if you take away the horrendous glasses and hair, and for some reason the husband gets along well with one of the Wan girls. I'm just a mean Sim-god :heyhey:

[revit]

Boring Pre-made Families
Pleasantview: Oldie and Burb (no drama)
Strangetown: Singles, Loner, Curious, Grunt
Veronavile: all of them
Bluewater Village: Tinker, Ramirez
Riverblossom Hill: all of them, expect Greenman
Desidertia Valley: only play una and mole.
Belladona Cove: Cho and Riley

[Clashfan]

I only ever played Pleasantview with the pre-mades and only really enjoyed playing Don Lothorio and the Broke household. I despised both the Caliente sisters and ended up killing them off I also disliked the Pleasants and hated playing them. Everyone else I found boring and generally only played my own Sims even before I ended up creating a custom hood.

[sierrakusterbeck]

All of the Riverblossom Hills pre-mades are so boring. I always switch to Pleasantview or Belladonna Cove within 30 minutes cause there's no drama in Riverblossom. All the families are so unoriginal and just weird.

[Bwinney43]

Personally, I like to break up that one family, is it the Tinkers? I don't know, the wife's name is Wanda. The daughter is actually sort of prettyish if you take away the horrendous glasses and hair, and for some reason the husband gets along well with one of the Wan girls. I'm just a mean Sim-god :heyhey:

The daughter is cool but I HATE the wife. She is one of the ugliest sims I've ever seen. I also cannot stand the Ramirez family. Or whoever it is who owns the furniture store. Too much makeup on the wife.

[AlexandraSpears]

I have plenty of drama in Riverblossom Hills when Alexandra asks Gabe out on a date (and subsequently remarries him)...and Patricia happens to be at that lot. LOL If I actually bother to play the Roths, I typically have Jules win Jacob back for more drama (and once they had a third child). And if I play Leod McGreggor...well, Cleo has a crush on him, but he's with another Sim....

I always ditch Rose and Daisy Greenman via Theo's deleter and marry Jason off to another Sim. I can't stand Plantsims.

I've tried to play the Veronaville Sims. I personally can't stand the Sims OR the houses (wouldn't have been so bad if there were no seasons).

For Strangetown I make it so Pascal never got knocked up by an alien, and in fact, I have a no alien pregnancy mod.

[Babahara]

I only like Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Bluewater sims, for some reason I could never get into playing other hoods' pre-mades at all. So they're all like strangers to me. But in my pseudo-megahood game all pre-mades were turned into townies, because I can't imagine playing so many households, it would take months to finish a single rotation.

If you've got ideas what to do with them, I'd love to hear them.
If my memory serves me right, their bios hint that they want to become businessmen, so I'd make them own their own business. To make it a cheaper start it would be a home business. This way your problem with having no friends would be solved quicker, too, they'd keep slowly building relationships with many other sims from selling interactions in addition.

[Firelira78]

I only dislike all those families/ sims which I feel have been dumped on the player, that is toward the later EPs when players were already worried about too many sims making the neighbordood unplayable. What was the point of them?

I find the whole Bluewater Village itself quite redundant including the families. I hated the Ottomas family so much, I killed them immediately before the twins were born. The toddler and the girl got taken away by the social worker. I didn't even know at that times that the twins had corrupt genetics. Thankfully no harm was done.

What was the point of dumping the Goodie family on us, not to mention a boatload of AL townies. Did EA really think the players will need more playable sims at that point. Also what was the point of the two most ill behaved dogs Danny and Sarah Crittur. Not to mention that Sarah's pregnancy got bugged.

Generally I always try to give my sims healthy happy lives. The "forced families" are the one I use to play in the complete opposite way, breaking them up, having the kids taken or killing them. That is a way of rejecting them, since of course they can't be deleted the normal way without messing up everything.

I don't hate any family in the premade neighborhoods, as in choosing to play a pre created neighborhood, I'm choosing the families that live in them.

[Gcgb53191]

I find the whole Bluewater Village itself quite redundant including the families. I hated the Ottomas family so much, I killed them immediately before the twins were born. The toddler and the girl got taken away by the social worker. I didn't even know at that times that the twins had corrupt genetics. Thankfully no harm was done.



How were their genes corrupted?

[M.M.A.A.]

How were their genes corrupted?

Just so that you know, there is a glitch with Ottomas unborn twins where they would have father other than Peter, like a dog or another famela sim, quite randomly. As for their genetics, read this: http://sims.wikia.com/wiki/Unborn_Ottomas_babies

[ForeverCamp]

How were their genes corrupted?

The Ottomas twins' genes aren't properly set. They don't recognize Peter as the father, but Samantha as the mother with some random other character (mine always seems to be a stray dog...) O.o

However, the article also says that the Seasons patch has fixed this glitch.

[shoo_flee]

I cannot stand the Pleasants or the Goths for some reason, whenever i try and play them i get bored in like 5 minutes and exit.

[vhanster]

All the pre-made families that's rotting in the Sim Bin who doesn't affect any relationship panels or storytelling whether or not you play them. When even the creators don't bother to locate them to houses, why should I?

[AlexandraSpears]

Out of Bluewater Village I find only the Landgraab and Jacquet families interesting. The rest go bye-bye.

I also find the Kim family (Pets) abysmally boring. (I like Cyd Roseland, and he's a great match for Tara Kat--after I get rid of her ill-behaved kitties. Since you can only put her lot down once and that's it, in order to play her again I just exported her in SimPE and took note of her personality points.)

[Bwinney43]

Out of Bluewater Village I find only the Landgraab and Jacquet families interesting. The rest go bye-bye.

I also find the Kim family (Pets) abysmally boring. (I like Cyd Roseland, and he's a great match for Tara Kat--after I get rid of her ill-behaved kitties. Since you can only put her lot down once and that's it, in order to play her again I just exported her in SimPE and took note of her personality points.)

Landgraab is okay. I hire a manager for his business almost immediately and have him "check in" That way he can actually have a life. I also give him some plastic surgery with the Gussy Up mod I have. He looks sooo much better when you bring his eyebrows up. Such a simple fix! I actually enjoyed the Jacquets before my game became corrupted. They're not up on the rotation yet, though. No idea how they'll turn out this time.

I never played the Kim family that came with pets. They seemed boring from the get-go. I played Tara once but I don't remember what I thought of her. It's been forever..I do remember her cats being little hellions though.

[Gcgb53191]

Landgraab is okay. I hire a manager for his business almost immediately and have him "check in" That way he can actually have a life. I also give him some plastic surgery with the Gussy Up mod I have. He looks sooo much better when you bring his eyebrows up. Such a simple fix!

Have any pictures by any chance? Im curious :rofl:

[Mrmo]

To be honest I find Malcom Landgraab a little boring but I don't know him very well. Maybe he will get more interesting as I play, most sims do.

If I should pick a family I find boring it has to be Summerdream. Some find them interesting but I don't.

Edit: Made changes to the text becurse I had wrong about Malcoms name.

[akksgurl]

It'd probably be easier for me to say who I DON'T find boring. :lol: But to answer the question:

Pleasantview: As a household I find the Goths and the Pleasants to be boring. But I love Cassandra as an individual and Daniel almost always ends up knocking up Kaylynn which makes things a bit more interesting, at least on his end of things.

Veronaville: Every. Single. House. Well, I do enjoy Bianca and Antonio Monty, but since they're binned they don't count.

Strangetown: Try as I might, I can never get into The Specters, The Smiths, or The Beakers. I really like little Jill Smith, though.

Desiderata Valley: Easier for me to just say I love Natasha Una and Violet Jocque. :lol:

Riverblossom Hills: The Viejos (including Andrew and David. Andrew comes off like some sort of serial killer to me :lol: ). The Greenmans, The Roths.

Belladonna Cove: Everybody except The Cordials and The DeBateaus.

Bluewater Village: The Ramirezes and The Tinkers

[PolterGeist44]

I suppose we all can agree that Goodie is the most boring premade family. Pretty much every binned family that comes with every EP (Ottomas, Ramaswami blargh)
They're just plain boring and I usually just end up burninating them or leaving them in their bin forever.

Other than that, I don't really think any other premade families as boring such as the binned ones, except Leod McGreggor is a subject for yawning.
I weren't fond of that lady with flower business in Bluewater Village either. Same goes for Ramirez, and Stephen Tinker's wife is AWKWARDLY UGLY.
Ye gods.
Playing with Specter is fairly boring in Strangetown, too.

[Jennbob]

The Picaso family. I moved mine into a small cottage in Veronaville, and they're both Drill Instructors (I think). They get up at the same time, go to work, come home at the same time, have some smoochies, go to bed, get up at 5am, go to work, and so on.. Well, at least they did for the first rotation while I sat and pondered what to do with them. Their bios didn't really 'speak' to me to give me much inspiration about what road to take with them. They live in the countryside, in the agricultural part of Veronaville, so I got them a small plot of land, a pond, and made them set up a home business selling their produce. But then of course winter set in so they haven't done too well with that. I don't really see either of them as military people, but for now they're keeping their jobs to get more money. Last rotation I had them adopt a child and that's where we left off, so hopefully young Zachary will liven things up!

[dieKristina]

I dont get it why EAxis insisted on adding those binned families to every single neighborhood. Some players play many different ´hood and I don´t think most of them want 4 different Goodies or Picasos. It would have been better if Ottomas from the beginning were placed in Riverblossom Hills, Picaso in Desiderate Valley, Goodie in Belladonna Cove etc. Personally I kind of like the Ottomas, but I only want them in one ´hood! It took me quite a long time to realize you could do that with clean/empy templates, but it´s still a bit cumbersome to add and remove clean templates just so the desired binned families will be added to a particular neighborhood. EA´s anwear would probably be that you can just delete unwanted families from the simbin...

[saskganesh]

Most of the pregen families were not as compelling as the Sims I created for my game, However, I am having a fine time running their descendents. Goths, Pleasants, Calientes, Brokes all going strong. There's some huge backstories built up.

I have Picassos and Ottomas and Ramaswamis as well. They also took some time to find a groove.

But I never found any joy with the Oldies. They have no money, no skills, no prospects, two weeks to live and no point.

[simonem]

I got bored one day, aged down Coral Oldie and the Caliente sisters to teens, moved them into a place of their own and they turned out to be a lot of fun to play. They get on really well and now Coral has a chance of a good life without Herb. I don't know what it is about him but I feel the urge to kill him off as soon as I see him.

[Bwinney43]

I have Picassos and Ottomas and Ramaswamis as well. They also took some time to find a groove.

But I never found any joy with the Oldies. They have no money, no skills, no prospects, two weeks to live and no point.

I enjoy the Pixassos. In my older game I moved them into an apartment and really decked it out. I thought they were pretty fun to play. I've never played the Ottomas' and have no interest in moving them from the sim bin. Ramaswamis seem boring too. I don't know what it is about them.

I've only played the Oldies once and didn't really enjoy them. I enjoy my own elders. Sims that have aged through playing and have a nice story to them.

[DigitalSympathies]

Pleasantview: Quite honestly I found the Calientes boring until Fortune and Romance came around. Then it was the Oldies for me.

Veronaville: Pretty much everybody. I do enjoy Tybalt though.

Strangetown: I could never get into the Nigmos family, or the Beaker family.

Desiderata Valley: Pretty much everybody as well. I don't remember playing this 'hood for more than a few days after FT came out.

Riverblossom Hills: The Roths! GOD THEY ARE SO . . . ugh. I forced myself to make a "two weeks before the start of the game" video for this 'hood and found myself enjoying everybody's storylines except for theirs.

Belladonna Cove: Everybody. End of. I hate this neighbourhood with a fiery passion.

Bluewater Village: Pretty much everybody except for Malcolm and Chester.

[FranH]

I agree with all of the comments above-and that is why I play a "Uberhood" from here:
http://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/36433.html

which allows me to mix them all up together-to put them all into play with each other is actually one way of breaking the boring features of all those families.Individually, the characters can be surprisingly fun.

Getting them to interact with each other in one huge hood is fascinating, and I recommend it thoroughly. It sure beats playing the hoods separately, unto themselves.That's guaranteed to bring out the boredom level.

True, it can be overwhelming to pull the all the families out of their respective neighborhoods, but at least I won't get bored with any one family.

[saskganesh]

I enjoy the Pixassos. In my older game I moved them into an apartment and really decked it out. I thought they were pretty fun to play. I've never played the Ottomas' and have no interest in moving them from the sim bin. Ramaswamis seem boring too. I don't know what it is about them.

I've only played the Oldies once and didn't really enjoy them. I enjoy my own elders. Sims that have aged through playing and have a nice story to them.

Like the pregen Picasos, the Ramaswami family have a generic arc: get jobs and make a family. Not that interesting really. The Ottomas at least have baby/kid/lack of money chaos, so much like the Brokes, they are challenging to play, but the rewards are worth it IMO.

In my game, the Picasso have made a pile of cash, thanks to their crime daughter Pepper, but they still lack social respectability compared to the "established" families. However they have recently forged an alliance the Ottomas and have arranged two cross-marriages with them to date. Both of them are benefiting from the arrangement. Looking good.

As for the Ramaswamis, play proceeded generically. Sanjay cheated a bit, Priya made a bunch of journalist friends, they had one son but mostly just skilled and climbed their career ladders. Until one day Priya decided to fix her computer by herself. With no mech skills thanks to too much novel writing, she died quickly. That afternoon Sanjay came home from his roadie job and ... saw the Urn on the floor ... then looked at the genie bottle ... and called his double-bolted townie girlfriend instead. She was rich, he remarried, and moved to a better house. They are now are expecting a baby. Old son number one - now a young teen - wants nothing to do with his new mum. He's not offended by the remarriage (heck he's a romance sim), he simply does not like her. Meanwhile Sanjay has found another mistress, just because he can. It's a good set up.

But it took time to get there.

I really enjoy emergent stories, but with the blank slate families, they lack decent story hooks. (I define a good hook as being a meaningful problem or conflict). The base families generally have those from the get go, while the bin families, not so much.

[CocoMouse]

Most families in Riverblossom Hills, the Ramaswamis, Ajay Loner (i always forget he exists), and Antonio Monty's family, all bore me. And maybe other families that are so boring I forgot about them. It's hard to explain but they just seem to have no personality and not much story, even if I force them to have one. :p
And the Oldies are only interesting if I make them adopt a kid or two

[RowenaLupin]

I typically use the Ramaswami's and Travellers as friend benefits. I like Sanjay, Priya, Tina, and Trent. Don't like Trisha much. I usually have Trent and Tina move out away from Trish. I'm not fond of the Ottomas, but I do play them because they are easier to find with the teleporters when I need child friends for other children Sims. I never played Goodie.

I like the Oldies for some reason. I spose I like it when I make Herb and Coral stand up for Lilith, and give Mary-Sue a tongue lashing =D Makes for very interesting story lines, especially when I move Lilith in with them, and then they receive child support from Mary-Sue and Daniel. I have never played the Newsons only because I don't know what to do with them.

[music2ologist]

This week I reset Desiderata Valley, and this time I'm going all out for hobbies. Usually my sims work flat out at their careers, with the aim of getting permaplat mood at the end. This time they are hoping for the creeping gipsy who empties out a sack on the porch, a reward for having 'trod the paths of excellence' in hobbies. The sack contains a magic lamp, and my excellent hobbyists can reach permaplat via the genii.

So I inserted the Goodies with some satisfaction, building him a greenhouse and a pond for his nature addiction, and installing a television so she can watch the Yummy channel. Next came the Picasos, with an easel for his Arts & Crafts, while she got another greenhouse. In the Contrary household, Opal and Rick are both into sports, so there is a basketball hoop in the yard, while Edward got yet another greenhouse. All these sims have bored me in the past, but not now.

[Babahara]

The sack contains a magic lamp, and my excellent hobbyists can reach permaplat via the genii.
A little off-topic, but I couldn't help but say that one of my sims who's never reached the top of any hobby got the genie lamp anyway.

[BirdieDesigns]

I think all of Pre-made Families are boring. In fact, I play only with custom neighborhood...

[sgarciazzy]

The only families i can get into are Broke, Burbs, and Ottomas. Broke, because the mega-hood gives her pretty babies with late Skip. These kids can marry any fugly and have cute kids. Burbs, because I love making them have a crapload of kids. They give the neighborhood a chance of producing not-so-foul looking critters. Ottomas, because that's as fugly as they come, and the challenge is marrying them off to people that can bring balance back to the genepool. Lol. I'm so mean to my simmies. I still can't get over the first time I played the Ottomas and discovered the Mrs. was having a doggie's twins!!! Brutally terrible!!! I don't even know when Maxis fixed it.

[Peni Griffin]

I don't think there are inherently boring families; I think there are families a player hasn't invested in enough to find the interesting angle on them. You don't have to accept the pre-scripted stories if they don't intrigue you, and you don't have to incorporate the family bin families into your hood until you have something interesting for them to do.

Take the Travellers. They were created to make it convenient to try out all the vacation destinations as soon as you installed BV; if you don't want to do that, or have already done it, they have too much money, not enough chemistry, and too little built-in conflict. I moved them in because Tina kept coming home with people; but their backstory didn't make sense (where's Trent's law degree?), so I rewrote it. For my purposes, Trisha got pregnant freshman year and they dropped out, living on inherited money. The Traveller family owns a big hotel chain and provided well for them. So when Tina got old enough for school, they invested in a big new house in Drama Acres and decided to pursue the professional goals from which Tina's birth had sidetracked them - oceanology for Trent, cooking for Trisha. Trent's also pursuing a variety of hobbies. With that background, the fact that they're a little loose-endy becomes a feature rather than a bug. The story is about how they grow up and find themselves. Due partly to work hours, Trent's gotten very close with Tina and Trisha isn't even friends with her; also, Trisha keeps bringing men (especially Romance men!) home from work and doesn't develop chemistry with Trent no matter how I try. This points me in a clear direction - the Travellers are headed for the first divorce in Drama Acres.

The guy she really hit it off with, and started rolling erotic wants for, is Julien Cooke - whom I had left to languish in the family bin. Okay, so now I have to bring Julien in. Again, the story in his bio doesn't interest me and doesn't gibe with the existing situation, so I rewrite it. Now he's been living downtown taking care of his invalid mother until she died, leaving him a nice chunk of change, but very lonesome and particularly in need of a woman to boss him around. During her final illness, he read and became fascinated by the ideas in Hilary Aerius's best-selling cookbook, "If It Tastes Bad, It's Bad for You," so he's used his inheritance to buy a house with room for a garden in Drama Acres, and set out to live her philosophy of fresh food and plenty of it. He chose Drama Acres partly hoping that he'd be able to befriend his role model's family, who still live there, and partly because it's close to that wonderful Trisha lady he met at work.

Now, over in Strangetown, I've also moved the Travellers in, and again rewritten their story. Again, they're drop-outs, and they've been driving around the country in their mobile home (we will ignore the horrors of raising a sim toddler in a mobile home that's actually traveling, because there's no mechanism for it). Strangetown is where the car died. All I have to do is remove most of that excess money with family funds, and refuse to allow Trent to pursue an ocean-based career in the desert, and I have a family it'll be challenging to run, which starts off with fundamental differences in how I play them that should make their story play out very differently; especially if I go into SimPE and render Julien Cooke unemployed in Strangetown, so that I never have to see him. In the different surroundings of Strangetown - starting Newsons (camping in an abandoned barracks building) rather than adult ones; Curious-Smiths, Grunts, Specters, and Beakers instead of my core families; a starting Gavigan family down the road in a trailer park rather than my established Gavigan family working on its second generation - they can be completely different people; as can the Ottomases, Gavigans, and Newsons.

[sierrakusterbeck]

The Cordials that came with Belladonna Cove. I know I'm really late but they're exactly like Angela and Lilith Pleasant to me. Even their houses and last names are similiar. :lol:
(PS, is it just me or did EA start getting lazy with creating new families with new backgrounds when other games came out? First the Roths, then the Cordials..)

[Clashfan]

(PS, is it just me or did EA start getting lazy with creating new families with new backgrounds when other games came out? First the Roths, then the Cordials..)

I would have to say the EA was lazy creating Sims from the beginning. Missing data anyone?