Sometimes not playing the sims is the funnest part of gaming.

[lolapola]

I know were all sim fanatics here.
But I truely sometimes feel downloading awesome Custom content and discussing the sims can be more fun than the actual gameplay. Its like your getting ready to play Anticipating the fun. This is why I recomend it to people who are bored with their sims. Search the web for some sweet mods and bodyshopish things Or discuss your favourite
gameplay techniques. Then you finally play again and see those awesome hacks and have read about some fun things to do it will be awesome.

So what do you think. Why do you think this is. Have you ever felt this way.

Oh and the reason my post looks so bland is because my question mark comma and a few other keys are broken. :Pint:

[Gcgb53191]

I agree! I'm going through the 'bored of my sims' phase right now. But I really think its because I have a bunch of uni kids to go through lol. But going on here and reading these threads (and even old ones) makes me excited to play them :D

[Peni Griffin]

Nope, not me. If I'm bored with the sims, I do something else. Always plenty to do in the real world. I tend to download CC and get on here when I shouldn't load the game and want to play.

[Clashfan]

I tend to take long breaks if I find my simming a bit lackluster, then when I come back to it I'm happy to see everyone. Sometimes it simply takes a backseat to my other free time activity of reading. I do however think that being part of a forum and my total addiction to CC enhance my game.

I'm not sure that my slavish devotion for CC is a pleasurable thing, it's more like work really as I tend to DL in spurts and it usually requires at least a minor overhaul of my DL folder. My latest passion is finding quality defaults for all the dreaded Maxis clothing. Lot's of filing and tracking and organizing those types of downloads then there is the checking to make sure everything is working properly.

Nope, I don't find that more fun than actually playing but my playing time is much more pleasurable the first time I see a townie pop up in a new and vastly improved outfit. It gets even better when I have someone age up and I don't instantly flinch at the hideous mismated nastiness that used to happen.

[Simsica]

I have to agree with lolapola.

There are times when I just browse through the challenges threads here, though I've never played a challenge, or when I just search MTS for this or that, or when I read through MATY's threads or Create or Help sections here just to learn more about the game. And there are times when I recolor things, or tweak stuff in SimPe, or invent rules for my future gameplay or just go on a downloading spree. There are so many things to do when you're The Sims player.
And then there is discussion - I'm really a secluded person in RL and it took me years to even consider participating in any kind of discussion of anything on the interwebs, but I enjoy discussing this game (or at times trashing TS3 :P) and imagining future life simulation games I'd like to see. I *love* reading about what goes on in other people's games or about their gameplay styles - this inspires my own gameplay more than anything else.
Playing TS2 has opened a vast new world of net and even IT for me - I used to be a traditional bookworm, not exactly afraid of new technologies but not very enchanted by it either. That's all history now, thanks to this game and my drive to mod it, to increase its performance, to solve its many problems, etc. I've learned so much by playing TS2 that it will always have a special place in my memory and in my heart. And I just love this community - the best on the net, even when they are snarky and snappy like the MATY people tend to be - we have the best support for our gaming we could have hoped for.
I'm happy and grateful for this entire experience. And it all centers around this game and those charming little pixels that still hold my imagination captive.
The extra-game activities are very much a part of playing the game that I don't know how to separate them and I don't even try. I just enjoy it all.

[Liv Lukas]

Agree completely with Simsica. (Especially about trashing TS3 and the snarky weenies at MATY.) LOL

Seriously though, I visit MTS2 everyday, along with the Simblr community. So much inspiration that sits in my brain and percolates and comes out in my hood to make it even more unique and interesting to me.

[lolapola]

There are some interestings answers here!
Yeah I dont have much to do in the real world lol its eat work internet/TV and sleep all weekdays and partys on the weekends lol. :D

[kjd73170]

I take breaks from gaming - it happens. Usually out of necessity though. I like to game for long stretches (like 10-12 hours at a time) and life does not afford that time luxury sometimes. Sure I can come home, start TS2 and get to gaming, but the next thing I know it's 12, 1 or 2 and I need to sleep. But as a recent site in my browser (firefox) MODTHESIMS is right on top, making my co-workers really wonder what I do with my free time.

[punkrockgoth1988]

It is funny how that happens, isn't it? I do the same thing. I can't play TS2 right now due to not having a working computer, but my phone allows me to browse and participate on this site. I love talking about the game, reading what others are talking about.

However, I go through phases where I just want to play, and then phases where I'd rather do something else. But still, I'll at least take a peek at the forums.

[Saturnfly]

I usually get bored when I have a backlog of teens that need to go to uni, lol. It's just such a boring portion of their life that I find myself playing on fast forward for most of the duration.

I totally get what you're saying, though, sometimes it is more fun just downloading stuff and sort of hyping yourself up to play. ^^
I just love all things sims, which involves talking to other people about sims. xD

[maxon]

I think the ever-active sims community is probably the only reason I'm still playing the game. Left to myself, I would have stopped playing long ago. Having people to talk to about it and tell stories and read stories in turn keeps the whole thing alive for me. The fan-made mods and CC is another massive bonus as far as I am concerned.

[M.M.A.A.]

The fan-made mods and CC is another massive bonus as far as I am concerned.

True and don't forget the crucial fixes that would've not been available to us if there wasn't a community, or else, our games could've gone haywire...

[Bellasaurus]

There is also the other side of this - I was bored, but then my pc started to die, and now won't load the game. I am now so desperate to play I'm considering installing all eighteen(!) EPs/SPs I have on my boyfriends pc and begging him to let me play on his instead.

I haven't decided yet whether to just try a new hard drive and/or ram or just a reinstall of Windows.

Or I could buy a whole new PC.... I've been looking and there are some gorgeous machines out there calling to me.... Drool.

[Vimpse]

I usually get bored when I have a backlog of teens that need to go to uni, lol. It's just such a boring portion of their life that I find myself playing on fast forward for most of the duration.

I totally get what you're saying, though, sometimes it is more fun just downloading stuff and sort of hyping yourself up to play. ^^
I just love all things sims, which involves talking to other people about sims. xD


You stole the words straight out of my brain: it's usually the backlog of teens that makes me temporarily bored of the game too, high five! :up:
Most of the time it really is browsing MTS, lurking LiveJournals/Simblrs, reading forums and just talking about the game that motivates me to either keep playing or to start playing again after a "so bored with TS2"-period, and hyping yourself up to play is so true, sometimes at work (for example, or in the morning before lazybutting out of bed or on a long drive home) I find myself randomly thinking about the game and in my brain I'm all "oh I'm totally gonna play when I get home, I could do this and this and this and marry x off to y and zomg I just got a totally awesome idea for an apartment building!": Hype! :lol:

I'm not sure I'd agree this is the most fun part about the game, but it's a bit funny how it works.

[lolapola]

Haha We should start an I hate the young adult stage group. Thats my second hated lifestage apart from elder. I keep telling myself Let them just party and dont get them to do anywork they will still graduate the same as always....


Nek minnit.

GOTTA STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY!

So boring. I usually do death challenges when I get bored but have no new awesome custom content ideas but have spare leisure time.
Who will drown first!
who will get eletricuted first!
Until there was one..

[Mrmo]

It's quite funny actually. When I play the game, I want to visit the forum and opposite. But I guess it temporary in my case. Anyway, I can not say that the claim (thread title) is right and not that it's wrong so I leave the question open to everyone to answer. What I do say is that I like to play AND talk about the game. I thing I find wery interesting is all the differend people I meet on this forum. I have allways been quite shy but here I am, on a internationnal forum disscusing whit members from different parts of the world. I find that very cool.