Aging Families

[jaydock]

What do you do when your kids become adults?

I've never gotten this far in TS3 before, but I'm playing a family right now and the oldest son just became a young adult. I want him to move out and have his own life, but I want to keep playing the "home" lot - the parents are still fun and the daughter's still a teenager.

How do you guys go about this? What's most satisfying for you? What sucks?

[masterforger]

I use the AwesomeMod so I can quickly and conveniently switch between families whenever I like without dealing with the hassle of Edit Town. This helps with this situation and a lot of others. I like to "set up" different sims/families and have them build careers and lives and develop relationships with one another simultaneously, and it just isn't possible without that functionality.

Helps with a lot of other stuff, too. I recommend you check it out. If you've got Ambitions you might have to wait a short while for a stable version, though.

[jaydock]

Thanks for the AwesomeMod recommend! That's been the major turn-off of Sims 3 for me - I like having lots of different families that "work together", as it were.

Unfortunately I do have Ambitions, but I'll keep checking back to see when AwesomeMod becomes compatible. Thanks again.

[masterforger]

Yes, the AwesomeMod is pretty much invaluable in this situation. Additionally you can designate certain sims as "sacred" so that Storymode will not do crazy things to them while they're not being played. That way you can ensure that after you're finished designing the perfect boyfriend for your good, artistic writer sim, you won't come back to find that she's joined the Criminal career track and is bearing the illegitimate child of Cycl0n3 Sw0rd or whatever that freak's name is.

[jaydock]

It's like you read my mind.

[ani_]

What do you do when your kids become adults?
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How do you guys go about this? What's most satisfying for you? What sucks?

In my legacy house, I'll always have the heir stay while the rest move out. Then I play both families. If it's not a legacy house, then there will still be one kid who will inherit the house, so he/she will stay while the rest move out, then I play all houses as well. Boring people I either have live with their more interesting siblings or they become good victim material for my serial killers, this helps keep the population down and I don't have to worry about my hood being populated by boring people I don't want to play.

I also have awesome and TS2 style aging on, so I'm not in a hurry to play any given family, I can play them any order I want, without worrying that I'm missing on something because all the other families are aging while I'm playing another family.

Story progression I have turned off, I find it useless.

[Ive]

Usually pick out the favourite kid in the house (usually the oldest) and move out with them and start it all over again.
Don't know what it is I just like looking at a big, full family tree :blink:

I have started having to limit how many kids my current family has tho as they are all so many now that the whole town ends up being related to eachother!

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[Jkwc]

Lol at Kaospilot I often kill my extra sims that have had kids and let original heir take care of them. They also eat ambrosia which also makes a differ

[Ive]

:giggler: Hehe. I'm too kind to kill them!