#gp: rotational gameplay

[acuar-io]

Yay! Rotational Gameplay is officially starting! Franco was technically my first round, so I'm moving on to these two now. Perri & Grayson are roommates who...don't really get along. Perri is a free-spirited freelance artist, environmentalist & yoga enthusiast. Grayson is a software developer, coffee addicted & always glued to his computer. These two are polar opposites and get on each others nerves. Can these two put their differences aside & stay cordial? Not only that...Perri has a crush on Grayson.

guys...I did not expect Perri to insta like grayson..I went in their household and this is one of her wants:

So now my story for them has changed a little..shes developed a crush on him despite them bumping heads lol BUT IT WORKS IN MY FAVOR SOOOO YAY!

[bunnithechubs]

Finn McCollin- Round 1

Meet Finnegan, but everyone calls him Finn. He just moved from Henford-on-Bagley to San Myshuno after his ex-girlfriend Cecillia King randomly broke it off with him since she did not want to move back to the city. However, they're still very much involved with one another's life. Finn has always aspired to be a cop since he was young and when a position in a big city opened up he took the first plane away from the small town life. Now he's a small fish in a big pond but this pond could use a lot of cleaning up. He intends to do what he can to make San Myshuno as safe as Henford. There is a part of Finn that he hasn't come to terms with yet, but more of that later...

[vampireoccult]

zahrah was late to work because she insisted on banging him on the balcony (on her yoga mat!), but johnny's not feeling too hung up about it.

[earthmoonz]

some of u may remember this sim from my celeb townie series from my devereaux save but she was just too beautiful to leave as a background character so I've plonked her into her own save file and i'm gonna see what she gets up to :)

[diwns]

[natiesims]

idk how this happened but i’m not mad

[sojutrait]

hi soju!! i love your gameplay, its literally one of the only things that motivate me to play my own saves lmao. i was wondering if you have blog recs with other good gameplay tho? i hope you had a good day <3

GAAAAA theres so many good ones but straight off the noggin

@bunnithechubs literally so good, love her rotational gameplay sm

@veggyble my wittle kitten whiskers, she just started a new gp too so mmm

@castawavy / @seafoan i love cres' gameplay sm, i have physically fought for my life laughing seeing what happens in their game. SHE NEEDS TO QUEUE MORE THO 🔪

@javatrait posts so aesthetic pleasing it makes my jaw drop. AND THE DECORATING !! ugh love her posts sm

@servegrilledcheese love nino down, some of the best vanilla sims ever made AND great nsb2 gameplay

@squea CORN GAMEPLAY!!! love her posts and sim style sm

@cerubean love love love her posts sm, so realistic and calming

AND WAY MORE IM PROB FORGETTING ask me again in like a month fgkjfgk

[primdaisy]

Hi, I hope you are doing well! I wanted to ask you how you play with no mods installed, don’t you ever get bored? It always seems like you’re having a lot of fun in your gameplay, how do you enjoy it so much without ever adding custom content into your game? Love your gameplay and forgive me for being too shy to come off anon.

hiii first of all thank u thats so sweet tbh i cant believe anyones enjoying my gameplays!! <3 (given what ea has offered us...) and no worries on being on anon hehe

personally, a major factor for me being able to enjoy the sims 4 as it is, is bc i dont have much leisure time. so whenever i do get on the computer and open my game, its a reward!

another one is rotational gameplay! i think thats v important bc i do get bored of the same sim / gameplay after 2-6 days. currently i have 6 diff households:

4 from the same save (hanalei, aisha, faith, keiko + family)

1 from my vanilla save (simself)

1 from an old save my cousin and i made (we did a rags-to-riches and attempted a 100 babies challenge lol. never shared this gp here but i might! recently started playing it again bc the last time i did was in 2021)

[murfeelee]

Hello murfeel, I don't know if anyone ask you this before but what do you think about the news of sims 5 being planned by ea?

Hi! I see we're starting 2023 on a positive note, getting me triggered by EA's shenanigans! 🤣

Yeah, so far I've only commented briefly about TS5 in this post, when EA did that stupid Summit thing where they showed off how much they're trying to one-up Paralives. 🙄 OOoOoo~! They're bringing the color wheel back after swearing on a stack of bibles that CASt was the worst feature in TS3 and TS4 didn't need it and their wacka** LACK of customization was the FUTURE of gaming--zomg lemme get my wallet ready~~! 🤡

Like, EA, everyone knows you're good at Build/Buy mode and CAS--people don't call TS4 a DOLLHOUSE SIMULATOR for nothing. But where is the EFFING GAMEPLAY? I feel the same way about Paralives--I don't need to see anymore of their builds or Paras--I want to follow sims INSIDE their places of work and school (no more EFFING rabbitholes); and see how they act come rain, snow or shine; and I want pets aside from just cats & dogs and RODENTS EA. And different cultural representation, so it's not the same generic American suburban cookie-cutter crap all the time--give me simulated life of the islands, the tundras, the equator, the poles, the Nth/Est/Sth/Wst hemispheres, the cities, the farms, the jungles, the corporate ladder, off the grid--in fully fleshed out EXPANSIONS with living breathing WORLDS, not watered down Game Packs, for crying out loud. Do y'all even remember what Expansion Packs are, EA? If only every pack was given HALF the content and attention to detail that Seasons always gets! It's a sad state of affairs when the best pack y'all ever released was for VAMPIRES. 🤦‍♀️

I get stomach ulcers every time I hear about how people spent over a THOUSAND DOLLARS on TS4 and are clamoring for the torture to be over already so TS5 can hurry up and screw them over instead. The biggest complaint simmers have been screaming at EA about is how dang BORING TS4 is, because

the game is too easy, and people have to cheat to make the game HARDER wtf

the game is too buggy and none of the fancy "features" effing WORK, releasing ENTIRE PACKS BROKEN, with patches that make everything worse

the features TS4 does have that actually work are shallow AF and a lot of them are repetitive/redundant or they don't carry over to other EPs/GPs/SPs to make the gameplay deeper and richer you had one job EA

TS4's worlds are too small and we don't even have CAW, but EA promised us that smaller non-open worlds with no CASt and no Story Progression would make TS4 run so much smoother than TS3--gosh golly, now if only my save would stop laaaaaaagging 😩

where are the skills where are the careers where are the hobbies other than streaming/blogging where are the NPCs where ar--

the sims' emotions & action queues are out of control, but the EMOTIONS were the MAIN thing the dev's pitched when TS4 was announced over a decade ago; why are my sims acting like crack heads when you said they'd be so much smarter?

the kids are totally ignored, where the teens are basically young adults with curfews--but zoinks! they're finally going to update the bassinet-babies after TEN YEARS so the legacy players can actually PLAY WITH LIFE and interact with babies! Maybe if we're lucky, they'll patch in some frikkin preteens so the life states in a life simulation game actually make sense!

the alpha vs maxis match saga continues

Look at everything Sims Freeplay has--it's monetized to hell and back, but at least they have COOL stuff! WHERE IS IT in TS4? Will that stuff be in basegame TS5???? EVER? Or will EA just keep showing us how many throw pillows we can rotate on couches in rooms full of clutter that aren't even interactive objects? 🙃 Paralives has Paras ziplining off of rooftops into their pool--will basegame TS5 even launch with pools and swimmable water, or will that feature be locked off behind another lukewarm paywalled EP where you can only ever swim in ONE (1) world? 🏝 And now that EA making basegame TS4 free to play, they have carte blanche to microtransaction people to death with useless Kits full of DECOR and mess in TS5, too, huzzah!

And they keep bringing up MULTIPLAYER--THEY BETTER NOT. 💀

GOD, I hope the TS4 simmers go off on EA and tell them that TS5 CANNOT be TS4 2.0. Don't have EA walking around thinking TS4 was the right way to do life simulation gaming. TS4's enormous player base means diddly squat if people don't play the game to PLAY the GAME, only using it as the base for their Blender renders -- quantity does NOT equal quality, EA!

I'm not even staying on top of TS5 news anymore, listening to Lindsay Pearson lie to my frikkin face; promising me the moon only to have it turn out to be made of government cheese. The proof is gonna be in the pudding once the game actually LAUNCHES in a zillion years; I refuse to get hyped.

But I am PRAYING EA does TS5 right. Or at least that they make something better than TS4--it's a low bar, I know, but baby steps. Believe it or not, but I'd actually like to play a sims game that isn't TS3 sometime this decade. 🙏 TS4 had so many red flags; everyone knew it was a mobile game port, we're not THAT dumb, EA. Plus, TS4 was just too effing ugly for me. I hate the cartoony playdough look, and the lack of CASt and customization was an IMMEDIATE dealbreaker; so at least EA learned ONE lesson in all this time. *slow claps* Now we just have to see what they'll do about the actual GAME, the part that MATTERS.

Lemme stop, before I pop a blood vessel.

Wake me up when TS5 has more gameplay than Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley.

[cerubean]

Omg Im loving the feng gameplay!! Are u doing rotational gp or just playing in their household? 🫶🏼

Ps I also love the reshade ur using it’s so nice and crisp ~

hey, thank you!! ^-^

yeah i play rotationally in my personal save! typically i'll play either a full week or just switch around whenever i get bored.

also! it helps that i play with aging off so i dont have to worry about my other households progressing while i'm off somewhere else.

[alltimefail-sims]

Cannot wait to see what you do with Elixirs & Brews 🧹🧪 I've been reworking all the Glimmerbrook builds one by one for the Spellcaster portion of my occult rotational gameplay and my jaw still drops at how bad they are (admittedly I am hardly the best designer ever, but I also do not put my builds in a gameplay pack and charge for them lol). Everyone who's ever redone a Glimmerbrook build needs a support group where we can get together and gripe about the experience 😂

Thank you so much!! I saw your makeover and I thought you vastly improved it! ❤️ Here's two lazy screenshots - I'm still in the very early stages of building and mostly focused on the interior right now, but I'm happy so far! I want the pub to look moody and dated, almost like it has been around since medieval/renaissance times.

I remember back when the GP released and even the big, popular sims YouTubers were coming for EA/the sims team and talking about how bad the builds were... like that's when you should realize you messed up and make an attempt to fix it, but the sims team would be hard pressed to give a shit imo. 🙃 Doors to nowhere, bathrooms without toilets, random and haphazard decor, lots and lots of open/dead space...it's especially obvious how awful the builds are when you compare them to the beautiful scenery of Glimmerbrook and the conceptually beautiful magic realm itself. The Strangerville pack is one of my favorite sim packs of all time, but its builds have the same issues unfortunately. At least we can all share our improved versions!

I Love the support group idea, we need a place to blow off steam. Renovating Glimmerbrook is a scary undertaking! 😅😂

[acuar-io]

Plans Legacy Challenge Rotational Gameplay - round 1 - Franco

Decided to do rotational gameplay instead of a legacy challenge! Franco is part of my rotational gameplay now (if you were following the plans legacy)! I will still be following some stuff from the plans legacy as a guide for his story and goals~ Franco is an aspiring musician fresh out of high school. He's decided to move to the city, in hopes of making it big someday.

Officially introducing Franco Buchanan, my Plans Legacy founder. This challenge really caught my interest, so I'm really excited to play it with this little gloomy guy!

[bunnithechubs]

Round 1 - Alisha Ivy

Everyone meet Alisha! She's new to the city and is on the struggle bus when it comes to finances. most of her apartment is furnished with stuff she found at the flee market and bought off San Myshuno Marketplace but that will not stop her from living her life!! Currently she's a freelance artist in desperate attempt to have some stable income and also be her own boss. She really does not want to work for the corporate big heads. She also has a side hustle (selling weed) which should launch next round. Despite not having enough money for rent she went out on the town in hopes of finding someone she could warm her bed with. She met miko and fell head over heels for the girl. Even spent some cash on a drink but was left alone after the drink was finished- next time Alisha!

[vampireoccult]

due to their apartment's never ending rat problem.......zahrah & johnny adopted cleo! her prowess as a mouser is yet to be seen, especially because she seems to frighten easily when johnny plays mysims racing.

[simelune]

THE LEGACY CHALLENGE U POSTED OMFGGGG

I want to do it so bad 😭 but I know I can’t do rotational gameplay for the life of me so I probably will save that legacy for the future or incorporate it somehow in my random legacy gp 👁️ cus 35 gens??? That sounds like a lot of fun

NO NO I GET YOU!!! i'm so so so bad with rotational gameplay even though i want to do it lmao....... but if you end up incorporating it into your random legacy 👁️👁️ my eyes are open

[sunlitbay]

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