#tracking_template

[delijume-sims]

Hi! Would you be able to share with us what kind of spreadsheet / program / way you use to track all your Sims' info (like an example / template)? I'd love to try out some of your gameplay rules, but I am personally very bad at designing well made spreadsheets, so I am curious to know how you've set it up! :) Kudos and lovely that you've shared you personal game rules with us! <3

Hello anon! I am so sorry it took me so long to see this, I was getting zero notifications of these questions and happened to discover my inbox at random and sorted through answering these all at once. I can share my tracking template but there's a couple reasons I don't have it posted on my page anywhere!

It's a constant work in progress, as I come up with new ideas for gameplay or aspects I want to track. So I'll post my current version in this reply, but it may continue evolving over time.

It's very large and I worry other people would be overwhelmed. It is a lot, it's how I enjoy the game (I play with two monitors, game on one monitor and spreadsheet on the other) but I realize it is NOT for everyone.

I sometimes write custom formulas in it that are hard to include in a template version that make tracking some of the information easier, and not everyone knows excel formulas that well to write up custom formulas on the fly.

I worry because of its size and complexity it would be too confusing to even be useful to most people. Stuff on it that makes sense to me might not make sense to others since it's not I like I included instructions in it or anything...

So with those disclaimers out of the way, here is an empty version of the template I (currently) use:

Empty Neighborhood Tracking Template

And here is a mostly filled out version of a megahood I was working on but haven't played yet to give you an idea of what it looks like filled out: Unfinished Megahood Tracking Sheet Example

If this is too insane for you (I totally understand), I'd recommend if you still want it as a template to just delete the columns of all the stuff you don't want to track until you have the essential information you do like keeping track of!

Again, I'm sorry for seeing this so late and hope this helps somewhat!