Now that I had a bit of spare time before returning to work after the festive season, I decided to spend some time actually playing The Sims 4. Usually you’ll find me hopping in and out of the game, checking out this feature or building something this, instead of actually just playing my personal save.
With it being a new year, I decided to do a little of spring-cleaning on my end. I cleared my Cache files, backed up my saves & screenshots, tidied up my mods folder and also updated a few of my mods that were long overdue an update. I know, I know! I’m terrible at keeping things up to date sometimes.
After my little spring-cleaning moment, I took a quick look at some custom content I wanted to add into my game and finally jumped into my save.
Honestly, it has been far too long since I last played this save. I had been playing with the Pancakes household in another save where I had been testing out a few different mods and not really doing too much else. Currently, my Sim is living in an apartment in San Myshuno and is working her way through the Critic career, while this is fun for the most part there’s part of me who wants to see more of a challenge in my own gameplay and just change things up a bit.
As I was playing through, it got me thinking about what I wanted to do with this save. Essentially, this was just a single Sim save with not much else going on. Did I want to maybe start a challenge or a legacy with this Sim? Possibly use this Sim to tell a story or try and complete all the in game achievements or aspirations. There were quite a few possibilities.
The more I thought about it, the more I was heading towards setting some kind of The Sims themed resolutions for this year. The aim would be encouraged me to keep playing my personal save on a much more regular basis.
Gameplay Ideas
- Start a Legacy Challenge and actually stick with it
- Start the Not So Berry Challenge
- Complete all Skills and Aspirations as well as earning all Reward Traits
- Complete a gameplay challenge
- Explore new story ideas
- Revisit features in the game that I usually don’t use – Careers I tend to not play, for example.
Building
- Explore different styles of building
- Push myself to build out of my comfort zone
- Renovate one of the worlds
General
- Discover more custom content and mod creators
- I’ve always enjoyed sharing what I’ve been up to in my game. Whether that is a Sim I’ve created, something I’m building, general gameplay or something funny that has happened. The only thing is, I’m not good at doing it on a regular basis. So for this year I want to regularly share what is happening in my game either on my Tumblr.
While these may seem like things that are pretty straightforward and very generalized, I’m actually excited at starting to work through these resolutions. They will always be there with the aim of having fun and exploring a variety of different things within The Sims 4.
What are your plans for your game this year? Let us know in the comments below!
I get so bored with game play sometimes I just keep making new saves. I’m going to try to achieve all skills and traits through playing on my current household without making a new save. Once I do that I’ll probably get her married or get her pregnant a few times to make some sims for future households/marriages.
Try some challenges or some of the more in depth mods. Do you rotational play? Once I started doing rotational it felt more fun to me especially with households that were different from my “normal” ones because I realized I was making similar households so this way I wasn’t so focused on one or two households and played more realistically. I also realized I was so focused on YA sims that most of them didn’t have families or “background stories” so I started making families which also helped in making playing more fun as well as additional mods that benefited from having more sims around. Because I have many sims (800 +) I have several types of story lines for them but not necessarily end goals and I definitely recommend checking out some mods (if you’re new to mods just remember to be diligent with adding them into your game and updating correctly). I’m working on a new save, rebuilding lots and finding lots so that also helps when bored with gameplay.
Thanks for the suggestions! I do have a few mods. MCC, the plant one from Ravasheen and one that increases the number of tiles you can have on a micro home. Right now I’m focusing on maxing out my current household with skills, aspirations etc. After that I many try some different game play. I just have a hard time focusing on one game for too long I guess. Short attention span sometimes heh.
I’ve come up with some challenges based on other video games I like, so I’m planning to make a save specifically for those! 🙂 Also planning a poly save now that I’ve got Wonderful Whims.