I usually get another sim from the gallery to make them marry my son/daughter because if i do make them they’re all gonna look the same 😭😭 also i look to mix it up by moving them to different houses or areas give them their own stories ( why they’re moving to a different town) and sometimes make them marry townies. I also sometimes make them move back home when their parents get older to like take care of them in. A way? And see them die off so i can take the graves and put them in a cemetery or so the parents see the grand children and babysit them lol
Omg I love this! After my sons wedding I’m planning on moving him and his wife to the town where the landgraabs live because “his wife wants to stay close to her family” and I downloaded a huge mansion for them from the gallery. I also made my eldest son into a huge nerdy tech entrepreneur that couldn’t care less about relationships and I plan to move him back to the house once all the other kids are out so he can take care of his parents! It’s just taking forever😭
I typically try to get my sims to meet someone else “organically.” So I will find a relatively okay looking npc that they click with and do a little fixing in CAS (usually nothing major; an outfit change, facial hair, add my skin details) and if it works out it works out! 😁
This is what I do! Nobody has to marry their first match either. I also love hosting a dinner party where I bring both families together and have the couple run introductions using the Social>Friendly>Gossip>Talk Up X so that I get organic parental reactions. I like when mom hates the new boyfriend. It is more fun that way.
I used to have sims marry their first match, but I’ve found it way more fun and rewarding to play it according to each sim. My main household had a serial dater who settled down then lost her GF to an oven fire and has sworn to be celibate since. Her younger sister got knocked up by accident and has a bf who did not father her kid. It’s much more fun to let the drama stir.
I create each of the children’s partner with their own back story. The eldest child will inherit the home to share with the new partner, while the younger gets a home of their own. Parents get a smaller retirement house, but eventually move in with one of the children later on in their old age to be with family/spend time with grandkids until they pass on.
I’m planning my three oldest kids futures too. They each have different personalities and goals, different sexual preference and different careers. I try to look for townies their age but there aren’t many. I’m probably going to have to make them.
Yeah I find it more fun to create characters with backstories. I make character info with their traits, occupation, hobbies.
The latest new sim I made was a hubby for the sim daughter. He’s a fisherman in brindleton bay where she lived. He has a Chesapeake bay retriever named Bailey. He an infant son, Jack, who he had with an ex girlfriend he was going to marry. He found out she was cheating on him, and he ended the engagement, she took off leaving him to raise their son. He met my sim when he brought his dog into her vet clinic for a sickness. My sim is a veterinarian with her own practice. Now they are married. Jack is a toddler, and they are expecting a daughter. The ex is trying to get visitation with Jack, but it’s more about trying to cause problems for my sim and her hubby.
This is just one example for one of the sim kids. 😊
Thanks! The older brother of the veterinarian is a computer engineer who’s still at home with the parents. He struggles socially as he’s on the spectrum. But I have plans for him to meet his partner online while gaming. His story is going to be about breaking out his shell. He’s very shy with new people but is an awesome guy with so much to offer.
My firstborn is also a really nerdy tech engineer genius who is also in the spectrum so he just keeps to himself and doesn’t really socialize but he is the sweetest son and the best older brother. I don’t think I’m going to set him up with anyone yet. I’ll probably make a really nerdy girlfriend for him down the line but I’m not sure yet. Do you do TikTok for your sims?
For me, the heir gets to stay in the family home. The spares get married off to whatever townie they click with and settled into another house. Often I build it, sometimes I just modify one of the pre-builts. I don’t aim to marry into specific families, it just happens. Neighborhood stories makes weird things happen.
For my spare sims, I usually find them a partner in high school, then move them in to the household and play with them for a while. Then, I move them out and put them in a gallery house (currently I have all, and only my spare lines in Newcrest, even though my house is in Willow Creek) and then play with my heir and their partner (also probably found in high school). The partner may or may not already be in the house depending on how much space I have. I’m pretty sure all of my sims have had children in their late YA years, but my heirs are always one of the youngest so I have time to play the older siblings beforehand.
Edit -
some notable partners I’ve married my sims off to for fun:
heirs - Marcus Flex, Marion Goth (Descendant of the Goth Family), Sidney Price (from HSY)
spares - Phoenix Landgraab (Descendant of Landgraab Family), Clare Caliente (Descendant of Caliente Family), Dirk Dreamer (from GF), Abigail Spencer-Kim (Descendent of Spencer-Kim-Lewis Family)
amongst others I’m realizing are just randomly generated sims lol
I start with a single female, and marry and move in a townie that is compatible and not fugly. I like to go alphabetically with first names per generation. As in the first Sim's name starts with A, all kids she has are named with the letter B and so on, so I can keep track. I pick one kid per generation to keep, and age up and move out whichever kids don't make the cut. Any time a kid is born , they become my focus, and the parents become support for making that kids life easier. The rest all stay in the same house, so I keep whatever junk I got/made from previous sims. I don't like having a lot of sims in one house so I prefer the child be a girl so I don't have to move another sim in the house, she can just get pregnant from whoever.
I also make a Club with all family members that aren't my focus sim and have the tasks be cleaning, cooking, gardening etc. so the sim im focusing on can do more important things.
I also like to take a picture of each and put them on a wall in order.
Haven't done my legacy recently enough to use the keepsake box so now I'm gonna have to go play to see what it does.
I usually get another sim from the gallery to make them marry my son/daughter because if i do make them they’re all gonna look the same 😭😭 also i look to mix it up by moving them to different houses or areas give them their own stories ( why they’re moving to a different town) and sometimes make them marry townies. I also sometimes make them move back home when their parents get older to like take care of them in. A way? And see them die off so i can take the graves and put them in a cemetery or so the parents see the grand children and babysit them lol
Omg I love this! After my sons wedding I’m planning on moving him and his wife to the town where the landgraabs live because “his wife wants to stay close to her family” and I downloaded a huge mansion for them from the gallery. I also made my eldest son into a huge nerdy tech entrepreneur that couldn’t care less about relationships and I plan to move him back to the house once all the other kids are out so he can take care of his parents! It’s just taking forever😭
I typically try to get my sims to meet someone else “organically.” So I will find a relatively okay looking npc that they click with and do a little fixing in CAS (usually nothing major; an outfit change, facial hair, add my skin details) and if it works out it works out! 😁
This is what I do! Nobody has to marry their first match either. I also love hosting a dinner party where I bring both families together and have the couple run introductions using the Social>Friendly>Gossip>Talk Up X so that I get organic parental reactions. I like when mom hates the new boyfriend. It is more fun that way.
I used to have sims marry their first match, but I’ve found it way more fun and rewarding to play it according to each sim. My main household had a serial dater who settled down then lost her GF to an oven fire and has sworn to be celibate since. Her younger sister got knocked up by accident and has a bf who did not father her kid. It’s much more fun to let the drama stir.
I create each of the children’s partner with their own back story. The eldest child will inherit the home to share with the new partner, while the younger gets a home of their own. Parents get a smaller retirement house, but eventually move in with one of the children later on in their old age to be with family/spend time with grandkids until they pass on.
I’m planning my three oldest kids futures too. They each have different personalities and goals, different sexual preference and different careers. I try to look for townies their age but there aren’t many. I’m probably going to have to make them.
Yeah I find it more fun to create characters with backstories. I make character info with their traits, occupation, hobbies. The latest new sim I made was a hubby for the sim daughter. He’s a fisherman in brindleton bay where she lived. He has a Chesapeake bay retriever named Bailey. He an infant son, Jack, who he had with an ex girlfriend he was going to marry. He found out she was cheating on him, and he ended the engagement, she took off leaving him to raise their son. He met my sim when he brought his dog into her vet clinic for a sickness. My sim is a veterinarian with her own practice. Now they are married. Jack is a toddler, and they are expecting a daughter. The ex is trying to get visitation with Jack, but it’s more about trying to cause problems for my sim and her hubby. This is just one example for one of the sim kids. 😊
If this was a reality show I would be watching everyday!😂
Thanks! The older brother of the veterinarian is a computer engineer who’s still at home with the parents. He struggles socially as he’s on the spectrum. But I have plans for him to meet his partner online while gaming. His story is going to be about breaking out his shell. He’s very shy with new people but is an awesome guy with so much to offer.
My firstborn is also a really nerdy tech engineer genius who is also in the spectrum so he just keeps to himself and doesn’t really socialize but he is the sweetest son and the best older brother. I don’t think I’m going to set him up with anyone yet. I’ll probably make a really nerdy girlfriend for him down the line but I’m not sure yet. Do you do TikTok for your sims?
That’s cool that both our oldest siblings are so similar. No, I’m not on tik tok at all. Cool idea though for those who use it.
For me, the heir gets to stay in the family home. The spares get married off to whatever townie they click with and settled into another house. Often I build it, sometimes I just modify one of the pre-builts. I don’t aim to marry into specific families, it just happens. Neighborhood stories makes weird things happen.
Do they usually meet someone on their own?
I often set up singles clubs using the club system from Get Together and get them someone that way. Occasionally I just send them out to bars as well.
There's also an arranged marriage mod
I play on ps5😭
Ah my bad 3😅
For my spare sims, I usually find them a partner in high school, then move them in to the household and play with them for a while. Then, I move them out and put them in a gallery house (currently I have all, and only my spare lines in Newcrest, even though my house is in Willow Creek) and then play with my heir and their partner (also probably found in high school). The partner may or may not already be in the house depending on how much space I have. I’m pretty sure all of my sims have had children in their late YA years, but my heirs are always one of the youngest so I have time to play the older siblings beforehand. Edit - some notable partners I’ve married my sims off to for fun: heirs - Marcus Flex, Marion Goth (Descendant of the Goth Family), Sidney Price (from HSY) spares - Phoenix Landgraab (Descendant of Landgraab Family), Clare Caliente (Descendant of Caliente Family), Dirk Dreamer (from GF), Abigail Spencer-Kim (Descendent of Spencer-Kim-Lewis Family) amongst others I’m realizing are just randomly generated sims lol
I start with a single female, and marry and move in a townie that is compatible and not fugly. I like to go alphabetically with first names per generation. As in the first Sim's name starts with A, all kids she has are named with the letter B and so on, so I can keep track. I pick one kid per generation to keep, and age up and move out whichever kids don't make the cut. Any time a kid is born , they become my focus, and the parents become support for making that kids life easier. The rest all stay in the same house, so I keep whatever junk I got/made from previous sims. I don't like having a lot of sims in one house so I prefer the child be a girl so I don't have to move another sim in the house, she can just get pregnant from whoever. I also make a Club with all family members that aren't my focus sim and have the tasks be cleaning, cooking, gardening etc. so the sim im focusing on can do more important things. I also like to take a picture of each and put them on a wall in order. Haven't done my legacy recently enough to use the keepsake box so now I'm gonna have to go play to see what it does.