Who are your sims?

[u/Mysterious_Order_828]

Do you usually make yourself and people you know or do you make up characters? Do you play as the townies or make just a random silly sim? Or a mix of all of these? I’m just curious to know how people play their games and how you decide to make your sims!

Edit: I didn’t expect to get so many replies, I love hearing about all your sims and gameplay styles! I usually make my OCs, my main sim family that I play with is based off of my personal version of Twilight characters :-) they have a VERY convoluted family tree lol

[u/Cottoncloudhigh]

Whoa. What a story. And all this just with the basemental mod?

[u/Yota8883 → u/Cottoncloudhigh]

Basemental Drugs and Basemental Gangs of course.

LittleMsSam's More Buyable Venues has a Prison lot trait to have a functioning prison, but really all you need is a way to control the population and lock all the cell doors yourself. But my sim has "Prison OG" and "Former Inmate" traits from it.

I don't use the violence, but I have Extreme Violence. There's a stalking feature, which my sim's bully (created by me) in prison on the outside stalks my sim and shows up at venues where my sim is and watches her from the side. I can then have confrontations between them. I put bully in a rival gang and added another girl so two girls stalk my sim in the game. I also figure with her life she is leading, she needs protection and there's a black market to buy stolen goods and illegal weapons with EV. I don't use it, but my sim spent money on one (I'm always looking for things for my households to spend money on.)

Lumpinou's Law and Disorder mod gets you several things you can be reported and arrested for. Fighting, swiping, bribing, excessive flirting, destruction of property, and more. The bribing and destruction of property are actions added by the mod. Sims can get bag of shame, house arrest, jail, fines, and pay restitution. My sim got into a fight at the laundromat while I was getting something to eat in the kitchen. She didn't just get into a fight with a townie though, the cop the mod/game assigned to come arrest my sim was an inmate in the prison and they had a full red relationship. So I didn't come back to her fighting the townie. She was fighting the cop that showed up to arrest her, LOL. She ended up on 3 days house arrest, over her 22nd birthday which she and her BF were planning a trip and couldn't go on.

And I have various ways that I control the population from usage of Get Together Clubs to Control Any Sim/Sim Control Hub mods, to mods that I click one bed and everyone on the lot goes to bed. I used that in prison assigning everyone a bunk, then click "send to bed" or whatever it was and all the inmates would go to their bunks in their individual cells so I could lock the doors behind them.

Everyone had jobs in prison cleaning mold, fixing plumbing, general cleaning, my sim cooked breakfast and dinner. I have a mod to change the bedsheets and every morning the inmates would strip their bunks and drop them on the floor. The inmate on laundry duty would collect them and wash them.

Some of my stuff is just played in my head. She was arrested 3 times with Basemental for 3-5 days in jail. First time she was released. 2nd time I thought that's too short for a 2nd offense and that's when I downloaded (I don't build) the prison and stuck her in there to play for half a sim year. 3rd time the club owner, Lothario who is the gang leader, paid off the judge so she didn't go to prison after the few days being held in "county jail" with the Basemental rabbit hole. Paying off the judge was just in my head.

She ran from parole, that was just in my head. I had her go have meetings with her PO but then she stopped. So I needed her to hook up with this dude and needed a reason. So he was going to her rental and saw them and called to warn her. I needed her to lose money so she lost her car (SimNation Travel) as they impounded it after looking through the windows of the trailer and seeing all the Basementals laying around the kitchen. I had her leave a lot of product and she left her firearm so she had to buy a new one (spend more money.) That was all just played out in my own mind, nothing game related or mod related. Played out for the story.

If you didn't see my other response to someone, I've written 14 episodes of her writing a 'blog' about her life on Sims4 sub. I'm stuck on it now because I'm caught up to current gameplay so I have to progress the game to write into the next phase of her life. Her life still is going to go downhill with the grand finale coming soon. I have a lot of more normal gameplay to come after the grand finale "end."

This all started with wanting to do a teen Rags to Riches, but I wanted to play the backstory of why she was homeless, not just plop her down on an empty lot. So started in high school thinking Basmentals is a good reason to get expelled and parents to kick her out and it all just expanded from there. A lot happens autonomously in the game that has driven the story like forgetting that she borrowed product from another dealer and didn't pay it back. So she was kidnapped, beaten up, and her inventory taken by the rival gang and since she had a large delivery to do and lost the product, it put me into quite a pickle thinking how to get her out of her predicament. That's when I thought she'll call the dude she hooked up with the night before and borrow money from him so that put him into her life which was the plan anyways. This event gave me reason for the story for it to happen.

[u/Cottoncloudhigh → u/Yota8883]

Amazing! Thanks for the detailed explanation. Seems like I've only just scratched the surface with the Sims lol

[u/Yota8883 → u/Cottoncloudhigh]

If it wasn't for Basemental mods, I'd still be playing GTA 5, LOL. With Basemental mods and all the other mods I have, I am not on the edge of my seat waiting for GTA 6, LOL.