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19th Mar 2021 at 11:16 PM
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Quote: Originally posted by CASnarl
I'm finding that doing 1 day in a megahood means I am progressing incredibly slowly. I play sims just about daily, and I'm still not even through an entire 'rotation' yet. I started megahood 2.0 in early Feb I think? It'll take forever for anything significant to happen at this rate.
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I think that's incredibly fast. I started my current rotation in Veronaville in October, and I've nearly finished it now. That's the fastest I've ever played it. It used to take me years. (Of course my rotation were very loose - more a case of asking "Who hasn't been played for a while?" -- this is the first time I've really timed a rotation.) Although I say Veronaville, it's Veronaville with a lot of CAS Sims added, a lot of townies made playable, and three attached sub-hoods. There are now 46-47 households in the rotation. How many are there in your megahood? (I think I'm talking abut your megahood 2.0.)
Quote: Originally posted by Peni Griffin
The trick to playing one day rotations in a large hood, IMHO (and I am a dedicated one-day rotater) is not to start with a large hood. Hoods, after all, grow naturally over time.
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I certainly did that in Veronaville. Not by design, but by accident. I started off in November/December 2012 playing just three households -- all CAS Sims. (You know some of their names!) About February March/I added two more households -- one of them living in Downtown which I had attached. Up to this point I more or less ignored the premades, but then Puck Summerdream got involved with the downtown family, and I began to include the premades in the loose rotations. I also moved the Veronaville bin families into houses in the 'hood. Over the months and years since I have continued to add CAS Sims and attach sub-hoods until I'm now approaching 50 playable households. Starting small and building up slowly has helped me to keep my interest in the 'hood. Like Peni, I play with lots of community lot visits and interaction between families. There's a real sense of community in Veronaville today.
Quote: Originally posted by Peni Griffin
If you're going to play an uberhood, it's going to take a long time to get through everybody regardless of how long an individual rotation is. So you could work up to it. Maybe start in the main one, play a few quick rounds, then once someone in another hood has appeared a few times and gotten involved in another character's story, add the subhood where they live, and play just the main and one subhood until another sim from another subhood catches your eye, and so on. By the time they're all in play, you'll have settled into a lot of storylines and should always be eager to get to the next one.
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I honestly think this is the answer to playing a large 'hood. It's nearly impossible to really get to know a large number of Sims at once. Trying to play with longer rotations just means it takes longer to get round them all. One refinement to Peni's ideas I might suggest: I understand you really got stuck in your megahood when you got to Bluewater. I think the problem with Bluewater is that all the families there are more or less the same -- they're all running businesses, and frankly I think all their businesses are under-capitalised and are struggling a bit as a result. (Even Malcolm Landgraab.) Instead of playing all the Bluewater families one after the other, try to spread them through the rotation. You don't want to have to worry about balance sheets and cashflows for days at a time!
I record my game in the game's storytelling feature, and go by the date of the storytelling files, to see who to play next. The oldest dated file is the next household to be played.
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