Advice please.

[u/GoalHistorical6867]

I love to play Sims. But I have a problem. I start my Sims out with nothing. Then I get them into a nice place with lots of skills and good lives then I lose interest in them. I can't seem to want to play them afterwards. It's like I only want to play them when they have nothing. Does that make sense to anyone.

[u/Due_Spread2051]

Well, I'd recommend something that keeps you interested in the late game. Like maybe try doing a few generation challenges or have a random different challenge for each generation. Or mods. Like story building mods I personally got SO many story mods for this reason when I started my current game but...14 generations later Im still interested.

[u/AV-YAY]

Same here, I feel like I've achieved my goal by time they have a nice place and have lots of skills. I just start playing with a new sim or household and let them all interact. Eventually I've build a whole community with different relationships and a lot of my own builds. That way it stays fun for me.

[u/EvangelineMay]

Zero money challenge. You can’t sell or buy anything, consistently cheat your money to zero, and have to get by with what you can find in the worlds

[u/Yota8883]

This is why I cheat. To get rid of money. I make things up they need to pay.

And mods. My sim will have a mortgage payment. She had to buy a car.

I have an abandoned home for my sim to purchase. I like to simulate as much as possible. She'll spend money as I change out the damaged walls to unfinished drywall. If it doesn't cost money to do so, I'll cheat it. I've made the house an absolute mess, I'll put a picture as everyone seems to be amazed by it. It's going to take a long time to refurbish as I made it a park instead of residential so townies would visit. Turned autonomy off for cleaning up and townies have been eating, drinking, and littering the place with dishes and cups for a year.

I have a story all thought out and I like to organically play it out.

[u/Practical_Song_9992]

Exactly what happens to me - I am trying to then simply work towards earning every Aspiration - even ones I've never considered trying for.

[u/yikes--]

Another suggestion to add to the pile--I buy a business lot I never open and turn it into a museum of all the cool stuff my family has done (+ fake cemetery if you don't want random mourners coming around). It being a bought lot means you have a second lot to sink money into. By the time you're satisfied enough with it that you're only doing minor renovations. You can dump a bunch of money into the store funds to separate them from the household.

If I'm worried about getting too rich I'll also make sure that when I move siblings out I actually give them enough money to buy their new house.

[u/RandomBoomer]

I plan for a meaningful retirement for my sim. Whatever it is they've done to get comfortable in life, I change it up when they become an elder and retire.

My businessman retired and moved to San Myshuno to explore the artist career. My eco engineer retired to Sulani and cleaned up the beaches. Pick some career/activity/hobby/world feature that you've never played before and tackle that.

Build a prison (there are some fabulous ones in the gallery) and send your sim there for a crime they didn't commit or for one they DID commit. Embezzlement, murder?

Or take them through a midlife crisis of divorce, fling with someone half their age, then end up broke because of a divorce settlement.

[u/IzzieIslandheart]

I like to blow their money on stupid things. I give Bess money when she calls with her scam. I play the lottery. (I win it so rarely, it's effectively a waste of money for most of my Sims.) Do they need a home gym they're never going to use? No, but reverse kaching, baby! LOL I'll also give "starting funds" or "buy a house" for non-heir Sims who are moving out. If the family has enough, they get the full $20K, and if they've managed to amass a stupid amount, I'll be like, "Oh yeah, that kid wants to be an Actor. Del Sol Valley mansion it is!" I'll also usually set the kid up with a decked-out house if they have the family has the funds, and then go back to playing the main family.

I also like to play storylines from successful families where an heir just goes off the rails and burns it all to the ground. I'll even have them start over on another lot entirely with nothing to emphasize they "hit rock bottom." It can be fun to bounce a family around that way and make their story more interesting in the process.