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I like playing with rules, but not universally in a hood, but rather picking households or segments of the hood to abide by certain sets of rules. That prevents me from using my natural instincts to strive for the best in each household and adds a fun diversity of families, as well as challenges me to use different avenues of play that I normally wouldn't. I also think spreadsheets can be a fun part of gameplay but are certainly not necessary.

I just beg for more strangetown content omg

Oml I love this so much 😭

honestly this pairing is iconic...

I love your chaos energy 💀

Merry Christmas if I don’t see you on twitch

Love the Animal Crossing background music hahaha! Love your story and back story for them.

Love the editing! The potential for drama in the megahood is REAL

21:28 ish when teen ages, what is the second want slots job name?

this is so iconic and chaotic i love it

Don't mind the audio at the start of the video, it fixes itself eventually lol

When are you going live again?

Your game looks very up to date, I like the menu textures, skins and hair. Could you make a video about the mods or cc you use to customize your game? it looks really cool. Thanks a lot!

Do you customize your townies in SimPE?

I really liked this series actually, and found it to be different and very creative. Loved the summer camp idea. And the Tybalt/Mercutio slowburn was amazing! So happy with the end ❤

Im living for this! I cant wait untill you get millions of views

amen get that man pregnant!!!!!!!!!!!!

honestly ur so right. breaking free from the hive mind of ts2 players and doing ur own thing is so freeing. no more wants-based! doing ur own thing is so much more fun

Excited to see where this megahood goes! Let the drama begin...

I use the idea of science babies in my Sims 2 as well. I use a modded computer so Sims can *pay* $10,000 to become pregnant by their partner. If both roll to adopt, then I'll adopt. Like with Chester Gieke, he made himself a servo husband and was planning to get pregnant by surrogacy. Yet both he and his servo husband called Bender, both rolled the want to adopt, so I did that instead lol.

betty goldstein never was a fave like ma’am he don’t want you!

ohh love this, can't wait for your playthrough!! i also want to start a megahood/uberhood but it would take ages to complete a rotation and i don't think i have the patience for that.

Why do you hate Betty Goldstein lol? Excited to see you play everyone!

shout out to me joining stream so late "ciao" was the first word i heard, happy the set up is cut here on YT, can't wait for the megahood!!!!

I'm soooo happyyyyy

Hey hey! Love me a Megahood. The face template changing is a bug with that version of the gussy up mod you have i think because the same thing happens in my game.

Love your, french Canadian? accent?

i love the way u talk are u autistic if u dont mind me asking? I am and sims 2 is my special interest:)

I'm so happy to hear that more people are breaking free and do what feels right to them again. I only really adopted rotational play because I enjoy my Sims aging in synch but then I also deviate from the common one season = one rotation. I couldn't give two craps about seasons. It's Monday morning to Thursday morning and Thursday morning to Monday morning. I write it in the family description and that's it. What isn't noted in it, isn't important. I take my Sims' wishes into consideration but in the end I'm their evil overlord and the only wishes that need to be obeyed are mine and mine alone. Sims gameplay isn't a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy 😂

I really love these apartment lots that actually look like a small hood! :) super unique and cool idea!

I play kind of want based if it fits the personality of my sims, and if it make sense in their story, but I also play fear based and roll a dice and if they are unlucky i try to fulfill some of their fear lol

Honestly the reason I couldn’t get into the sims 2 in the past because I felt like EVERYONE had these incredibly strict gameplay rules and they felt super daunting and tedious to me. I’m not a spreadsheet gal nor am I going to micromanage my sims. But I decided to give ts2 another go after playing ts3 the entire summer (😅) and now my gameplay style is more like ts3, more freeing and more fun! But more power to those who like the spreadsheets and wants-based gameplay, lol

The world is healing, Sims 2 players now are more into story gameplay based play-style than wants-based play-style

I want to find a happy medium. My problem with my og playstyle is that I have a tendency to want to max out all my skills and make the most money. It leads to a really bland grind. Wants based helped introduce the idea of failure to my gameplay. But like you said, it can really frustrate you if you see an obvious path for your sims. I am currently thinking about introducing dice rolling or ai to my game. Things like deciding a career max for my characters. Maybe they will hit their max potential or they don’t want to even have a stressful executive role.

I want to make it clear I never said that playing with spreadsheets was bad or that I was against it, it just doesn't work for me personally and feels too serious for what I want the game to be. Don't let other people's opinions of what you like bother you and make you feel the need to defend it! Just do what you want to do 😊

For me I think of wants based play as, if the sims rolls a want (and I notice it) that looks fun to add to their story, I do. As far as keeping sims from marrying relatives, I have a notebook and once a sim is pared up, that’s it. I check relationships before pairing a couple and if the relationships are fine, I put them down. If they have choices I will let them decide who to marry, but only if there aren’t other sims without choices. And yes, townies absolutely get married in. In fact I have entire lots made specifically to generate teenage and young adult sims.

I’m so confused and sad for yall hearing all these people suffering from self imposed rules. Growing up on sims 3, I always thought want based was just taking wants into consideration, not forcing yourself to do things. I’ve always played wants based but in an unfun way. I’m indecisive so autonomy and wants and rolling a d100 help me avoid the stress of making a decision. But if I have a decision already made I’m doing it, regardless of random. I never realized so many people felt pressured by what they’ve seen online to play the game “the right way.” We are all the watcher/god of our hoods, not some rule set. I like awful shit and suffering to happen so they overcome it. But not everyone wants their sims to be in 20k debt and not able to conceive.

i never really made gameplay rules for myself, i just do what's interesting to me. and that's how i ended up giving john burb (of all people) a s3x dungeon and he also had an affair with brandi broke (and she now has twins from him). i love pleasantview

I started a new hood and while I do have some rules I am more lenient with them. I still use dice rolls to decide aspirations for sims and I still roll two d6 dice for a 3/12 chance for any woohoo to be a try for baby, (i dont have any woohoo mods so this is my way of adding risk) because these things are still fun to me. I like some randomness since the game already gives you so much control. I think ive evolved from playing wants based to lifetime wants based. I will do things that arent part of their wants if it involves their lifetime wants.

Personally, I just try to avoid fulfilling sims fears. Sure, it's nice to fulfill wants (and they can provide a nice incentive for some decisions), but going full on them can ruin your plans for that sim, almost never causes stuff like romantic sim ending up married, makes science sims the only ones that will transform into different life states (and causes them to have obsession over one specific skill) etc. But I have different issue with how I play. I have big tendency to just play optimally, which makes it so sims don't really get low aspiration, they always skilled, they never drop from college etc. And I have a problem with wanting to play all premade families, because they feel fun. I guess I should just maybe play neighbourhood specific ones (like Oldies and Burbs in Pleasantview) and treat the rest as more advanced townies?

I personally require rules to add some sort of challenge if I want to play strictly story base I normally reach for the sims 4

I am actually enjoying a wants based game play because if I didn’t all my sims would be quite similar 😅 (if I did play my way they would all have max skills , all A+ college, all top of careers) so now it helps me have some sims that do struggle in life. (Been playing sims 2 since 07’ and this is my first time I’m playing wants based and I’m enjoying it.)

I was lightly nudged by baddynaddy to stop being so "influenced" by wants. It's only been a few weeks since her 20th anniversary video (my inspo for the drastic change) but I'm already having way more fun, and my sims not being happy (meaning high asp) all the time makes things way more realistic. I still use a spreadsheet for every single detail of my hood... and yes, I have a lot of rules that I can choose to follow or not... but it's far far far from my original "gameplay style" from when I got the game in 2019/2020. I loved this video! I can't wait to see your new style in action!

I think this really depends on people and on the kind of hood one plays (historical, modern, etc). Personally, I just love making rules that suit my overall style or the storylines of my hoods. I don't know why. I just love it: writing it, thinking about it, trying to make it make sense... I guess I'm a control freak and making my own rules and following them (and editing them as I go to keep things interesting) is actually a huge part of why I play this game now. Makes me feel like there is some sort of comforting order and predictability there isn't in real life. I find rules also push me beyond my comfort zone to explore the game's possibilities and not restrict myself to what I "like playing until it gets boring". I try to make them in a way that makes almost each household different and if it at some point it removes the fun of playing, I change them to make it fun to me again. I also think wants can be an inspiration when you're stuck but not an absolute, because playing strictly want based can get very old, very boring, very repetitive, very quickly. I would never even have thought of playing "want based" before I started looking at other simmers. Until now my gameplay was just... playing. My gameplay style nowadays is a mix of random, rules and creative choices but if I play a custom hood, I will have a lot more rules and stuff like taxes, etc, although I do it in a way that is actually fun for me. If I play a more classic, modern hood like Pleasantview, I barely make rules and just rely on mods (like bigger bills) except for those fundamental rules that I feel like enhance my personal experience and enjoyment of the game in general. And my own subjective "sim realism" because I do care about it. For spreadsheets, I might use them to some extent, but when I tried to do it "seriously" like some other simmers, it was terrible. I was starting to feel like I didn't want to play if it meant I had to open that spreadsheet everytime for every household and type in things. So I stopped and enjoyed playing again.

"if you try hard enough you can get that man PREGNAT!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 PREACHHHH

Thank you for the point on realism. The thing that makes the Sims fun are those moments that aren’t quite realism but realism adjacent.

Yeah, been dealing with this conundrum for a while, too, and your thoughts on the matter are almost spot on how I've been feeling as well. I do still plan to have some general guidelines for myself (shy romance sims want to find "the one," outgoing romance sims are non-committal is my big one) but if I wanna "break the rules" why not? They're my rules, I'm not trying to do a challenge, I'm just playing my game the way I wanna play. I am flip-flopping on my spreadsheet though because it help me keep track of things I care about, but at the same time I'm more worried about keeping a perfect sheet than I am getting to actually play the game and that just defeats the purpose of the sheet existing in the first place 😅

I love this series I’ve tried to do it myself but always quit 😂

Glad you found what works for you! This is the first video I saw from you, but I'm always glad to find another TS2 enjoyer 😊 A lot of people enjoy chill, story-oriented Sims content. On terms of realism, I feel focusing very hard on rules breaks my immersion more than the odd vampire. All that to say thanks for the video and best of luck with the new direction on the channel!

I've never played wants based, I'm a writer and natural storyteller. I cheat, I give my sims money, I use maxmotives, I cheat relationships up (or down), I manually change turn ons and turn offs to make some sims more attracted. I do still use spreadsheets though. However, I've used spreadsheets since before I found the Sims 2 community on RUclips. I use spreadsheets for every game I play though so...