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Most people, I assume, just sort of play the game. If you use play a challege, you might keep score. Some might take notes on paper or something.

I have a neighborhood, Glory Coast, which is all the Maxis made neighborhoods all shoved together into one. For this neighborhood, I keep extensive notes, using Microsoft Excel. I have ALL my sims names, ages and 3 seperate population lists.

My question: Am I completely weird, or does anyone else do this? Or anything like this? What do you do, exactly?

That is kinda strange but hey... well i sometimes cry when they die.

I have the Sims2DB, the ultimate expression that your life has been handed over on a silver platter to the Sims 2. And when I'm on vacation, I forget to sleep some nights.
That is all.

I do get quite involved; I really care about my Sims. I don't go to such extreme measures as that, but I do have my own custom neighbourhood, Arbordale, with my favourite sims from the Maxis neighbourhoods, and I grow the neighbourhood up together, generationally. Right now the Sims I started off with as Young Adults are Elders, so it's quite a teary time for me...watching them die. I don't keep a list of all their names and ages but I know all their names and ages and recognise them all when I see them walking past...except for the children, who I haven't individualised enough.

Im really a dork for videogames. Today I sat and played the sims 6 hrs straight with some 4ish minute breaks. It was very fun..

But annoyingevil thats a good idea, just to keep track of all your people..I forget all the time who people are. Sometimes I create sims especially to match up with another and then forget what their name is so I cant have them meet!

Actually, I do take notes as well. I'm not too involved because I don't play too often. I would probably play the game around 2 times a week at most and 1 time every fortnight usually. It's been three weeks since my last play. I don't have much time to play. I got the game Christams but it's hard to play because of school and all. I'll probably get around to it during the summer.

In any case, when I do play. I take pics when something notable happens, like a breakup, a sim's first encounter with the social bunny, the start of a relationship, a baby, age transition, successful party, houses, etc.

I'll use Excel to list families, current age of members, descriptions, aspirations, personality, interests, their history, lineage, and home or previous homes etc. I'll have the pictures for reference. It's helpful because I like to plan out the neighborhood story and play it out like a novel. When something happens, it's important to keep track and I need to have something to look back at for reference if I want a glance at each family's story and a track of the population in each neighborhood. I have a file for each neighborhood on excel.

I also have to like to have a document which cites what modifications I've made to the game. Like, what music I've imported into the game, videos for the tvs, and downloads. Infomation like that, if organized, helps me figure out what I should do next.

No, you're not "weird" just organized. biggrin

Ohhh it looks good, I'll try it! Thanks for the link! ^^

I've never been that involved with the game. I have a bad habbit of making lots of families with houses but never really play them. I have few "favourite" families that I play once in a while but usually I just do new families, get them started with work and school and then next time do another new family. rolleyes