How I enhance my gameplay, aside from mods!
- Study Groups
I will always have a club for children and teens respectively that gathers after school to do homework.
Sometimes, I add additional things such as Conservation Activities for the Sulani Youth Group!
- After-Work Coffee Clubs
When my Sim starts a new career, I will start a Club for them and their coworkers, with the activities “Eat” and “Drink Coffee”, then I bake some cookies and gather at my house at least once a week.
- Extended Family Clubs
A Club I have one member of my household (usually the heir) in, and all of their relatives that don’t currently live with them. Boom, easy, one-click family reunions.
- School Clubs
I do use Afterschool Activities through mods, but sometimes I just make a club, like, “Yearbook Club” or something, add “write books/read books” as the activity and gather once a week in a library. You can do a lot with that! I’ve had track teams, drama clubs, swim teams, basketball teams, even gaming clubs!
Custom Holidays
A set of holidays I make in every save, in addition to the ones that come with the game
Winterfest Tomrorrow!
The day before Winterfest, to prepare. Activities are:Cleaning, Festive Spirit, Festive Lighting (light your tree!) and Decorating!
Winterfest Day
The day after Winterfest, Traditions are: Invite Guests, Give Gifts, Grand Meal
This is basically just a day to invite your extended family over, have dinner and give them your gifts. I try to have my sims give their relatives gifts they’d actually like, like maybe books, or something.
Spring Awakening
First day of Spring, Traditions are: Excercise, Cleaning, Baking, Gardening. A day to get ready for Spring and get your stuff together.
Winter and Summer Holiday
I fill the week of Winterfest and the second week of Summer with “Day off Work/School” holidays that don’t have any traditions. You can send your adults to work anyway, so it can just function like a school holiday.
I also use a mod by littlemssam that adds a “school holiday” tradition, so only your kids and teens have the day off by default
World Day
Usually in the middle of the summer holiday. Traditions are Traveling and Beach Cleanup, which is a modded tradition, but you can substitute it with “cleaning”, as picking up trash in Sulani fullfills that.
Midsummer
Water Fun and inviting guests. Basically a day for pool parties, in, you guessed it, the middle of Summer
Pride
Usually in the first week of Summer. Party spirit, Art & Music spirit and Attending a Holiday Ceremony, which I pretend is a pride march. I also use a mod that adds “pride spirit”, but that’s optional.
Last day of Summer
As the name suggests, on the last day of summer. Traditions are BBQ, Water Fun, and Drinking. Another fun, party day to send off Summer with a bang. Often spend this day on holiday in Grante Falls!
Mental Health Day
First day of Fall, to prepare for the dark season with little Vitamin D. Traditions are making resolutions, thankful spirit (yknow, to acknowledge what you have and get yourself in that positive mindset), and excercise. I also add a custom tradition to use the journal from parenthood here!
Day of the Lost
Rememberance, Attending a Holiday Ceremony and traveling. The traveling is only meant to be “visit the graveyard”, which I have built in my world.
- When I adopt a child, I send the family to a restaurant to have a little welcome dinner!
- Same thing for the day after a Teen ages up to YA. I roleplay it as celebrating their graduation.
- Restaurants in general! I add a ton of them, from pizza places, ice cream parlors to bakeries!
- Every time a Uni student finishes a term successfully, I send them partying to unwind and mentally prepare for the next term
- School projects are always a group thing. I have siblings and, if they’re availabke, parents help out and benefit from the skill gain!
- vacations. If I can afford it, I will send the family on vacation to sulani during summer break, and Mt Komorebi during winter. Some families also go on camping trips to Grantie Falls over the weekend!
- Social events! I feel like I forget about that feature when I don’t remind myself to use them. Dinner parties, Teen parties, dance parties, you name ‘em!