How do you keep your sim families straight?

[hersheybar22]

I have so many families in my game that sometimes it's hard to keep track of them. What do you do to keep track of your sim families?

[Caitlin]

LOL, oh man. I can't keep track of them at all.
Just a bit ago I opened a neighbourhood and found a family I had made..
Don't even remember making it.
I basically open my Sims game, and everytime I finally get to a neighbourhood I just make a whole new family.. I barely continue the ones I've already made .

[dragonaair]

I'm probably going to end up like that too. I usually have one or two families per neighborhood as I use interest in playing but I've said a lot, I have this lesbian family with 11 Sims, 9 of those are the parents kids. The eldest child and the child they adopted are in college at the moment, and soon the others will be joining. They will be moving back into the house because 6 of them have to get married (LTW...) but the others will go branching out on their own. I won't make most of them have kids though.

[xXTotallySimsXx]

After about three generations, they're so scattered I just start all over.

[LadyofShalott]

I try to visit every family at least occassionally, but I get easily sidetracked. Poor little Owen has been stuck as an infant for about a year now...

But yeah, I try to distribute my love evenly even though that's harder to do than say. I sometimes make a list of some of the families I have to play again when I'm bored, but I mostly just play the one I feel like playing the most. I'm only on my second generation though.

[dragonaair]

I'm cycling through college Sims and the main household and boy is it annoying. The main household is incredibly boring. There's nothing to do. The college Sims are having a ball however.

[legrande]

I have about a million sims, randomly scattered throughout my game... Failed legacies, baby challenges, the family who I used to play 24/7...
I have never even thought about rotation...
To be honest, my game's a complete mess!!

[PlyPlay665]

I usually just make a neighborhood and start with one family and branch off of that, cycling each household as so. Theoretically I just play that forever. Although, I always figure some reason to delete them or just make a new neighborhood before I get overwhelmed with tons of households to play haha.

[sandya1328]

I do the rotation thing and keep basic notes on the families so I can start without too many mistakes to ruin their lives. But I actually catch myself saying, "Oh yeah, that's just the way I remembers s/he is." I remember them almost as much as my real friends. Is that a bad thing?

[FiliaSlayer]

I rotate from one household to the next, playing them until I get to one of a few mental checkpoints. I have sooo many families in Strangetown, and I'd love to give everyone their full share of play. I'll go to a home and maybe play through until something drastic happens. This also helps the time line from getting damaged too badly (i.e. kids turning into elders before parents, twins going through age transitions separately.. that sort of thing).

In some cases, I lump families together to make the gameplay more interesting. A family could include a set (or single) grandparent, kids, and grandchildren in one house. That way I wont have to deal with all these single elders walking around the town (I don't particularly care for them). Another method of mines is placing all the elders in a large retirement home that is staffed and has everything to each of their individual needs. It isn't such a strain to play, and I stop overpopulating.

[lavviejones]

I have so many families it's sad. I make someone to test a house, and boom; they get left alone. I hate to delete them, and it just gets silly. The stupid part is that I have a full game on my laptop, and then a desktop in each of my north and south locations, so there are even MORE neighbourhoods in which to make families.

Right now I am mostly playing my legacy families ie: Oogles (not so much lately), Curious(es), and Randoms. The Randoms only have two boys, so they will be easy. They are both moving back into the homestead, and they will each have one child, or their mom and dad have to die... or one has to move elsewhere... Yeah, no idea. BUT Vidcund and Vivienne Curious have ten children, one of whom has moved back into the homestead with her husband, and two of whom are still children - the rest are at Uni. The thing is, I've become attached to the rest of the kids, and I want to see them through their lives - thank goodness only one is a family Sim. The
Oogles are also a huge family, and their eldest has five children at the moment. I've started taking notes. I can't always read my writing, but I know where they are for now. The extended families are MASSIVE, and I fear the danger I am in. 'Tis a very deep pit.