I've been playing the Sims 2 for just under a year now.  I am an inspiring writer who at times goes through spells of writer's block.  Which is the insperation for my user name, wordlesswriter.  I enjoy the stories of my own imagination and how I've told the tales of my sims in my own head.  I wanted to start writing them down mostly for my own amussement and I could not think of a better place then a website devoted to the Sims.

I have over 50 sims living in and around Pleasantville.  when I first switched over from Sims 1  to 2 the ageing thing worried me, and I was afraid of their not being a big enough selection of possible mates for my sims.  Needless to say, I had a population explosion.  I started out with about 13 house holds and now, on only my second generation I have around 23.  I started putting rules on my game playing to enhance the fun and decrease the possiblity of every house hold having a child in the same stage of life.  Which is what I went through when I firsted started playing.  Every household was feeling like the same thing, over and over...

My gameing rules: 

 I play every household the same amount of in game time.  Having Seasons makes this easy.  I save at 9am day one of the new season and go to the next household and play it til 9am of the next season.  I have every household in the same season.  which makes it feel more like a shared time line.

try for baby every 5th woohoo.  this has cut the birth rate in my game.  This is sorta a lottery.  The count carries over from houshold to household so that I'm never fully sure who will be having a baby.  only sims that are capable of having a baby are elegable for the count.  so elderly, pregnate or townies are not counted.  if a male romance sim has a fling with a townie it doesn't count but a female romance sim who has a fling with a townie it counts.  if there is no try for baby option on the 5th it still counts as an attempt.  and if they try with no luck it still counts and I start back at one. 

only one sip of Elixier of life per season.  some sims seemed like they were going to live for ever and other's were aging rapidly.  As much as I hate to see my sims grow old and die, if I don't let them eventully die I will have hundreds of sims.  so they only get to have one helping of elixer of life each season.  but it they don't make gold asperation that season I will let them have two the following.

romance sims won't be made to marry.  they don't want too, so I'm not forceing them to anymore.  this is adding a new demention to the game.  I have a few single moms and a few children that are the results of affairs.  my romance sims are my trouble makers.

the rest of my blog entries will be about the residents of Pleasantville.  Since I am starting this on my second generation I will give a small bio for each sim as I play them.  the name of the household will be the subject title so if anyone finds a fave they can follow that one more easily.

thanks for reading.  I hope that you will find the rest of my entries intresting and enjoyable.  I look forward to your comments, questions, or just a shared experience.