Break your bad CAS habits!

Here are some tips and tricks to break out of your bad create-a-sim habits in 2024!

[@rowanketcheson]

Bea's face is so spot on that's nuts

[@laurene2587]

Break your cas habits by adding characters with glasses, birthmarks, etc! It makes their life story more interesting:)

[@Jaz_Sims]

That's one of the tips in the full version ☺

[@tomokokurokiirl]

one of my sims has burn scars and wears an eyepatch due to losing an eye. i have background reasons for it and how he tries to hide it and how it impacts his behavior and personality, and it's pretty interesting

[@songbirds1361]

i love doing this! i typically change most features of my sims (whether it be from how i first generate them or from how they naturally age up) but i love leaving whatever details that are generated with them, like the medical wearables, birthmarks, etc.

[@aldii8614]

i like giving my occults scars, dont ask me why, i just always do xD

[@GenreChowderStudios]

I recently made a TS4 Sim who constantly and consistently wears only that ridiculous robot suit, called her First Name Last Name, and started her on a rags-to-riches-esque limitation where I wasn’t allowed to get a standard job and could only make money with odd jobs and stuff I found. The more I played with her, the more story kinda unfolded. Thus far, I’ve decided that she’s a research bot living in Sulani. She was supposed to be a joke character, but I’ve literally only played with her for today, and out of my years playing TS3 and TS4, she is already one of my favorite Sims I’ve ever played.

[@MementoMori0915]

I’ve been trying to play with “sims I don’t like” I start out small like maybe the looks, or a trait I don’t like/don’t use. For example I use a lot of trait that are “good”, eg good, bro, cheerful, neat, active, loyal ect… So what I now do is I can use 2 “good” traits but MUST add at least one “bad/not ideal” like hates children, loner, lazy ect just to get me into a different life. 🙂

[@Jaz_Sims]

That's a great idea!

[@MementoMori0915]

@@Jaz_Sims Thanks! ☺️💖

[@LaNoireDetruit]

Yeah, same here, I don't like playing actually just bad sims. But I started balancing out the personalities of all my sims, including NPCs. Some will get two positive and one negative trait. Some will get two negative and one positive trait. I find all Sims more fun to play this way :) I also try to make the negative traits make sense in the whole of their personality.

[@raniaayad1493]

Sabrina’s sim is so beautiful 😍😍 you’re really talented at this 🥰

[@AllanGuiHaya70]

Also something else that can be surprisingly good for inspiration is that story feature!! You just sorta click randomly and work from that! I for example got an insane mermaid gardener who likes purple and pipe organs! It was fun making her looks (and even house) with that in mind!

[@tomokokurokiirl]

I actually didn't know the story feature can generate occults until now. For me it always makes 'human' sims. Is there something you have to select in order to make it count? Because it didn't change even when I responded to the questions I assumed would determine the occults, such the ones like what do you think about sunlight and whether aliens exist.

[@AllanGuiHaya70]

@@tomokokurokiirl there are specific questions ( "What do you think about the ocean?" "What do you know about vampires?" and "Do you belive in magic?" Are the ones I usually go after but there are plenty more) And if you select the correct choices ("I feel at home" for mermaids, "you can always count on me, erm them" for vampires, and "give me a wand and a spellbook and I'll show you magic" for spellcaster) you have a very high chance of making them! I don't own werewolves and get to work (aka aliens) yet so I don't know the questions for them... Edit: I just looked up on the wiki, it seems like it's kind of a point system, so if you jeep randomizing until you get the right questions you win!

[@jenniferfreese6816]

I play with legacy challenges like Not So Berry and similar, where I’m given themes and traits for each gen. Helps me break out of my comfort zone in building and CAS. I still find myself using female sims for my heir 99% of the time but I blame the lack of CAS for male sims for that, female sims just have so many more options even with CC 😂

[@SiSi-oi5xn]

Hard to break the habits when your on ps5 and can’t get CC

[@Jaz_Sims]

The full video has tips with and without cc ;)

[@Salliana_Of_Suramar]

it's just impossible to create a sim that doesn't call your eaten breakfast back into the world without CC....Maxis content is just an ugly peace of monkey's shit

[@grape1044]

I have been doing a legacy challenge and using random sims as the spouses and just not altering their kids facial features and trying to make it work

[@mfyuq]

same i just add skin overlays n lashes lol

[@AllanGuiHaya70]

Ok but you DO cange the outfits right!?!?!?

[@paisleymikronis5406]

I literally only make hot sims

[@AllanGuiHaya70]

I also suffer from that, especially with male sims! But sometimes you just gotta force it and branch out a little!!

[@badwolfgoddess]

I've been doing Mogsimmer's Many Men CAS challenge and it's been absolutely amazing for creating more masc sims with a wider variety of looks, personalities and interests. I also took heavy inspiration from you, Jaz, and tried to build a lot of likes/dislikes for them too.

[@Harudodo]

Whenever I do legacies I randomize traits and always pick yes when a like/dislike option comes up, it’s way more interesting that way lol

[@shakedamram1313]

I was recently populating Tartosa with Italian looking men (only, I want options) and just created copies of Italian singers I like, it was fun 😂❤

[@DinosaurNick]

I like creating myself as a sim and living through them doing things I can't do irl

[@junklex]

omg! i’ve always loved making gijinkas of the animal crossing characters. one of my first households is of two of my favs - wendy and dotty :D

[@nands9513]

The tips is helpfull, that's right i never make a character that out of my comfort zone. I'm gonna do it with my new character thx. Oh but i also really agree with not using real people as reference in the sims, i usually freestyle but making a character inspired by non human character or just fictional character in general definitely more fun to do.

[@DindellaTheDefender]

Something I do in CAS is randomize two to four Sims, then create their children. Sometimes I'll do this for several generations until I get a Sim I particularly like. And I can then go back and customize the others whenever I am in the mood to design Sims. It keeps their appearances a little more "fresh" than the generic Sims the game generates when you hit random.

[@Chase-fb1mn]

Oooomg I like qveenherby and her reels of her music. She's a total vibe.

[@Jaz_Sims]

I love herrrr

[@badisonmoyd]

i’m doing james turner’s every life stage challenge right now (sort of, i strayed off the rules at the end and now i just have a house full of teens) and i know some of them shouldn’t get along because that’s realistic, but it’s so hard to make me make them be mean to each other!! it like hurts my feelings even though they aren’t real. i just wish i didn’t care so much about a bunch of pixels and i could have some evil, mean, hates children, or just generally awful sims for once 😂

[@alexandram3122]

Fauna is adorable❤

[@AwwesomeVal]

If you're looking for fun gameplay its pretty easy to just come up with a storyline and play it

[@Jaz_Sims]

That's exactly what people struggle with though so no

[@lordparoose48]

That Sabrina one was Incredible?!!?!

[@sunnydae1031]

I struggled as well with making Sims to my liking. If they're female I made them too much like me & if male, I made my perfect husband lol What broke me out of this was randomizing traits & aspirations, & forcing myself to keep to them. I also started randomizing clothing, hair, & makeup & would only clean up anything too out of sorts or color mismatched

[@damiaH1260]

I might try some of these Thanks ✨

[@Amb3rl3af]

GIVE ME THOSE EYELASHES No, but seriously, who made the eyelashes on Fauna from ac?

[@Jaz_Sims]

They're by Miiko ☺️

[@anthonyhurley2868]

Going to make a Qveen Herby sims right now!

[@aliencreative9360]

I can confirm. The sims who make it more interesting are the ones I hate to death.

[@hubert36667]

How ppl do so pretty Sims. Mine look so weird always

[@begonethot2545]

I make sims based on my plushies 😭

[@LaSprizzi]

Hi, the eyelashes you use are really cool. Where can i find them ?

[@Jaz_Sims]

They're Miiko lashes (part 4 I think!) :)

[@vivib425]

My sims are all pretty. Pretty different. I get suuuuper bored if two sims have similar traits, and i hate how limited the number of aspirstions are in the base game

[@ZakBaganslover4ever9]

As soon as the sims made it possible to have trans sims, i based one off an ehem adult film star i saw

[@LondonTheatreLover-zs3tj]

is your sim's hair vanilla or cc?

[@Jaz_Sims]

Which one? 😊

[@LondonTheatreLover-zs3tj]

@@Jaz_Sims the one with the braid tucked behind her ear! :)

[@Jaz_Sims]

@@LondonTheatreLover-zs3tj It's cc, Hava hair by SimsTrouble ☺

[@EvaIdk__Romania]

There was a girl in my school who I thought was pretty, so I added her to my save file!

[@blaineash]

Gameplay? Who is she? 😂😅