Right now I am trying to do a rags to riches challange, but it is soooo hard not to use the money cheats.... specially when you have U.I. Cheat Extension. I usally build my house around my sim and their needs... but lately I have been expeimenting with the build options and such and am finding them fun.

CAS will forever be the best and worst thing that's happened to me in the sims lol
I am addicted to making sims and shopping for CC, but I always seem to get disinterested really fast! Building is not my forte either, but for some reason I absolutely love to get shells from the gallery and furnish them myself. I think it's real relaxing, most of the work is done because the house is built and all the rooms are set, I just get to decide how they look and I usually pick themes for them such as Witches house or "internet celebrity who hasn't seen the sun in forever" and just fill the house with games and make every room really cool and aesthetic loking

I've played all of the Sims incarnations, and honestly 4 kind of let me down. The emotion system and increased amount of interactions is nice! Though I feel like the rest of the game kind of pales in comparison to the massive world that was Sims 3. Especially that the rest of the world doesn't progress unless you actively intervene? Like NPCs won't have partners or children on their own. Or that they'll only repopulate with Adult sims when the original NPCs die out, so no age variety.

Gameplay wise Sims 2 was probably my favorite. Something about being able to actually control your Sim from over the shoulder 3rd person view made it so much more engaging. ( Though that option might have only been on the console releases, now that I think about it lol )