I've got two on the go at the moment, but will probably start another. I love that 'new' feeling as well as the 'new generation' one. Besides, one of my families have the childsren from [censored]! Total couch spuds. Despite praising and encourraging them to do things like PLAY in the sand, pool, or with toys - even chasing gopher's will do! all they ever want to do is slob in front of the tv.

I swear the next time that remote 'goes missing' it will STAY missing

My other one is just mom and Pop left. I'm laughing at Pop's 'mature moments' He had a black mohican hairdo but has had it all chopped short and sports what I'd swear looks like a tattoo on the side of his head. ( a big dark blue round circle with a strike through it and unreadable words in the middle. ) Mom goes around shaking her head, obviously in despair of him.

I'm awaiting either Strawley or Haylo to come back as the next generation. Both named after their yellow longish spikey hair.

Thank you for the advice Lyssaria. We are getting a new computer which should be able to handle all that. (This one has been trying to die for a while.)Do you mind if I ask whether that is a real or adopted name, where it comes from and what it means? It is quite euphonius.

By the way, I accidentally deleted all my families, and I was so upset with myself! I have started 3 new families. I miss my lost ones.

No problem petra! Best of luck with your new computer and families

Thanks for the compliment on my name! If that was directed toward me, I can't be 100% sure because of how tired I am at the moment

The name was one I made up for myself mixing one of my nicknames Lyssa (short for Ilyssa) and ara from my middle name Cara. I meant to use Lyssara as my artistic name.. kind of like a pen name but for graphic art

I signed up for a website and made a mistake on my account, so I had to sign up again and chose the name Lyssaria because it seemed to flow.. a 'ria'is a drowned river valley and I thought it sounded soothing.

I have 5 families going! I am good at multitasking I guess

I play two families and my darling plays three. Usually, one is enough for me but when the peeps get older, it may become VERY boring. So when one of the families has kids running around, the other one is in their middle fifties, and when they die I start a new generation... as soon as that generation starts, the one family gets older... so (sometimes with pausing one of them) i just try to keep one "old" and one "full of life" family at the same time.

With my woman it's the same, she also keeps it like this.

How do you get to play more than one family?

You go into the main screen click on your name, and where it says "new game" or something like that, click it and you can start a new family.

I now have three on the go and Marc my hubby has two. My first is on the 7th generation, my second is newish - about to start a second generation soon and my third is new today!

We used to keep a game section spare for one reason, that being if we're curious to see how a baby peep will look when older we can use that to flick through to find one who looks similar. Also to check out how certain types of clothing look etc.,
Marc noticed that baby peeps all look so incredibly cute but when they grow they can somehow have quite a mean look on their faces, and vice versa. Ones we think may be less lovable as adults he also used to check out. he said it helped him decide who was to inherit.

I've stopped that though LOL...how cruel am I? hehehehehe I now occupy that game space and he aint getting it back!

Well, since I posted that back in June my memory has improved a little, perhaps. I've been running four families for several weeks now, and I started a fifth a little over a week ago; it's now on the second generation.

I ran five families at first but now only two. The others have been on pause for a long time. I find I have to keep written records of the two that I have in order to keep track of them. I don't want more. I like the personal attachment I can feel when I only have a couple of families.