Rotations?

[orikes]

For all of you who play rotation style, I'm wondering how you determine who gets played when? Do you have a list you play off? Do you just go into each house on a whim and play until the end of the season? Do you have some other method?

I've been trying to stick with playing rotation style, but I've found a couple of frustrating things. Like Mercedes being a child for five days while Oz is still a toddler waiting for his house's turn. Same with Jacob turning into a teen while Star is still a kid while she was technically born first. It probably comes from me not sticking to a solid play order.

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[docnerd.livejournal.com]

I don't technically play on a rotation, but last generation, when I had cousins to deal with, I played more on a "milestone" basis than on a specific rotation. I played the spares until their kids were toddlers, then played the main houses until they had toddlers, then played the main houses until they had kids, skipped back to the spares and made them kids, went back to the main houses and played them to teenagers, then played the spares to teens. I found that that kept them all coming home from school with each other.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

That's kind of what I did when I didn't have seasons, but now that I actually have different seasons, I'm trying very hard to keep the houses matched up visually. :) It'd suck to have one house be in summer and another be in winter. It's probably also a little different for me since I play the spare houses fully.

[docnerd.livejournal.com]

It's probably harder with ACR too, since I don't have to worry about end-of-generation autonomous Try For Baby or Risky WooHoo resulting in kids that are a lot younger than their peers.