How did you start your first save?
When you first started playing, how did you start your first save game? And have you changed how you start new saves in comparison to your first?
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In Sims 1 I played the tutorial, then immediately created my own household, a single mother with a child. I also built them a house and it turned out the floorplan was quite efficient, so I re-used it over and over. New sims were added whenever I needed more friends for my main household.
In Sims 2 I started with a sim very close to myself in personality, to see how wants and fears worked. But this time I put the sim into a pre-built home that I only furnished. I also added new households quickly afterwards. By then the overall neighborhood story had become more important to me than the individual households and that hasn't changed.
Nowadays I create my sims on scratch paper first. I write down laws, goals and backstories for ~ four households before I even start my game. Those starter households can be my own or premades or gallery sims. I'm past the phase where I wanted to play with my own creations only.
I also made template save for Sims 4 that saves me from applying the same changes over and over to world and premades.
In Sims 2 I started with a sim very close to myself in personality, to see how wants and fears worked. But this time I put the sim into a pre-built home that I only furnished. I also added new households quickly afterwards. By then the overall neighborhood story had become more important to me than the individual households and that hasn't changed.
Nowadays I create my sims on scratch paper first. I write down laws, goals and backstories for ~ four households before I even start my game. Those starter households can be my own or premades or gallery sims. I'm past the phase where I wanted to play with my own creations only.
I also made template save for Sims 4 that saves me from applying the same changes over and over to world and premades.
