How did you start your first save?

I first made myself as a sim, then I made my real life best friend, as my sim's sister and then our mum and dad. I bought a pre-made home and removed some of the furniture. However, the home was a one-bedroom and I haven't played Sims 2 enough to get around build-mode in the game and so...I left it as I spent too long that day just making my first sims family! I made my sim her own special someone in another household, with his mum and dad, the next day. Right now, I haven't gone back to the game and this was only in May this year haha. I will go back on Sims 2 again at some point and move my main sims family into a bigger home.

"ThePinkBookGirl;d-941911" wrote:
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?

In 2014 I bought the sims 4, (never had played the sims) I wont say my age at the time but I was yound enough to be scared easily. I remember downloading it from origin just being like, OMG imma make my family and it'll be so fun! So I made my family, CAS was a challenge because I was never introduced to the sims that much before. When making my family, I would sometimes change their hairs in outfits other than everyday. My sister ended up with an afro, she's a blonde white girl. I was shocked when I saw my family when we moved into our lot. Now, I saw some youtubers building their home so I was like, I'll do that! I moved onto an empty lot and was like, wait how do I build? I sat there and watched the wacky-sim version of my family talking and walking around in sped up time. My mom needed the toilet so I was like, I do not have a toilet. I moved my cursor around the screen before it landed on the build mode button. I got a toilet and placed it down, I decided she needed privacy while she used it so I made the tiniest triangle you could make with walls around the toilet. I did NOT put down a door. She peed herself and died of embarrassment. When the grim reaper arrived, I was terrified. I took one look at him and closed my laptop. I later said to my dad I wanted the sims 3 instead. So we set up a case on EA that we bought the wrong game, I got the sims 3 then.
What a game.

Started with a single CAS sim because didn't find any attractive to me. Then I did create even more, have babies.... I just tried to populate the town in my own way. I went into the uni thing, whose Sims were so much better. Then I started to kill/delete many of the Sims I don't like (which is bad for corruption, I learned it later) Lucky me I could still play that neighborhood a long time until I got interested in modding, which gave me a wish to restart.

I had totally forgotten The Sims even existed when I stumbled upon a Deligracy video on Youtube. 6 months and half a dozen youtubers later I bought myself the game and seeing how long it took to install it I started getting some cc.
I tried to make my simself (a total fail) and my sister and cheated to get us a penthouse.
I stopped playing us after a week because I somehow died of hunger and my little sister got pregnant :#

I played the original The Sims title so I wasn't completely in the dark my first time playing The Sims 2. The first thing I did was load into Pleasant View and look to see how many families I would recognize, then I played rotating through the NPC families learning their stories and watching them live their lives. It was a long time before I made my own sims and homes.

I was real young when my mother bought my Sims 2, but I'll never forget my first save.

This was maybe 2 years before Sims 3, so there were a lot of expansions. My mother only bought me the base game starting out, just to see if I liked it - She didn't want to waste any extra money if I didn't.

So, I started with the iconic 3 towns. I read all of their neighborhood boards before choosing one. I didn't like Romeo and Juliet, so no Veronaville. Strangetown seemed great for science Sims, but I didn't like aliens. Pleasantview had the most drama in the board, plus it had the Goth family which was my favorite from Sims 1 (Bella Goth forever goth goals), so I chose that one.

I started playing the Goths, found out Bella was never coming back, and left that family because no Bella, no play. The second family I chose during this was the Pleasant family. They were the perfect American suburbian family. Working woman wife with no love for her family. Husband who was cheating on her with the maid because he was lonely. Their two daughters left to do whatever they wanted, one being Little Miss Perfect, the other being Token Rebel Goth Girl (aka me IRL).

Playing the Pleasant family was how I realized I loved this suburbian dynamic for my Sims. So much drama! I could choose to help them through it, creating a strong family through it all, or just sit back and watch everything crash and burn, tearing the family apart. I played this family for a long while, then tried switching over to the others, but realized I really didn't like how the game worked for this. I didn't like having to switch back and forth for all the Sims in town to age. Eventually I just accepted this, and made my own Sims for the twins to marry when they aged up, then moved them out and ignored their parents forever. Rinse and repeat for the future gens of the twins, and eventually one of the grandchildren ended up dying before their parents and grandparents. At that time I didn't really care because I was too lazy to play other families.

My mother soon bought me all the expansions after that, and I remember doing a full reset on Pleasantview a few times to start over.

The first time I played Sims 2, I made my own family to figure out how to play. I learned fast, and also got bored fast. I was a kid with ADHD, so I always had to make new Sim families every few weeks to stay entertained. My families rarely ever became rich, as in had more than 10k, because I would get bored very fast. I did love having families, raising kids, college, ect, but eventually I just got bored and made a new couple to do it all over again with. I didn't last even two generations in my families.

As an adult, though, I play much differently than I did as a kid. I haven't played in 2 years (but am starting again today!), but I do remember my past few times of playing. I was playing rotationally, which is something I never did as a kid because loading screens existed and I thought they were evil. I was making proper story lines for my Sims, and keeping track of what was going on with them. Although, I still don't really like rotational play, in all honesty. It does feel like a chore, but that's how the Sims 2 works - There's no story progression unless you purposefully progress it. I'm used to it now, so it's easy and still fun!

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 1 remember very clearly.
My sister and I made 2 Sims. Abby and Raoul.
We wanted then to get married. But we had no idea how to play so they both got depressed and the sad clown came and we had no idea how to get rid of him. I think they both died.

Sims 2 I only ever played on PlayStation. Not much either. I don't recall my first save on that one at all.

Sims 3 I couldn't really get into because I hated the visual asthetic for some reason.

My first save on Sims 4 I created a Christmas couple as it was around Dec. They were called Merry and Grinch. Grinch died of embarrassment within 10 mins. Instantly my favourite Sims game. Haha

Seeing this older thread pop back up and reading all the comments reminded me of my VERY first start with TS2 right after it was released. I created my RL daughter, got her married and moved into a house. Then she cooked for the first time (you know where this is going). After she died, I vowed to never again create any Sims that are named after anyone I know. And I have stuck to that rule since.