How did you start your first save?

My very first time playing TS2 was about a year after TS3 came out. I started out creating my simself of me and my husband but of course being new to the game, I didn't know that I was suppose to set the relationship for them to either be bf or husband/wife. So with that being said, my first gameplay didn't go as well as it should had. I had placed them in a 1 bedroom house, so every time I tried to get them to sleep in the same bed, one would sleep in it while the other one refused to sleep in it.

I had no clue that we were supposed to pay the bills every few days, so the repo man/woman kept coming to the house to repo something from there.

I also didn't know that I couldn't have them multi-task in the game. I had my SS start cooking dinner and I so I thought that I would let her read a book while the food was cooking. Well you can guess what happens next. Yup, the kitchen catches on fire and my SS freaked out while the other sim was trying to put out the fire which he failed to do and died. And so the Grim Reaper shows up and takes his body and leaves his urn on the floor for me.

So with all that happened in the first couple of hours playing, I ended up not saving the game and started over with trying to get their relationship built up so that they can be gf/gf... :)

I made a wife, husband and daughter. Looked like THE most generic blonde white couple with a kid but hey-
I moved them into a house in Pleasantview and started playing with them. My 8yr old self had absolutely NO clue what she was doing so instead wasted all her money on bad furnishing and then started playing with her family to realise that she didn't know what she was doing and almost starved the daughter to death....yeah the house didn't even have a toilet either so you can imagine how everyone was doing. After that experience I played the tutorial for a while and quickly got the hang of it.

"hallow;c-16546346" wrote:
> @hallow said:
> I started playing the Sims 4 at a friend’s house, so I’ll talk about that save. I’d been watching a YouTuber who was making a Five Nights at Freddy’s Sims 4 series on her channel, so I decided to imitate it on my friend’s computer. I learned the motherlode cheat from another friend at the house that day, used the cheat, and bought the biggest house imaginable. I then failed at building add-ons and then promptly forgot about the save after that day. Created a new save the next day. I’m willing to bet she still has the saves on her computer, as she hasn’t played in years.

I just realized this is a Sims 2 thread. I’m so sorry.

It’s all good :smile: That is pretty funny to think that save will sit there in its odd state.

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> > I started playing the Sims 4 at a friend’s house, so I’ll talk about that save. I’d been watching a YouTuber who was making a Five Nights at Freddy’s Sims 4 series on her channel, so I decided to imitate it on my friend’s computer. I learned the motherlode cheat from another friend at the house that day, used the cheat, and bought the biggest house imaginable. I then failed at building add-ons and then promptly forgot about the save after that day. Created a new save the next day. I’m willing to bet she still has the saves on her computer, as she hasn’t played in years.
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> It’s all good :smile: That is pretty funny to think that save will sit there in its odd state.

Haha yeah.

"GrandmaJaney;c-16599550" wrote:
Dear ThePinkBookGirl,

I started my first save over a decade ago and I was sitting with my grandson in my lap as we created our sims together. he helped me choose all of their features and clothing and it was so wonderful. i still play with those sims even though he is now in high school.

That is so sweet! Love seeing family playing The Sims together :smile:

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 :#

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.

I explored the premade households in Pleasantview and then made some of my own sims. The first ones I made were a small family and I managed to get their child taken away.

That was 15 years ago lol! I guess I created a bunch of sims, and didn't played the premades much to begin with; a trend I largely corrected 15 years later ^.^