How long do you guys usually keep playing a save file for?

Hi :mrgreen:

I seem to lose interest once the children arrive. :(

I've also never been able to last long rotating through a neighborhood. I have tried at least 4 times with Pleasantview. 3 times with my own town, Troll Valley.
I love playing them but I always get to the children and lose interest. Even cute kids. :sigh:

Usually it's the "Gen 2 are moving out and you have to pick a favorite or struggle with rotational" stage for me.
Edit: Oh, wait this is a TS2 thread sorry. Should I delete this?

"Rflong7;c-17885737" wrote:
Hi :mrgreen:

I seem to lose interest once the children arrive. :(

I've also never been able to last long rotating through a neighborhood. I have tried at least 4 times with Pleasantview. 3 times with my own town, Troll Valley.
I love playing them but I always get to the children and lose interest. Even cute kids. :sigh:

I'm glad to hear it isn't just me! I believe this is my...what, 3rd time starting Pleasantview over? ? I can't even get my Sims to the child stage. My neighborhood has a massive baby boom and I suddenly lose all desire to play because keeping up with the little gremlins is hard! ?

About a month for me, restartitis hits after all my houses max out their skills and end up where they used to be.

My first BDC was about 3 years, although that savefile wasn't one I could keep playing for any reason other than corruption.

I find it hard to keep playing the same save file. Now I have around 70 Sims for one sim year (rotation with all the seasons done). And I've been playing for a few months.

It really depends when I feel I am done with it. Most saves I reroll fairly often, but I can also get attached to saves. For example, I still have my first file I played and have gone back to it before. Just not in a long time. So it is really all over the place for me, but I suppose the short of it is when I am not attached not long and possibly eternally if I am. I still have my old Sims 3 saves I retrieved off an old early 2000s PC.

I usually create a married couple in CAS and count that as gen 1. I often make it to about gen 3. I’ve not gone further than that, I think.

I don't play legacy but might have a family or two that has grown older and their adult kids also live in the neighborhoods etc. I play the entire town (my own, never Maxis) and kept a save (still have it) that last more than ten years. It's why I can say sometimes corruption is overrated. I actually played it off and on for more than ten years but as I said not every family had kids or adult kids in the hood. I build a lot, a mean a lot, so I may have 25 or more main hoods in the files and skip around depending on my mood. It's so much easier these days to have that many hood in the game with better pcs as it was when the game came out. But,yeah at least one hood (mine) I played for more than ten years.

I played all neighborhoods in Sims 2 about over 4 or 5 times, but I continue playing even the kids. It's fun following the legacy of my made up sims, following up with their kids as they grow up to adults. Then having them move out, following their journey as life continues on. I also made things a bit more difficult, so things aren't so easy. Like for example, flus are more deadly and more realistic.

I’m playing first save since 2014. I have two other saves I tried playing, but have no internet in them.