Do you find it hard to get reconnected after you haven't played in a while?

With some I find hard to reconnect back with; others I’m like
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“Overly attached” to. :mrgreen: like River and Haruo.
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...may get writer’s block but won’t have trouble reconnecting with them..,

Hahahaha that's awesome

I've taken several longer breaks from Sims 3, and I've never been able to really pick up where I left off with my previously played family. I think I've ended up starting a new game every single time, whether right away or after a couple of days of not feeling attached enough to my existing sims. I even have trouble playing sims I've previously moved out within the same save, like once I stop controlling them I lose the thread and can't quite get it back.

I kind of feel bad about it, but then again, there are enough interesting potential storylines in the game that there's not much point in playing one that doesn't feel compelling anymore.

After a longer hiatus, it can be difficult to remember exactly where I was going with a particular household. I find that looking through my notes and past screenshots helps me reorient and reconnect. I have several saves I rotate between, so there’s usually at least one family that I have an urge to get back to after reviewing my options.

However, it’s not unusual for me to come up with several new ideas for saves during a hiatus. I’ve always had more build projects and game scenarios I’ve wanted to explore than I have time for anyway, and forced time away from simming only adds to the list, lol.

A recent example: Life got crazy busy in early October and stayed interesting for awhile, so I hadn’t opened the game again until about two weeks ago. Three months later, I’m still very interested in my older games, but the new save ideas that had developed in the interim were too compelling to resist. So I started setting up the worlds, creating new Sims and building for some of those instead, and am now on week 7 with one of them.

My other saves are safely backed up and available for whenever I want to continue them, and I always do eventually. I just follow the mood.

I haven't had any real long term breaks from playing, except when I have been working on a CAW project, as I am now, or when my computer was being repaired or upgraded. While waiting to get my computer back, I have always played on my laptop, with the intention to return to the save I had to leave. Each time, it has been hard to get back to the save I left, and more often than not, I just start over, sometimes with the same household, but sometimes with a totally new one. I do have all my old, unfinished saves saved on my computer and a removable hard drive, but if I ever do revisit any of them, it will more likely be by starting them over, probably in the world I'm working on right now. I'll probably give them CAS makeovers first though, as I'm much better at making distinctive looking sims than I was way back in the beginning.

The longest break I had was a couple of months when my puter needed fixing. I didn't have any trouble going right back into their stories. I play several different saves so sometimes it may be months before I get back to one of the other families.

"puzzlezaddict;c-17370592" wrote:
I kind of feel bad about it, but then again, there are enough interesting potential storylines in the game that there's not much point in playing one that doesn't feel compelling anymore.

@puzzlezaddict -I hear ya on that one

I hate plot-bunnies. They proliferate like rats. These insipid creatures are the main reason why I have so many sims stories on the go. I also think fanfiction.net is to blame as well. After all how many times have you put up a story and then come back to it and can’t find the gumption to keep going with it. Happens to me all the time.

Whether it’s an unenforced hiatus like a computer repair that takes forever to do or an illness or whatever that takes immediate time away from my story, then when I do get back to it my flow thus having been interrupted takes ages to come back.

...which ends up resulting in a whole lineup of stories that end up looking like this:
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My fanfiction.net completion rate isn’t all that hot either. Especially when each chapter usually gets completed when I’m on a roll. And that happens once in a blue moon.
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Considering how slow I am at even trying to write a chapter. 5000 words in three days. Is it any wonder why I didn’t pursue writing as a career?

When I took a two year break I didn't come back to an existing family but imagine it would be difficult to get to the point where I felt attached to an old family as I feel a little "lost" when I leave a family for a few months these days. There are many sims I feel attached to even if I haven't played them for years but not so much them in a family settings.

Once a took a break from the game for about a year. When I picked up again it was like coming home. As I remember, I did find it hard to reconnect with the family I was playing at the time, though.

I wish I had saved my Legacy families. I do take long breaks from playing to build but I had a few great families I really enjoyed playing years ago. I lost them in the many computer "cleanings" I've done. Probably thinking I'd never play them again. :(