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mw1525
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago

Hindsight 20/20 - What Good Advice Were You Given and Ignored?

When I began playing this game back in 2012 I didn't really know what to do with it. So, I began looking for 'tips' online as to get some sort of idea as to how other people played. One piece of 'Good Posted Advice' I came across was this:

"When creating Sims, create a bunch of them all at one time. Create some to keep in your library, it will eventually save you time in the future as your game progresses."

Fast Forward to today.

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The kind of game I play is very realistically detailed. I find I am always in need of Sims to fill one role or another. Or, to be trained as support (back-up) if one of my main world Sims should die or heaven forbid corrupt. To date I have almost 800 Sims spanning many worlds. Some of those Sims were born, others of them were re-made from original townies, some were downloaded from other Simmers; but most were created by me. I have spent a lot of time over the years stopping my game play because I now needed a Sim to fill a role which wasn't in existence when I began the save. In hindsight, If I had only heeded the advice someone took the time to post, I could have saved myself an enormous amount of lost gaming time.

So, what's your story? What good advice did you come across which didn't seem valuable at the time but in hindsight proved to be right on the money?

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    mw1525
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @Nikkei_Simmer - I have a shameful amount of CC which is sadly for the most unorganized. I keep saying (and attempting) to try to organize it all but, when I open some of the file folders where stuff is stored, I get overwhelmed and just close the folder. Worst than that is I'm always downloading more :(!

    @emorrill - Much like my CC, I have a massive amount of screenshots which hasn't been sorted. I pretty much screen shoot everything when in game and have from the very beginning! In addition, because I have such a large number of Sims, I have to keep a file for each one of them or else I would seriously lose track of someSim. This file contains images of the Sim, any CC they have, clothing they have assigned, make-up they are wearing (if any) and the color codes for those custom colors that I create and so on. On top of all that, I keep a 'closet' catalog of outfits my Sims wear because I change their clothes daily. It just looks better to me when telling their story if they are not always wearing the same outfit.

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