Safeguards?
Hello all! :) I'm technically not new to Sims 3. I have all of the expansions, most of the stuff packs, most of the worlds, etcetera. I just haven't played much at all since Sims 4 came out. And ...
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"Rainydayz179;c-16231004" wrote:
@JoAnne65 That's so cool that you're so many generations into a family. The most I've gotten has been legacy families where I played to the 10th gen and then used that gen to start something new. Lately, I get bored really quick and have been changing households and challenges a lot.
You mentioned that you save households to mediafire. How do you do that? I'm used to the gallery in Sims 4 where I can save households or builds as a backup.
Saving families happens in edit town. Just click on the family and a window will pop up. Choose the icon that says ‘share’.
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The file will end up in your Exports folder and from there you can save it to MediaFire. I prefer this to Sims 3’s “gallery” (the Exchange) because EA deletes them from there from time to time. Plus you may not always want other simmers to be able to download your household.
As for getting bored with one family, funny thing in my case is that that’s what happened to me in the beginning (jumping from one to the other). At one point I just decided to stick to this one family and make every new generation a fresh and different one. Not using any cheats helped me not getting bored as well (before that I’d constantly cheat ;)). And maybe playing rotational will work for you?
Oh, p.s., another tip concerning saving: not only save as, but also make sure to save at a regular point (in my case at night, as soon as they go to bed I save my game (as) and it’s become such a habit that I never forget). Sims 3 doesn’t have autosaving and this is what secures that. I also save after an event I really don’t want to lose (at night I number my file, when I save during the day I add a, b, c to the number).
