I tend to play without memories enabled these days because of concerns with save file lifetime but I looked back at my old "My Page" from a few years back and oh boy- drama! I forgot that so much stuff happened in my old save file and it covers more than 40 pages of memories.People having romantic interests, siblings stealing partners from each other, marriages, break-ups, tons of appliance repairs... it just goes on.Makes my most recent save file seem pretty calm to be honest.The save file in question has long since stopped loading though... RIPHow about you guys? Do you still play with memories enabled? Anything interesting happened in your previous generations?

I tend to blog my game-play so, I have tons of screencaps (C on the keyboard). That's how I keep my memories. I'm sure that there's tons of pics that I haven't used for my story chapters, but at least they're there to look back on.

Oh yeah, I used to share memories A LOT on the old my page. I think people hated me for it. :D Memories can really clog up a save file so I've had them turned off for years. I blog my sim stuff on Tumblr. Makes it really easy to grab screenshots and document everything.

I still use and like the scrapbook memory system but only with a mod that stops it from capturing the trivial ones. It's controllable so that the player can decide which types of memories are trivial and which are more important. A small collection of memories per sim (like 20 or fewer) isn't necessarily going to bloat up a save like the 300 maximum each can.http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=446281

Memories kind of annoyed from the moment they were first introduced, so I stopped enabling awhile ago and don’t intend to go back. However, I do take plenty of screenshots, so it works.

@Simtown15 sounds like you might benefit from the memory managing mod that igazor mentioned earlier. It gives you full control over the memories you want enabled and allows for custom memories.

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SolitaryBeing
Rising Hotshot
8 years ago
I would like to document the story of my Sims but it takes a lot of work and it won't always be interesting.
simtown15
8 years ago
I have a sim who fishes and she had 206 memories, more than half from fishing. At around 200 memories on one sim, the game gets corrupted, and so did mine. I needed my mom's help in order to fix it. Now, I delete her fishing memories frequently, so she has much less.
SolitaryBeing
Rising Hotshot
8 years ago
@Simtown15 sounds like you might benefit from the memory managing mod that igazor mentioned earlier. It gives you full control over the memories you want enabled and allows for custom memories.
simtown15
8 years ago
"UnseenHorizon;c-16257103" wrote:
@Simtown15 sounds like you might benefit from the memory managing mod that igazor mentioned earlier. It gives you full control over the memories you want enabled and allows for custom memories.

I think I'll get that! @igazor saves the day again!
Edit: I tried getting the version to customize the memories. There were so many, some I didn't even know existed. I feel overwhelmed.
igazor
8 years ago
"Simtown15;c-16257111" wrote:
Edit: I tried getting the version to customize the memories. There were so many, some I didn't even know existed. I feel overwhelmed.

It's not required to use the customization tool. You might want to set that aside if it's overwhelming. With all EPs in play, it certainly can take a while to slog through the entire list. Perhaps try the standard "important memories only" version at first and see how that goes?
Odonata68
8 years ago
I turned off memories in game options to avoid the problems I read about. I might look into that mod, though. ;)
astridentanja
8 years ago
I turned off memories in the game as soon as I could. But like @Nikkei_Simmer I store my sim’s histories on a blog. I surprise myself that I’m doing that almost only for myself nowadays (I used to share their stories on a forum but stopped doing that a couple of years ago) and still having fun with that. For me it’s become part of the game apparently. I love giving them a background that way. But I don’t need the game to do it for me.
Ornkal
New Scout
8 years ago
I originally liked memories, but it bothered me how many memories were captured without an adequate image because I was focusing the camera on something else at the time. My sims' memories would have many events noted with hardly any pictures. Trying to acquire and manage these pictures with more than one sim in a household were a pain, so now I've got the memory system turned off and I take my own screenshots. It's fun to look back them.
brionl
8 years ago
It's too bad really, because the Sims 2 memory system was so great. There's only so many times I can see "Grew a Perfect Tomato Plant!" before I lose it.

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