I think the mention of style of game play interesting. I also tend to play one family. Now that doesn't mean I stick to one house/lot for that whole duration.
I start with a single sim or couple, they have kids, kids grow up and then as the original sims age I pick one household child and have them move out and I start all over again.
This is how I was playing up until the LN Patch ate my saved files with invisible sims and missing control panel. I have since attempted to try again and after a few sim weeks something corrupts in my game again. This time, just this week, I found everyone in town spawning to one lot. As I said earlier in this thread resetsim didn't work as sims would spawn right back to this lot.
I did have several screenshots but after I cleaned out cache files my screenshots were also gone. Why? I never touched the screenshot folder.
Frankly, I am getting well beyond frustrated. I no longer see the point of this game if I can't get beyond a certain stage. Like someone above mentioned, it's like getting to the end of a movie only to have the ending blacked out.
