Moving from old to new save - worth it?

ForanzoF​  I am in the process of doing that for the 3rd time.  My last 2 saves died from corruption.  But I was able to save most of my sims and custom lots.  It has taken me months of work with more to go before I am ready to actually play again.  I still have 9 worlds to go.

The reason for taking so long as I am editing every sim to mostly add the likes/dislikes and turn ons/offs.   And I've done total makeovers on a good number of premades in the last few packs.   I have a lot of relationships to reset and have tried to replace a number of premades with my played versions and keep the new game family trees intact.  That's been hit and miss, especially for the extended family trees with ghosts in the tree.  Tbh, it's really tough and I've pretty much decided it's not worth the trouble when the relationships are extended out.  Most parent/child relationships are fairly easy to reestablish though using a combination of the CAS cheat and MCCC.   

The big thing about moving all the sims and lots simply time.  It takes a lot of time.  I've been at this for the last 3 months almost every day.  Some days it's all day.  It also gets really tedious and takes a lot of patience.  So, if you can afford the time and have the patience, go for it.

Hope this helps.

Ohhh, that's clever!! You know, seeing someone say that they change their saves often is reassuring!! That means it works :) I have 19 generations already but I actually do kill them off when it's time so I only have like 2-3 separate households; I can always cheat the relationships with MCCC, I'm not opposed to using mods to make sure everything works.

I don’t know how I would create a family tree without actually creating those Sims but I think it's not that important to me since 1. those past generations are dead anyway, and 2. I have my family tree done on FamilyEcho. Not to mention the R&L DLC broke family trees anyway so a lot of them show as alive even though they're long gone XDD Thank you for sharing, your insight is much appreciated!!

I do this often because for whatever reason, after my legacy gets to about 5th or 6th gen weird glitches start happening in the save (probably due to me being close to maxing out my number of Sims by then since I tend to have large extended families), not always game breaking, but just annoying enough so I like to start fresh, save my favorite families to the gallery and plunk them into a new save and continue the legacy from there. 

A new save also gives me the chance to redo the towns, add different lots for entertainment, or maybe build up Newcrest with a different aesthetic or theme, because maybe I'm bored with what I had before, and also by this time all the OG townies in my game have died off so a new save brings them all back in case I wanted to have a story that involved them. 

The downside is that my saved Sims lose their family connections if they live in different households, but I was able to reconnect one set to another recently using the new "adopt" option (is this from R&L or base game? Not sure), so my elder Sim mother could basically claim back two of her adult children who lived in another household and put them back on her family tree. The separate families also have to get to know one another again, because the relationships are back to square one (I don't use cheats for things like that--I suppose you could maybe?), but given how long I've played the characters, most have pristine reputation or some other trait that makes friendships quick to build. Not an issue for me. 

It is tedious to recreate a lot of things, but also it feels like a fresh start with familiar characters and at least in my case, the game runs very smooth when starting fresh. No cobwebs in the files I guess. 😊Plus, as you mentioned, some bug fixes/updates only apply to new saves, so you get that benefit too.