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jpkarlsen
8 years agoHero (Retired)
Consoles has a maximum of 5 saves You can have more than one family in each save.
- Anonymous8 years agoYou may find me daft but how would that work? Won't it save over another family and wipe that other family off as the new one would jump in front???
- EA_Mai8 years ago
EA Staff
Hi @SandraWozna,
Short version:
As with The Sims 2, you can have more than one family in one save game. Just load one of your save games, and when you get to the map view, instead of loading your current family, use the button in the botton right corner of the screen to create a new family in the same world.
Long detailed explanation:SpoilerOn The Sims 2 for PC each neighborhood was a save game, and you could have different households in each neighborhood, right? But you could only have one copy of each neighborhood. You had one save game which was Pleasantview, another one that was Strangetown,... You could have 2 families living in Pleasantview, which could meet each other, but Sims living in Pleasantview couldn't meet or visit Sims living in Strangetown.
In The Sims 4, each save game is a copy of all neighborhoods - each save game is a copy of the world (contains all neighborhoods). Having 5 save games, you have 5 copies of the world: 5 Willow Creek, 5 Newcrest,... You can have different households in the same world, and now Sims living in Willow Creek can meet Sims living in other neighborhoods, as long as they are part of the same savegame, as long as they live in the same copy of the world.
In The Sims 4, when you start a new save game, you are creating a clean new copy of the world. You can have more than one household in the same save game, but for that you need to create the new households in an existing save game, instead of creating a new save game.
If you load one of your save games, you see the world map, right? Now that you are inside that save game, instead of loading your household (let's call them Family A), use the option you will find in the right bottom corner of the screen to create a new household in that same save game (Family B). This new household will live in the same save game than Family A.
Hope that helps. If long explanation sounds complicated, don't worry, once you create the family following the steps I shared you will understand 🙂
Happy simming!
-Mai- Anonymous8 years agoThanks so much for this it really helps. And you may think I'm really silly with the question but how do I move between saves (which are various versions of towns I understood) and know which town/save I am in?
Thanks
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