Are You a Restart Game Addict or...
Are you the kind of Simmer who sticks with one game for years and years or are you like me and struggling to stick with one game for any amount of time? How long do you stick with the same game? Wh...
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Guilty as charged. I am the Queen of Restarts. I did some "treatment", as it were, when I chose to simply do a game save recovery, instead to fix whatever went horribly wrong. That did help, but I have been charged with restarting just so I could play the latest game pack with my preferred family. This was correct. I also, having saved my family when my Sim, Erik Cantrell, had reached Global Superstardom, and instead of a full-blown restart, I picked up with that saved version of the nuclear family where he began. All of this to allow him to meet and marry Kayleigh Golden via MWS.
With the changeover in forums, I got the bug to truly restart by taking my Cantrell family back to the beginning. I had created Erik back in 2014. When Sims 4 came out. I used him for the Pinstar Legacy Challenge, since he was a Superstar in Sims 3. From him I generated parents, again, only this time I went for a slightly different look. From them I created his older brother, Aaron. Aaron was a Toddler, and I aged Erik down to an Infant to start their story in Cantrell: The Early Years. (Shameless plug)
I am having a blast filling in some of the many blanks of this family's story. I play the game as a stress-reliever, so if something bugs me enough, I simply have to have a do-over to make it 'right'.
As for crashing and burning, it just hasn't happened, yet. But then again, I still love Sir Paul McCartney, too . . .
I SO envy those who can do a legacy challenge! I too am the Queen of Restarts. I do try to play a save for as long as I can, but it seems as if every time EA updates our game, my saves act weird and I just start another. (I have just discovered WHY my saves are wonky...I forget to put my mods back into my game before playing it and every one is bald, naked, and houses empty) When I can play, I try to do a weekly rotation for each household. It helps to have a mod that extends the age of the sims, so I turn off household stories so no one dies or has a baby while I am playing another household. The last save I had before the one I am playing, I forgot to turn that off and Kyle Kylerson(?) died on the way to the sims house I was playing. Kept getting messages about him but I never could find where he had died. My sims was heartbroken and it ruined my play, I will admit. I couldn't stand that I couldn't find where he was when he died as he didn't have a household in the first place. My sim was going to invite him to move in after he called and said he was on his way.
But a legacy...I would love to keep a game going long enough to play that!
I relate! I get very upset at such funny stuff. How dare my toddler's milestone not register. LOL. Ruined. How dare my household of 8 get far far out of whack because my toddler refused to eat. Ruined. I mean it sounds ridiculous because I know in the grand scheme of things, it (whisper) just a game. But it doesn't feel like it when you have such high hopes for them. I don't understand why I'd rather start over than allow a few milestones not to tick off. 🤭
The secret for me in the Sims4 Pinstar Legacy Challenge was to bring Erik Cantrell forward from Sims3, where he became a Superstar. I used his desire to have a family of his own as the impetus as my Founder. He was lucky in music but sadly so unlucky in love. Poor guy. LOL He was ripe to be my Founder. This idea may help you, too. Choose your most favorite Sim and go from there. You need a Sim with whom you wish to know everything about , so that everything they experience matters to you.
I have favorite sims, but most of them really don't have a story. I think that's part of what I need, is to stick with one sim and one line of goals (maybe career or whatever) long enough for them to feel full and not flat.
I tend to use the same loved sims, but I start them back with no skills, etc because that's how I save them in my library. I redo their hair and clothing, maybe makeup if I'm feeling like it. So I have at least 3 of every sim saved in different outfits and traits. I love my sims, but not enough to keep them going...sigh.
