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? When do you crash and burn?
I used to do restarts over and over again, hardly played a household longer than maybe a month before I got bored and created a new one. That has changed when I created my current main household last year in April or May. It was the first time in Sims 4 that I had created a couple and had a pretty good idea what I wanted to do with them in terms of careers before I started creating them in CaS. I have been playing with them ever since, there have been many ups and a few downs, they've moved to a new house twice, started a family after a while because they felt there was something missing... by now, they have a full-fledged story they can tell their kids... and with the kids, I find it interesting to see how they develop, what traits they get when they age up... and then I start thinking what other traits would match those and what kind of profession would be perfect for that Sim.
I've also started adding new households over the past months, all of which are somehow connected to each other, and I make sure they meet each other and become friends. There will be more households in the future as the main household's kids grow up and need places of their own... and eventually, I want at least one household per world 😁 Currently, my households are spread across six worlds, so there's a lot to be done, and I can totally see myself sticking to that save for a long, long time. I've just gotten very attached to those households and the Sims therein, and while rotational play is a bit stressful, it's also fun to explore different gameplay mechanics, traits, careers, skills etc with different Sims.
So glad to know I'm not the only one! This sounds just like what I do.
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.
I'm laughing because I go back in time and then leave 'future' stuff hanging there like little threads in the holes in my jeans. 😅
I have a feeling I need to keep my sim single longer. I love being a family person in real life, so I keep figuring I want to in sims. But that's when I quit. I think I need to stick with a single sim until I'm really happy with their progress and can actually shift focus to the husband or child. I find it frustrating diving my focus up between sims. Maybe that's my problem. I don't think I've ever played with just one sim. I should try that. 🤯 You may have just solved the issue for me, lol. thank you!!!
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!
Recovering restarter here 😄
My current game is the longest I've stuck with one EVER. I am rotating around 16 quite different households, which helps, and am half way through my third sim year (4 week seasons). Normally I don't make it through one sim year, so this is a big achievement for me. I took all my favourite sims from all my favourite past games, aged them down and gave them parents and am seeing how they now turn out. I'm really enjoying it.
My main restart reason used to be new content coming out and I would think of new ideas I wanted to implement which didn't fit with my current game. Or just new ideas popping into my head randomly.
I do this as well, Crocobaura; I always have, with all my The Sims games, right from the start. Generally I will start a new family when a new pack featuring a new world is released, so I can have fun learning about all the new stuff in CAS for it. But all my sims and their worlds, and builds, are on one save. Like you, I enjoy seeing my sims interacting in all the different worlds, all together.
It seems so obvious reading it, but I never thought to keep my new pack sims in the game I'm already playing. I always start a new save to try it out.
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. 🤭
