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?
Compulsively starting over is a valid gameplay style. 😉
Oh gosh yes! I have terrible Sims ADD. 😀I save everything so I tell myself I might go back to a previous save to continue playing, but I usually end up starting something new yet again. I love doing challenges and it's not necessarily out of boredom that I abandom them. I'm like a dog with a squirrel. I'll be playing one challenge and then see someone mention a different one on social media and I'm like *zing!* I want to do that. New save!
Lately what I've been doing is when a new pack comes out, I make a new save just for that pack and play it until I've tried all the new features and I've been forcing myself to not stop until I have at least completed some minor goals I set at the beginning. Like with Lovestruck, I made Sims for each of the new aspirations, and then two for each of the branches of the new career, and I'm playing until I complete them all. The aspirations were pretty easy to finish, but the careers are taking longer to get the skills up, etc, but I'm almost done. And while I do that I'm sort of doing a legacy I guess, because they're all having kids and growing older etc.
The only time I usually completely abandon a game is if it becomes too glitchy. On my previous computer I could only get to about 4th gen on a legacy before things started wigging out due to how many lots I'd placed (I like a FULL town), how many active Sims were in the game etc. But now I'm on a new computer so maybe I can actually get to Gen 10.
I've never done the 100 baby challenge either, so that would be fun to finish. I did start one (of course! LOL!) but she only has 3 kids so far and she's already overwhelmed. She'll probably die of exhaustion before much longer! 😁
I've been playing the same game since 2020. I decided to put Grim in my game and make a Sims family with him. It has provided me with hours upon hours of entertainment. I can't imagine playing any other save, my game just wouldn't feel the same.
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(Hi, I was Grimly Fiendish on the old forums. Occult Simmer: All Occults All The Time. She/Her pronouns)
I tend to create more than one Sim family for each of my Sim save files. Some are themed, while others aren't, and some are a mixture of the two. Each family may be set up a bit differently too. For example, mom, dad, and kids. Then another family with two sister living together, where one sister has a daughter. Also, moving some Sims out from the original family if I decide to give them a different life.
One thing I do sometimes with my themed type Sims, are based on a series I like. For example, I will create Sims based off of Harry Potter. I have three families where Ron, Hermione, and Harry are toddlers due to the limitations of families, so that Ginny has a chance of being born in the game. Harry is raised by his parents, but the Dursleys don't exist. Recently, I added two more families to the save, which are Harry, Ron, and Hermione all grown up with kids of their own, however due to limitations of family size, Ron and Ginny aren't related. For another family I plan to move in, I have Harry's parents alive as a teen, and living with them, his extended family, and Sirius and Remus.
Not all my Sims saves follow the same formula, but just changing a few things may keep you more engaged. Also, you may just need to take a break from the game for a bit.
Restarter here.
Idk why, but keep getting bored after a while. Recently played an evil, mean sim who became the crime boss. And as soon as she became the boss I got bored.
For some reason I keep gravitating back to farming and gardening, but I also get bored doing the same things over and over so I try doing new things and creating new sims but get so bored after a day of playing.
I can spend hours and days on building and decorating plots and then wanting sims to play and live in the houses I've made, but lose interest in playing those sims after barely a sim year has gone by 😂
The longest save I had going was after Eco Lifestyle came out, had so much fun with that, played that save for almost 6 months then I had to get a new computer and forgot about moving my save over and now it's lost forever since that old laptop died.
The scenarios available are so dull looking (no offence to whomever made them) I'd love for more challenging and hard ones to be released and less romance or family oriented, more wack and weird would be fun.
As long as a patch/update doesn't mess up my game I will continue to play the same save for as long as I can. All my lots and sims that I love and created are in the never ending saved game that I play. The only things that change in my game are my cc and mods. I always make sure my mods and cc are clean with every update and patch. This is the only way I can play the game my way. I play rotational with many sims and families. I do have them backed up; however I like to keep going slow without starting over.
I play a very slow game with no time limits on rotational play.
I’m a long term player but when some expansion packs come out I make new sims there in my same game, or every now and again I restart.
Like when growing together came out I just started again because I felt like all my older sims had missed out on milestones and things. Same when parenthood came out.
I restart regularly, but not because I'm bored. I develop (or start with) a story I want to tell, and when the story is over, I start with a new story. Some stories take generations, others take only one.
And sometimes my computer dies, or a key mod becomes abandoned, or an update really, really messes with a save...
Firmly in the restarter camp!
I stick with the same sims for years, but not with the same save. Thing is, I have my cast, that I like and whom I want to follow through their ups and downs. I'm not interested in seeing them die and get replaced by a new generation, so I usually play my sims for at most twenty story years before I start over with the same characters, but in a different timeline. Sometimes I just change their jobs, other times they get to experience a drastically different setting (like historical or occult). I'm learning a lot about my characters by throwing various living circumstances at them.
I usually stop with a save when I feel the story has concluded, vague as that sounds. For challenges there is a clear goal (like reaching Oregon or a certain amount of time has passed before tallying up the points), so that's easier.
Looking through my screenshots, I seem to keep a save for up to two months.
Meanwhile my sims are with me for eight years (Renegades), six years (Detroit) and one year (Star Wars) now.
more like start new game, play for a while, leave without saving (unless I'm working on a project)
