At What Point Do You Stop Playing a Save? UPDATE

I'd just download some families with teens from the Gallery.

"simgirl1010;c-18314565" wrote:
I'd just download some families with teens from the Gallery.

I did create and add a teen girl with Jamison in mind, but even she wasn't at the Prom. :open_mouth: But, grabbing a few from the Gallery may be a great solution.

Yep. I did that when HSY released and it was so cool seeing them show up at school. I had the Brady Bunch, Married With Children, and a few others I can't remember.

ETA: There's also no NPC aging in my game so all the original townie teens are still teens. ?

Absolutely not a reason to stop playing a save. You have come so far.

Indeed make new families yourself in CAS or like @simgirl1010 said, download from gallery. :)

Usually I only stop playing a save if the save is no longer working properly, for example the game is lagging, freezing or anything that makes the save unplayable for me. I always wish I could run long family legacy stories but nope, it is very difficult for me as I love managing lots of things like Sims households in the worlds and help with the Neighborhood story aspects by making certain scenarios more likely to happen, such as a married couple getting a new baby in the family, but sometimes I think I stop playing because there are so many Sims/horses/cats/dogs in the save and then I may create a new save and potentially upload some of my progressed Sims to the Gallery so I can re-use them in a new save and start it fresh, an entire alternate universe of new possibilities and storylines :blush:

"ULIBABA66;c-18314576" wrote:
Usually I only stop playing a save if the save is no longer working properly, for example the game is lagging, freezing or anything that makes the save unplayable for me. I always wish I could run long family legacy stories but nope, it is very difficult for me as I love managing lots of things like Sims households in the worlds and help with the Neighborhood story aspects by making certain scenarios more likely to happen, such as a married couple getting a new baby in the family, but sometimes I think I stop playing because there are so many Sims/horses/cats/dogs in the save and then I may create a new save and potentially upload some of my progressed Sims to the Gallery so I can re-use them in a new save and start it fresh, an entire alternate universe of new possibilities and storylines :blush:

I have to admit I did take the newer saves (I always Save As each playing session) so I could place just those few in a new game folder, which I did very recently. Had I realized there were next to no kids, other than Erik's and Bree's around, I would have done something then. But, yeah, here I sit on a nearly impossible situation. For Pity's Sake Judith Ward just deceased! I suppose I could transplant these save, do a slight rollback and quickly add other Sims w/kids/ teens, et al into the game?

ETA: I do have the save backed up from when Cadence just aged into a Child . . .I just don't wish to have to remove chapters that are already written to fix a timeline.

I don't understand why it's an impossible situation when you can simply create or download more families and add them to the game. Then your teens can befriend them for all sorts of teen activities and school mates.

And potential love interests. ❤️

"GalacticGal;c-18314582" wrote:
But, yeah, here I sit on a nearly impossible situation.

Just add new families to save. Not even take long if you download those :) not impossible at all.

My current save has been going since February 2021. Just when the last of my sim self's children are out of the house, MCCC throws a curveball and he somehow manages to have several more children while playing other households. My plans for him to age up to elder get put on hold but that's a good thing as i get to keep him as an adult for a few more sim years as i reset his adult life stage back to the beginning when more kids come along.

"Ellupelluellu;c-18314590" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-18314582" wrote:
But, yeah, here I sit on a nearly impossible situation.

Just add new families to save. Not even take long if you download those :) not impossible at all.

Thanks, I'm so not finished with Erik, yet.