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3 years ago

At What Point Do You Stop Playing a Save? UPDATE

I have come to discover a very painful reality. I play on Long, because I like having the time with my favorite Sims. I also have aging on for everyone. However, I may have created a mess by keeping Sims from moving into my save. At the very least, it's possible I should have had NS on, if only to allow for births. My first heads-up was when I sent the twins and their next younger brother to Prom. They were the ONLY students there. Just the three of them. I'm now wondering if I should simply add Sims to my save, via CAS, or just turn on NS to allow for births, which would take a longer time for the babies to become teens, which may make this notion moot.

Is it time to stop playing this save? Or do you perceive of a way I can salvage it? Please, and thank you, in advance.

~GalacticGal

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  • "Brd709;c-18314591" wrote:
    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.


    I don't leave this lot but for a moment. Not to play Erik's siblings, but only to make certain Bree had her youngest child and to have Erik take his horse back from Joey and Aaron. I'm thinking somehow, I managed to ham-string myself. LOL
  • UPDATE: I decided to spend some time today adding teens/families into my game. What I discovered when I added the Hillard's, a widower and his two teen children, that neither of the teens were in school. I forgot that at one time I set MCCC to have Child and Teens quit school. What happens automatically, is that none of the Teens are in school. So, I had both resume school, and I purchased schoolbooks for them. That's when it dawned on me to check the Teen I placed in my game just yesterday. Again, I had her resume school. Then, rather than add Sims from the Gallery, I checked on various worlds for the Teens. Turns out there's plenty of them, just NONE of them were in school. Okay, I hope this gives all of you a good chuckle. I will just say, these cheeks are quite red now. LOL

    Thank you for the positive suggestions. I am now ready to play my game tomorrow, (running out of time today). and we'll see what happens next in this accidental Saga I've created.
  • "SilentKitty;c-18314617" wrote:
    Good luck tomorrow :)


    Thank you. :)
  • Hope you found some good families to add to your save. I frequently, when I'm not in the mood to make them myself, search for some families on the gallery to pop into houses that are the same age as my played families kids. I will often kick singles out of the houses \. Finding teens is hard because it's hard to tell at a glance who's a teen in the gallery, lol. But I wanted to start a day care (with a mod) and my world only had a few toddlers so I grabbed a few families off the gallery and popped them into houses/apartments. now those kids are growing up with my kids, so they will share all the life stages together. I have long aging on, I like seeing kids grow up together.

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