Creating a "base save" game file

I've never done it myself. Everytime I try, I grow impatient and houses will become less and less detailed.

I do it occasionally and set them up neighbourhood by neighbourhood. I like to make them thematic if I can too, so doing it a neighbourhood at a time was easier for me.

What type of styles were you looking to go with for each town/neighbourhood? Would be happy to recommend a few if I think they'll fit.

"Munterbacon;c-16687435" wrote:
I do it occasionally and set them up neighbourhood by neighbourhood. I like to make them thematic if I can too, so doing it a neighbourhood at a time was easier for me.

What type of styles were you looking to go with for each town/neighbourhood? Would be happy to recommend a few if I think they'll fit.

I started with Willow Creek yesterday since I thought approaching it neighbourhood by neighbourhood would make the most sense as well.
In there for example, the two most expensive neighbourhoods (the 2 on the left of the park) have a colonial style. And the households living there have/would have good jobs and a steady income.
Then the cheapest neighbourhood I want houses that are cheaper and also quirky. I am planning of having artists and aspiring mixologists/chefs. Mostly single sims or YA couples.
The neighbourhood in between (where the Pancakes originally live) I want it to be kind of suburban southern style. With families with kids and medium income households.

I have a lot of ideas and builds planned for Winderburg (since it's my favourite world and I've played there the most).
I plan on having Magnolia Promenade to be the most exclusive place in my worlds. Where 4 very affluent families live in mansions.

For the rest, I am really open for suggestions :)

Sweet, I'll have a nosy through my gallery and see if anything I've got matches your plans.

To start off, here are a few things that I put into my saves regularly:

Triumphal Arch - used as a lounge (I place this at the location where the Harbour Quarter Gym is in Windenburg)

Newcrest:
Newcrest Park
Paradise Pools

I place these two side-by-side, as I think they compliment each other so well.

I'll add more if I can think of them but these ones I put in almost all my saves.

"Munterbacon;c-16687482" wrote:
Sweet, I'll have a nosy through my gallery and see if anything I've got matches your plans.

To start off, here are a few things that I put into my saves regularly:

Triumphal Arch - used as a lounge (I place this at the location where the Harbour Quarter Gym is in Windenburg)

Newcrest:
Newcrest Park
Paradise Pools

I place these two side-by-side, as I think they compliment each other so well.

I'll add more if I can think of them but these ones I put in almost all my saves.

Wow! Triumphal Arch is such a cool build!

The ones for Newcrest really look like they should be next to each other, I never build parks like that one, really inspirational, thanks so much!

I've been thinking about doing this, but I know that when I start it, I'll get bored after 2 to 3 houses :sweat_smile:

I just recently did this, and updated all worlds including the vacation ones. I just used the save I had been playing, and added all my updated lots to my library. Then I started a new save and just placed them all in the same areas. To be fair I had been playing my old save for a long time, so everything had been built up slowly. If you have a save with lots that you like, it could save you some time by just reusing a bunch this way.

I haven’t done this in years, but when I started my blank slate save I created the venues first to make a setting for the stories that would be happening in the worlds. Back then I only had the two base game worlds so it was pretty manageable. With the number of worlds now I would take it slow. Focus on one or two worlds and leave the rest blank, ideas for what to do with those could come while you’re shaping the ones you’re working on.

For me, filling up the worlds with different households was pretty fast. I would create basically my protagonist household and then any household that would be associated with them like friends/enemies or relatives. I treat the worlds as towns so most of their social interaction is done with Sims that live in the same town, and I rarely send them to places outside of their home world. I do leave empty lots around. I like to make new households from time to time and inject them into this town and the other stories within it.

The two saves I have are old now so I have changed them up quite a bit over the years. I like to remodel venues occasionally to make the towns feel like they are actually changing with time. I remove stuff, and add stuff. I add and remove households. As new worlds have been added I have slowly done the same for them. I don’t like the city world at all so I avoid it at all costs, and as pretty as BB is I really don’t enjoy playing there either so it’s not as built up as the base game worlds, MP and windenburg are. These days I use the gallery for a lot of my house builds, which saves me a ton of time designing the layout of homes.

As for the vacation worlds, I don’t touch those. I’ve downloaded some lots off of the gallery to put there, but my Sims don’t go on vacation very often.

I treat Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade as expansions of Willow Creek which has allowed me to have a little more real estate for that towns stories.

"drake_mccarty;c-16687922" wrote:
I haven’t done this in years, but when I started my blank slate save I created the venues first to make a setting for the stories that would be happening in the worlds. Back then I only had the two base game worlds so it was pretty manageable. With the number of worlds now I would take it slow. Focus on one or two worlds and leave the rest blank, ideas for what to do with those could come while you’re shaping the ones you’re working on.

For me, filling up the worlds with different households was pretty fast. I would create basically my protagonist household and then any household that would be associated with them like friends/enemies or relatives. I treat the worlds as towns so most of their social interaction is done with Sims that live in the same town, and I rarely send them to places outside of their home world. I do leave empty lots around. I like to make new households from time to time and inject them into this town and the other stories within it.

The two saves I have are old now so I have changed them up quite a bit over the years. I like to remodel venues occasionally to make the towns feel like they are actually changing with time. I remove stuff, and add stuff. I add and remove households. As new worlds have been added I have slowly done the same for them. I don’t like the city world at all so I avoid it at all costs, and as pretty as BB is I really don’t enjoy playing there either so it’s not as built up as the base game worlds, MP and windenburg are. These days I use the gallery for a lot of my house builds, which saves me a ton of time designing the layout of homes.

As for the vacation worlds, I don’t touch those. I’ve downloaded some lots off of the gallery to put there, but my Sims don’t go on vacation very often.

I treat Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade as expansions of Willow Creek which has allowed me to have a little more real estate for that towns stories.

Great tips there, thanks so much. Yes, I think I will focus on Willow Creek (with Magnolia Promenade) and Winderburg. And just add a couple of restaurants here and there in the other worlds and leave the rest for future improvisation.

I don't enjoy BB either, I find it utterly boring.

I went neighborhood by neighborhood. I started with new crest, built the houses, then the community lots, and lastly added sims. It was so fun to actually build so I started with those.