Creating new saves for legacies?

Correct me if I'm wrong legacies players, I don't play them very often. But, from reading threads here I believe what they do is just use 'save as' at the end of a generation with that same save file, and rename that save to 'Generation 2' or something similar at the beginning of a new Gen. I don't think they start a completely new game save from scratch. That would be A LOT of work to accomplish and yes, doing it that way you'd lose relationships, at least.

By doing this, you'll have a save game file for each generation in your legacy. I'm guessing this is a fail-safe in case something should happen to go wrong, whether the file gets corrupted or something and you'd be able to go back a generation and start over without losing much. I can see how this would be beneficial too if you just wanted to go back and use a different heir to see how the gameplay goes with them too.

I hope this helps! :)

I don't do this with the Sims 4, but in the Sims 3 I made a new save every new generation. Usually, when the kids turned into young adults and got out of my house, I would just select the "New Save" option and name it something like "Generation 4" or whatever. I would also edit the newly made young adults and save them to my library. I still have TS3 folders named after each generation filled with just past sims.

I made stories and took pictures on TS3, mostly. And sometimes I would look back on past photos and get nostalgic, so I'd go back to that specific generation. Other times I would see a "scene" that I could have done better and I would pull those sims out of my library literally just to retake photos, then I'd delete them until I needed them again.

Creating a new save each generation (and taking the save out of your EA folder and putting it somewhere in your documents so the game isn't clogged with saves) is a good idea if you're the nostalgic type.

I did the Save As. I still do it even though I'm not actually playing a legacy, per se. It refreshes the save and helps to keep it from corrupting. I will give it the surname of the main family, then I'll play the next gaming session and Save As Surname-1 or A, so I can distinguish them and it won't overwrite the previous save. That way, (and I had to do this recently) I can go back a save or two and pick up prior to where things went drastically wrong.

"Karababy52;c-16907738" wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong legacies players, I don't play them very often. But, from reading threads here I believe what they do is just use 'save as' at the end of a generation with that same save file, and rename that save to 'Generation 2' or something similar at the beginning of a new Gen. I don't think they start a completely new game save from scratch. That would be A LOT of work to accomplish and yes, doing it that way you'd lose relationships, at least.

By doing this, you'll have a save game file for each generation in your legacy. I'm guessing this is a fail-safe in case something should happen to go wrong, whether the file gets corrupted or something and you'd be able to go back a generation and start over without losing much. I can see how this would be beneficial too if you just wanted to go back and use a different heir to see how the gameplay goes with them too.

I hope this helps! :)

I wish I had thought of that when I first starting playing Pinstar's Legacy Challenge. Things went desperately wrong in Gen. 2. The rules are such you're supposed to just carry on and play it out, but you're not supposed to ever move out the heir. Well, I was playing a Patriarchy, which meant the heir had to be a male, plus one of the stipulations I chose is that the heir had to have a certain trait, too. After three boys without a matching trait, I moved the eldest out of the household to make room for additional babies to be born. Big mistake. Twin girls were born. Not only that but that stipulation you can't move out the heir stopped me from moving him back in and going on from there. No, silly me, I was unaware that the townies that do the walk-bys aren't always the same Sims. (I'd grown used to the same Sims living in the same houses in the same Worlds as in Sims2 and 3). I couldn't find my Founder's wife to pick up from there and create a new second generation in order for me to complete the challenge. Had I thought to create individual game saves using the Save As method, I could have simply gone back to before I moved him out. I should have also consulted the 'rules' again to see the contingency plan should a Sim not have the required trait. I could have just selected the heir. Would have saved me the heartache.

Thanks everyone for your replies! I'll definitely try doing Save As, instead of starting a complete new save and have to redo everything. My main concern was that I had heard doing this would help with keeping saves from corrupting as @GalacticGal said. My save now kinda has some glitches, and I was afraid it could mess up my legacy (which is actually the only gameplay I have going on right now.) Maybe I'll try the Save As now instead of waiting for gen 2.