A Simmer reminded me the other day that we used to have a sort of memory timeline detailing the big (and sometimes not so big) events in our Sims lives.Things like mastering skills, going steady with a new boyfriend/girlfriend, graduations, first kisses, engagements, new jobs, weddings, births etc etc etc.I understand that there is a more complicated and slightly less accessible system in TS4.Does anyone use it? If so, what sort of things might I like to know about it in order to start using it for myself?

You mean in TS2?I didn't. I just let it do whatever it wants automatically. I feel like the only simmer who doesn't use it. Don't judge me. :D I don't think there's any for TS4 other than just taking a screenshot of that moment and then going into the screenshot manager (at the bottom middle of the screen) and then make it a memory and typing in your own comments about that moment.

I very much miss the memories timeline in both 2 and 3. It was such a cute part of the game! I'm not sure if it's the same thing that you're talking about... but, in 4 there is the screenshot capture manager that can make a screenshot a memory. You can also type up a blurb about the moment and also add or remove tags for sims (if it recognizes that they're there). From there, the current sim that you're playing can reminisce about the memory and gain it's moodlet. To help me remember story plots, I take an insane amount of screenshots and so, I use the manager a fair amount. It's also an easy way to get an ideal mood or requirement for jobs. Aside from that though, it's kinda meh. Unless I'm using it wrong or there's a way cooler system than I don't know of!

The memory feature in TS4 is used to allow sims to "reminisce" to gain a certain emotion based on the emotion that you assigned to the screenshot. In the Screenshot Capture Manager, after you turn a picture into a memory, the icon under the picture changes, and allows you to View the memory, and from there, Reminisce about the memory for a free moodlet.You access it by going to the Camera Options (the little shutter symbol at the bottom of the screen, next to speed 3) and clicking on the Screenshot Capture Manager button (the little picture of mountains).After they patched it, the emotion is automatically detected based on what's happening in the picture. The downside to this is sometimes the player has a different emotion in mind for a moment, depending on the context.I don't really use the feature myself because I take thousands of screenshots, so the SCM takes forever to load them all, and it sorts the most recent ones to the very bottom (why?).Edit: my bad, didn't see someone already answered!

So it doesn't make a smaller, linear album thing of the memories only? The only way to access them is through screenshot manager?

It always got on my nerves in TS3, I always disabled it.

Does anyone use the Memories thing?

69 Replies

DeKaythePUNK
Legend
9 years ago
You mean in TS2?

I didn't. I just let it do whatever it wants automatically. I feel like the only simmer who doesn't use it. Don't judge me. :D

I don't think there's any for TS4 other than just taking a screenshot of that moment and then going into the screenshot manager (at the bottom middle of the screen) and then make it a memory and typing in your own comments about that moment.
moppy14w
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
Sorta @DeKay. What does making the memory do?
Zurisiku
9 years ago
I very much miss the memories timeline in both 2 and 3. It was such a cute part of the game! I'm not sure if it's the same thing that you're talking about... but, in 4 there is the screenshot capture manager that can make a screenshot a memory. You can also type up a blurb about the moment and also add or remove tags for sims (if it recognizes that they're there). From there, the current sim that you're playing can reminisce about the memory and gain it's moodlet. To help me remember story plots, I take an insane amount of screenshots and so, I use the manager a fair amount. It's also an easy way to get an ideal mood or requirement for jobs. Aside from that though, it's kinda meh. Unless I'm using it wrong or there's a way cooler system than I don't know of!
moppy14w
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
That's closer to what I'm asking. @Christinabee
leo3487
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
Memories?
No than it TS3 Generations?
DeKaythePUNK
Legend
9 years ago
"NRowe;15487100" wrote:
That's closer to what I'm asking. @Christinabee

Okay yeah basically she already said whatever the TS4 memories do.
PockyRulez
Seasoned Adventurer
9 years ago
The memory feature in TS4 is used to allow sims to "reminisce" to gain a certain emotion based on the emotion that you assigned to the screenshot. In the Screenshot Capture Manager, after you turn a picture into a memory, the icon under the picture changes, and allows you to View the memory, and from there, Reminisce about the memory for a free moodlet.

You access it by going to the Camera Options (the little shutter symbol at the bottom of the screen, next to speed 3) and clicking on the Screenshot Capture Manager button (the little picture of mountains).

After they patched it, the emotion is automatically detected based on what's happening in the picture. The downside to this is sometimes the player has a different emotion in mind for a moment, depending on the context.
I don't really use the feature myself because I take thousands of screenshots, so the SCM takes forever to load them all, and it sorts the most recent ones to the very bottom (why?).

Edit: my bad, didn't see someone already answered!
moppy14w
Seasoned Ace
9 years ago
So it doesn't make a smaller, linear album thing of the memories only? The only way to access them is through screenshot manager?
DeKaythePUNK
Legend
9 years ago
"NRowe;15487173" wrote:
So it doesn't make a smaller, linear album thing of the memories only? The only way to access them is through screenshot manager?

Yes.
NeonnKnightt
9 years ago
It always got on my nerves in TS3, I always disabled it.