I'm sure there are as many answers to the question as there is players, from those who has kept the same save for 10+ years without letting go to those who constantly start new saves, but for you, when do you know that it's time to let go?
If you start new games in the same save, how do you keep it safe from bugs and corruption?
I can so relate to this! When you've played a save for too long it's impossible to differentiate between your sims and the save, and also the family relations and the friendships that would just vanish... I could never handle it.
When I feel like I've exhausted a household or situation, or I'm just bored with the characters. Recently I decided to start a legacy-style game and have the heirs rebirth and be tracked in my followed households whilst living their lives according to neighbourhood stories and MCCC, but I honestly got so fed up I stopped when the generation 4 kids were teens. The family was super wealthy and the adults had so many traits I was just bored of them. I decided retain the various branches of the family in my households then start a new concept with new households in the same save.
It may also mean that I need a break from Sims 4. I'm planning to get back to BG3 but I was in a tricky situation when I took a break from it last year so I'm still a little hesitant about picking up where I left off.
Maybe when/if my main save becomes unplayable due to bugs?
I have wanted to start a new save, so that I could get rid of some bugs, and I have thought that maybe I could move the most important sims to a new save. Yet when my main save became unplayable due to the black photos bug (I have a back up so no worries) I realised I have way too many background sims I still want to have around and play, so moving only the most important sims isn't enough. I have almost as many stories as I have sims in my main save, so there's always someone I want to play.
Mama didn't raise no quitter and I could never abandon my babies. If this ship is glitched beyond human comprehension, I'll just go down with it <3
I usually let the story go when the original sim is already elderly, achieved a lot of things like getting job promotion to a higher level or had done a lot of things from their aspiration. Usually if their children are already grown ups and I dont know what the story would be then thats when I end the story.
When I get bored by a certain family or feel their story has run it's course, I usually start a new family within my save. I like encountering my own sims in my save. There are sims I switch back to when I feel like it.
I would only give up that save if it becomes totally unplayable. Let's hope that doesn't happen.
My biggest issue with bugs right now is missing and inaccessible lots. Also, I noticed a whole bunch of my townie families are... missing??
I'm actually considering starting a new save because the one I'm currently playing is so buggy that it's keeping me from doing all the things I want.
I typically have multiple storylines within the same save, so, for me, abandoning a story and abandoning the save are two different things. I never abandon saves. If I'm tired of a story, or a challenge, I move on to a different one, but I sometimes return to previously abandoned stories.
