At any given time I have my main save (Sims 4) and two or more side-saves (any sims game).
My main save is always rotational and lasts about two years (although the longest running made 8 years, back in Sims 2).
At the moment I maintain 17 households seperated into specific themes:
- The party- and outing happy police sims with their huge townie co-workers followership
- The fantasy loving college friends starting out families but keeping in touch
- The experiments going on at the Rooftop farm
- The close-knit military families Thornton and Leroy
- The actors trying to build up their own movie studio
- The androids trying to gain recognition as living beings
These six themes could just as well be seperate saves, but I like the sims to intermingle either as friends or as rivals.
The side-saves are usually dedicated to specific challenges. They come and go quickly.
