I usually save once an hour when playing, but after hurricane milton went through here and our power went out (and keeps going out few times a day) I've started saving every five min lol.
What's your worst memory of forgetting to save and game either crashes or power goes out?
I save VERY often.
And I also make frequent backups of my S4 documents folder. Some of the backups containing extensive changes I keep forever.
But I also learned that there seems to be some kind of reverted Murphy's law. As long as you take care of your data by saving often and backing up frequently you don't need those fallback options because every thing works flawless. The game only crashes if you haven't saved for a really long time and if some important progress could be lost.
So despite all my efforts to cover a possible data loss, I never lost a savegame so far.
Usually I save once every Sims day. I tend to start and leave off around 5:30 in the morning, so that's when I save.
I also save whenever something important has happened like a proposal, someone aged up, finishing a section of the Grim Reaper quest, etc. If a Sim is going to do something dangerous, I save before they do it in case they die.
Very often, habit from ts2... Also I have regular backups.
Sometimes I save again after going to manage worlds as I had forgotten did I save or not 😆
Oh I hear ya about the flood warnings lol, living in Florida we get constant brown outs and pc shuts off and on few times a month, past week it's been few times a day and to the point it burned out my network card, luckily I have built in wifi so can still connect to ea and play sims.
I've never actually counted them. Initially, I do a Save As, at the top of each gaming session. Then during gameplay, I save when something significant happens, such as a skill is gained, a milestone is achieved. My Rock Star wins an Award or licenses another song. Anything I don't wish to have go by the wayside, should something untoward happens, as in a crash. If I can keep my forward progress, that's all important.
I actually can't recall, but I do know it has happened. My biggest lesson was when I was writing my novel. I'd suffered from a very long bout of Writer's Block and was finally tapping away at my first computer. Two hours' worth of creative flow. The phone rang, and I got up to answer it. Didn't talk too long, but just as I was crossing the room to get back to my writing, the lights went dim. Not out, just dimmed for a nano second. To my horror my computer screen had gone blank. All was lost. I went to take a shower, singing McCartney's, Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me).
When hubby got back from work, I told him what happened. That's when he explained I should save periodically. Yeah, thanks for that timely instruction, love of my life. LOL We are still married. Just made year 50.
I don’t remember losing anything important in Sims 4 due to a crash or power cut, but it’s probably happened. We do get quite a few power outages where I live.
I’ve kind of trained myself to save often because I’ve frequently lost progress due to crashes when playing Sims 3. I don’t go by time, but I do always save before travelling or after a sim has done something significant in the game.
Lately, every 5 minutes or so.
My game (no mods/cc) had been randomly crashing for no reason since the last update. It would play for like 60 seconds then crash, then it could go for an hour before doing it again.
Other than the crash that was always within the first five minutes, the next crash was always unpredictable, so I started saving every few minutes "just in case". Then I changed my graphics settings back to DirectX 9 (instead of 11) and so far (fingers crossed) the crashes have stopped (it's been two days, don't want to get over confident), but I still save every few minutes out of habit. 😊 It's become an automatic reflex now. Give my Sims some commands, Save. Repeat. And I always save before traveling, going into CAS, or going into BB, again "just in case." 😄
Before every loading screen . I forgot last week and ended up in an infinite loading screen, lost 90 minutes of work on a lot !
I save very often. This is something I used to do when I was playing The Sims 2, and I've been doing the same with TS4. Lately, I've been having some issues with my computer: occasionally my game crashes, so then I lose progress. So now I'm saving even more frequently to try to minimize the possible loss of progress. The crashing usually happens when I'm finishing gaming session and exiting the game (luckily it doesn't happen each time; it happens occasionally) - but I have a habit of always using the "Save" -option and after that choosing the "Exit" -option; I never use the "Save & Exit" -option, so usually in this case when it crashes, my progress is saved. But the game has also been occasionally crashing randomly during gameplay or while I'm in Build Mode building, so I'm now even more cautious and I save very frequently. (I don't use any mods or CC, I play vanilla). (I need to take my computer in for service to check what is causing the problems).
I do also regularly back up my Saves-, Tray- and Screenshots folders, and I keep those back ups in a separate memory stick, so that I have my game safe and stored, in case my computer breaks, or something.
A BIG congrats on your 50th! That is awesome.😁
