I remember the day when my child came to me, she was really little (6-7) and asked me to buy her sims game. I bought it for her after she completed all chores to make money for it. When she did it, sims 4 came out. So I bought sims 4 for her too. My save is that old. I have sims 3 that we purchased but never opened, and we have sims 4, purchased for her, me and my other child. I still play the same save. I was trying to play new save. I even have 2 families there, I liked them, but never loved. My first save has 13 played families at the moment. All of them are 3 to 7 generations. I can't stop playing it. If it would be gone, my sims 4 game would be gone.So how old is your oldest save and how much you love it ? Pictures of your oldest, but current save are welcome. I'll post my pictures tomorrow. I'm on another computer right now.

My oldest save would be over a year old now, but I only played it for like three days :D It was the save I made when I first got the game on June 24th 2017The save I actively play every day began on July 1st last year... I think. So it's also over a year old and most of my premades are dead

My oldest save is from the end of January 2015. I started it when I had the free trial and then continued. I currently play about 40 families in rotation, so the generations don't go by very fast even on normal lifespan. All my blog posts are from this save.

I wish I could say that my oldest save was years old but i'm one of those people who is constantly restarting their game. So my oldest save is about two weeks old.

I wish to be the person to easily start new save ... But it's impossible for me. All my sims are raised by me. There are currently 2 sims I found on gallery, because my sims needed 2 second half's and they couldn't find any in my 91 sims played sims circle :D ( sorry for my poor English, I'm really trying to do my best)

My oldest save is about 4 years old. I treasure it as all the other saves made in 2014 either experienced glitches (after changing the Olivia Kim-Spencer's outfit, the whole neighborhood (where BFF household lives) was in their neighborhood), eventually started crashing and making the save unplayable, or got corrupted.

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SimTresa
Seasoned Novice
7 years ago
My oldest save is about three years old and currently has three active families in it plus various relatives whose families are kept going through CAS. The oldest family is in its 6th generation, because I stopped playing for several months at one point. The ones I first got to play as toddlers are only now starting to die off, leaving children and grandchildren behind.

@Koteyka, I used to have lots of pictures for one of my legacies, but I lost them when I deleted a room without checking to see if it was empty. By the time I realized my mistake it was too late to undo and I didn't feel like losing my work by going to an older save.
Kayfaei
7 years ago
"agustd;c-16615989" wrote:
My oldest save was from November 2016 to June this year. Then I moved all my sims to a fresh one because the original one was bloated and I was suspecting most of the glitches were a result of that. Now everything runs way better. I don't think TS4 is meant to handle big, long running saves, I'd recommend changing them once in 6 months or so.

I am thinking of changing my sim save to a new one, but i'm on Gen six of my legacy. How do you keep all of the relationships inact? Do you use MCC command to rebuild the family tree?
CAITLINX354
7 years ago
My oldest save is from when City Living came out. I played with three friends sharing an apartment and trying out the three new careers. They've all passed away now and their kids have families of their own now.

I had an earlier save from when Get Together first came out but I lost the save and couldn't retrieve it. The worst part is a bunch of screenshots from that file are in the slideshow for my screensaver so I still see them from time to time.

I wish there was an easier way to combine my three most played households into one save file but the families are so big it would be such a pain to combine them all.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
7 years ago
I still play my first save, and I got TS4 on release. So that must be about 4 years :)

Some families have been played through many generations (manually aged), but in many houses there are still a few of my original sims, just a generation older. I better speed up, because most sims have traits and aspirations that were available years ago, I think I miss ouit on some updated stuff by clinging to my old save.
Feisbukaite
New Spectator
7 years ago
I usually successfully restore my oldest save by transferring it to the new sims 4 folder. I do it every 3-4 months, then it runs really well. I also keep backup and had to use it twice. But so far I have no plans to delete it. I have second save, but the last time I opened it was 11/2017. My first save is full of drama on every corner, sims have extended families, friends... it’s fun to play.
bxbytrishx
7 years ago
My oldest save is 4 years old, it has a lot of diverse families. But I hardly play it because it's too laggy.
Tomatplante
7 years ago
I still only play the legacy I started when I bought the game more than three years ago, they are 14 generations now. But I move them to a new save every year, otherwise I get too many bugs and awful lag on large lots. The current save is from January, I think. When I start a new save I always spend some time setting it up first, with households and lots from the gallery and some that I transfer from the old save. It's nice to start fresh sometimes in terms of environment, but I can never let go of my sims.
KirbySkywalker
7 years ago
My oldest save is from when the base game released, 1000+ hours in. It’s the only one I play. I guess I have been lucky so far and never had anything get corrupted. I have all DLC except pet stuff and toddler stuff.

I like to make a household, max all their skills and aspirations, go to clubs, build some houses... then quit a few months then make a new household and do the same thing over and over.

Come to think of it, I did lose 3-5 hours of gameplay due to corruption once. But I just picked back up from an earlier save and continued on.
krunji
7 years ago
"Slyvanas;c-16626757" wrote:
"agustd;c-16615989" wrote:
My oldest save was from November 2016 to June this year. Then I moved all my sims to a fresh one because the original one was bloated and I was suspecting most of the glitches were a result of that. Now everything runs way better. I don't think TS4 is meant to handle big, long running saves, I'd recommend changing them once in 6 months or so.

I am thinking of changing my sim save to a new one, but i'm on Gen six of my legacy. How do you keep all of the relationships inact? Do you use MCC command to rebuild the family tree?

Yes, exactly, MCCC+lots of patience. It's time consuming so I recommend getting some good snacks or coffee to keep you company during this painful process :p I only had 4 generations when I moved my save and it took me about 2 hours to set up everything the way it was before (uploading all families to the gallery, manually setting relationships, placing houses, all that jazz. I decided to leave the family friends behind). I'd say don't hesitate because there's nothing this mod can't fix. I used to deal with awful lag on public lots, no matter how big or how small, now it's pretty much gone. The camera doesn't stutter, I hardly see any glitches besides the one Seasons introduced (and they're not that bad fortunately). I was also able to add way more CC to my game now and it doesn't affect the smoothness at all.
nativehyun
7 years ago
Since early 2012 when I was middle school student!