I hate suffering from Restartitis.

"Beardedgeek;d-953851" wrote:
Yes it's a made up word. But I am the kind of person that keeps restarting everything 1000 times.
This time...

I can't decide if I am going to continue with my main gameplay and just make my vampire family famous, on top of everything else OR
If I am to start over.

And then if I start over, should I start with a single sim or a family or friends or... I find starting a truly Single sim is usually quite boring at first. BUT if I give her a friend or a roommate or a lover or a spouse, or a kid... There will be too many sims very soon (I rarely enjoy playing more than 3 or maybe four sims at once, too much to keep track of) and I have to throw out some of my starter sims to make room...

No I am not really asking for advice, I just want to vent! :smiley:

Got you! In your vent is something that I have been thinking about. I want them to change the way things work. I feel when we are using one sim that the other ones totally care for themselves properly so that we will not be stress about caring for everyone. Toddlers needs should go down less so we get to enjoy other things.

I am totally different I constantly make new Sims and new family's, Worst I keep them all. I guess its the reason I make apartments and neighborhoods for my Sims because I do like family to live near but not in the same house. I make parks in the neighborhoods and hangouts and little shops also up to 4 homes it's a fun living arrangement. To make a home belonging to one family let them claim their bed then lock out everyone else. they can hang out with family in other areas of the city.

So I have families in all the cities that I play. Its two cities in the game that I do not use.

Now sticking my nose into what you did not ask advice for, I think you would enjoy making your vampire family famous first at least one of them. Being a star takes some work. But it's a lot of fun. So you may not have much time for your favorite family. Then again maybe you would enjoy a new one.

I have many favorite families. Then I have a few that are in the game that I have almost forgotten about.
Toddlers are a priority until they go to grade school.

"Beardedgeek;d-953851" wrote:
Yes it's a made up word. But I am the kind of person that keeps restarting everything 1000 times.
This time...

I can't decide if I am going to continue with my main gameplay and just make my vampire family famous, on top of everything else OR
If I am to start over.

And then if I start over, should I start with a single sim or a family or friends or... I find starting a truly Single sim is usually quite boring at first. BUT if I give her a friend or a roommate or a lover or a spouse, or a kid... There will be too many sims very soon (I rarely enjoy playing more than 3 or maybe four sims at once, too much to keep track of) and I have to throw out some of my starter sims to make room...

No I am not really asking for advice, I just want to vent! :smiley:

Plummit, I've restarted everything like 50 times already (and I'm talking about all games I play, not just The Sims)! I promised myself to stop now, but we'll see about that. :D

"Simburian;c-16919869" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-16919728" wrote:

"Simburian;c-16919468" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-16919459" wrote:

"Simburian;c-16919457" wrote:
The longest I've played with a Save is when I created a household of 8 with 7 adults and one elderly male Sim. I moved all his offspring out to separate lots in Newcrest, built them all houses and started them working. They all used to meet up to go to bars and restaurants and gave me a chance to practice my small house building skills. One went back to his dad and got a couple of dogs later, (probably wanted to inherit the big house).

I've still got it as a second Save to go back to as I started another when GetFamous came out. That's restart number 19.

At least you know how many time you've restarted. LOL I've done it so very often, I've lost track. :open_mouth:

I think I've still got all the older ones on my laptop or saved in My Documents in The Cloud somewhere as I moved the old ones out when it was suggested here that lots of Saves slow down the computer. Not sure if that was right information or not.

My Sims seem to come back a bit twisted when I open up an very old Save, pre Seasons - females turning into males etc. Marion I considered a female, now a hunky male, some turning Alien instead. I enjoy the costumes Maxis wants to dress them in for Seasons plus though.

I went through and deleted some of my 'saves' while the game was on. I do wish the naming of the saves in the document file wasn't so complicated. I'd like to give that a good 'cleaning out', too. It was so much easier in Sims3. Why did they have to complicate it in this iteration?

I had played with two completely different Saves on two consecutive days so arranged the Saves folder (Windows 10) by strict date "modified" and moved everything dated before that to a desktop folder.

I suppose, in the same way, you could resurrect the saves you want to keep by starting them up one by one, thus modifying them and then move out everything modified before that date?

Thanks for the tip. I have to mention that yesterday I decided to roll back to an earlier save again, (I'M NOT CURED, YET). What I did notice is that when you select a save and it's at the top of the load screen, there is a small icon of a folder below it just slightly to the right of the save picture. If you hover over it, it gives the code for that save. On a day when I don't have much to do, I shall go through the saves and write down said number and delete the ones I no longer wish to keep. Why, oh why, must it be this time consuming? I have Windows 7, so you're fix might not apply to me. I did look at the time-stamps on the same day saves. Oi!