Is there a way to start a new game without creating a sim?

"Aelfrey;c-17858674" wrote:
I'm here with this question, as well. I'm preparing my base save, and I just want to go to the neighborhoods to start building and placing sims I've already made. While it might seem like I could just start with one of those households, I don't want an active household to start with. I wish they'd add this feature!

Almost 7 years later and this is still a desired request from many players .... but the answer is No, you can not just immediately jump into the neighborhood to start building.

But a work around is to create a sim and place them in a different world and save it as your "start up" file, then when you load that save, it will load to that world but you can easily just pick the desired world to build in without a sim being required.

I think the closest you can get is to create a save to copy from whenever you want to start a new game without making a new sim.

Make one Sim and then move in at a vacant lot and immediately pause the game.
Go to Manage Worlds, choose the lot with your new Sim, then click on the dots and choose Manage Household. Delete the household.
Save your game. Return to the Main Menu.
Go to the Load Game screen, choose the save you just made, and rename it with something suitable, such as New Game Template.

You can now load that save whenever you want to start a new game without creating a Sim. I would recommend using Save As immediately after loading it, so you don't accidentally overwrite your base save after making changes. You should have all the default houses, Sims, and community lots. It might even still be 8 a.m. if you were quick enough pausing the game.

An unfortunate, all too long lived legacy of the online roots of the game, and what we have to look forward to if the dire rumors are true. At least we have the work-arounds mentioned. One does wonder why (other than the usual excuses) they've not fixed this after all these years

Another tip, make sure all your saves have at least one household selected as played, the game really hates it when you try to save without at least one household marked as played for some reason.